Congratulations to Chris Hardy and Chris Gruber for placing 3rd in the "Outstanding Student Green Infrastructure Design Project http://www.citiesalive.org/index.php/education-challenge/award-winners
Congratulations to
Huicheng Zhong for winning 2nd prize in the PRT Design Competition sponsored by the Advanced Transit Association, which is about the redevelopment of a PRT transportation hub in Morgantown, WV
Congratulations to Lacy Shelby and Jennifer Ng, Merit Winners in the student category in the James River Green Building Council's Green Spaces Competition. http://www.jrgbc.org/programs/green-spaces-competition/
Media Release:
- Second Place: "edgEcology: Change the Edges, Change the City"
- Students: Chris Hardy, Tomoki Takebayashi, Chris Gruber, & Rachel Kunreuther
- Faculty Sponsor: Jamie Vanucchi
- Cornell University
- Juror comments: This project is future thinking and develops a methodology for growth and change. The system design deals with water and land, allowing the city's waterfront to thrive. Stunning level for student work.
March 2009 - Cornell Team Participated in Eco-City Workshop in China and the WWF EarthHour at the Bird’s Nest in Beijing
From March 14th to 28th, 2009, a team of five Cornell students, four of which were from the Design and Planning club, and two faculty members were invited to participate in an international workshop of planning and urban design in Huludao, China on the theme: “Designing an Eco-City, Proposal for Huludao”. The workshop is part of an eco-cities research program initiated by the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University in Shanghai, China, and the Urban Morphologies Laboratory of the French Scientific and Technical Building Centre (CSTB), and is coordinated by Les Ateliers, a French non-profit organization animating an international network of professionals, universities and decision makers to address urban challenges. Chris Hardy, Rita Kwong, Jonathan Leape, Daniel Strongwater, and Xiaowei Zhang, who were selected from the departments of Design and Environmental Analysis, City and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Civil and Environmental Engineering, traveled to northern China together with their faculty advisors, Professor Ying Hua from Design and Environmental Analysis and Professor Deni Ruggeri from Landscape Architecture.
China is expected to urbanize 400 million people within the next 25 years and the government is preparing for this through the construction of new cities, large scale developments, residential towers and an unprecedented expansion of infrastructure. The urban development model being adopted is that of a car-dependent city, with large arterial roads and strict zoning. If this model is adopted for the projected urbanizing population, the implications for global climate change could be catastrophic. The site selected for this workshop offered the opportunity to find a solution to the environmental, economic and social challenges confronted by many Chinese cities under the pressure of rapid development and urbanization. During the workshop, professionals and students worked on developing eco-city designs addressing many of these challenges. At the conclusion of the two-week workshop, the Cornell team proposed an urban design scheme that aims at a regenerative future with a special focus on urban morphology, using the fine grid, tight streets and shared walls informed by vernacular designs of Chinese cities to foster walkability and diversity of human experience. This model, while generated for the specific environmental, economic and social conditions of Huludao, would also serve as a prototype for other regions of China.During the workshop the team benefited from a privileged dialogue with participating teams of highly qualified international professionals, environmental engineers from Les Mines Paris Tech and students from Tongji University. Professors Hua and Ruggeri have also established research collaboration with Tongji University and the CSTB for the next step to examine the energy and environmental efficiency as well as the social implications of urban morphology in search of a methodology for identifying sustainable prototypes of rapid urban development in China.
The students’ experience in China ended with an inspirational event. On the evening of March 28th, the Cornell team was invited as VIP guests by the WWF to participate in the EarthHour event at the Beijing Olympics Parks to witness the turning-off lights of the “Bird’s Nest” and the “Water Cube”, to declare a commitment to behavioral change for climate change mitigation.
April 2009 - One of our alumni Yasamin Bahadorzadeh had her thesis published by a German publisher. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=yasamin+bahadorzadeh
March 2009 issue of Landscape Architecture See what some of our alumni are up to.
March 9, 2008 - Cornell Student Team Receives Honorable Mention in ULI/ Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition
This February, one of the five Cornell graduate student teams received an Honorable Mention in the Seventh Annual Urban Land Institute / Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. The team, composed of Dan Kellher (Master of Regional Planning, 2010), Chris Koenig (Master of Regional Planning, 2010), Maureen Bolton (Master of Landscape Architecture, 2010), Zachary Boggs (Master of Landscape Architecture, 2010), and Chris Haine (Master of Professional Studies in Real Estate, 2010) was recognized for their urban design project named “Urban Succession.”
The ULI/Gerald D. Hines competition is an annual graduate-level student competition focused on interdisciplinary learning and team-work for real estate and design students. This year’s competition received submittals from over 90 teams representing 40 universities in the United States and Canada. Each team is composed of five students and must have representatives from three disciplines. The five students of the “Urban Succession” team came from landscape architecture, city and regional planning, and real estate.
How do you revive a community that is in a city that has a net loss of population? This problem was posed in this year's "Rebuild Revive" competition sponsored by Edmund Bacon Foundation. Sixty six teams submitted proposals concerning the neighborhood of Ludlow, in northern Philadelphia.
The neighborhood of Ludlow has been the site of successive unsuccessful urban renewal projects since WWII. The current community is a marginalized minority population whose average income falls well below the poverty line.
Two Cornell teams submitted and placed in this competition. Popy Suthiwan was awarded Honorable Mention for his scheme, "Inter-dependence". In this project, the proposal was to re-link the community to the rest of its surrounding neighborhoods by introducing a series of different housing typologies and establish a new identity by creating a core community center.
A multidisciplinary team of City Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture students placed 2nd. Peter Sigrist, Chethan Sarabu, Juan Castellanos, Chris Hardy, Xiaowei Zhang, Daniel Kelleher, Dimitri Siavelis, Javier Alvarado, Tomoki Takebayashi, Rita Kwong, Will DiBernardo, and Maureen Bolton proposed"Bringing Philadelphia Back to Ludlow." The goal of the project was to draw the life and population of the surrounding neighborhoods into Ludlow. The project was organized around three phases, 'Making Ludlow Feel Safe', 'Providing Amenities', and finally 'Promoting Development'.
The Edmund Bacon Foundation covered the expenses for the two teams to visit Ludlow as well attend the awards ceremony hosted in downtown Philadelphia where students met community organizers as well as local planners.
10/31/08 Lecture by Randy Hester Design for an Ecological DemocracyFor more information please visit http://www.aap.cornell.edu/crp/events/events_details.cfm?customel_datapageid_2742=101677
10/08/08 Jeff Caster ('93) inducted as ASLA Fellow
Jeff Caster MLA'93 was escorted by Professor Emeritus Marvin Adleman at his induction as Fellow of the ASLA during the annual convention in Philadelphia. Jeff was nominated for his commitment to preserving the natural resources and scenic beauty of Florida through his work with state's Department of Transportation.
09/12/08 Lecture by Robert Campbell Honors Roger Trancik's Retirement
Professor Roger Trancik's promotion to Emeritus was feted this week with a lecture by prominent architectural write Robert Campbell entitles "Do Cities Need Designers?" followed by a reception and dinner. Despite pouring rain, the venue was packed as Cornellians from around the university enjoyed the stimulating talk and honored Roger's long, interdisciplinary career at Cornell.
9/10/08 Kathryn Gleason announces discovery of monumental garden buried by Mt. Vesuvius
Kathy Gleason was called to the Villa Adrianna in Stabia, Italy this June to examine the remains of a huge garden buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD79. Once the volcanic ash was removed, only soil contours were seen, but Gleason has shown these to be an extraordinary find: the largest garden with well-preserved, dense patterns of root cavities yet found in the area of Pompeii or anywhere in the ancient world. She was assisted in her study by Michele Palmer ('97) who documented the site engineering and water flow. She will announce the finding at the International Congress of Classical Archaeologists in Rome next week.
4/08 Marvin Adleman is celebrated with Retirement Party
Faculty, students, colleagues and a surprising showing of alumni from around the country celebrated Marvin Adleman's upcoming retirement in June at his favorite venue—the studio. The event featured a retrospective of work, delicious food, humor and good wishes.
4/12/08 Alex MacLean begins project with Landscape Studies Program
Photographer Alex MacLean kicked off his participation on the Military Tract Project of the Landscape Studies Program with a flight from Ithaca to Syracuse with faculty members Andrea Hammer and Kathryn Gleason.