Please join us for our Virtual Fall 2025 Graduate Open House for prospective students. The virtual event will include program overviews, highlights of our areas of expertise, and Q&A sessions with program directors and current students. A link to our Fall Open House webpage will be sent ahead of the event, allowing you to review our studios, design labs, material fabrication shop, facilities, and other college and university facilities. We hope you will be able to attend this in-depth introduction to architecture graduate studies at Cornell.

Department Chair and Program Directors
Jose Castillo, Chair of the Department of Architecture, Professor
Timur Dogan, Director of M.Arch. program, Interim Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor
María González Pendás, Interim Coordinator of Ph.D. (HAUD) program, Assistant Professor
Jesse LeCavalier, Director of M.S. AUD program, Associate Professor
Val Warke, Director of M.S. AAD program, Associate Professor

A complete list of architecture faculty members is available in the Faculty Directory.

Please register by Thursday, November 6, if you would like to participate. Registration is required to receive a Zoom link and a webpage link featuring our architecture graduate programs.

Schedule for Monday, November 10, 2025
Post-Professional Master of Science programs (M.S. AAD / M.S. AUD)8–10 a.m.8 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction by Jose Castillo, Architecture Department Chair

8:20 a.m.

Overview of Post-Professional Master of Science, Advanced Architectural Design (M.S. AAD) by Val Warke, M.S. AAD Program Director

8:40 a.m.

Overview of Post-Professional Master of Science, Advanced Urban Design (M.S. AUD) by Jesse LeCavalier, M.S. AUD Program Director

Professional Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)10–11 a.m.10 a.m.

Welcome and introduction by Jose Castillo, Department Chair
Overview of Master of Architecture by Timur Dogan, M. Arch. Program Director
Q&A session with current students

For general questions regarding architecture graduate programs and funding, please email Heidi Berrettini, AAP Lead Graduate Programs Associate, at archgrad@cornell.edu.