Please join us for our spring 2018 open house for admitted students. The day will include program overviews, highlights of our areas of expertise, Q&A sessions with faculty and current students, as well as an opportunity to sit in on our studios and tour our material fabrication shop and facilities. Our faculty and current graduate students make themselves available throughout the day. We hope that you will be able to attend this in-depth introduction to graduate studies at Cornell.

Faculty presenters
Kent Kleinman, Gale and Ira Drukier Dean
Andrea Simitch, chair of the Department of Architecture, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, associate professor
Lily Chi, associate professor, interim director of M.Arch. program
Jenny Sabin, Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Associate Professor, director of graduate studies, and M.Arch.II/M.S. AAD program director
Esra Akcan, associate professor, director of the Cornell Institute for European Studies
João Almeida, visiting critic
Robert Balder, Gensler Family Sesquicentennial Executive Director of AAP NYC
Sam Chermayeff, visiting critic
Derek Dellekamp, visiting critic
Timur Dogan, assistant professor
Tao DuFour, visiting assistant professor
Dagur Eggertsson, Gensler Visiting Critic
Kent Hubbell, professor
Dasha Khapalova, visiting critic
Leslie Lok, visiting critic, B.Arch. coordinator
Aleksandr Mergold, assistant professor
Martin Miller, visiting critic
Rozana Montiel, visiting critic
Erin Pellegrino, visiting critic
Sami Rintala, Gensler Visiting Critic
Danica Selem, visiting critic
Massimiliano Spadoni, visiting critic
Jonathan Stitelman, visiting critic
Val Warke, associate professor
Amanda Williams, visiting critic
John Zissovici, associate professor
Sasa Zivkovic, assistant professor

Schedule
9 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
Milstein Hall dome

9:15 a.m.
Welcome Presentation and Faculty Introductions
Milstein Hall dome

Kent Kleinman, Andrea Simitch, Lily Chi, Jenny Sabin, Esra Akcan, Timur Dogan, Alex Mergold, and Val Warke

10:15 a.m.
Professional Master of Architecture (M.Arch.):
Introduction by Director followed by Q&A Session with Faculty and Current Students
Milstein Hall dome

Lily Chi, Christopher Battaglia (M.Arch. '17), Tao DuFour, Suzanne Lettieri (M.Arch. '11), Martin Miller, Dillon Pranger (M.Arch. '15), Danny Salamoun (M.Arch. '14), Lawrence Siu (M.Arch. '11), Sasa Zivkovic, and current M.Arch. students.

Post-Professional Master of Science, Advanced Architectural Design (M.S. AAD):
Material Practices Facilities Tour
Tour of the digital fabrication lab, wood shop, metal shop, and work areas.
The Foundry

History of Architecture and Urban Development (HAUD):
Guided AAP College and Campus Tour
Led by current Ph.D. students in the HAUD program.
Leaving from Milstein Hall dome

11:15 a.m.
Professional Master of Architecture (M.Arch.):
Material Practices Facilities Tour
Tour of the digital fabrication lab, wood shop, metal shop, and work areas.
The Foundry

Post-Professional Master of Science, Advanced Architectural Design (M.S. AAD):
Introduction by Director followed by Q&A Session with Faculty and Current Students
Milstein Hall dome

Jenny Sabin, Esra Akcan, Timur Dogan, Val Warke, Sasa Zivkovic, and current M.S. AAD and M.Arch.II students

12:15 p.m.
Lunch
Lunch with faculty and current M.Arch., M.Arch.II, and Ph.D. students.
Milstein Hall dome

1 p.m.
Studio and Design Research Lab visits for M.Arch. and M.S. AAD programs
Led by Lily Chi and current M.Arch. and M.Arch.II students.
Leaving from Milstein Hall dome

Studios:

M.Arch. First-year Core Design Studio 2
Dasha Khapalova and John Zissovici
AAP NYC Studio with Director via Live Video Stream
Robert Balder and current M.Arch. students
Option Studio: Architecture and Cities (For a World) without Work
Sam Chermayeff and Danica Selem
Option Studio: The Citizen Body: Interventions for the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture
Amanda Williams and Jonathan Stitelman
Option Studio: Criminal Behavior: Ornamental Exuberance through Efficiency
Martin Miller
Option Studio: Design Plan 4.0: Of Past and Future Building
Aleksandr Mergold
Option Studio: Fly on the Wall: Reimagining Cross Border Territories through Design Thinking
Derek Dellekamp, Rozana Montiel, and Erin Pellegrino
Option Studio: Robotic Wood Architectures
Sasa Zivkovic and Brian Havener
Option Studio: Small Scale Interventions in the High North
Dagur Eggertsson, Sami Rintala, and Massimiliano Spadoni
Option Studio: Sound, Space, Place: A Center for The Sound Arts and Sciences, Experimental Music and the Performing Arts
Kent Hubbell
Option Studio: Urban Ecologies Beyond the Levees
Tao DuFour

Design Research Labs:

Robotic Building Construction Lab
Sasa Zivkovic
Timur Dogan's sustainable design research
Timur Dogan
Sabin Design Lab
Jingyang (Leo) Liu (M.Arch.II '15, M.S. MDC '18), teaching assistant, David Rosenwasser (B.Arch. '18)

History of Architecture and Urban Development (HAUD):
Q&A session with Esra Akcan and current Ph.D. students and candidates
261B Sibley Hall

3:45 p.m.
Coffee with M.Arch. Alumni Panel
Coffee and cookies with three Cornell AAP architecture department alumni — Javier Galindo (M.Arch. '11), Suzanne Lettieri (M.Arch. '11), and Lawrence Siu (M.Arch. '11)
Milstein Hall dome

4:30 p.m.
Lecture: Michael Green (B.Arch. '89)
FXFOWLE Lecture for Sustainability, Urbanism, and Design
Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall

6–8 p.m
Reception
Wine and cheese with architecture faculty and current graduate students.
The Lynch Conference Room (sixth floor), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (I. M. Pei, architect)

8 p.m.
Pizza at The Nines
A chance to meet current M.Arch., M.Arch.II, and Ph.D. students in a relaxed, informal setting; dinner provided.
311 College Avenue, Collegetown

Exhibitions throughout the day:
Milstein Hall dome: M.Arch. and M.Arch.II Student Work Showcase
East Sibley Exhibition Hallway: George Hascup's Course Chair Design
John Hartell Gallery: Nicolás Robbio: Estudios de Tensión
Bibliowicz Family Gallery: Michael Ashkin: Horizont

Getting to Ithaca
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By car: From the New England area, take the New York State Thruway (Interstate 87/90) west to exit 25A. Interstate 88 southwest to Bainbridge, Route 206 west to Whitney Point, and Route 79 west to Ithaca.
From New York City, take either the Holland or Lincoln tunnel to Interstate 280 West to Interstate 80 West to Interstate 380 North to Interstate 81 North to the Whitney Point exit. Follow Route 79 to Ithaca. Or you can take the George Washington Bridge to Interstate 80 West and follow the directions above.
From the west, take the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) east to exit 42 (Geneva) and Route 96 south to Ithaca; or take the New York State Thruway east to exit 41 (Waterloo) and Route 89 south to Ithaca.

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