BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260225 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52140245412837 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260303 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411098120 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260304 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411132938 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260305 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411164684 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260306 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411195406 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260307 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411255824 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260308 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411327506 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260309 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52140245612532 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260310 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411381781 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260311 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411410455 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260312 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411443225 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260313 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411474971 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260314 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411508765 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260315 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411549727 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260316 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411584545 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411613219 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411640869 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411669543 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260320 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411701289 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260321 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411737131 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260322 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411772973 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260323 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411802671 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260324 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411844657 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411873331 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260326 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411904053 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260327 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411934775 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260328 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411962425 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260329 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246411996219 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260330 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246412024893 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260331 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246412055615 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260401 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246412085313 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260402 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246412118083 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260403 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246412148805 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260404 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246412183623 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260405 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246412218441 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260406 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246412246091 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260407 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246412274765 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260408 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52246412307535 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lecture DESCRIPTION:Overview\nIn celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus\, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners\, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). \n\nAcross the fall and spring semesters\, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design\, its evolution\, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public\, and regist ration is required.\n\nSpring 2026\nElizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nWe dnesday\, February 25 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innova tion Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nToshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\n Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Innovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davi dson\nThursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m.\nGensler Family AAP NYC Center\nTata Inn ovation Center\, 4th Floor\; Cornell Tech\n\nFall 2025\nView the Fall 2025 conversation series.\n\n Cynthia Davidson\, Cofounder and Executive Directo r\, Anyone Corporation\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Cynthia Davidson i s cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation\, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the interna tional architecture journal Log\, which she launched in 2003\, and previous ly ANY magazine\, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also r esponsible for more than 40 books in print\, including 28 books in the Anyo ne project’s Writing Architecture series\, published with MIT Press. She co curated The Architectural Imagination\, an exhibition of speculative projec ts for Detroit\, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venic e Architecture Biennale\, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery A nyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Prin ceton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture\, Art\, and Planning program in New York City. The American A cademy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.\n\n\n\n Peter Eisenman\, Founder and Principal\, Eisenman Architec ts\; Visiting Critic\, Cornell AAP\n Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55)\, an inte rnationally recognized architect and educator\, is founder and design princ ipal of Eisenman Architects\, an architecture and design office in New York City. He is also a Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC).\n\nAward-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio St ate University in Columbus\, Ohio\; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquar ters building in Tokyo\; and in Berlin\, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and IBA Housing at Checkpoint Charlie\, each of which received a National Honor Award for Design from the American Institute of Architects.\ n\nEisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many book s are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings\, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press\, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings\, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli\, 2008)\, w hich examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book\, Rewriti ng Alberti (MIT Press\, October 2025)\, with contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli\, Mario Carpo\, and Daniel Sherer\, will be presented at AAP NYC on Thursday\, November 6.\n\nEisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University \, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University\, and M.A. and Ph.D. de grees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine art s from the University of Illinois at Chicago\, Pratt Institute\, Syracuse U niversity\, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome.\n\n\n\n February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia Davidson\nPlease join us on Wednesd ay\, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller\, hoste d by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nThe High Line. photo / Iwan Baan\, courtesy of Di ller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller\, Cofounding Partner\, Diller Scofi dio + Renfro (DS+R)\; Professor\, Princeton University School of Architectu re\n Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R)\, a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spa ns architecture\, installation art\, multimedia performance\, and print. Wi th a focus on cultural and civic projects\, DS+R’s work addresses the evolv ing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today compris es over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller\, Charles Renfro\, and B enjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives a nd a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.\n\nDiller h as led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The She d\, the expansion of MoMA\, the High Line\, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated\, codirected\, and coproduced The Mi le-Long Opera\, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Mo st recently\, she completed the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women in Doha\, the first purpose-built women’s mosque in the Muslim world\, and th e V&A East Storehouse in London. In Los Angeles\, she is currently leading the expansion of The Broad\, extending DS+R’s original building to meet the museum’s evolving curatorial\, operational\, and public needs.\n\nAlongsid e partner Ricardo Scofidio\, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned re cognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People\,” the first M acArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture\, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture.\n\n\n\n March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Monday\, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nWatson Institute for International an d Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori\, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect\; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Ar chitecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design\n Toshiko Mori is founder a nd principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Profes sor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design an d was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work in cludes libraries\, museums\, universities\, workspaces\, master planning\, and residences. Mori has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2020 \, where she is currently vice president of architecture.\n\nMori has recei ved numerous awards\, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2 025)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture 2025 Honoree\, Asia Society Asia Arts Game Changer Award (2024)\, the Philip Hanson Hiss Award (2023)\, the Isamu Noguchi Award (2021)\, and the AIA/ASCA Topaz Medallion for Excellen ce in Architectural Education (2019)\, among others. Her projects in Senega l\, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teach ers’ Residences\, won the AIA Architecture Award\, and her work on the Broo klyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 li st since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023\; she was al so named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazin e for 2023.\n\n\n\n April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson\nPl ease join us on Thursday\, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale a nd Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon\, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.\n\nHelical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon\, Gale and Ira Dr ukier Dean\, Cornell AAP\; Cofounding partner\, Höweler + Yoon\n J. Meejin Yoon is an architect\, designer\, and educator focused on advancing creativ e and critical practices\, pedagogies\, scholarship\, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections bet ween architecture\, urbanism\, technology\, and the public realm. Her desig n-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural\, educational \, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Lab orers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia\, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y\, and the Yale Living Village\, a regenerative living and learning commun ity.\n\nYoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA\, the Museum of Contempor ary Art in Chicago\, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art\, the Vitra Design Museum\, the National Art Center in Japan\, and the Venice Architec ture Biennale\, among others. In 2022\, Yoon received the World Cultural Co uncil Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts\, and in 2021\, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. DTSTAMP:20260313T203626Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260409 LOCATION:Gensler Family AAP NYC Center SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC C enter Spring 2026 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52140246332435 URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/island-editions-conversation-series-at -the-gensler-family-aap-nyc-center-spring-2026 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR