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Talking to Architecture Students
September 20, 2007 - 11:00pmThe College of Architecture, Art and Planning has been the object of much media attention lately: fourth and fifth year architecture students no longer work in Rand and Sibley Halls, as they were relocated to a studio on Esty Street in downtown Ithaca; AAP Dean Mohsen Mostafavi will depart Cornell for Harvard next semester. Issues over University Ave. land use have plagued the construction of Milstein Hall.
But, architecture students haven’t lost touch with their work — “We go through our classes with people we’re close to, and we become friends with everyone in class,” said Max Davis ’10.
According to Sean Livingston ’09, the work in architecture classes differs from that of other majors.
“You can always refine your work in studio,” Livingston said. “There’s a love-hate aspect to work in studio, because the work’s never really done until you say it is.”
Livingston said that work from disciplines outside of architecture can be applied to architecture. For example, Livingston said, a work by O.M. Ungers, describes Berlin in terms of mitosis.
Architects have fun with the student-funded Beaux Arts Ball, said Jamie Pelletier ’10. Pelletier explained that the Beaux Arts Ball is thrown by the second year architecture students with the money raised by student funds, such as those from selling Dragon Day tee-shirts.