Faculty Research & Creative Works

ASSOCIATE DEAN for RESEARCH ELIANA ABU-HAMDI

Research Support 

• Lender Center for Social Justice, “Opportunity Design: Engaging Public Health in Low-Income Communities” (with Hannibal Newsom and Seyeon Lee, VPA, $100,000, March 2024.
• Lender Center for Social Justice, “Closing the Racial Wealth Gap through Environmental Justice and Participatory Design,”  (With Iman Fayyad, $102,285, May 2023).
• GAHTC/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Globalizing Architectural History and Design Pedagogy Workshop Series, ($100,000.00, Fall 2022).

Scholarly Events

• Respondent, Lines of Property Paper Workshop, Rochester University (May 2023).
• Panel Organizer and Moderator, Dialogues Webinar, “Forms of Protest: Political Art in the Digital and Urban Realm,” sponsored by the International Journal of Islamic Architecture, (January 2023).
  
  Publications
• “Forms of Protest: Political Art in the Digital and Urban Realm,” The International Journal of Islamic Architecture 13.1 (2024), 23-37.
  
  

  Media Mentions

• “Racial Wealth Gap Research Presented at MetLife Foundation-Lender Center Event,” Campus & Community by Diane Sterling, April 3, 2024.

• “Six Attending 2024 Faculty Women of Color Academy National Conference,” Campus & Community by Diane Sterling, March 27, 2024.

• “Nine Projects Awarded MetLife Foundation-Lender Center Racial Wealth Gap Grants,” Campus & Community by Diane Sterling, March 11, 2024.

• “The Women in Leadership Initiative Adds Two More Cohorts This Year, With Record Number of Applications,” The Daily Orange, September 12, 2023.

• “Selecting From an Impressive Competitive Field, the Women in Leadership Initiative Announces Cohort 2, Expands by Adding Cohort 3,” Campus & Community, August 2, 2023.—————————————————————————————————

DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR LORI BROWN 

Research Support

• Syracuse University Humanities Center, Landscapes Syracuse Symposium “The Landscape of Women’s Bodily Autonomy: Collaboration Toward Greater Access to Reproductive Freedom and Care in the U.S.,” March 26, 2024 ($6000).
• Graham Foundation for Individuals, “Spatializing Reproductive Justice,” (June 2023, $10,000).

Scholarly Events

• Invited panelist, Coffee with Fellows, AIA Cleveland, August 2024.

• Invited lecturer, SUNY Upstate OBGYN Grand Rounds Reproductive Healthcare, May 3, 2024.

• Invited panelist, “Public Service Actions: Reproductive Justice Futures,” Barnard College, April 10, 2024.

• Invited lecturer, “Spatial Complexities in post-Roe America,” Tulane University Newcomb Institute, April 5, 2024.

• Organizer (with Tara Pearson), “The Landscape of Women’s Bodily Autonomy: A Call for Greater Access to Reproductive Freedom and Care in the US Symposium,” Syracuse University, March 26, 2024.

• Invited lecturer, “Everywhere You Look,” University of Michigan, March 21, 2024.

• Invited Panelist (with Sarah Wallett, Planned Parenthood) “Everywhere You Look” Taubman College Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, March 21, 2024.

• Panelist, “Barriers Beyond Roe,” Workshop, University of Michigan, March 20, 2024.
  
  Lectures

• Invited panelist, Coffee With Fellows, AIA Cleveland, August 2024

• Invited lecture, SUNY Upstate OBGYN grand rounds Reproductive Healthcare, May 3, 2024

• Invited panelist, “Public Service Actions: Reproductive Justice Futures” event at Barnard College,” Barnard College April 10, 2024

• Invited lecture, “Spatial Complexities in post-Roe America”, Tulane University Newcomb Institute, April 5, 2024

• Co-organized with Tara Pearson, “The Landscape of Women’s Bodily Autonomy: A Call for Greater Access to Reproductive Freedom and Care in the US,”  Syracuse University, March 26, 2024

• Invited lecture, “Everywhere You Look,” University of Michigan March 21, 2024

• Workshop panelist, “Barriers Beyond Roe,” University of Michigan, March 20, 2024

  Publications

• “Forced Abortion Mobilities: Gender Animus and the Reterritorialization of State Power Over Abortion Access,” with Alesha E. Doan, and J. Shoshanna Ehrlich, Special Issue Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 45.1 (2024), 27-44.
• Lori A. Brown and Jordan Kravitz, “Why architects are critical in the fight for abortion rights,” Fast Company, November 17, 2022.
  
  Exhibitions

• Spatializing Reproductive Justice, Center for Architecture New York, May 2-September 3, 2024.

• Spatializing Reproductive Justice, Columbia University GSAPP, March 26-April 16, 2024.

• Now What?! Boston Society of Architecture, Spring 2023.

Media Mentions

• “Center for Architecture’s Spring 2024 programming Features Exhibitions about Ukraine and eproductive Justice,” The Architect’s Newspaper by Daniel Roche, April 4, 2024.

• “Spatializing Reproductive Justice: After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a network of women architects studies abortion using the tools of architecture,” by Marianela D’Aprile, March 24, 2023.   
• “Nonprofit Works to Make Architecture, Design More Equitable for Women,” by Emily Beyda, November 2, 2023.
  
  

  Research Prize

Research Jury Prize (with Dr. Karen Burns), “Organizing Women Architects and Global Solidarity 1963-1988: The International Union of Women Architects and The Cold War Divide,” The Board of the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) Center, ($5000).
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LAWRENCE CHUA 

     Funded Research

• Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Research Scholarship “Modern Architecture and the Chronopolitics of Sovereignty in Cambodia and Thailand,” May 2023-December 2023.

• Center for Khmer Studies, Senior Research Fellowship, “Constructing anachronism: renaissance, karma, and Rebirth in Southeast Asia’s architectural history,” January 2024-June 2024

• FRESCO Fellowship, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, 2023-2025.

Publications

• “A Questionnaire on Diaspora and the Modern,” October 186 (2023), 3-112.

• Review of Everyday Modernism: Architecture & Society in Singapore, Southeast Asian Studies 12.3, December 2023.

• “Figuring the Border: The Aesthetics of Boundaries and Boundary Crossings in Letter to a Refusing Pilot and Boundary,” Co-authored chapter with Noa Roei, in Seeing in Tongues (Oxford: Legenda, 2025). 

  Scholarly Events 

• Invited Speaker, “Sovereignty, sacred space, and the histoires croisées of Wat Rachathiwat,” Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, September 28, 2023.

• “Paul Pfeiffer in conversation with Lawrence Chua and Julie Mehretu,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November 12, 2023.

• Invited Speaker, “Building Fascism: Thailand,” Hamilton College, April 10, 2024.
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GREG CORSO and ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MOLLY HUNKER 

Funded Research

• Exhibit Columbus, “Side Effects,”  Side Effects learns from two qualities of Columbus’ special design legacy—the high-contrast patterns developed by Alexander Girard and the indoor-outdoor continuity deployed by Modernist architectural design—to strengthen the visual and social connection in spaces downtown. This installation also offers a new identity and potential for use at the space on Washington Street ($30,000, Spring 2022).
  
  Publications
• Co-Editor with Kyle Miller, Building Practice (Applied Research and Design, 2022).
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IMAN FAYYAD

Funded Research

• MacDowell Fellowship, Artist Residency Program, Spring-Summer 2024.

• Lender Center for Social Justice, “Closing the Racial Wealth Gap through Environmental Justice and Participatory Design,”(with Eliana Abu-Hamdi, $102,285, May 2023).

Design/Research Award

• ACSA Faculty Design Award, CloudHouse Shade Pavilion, January 27, 2023.

• The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Award, CloudHouse Shade   Pavilion, January 17, 2023.
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BESS KRIETEMEYER 

      Active Grants

• U.S. Department of Energy, Advanced Building Construction (ABC) Phase 2: Integrated Whole-Building Energy Efficiency Retrofit Solution for Residences in Cold/Very Cold Climates, Principal Investigator with Jianshun Zhang (Co-PI), Nina Sharifi (Co-PI), Bing Dong (Co-PI), Tammy Rosanio (Co-Investigator) in collaboration with Signetron, Taitem Engineering, Cycle Architecture, TKFabricate. $6,250,000. 2022 - 2026

• National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Building America Retrofit Field Validation and Demonstration, Subaward Co-PI for SU with Lead Team Member Cycle Architecture/Cycle Retrotech, in collaboration with Taitem Engineering, New York City Housing Authority, and Laborer’s International Union Local 79. Selected for Award: First phase of $1,000,000; subcontract amount TBD. 2023 - 2025

• U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC), Energy Program Innovation Cluster for Equity and Health in Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings, Co-Principal Investigator with Eric Schiff (PI), Bing Dong (Co-PI), Tamara Rosanio (Co-Investigator) in collaboration with CenterState CEO, $750,000. 2021 - 2024

• NYSERDA REV Campus Challenge – Energy to Lead Competition, Syracuse University Net Zero Retrofit Campus Living Lab 
  Co-Principal Investigator with Nina Sharifi (PI), Bing Dong, (Co-PI), Jason Dedrick (Co-PI), Jeff Hemsley (Co-I) in collaboration with Taitem Engineering, Northland, NOIRFLUX, $1,390,000. 2021 - 2024
  
  Exhibitions

• Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (MoST). Net-Zero Energy Retrofits: Living Lab at Winding Ridge Road (Syracuse, NY). Nov 2, 2023 – Feb 23, 2024.
  
  Press

• Syracuse University Stories, “Digging into Nature: Students and professors turn to art, architecture and storytelling to better understand the environment.” March 26, 2024.

• Syracuse University News, “Deep-Energy Retrofits Research Yields Promising Cost Savings, Human Well-Being Outcomes.” January 9, 2024.

• NYSERDA “Spotlight on Innovative Multifamily & Apartment Solutions.” January 23, 2024.

  Scholarly Events

• Invited Presenter, Advanced Building Construction (ABC) Collaborative in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). “Lessons Learned: ABC Industrialized Construction RD&D Projects,” March 1, 2024 (virtual).

Media Mentions

• Syracuse University Stories, “Digging into Nature: Students and professors turn to art, architecture and storytelling to better understand the environment,” March 26, 2024.

• “Deep-Energy Retrofits Research Yields Promising Cost Savings, Human Well-Being Outcomes,” by Diane Stirling, January 9, 2023.
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PROFESSOR MARK LINDER

Media Mentions

• “Can AI Solve Architecture Problems?” Syracuse University Magazine, by Rob Enslin, Fall 2023 (full article).

     “Can AI Solve Architectural Problems?” by Rob Enslin, June 28, 2023.
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ASSOCIATE DEAN KYLE MILLER

     Publications 

• Co-Editor with Molly Hunker, Building Practice (Applied Research and Design, 2022).
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JESS MYERS

Funded Research

• New York Council for the Arts (NYSCA), “Here There Be Dragons: Odes(s)a, Film, Media and New Technology,” documentary podcast that explores contemporary urban territories and engages listeners in the concept of security narratives. Season four is about Odesa, Ukraine (November 2023, $10,000).
• SOURCE Research Assistant Grant (October 2023, $14,000).
• The Architecture League Prize, NY, “Here There Be Dragons: Odes(s)a,” resident-led, the podcast’s framing comes from common descriptors from those interviewed, enhanced by sound design. Together, these interviews reveal a complex post-occupancy study of the policies, designs, and social histories that shape cities (July 2023, $10,000).

Publications

• “Eclipsed on the Omnibus,” Urban Omnibus A publication of the Architectural League of New York, September 13, 2023.
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HANNIBAL NEWSOM

Research Support

• Lender Center for Social Justice, “Opportunity Design: Engaging Public Health in Low-Income Communities,” (with Eliana Abu-Hamdi and Seyeon Lee, VPA, $100,000, March 2024).

Funded Research

• Arkell Museum & Canajoharie Library, the Canajoharie Library provides literary, entertainment, and information resources, and promotes the active use of these resources, for recreation, education, and community engagement (ongoing, $12,000).
• Brady Farm, The Farm’s mission is to provide affordable, locally grown produce throughout the community. we strive to be environmentally and economically sustainable, and offer education, and workforce development (ongoing, $74,000).
  
  Scholarly Events

• Participant, TDI’s Mass Timber Design Build Workshop, competition entry, January 2024.

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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NINA WILSON

Funded Research

• NYSERDA, “MycoCore Zero Carbon Insulated Panel Systems,” collaboration with Foard Panel Company and Evocative Design, Principal Investigator (with Bing Dong (Co-PI), Qin Zhao (Co-PI), and Jianshun Zhang (Co-PI)), $1,500,000.

• Faculty Research Grant, School of Architecture, Syracuse University, $2,500.

  Scholarly Events

• Invited Lecturer, “Zero Carbon Retrofits,” Auburn University, Spring 2024.
  
  Media Mention 

• “Deep-Energy Retrofits Research Yields Promising Cost Savings, Human Well-Being Outcomes,” by Diane Stirling, January 9, 2024.