OverviewIn 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). Across 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 registration is required.Spring 2026Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia DavidsonWednesday, February 25 at 7 p.m.Gensler Family AAP NYC CenterTata Innovation Center, 4th Floor; Cornell TechToshiko Mori + Cynthia DavidsonMonday, March 9 at 7 p.m.Gensler Family AAP NYC CenterTata Innovation Center, 4th Floor; Cornell TechAAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia DavidsonThursday, April 9 at 7 p.m.Gensler Family AAP NYC CenterTata Innovation Center, 4th Floor; Cornell TechFall 2025View the Fall 2025 conversation series. Cynthia Davidson, Cofounder and Executive Director, Anyone Corporation; Visiting Critic, Cornell AAP Cynthia Davidson is cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the international architecture journal Log, which she launched in 2003, and previously ANY magazine, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also responsible for more than 40 books in print, including 28 books in the Anyone project’s Writing Architecture series, published with MIT Press. She cocurated The Architectural Imagination, an exhibition of speculative projects for Detroit, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery Anyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Princeton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning program in New York City. The American Academy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014. Peter Eisenman, Founder and Principal, Eisenman Architects; Visiting Critic, Cornell AAP Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55), an internationally recognized architect and educator, is founder and design principal 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).Award-winning projects by Eisenman Architects include the Wexner Center for the Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio; the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquarters 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.Eisenman is also a distinguished author and teacher. Among his many books are Written Into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990–2004 (Yale University Press, 2007) and Ten Canonical Buildings, 1950–2000 (Rizzoli, 2008), which examines the work of ten architects since 1950. His new book, Rewriting 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.Eisenman holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University, an M.S. in architecture from Columbia University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University. He holds an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, and the Brera Academy of Art in Milan, as well as an honorary doctorate in architecture from the Università La Sapienza in Rome. February 25: Elizabeth Diller + Cynthia DavidsonPlease join us on Wednesday, February 25 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Elizabeth Diller, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.The High Line. photo / Iwan Baan, courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro Elizabeth Diller, Cofounding Partner, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R); Professor, Princeton University School of Architecture Elizabeth Diller is the cofounding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), a New York-based design studio founded in 1981 whose practice spans architecture, installation art, multimedia performance, and print. With a focus on cultural and civic projects, DS+R’s work addresses the evolving role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio today comprises over 100 staff led by partners Elizabeth Diller, Charles Renfro, and Benjamin Gilmartin. She is a member of the UN Council on Urban Initiatives and a Professor of Architectural Design at Princeton University.Diller has led many cultural projects that have reshaped New York including The Shed, the expansion of MoMA, the High Line, and the renovation and redesign of Lincoln Center. She also cocreated, codirected, and coproduced The Mile-Long Opera, an immersive choral performance staged on the High Line. Most 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 the 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.Alongside partner Ricardo Scofidio, Diller’s cross-disciplinary work has earned recognition on TIME’s list of the “100 Most Influential People,” the first MacArthur Foundation fellowship ever awarded in architecture, and the Wolf Prize in Architecture. March 9: Toshiko Mori + Cynthia DavidsonPlease join us on Monday, March 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Toshiko Mori, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. photo / Iwan Baan Toshiko Mori, Founder and Principal of Toshiko Mori Architect; Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design Toshiko Mori is founder and principal of Toshiko Mori Architect. She is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design and was chair of the Department of Architecture (2002–08). Her firm’s work includes 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.Mori has received numerous awards, including the Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award (2025), 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 Excellence in Architectural Education (2019), among others. Her projects in Senegal, Thread Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center and Fass School and Teachers’ Residences, won the AIA Architecture Award, and her work on the Brooklyn Public Library–Central Library won the 2022 MASterworks Award for best restoration. Architectural Digest has featured Mori in its annual AD100 list since 2014 and named Mori to the AD100 Hall of Fame in 2023; she was also named an Elle Decor A-List Titan. Mori was guest editor of Domus magazine for 2023. April 9: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia DavidsonPlease join us on Thursday, April 9 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with Gale and Ira Drukier Dean J. Meejin Yoon, hosted by Cynthia Davidson.Helical Landing — Billow Museum. photo / provided J. Meejin Yoon, Gale and Ira Drukier Dean, Cornell AAP; Cofounding partner, Höweler + Yoon J. Meejin Yoon is an architect, designer, and educator focused on advancing creative and critical practices, pedagogies, scholarship, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections between architecture, urbanism, technology, and the public realm. Her design-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural, educational, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Yale Living Village, a regenerative living and learning community.Yoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Vitra Design Museum, the National Art Center in Japan, and the Venice Architecture Biennale, among others. In 2022, Yoon received the World Cultural Council Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts, and in 2021, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.