Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center Fall 2026

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Overview Island Editions is an extraordinary conversation series that invites leading architects to offer candid reflections on their work, the evolution of their careers, and the broader professional and cultural landscapes that shape their thought and practice. Launched in Fall 2025 to mark the NYC program’s move to its new permanent home in the Tata Innovation Center (Cornell Tech campus, Roosevelt Island), the series is curated and hosted by faculty members Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55). Previous guests included Bernard Tschumi, Steven Holl, Nader Tehrani, Elizabeth Diller, Toshiko Mori, and J. Meejin Yoon.

The series is open to the public. Registration is required.

Fall 2026 Preston Scott Cohen + Peter Eisenman Monday, October 26 at 7 p.m. Gensler Family AAP NYC Center Tata Innovation Center, 4th Floor; Cornell Tech

Billie Tsien + Cynthia Davidson Wednesday, December 2 at 7 p.m. Gensler Family AAP NYC Center Tata Innovation Center, 4th Floor; Cornell Tech

Spring 2027 Speakers TBD

View 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. The American Academy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.

Davidson is a Visiting Critic at the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC). She also teaches at Princeton University.

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).