With a little nudge from AAP Dean Kent Kleinman, Mia, Yana, and Ashley organized for Cornell Alumnus and 
architecture superstar Richard Meier to come celebrate his birthday with us at the AAP center. There was a lot of preparation involved, starting with the invitation. The ‘party planning committee’ asked all members of the NYC program for a few images of our work, as well as a photo of each of us. They transferred the images to small yellow squares of paper, replicating the look of post-it notes. Yana hand-delivered them to Meier’s office in a white cube invitation that opened to reveal all the note cards.
We all tidied up our studio desks, hung our work around the lecture hall area, and set up two projectors to display digital work of all the studios.
The “post-its” were also used to create a minimal but effective decorative element to the studio, with a line on the walls that ran about eye-level around most of the studio.
