After stepping down from her role as partner and research director at KieranTimberlake in February, Billie Faircloth will join Cornell AAP as a faculty member. The news was confirmed by a spokesperson for Cornell.

At Cornell AAP, Faircloth’s title will be associate professor, as well as Cornell Atkinson Scholar, and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. Faircloth’s hire is part of the provost’s Sustainability Radical Collaboration Initiative, which tries to create synergies between educational departments at Cornell.

“Associate Professor and Cornell Atkinson Scholar Billie Faircloth brings to Cornell AAP not only extensive experience in the field of sustainability and the built environment in research and practice, but is also leading the field in climate action through her committed, rigorous, and pioneering cross-disciplinary work,” said J. Meejin Yoon, dean of Cornell AAP.

Billie Faircloth was partner and research director at KieranTimberlake from 2008 and 2024. There, she integrated her variety of skillsets in environmental planning, industrial and urban ecology, chemical physics, materials science, and sculpture.

While at KieranTimberlake, Faircloth served as the Strauch Visiting Critic in Sustainable Design at Cornell AAP in spring 2023. She has also held faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 2017, she was recognized with Architectural Record’s Women in Architecture Innovator Award. Between 2001 and 2008, she was an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

“At the heart of this initiative are partnerships between people, colleges, communities, and industries, collaborating to achieve transformative, outcome-oriented work in the built environment,” Faircloth said. “The Cornell AAP and the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability missions align through a commitment to demonstrate positive impact. I look forward to joining the incredible teaching and research underway at Cornell, linking architecture’s critical practice to the fields of environmental and human ecology, public and planetary health, engineering, and more.”

Faircloth’s appointment begins in January 2025.