Cal Poly Pomona professor named Carnegie Fellow
Cal Poly Pomona assistant professor of architecture Aaron Cayer was recently named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. His project, “The Architecture of Polarization: How Our Buildings and Builders Shape our Politics,” will explore “how architecture, engineering, and construction enterprises — and the buildings they produce — influence policies and laws that segregate our cities and stoke political divides within them.” Photo/courtesy of CPP
Aaron Cayer, assistant professor of architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, was named among 26 Carnegie Corporation of New York’s 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellows on April 16. Each recipient received a stipend of $200,000 to research political polarization, according to a news release at carnegie.org.
“The architecture profession, like most design schools today, clings to ideas that architects shape the world mainly through their signature designs or aesthetics,” Cayer wrote in a news release. “But their greatest economic and political power has historically come from the infrastructural projects and business models we tend to overlook. I think it’s important to understand these projects — and the policies and companies behind them — because they produce and sustain the inequities and divisions that then determine our politics.”
Cayer’s project, “The Architecture of Polarization: How Our Buildings and Builders Shape our Politics,” “will examine how architecture, engineering, and construction enterprises—and the buildings they produce—influence policies and laws that segregate our cities and stoke political divides within them,” according to carnegie.org. “It will also consider if and how the traditional tools of architects and designers may be used not only to win commissions, but also to encourage local and state legislators to adopt regulatory policies for urban developments that promote evenness, social cohesion, and equity.”
More info is at carnegie.org.
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