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News7.6.2023

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Master of Landscape Architecture students featured in Vital City to reenvision summer streets without cars

In What Else Streets Can Be Vital City asked a number of architects, landscape architects, and urban designers to imagine creative ways streets usually dominated by cars and trucks could be remade in the summertime. Check out Master of Landscape Architecture students George McCracken & Nada Gatalo’s “Harlem Daisy Chain” design that closes the gaps

News7.3.2023

Prof. Haferd Creates New Public Art for Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park

Professor Jerome Haferd has designed a new installation for the nearby Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, New York. The interactive work entitled “Sankofa” will be up until October 2023 and reopen in spring 2024. “Sankofa” is the first of several installations and a multi-year, multi-structure vision plan designed by Haferd and funded by the Mellon Foundation as

News6.29.2023

Gildalis Torres (B Arch ’25) wins 2023 HOK Diversity x Design $10,000 Scholarship

Congratulations to Gildalis Torres (B Arch ’25) for winning an HOK 2023 Diversity x Design Scholarship! This year HOK is providing $100,000 in scholarships to 10 exceptional students from HBCUs and schools committed to educating BIPOC and minority design students. Learn more about the 3rd annual Diversity x Design scholarships and this year’s inspiring recipients

News6.28.2023

Prof. Katz Featured by AIA New York

The Jury of Fellows of the AIA has elevated Adjunct Professor Neil Katz to its prestigious College of Fellows in the second category of Fellowship. Following this honor, he was profiled by AIA New York | Center for Architecture as a featured member. An architect with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Katz teaches computational design

News6.27.2023

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Prof. Melendez and Students’ Project “Symbiont Substrate” Featured in The Architect’s Newspaper

The project “Symbiont Substrate” by Associate Professor Frank Melendez and selected students was exhibited at “rE-ordering architecture: making machine and material kin,” a show of digitally fabricated, 3D-printed clay columns, and recently profiled in The Architect’s Newspaper. Each column in the exhibition presented a new “order”– a seed or fragment of a future entwinement between

News6.23.2023

In Memoriam – Anne Spitzer

The City College of New York mourns the June 10 passing of Anne Spitzer (1928-2023), a passionate educator, philanthropist, and supporter of CCNY. She was the beloved wife of City College alumnus Bernard Spitzer (1924-2014), and together their incredible commitment to our institution was beyond phenomenal. It includes our own Bernard and Anne Spitzer School