Blog Archives - The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture

Publications6.28.2017

PLOT Volume 6: Cloud

Student editors from MLA class of 2018: Anna Ceraulo Jalazo, Robynne Heymans, Kate Jirasiratham, Kenia Pittman, Sarah Toth

Featuring curated submissions by students, faculty, artists, and practitioners, Volume 6 explores the theme of CLOUD. The content is developed by the second-year MLA student editorial board in collaboration with faculty advisor Catherine Seavitt Nordenson and designer Isaac Gertman. Contributions to this issue examine the ephemeral phenomenon of the CLOUD, a speculation on that mass

News6.13.2017

Book by Gutman Wins International Award

Professor Marta Gutman has been recognized on an international level for her urban history, A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850–1950 (University of Chicago Press, 2014). The Society of Architectural Historians awarded the book the 2017 Spiro Kostof Award, given to interdisciplinary studies of urban history that make the greatest contribution

News6.13.2017

Spitzer Students Win da Vinci Challenge

Fourth-year B Arch students Johannah Deegan and Zara Tamton deployed their expertise in coding and robotics, gained in Professor Frank Melendez‘s Responsive Architectures course, to win City College’s inaugural Art + Science Leonardo da Vinci Challenge. The team created the winning artwork, entitled “Flock,” by using Arduino microcontrollers, a procedural text-based software, to build and

News6.6.2017

photo: graduation line-up in Spitzer School Gallery

Spitzer School Class of 2017

The Spitzer School congratulates the class of 2017! On June 2, nearly 100 graduates were awarded degrees of Bachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Master of Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture, and Master of Urban Planning. Continuing students winning awards and scholarships were also recognized at a separate award ceremony on June 1.