STATEMENT OF THE FACULTY The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture The City College of New York/CUNY As designers, historians, researchers, and staff who are privileged to teach and work at the City College of New York, we are part of a community of students, colleagues, and professionals from around the world; they enrich
Students in Professor Christian Volkmann’s Advanced Studio, “Urban Glass House,” toured the 120,000-square foot production facility and got a company overview at GGI headquarters in Secaucus, New Jersey. Their studio focus is to develop glass pavilions, annexes, or other elements for pocket spaces in New York, focusing on research and technical documentation of architectural and spatial
Professor June Williamson is quoted in an article in Hour Detroit about the future of Detroit’s suburbs. She is also quoted in the Business Insider about the potential of grocery stores to invigorate suburban shopping malls. Her thoughts about suburbia have also been referenced in Politico and Citylab.com.
During the summer of 2017, Kaitlin Faherty (BArch ’17) held a full scholarship to study in France as part of the Summer Architecture Program at the Écoles d’Art Américaines de Fontainebleau. At the school’s graduation ceremony, Kaitlin was awarded first prize in architecture. She will return to Fontainebleau this summer as a teaching assistant in
A four-person team of graduate architecture and landscape architecture students won the first Honorable Mention in Archstorming’s summer 2017 international competition Unbuild the Wall. Their proposal, ACROSS | CRUZAR, transforms the US-Mexico border wall at Nogales into a social and cultural hub and stretches the footprint of the border into a formal, bi-national territory where people sharing the same
Christine Facella MLA ’17 is a winner of a 2017 American Society of Landscape Architects Student Honor Award for her project “Forests on the Edge: Plant-Based Economies Driving Ecological Renewal in Haiti.” Using Haiti as a prototypical case-study, the project investigates the utilization of live fences as a catalyst for reforestation through the choreographed design