Dear Spitzer School of Architecture Community, This has been a terrible, tragic week for America. I will ask you in advance to forgive the observations of an outsider and newcomer, on the one hand, and the dean of this institution who is black, on the other. This rare duality makes for an uneasy balance.
The Spitzer School congratulates its class of 2020! On May 28, Spitzer raised a virtual toast to celebrate the grit, resilience, and imagination of more than 90 students completing degrees of Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture, and Master of Urban Planning. Watch our congratulatory video here. [Event Program]
Spitzer students Jeffrey Gyemibi and Florence Methot have been awarded the AIANY Center for Architecture’s Eleanor Allwork Scholarship Merit Award and Design Scholarship, respectively. The Women’s Architectural Auxiliary Eleanor Allwork Scholarship was established in the early 1980s by architect and former AIA member Ronald Allwork. Both scholarships recognize students seeking their first degree in architecture from a
Spitzer ArchIT, led by IT Director Muhammad Ahmad, is joining big-tech companies like Google and Intel in putting its empty computer labs to good use. Computer power will be donated to COVID-19 related projects, including vaccine research through the Folding@Home app. Folding@Home pairs research labs that need extra computing power with people who have extra
Future Architects of the Middle East (F.A.M.E) is excited to annouce the release of their publication, Mashrabiya. “Volume 00″ explores Middle Eastern Identity as it relates to space. “Whether we manifest it ourselves, or it is superimposed on us, our sense of identity can become a driving force behind everything we create. Identity is
Professor Lior Galili’s article on the work of Israeli Architect Doron Sheinman has recently been published on ArchDaily. The Sheinman residence at Neve Shalom is a private two-story building for single-family occupancy. Located at Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom — a one-of-a-kind Israeli Arab-Jewish village committed to cultural equity — the house’s position embodies the experience