Blog Archives - The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture

News9.27.2021

Spitzer Team Advances to Finals of APT Design-Build Competition

The Spitzer School’s B Arch student team has advanced to the finals of the APT-PETC (Association for Preservation Technology) Design-Build competition, a hands-on challenge relating to historic buildings and structures. Undergraduate students Tamar Plotzker (4th year), Xiao Lin Wang (4th year), Danielle Ryba (3rd year), and Abram Morris (2nd year) have been working together on

News9.22.2021

Prof. Aydogan Informs UN Food Systems Summit

Professor Ahu Aydogan presented as a member of the panel discussion for the Food Systems Summit at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City (panelists Anna Dyson, Founding Director, and Professor, Yale CEA; Eike Sindlinger, Lead for Food and Agriculture, ARUP; Mark Bomford, Director, Yale Sustainable Food Program; Dr. Raymond M. Wheeler, Lead Plant

News9.1.2021

Ahmed Helal Undergraduate Examining Bridge Prototype

Da Vinci’s Bridge Design Decoded by Prof. Bolhassani

For centuries experts have pondered over one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most intriguing and yet unconsummated projects: the Galata bridge whose double-curvature arch design, ca. 1502-1503, was so futuristic it was rejected as risky. Enter Mohammad Bolhassani, assistant professor and masonry structures specialist at the Spitzer School. While MIT researchers have proven the structural feasibility of the design,