Recording now available: “Melting Into Air” featuring Iman Ansari [3/17; Spring 2022 Sciame Lecture Series themed “Radical Black Space”]. Melting into Air Architecture is the domain of interactions: the disciplinary exchange of knowledge and expertise, the technical intervention of tools and techniques of practice, and even the physical interplay of objects, bodies, and particles
Spitzer’s MLA program is contributing to an important cause through the school’s musical group The Swales. Following a recent performance, the Landscape Architecture program pledged to make a $500 contribution to a charity, on behalf of The Swales. Marta Gutman, Interim Dean of the School of Architecture, then added $500 more from the dean’s discretionary
Forum on the Nature of Enclosure Jeffrey S. Nesbit and Shawn Rickenbacker come together to discuss the upcoming book, Nature of Enclosure (Actar Publishers, 2022). In this forum, topics and themes challenge historical episodes of the enclosed environment and reflect on its cultural impact in contemporary society. From Crystal Palace in 1851 to Buckminster Fuller’s Spaceship
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture is launching a new fellowship program that invites and supports up-and-coming designers, practitioners, planners, spatial activists, advocates, historians, and other academics outside the CUNY system in their research in architecture, landscape architecture, sustainability, or urban design. Applications in all areas of architectural research, design, technology, digital techniques,
We are excited to spread the word about the ASLA Fund’s new program to support women of color in their pursuit of landscape architecture licensure and increase racial and gender diversity within the profession. State licensure signifies a level of professional competency and is an important way to achieve greater career and business success.
Congratulations to adjunct professor Marcus Wilford (UD ’18), whose design work as an Institute for Public Architecture fellow was exhibited at the Blockhouse on Governors Island last month. He and his “NYC Loop” teammates proposed repurposing a portion of the BQE right-of-way between Jackson Heights in Queens through to Williamsburg in Brooklyn to extend the