This interview was led by Sarah Cohn on December 2, 2020, and first published in the library newsletter. Taida Sainvil is the Library Coordinator at the CCNY Architecture Library at Spitzer. She started at the library in 2009 as a work-study student, and has been here ever since. After she graduated from CCNY in 2014 with a bachelor’s
In 2016, the Architecture Library at the City College of New York (CCNY) acquired an extensive photographic postcard collection of the late Frank Wayde Hall, an accomplished architect and a historian of architecture. Appraised at nearly $100,000, this collection (1970s-2013) consists of approximately 13,500 postcards on architectural structures and buildings of the 19th and 20th
The Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York invites nominations and applications for the full-time, tenure-track faculty position of Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Job ID 22262, with an appointment commencing in Fall 2021. Candidates are expected to be engaged in the advancement of the discipline of landscape
SSA students presented their work completed during the Fall 2020 Advanced Studio “Public[Private]House: Architectures of Care and Infrastructures of Wellbeing” taught by Viren Brahmbhatt @studio.pedagogique to the Manhattan Community Board 4’s Waterfront, Parks & Environment Committee on April 8 (via Zoom). Congrats to the amazing team! Studio brief: The studio premise is a provocation for collective
Master of Architecture third-year student Matthew Morgan was chosen to be in the inaugural Metropolis Future 100. The list is produced by Metropolis Magazine and includes 50 interior design and 50 architecture students graduating this year in North America. Selected students — along with their programs, schools, and nominators — are featured in the March-April
A spotlight by Landscape Architecture Foundation features Prof. Andrea Johnson, a 2020-2021 member of the LAF Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership. Over the course of the year, she has been unpacking how New York City’s energy grid factors into environmental justice and speculating on how landscape architects can plug into and support community-led efforts towards