Author Archives: Alison Powell

Team with Spitzer Students Wins Design Your City Program

As part of a team of five CUNY students, Evana Said and Taylor Mastrota, both fifth-year B Arch students, won the award for best project proposal as part of the first-ever CUNY Design Your City program. Along with team members, Fati Fousseni (Baruch), Gema Romero (CCNY), and Maliha Khan (CCNY), their project focused on furthering NYC’s

Students Win Prize in Parklet Design Competition

Fourth-year B Arch students Nicole Bass and Hamees Gabr are winners of the 2021 Parklet Design Competition. Their design, “Concrete Jungle,” uses the parklet as an opportunity to increase public engagement, offering different arrangements that the user can choose from. From eating with friends to having a space to work individually, the Concrete Jungle has

Faculty Entry Shortlisted for The Davidson Prize 2021

Gonzalo Lopez, adjunct associate professor and co-founder and partner of knitknot architecture, has been shortlisted to the Davidson Prize with the project “Camera Lucida,” a proposal made by knitknot architecture, D’Lab, and Sandra Javera. The project is one of 18 entries to move forward in the Davidson Prize 2021. The theme of the 2021 Davidson

Spitzer School Dean Search Opens

The Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York invites nominations and applications for the position of dean, the academic and administrative leader of the school and its urban research and advocacy center, the J. Max Bond Center. The school seeks an inspirational leader, ambitious entrepreneur, and collegial partner

PLOT X Seeks Submissions

PLOT is an award-winning annual journal produced by the Master of Landscape Architecture students of the City College of New York’s Spitzer School of Architecture. The theme of PLOT Volume 10 is X and submissions are open to all: students, professors, place-holders, mathematicians, practitioners, collaborators, and friends. Submissions may be drawings, speculative texts, formulas, treasure

Spitzer Project Garners Honor in International Competition

A project by associate Professor Fabian Llonch in partnership with B Arch students Trisha Nicole Estuye and Lanhua Weng got an honorable mention in the Dupont Circle International Competition in Washington DC. The organizers received nearly 100 registrations from around the world, China to New Zealand to France to Argentina. The public announcement of the