Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges, by CCNY Associate Professor and Architecture Department Chair June Williamson and her longtime collaborator Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones of Georgia Tech, was published in late January (Wiley). The next book in the groundbreaking Retrofitting Suburbia series, it presents 32 new case studies documenting successful retrofits
Associate Professor Bradley Horn has been appointed interim dean of the Spitzer School of Architecture. Horn is a practicing architect and partner at Berman Horn Studio and a dedicated teacher who came to CCNY in 2000 to teach in the undergraduate architecture program. Over the past two decades, he worked closely with the school and
Please join us for the Spring 2021 Sciame Lecture Series, &/Or. Check out our calendar for lecture descriptions and Zoom registration. The term “binary opposites” is an important concept in linguistics, sociology and philosophy, referring to pairs of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning. Common examples that we use in everyday speech
Nadeen Hassan, a 2020 B Arch graduate, has been awarded AIA Brooklyn’s Student Excellence Award for her Spring 2020 studio project with Professor Julie Nelson. Hassan’s project, the Institute for the Study of Human Resiliency for Queens Botanical Garden, reconnects individuals to nature, water, and elliptical movements to experience meditative and contemplative qualities. The design
B Arch student Tania Jaquez has been honored with the 2020 Award from the Brooklyn Architects Scholarship Foundation. She will be featured in the AIA Brooklyn publication Pylon for her work from the Spring 2020 Advanced Studio with Professor Fran Leadon. “After a difficult semester where a health and social crisis started, I feel very
Congratulations to CCNY’s Studio Prize winners! Architect magazine has named the Spring 2020 Advanced Studio led by Jerome Haferd — Towards an Archaeology of the Future: The Pine Street African Burial Ground — for this tremendous honor. The studio explored restorative justice through architecture, reimaging a historic Kingston, NY, site. A mix of upper-level B