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Urban Design Students Share First Capstones

The Spitzer School’s Graduate Program in Urban Design recently retooled itself, expanding the curriculum from two to three semesters starting with the cohort entering in Fall 2023. During the new third semester, students complete a capstone project. Concurrent with this curricular change, the program added a “5+1” accelerated degree option for undergraduate architecture students. The

Advanced Studio Lottery

The Fall 2024 B.Arch. Advanced Studio Lottery will take place on Thursday 29 August at 3pm in Aaron Davis Hall. The seven options are below, including links to syllabi. Damon Bolhassani The Stone Skeleton For the syllabus, click here Viren Brahmbhatt Bombay to Mumbai: Shifting Geographies, Mapping Difference For the syllabus, click here Jeremy Edmiston

PLOT Volume 12: Edge

Featuring curated submissions by students, faculty, artists, and practitioners, PLOT Volume 12 explores the theme of EDGE. This year’s shark-toothed faculty editor Michael King, along with our sharp and superfine editors Courtney Behrens, David Smucker, and Samuel Syrop, have assembled a selection of edges and edgy thinking, places perhaps farthest away from the center of

Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series: Arturo Ortiz Struck

This lecture was held on 11/17/22 and was part of the Spitzer Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series, titled “Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas.” Arturo Ortiz Struck is a visual artist and architect. Currently he is leading Taller Territorial de México, a research centre on architecture, art, and urbanism. He was member of the

Three Students Win Hollander Design Fellowship and Awards

We are proud to announce the 2022 Hollander Design Fellowship winner for first-year students in our Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program: Cassandra Castano won the three-year Hollander Design Fellowship, and Ximena Diaz Velasco and Sonia Uthuph each won a one-time award of $4,000! Hollander Design Landscape Architects was founded by Edmund Hollander, FASLA, president of