Congratulations to SSA faculty, Kaja Kühl and Lindsay Harkema, for making it onto the list of 2022 NYSCA Architecture + Design Independent Projects Grant recipients! In the first year of the League’s Independent Projects partnership with NYSCA, 18 design proposals were selected for grants of $10,000 each. Independent Projects is a competitive grant program that
DesignIntelligence in 2022 Dear Friends in the Design Community, For a number of us who lead institutions dedicated to the education of architects and landscape architects, the pandemic provided the opportunity to set competition aside and share our knowledge for the benefit of our students, present and future. In a series of informal
Congratulations to Professor Zihao Zhang for being named an early career fellow of the Dean’s Equity and Inclusion Initiative (DEII)! Together with 16 other early career faculty, Zhang was recently welcomed into the second cohort of this scholarly development program. “As a bilingual Asian landscape scholar teaching and researching in the U.S., where non-white faculty
B Arch class of 2023 student Alix Solomon has been awarded a Gensler Rising Black Designers Scholarship tuition scholarship for $10,000. “Winning this scholarship has reaffirmed my work, which is a marriage between hip-hop and architecture — two cultures on opposite ends of the traditional societal spectrum — in a form that’s appreciated and understood
Associate Professor Sean Weiss is the new chair of the Department of Architecture at CCNY’s Spitzer School of Architecture. He began his three-year term on July 1, succeeding Professor June Williamson. As Dean Gutman stated in the spring, “I extend my appreciation to Sean Weiss for standing for election as chair of the Department of
Spitzer alumna Rose Salane (MUP’20) is featured in a new Art21 film, part of the award-winning digital film series, New York Close Up. Tune in to “Rose Salane’s Lost & Found” on July 13, 2022 at 12PM ET at Art21.org or on Art21’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/art21org. Notably, Rose Salane’s installation 64,000 Attempts at Circulation