The new Spitzer Commons website, created by and for Spitzer School students, launched last week with in-person celebrations and a club fair in the Spitzer School Gallery. Student clubs AIAS, NOMAS, GARC, ASLAS, FAME, CCNY Green, and SSAA all participated in the festivities. Spitzer Commons was conceived during the fully remote period of the pandemic
Adjunct Associate Professor Lindsay Harkema and the members of WIP Collaborative have been selected as one of two winners of The Design Trust for Public Space’s RFP, “The Restorative City: Building Community Wellness Through Public Space.” WIP’s proposed project, “The Neurodiverse City,” is a collaboration with Verona Carpenter Architects with the support of Center for
The City College of New York’s Master of Landscape Architecture Program clinched the International Landscape School’s Prize at the 11th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona, Spain. Work by Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture students was submitted to represent the program’s approach to the Biennial’s theme, “Climate Change Again.” The award was delayed by Covid, but the
Three Spitzer School graduate students comprise CCNY’s inaugural cohort of NYC Community Planning Fellows. Jeana Fletcher MLA ’22, Pedro Cruz M Arch ’22, and Victor Gorlach M Arch ’22 will be working within local community boards on real-world planning, design, and land-use issues for an equitable and inclusive recovery. They are among two dozen graduate
The Spitzer School’s B Arch student team has advanced to the finals of the APT-PETC (Association for Preservation Technology) Design-Build competition, a hands-on challenge relating to historic buildings and structures. Undergraduate students Tamar Plotzker (4th year), Xiao Lin Wang (4th year), Danielle Ryba (3rd year), and Abram Morris (2nd year) have been working together on
For centuries experts have pondered over one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most intriguing and yet unconsummated projects: the Galata bridge whose double-curvature arch design, ca. 1502-1503, was so futuristic it was rejected as risky. Enter Mohammad Bolhassani, assistant professor and masonry structures specialist at the Spitzer School. While MIT researchers have proven the structural feasibility of the design,