Prof. Ali C. Höcek’s firm, AC Höcek Architecture (ACHA), has received a 2022 SARA National Excellence Award for its design of the Brownsville Community Culinary Center (BCCC) in Brooklyn. The design team included Spitzer alum Berk Eraslan B Arch ’16. The Brownsville neighborhood is a community that, after decades of unfulfilled urban policies, racist agendas,
The Spitzer School will celebrate the opening of the Sorkin Reading Room, dedicated to its namesake, Michael Sorkin, the late distinguished professor of architecture, on Thursday, December 1. An author, activist, architecture critic, urbanist, and the head of Michael Sorkin Studios and Terreform, Sorkin joined the Spitzer School of Architecture as a professor of architecture and
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture has been given an extraordinary gift: the collection of books and archives belonging to Professor Marshall Berman (1940-2013) that he used to prepare to teach his courses at City College, principally at the Spitzer School. The collection will be housed in the CCNY Architecture Library. Berman, a distinguished professor
Renowned architectural firm Beyer Blinder Belle has created a scholarship at The Foundation for City College for the Spitzer School to support students who demonstrate both exceptional ability and financial need. BBB partner Carlos Cardoso BS ’92 led the establishment of the $10,000 scholarship, emphasizing that financial assistance toward tuition and living expenses at Spitzer is integral
The 2022 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, “Terra,” which runs from September 29 to December 5, features work by a number of CCNY faculty and alumni. The main exhibit section Multiplicity taking place in the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea de Lisboa (MNAC) is co-curated by Professor Vyjayanthi Rao in collaboration with Tau Tavengwa, with curatorial assistance
Two Spitzer alumni are among the talented young urbanists selected for the Urban Design Forum’s 2022 Class of Forefront Fellows. Yoo Jin Lee (B.Arch 2012) and Veronica Rivas Plaza (B.Arch 2015) will be exploring how New York City can develop a more sustainable relationship with its waste output as part of the organization’s New Loops