Author Archives: Kari Kleinmann

Students Host Tremont Community Workshop

Story by Yuriko Jewett UD ’18. Photos courtesy Vyjayanthi Rao. On Saturday, May 19, students from the Spitzer School’s Urban Theory and Urban Design graduate class, taught by Adjunct Lecturer Vyjayanthi Rao, collaborated with Friends of Tremont Park to host a community workshop. The workshop, Dream Your Park: An Encounter with Urban Design, focused on the Tremont neighborhood in

Distinguished CUNY Fellow Honor for Gutman

Marta Gutman, an award-winning author and historian in The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, is the recipient of a new honor: Distinguished CUNY Fellow.  As a Fellow, she takes up a semester-long appointment at the Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC), a program of the Graduate Center, CUNY, in the fall. ARC promotes interdisciplinary

Spitzer School Dean Search

The Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York invites nominations and applications for the position of dean, the academic and administrative leader of the school and its urban research and advocacy center, the J. Max Bond Center. The school seeks an inspirational leader, ambitious entrepreneur, and collegial partner

#SEEYOURSELFHERE at CCNY

CCNY student Alexandra Bilinski is in her fourth of five years studying for her Bachelor of Architecture degree. Watch to see how a practical choice turned into a love of her major, especially in the school’s nurturing environment, where students and faculty work closely together.

Students Lead Design Workshop at Waterfront Conference

Photos and story by Yuriko Jewett UD ’18 The Spitzer School was well represented at the Waterfront Alliance’s 2018 Waterfront Conference—Cities on the Edge on Tuesday, May 8, onboard the Hornblower Infinity at Pier 40 in Hudson River Park. Master of Landscape Architecture students Anna Ceraulo-Jalazo, Babbie Dunnington, Hana Georg, Robynne Heymans, and Rujuta Naringrekar

What Goes Up

In What Goes Up, Michael Sorkin takes to task the public officials, developers, “civic” organizations, and other heroes of big money, who have made of his beloved New York a city of glittering towers and increasing inequality. He unpacks not simply the forms and practices—from zoning and political deals to the finer points of architectural design—that