Author Archives: Liza Otto

B Arch Student Presents Summer 2018 ORCA Program Project

Fourth-year B Arch student Bella Fishta recently presented work as part of the Opportunities in Research and Creative Arts Program (ORCA) offered by CCNY. Fishta worked with Associate Professor June Williamson as her faculty advisor. The project, “Graphic Documentation and Analysis Techniques for Case Studies of Suburban Retrofits,” investigated a selection of suburban sites in Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland,

Central Park as Infrastructure

Master of Landscape Architecture students created this animation in the spring 2018 advanced media seminar Visualizing Central Park, a collaboration with the Central Park Conservancy taught by Lecturer Matthew Seibert. Starting from the far reaches of New York City’s watershed, Park as Infrastructure traces Central Park’s hydrologic infrastructure and explores challenges and solutions for preserving

Artimus Sponsored Studio Work at Party on Park

On September 30, B Arch student Estefano Torres of Fabian Llonch‘s advanced studio, East Harlem: Urban Infrastructures and the Streetscape, presented the studio’s progress at the Party on Park. The studio, sponsored by Artimus, is studying the streets around Park Ave between 111th and 132th to propose architectural solutions that would benefit the community as a whole —

Two Students Win ASLA Honor Awards 2018

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) named 2018 MLA graduates Kate Jirasiritham and Sarah Toth winners of ASLA 2018 Student Awards. Their exemplary work was selected out of 332 entries representing 17 schools for two of only 27 awards. Jirasiritham’s work, Songs from the Ocean, Dancers from the Land: Rendering an Ecological Choreography of

Llonch Work at the Venice Biennale

Work by Associate Professor Fabian Llonch is currently featured at the Argentina Pavilion  at the 2018 Venice Biennale and can be viewed through September 29. This year’s exhibition, Freespace, features, “work that exemplifies essential qualities of architecture which include the modulation, richness and materiality of surface; the orchestration and sequencing of movement, revealing the embodied

Fall 2018 Advanced Studios Announced

Following are the Advanced Studios that are being offered in Fall 2018: Advanced Studios: Lance Jay Brown Piermont on the Move: Taking Advantage of Designing for the Inevitable Piermont, NY Gustav Fagerström Making Machines: The Makerspace as the New Factory New York, NY Fabian Llonch East Harlem: Urban Infrastructures and the Streetscape  East Harlem, NY Frank