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Announcing the Fall 2024 Lecture Series

The fall 2024 Sciame lecture series, Design Matters: The Housing Question Revisited, examines innovative solutions to the global housing crisis. It situates our contemporary dilemma in the powerful arguments made by Friedrich Engels in the 1870s and 1880s. In his revolutionary text, The Housing Question, Engels argued that the dearth of adequate shelter was an

Prof. Zihao Zhang Named Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program

With the new academic year starting in a week, we are pleased to announce that Prof. Zihao Zhang has been named director of the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture! Prof. Zhang was previously interim program director and showed great potential. As director, he will initiate curricular and administrative innovations while continuing to teach, recruit new

Adjunct Lecturer Sasha Topolnytska co-curates “Constructing Hope: Ukraine” Exhibition at Center for Architecture

“Constructing Hope: Ukraine” an exhibition co-curated by Adjunct Lecturer Sasha Topolnytska runs until September 3, 2024, at AIA New York Center for Architecture. Associate Professor and Director of the Urban Design, Master of Urban Planning (MUP) program Julio Salcedo-Fernandez is on the exhibition committee at the AIA New York Center for Architecture. “Constructing Hope: Ukraine” presents

Professor Ifeoma Ebo Wins Prestigious Placement in Climate Change Workshop

Assistant Professor Ifeoma Ebo has been selected to be a member of the 2024 Cohort for the Academy for Public Scholarship on the Built Environment: CLIMATE ACTION. The honor comes from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the ACSA Research & Scholarship Committee, in partnership with The OpEd Project and the University

New Hollander Design awards go to Spitzer School first-year students

Dana Ladd MLA  ’26 and Musa Matiwane MLA  ’26 are winners of the 2023 Hollander Design Fellowship awards presented to students in the Master of Landscape Architecture Program. Ladd was awarded the Fellowship, which includes $4,000 for each of the three years of the program, and Matiwane was awarded a one-time scholarship of $4,000. The