Six architecture graduates from the class of 2017 were awarded the prestigious WX Women Executives in Real Estate Scholarship. Congratulations to Bachelor of Architecture students Cindy Santamaria, Justyna Drozdz, Peiying Jiang, Vionna Wai, and Wei Ying Zhang, and Master of Architecture student Kathleen Bender! The WX Scholars Program’s goal is to encourage and support bright and talented young women pursuing careers
A conversation with Noshin Apurba and Nusrath Faruq Spitzer School alumna Noshin Apurba (BArch ’15) and her sister, former SSA student Nusrath Faruq, created the SK Rahman and Salina Begum Scholarship for Minority Women in Architecture at the Spitzer School. Elizabeth Christian M Arch I ’17 recently spoke to Noshin and Nusrath about the scholarship,
Adjunct Prof. Suzan Wines’s firm I-Beam Design has recently completed the Dauillard House in Orient Point, Long Island.
Adjunct Lecturer Chelsea Haines, who teaches architectural history at the Spitzer School, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to support research in Israel for her doctoral dissertation in the Art History Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation, “Staging Modernism, Building Nationalism: Israeli Art Exhibitions, 1948–1965,” explores the intersection of modernist art and
Associate Professor Elisabetta Terragni discusses her installation Putting Things into Perspective at the exhibition Rooms: Other Philosophies of Living as part of the 2016 XXI Triennale di Milano.
As Assistant Landscape Architect at the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Shastine van Vugt (MLA ’12) helped design the new park, Van Name Pelt Plaza, at the Richmond Terrace Wetlands in Staten Island. The project has been awarded a 2016 Public Design Commission Design Excellence Award.