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News9.24.2018

Drone view of the Spitzer School of Architecture in New York City.

CCNY Ranked by DesignIntelligence

City College is listed among the country’s “most admired” undergraduate architecture schools in the 2018 DesignIntelligence ranking. For this prestigious annual ranking, DesignIntelligence surveyed more than 6,000 hiring professionals regarding which architecture schools they most admire for a combination of faculty, programs, culture and student preparation for the profession. Since 1847, The City College of

News9.17.2018

Housing Studio Yields Publication and Award

Student work from the CetraRuddy Design Studio in Housing continues to garner public attention. In May, the Urban Omnibus Intersections series published “House Proud” by M Arch students David Clark Smith and Isaac Telio-Bejar. Their article focuses on two new residential projects — one in Brooklyn, one in Los Angeles — that use design to address

News9.17.2018

MLA-Invented “Biopoly” Showcased at Biodesign Challenge

The 2017-18 Master of Landscape Architecture first-year studio explored the microscopic realm of the body and the city by finding the commonality between gut flora and soil bacteria. As a team, they compiled a proposal for a new multiform infrastructure for New York City that will build a robust microbiome. The class developed five infrastructural tools that were then

News9.11.2018

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

News8.8.2018

Students Recognized for Innovative Housing Concepts

Four undergraduate students studying architecture in Professor Loukia Tsafoulia’s spring 2017 Advanced Studio, “Transient Spaces: Building Shelter in Crisis Contexts,” were awarded a first place prize for student work in the Cities of Tomorrow competition by Project Earth 2, a climate change and social development platform. Their project, titled “Weaving Communities: A Bazaar Weekend,” reconsidered

News7.10.2018

PLOT Journal Receives Douglas Haskell Award

The student-edited landscape architecture journal, PLOT volume 6 (Cloud) has received the 2018 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals from the Center for Architecture. Featuring curated submissions by students, faculty, artists, and practitioners, volume 6 (2017) examines the ephemeral phenomenon of the cloud, a speculation on that mass of shifting liquid masquerading as a solid. The content was