Awards & Honors

Congratulations to Gildalis Torres (B Arch ’25) for winning an HOK 2023 Diversity x Design Scholarship! This year HOK is providing $100,000 in scholarships to 10 exceptional students from HBCUs and schools committed to educating BIPOC and minority design students. Learn more about the 3rd annual Diversity x Design scholarships and this year’s inspiring recipients

The Jury of Fellows of the AIA has elevated Adjunct Professor Neil Katz to its prestigious College of Fellows in the second category of Fellowship. Following this honor, he was profiled by AIA New York | Center for Architecture as a featured member. An architect with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Katz teaches computational design

The Spitzer School Annual Scholarship & Awards Ceremony on May 31, 2023, recognized award-winning continuing students. Several esteemed donors presented awards directly and spoke about why they find supporting students to be so meaningful. For a list of award-winning graduating students, please click here. Congratulations to all of these students, and many thanks to the

  The Spitzer School is thrilled to congratulate architect Joseph L. Fleischer ’65 ’66, FAIA, for being presented with the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa at City College’s 170th commencement ceremony on June 2, 2023. In his address to the spirited crowd of graduating students, loved ones, and alumni, Fleischer spoke about his time

Congratulations, Spitzer School graduates! On May 30, the class of 2023 gathered in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall for the Spitzer School of Architecture Commencement. The ceremony recognized 116 students who completed Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture, Master of Science in Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture, and Master of Urban Planning in Urban

Associate Professor Frank Melendez is the recipient of an international fellowship from the Italian organization Nature, Art & Habitat Residency (NAHR). He is one of seven fellows who have been awarded the one-month summer residency in the Taleggio Valley, a rural region in the Italian Alps. The theme for the 2023 Fellowship is “AIR.” Fellows will