Awards & Honors

Prof. Ali C. Höcek’s firm, AC Höcek Architecture (ACHA), has received a 2022 SARA National Excellence Award for its design of the Brownsville Community Culinary Center (BCCC) in Brooklyn. The design team included Spitzer alum Berk Eraslan B Arch ’16. The Brownsville neighborhood is a community that, after decades of unfulfilled urban policies, racist agendas,

Renowned architectural firm Beyer Blinder Belle has created a scholarship at The Foundation for City College for the Spitzer School to support students who demonstrate both exceptional ability and financial need. BBB partner Carlos Cardoso BS  ’92 led the establishment of the $10,000 scholarship, emphasizing that financial assistance toward tuition and living expenses at Spitzer is integral

Two Spitzer alumni are among the talented young urbanists selected for the Urban Design Forum’s 2022 Class of Forefront Fellows. Yoo Jin Lee (B.Arch 2012) and Veronica Rivas Plaza (B.Arch 2015) will be exploring how New York City can develop a more sustainable relationship with its waste output as part of the organization’s New Loops

Congrats to the Spitzer students who were part of three winning teams in the ACSA 2022 Timber in the City 4: Urban Habitats Competition! ⁠ The competition recognizes eight exceptional projects that interpret, invent, and deploy numerous building systems; all focused on innovations in wood design using a real site, the Arts Center MARTA Station

Spitzer professor Mohammad Bolhassani and Ahmed Helal (B.Arch ‘22) have won the highly competitive International Masonry Institute’s Joan B. Calambokidis Masonry Innovation Award for their project Perforated Masonry in the Young Architects/Engineers category. Their project attempts to improve upon an unrealized bridge design by Leonardo da Vinci through the use of negative space, reducing the