Harlem’s East Calvary Day Care underwent major renovations in 2020-2021 thanks to generous grants from the offices of NY State Senator Brian A. Benjamin and City Councilman Bill Perkins. A team from our J. Max Bond Center for Urban Futures led the renovations with Prof. Shawn Rickenbacker in the lead and Estefano Torres B Arch ...read more
Design the city at City! The Spitzer School offers accredited professional degrees for undergraduate and graduate students (from all undergraduate backgrounds), along with advanced, post-professional degree programs for architects and landscape architects. Take the first step by learning about these award-winning architecture and design programs — and how to apply — at an info session ...read more
PLOT Volume 9: Top Down Bottom Up (Spring 2020) has received the 2021 Douglas Haskell Award’s Honorable Mention for Student Architecture Journals from the Center for Architecture. The award letter noted, “The jury was particularly impressed with the fresh and relevant content included in the publication.” PLOT is the annual landscape journal edited by the ...read more
The new Spitzer Commons website, created by and for Spitzer School students, launched last week with in-person celebrations and a club fair in the Spitzer School Gallery. Student clubs AIAS, NOMAS, GARC, ASLAS, FAME, CCNY Green, and SSAA all participated in the festivities. Spitzer Commons was conceived during the fully remote period of the pandemic ...read more
Adjunct Associate Professor Lindsay Harkema and the members of WIP Collaborative have been selected as one of two winners of The Design Trust for Public Space’s RFP, “The Restorative City: Building Community Wellness Through Public Space.” WIP’s proposed project, “The Neurodiverse City,” is a collaboration with Verona Carpenter Architects with the support of Center for ...read more
The City College of New York’s Master of Landscape Architecture Program clinched the International Landscape School’s Prize at the 11th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona, Spain. Work by Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture students was submitted to represent the program’s approach to the Biennial’s theme, “Climate Change Again.” The award was delayed by Covid, but the ...read more