News Archives - The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture

News10.26.2021

2021 On the Brinck Book Award and Lecture Winner: Catherine Seavitt Nordenson

Professor Catherine Seavitt Nordenson has received the book award On the Brinck, a newly launched initiative of the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning in honor of the landscape writer J. B. Jackson (1909-1996). Her book Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship (University of Texas Press, 2018) was praised because

News10.20.2021

Bond Center in the Community

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

News10.20.2021

Get Ready for Architecture School

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

News10.20.2021

PLOT Journal Volume 9 Honored

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

News10.7.2021

Students Launch Spitzer Commons Web Resource

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

News10.5.2021

Prof. Harkema Collaboration Wins Design Trust for Public Space’s Restorative City RFP

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