Spitzer chair, June Williamson, talks about retrofitting suburbia in this CNBC mini documentary. About 46% of renters in the U.S. are struggling to make ends meet, according to Harvard University researchers. Builders say conditions for renters will get worse before they get better. A snarled supply chain, a labor shortage, and rising interest rates
I AM FROM UKRAINE The Haven 252 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215 April 9 – 10 (Sat & Sun 10am – 6pm) Please join us this weekend in Gowanus, Brooklyn for I AM FROM UKRAINE – a pop-up fundraiser exhibition and art print sale of illustrations by Ukrainian-based artist Nina Dzivulska, who is currently
Recording now available: The Black School Project, featuring Shani Peters and Joseph A. Cuillier [03/31; Spring 2022 Sciame Lecture Series themed “Radical Black Space”]. The Black School Project The Black School (TBS) is an experimental art school educating Black/PoC students and allies in radical Black politics through workshops, a design firm, and festival. Based
Congratulations to Jeana Pearl Fletcher (MLA ’22) on winning the Landscape Architecture Foundation Honor Scholarship for Inclusive Community Design. This LAF Honor Scholarship was established in 2018 by Patrick Phillips, a visionary and leader in the responsible use, design, and transformation of land to support thriving and inclusive communities worldwide. Originally trained as a landscape
Dr. Ethel Goodstein-Murphree B Arch ’75 is one of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s 2022 Distinguished Professor Award winners. Five academics were honored by the organization for their contributions to the academic environment across the combined areas of teaching, scholarship, and service. The award is meant to recognize “individuals that have had a
In professor Dexter Ciprian’s Spring 2022 advanced studio, Defiant Bodies, the Spitzer building was critically analyzed to identify spaces of inclusion and exclusion. The Pin-Up areas were discovered to be unintentionally exclusionary, privileging individuals of a certain height and degree of ability. As a central experience in the career of architecture students, one should be