Welcome to the 2022-23 academic year! There is a lot to look forward to, and many ways to get involved! Spitzer School students, faculty, and staff convened in person for Convocation on August 25, a final milestone in the transition to fully reopening. View the presentation here. Dean Marta Gutman led the event, starting with
Our 2022 Fall Sciame Lecture Series is titled Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas and brings together architects, preservationists, planners, artists, and historians of color at a precipitous moment in time. Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas presents meditations on the topic of migration from nontraditional, creative, and interdisciplinary perspectives. The
Congrats to professor Jerome Haferd, who is a 2022-23 Wesleyan EAI Visiting Artist Fellowship recipient! From Wesleyan Center of the Art‘s Instagram post ( @wescfa ): ・・・ Meet Jerome Haferd (@jhaferd), Visiting Guest Artist Fellow: “As a Black, mixed race, and LGBTQ+, my practice of architectural and urban design, teaching, research, and advocacy seeks the
Dean Gutman spent the beginning of this summer in England, where she was, among other academic activities, an invited speaker at the University of Oxford’s Centre for the History of Childhood. The center, together with the National Trust Partnership, hosted a two-day colloquium exploring children’s interactions with history and heritage in the past, young people’s
Congratulations to SSA faculty, Kaja Kühl and Lindsay Harkema, for making it onto the list of 2022 NYSCA Architecture + Design Independent Projects Grant recipients! In the first year of the League’s Independent Projects partnership with NYSCA, 18 design proposals were selected for grants of $10,000 each. Independent Projects is a competitive grant program that
DesignIntelligence in 2022 Dear Friends in the Design Community, For a number of us who lead institutions dedicated to the education of architects and landscape architects, the pandemic provided the opportunity to set competition aside and share our knowledge for the benefit of our students, present and future. In a series of informal