News Archives - The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture

News10.24.2024

The Arch 60 Symposium flyer highlighting the event's information and a RSVP code to register.

Grants make ARCH @ 60 Symposium at Spitzer School of Architecture’s Bond Center Possible

Grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies and the West Harlem Development Corporation (WHDC), in the amount of $10,000 each, were awarded to support ARCH @ 60: “Bridging Past Visions and Present Realities,” a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Architects’ Renewal Committee (ARCH) in Harlem at CCNY’s J. Max Bond Center for

News10.24.2024

Students from the Freedom by Design posing with the mobile learning workstation. From left Evelyn Krutoy, Juan Giraldo, Mouhamadou Dieng, and Gildalis Torres (seated).

B Arch Students Design a Mobile Learning Workstation through AIAS Freedom by Design

B Arch students, under the advisement of Adjunct Professor Steve Preston, designed a mobile learning workstation for a local children’s hospital. This work was completed as part of Freedom by Design (FBD), a community service program sponsored by the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) that aims to solve everyday problems with modest design and construction solutions.

Alumni10.24.2024

Gift to the Spitzer School of Architecture Establishes New Scholarship

Valmira Gashi M Arch ’20 and Julien Legeard have donated $22,500 to establish the Valmira Gashi & Julien Legeard Scholarship in support of a student enrolled in the Master of Architecture program. The donors have contributed $7,500 for the Spring 2024 semester, with the remainder of $15,000 to be disbursed throughout the 2024-25 academic year.

News10.7.2024

Former Adjunct Lecturer Jessica Larson explores the rise and fall of NYC Neighborhood San Juan Hill

Architectural historian and former adjunct lecturer Jessica Larson has spent years studying the buildings of San Juan Hill, the New York City neighborhood depicted in West Side Story, where Thelonious Monk grew up and Josephine Baker got her start. Painted as a slum by politicians and the press, the neighborhood was razed in the 1950s

Alumni10.7.2024

Spitzer School alumnus Aaron Rand ’65 gifts CCNY $30K in memory of grandson

Aaron Rand, an alumnus of The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, gifted the college $30,000 to help students in Spitzer School’s Bachelor of Architecture Program. A total of $25,000 of the gift will be used to establish The Elan Ganeles Endowed Scholarship Fund, and $5,000 will