News Archives - The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture

News11.20.2024

City Labs: A Collection for Architecture and Design Innovation (text on left, images of labs on right)

City Labs: a Collective for Architecture and Design Innovation

City Labs is a collective for architecture and design innovation at the Spitzer School of Architecture. We are expanding our lab spaces to create three state-of-the-art research facilities: the Robotics Lab, Living Systems Lab, and Advanced Building Construction Lab. These labs will facilitate pioneering research and give students interdisciplinary experience that will prepare them for

News11.14.2024

Photograph taken from above of a group of seated students receiving a review from an instructor.

CCNY Spitzer School Annual Report 2023-2024

This annual report provides an in-depth overview of our extraordinary students, faculty, and staff, along with deep gratitude for the support of alumni and friends who make so much possible here at the Spitzer School. Together, our dedicated faculty and staff, talented students, and supportive alumni have made significant strides in advancing innovation, creativity, and

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