The fall 2025 Sciame lecture series, rePURPOSE, centers on the practice of adaptive reuse in the built environment. Repurposing, the practice of adaptive reuse, embedded in historical patterns of city building, and for the most part discarded in the modern movement, is undergoing a remarkable renaissance. In the Fall 2025 rePURPOSE lecture series, architects, planners,
A $51,000 grant to The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture created a competition, in the form of a course, that provided select fourth- and fifth-year architecture students the unique opportunity to see a design project from conception through construction. The competition, “The Beauty of Block,” was sponsored by:
Associate Prof. Frank Melendez is the new chair of the Department of Architecture at CCNY’s Spitzer School of Architecture. He began his three-year term on July 1, succeeding Associate Prof. Sean Weiss. Dean Gutman extended a warm welcome to Frank Melendez. “I’m grateful that Prof. Melendez decided to stand for election as chair of the
We are proud to announce that Sean Weiss, Architecture Department Chair and Associate Professor, was recently honored with the President’s Award for Outstanding Faculty Service at the 2025 President’s Faculty and Staff Service & Excellence Awards on May 6th, 2025, in the Great Hall. The President’s Award for Outstanding Faculty Service is an annual recognition
Congratulations, Spitzer School of Architecture graduates! On May 29th, SSA hosted an End-of-Year Celebration, during which we honored graduating students with an exhibition of their work, an awards presentation, and a celebratory toast. On May 30th, the class of 2025 gathered on the South Lawn for the 172nd Commencement Ceremony of The City College of
We are thrilled to report that Spitzer student Mouhamadou Dieng B Arch ’25 is included in CCNY’s Great Grads highlight publication this year! Mouhamadou Dieng’s parents immigrated to New York from Senegal. Born and bred in Harlem, Dieng is thankful to have attended CCNY in his hometown, a place he describes as the backdrop of