Emmanuel Thingue BSLA `86, B Arch `91, a visionary landscape architect, is retiring after designing more than 30 iconic New York City parks. Congratulations on these accomplishments and a wonderful feature in The New York Times! Throughout his 30-year career at New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Thingue created parks that earned
Prof. Zihao Zhang was recently on a recent episode of the podcast “DIFFRACTIONS COLLECTIVE” with Bradley Cantrell, discussing the marriage of speculative design, machine learning, landscape architecture, xenopatterning, and modeling. Listen here.
NYC’s Town and Gown program on Urban Resource Recovery (URR) featured work from two Urban Design faculty-and-student research groups from the joint M Arch-UD Spring 2023 studio on the social- and environmental-justice possibilities of legacy urban industrial activities. The studio consulted with city agencies such as DDC and DSNY and other community organizations throughout the
Students from the City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture attended a celebration for the future redevelopment of the Kingsbridge Armory and displayed the models they made for an architectural competition to reimagine the space in the Armory parking lot on Sunday, Sept. 17th. The Armory is up for redevelopment thanks to
Three Spitzer School graduate students have been selected for the 2023-2024 cohort of the Fund for the City of New York’s Community Planning Fellows Program. Jasmin Roussos M Arch ’24, Dehaan Rahman M Arch ’24, and Shadeen Dixon M Arch ’24 will learn from seasoned professionals in urban planning, local politics, and community development in
Two Spitzer alumni are among the talented young urbanists selected for the Urban Design Forum’s 2023 Class of Forefront Fellows, Rujuta Naringrekar (MLA `20) and Matthew Mbamelu (B Arch `16). Rujuta Naringrekar Landscape Designer at Future Green Studio Rujuta is a landscape designer at Future Green Studio. With a background in architecture and concern about