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 ...read more
Endeavour – Inspired Infrastructure will host an in-person 3-part Lunch & Learn series at the Spitzer School of Architecture starting Wed 9/20 at 12:30 PM in the Dean’s Conference Room (SSA 123/124). The series will dive into the various technologies coming out of the Endeavour ecosystem that are helping to pave the way toward a greener ...read more
Our 2023 Fall Sciame Lecture Series is titled Crosscurrents: Architecture, Landscape, and Spatial Practices in Southwest Asia and North Africa and assembles designers, scholars, practitioners, and activists who engage the territories of Southwest Asia and North Africa. Crosscurrents: Architecture, Landscape, and Spatial Practices in Southwest Asia and North Africa probes the radical reimagining of the region ...read more
The City College of New York is the recipient of a three-year $1.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support a new multidisciplinary Place, Memory and Culture Incubator (PMCI) in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. The incubator’s focus will be community-based partnerships and projects in Harlem that engage built-environment design and ...read more
Professor Jerome Haferd and his architectural firm JEROME HAFERD / BRANDT : HAFERD won first place in the Africatown International Design Idea Competition for site number two at the former Josephine Allen public housing area in Mobile, Alabama with his proposal “In the Wake.” The Design Idea Competition is a way to create a vision for The Africatown Cultural Mile, 16 venues ...read more
Spatializing Reproductive Justice, a traveling exhibition exploring the spatial, legal, and social logistics of reproductive healthcare access in the US after Roe v. Wade, is the recipient of a 2023 Graham Foundation Grant. Building on the work of design studios taught at CCNY SSA, Columbia GSAPP, and Syracuse University in Fall 2022, the exhibition will ...read more