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News3.1.2023

Course Proposal Wins Inter-university Climate Challenge Award

Adjunct Lecturer Pedro Cruz Cruz M Arch ’22 and Associate Professor Nandini Bagchee have won a course development prize from Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). The course titled Archipelagic Estates of Puerto Rico: Islands and Island Cultures in Light of Climate Change was

News2.21.2023

Professor Bagchee and East New York CLT on CUNY TV

Professor Nandini Bagchee‘s work with the East New York Community Land Trust was featured on the most recent episode of DiverseCITY on CUNY TV. The segment features a brief history of CLTs in New York by Prof. Bagchee, as well as an explanation of how the CLT could better steward the currently empty lots. See the

News2.2.2023

The Sciame Lecture flyer features a map of the world with a blue, beige, and green background, along with black text detailing the lecture's information.

Announcing the Spring 2023 Lecture Series

Our 2023 Spring Sciame Lecture Series is titled Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation and brings together designers, scholars, practitioners, and activists who are situated along the Pacific Rim. Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation begins with what the Pacific Ocean is: a fluid place, a sea where ideas, people,

News1.31.2023

Prof. Williamson’s Retrofitting Suburbia in Australia

Suburban Futures’s 2022 international conference in Brisbane was centered around “Retrofitting Suburbia,” Professor June Williamson’s eponymous work together with Ellen Dunham-Jones. Williamson’s keynote at the event on October 5, 2022, set the stage for the conference by emphasizing how an expansion of forward-thinking urban design approaches to the sprawl outside of cities, while often overlooked,

Alumni1.30.2023

Alum Wins Vectorworks Competition Using Wood to Combat Climate Change

Ahmed Helal B Arch ’22 is the winner of an international award from the Vectorworks Design Scholarship. Helal’s project, “Mass Timber,” is one of 22 projects from 11 countries in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, interior design and entertainment, that was chosen out of a field of more than 1,000 submissions. The award comes with

News1.27.2023

Prof. Bagchee Speaks on Building Community at Architectural League

Professor Nandini Bagchee‘s practice was featured as part of the Architectural League’s lecture series “Current Work.” The event, recorded on November 15, 2022, highlighted the development of community spaces around the city and the bottom-up design process critical to their success. Professor Bagchee presented two projects. The first was born out of a collaboration between