This lecture was held on 10/27/22 and was part of the Spitzer Fall 2022 Sciame Lecture Series, titled “Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas.” William Brinkman-Clark is a professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His research focuses on the cosmetic relation between the aesthetic and the politic as it regards public space
Professor Jerome Haferd‘s co-founded firm, BRANDT : HAFERD, is one of six emerging practices being honored as part of the AIANY Center For Architecture’s prestigious “New Practices New York” Exhibition now on view through Feb 25, 2023, at the Center. BRANDT : HAFERD and the other innovative young firms were chosen as the New Practices New
A Plan for Renewable Rikers by Professor Andrea Johnson MLA ’15 in collaboration with the Renewable Rikers Coalition, an outgrowth of her Kaplan Fellowship project, has been published by the Regional Plan Association and is getting significant attention, from the Architect’s Newspaper to the New York Times. Her project envisions Rikers Island replacing its appalling jail
Spitzer student Husan Ahmed B Arch ’23 received the Center for Architecture’s 2022 Common Bond Scholarship. Ahmed was feted at the Center for Architecture Gala: Common Bond on October 27 at Chelsea Piers, where he was one of three scholarship winners presented with a cash prize of $3,500 and a chance to mingle with professionals.
Prof. Ali C. Höcek’s firm, AC Höcek Architecture (ACHA), has received a 2022 SARA National Excellence Award for its design of the Brownsville Community Culinary Center (BCCC) in Brooklyn. The design team included Spitzer alum Berk Eraslan B Arch ’16. The Brownsville neighborhood is a community that, after decades of unfulfilled urban policies, racist agendas,
The Spitzer School will celebrate the opening of the Sorkin Reading Room, dedicated to its namesake, Michael Sorkin, the late distinguished professor of architecture, on Thursday, December 1. An author, activist, architecture critic, urbanist, and the head of Michael Sorkin Studios and Terreform, Sorkin joined the Spitzer School of Architecture as a professor of architecture and