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The new book KatOikia emerged as an indirect outcome of the Housing Design Studio sponsored by CetraRuddy Architecture during Fall 2018 at the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. A collection of essays, KatOikia (Greek for “dwelling”) brings together academic speculations and pedagogical explorations with scholarly voices and practices from

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