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News2.18.2020

Seavitt Nordenson Publishes Opinion Piece on Amazon Sovereignty

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Catherine Seavitt Nordenson reflects on who owns the Amazon and the question of sovereignty in the February 2020 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. Her opinion piece, “Amazon Fire,” examines the legal battle between Amazon.com, Inc. and the eight South American countries that share the Amazon River’s vast watershed: Brazil, Ecuador,

News1.27.2020

Spring 2020 Lottery Day graphic - woman with yellow Afro

Spring 2020 Advanced Studios Announced

On the first day of Spring 2020, students in the Advanced Studios get to choose which studio they’d like to join for the semester. It’s just as nerve-wracking for the instructors who have to “sell” their interests in the hope of attracting the best students! Below are the Advanced Studios that are being offered in Spring

News1.25.2020

Dean Lokko to Chair Conversation between Sir David Adjaye and Mariam Kamara

The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, which sees six world-renowned figures in art, architecture, dance, music, literature, theater and the visual arts mentor a protégé for a year, will culminate in a weekend series of talks in Cape Town in February 2020. The Architecture Spotlight features protégée Mariam Kamara, originally from Niger, and Ghanaian-born

News1.24.2020

The Age of Wildfire

On Tuesday, January 28, Dean Lesley Lokko will be speaking at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, on how her work engages with issues of climate emergency and decolonization.

Alumni1.14.2020

CCNY Lecturer Andrea Johnson Wins Prestigious Fellowship

Andrea Johnson MLA ’15 is one of six practitioners worldwide to be selected for the 2020-2021 cohort of the Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership. Using decentralized solar projects in NYC as a lens for analysis, her project will investigate the ways in which communities are building social power through energy generation and

News1.9.2020

Marta Gutman Named President-Elect of SACRPH

Professor Marta Gutman, an award-winning author and historian, is accepting a new leadership role as the president-elect of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. Her term as president will begin in 2021. The society is an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to promoting scholarship on the planning of cities and metropolitan regions over time,