We are delighted to announce that Professor Fabian Llonch‘s practice, Llonch+Vidalle Arquitectura (LLV), has been invited to showcase work at the Argentina Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2020. The project, which is sited in Las Grutas, Argentina, uses natural materials and local building techniques to provide a series of collective vacation homes for urban clients wishing to
The Spitzer School’s Graduate Urban Design Program has been accepted as partner university for the DRIA, Designing Resilience in Asia, an international research program on architecture and resilience. City College joins 25 institutions from around the world in the DRIA Network Team. According to Urban Design Program Director Julio Salcedo-Fernandez, “DRIA provides a unique opportunity
The 2020 Council of Europe Museum Prize has been awarded to the National Museum of Secret Surveillance “House of Leaves” (Tirana, Albania) by Studio Terragni Architetti, based in Como, Italy, and Brooklyn, New York, and headed by Professor Elisabetta Terragni. The museum was selected by the Culture Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
The Spitzer School is pleased to announce the publication of Transient Spaces (eds. Loukia Tsafoulia, Suzan Wines, and Samantha Ong), a book that examines transience as a force of opportunity and resilience in the design of cities. The project began from two Advanced Studios taught by Loukia Tsafoulia and Suzan Wines in 2017, and it
Lesley Lokko, a UK-trained, Scottish-Ghanaian architect, academic and best-selling novelist, assumes the role of Dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York on December 2. Shortly before making the move from South Africa, she spoke with Archinect about her professional history within and outside architecture, her
Hillary Brown, FAIA, professor and sustainability expert in The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, is one of 39 new members elected to the National Academy of Construction (NAC). She was inducted into the Class of 2019 at the Academy’s annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. Brown was selected from more than 300