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News8.20.2024

Prof. Zihao Zhang Named Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program

With the new academic year starting in a week, we are pleased to announce that Prof. Zihao Zhang has been named director of the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture! Prof. Zhang was previously interim program director and showed great potential. As director, he will initiate curricular and administrative innovations while continuing to teach, recruit new

News7.31.2024

Seaside Prize honors Prof. June Williamson for rethinking suburbia

The Seaside Institute has bestowed the 2025 Seaside Prize upon Prof. June Williamson and her writing and research partner Prof. Ellen Dunham-Jones. Williamson is director of Graduate Architecture at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Dunham-Jones is the director of the master’s in urban design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

News7.31.2024

Prof. Laura Wainer earns Urban Design Forum Global Exchange Fellowship

Prof. Laura Wainer is to participate in the newly created Urban Design Forum Global Exchange. The fellowship, themed “Big Swings,” will build bridges between leaders in New York and other cities taking “big swings” at their housing crises. Born in Argentina, Wainer is known for her academic work on the intersection between housing policy, design

News7.30.2024

Three B. Arch students standing behind two architectural models.

Celebrating B Arch Students at the Hunts Point/Longwood Development CCNY Studio Award Ceremony

Let’s celebrate the incredible achievements of our B Arch students during the Spring 2024 semester! Through a fruitful collaboration with the office of the Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson, NYCEDC, and Bronx AIA, Hunt’s Point/Longwood has been reimagined. Michael Goldblum, representing the Bronx Chapter AIA, has completed the second annual Bronx design studio, working

News7.11.2024

A photo and graphic design composite; an image of a crowd of people congregating in and around a house on green grass.

Adjunct Lecturer Sasha Topolnytska co-curates “Constructing Hope: Ukraine” Exhibition at Center for Architecture

“Constructing Hope: Ukraine” an exhibition co-curated by Adjunct Lecturer Sasha Topolnytska runs until September 3, 2024, at AIA New York Center for Architecture. Associate Professor and Director of the Urban Design, Master of Urban Planning (MUP) program Julio Salcedo-Fernandez is on the exhibition committee at the AIA New York Center for Architecture. “Constructing Hope: Ukraine” presents

News7.10.2024

Professor Ifeoma Ebo Wins Prestigious Placement in Climate Change Workshop

Assistant Professor Ifeoma Ebo has been selected to be a member of the 2024 Cohort for the Academy for Public Scholarship on the Built Environment: CLIMATE ACTION. The honor comes from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the ACSA Research & Scholarship Committee, in partnership with The OpEd Project and the University