Hiding in plain sight in New York City are nearly two dozen potential solutions to the city’s affordable housing shortage. Small, irregular vacant lots that are residential-ready yet challenging in scale to develop, these 23 city-owned properties are the focus of the 2019 Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC competition, which has named as a finalist
Bre△the is a botanically based air-purifying system constituting plant-based air-remediation strategies. It is hydroponic, meaning that the plants grow without soil in a medium that is composed of adsorbents and porous glass stones that capture and filter toxins in the air. This system can be used as a model for a self-regenerating solution that could
SSA alum Victoria Graziano (B Arch ’18) garnered a 2019 SARA-NY student merit award for her project From Big Box to Small Squares: Reviving Suburbia. Undertaken in Professor June Williamson’s studio, the project reimagines the site of a failed Sears mall in Hicksville, Long Island. The project proposes to revitalize the suburban fabric through midscale
With Swati Chattopadhyay, Zeynep Kezer, and Matthew Lasner, Professor Marta Gutman has launched PLATFORM, a digital forum for conversations about buildings, spaces, and landscapes. In describing the origins of the projects, PLATORM’s editors explain its links to the City College of New York: The idea of a digital venue for conversations on architecture, the built environment, and
M. Rosaria Piomelli, an architect and former dean of architecture at The City College of New York, has been recognized by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as a Great Immigrant. When Piomelli was appointed architecture dean at City College of New York in 1980, she became the first woman to head an architecture school
Associate Professor June Williamson has recently been elected to two positions and honored by the Architecture Alumni Group. At-Large Director, ACSA In 2018, Williamson was elected At-Large Director of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), which provides a forum for ideas in architectural thought, education, and research. The association includes more than 500