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
Student work from Professor Nandini Bagchee’s Advanced Design Studio in Spring 2019 has been published in the booklet titled Building a Transition City: The Ewing Street Eco-Village Coop Pilot Project. The booklet is a joint work with Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi. This publication is intended to be used primarily as an educational tool about
The David Werber Traveling Fellowship 2019 Barcelona Summer program brought 7 CCNY architecture students to Spain to work with a group of students and professors from the Facultad de Arquitectura Planeamiento y Diseno of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. Together they designed an addition to the Tiro con Arco pavilion, created by Carme Pinos
SSA Chair and Associate Professor June Williamson participated in the “Suburbs for Everyone” webinar for Smart Growth Online. The series is organized by the Maryland Department of Planning with the Congress for the New Urbanism and is funded by the U.S. EPA Office of Sustainable Communities. The webinar addresses how the suburbs are ground zero
SSA B Arch students Isabella Joseph, Aparna Ramanathan Ramesh, and Violet Nash Greenberg are among the inaugural 2019-2020 cohort of Climate Policy Fellows at CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. This new program draws its fellows from CCNY architecture, engineering, science, and social science majors. The fellows will participate in workshops culminating in paid internships in Summer 2020