Christine Facella MLA ’17 is a winner of a 2017 American Society of Landscape Architects Student Honor Award for her project “Forests on the Edge: Plant-Based Economies Driving Ecological Renewal in Haiti.” Using Haiti as a prototypical case-study, the project investigates the utilization of live fences as a catalyst for reforestation through the choreographed design
Christina Hernandez M Arch ’15 has been selected for the Center for Architecture’s new Civic Leadership Program. Together with nine other young, talented, socially committed professionals, she will participate in a year-long series of programs and events to develop civic leadership skills. The CLP was initiated following the 2016 election to build on the groundswell of energy
Eight studios are available to advanced architecture students in fall 2017. Nandini Bagchee Advocate, Adapt, Add St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Harlem, New York Peter Gisolfi A New Performing and Visual Arts Center for Hackley Campus Hackley School, Tarrytown, New York Henry Grosman Light & Excess – Luxury TriBeCa, New York Bradley Horn Intentional Communities: Unintentional
Avi Nagel M Arch ’19 presented at the 40th annual Association for Community Design (ACD) conference in June in Dallas, Texas. Nagel’s presentation, “NYC Million Trees, and an Open Urban Forest,” used the TreeCensus open-source database and asked for ideas on pairing cloud-based GIS integration with community participation to create more transparency in selecting planting locations. The Spitzer School of
On June 15, students from the spring second-year M Arch I studio shared their work with the Staten Island chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Along with Professor Fabian Llonch, students presented their own projects, pointing to the great potential of the Staten Island’s Stapleton and Tompkinsville neighborhoods as sites of increased traffic and growth.
Six architecture graduates from the class of 2017 were awarded the prestigious WX Women Executives in Real Estate Scholarship. Congratulations to Bachelor of Architecture students Cindy Santamaria, Justyna Drozdz, Peiying Jiang, Vionna Wai, and Wei Ying Zhang, and Master of Architecture student Kathleen Bender! The WX Scholars Program’s goal is to encourage and support bright and talented young women pursuing careers