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
Professor Marta Gutman has been recognized on an international level for her urban history, A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850–1950 (University of Chicago Press, 2014). The Society of Architectural Historians awarded the book the 2017 Spiro Kostof Award, given to interdisciplinary studies of urban history that make the greatest contribution
Fourth-year B Arch students Johannah Deegan and Zara Tamton deployed their expertise in coding and robotics, gained in Professor Frank Melendez‘s Responsive Architectures course, to win City College’s inaugural Art + Science Leonardo da Vinci Challenge. The team created the winning artwork, entitled “Flock,” by using Arduino microcontrollers, a procedural text-based software, to build and