The Spitzer School congratulates the class of 2017! On June 2, nearly 100 graduates were awarded degrees of Bachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Master of Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture, and Master of Urban Planning. Continuing students winning awards and scholarships were also recognized at a separate award ceremony on June 1.
A conversation with Noshin Apurba and Nusrath Faruq Spitzer School alumna Noshin Apurba (BArch ’15) and her sister, former SSA student Nusrath Faruq, created the SK Rahman and Salina Begum Scholarship for Minority Women in Architecture at the Spitzer School. Elizabeth Christian M Arch I ’17 recently spoke to Noshin and Nusrath about the scholarship,
Adjunct Prof. Suzan Wines’s firm I-Beam Design has recently completed the Dauillard House in Orient Point, Long Island.
B Arch seniors Wei Ying Zhang and Jorge Burgos together with sophomore Sabrina Cohn from the Grove School of Engineering are on the road to launching a start-up thanks to winning the Zahn Entrepreneur Competition in the Standard Chartered Women + Tech4NYC category. Their product, City LABscape, offers hands-on indoor agriculture-based STEM education. The competition
Assistant Professor Nandini Bagchee’s essay “Studio Report: Design and Advocacy in the South Bronx” has been published by the Architectural League’s online magazine, Urban Omnibus. The article discusses the work on the H.E.Arts Community Center (Lincoln Recovery Center building, 349 West 140th Street) from Professor Bagchee’s Advanced Design Studio in Fall 2016. Professor Bagchee along
Ruth Nervig MLA I ’17 has been named by the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) as a finalist for the 2017 Olmsted Scholars Program, the premier national award and recognition program for landscape architecture students. She is the second finalist from City College in just three years, following Andrea Johnson in 2015. Nervig’s site is in