Professor Shawn L. Rickenbacker, director of the Spitzer School’s J. Max Bond Center for Urban Futures, together with CCNY faculty Susanna Schaller of the Center for Worker Education and John Krinsky of the Political Science Department at the Colin Powell School for Civil and Global Leadership, published an op-ed about the rezoning of Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan. Their
Four undergraduate students studying architecture in Professor Loukia Tsafoulia’s spring 2017 Advanced Studio, “Transient Spaces: Building Shelter in Crisis Contexts,” were awarded a first place prize for student work in the Cities of Tomorrow competition by Project Earth 2, a climate change and social development platform. Their project, titled “Weaving Communities: A Bazaar Weekend,” reconsidered
In an article in DailyMail.com, Dean Gordon Gebert explains why the original gargoyles of City College’s landmark Shepard Hall have all been replaced and why the originals are laid out behind the Spitzer School of Architecture.
Associate Professor Nandini Bagchee discussed her recent book, Counter Institutions: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side, in a radio interview on WNYC. Research for her book was supported in part by the Spitzer Endowment. Click here to listen to the interview.
The student-edited landscape architecture journal, PLOT volume 6 (Cloud) has received the 2018 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals from the Center for Architecture. Featuring curated submissions by students, faculty, artists, and practitioners, volume 6 (2017) examines the ephemeral phenomenon of the cloud, a speculation on that mass of shifting liquid masquerading as a solid. The content was
The Spitzer School congratulates the class of 2018! On June 1, more than 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 May