Following are the Advanced Studios that are being offered in spring 2017: Ruth Berktold TXL Innovation Hub Tegel Airport, Berlin, Germany Philip Lee Air Conditions: Thermodynamics and Architecture Storage Landmark Building, St. Louis, Missouri Martin Stigsgaard U Thant Island: An Architectural Investigation and Proposal for a Future Federal Prison for 500 Inmates East River, New
CCNY Spitzer School Urban Design students and faculty are Chicago-bound. Their studio is devoting the spring 2017 semester to an investigation of and a series of designs for the city’s South Side. Their immersive research trip to the city before the start of the semester (in the chilly month of January) will be packed with
After a bountiful fall harvest from a garden extension to The City College of New York’s award-winning Solar Roofpod come the bees. The nationally recognized rooftop project designed by students in CCNY’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, under the guidance of Professor Christian Volkmann, is the recipient of a Sponsor-A-Hive grant of honey
M Arch second-year student Marina Santos is the winner of a 2016 American Institute of Architects New York State (AIANYS) Student Award. The honor is for her project “Reach,” a design proposal for an art gallery at Brooklyn College. Santos will receive a scholarship and have her work exhibited at the Quad State (AIANYS, AIANJ, AIAPA,
As Assistant Landscape Architect at the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Shastine van Vugt (MLA ’12) helped design the new park, Van Name Pelt Plaza, at the Richmond Terrace Wetlands in Staten Island. The project has been awarded a 2016 Public Design Commission Design Excellence Award.
Adjunct Professor Marcha Johnson and Amanda Bayley (MLA ’09) have edited the book Coastal Change: Ocean Conservation and Resilient Communities published by Springer in 2016. This collection of essays and design case studies explores a range of ideas and best practices for adapting to dynamic waterfront conditions while incorporating nature conservation in urbanized coastal areas. The editors