Cheuk Kei (Chucky) Hui and Vionna Wai (5th-year B Arch) won first place in the annual NYC Student Masonry Design Competition based on their project, a proposal for the Queensboro Bridge Community Center, which they worked on in summer 2016 with Professor Ali Hocek. New York Daily News has featured their winning entry. The Associated Brick
In its first season, the Solar RoofPod garden atop the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture building has yielded tomatoes, tomatillos, zucchini, cucumber, broccoli, eggplant, cauliflower, jalapenos and other vegetables planted by CCNY Green and students from the City College-based High School for Math, Science and Engineering (HSMSE). The concept proven, the garden has
B Arch students Young Do Yoo, Sarwat Yunus, Chucky Hui, and Vionna Wai participated in an international design competition sponsored by the Fondation Jacques Rougerie. Their project, entitled Barncity, was one of the awarded projects out of 2,400 entries from 96 countries.
Professor Marta Gutman presented the lecture “’How to Design a Junior High School’: Examples from the 1960s in Berkeley and Harlem” on September 9, 2016, as part of the Collins Kaufmann Forum for Modern Architectural History in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. On September 19, 2016, she took part in
Anina Gerchick’s “Reclaim the Rails” project is a winner in the 2016 National Grant Competition for Emerging Professionals in Landscape Architecture sponsored by Anova. Her prize includes funding to participate in the 2016 ASLA Annual Meeting this fall in New Orleans. In response to the prompt “What change would you make in your region if
Nine studios focusing on sites as nearby as Morningside Heights and the South Bronx and as far afield as Amazonia and Siberia are available to advanced architecture students in fall 2016. Jacob Alspector Guggenheim Redux: Contemporary Art Museum – Interventions, Reinventions and Disruptions Nandini Bagchee South Bronx X Change Lance Jay Brown Mixing Uses: Integrating Urbanism