Four faculty members and one alumna of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York have received Independent Projects grants from the New York State Council on the Arts in conjunction with the Architectural League of New York. Each $10,000 award was granted for a self-generated year-long project in design practice
Junior Cruz B Arch ’26 recently wrote an article, “CCNY Students on Changing the Face of Architecture,” for Harlem View, which discusses the transformative contributions of architecture students in reshaping the field. Cruz explores how students are rethinking design practices by integrating sustainability and inclusivity into their work, emphasizing the importance of creating spaces that
Grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies and the West Harlem Development Corporation (WHDC), in the amount of $10,000 each, were awarded to support ARCH @ 60: “Bridging Past Visions and Present Realities,” a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Architects’ Renewal Committee (ARCH) in Harlem at CCNY’s J. Max Bond Center for
B Arch students, under the advisement of Adjunct Professor Steve Preston, designed a mobile learning workstation for a local children’s hospital. This work was completed as part of Freedom by Design (FBD), a community service program sponsored by the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) that aims to solve everyday problems with modest design and construction solutions.
Valmira Gashi M Arch ’20 and Julien Legeard have donated $22,500 to establish the Valmira Gashi & Julien Legeard Scholarship in support of a student enrolled in the Master of Architecture program. The donors have contributed $7,500 for the Spring 2024 semester, with the remainder of $15,000 to be disbursed throughout the 2024-25 academic year.
Architectural historian and former adjunct lecturer Jessica Larson has spent years studying the buildings of San Juan Hill, the New York City neighborhood depicted in West Side Story, where Thelonious Monk grew up and Josephine Baker got her start. Painted as a slum by politicians and the press, the neighborhood was razed in the 1950s