Profiles Archives - The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture

News10.7.2024

Former Adjunct Lecturer Jessica Larson explores the rise and fall of NYC Neighborhood San Juan Hill

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

Alumni10.7.2024

Spitzer School alumnus Aaron Rand ’65 gifts CCNY $30K in memory of grandson

Aaron Rand, an alumnus of The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, gifted the college $30,000 to help students in Spitzer School’s Bachelor of Architecture Program. A total of $25,000 of the gift will be used to establish The Elan Ganeles Endowed Scholarship Fund, and $5,000 will

News9.19.2024

Prof. Zhang involved in innovative CCNY climate project winning $1M DoE grant to co-develop tools that help NYC prepare for extreme heat

The Climate Lighthouse Project, an interdisciplinary venture led by City College of New York atmospheric scientist Jimmy Booth, is the recipient of a three-year $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to help communities bearing the brunt of climate change. The funding is part of a $10 million DoE largesse to 10 innovative Climate

News7.31.2024

Seaside Prize honors Prof. June Williamson for rethinking suburbia

The Seaside Institute has bestowed the 2025 Seaside Prize upon Prof. June Williamson and her writing and research partner Prof. Ellen Dunham-Jones. Williamson is director of Graduate Architecture at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Dunham-Jones is the director of the master’s in urban design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

News7.31.2024

Prof. Laura Wainer earns Urban Design Forum Global Exchange Fellowship

Prof. Laura Wainer is to participate in the newly created Urban Design Forum Global Exchange. The fellowship, themed “Big Swings,” will build bridges between leaders in New York and other cities taking “big swings” at their housing crises. Born in Argentina, Wainer is known for her academic work on the intersection between housing policy, design

News7.30.2024

Three B. Arch students standing behind two architectural models.

Celebrating B Arch Students at the Hunts Point/Longwood Development CCNY Studio Award Ceremony

Let’s celebrate the incredible achievements of our B Arch students during the Spring 2024 semester! Through a fruitful collaboration with the office of the Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson, NYCEDC, and Bronx AIA, Hunt’s Point/Longwood has been reimagined. Michael Goldblum, representing the Bronx Chapter AIA, has completed the second annual Bronx design studio, working