Publications Archives - The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture

Publications2.11.2025

Zihao Zhang's book: Cybernetics And The Constructed Environment

Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment: Design Between Nature and Technology

Grounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice, Prof. Zihao Zhang‘s Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment blends examples from art, design, and engineering with concepts from cybernetics and posthumanism, offering a transdisciplinary examination of the ramifications of cybernetics on the constructed environment. Cybernetics, or the study of communication and control in animals and machines, has

News1.29.2025

Booklet cover for Pathways to Home publication

PATHWAYS TO HOME: Design Solutions for Immigrant-Centered Housing

Assistant Professor Laura Wainer and her Spring 2024 B Arch Advanced Studio students (with special credit to Valeska Abarca B Arch ’24, Lorraine Colbert B Arch ’24, and Juan Jimenez Giraldo B Arch ’25) have published “PATHWAYS TO HOME: Design Solutions for Immigrant-Centered Housing,” a culmination of a two-year collaboration with the immigrant advocacy organization

News11.14.2024

Photograph taken from above of a group of seated students receiving a review from an instructor.

CCNY Spitzer School Annual Report 2023-2024

This annual report provides an in-depth overview of our extraordinary students, faculty, and staff, along with deep gratitude for the support of alumni and friends who make so much possible here at the Spitzer School. Together, our dedicated faculty and staff, talented students, and supportive alumni have made significant strides in advancing innovation, creativity, and

News12.12.2023

CCNY Spitzer School Annual Report 2022-2023

This annual report provides an in-depth overview of our exceptional students, faculty, and staff, along with deep gratitude for the support of alumni and friends who make so much possible here at the Spitzer School. Over the past year, Spitzer’s dedicated faculty and staff, talented students, and supportive alumni worked together to share our institution

Publications10.27.2023

KatOikia

Housing Explorations at the Intersection of Pedagogy and Practice

Editor: Loukia Tsafoulia; Contributors: Nandini Bagchee, John Barrett, John Cetra, Beth Eckels, Theresa M. Genovese, Berardo Matalucci, Nancy J. Ruddy, Christopher Sharples, Foteinos Soulos, Dimitra Tsachrelia

The book KatOikia emerged as an indirect outcome of the Housing Design Studio sponsored by CetraRuddy Architecture during Fall 2018 at the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. Editor Loukia Tsafoulia was one of the instructors. A collection of essays, KatOikia (Greek for “dwelling”) brings together academic speculations and pedagogical

Publications6.5.2023

PLOT Volume 12: Edge

Faculty Editor: Michael King; Student Editors: Courtney Behrens, David Smucker, and Samuel Syrop

Featuring curated submissions by students, faculty, artists, and practitioners, PLOT Volume 12 explores the theme of EDGE. This year’s shark-toothed faculty editor Michael King, along with our sharp and superfine editors Courtney Behrens, David Smucker, and Samuel Syrop, have assembled a selection of edges and edgy thinking, places perhaps farthest away from the center of