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Third-year B.Arch. student Shereese Trumpet was awarded the AIA NY Chapter’s annual Heritage Ball Scholarship in 2014.

In collaboration with MLA students, Associate Professor Denise Hoffman-Brandt created the installation entitled Red Carpet Encrypted at the Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, NY. The 1/4-acre lot installation was completed in spring 2014 and will be on exhibit through spring 2015.

Adjunct Assistant Professor Eirini Tsachrelia’s custom furniture, Flow Table and Urban Dining, are on display at the exhibition Greek Architects Practicing in New York, organized by the Greek Institute of Architects in New York at the New York Consulate General of Greece.

Professor Lance Jay Brown’s Design for Risk Seminar was hosted by NYC OEM’s Cynthia Barton who discussed the evolution of the Post-Disaster Transitional Housing Competition and toured the resulting built prototype. The seminar then had the chance to visit the LEED Certified OEM headquarters and the storm-activated Command Center. Students in the class include (from

Associate Professor Marta Gutman’s book A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950 was published by the University of Chicago Press in September 2014. This new work of urban history focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place

Structures of Coastal Resilience is a four-university research effort, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation with support from the US Army Corps of Engineers, examining four vulnerable urban sites along the North Atlantic coast that were affected by Hurricane Sandy. Associate Professor Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, the Principal Investigator for the CCNY team, is proposing a strategic