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News2.20.2025

Junior Cruz B Arch ’26 featured in Harlem View

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

News2.11.2025

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

News2.4.2025

2024 - 2025 Community Planning Fellow Flyer

Spitzer Students Selected as NYC Community Planning Fellows

Two Spitzer School graduate students have been selected for the 2024-2025 cohort of the Fund for the City of New York’s Community Planning Fellows Program. Oranette Johnson M Arch ’25 and Sonia Uthuph MLA ’25 will learn from seasoned professionals in urban planning, local politics, and community development in addition to collaborating on real-world projects

Alumni1.30.2025

Marina Correia B Arch ’06 honors her mentor, Michael Sorkin

Adjunct Assistant Professor Marina Correia B Arch ’06 is the inaugural Michael Sorkin Visiting Distinguished Lecturer at the Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Made possible by an initial gift by Mark A. Willis and Carol A. Willis, the position allows a distinguished senior designer or scholar with expertise in urbanism to spend a semester at the

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

News1.27.2025

Announcing the Spring 2025 Lecture Series

The spring 2025 Sciame lecture series, Still Making Space for Gender, centers women and LGBTQIA+ folk in the built environment. While the discourse framing gender morphs and gender identities broaden and become more intersectional, the predicament remains the same. Women and LGBTQIA+folk continue to struggle against exploitation and fight for equal rights and equity opportunities