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News6.3.2025

Dean Marta Gutman featured in Women Shaping the Built Environment: Lessons Learned from Oakland, CA and New York, NY

Join the AIA Brooklyn Women in Architecture on Thursday, June 26th, 2025, at 6 PM for an evening of ideas, inspiration, and connection at the Marset USA Showroom as we spotlight the critical impact of women shaping our cities and communities. This is more than a panel — it’s a space to meet others, exchange

News5.21.2025

group photo of UD capstone students with drawings in background

Urban Design Students Share First Capstones

The Spitzer School’s Graduate Program in Urban Design recently retooled itself, expanding the curriculum from two to three semesters starting with the cohort entering in Fall 2023. During the new third semester, students complete a capstone project. Concurrent with this curricular change, the program added a “5+1” accelerated degree option for undergraduate architecture students. The

News4.29.2025

Funicular Structures: The Art of Building Efficiently

We are pleased to announce the release of Funicular Structures: The Art of Building Efficiently, authored by Prof. Damon Bolhassani, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director of the Advanced Building Construction Lab (ABC Lab) at The City College of New York (CCNY). This book provides an in-depth exploration of funicular structures — structural systems designed

News4.2.2025

A head-and-shoulders portrait of Jerome Haferd, a man with short dark curly hair, looking directly at the camera. He is wearing a dark jacket with a tan or olive-colored collar, and a dark shirt underneath. He is positioned against a textured brown wall, which appears to be part of a building.

Prof. Jerome Haferd receives major honors

Prof. Jerome Haferd is the recipient of two honors, a fellowship from United States Artists and selection by the 2025 U.S. Pavilion to participate in the upcoming Venice Biennale. Fifty artists and collectives make up the 2025 USA Fellow cohort. The national award chose awardees based on their groundbreaking artistic visions and unique perspectives within their field. The fellowship is awarded through a

News3.26.2025

The Spitzer School of Architecture names Eliot Spitzer, former district attorney and governor of New York, honorary chair to the Dean's Advisory Council.

Spitzer School of Architecture names former governor Eliot Spitzer honorary chair

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at CCNY announced that Eliot Spitzer, one-time governor and twice-elected attorney general of New York, has been given an honorary chair to the Dean’s Advisory Council of the school bearing his parents’ names. “I am delighted to welcome Eliot Spitzer to my Advisory Council,” said Marta Gutman, Spitzer

News3.11.2025

In Memoriam: M. Paul Friedberg

The Spitzer School of Architecture mourns the loss of former faculty member M. Paul Friedberg, the founder of the undergraduate program in urban landscape architecture in 1970. Here are excerpts from “Remembering M. Paul Friedberg” by Charles A. Birnbaum for The Cultural Landscape Foundation: Maverick, innovator, fearless … these are just a few of the