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News2.19.2021

Pilot Selected for USAID Sustainable Landscape Workshop

A pilot project facilitated between Fundacion CoMunidad (Panama) and Modest (NYC, Adjunct Lecturer Christine Facella MLA ’17) along with the community of La Yeguada and global product designers has been selected to participate in USAID’s Sustainable Landscapes co-creation workshop, aiming to troubleshoot solutions to deforestation in the Amazon. Their project outlines alternative income opportunities to

News2.18.2021

Student Wins Volcker Careers in Government Essay Contest

B Arch student Evana Said has been named one of two winners of the second annual Paul A. Volcker Careers in Government Essay Contest, selected from a competitive pool of nearly 150 submissions. Said is in her final semester as an honors student, working toward a Bachelor of Architecture degree and a minor in legal

Publications2.18.2021

Direction Of Money Transfers In Metropolitan Detroit

Radical Geography and Advocacy Mapping

Gonzalo J. Lopez

Gonzalo J. Lopez, adjunct associate professor at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture and cofounder of KnitKnot architecture, has recently published “Radical Geography and Advocacy Mapping: The Case of the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute (1968–1972)” in the Journal of Planning History. The article explores the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute (DGEI), a

News2.11.2021

CCNY Wins Prize at the International Biennial of Landscape Architecture

The CCNY Master of Landscape Architecture Program has been selected as a finalist for the International School’s Prize in the International Biennial of Landscape Architecture, Barcelona. Five projects representing the school are online and will be exhibited at the event. Student work submitted for the prize included: Anna Speidel and Hana Georg’s work from the

News2.9.2021

Spitzer Studio Work on Rikers Island Featured in Architectural Digest

A Spitzer School Spring 2017 Advanced Studio led by Martin Stigsgaard explored strategies that can tackle challenges of mass incarceration. Some of their work is discussed in a recent Architectural Digest article. Students investigated pathways that have potential to improve the U.S. penal system through architecture and strategic thinking. With input from human rights activists,

Publications2.9.2021

book cover: Case Studies Retrofitting Suburbia

Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia

Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges

June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones

Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges, by CCNY Associate Professor and Architecture Department Chair June Williamson and her longtime collaborator Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones of Georgia Tech, was published in late January (Wiley). The next book in the groundbreaking Retrofitting Suburbia series, it presents 32 new case studies documenting successful retrofits