The fall 2024 Sciame lecture series, Design Matters: The Housing Question Revisited, examines innovative solutions to the global housing crisis. It situates our contemporary dilemma in the powerful arguments made by Friedrich Engels in the 1870s and 1880s. In his revolutionary text, The Housing Question, Engels argued that the dearth of adequate shelter was an ...read more
With the new academic year starting in a week, we are pleased to announce that Prof. Zihao Zhang has been named director of the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture! Prof. Zhang was previously interim program director and showed great potential. As director, he will initiate curricular and administrative innovations while continuing to teach, recruit new ...read more
The Seaside Institute has bestowed the 2025 Seaside Prize upon Prof. June Williamson and her writing and research partner Prof. Ellen Dunham-Jones. Williamson is director of Graduate Architecture at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Dunham-Jones is the director of the master’s in urban design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. ...read more
Prof. Laura Wainer is to participate in the newly created Urban Design Forum Global Exchange. The fellowship, themed “Big Swings,” will build bridges between leaders in New York and other cities taking “big swings” at their housing crises. Born in Argentina, Wainer is known for her academic work on the intersection between housing policy, design ...read more
Let’s celebrate the incredible achievements of our B Arch students during the Spring 2024 semester! Through a fruitful collaboration with the office of the Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson, NYCEDC, and Bronx AIA, Hunt’s Point/Longwood has been reimagined. Michael Goldblum, representing the Bronx Chapter AIA, has completed the second annual Bronx design studio, working ...read more
View the Summer 2024 Newsletter here (PDF). ...read more