During the summer of 2017, Kaitlin Faherty (BArch ’17) held a full scholarship to study in France as part of the Summer Architecture Program at the Écoles d’Art Américaines de Fontainebleau. At the school’s graduation ceremony, Kaitlin was awarded first prize in architecture. She will return to Fontainebleau this summer as a teaching assistant in
A four-person team of graduate architecture and landscape architecture students won the first Honorable Mention in Archstorming’s summer 2017 international competition Unbuild the Wall. Their proposal, ACROSS | CRUZAR, transforms the US-Mexico border wall at Nogales into a social and cultural hub and stretches the footprint of the border into a formal, bi-national territory where people sharing the same
Christine Facella MLA ’17 is a winner of a 2017 American Society of Landscape Architects Student Honor Award for her project “Forests on the Edge: Plant-Based Economies Driving Ecological Renewal in Haiti.” Using Haiti as a prototypical case-study, the project investigates the utilization of live fences as a catalyst for reforestation through the choreographed design
Christina Hernandez M Arch ’15 has been selected for the Center for Architecture’s new Civic Leadership Program. Together with nine other young, talented, socially committed professionals, she will participate in a year-long series of programs and events to develop civic leadership skills. The CLP was initiated following the 2016 election to build on the groundswell of energy
Eight studios are available to advanced architecture students in fall 2017. Nandini Bagchee Advocate, Adapt, Add St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Harlem, New York Peter Gisolfi A New Performing and Visual Arts Center for Hackley Campus Hackley School, Tarrytown, New York Henry Grosman Light & Excess – Luxury TriBeCa, New York Bradley Horn Intentional Communities: Unintentional
Avi Nagel M Arch ’19 presented at the 40th annual Association for Community Design (ACD) conference in June in Dallas, Texas. Nagel’s presentation, “NYC Million Trees, and an Open Urban Forest,” used the TreeCensus open-source database and asked for ideas on pairing cloud-based GIS integration with community participation to create more transparency in selecting planting locations. The Spitzer School of