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  Denise Hoffman Brandt, RLA, is director of the Graduate Landscape Architecture Program at the Spitzer School and principal of Hoffman Brandt Projects, LLC. Selected speculative design research projects have focused on refugee camps (“Relief Organism” in The Right to Landscape, Ashgate Press, 2011), carbon storage infrastructure (City Sink, Oscar Riera Ojeda, 2013), and climate-adaptive...

  The Career and Professional Development Institute is hosting a job information session for students at Spitzer. Even though there is a negative job outlook presented by the media, it does not mean you give up on your job search. Attend the session to learn about the real job outlook and how to make yourself...

  Please join us for our special filmed presentation, The Rolex Conversations. The filmed conversation between Sir David Adjaye, Niger-born architect Mariam Kamara, and Dean Lokko took place at the Rolex Weekend in Cape Town. This film has been generously made available to the Spitzer School of Architecture by the Rolex Foundation. The Rolex Arts...

  DK Osseo-Asare is co-founding principal of the trans-national architecture and integrated design studio Low Design Office (LOWDO), based in Austin, Texas, and Tema, Ghana; he is co-founder of the pan-African open tech initiative Agbobloshie Makerspace Platform (AMP); and he is assistant professor of architecture and engineering design at Penn State University, where he runs...

Mae-ling Lokko (Ghana/Philippines) is an architectural scientist and building technology researcher whose work centers on the upcycling of agrowaste and biopolymer materials into high-performance clean-building material systems for humidity control, indoor air-quality remediation, and water-quality-control applications. Lokko holds a PhD and MSc in Architectural Science from the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology, Rensselaer Polytechnic...

Counterspace are the winners of the 2020 Serpentine Pavilion competition (now postponed), the youngest architects ever to win this prestigious award. Based in Johannesburg, they are a collective studio of young architecture graduates established in 2014 by Sumayya Vally, Sarah de Villiers, and Amina Kaskar. All three combine teaching with practice, teaching at the Graduate...