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Claire Weisz is an architect and urbanist, and a founding principal of WXY architecture + urban design, an award-winning practice based in New York City. With her partners Mark Yoes, Layng Pew, and Adam Lubinsky, Claire focuses on innovative approaches to public space, structures, and cities. WXY has received the League Prize from the Architectural...

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York is hosting a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of La Sagrada Familia, the magnum opus of Antoni Gaudí, the father of Catalan Modernisme. This is the only time that such a demonstration of Gaudí's genius will be featured on American soil. Many institutions...

Elisabetta Terragni, a graduate of the Milan Polytechnic, is principal of her studio in Como (Italy) and a recently tenured faculty member at CCNY. She has taught studios and seminars at universities in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the U.S. Her studio seeks sensitive solutions for everyday situations and inventive transformations of industrial and obsolete sites....

Jeremy Edmiston’s focus on complex geometry in architecture produces striking design, but he is also a leader in digital technology to construct prefab structures, which allow precision and innovation in materials and budgets, high speed in construction, and minimal environmental impact. These technological advances are especially relevant to contemporary cities, another focus of Edmiston, whose projects...

Atop the Spitzer School of Architecture sits a solution to NYC's energy and emission problems. This Solar Roofpod—a student-designed, plus-net-energy roof pavilion—is a featured site during the citywide cultural event Open House New York Weekend. Student designers-builders and Professor Christian Volkmann will discuss the creation of the Solar Roofpod, participation in the Solar Decathlon, and...

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The Graduate Program in Urban Design Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture City College of New York is please to announce the Ninth Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism Thursday May 2, 2013, 6:30PM The Great Hall of Shepard Hall, CCNY This lecture is free and open to the public. Archived Webcast