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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

Reception to follow

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

June Williamson, R.A., is associate professor in the Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, teaching in the architecture and urban design programs. She is author of Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb (Island Press, 2013) and co-author, with Ellen Dunham-Jones, of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solution for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley, 2009; Updated Edition, 2011), winner of...

Christian Volkmann has been teaching at the City College of New York since 2005. He became a Full-time Professor in 2008. He currently coordinates the 3rd Year Undergraduate Design Studio and the Technology curriculum for both Undergraduate and Graduate programs. Christian graduated with a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology...

Masters of Architecture Information Session One night: Monday, August 24 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, FREE OF CHARGE What do you need to become a working graphic designer? What type of graphic design do you want to do? Spend an evening with some of our continuing education graphic design faculty; see...