Alumni Stories

Graduates of the School of Architecture and Planning carry the qualities of next-generation leaders: grit, courage, enterprise, and collaboration. It's why our graduates are asking the questions no one else is asking, and turning those ideas into action. It's why UB graduates are leading the profession's most emergent areas of practice. 

From Buffalo to Shanghai, our more than 6,500 alumni are leading the way through inspirational practice. UB graduates hold diverse positions of influence across our professions, from firm executives and government officials, to real estate developers and historic preservationists, to community activists and the heads of design research enterprises. 

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Alumni Work

50+ Alumni Exhibition

The 50+ Alumni Exhibition celebrates innovations in practice led by graduates of the School of Architecture and Planning in honor of our 50th anniversary. Curated from submissions by alumni across our programs, the exhibition features 50 alumni, in 50 images, over 50 years. The exhibition was mounted in the Hayes Hall Atrium Gallery and is included in an online gallery of alumni work. View the work

  • meadow BRIDGE woods
    12/1/18

    Air as both a subtle omnipresence and definitive energy, “CatenAIRies” pays homage to it by utilizing wind to create a fluid and ethereal spatial experience

  • Belmont Middle and High School
    12/1/18

    Air as both a subtle omnipresence and definitive energy, “CatenAIRies” pays homage to it by utilizing wind to create a fluid and ethereal spatial experience

  • A Wedding on the Kansas Landscape
    12/1/18

    On an open field of brome grass adjacent to the childhood home of the bride we constructed this temporary chapel and reception hall (not pictured). The secular ceremony united the couple in the grace of nature.

  • Castel Sant' Angelo, pen on Bristol
    12/1/18
    Castel Sant’Angelo presents itself as a centric building, yet provides a labyrinth of ramps, stairs and courtyards that do not allow the center to be perceived. As the visitor is immersed inside, narrow winding spaces deny outward views and courtyards slowly reveal the surrounding city of Rome. It is a constant switch between self-awareness and confusion with certainty that one must travel upwards to reach the highest point and claim the best views. The on-site drawing tracks a single path from the lowest point to the highest occupiable courtyard, experienced as a continuous panoramic view. 
  • A Chair, Suspended
    12/1/18

    Air as both a subtle omnipresence and definitive energy, “CatenAIRies” pays homage to it by utilizing wind to create a fluid and ethereal spatial experience

  • UnMade in China
    12/1/18

    Air as both a subtle omnipresence and definitive energy, “CatenAIRies” pays homage to it by utilizing wind to create a fluid and ethereal spatial experience

  • Eureka
    12/1/18
    The image contains photographs of small houses with big spaces in Eureka, Montana. Houses include: Covered Bridge House, Starliner House, Sapphire House, Terra Cabin, Sunstone Cabin, Sagebrush House.
  • A collage of projects by S+ ARCHITECTURE
    12/1/18

    Air as both a subtle omnipresence and definitive energy, “CatenAIRies” pays homage to it by utilizing wind to create a fluid and ethereal spatial experience

  • Basketball Hall of Fame
    12/1/18
    At the heart of the project is the Center Court Atrium, organized around a basketball court that will serve as a forum for clinics and special events. Visitors glimpse the atrium while ascending in glass elevators. The Honors Ring, the first museum experience in this procession, is suspended within the spherical volume. Surrounding second-floor galleries frame multiple views into the spherical atrium and Center Court.
  • The Farallon: A Tiny House Prototype on 26’ x 8.5’ Trailer
    12/1/18

    Air as both a subtle omnipresence and definitive energy, “CatenAIRies” pays homage to it by utilizing wind to create a fluid and ethereal spatial experience

  • Bit By Bit
    12/1/18

    Abstract and abstraction are two very different things. Both have a place in art and a significant impact on history. Abstraction has always been where you replace legible features with illegible features. This thesis does the opposite, by replacing legibility with specificity, making an oxymoron of sorts. By taking something as simple as an 8Bit arcade game character such as Megaman or Pacman, and turning its microsize and simplicity into something much more complex, something new here happens, a new representation is born.

  • Wetland
    12/1/18

    The project is located near Hong Kong and will operate as a private event space/museum. The design aims to merge both land, water, and building in order to create a dialogue with nature. It is currently ongoing.