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

  • Casa Santa Oranna
    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

  • Weak House
    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

  • 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

  • Ave Maria University, Ave Maria Oratory
    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

  • Cryptomorph_F V-1/2/3
    12/1/18
    Cryptomorph_F V-1/2/3 consists of variants in a parametrically designed family of tectonic objects. These volumetric surfaces and their fused arrays of hexagonal involutions become prototypes that can be developed into entities that sense through filaments, influence airflow/atmosphere through form and topology, and invite multispecies inhabitation into their thick, articulated envelopes. Cryptomorphs are dense, compacted objects of ecological infrastructure that spawn expansive, tectonic landscapes of logistics that may be populated by flora, fauna and electronic forms of synthetic life.
  • 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

  • Understanding Paul Rudolph
    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

  • CantenAIRies
    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

  • New York Changing, Revisiting Berenice Abbott's New York
    12/1/18

    New York Changingrevisits the sites of 100 photographs taken by Bernice Abbott, who in 1935 set out to document New York’s transformation from a nineteenth-century city to a modern metropolis. Douglas Levere meticulously duplicates her compositions with exacting detail; each shot is taken at the same time of day, at the same time of year, and with the same type of camera.

  • 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.

  • Al Shaheed Park, The Habitat Museum
    12/1/18

    The Habitat Museum displays the richness and diversity of the natural habitats of Kuwait through a large number of interactive programs and scenographic recreations.

  • 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.