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

  • Various
    12/1/18
    A composite of various projects by Ryan Glick, consisting of buildings, competitions, thesis, academic and experimental projects that aim to test a wide range of typologies, concepts and skillsets. The diversity in project typologies, scales and complexities allows for investigations into various design ideas, many dating back to the foundational skills acquired during his tenure at the University at Buffalo.
  • Cricket Shelter and Farm
    12/1/18

    Our project aims to maximize access to nutrient resources and to deal with and support local communities in anticipation of post-disaster scenarios

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Shiyala Primary School
    12/1/18
    Just 10 years after they were originally built, the modest classroom blocks that made up the Shiyala Primary School in Zambia, stood derelict. Despite the village’s local workforce, skilled in both earth-brick production and masonry work, both structures suffered from under-engineering, poor maintenance and lack of financial support. With a minimal budget, the existing structures are converted into a colorful primary school using inventive construction techniques that make the most of locally sourced and lowcarbon materials.
  • The Caterpillar
    12/1/18
  • 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

  • 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

  • Capricorn 2050
    12/1/18

    Project Capricorn was a planning and design project designed to provide a homeostatic living/working environment for 250,000 people in the Australian desert.

  • 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.
  • Onondaga Community College, Academic II Addition (School of Music and Performing Arts)
    12/1/18
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