Faculty of the School of Architecture and Planning

Adjunct Professor - Department of Architecture
scamman@buffalo.edu

Paul is a Buffalo native who received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been in full-time architectural practice since 1976 working on many of the more significant historic projects in Buffalo.

Adjunct Instructor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
jcbleuer@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall - 716-829-5900

Martha Bohm examines the intersection of design with energy efficiency, healthy materials and ecological sensibility through research, teaching and critical practice. She is an associate professor of architecture and associate dean for academic affairs.

Assistant Professor - Department of Architecture
nbruscia@buffalo.edu - 319 Hayes Hall - 716-829-5926

Professor - Department of Architecture
bcarter@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 212 - 716-829-5886

Clinical Assistant Professor - Department of Architecture
eychow@buffalo.edu

Professor Emeritus - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
samcole@buffalo.edu 

Clinical Assistant Professor - Department of Architecture
slcramer@buffalo.edu - Parker Hall M02 - (716) 829-5923

Clinical Assistant Professor - Director of Recruitment and First Year Experience - Department of Architecture
gldelane@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 317C - 716-829-5884

Adjunct Instructor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
aduwe@buffalo.edu

Randy Fernando is an emerging designer and artist, focusing on work that synergizes neuroscience, sociological behavior, and architecture.

Adjunct Instructor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
libertad@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall - 716-829-5900

Assistant Adjunct Professor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
sfitzmau@buffalo.edu

Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah is an associate professor or urban planning who seeks to understand and reform the planning processes and institutional structures that impede planning interventions against historically marginalized communities.

Mr. Gottstine holds a CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member) accreditation, a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Canisius College, with a concentration in Finance.

Assistant Professor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
kgregg@buffalo.edu - 231 Hayes Hall - 829-3520

Adjunct Instructor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
cwgrooms@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 226 - 716-829-5885

Miguel Guitart, assistant professor of architecture, is an architect, author, and scholar who explores architectural experience at the intersection of material narratives and sensory perception, focusing on physical boundaries, material memory, and non-material agents.

design, history, theory and criticism of urban structures; community development

transportation planning and policy; public transit; travel behavior; relationship of transportation networks, land use, and urban form; growth and sprawl; site planning; spatial analysis; GIS; data applications in planning

Lecturer, MS Real Estate Development, Department of Urban and Regional Planning
chogan5@buffalo.edu

Assistant Professor - Department of Architecture
jhuet@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 216 - (716) 829-5928 

Joyce Hwang is associate professor and director of graduate studies with the Department of Architecture. Through her teaching, research and critical practice, she confronts contemporary ecological conditions through creative means.

Adjunct Instructor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
ajudelso@buffalo.edu - 218 Hayes Hall - 716-829-5371

Assistant Professor - Department of Architecture
akhodada@buffalo.edu - 334 Hayes Hall - (716) 829-5879 

Assistant Professor - Department of Architecture
kickert@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 323 - 716-829-5330

Professor - Department of Architecture
alecuyer@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 213 - (716) 829-5329

Adjunct Professor
Department of Architecture
shawnlew@buffalo.edu

Mr. LiPuma is an adjunct instructor and Senior Fellow in the UB Real Estate Development Program. He is the former Managing Director of CBRE-Buffalo, a full service commercial real estate service provider. CBRE is the world’s largest provider of commercial real estate services. Prior to the association with CBRE-Buffalo, LiPuma was a principal with Comvest Consulting, Inc., a Western New York commercial real estate firm established in 1981.

Clinical Assistant Professor - Department of Architecture
lschmitz@buffalo.edu

Clinical Associate Professor - Department of Architecture
macka@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 223 - (716) 829-5890

Clinical Assistant Professor - Department of Architecture
dmmaher@buffalo.edu - Crosby Hall 325

Jordana Maisel works at the intersection of research, teaching and practice as assistant professor of urban planning and research director for the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA Center).

Adjunct Instructor | Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Hayes Hall | 716-829-5900
Professional Affiliation: Project Manager, LRT Extension, Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority

Adjunct Instructor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
camdenmi@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall - 716-829-5900

Kate Nelischer joined the School of Architecture and Planning in 2022 as assistant professor of urban planning, bringing research and teaching experience that will foster connections across real estate development and urban planning in the study of smart cities and planning and development governance.

Erkin Özay investigates how institutional settings and urban interventions can serve as shelters from the structural inequities that burden the lives of vulnerable urban communities. He is assistant professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Architecture.

Associate Professor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
jp292@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 228 - (716) 829-5331

Adjunct Instructor - Department of Architecture
maiapeck@buffalo.edu - 235 Hayes Hall - (716) 829-5900

Adjunct Instructor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
emp7@buffalo.edu

Associate Professor Emeritus - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
adprice@buffalo.edu

Associate Professor - Department of Architecture
grafaili@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 312 - (716) 829-5896

Samina Raja is an international expert in planning and policy for sustainable food systems and healthy communities. She is professor of urban planning, principal investigator of UB's Food Lab and associate dean for research and inclusive excellence.

Nicholas B. Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture, investigates the intersection of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and adaptation to climate change. He directs UB's Resilient Buildings Lab.

Adjunct Instructor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
jrehler@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 320 - 716-829-6911

Clinical Assistant Professor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
bjr8@buffalo.edu - UB Downtown Gateway 302K - (716) 878-2433

Clinical Assistant Professor | MS in Real Estate Development, Department of Urban and Regional Planning
118 Hayes Hall | 716-829-5914
msroland@buffalo.edu

Christopher Romano, assistant professor of architecture, explores the relationship between design, construction and the contemporary culture of building by leveraging regional manufacturing and material processes.

Associate Professor - Department of Architecture, Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence, School of Architecture and Planning
daniela@buffalo.edu - 237 Hayes Hall - (716) 829-3705

Adjunct Instructor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
anniesch@buffalo.edu

Professor Emeritus - Department of Architecture
lhs1@buffalo.edu - UB Downtown Gateway 302M - (716) 829-5325

Adjunct Instructor | Department of Architecture
gsewetabuffalo.edu - 235 Hayes Hall - 716-829-5900

Associate Professor - Department of Architecture
shepard6@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 322 - (716) 829-5889

Dean and SUNY Distinguished Professor
School of Architecture and Planning
Senior Fellow, UB Regional Institute

Robert Silverman applies urban planning to the study of the non-profit sector, the role of community-based organizations in urban neighborhoods, education reform, shrinking cities, and inequality in inner city housing markets. ,

Korydon Smith is professor and chair of architecture at UB and co-director of UB's Community for Global Health Equity. He works across disciplines to build design solutions for those who have been traditionally marginalized from decisions about the design of their built environment.

Jin Young Song explores the possibility for more responsive, sustainable and place-based architecture through the contemporary façade. He is an associate professor of architecture and a founder of DIOINNO Architecture, a Buffalo- and Seoul-based design firm.

Associate Professor - Department of Architecture
jsowell@buffalo.edu - 332 Hayes Hall - (716) 829-5895

Adjunct Instructor - Department of Architecture
spielman@buffalo.edu

Associate Professor - Department of Architecture
hsteiner@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 215 - (716) 829-5888

Edward Steinfeld, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Architecture and director of the IDEA Center, has been a trailblazer in the field of inclusive design since the 1970s. He believes architecture should, first and foremost, benefit the people who use buildings, and make a positive contribution to the community.

Professor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
ezs@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 126 - (716) 829-5880

Assistant Professor - Department of Architecture, Director, MArch/MUP Program
stiphany@buffalo.edu - 335 Hayes Hall - (716) 829-5985

Professor - Department of Architecture
despina@buffalo.edu - (716) 829-5893

Associate Professor - Department of Architecture
tauke@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 216 - (716) 829-5892

Professor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
htaylor@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 330A - (716) 829-5458

Clinical Assistant Professor - Department of Architecture
adamthib@buffalo.edu - Acheson Annex 16

Director of Graduate Programs and Historic Preservation - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
klta@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 226 - 716-829-5885

Daniel Vrana (MArch ’15, BS Arch ’13), is clinical assistant professor architecture and the Director of the SMART (Sustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Robotic Technologies) Fabrication Factory. Joining the School of Architecture and Planning in 2016, Vrana previously served as adjunct instructor and manager of fabrication services in the School of Architecture and Planning’s Fabrication Workshop.

Clinical Assistant Professor - Department of Architecture
bawales@buffalo.edu - 325 Crosby Hall

Associate Professor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
liyin@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 331 - (716) 829-5883