Faculty of the School of Architecture and Planning

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

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

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

Bart Roberts is an urban planner and researcher who specializes in bringing together research and practice to advance projects related to sustainability, community development, and public participation. He is associate director of research and faculty engagement for the UB Regional Institute.

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

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

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

Clinical Professor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Director of Operations and Project Management - Rudy Bruner Center for Urban Excellence
camdenmi@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall - 716-829-6911

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.

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

Professor Daniel Hess's research is addressing interactions between housing, transportation, land use, and other public concerns. He develops new pathways for understanding the complex socio-economic and ethnic landscape of cities and spatial inequalities. He also explores equal access to resources from urban neighborhoods, focusing especially on the changes in gay neighborhoods and the LGBTQ+ population diffuses to other metropolitan locations.

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

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

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

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.

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

Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, associate professor of urban and regional planning, is a prolific scholar with interests in water governance and determinations of the appropriate institutional frameworks for dealing with water issues.

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.

Professor Sternberg studies the relationship between planning theory and planning practice and has strong interests in the intellectual history of planning thought.

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

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

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

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

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

Associate Professor Hiroaki Hata’s research and creative work focuses on the design, history, theory and criticism of urban structures and community development.

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

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 JiYoung Park’s research interests are urban economics and transportation modeling as applied to natural and man-made environmental and security problems.

Adjunct Instructor - Department of Architecture
spielman@buffalo.edu

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).

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.

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.

Assistant Professor
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
231 Hayes Hall
(716) 829-3520
kgregg@buffalo.edu

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Adjunct Instructor - Department of Architecture
maiapeck@buffalo.edu - 225 Hayes Hall

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

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.

Matthew Roland, AICP, is the assistant dean for the real estate development program and clinical assistant professor. Matt has over 20 years of real estate experience, working on real estate and planning projects in most municipalities in Western New York and in over 20 states.

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.

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

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.

SUNY Distinguished Professor
Director, Rudy Bruner Center for Urban Excellence
Rudy Bruner Chair in Urban Excellence
Senior Fellow, UB Regional Institute
School of Architecture and Planning

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.

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.

Director of Fabrication Workshop, Clinical Assistant Professor - Department of Architecture
slcramer@buffalo.edu - 2 Parker Hall - (716) 829-5923