UB architecture students create hope in Buffalo
8/29/23
PUSH Buffalo is using the students’ design plans to transform vacant buildings into sustainable homes.
Dezeen spotlights 10 student projects
12/14/22
Dezeen, a global publication in architecture and design, spotlights 10 student works from across the School of Architecture and Planning in its latest edition of School Shows.
UB architecture school partners with PUSH Buffalo to train workers in green jobs
6/22/22
The School of Architecture and Planning is partnering with People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH Buffalo) to train Buffalo’s workforce in climate-resilient design and development. The effort will result in the Sustainability Workforce Training Center, a 2,500-square-foot, zero-net energy building that will house a six-week training program to prepare unemployed and underemployed individuals for the local green workforce, and the next generation of climate activists. The project leverages PUSH Buffalo’s efforts to expand local hiring opportunities and advance economic and climate justice with the School's faculty expertise in adapting the built environment to extreme weather and climate change.
Latest design-build project adds to Silo City’s regenerating landscape
1/6/21
In a barren field in the shadows of towering grain elevators at Silo City, a group of University at Buffalo architecture students have created a beautiful structure that will continue to evolve and take shape. And they did it amid the stops and starts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
UB architecture students use design to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in New York City
11/18/20
UB architecture students are leveraging the power of design to help New York City (NYC) build awareness of COVID-19 safety guidelines among a particularly at-risk population: residents of multi-family housing.
As the climate changes, architects and engineers need to design buildings differently
10/24/19
As climate change intensifies, much of the nation's building stock will need upgrading to strengthen it against flooding, snowstorms and other weather hazards.
19th century bicycle inspires design for climate change today
2/27/19
This spring, 74 students in junior studio are thinking about how climate change is impacting the world today while they examine the laufmaschine, a precursor to the bike from the early 19th century.
UB’s GRoW Home is all grown up
10/15/18
A five-year effort involving the work of more than 400 students, UB's nationally award-winning GRoW Home is open on the South Campus as a clean-energy resource center for the university and surrounding community.
The Venice experience: international investigations in urbanism
10/4/18
Venice experience includes two weeks of intensive site visits and hands on investigations in urbanism throughout Italy's city of canals. The program concludes with a workshop at the U.S. Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Climate change and the tale of two cities
12/4/17
With funding from National Science Foundation, two architecture and urban planning faculty members are studying the impacts of heat and cold in Tempe and Buffalo.
Cities need more than air conditioning to get through heat waves
8/10/17
Architecture professor Nick Rajkovich shares urban planning and design adaptations as cities face more frequent and extreme high-heat events.
Adapting buildings for a changing climate
2/16/17
The School of Architecture and Planning’s Resilient Buildings Lab is at the helm of new research on how buildings in New York State will need to adapt to the changing climate.
Climate change: More than heat waves and hurricanes
11/4/16
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc across New York City in 2012, causing around $65 billion in damage and killing more than 150 people. Two years later, on the other end of the state, the “Snowvember” storm dumped 7 feet of snow on parts of Buffalo, destroying roofs across the region and causing 14 fatalities.
UB Solar Home Moves out of Warehouse and into the Sun
7/30/15
In a spectacular move-out event, a solar home a UB team is building was wheeled out of a Tonawanda warehouse and into the sun.

Nicholas Rajkovich

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Nicholas Rajkovich

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