Building blocks
6/22/21
Students in the Department of Architecture’s Material Culture research seminar last semester, under the direction of Miguel Guitart, assistant professor of architecture, explored ground-related architecture, focusing on mass, material recirculation and the relationships between construction and the land on which it sits. The installation is scheduled to remain on-site for two years as part of a study of its decay and erosion over time. Photos: Douglas Levere
Filters of Gaze and Light
9/2/15
"The Depth of the Skin" by Miguel Guitart explores the architectural skin and human experiences within.
Miguel Guitart Releases New Publication in a Series on Architectural Practice
10/30/15
Architecture faculty member Miguel Guitart is co-editor of the just-released Architectural Practice II, the second publication in a series exploring how practicing, researching and teaching architects reflect on the early stages of their design.
Faculty play lead role in echo Art Fair's inaugural architecture exhibition
5/23/16
The 2016 echo Art Fair in Buffalo, a fine arts exposition that has emerged as one of the region’s most notable art events, opens this weekend with its first-ever architecture exhibition, “Light Industry.”
Students take in all of Madrid on study abroad
7/22/16
A group of 12 students are immersed in the landscape of Spain's historic capital of Madrid as part of a new study abroad program that combines intense production with daily "seeing and drawing" tours and cultural experiences.
Spanish Church Design by Miguel Guitart is Expression of Matter, Light and Scale
2/12/16
Visiting Associate Professor of Architecture Miguel Guitart’s research on matter, light, and perception is spatially explored in his firm’s ongoing real-world architecture project: the new Santa Maria Church and Parish Center in Tarragona, Spain.
Summer study abroad 2019
9/6/19
This summer, dozens of students from across UB fanned across three continents as part of the School of Architecture and Planning's annual study abroad program.
Özay and Guitart win national education awards
2/14/17
An architecture studio on refugee housing and newly built church and parish center in Madrid have earned two UB architecture faculty members national recognition as inspiring educators who creatively engage architectural practice and extend their work into the public sector.
Study abroad program takes students throughout Spain
6/26/18
UB architecture professor Miguel Guitart recently kicked off an exciting study abroad program in Madrid with a lecture series that will put students face to face with top practitioners, scholars and design thinkers from across Spain.
Studio explores materials and boundaries through wooden cages
7/19/18
In a spring 2018 Material Culture Graduate Research Group Design Studio, titled “Cages,” students were given the opportunity to study architecture through material exploration and manipulation—specifically, through wooden cages.
Miguel Guitart investigates the architectural filter and its experiential dynamics in latest book
4/22/22
UB architecture professor Miguel Guitart has published a book exploring the spectrum of experiences created by one of the most important of architectural thresholds: its openings to the exterior world.

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