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City Life Studio Showcases Urban Housing Design Through Competition and Public Exhibit
12/10/25
Crosby Hall buzzed with energy as students from the UB School of Architecture and Planning gathered for the presentation of the top 10 housing projects from this year’s City Life Senior Studio. These finalists—shortlisted from 43 total teams—were presenting to an international jury of architectural professionals and scholars.
A Team of 16 Scholars Unlocks the Life of an Unconventional Architect
12/5/25
When SUNY Distinguished Professor Despina Stratigakos began her doctoral dissertation, she stumbled upon an obscure Austrian architect named Ella Briggs and was instantly captivated. But finding information about Briggs proved nearly impossible. For decades, Stratigakos carried her unanswered questions with her.
Changing minds — one bedazzled toolbox at a time
10/7/25
UB student Maddie Stafford is raising awareness about gendered attitudes in traditionally male-dominated fields like architecture.
Building Equity Through Data: UB’s Food Lab Welcomes Dr. Jane Dai
12/1/25
In October 2025, Dr. Jane Dai became the newest member of the University at Buffalo’s Food Systems Planning and Health Communities Lab (Food Lab) in the School of Architecture and Planning. She joins the team to support a major initiative funded by a three-year, $795,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The project aims to examine community food systems dashboards and develop guidelines for how to leverage these dashboards as tools to advance data equity for food equity.
UB Welcomes International Students to Turn Demolition Waste into Design Innovation
11/14/25
Using our Fabrication Workshop as a hub, Christopher Romano, assistant professor in the Department of Architecture, has partnered with Professor Diego Rodríguez and Tecnológico de Monterrey (TEC) to co-lead the second annual short-term study abroad program, this year partnering with 2025-26 Banham Fellow Celia Chaussabel.
Designing with Purpose: Graduate Studio Creates Storage Solutions for The Tool Library
11/12/25
This fall, graduate students in the UB Architecture Material Culture Research Studio took on a unique challenge: designing user-friendly storage systems for The Tool Library, a local nonprofit that supports the community through affordable access to an extensive collection of tools.
Exploring Feminism in Architecture: María Novas Joins UB as Stratigakos Fellow
11/14/25
In 2023, SUNY Distinguished Professor Despina Stratigakos established a visiting fellowship within the UB School of Architecture and Planning. Its purpose is to support research on the built environment as a vehicle for the creation of more inclusive communities, with a focus on gender and sexuality in architecture. Stratigakos is a prodigious scholar whose research examines how power and ideology function in architecture.
Shaping the Future of City Transit: Alumni Lead Micromobility Innovation
11/14/25
During his final year in the Master of Urban Planning program at the University at Buffalo, Michael Galligano (MUP ’09) and a group of his classmates developed an idea for a community-based car-share business. With support from a New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) grant, they launched Buffalo CarShare before they even graduated.
UB Professor Honors Planning Pioneer and Mentor with “The Shoup Doctrine”
10/30/25
When Professor Daniel Hess graduated from the University at Buffalo in 1997 with his master’s in urban planning, his next stop was UCLA to pursue his Ph.D. There, he met Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning who came to be known for his pioneering work in parking policy and reform.
Alumnus Dale White Honored for Transformative Affordable Housing Project
11/21/25
Each year, the Urban Land Institute (ULI) awards the Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Award to recognize developments that demonstrate remarkable creativity in their efforts to expand housing opportunities. This year, Market Street Village, an affordable housing project in San Diego, CA earned this prestigious honor, an achievement that holds special significance for University at Buffalo alumnus Dale White (BAED ’05).
Fast-Track to the Future: UB Students Accelerate Their Path to Urban Planning
12/8/25
In spring 2025, Christian Powell (END ’24, MUP ’26) and Liliana Visca (END ’24, MUP ’26) took the next step in their academic journey—beginning the Master of Urban Planning (MUP) program at the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning. Both had already distinguished themselves by earning their Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design (END) from UB, summa cum laude with highest distinction in the major—all at an accelerated pace.
Dean Robert Shibley updates School community on preparations for fall 2020
7/14/20
I write today to update you on our preparations for the fall 2020 semester as we work to implement university guidelines for a return to campus in a modified in-person capacity.
Center for Architecture award recognizes student with non-traditional pathway into architecture
8/14/20
It is a place that Leticia Avila describes as having a “magical atmosphere” and ties together a dynamic career path the Master of Architecture student has been on.
Extended orientation program “pivots” new graduate students toward UB, Buffalo and the current moment
8/18/20
The prospect of beginning a new graduate program, on a new campus, and perhaps in a new city, is challenging enough under normal circumstances. Add to that the disruption of an historic pandemic and social unrest across the U.S., and you have a recipe for heightened anxiety.
Urban planning student Daniela León builds equitable development from the ground up
10/6/20
Daniela León, a second-year student in the Master of Urban Planning program at UB, is an ardent advocate for building equitable and inclusive economies for urban communities.
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.
UB’s Daniel B. Hess contributes to viewpoint series on urban planning's response to the pandemic
11/30/20
Daniel B. Hess, UB professor and chair of urban planning, is co-editor of a viewpoint series on the planning discipline’s response to a changed world, published this month by Town Planning Review (Liverpool University Press).
Recent architecture grad exhibits research on material transformations in the post-industrial landscape
1/11/21
Justina Dziama, a recent graduate of UB’s architecture program, will exhibit her research on material transformations in the post-industrial landscape, as part of the Buffalo Arts Studio’s Activism in the Arts project.
Virtual Award’s Day “sir-prizes” students with parade and costumed faculty
5/7/20
If there’s ever a time for comic relief and celebration of our students, this is it.
Reflection: Department of Urban and Regional Planning
5/14/21
In planning, design, development, and preservation, our approach to education is place-based and people-based. This is a reflection of the ways in which we engage communities and offer pathways for improvement to help address pressing challenges.
Intersight 23: Letter from the Dean
5/14/21
As the journal of student work for the year 2020, Intersight 23 chronicles the School of Architecture and Planning’s inspired response to a historic moment. It is an honest and hopeful exploration of how a community of students and their faculty struggled, adapted and grew together during a time of unrelenting challenge. The body of student work cataloged here is the ultimate triumph, revealing that out of the disruption we have emerged with new insight, agency and aspirations for a better world.
2021 Watts Scholar Petreen Thomas activates design for social and racial justice
3/8/21
For Petreen Thomas, a great deal of power exists in design – a concept that is shaping her future aspirations as an architect and urban designer, with an eye toward public interest design.
Graduating architecture student Denice Guillermo turns tragedy into insight and resolve
5/12/21
I write today to update you on our preparations for the fall 2020 semester as we work to implement university guidelines for a return to campus in a modified in-person capacity.
Social, Emotional, and Spatial Learning: Reflecting on the Grand Experiment of Architectural Education
5/14/21
In March 2020, the transformation was abrupt and sweeping. It was also imperfect. For most institutions of higher education – including the University at Buffalo and the Department of Architecture – faculty, staff, and students had one week to overhaul the norms, techniques, and tools of design education. It was particularly upending for a department largely defined by “hands-on” learning.
Commencement 2021 is triumphant conclusion to a year like no other
5/26/21
On May 14, a distinguished group of 264 architects, urban planners, environmental designers and real estate developers joined the ranks of UB alumni as the School of Architecture and Planning convened its 49 Commencement ceremony on UB’s North Campus.
Urban planning program adds two tenure-track faculty
9/17/20
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning has announced the addition of two tenure-track faculty bringing expertise in inclusive planning and design of pedestrian environments.
Mary D. Cohen: Former UB scholar devoted life to humanitarian causes
9/10/20
Mary D. Cohen, a lifelong educator and former researcher with UB’s Health in Housing Institute (HIH) who passed away earlier this summer at 91, leaves a diverse legacy of community-building work.
Re-imagining a quiet campus space for the sound of music
10/6/20
On the first day of class on the last day of August, Eric Huebner, associate professor of music in the College of Arts and Sciences, was seated at the chair of a grand piano on the sidewalk outside of Slee Hall on the North Campus. He was performing two Chopin preludes and a snippet of Bach’s D minor keyboard concerto, a piece that he would soon be performing as part of an upcoming concert with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Architecture student works to diversify the profession and built environment
2/18/20
Aleiya Als, a senior in UB's BS Arch program, reflects on building diversity in the profession and practice of architecture.
Samendy Brice applies design to bridge food access along Haiti, Dominican Republic border
2/5/20
Samendy Brice, a second-year Master of Architecture student and winner of the inaugural Watts Scholarship, shares her passion for building diverse and inclusive spaces and communities. She is currently completing her thesis research on structural enablers of food access along the border of Ouanaminthe, Haiti, and Dajabon, Dominican Republic.
Making a better mask
6/4/20
Buffalo architect Mike Tunkey (BPS ’00) is mobilizing a diverse network of partners to make more effective DIY masks for at-risk community members during the COVID-19 crisis.
Historic preservation program shapes city around us
2/28/20
Since its inception half a century ago, the UB School of Architecture and Planning has been a champion for the preservation of our urban and architectural heritage. Now it has degree and certificate programs in preservation practice so others might carry the work forward.
Student Profile: Jelani Lowe (MArch '19)
3/8/19
Jelani Lowe is in the final semester of the 3.5-year Master of Architecture program at UB, where he earned his bachelor's degree in environmental design.
Planning for the transportation of tomorrow
2/18/19
As shared mobility systems and technologies advance, MUP students are working with the region's transportation planning agency to help municipalities plan for this changing landscape.
National book award goes to Korydon Smith for his study of Kigali, Rwanda
5/30/19
UB architecture chair Korydon Smith's book Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda: Architectural Inquiries and Prospects for a Developing African City has been selected as the 2019 winner of the Great Places Award for books.
Henry Taylor wins UB's Life Raft Debate
2/21/19
Winning this year's Life Raft Debate, Henry Taylor convinced a panel of students that an urban planner would bring vital knowledge for rebuilding society, more so than a chemist, community health expert, literary scholar, or political scientist.
Student propsal for a border market along Haiti-Dominican Republic border wins this year's thesis prize for architecture
6/11/20
Samendy Brice (MArch '20) has been awarded the 2019-20 ARCC King Medal, the Deptartment of Architecture's Thesis Prize, for her proposal of a border market as a structural element and condition of exchange along the contested border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Coffee as a pathway to peace
7/9/19
Architecture professor Korydon Smith's efforts to build a more inclusive coffee value chain are supporting peace and economic opportunity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Planning through "(mis)rule" in Ghana
6/18/19
New research by urban planning professor Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah explores a dual land tenure system in Ghana that dates back to British Colonial rule and has led to the exploitation of poor and vulnerable populations.
Chronicles from Aarhus, Denmark
6/18/19
UB architecture student Jenna Herbert shares her exploration of digital fabrication and materiality as an exchange student at the Aarhus School of Architecture (Arkitektskolen Aarhus).
Banham Fellow in architecture explores air quality crisis through design
8/24/20
UB's Department of Architecture is pleased to announce designer and researcher Zherui Wang as the 2020-21 Peter Reyner Banham Fellow.
Top MArch student earns prestigious Allwork Scholarship
8/26/20
For Stanicka Mathurin, the study of architecture and preparing for a successful career in the profession began before she even completed high school. The second-year MArch student was just a sophomore when she helped design a children’s mission home and later a school in Haiti as part of a project for His Work International to help orphans.
"Off the Grid" summer studio leverages the geographic diversity of remote study
8/27/20
Among several studios and seminars offered by the School of Architecture and Planning over the summer was “Off the Grid,” taught by UB adjunct instructor Jon Spielman.
Welcome to a new academic year: A message from Dean Robert G. Shibley
9/1/20
Welcome to all - students, faculty and staff - to the start of a new academic year as we return to campus and a ‘new normal’ of learning together. We are ready, after months of careful and intensive planning to ensure that we can learn together – in place – while supporting the health and safety of our community.
UB Regional Institute's Chiwuike Owunwanne recognized among 2020 class of "Buffalo Black Achievers"
10/22/20
We’re proud to share that Chiwuike "Chi-Chi" Owunwanne of the University at Buffalo Regional Institute has been recognized among the 2020 class of Buffalo Black Achievers. Chi-Chi serves as the Program Director for the East Side Avenues initiative, which provides capital and organizational support to transformational projects in targeted areas along four commercial corridors on Buffalo’s East Side.
UB architect Joyce Hwang invited to Exhibit Columbus program to explore future of America’s “middle cities”
10/29/20
UB architecture professor Joyce Hwang will explore the future of cities in America’s heartland as one of 12 designers selected to participate in the prestigious Exhibit Columbus program.
UB students explore feasibility of a rapid transit line along the New York State Thruway
10/16/20
Environmental design students at UB will work this semester with regional leaders to conduct a feasibility study for an intercity high-speed bus line along the New York State Thruway.
Architecture students apply design skills to keep safe distance
10/12/20
A group of graduate architecture students recently gathered on UB's South Campus in graceful dance - all at a safe distance - as they tested out their creations in wearable spatial distancing devices.
UB-community partnership helping to blunt effect of pandemic on Buffalo’s most vulnerable citizens
10/14/20
A powerful partnership that brought UB faculty and community leaders together to fight against health disparities has allowed the community to respond more effectively to the pandemic than many cities across the nation, university and community leaders said today.
UB, partners receive $8.2M to help vulnerable populations with transportation
2/19/21
UB researchers are part of an $8.2 million effort to improve transportation options for vulnerable people in the city of Buffalo.
Henry Taylor is a tireless advocate for racial justice through urban planning
2/26/21
Director of UB's Center for Urban Studies and a member of the urban planning faculty for more than 30 years, Henry Taylor continues to bring his impassioned perspective on urban life and racial justice to both the university and the city he calls home.
Spring 2021 Welcome from Dean Robert Shibley
2/1/21
As we open the spring 2021 semester, we embrace signs of hope – the deployment of a COVID-19 vaccine, the prospect of relief from the pandemic, and UB's plans to return to campus more fully in fall 2021. Still, we continue to adapt with creativity and optimism to the changing circumstances of this historic moment.
Student-led Instagram account juxtaposes brutalist architecture with … cats!
2/2/21
Cats and brutalist architecture: Who knew the two were a perfect pair?
Celebrating Women's History Month
3/8/21
As we celebrate Women’s History Month, we recognize the varied backgrounds of women and the diversity of their experiences in considering issues of equity and justice.
Commencement 2021 to be held in person, Friday, May 14
3/17/21
The School of Architecture and Planning is pleased to announce that its commencement ceremony will take place as an in-person, outdoor event on Friday, May 14, 2021, at 5:00 PM (tented location on North Campus TBD).
PhD student Carol Ramos-Gerena reflects on the power of urban planning to advance gender equity
3/30/21
In recognition of Women's History Month, we're proud to celebrate the distinguished women of UB's School of Architecture and Planning and their boundary-breaking contributions to gender equity. Today we celebrate Carol Ramos-Gerena, a student in our urban planning PhD program with research interests in food systems planning, urban agroecology and food sovereignty.
The Builders and the Doers: The School of Architecture and Planning Celebrates Staff during its Women’s History Month
3/31/21
In recognition of Women's History Month, we're proud to celebrate the distinguished women of UB's School of Architecture and Planning and their boundary-breaking contributions to gender equity. Today we celebrate Carol Ramos-Gerena, a student in our urban planning PhD program with research interests in food systems planning, urban agroecology and food sovereignty.
Award’s Day event delights students with prizes, T-shirt cannon and lots of cowbell
5/23/21
Earlier this month, the clanging sound of more than 300 UB-Blue cowbells filled the air on UB’s South Campus as the School of Architecture and Planning gathered for Award’s Day + Atelier 2021, a festive celebration of student academic achievement.
Madeleine Niepceron advances inclusive design through research
6/18/21
Recent Master of Architecture graduate Madeleine Niepceron views architecture through the lens of inclusivity and ardently believes the built environment must benefit all users, irrespective of their age, gender, ability level or background.
Urban planning student Jeremy Sanford pursues activist research for environmental justice activism
4/15/21
Jeremy Sanford is a graduate student studying Environmental and Land Use Planning. At the School of Architecture and Planning's Community Resilience Lab, he provides support for health and energy research with People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH) - Buffalo and conducts environmental justice research. He strongly believes that planners have a central role in enhancing racial justice and promoting healthier and sustainable environments.
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
Planning for the health and social inclusion of LGBT older adults
6/28/21
Did you know that health care and aging-oriented organizations have identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) older adults as an at-risk and underserved population?
New online resource developed by UB Regional Institute helps region fight poverty with data
6/28/21
The organizations and agencies that form the “safety net” for those living in poverty in the Buffalo Niagara region target their efforts with data and insights thanks to a new online resource developed by the UB Regional Institute.
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.
Why being unable to hang out in cafes and bars drains our creativity
12/22/20
While the pandemic has caused thousands of small businesses to temporarily close or shutter for good, the disappearance of the corner coffee shop means more than lost wages.
Featured work from Fall 2020 senior architecture studio
12/7/20
In the culminating studio of the BS in Architecture program, Urban Life - Self + Society focuses on the urban dwelling as a threshold between self and society, between local and global, and between nature and culture.
Standing in unity and action: Black Lives Matter
9/9/20
Along with our faculty, students, staff, and alumni, we are enraged by and grieve the recent killing of Mr. George Floyd at the hands of a police officer. In support of racial justice and building on the School’s collective commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity, we wil execute an explicitly anti-racist approach across all our operations.
Reflections on Zhu Pei and contemporary architecture in China
3/30/20
In his latest book, UB Professor of Architecture Brian Carter explores Beijing-based architect Zhu Pei’s museum for the Imperial Kiln in Jingdezhen, China, a globally significant example of contemporary civic architecture that preserves and celebrates the remains of the region’s porcelain industry, dating back to the Ming and Qing dynasties.
UB, CannonDesign work to improve DIY fabric mask production
6/18/20
A UB partnership with local industry has engineered a DIY fabric mask that is not only a potentially high-performing alternative to industrial solutions like the N95 mask, but is affordable and scalable.
IDEA Center receives another 5-year cycle of national funding
10/1/20
A quarter of a century. That’s how long a UB center that specializes in advancing universal design has been continuously funded.
Celebrating our first 50 years with bold ideas for the next
10/2/19
This is our invitation to consider new possibilities for our disciplines as creative, innovative and regenerative forces in our world.
UB-designed metal facade wins Architect's Newspaper Best of Products Award
11/20/19
A perforated metal facade developed by UB architecture professor Christopher Romano and Buffalo-based Rigidized Metals Corp. has earned an Architect's Newspaper Editors' Choice award for Best of Products in the facade category.
Estate sale find leads to A.E. Minks Archive Project
11/11/19
UB architecture professor Dennis Maher knew he had a rare find when he happened upon a bucket of aged architect’s drawings at a Buffalo estate sale two years ago.
New universal design program aims to push socially responsible design into standard practice
10/9/19
Universal design has long been embraced by businesses eager to create safer, healthier and more supportive facilities for their employees and visitors, regardless of age or ability. The challenge for many is how.
As mayor of Kabul, UB alum is rebuilding an ancient city with modern tools of urban planning
12/17/19
Five years ago, Ahmad Zaki Sarfaraz returned to Afghanistan with a UB degree in hand and aspirations to rebuild his war-torn country with the tools of urban planning.
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.
A movement toward making
11/22/19
A movement that came to be known as the School of Architecture and Planning's “maker culture” emerged in the 1990s. It expressed an interest in hands-on work, a desire to build at full-scale, a curiosity to explore the properties of building materials, an inclination to experiment and, most of all, a drive to experience the materiality of architecture in an unmediated way.
Cold War-style preparedness could help fight future pandemics
4/27/20
A key group of allies is missing in the U.S. effort to face the coronavirus pandemic: the American people.
Intersight 22 explores intellectual currents of school through lens of its 50-year history
5/26/20
We are pleased to unveil this year's annual publication of student work - Intersight 22 - which captures the present intellectual and cultural moments of our school.
Team of urban planning and architecture faculty awarded $1 million grant to advance urban agriculture
11/20/20
A team of UB researchers has received a nearly $1 million grant from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) to test inclusive organizing models that advance policies supporting urban agriculture.
Should architecturally significant low-income housing be preserved?
7/9/20
The recent demolition of the Paul Rudolph-designed Shoreline Apartments in Buffalo, NY, highlights one of the key tensions of preserving modern architecture: how to balance the needs of occupants with historically significant designs.
Adaptations in studio during COVID-19 include return to drawing
9/22/20
Professor Brian Carter recently reflected in "Drawing Matter" on how the coronavirus pandemic changed methods of teaching and making in studio at the School of Architecture and Planning.
John Paul Eberhard, founding dean of UB’s School of Architecture and Planning, dies at 93
5/7/20
John Paul Eberhard, path-breaking architecture educator, researcher, and practitioner, and founding Dean of the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, died on Saturday, May 2.
Standing in unity and action: Black Lives Matter
6/5/20
Along with our faculty, students, staff, and alumni, we are enraged by and grieve the recent killing of Mr. George Floyd at the hands of a police officer. In support of racial justice and building on the School’s collective commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity, we wil execute an explicitly anti-racist approach across all our operations.
Diversity+Design competition pays tribute to victims of COVID-19
7/12/21
UB students participating in the annual Diversity + Design Competition have generated a series of thoughtful proposals for a memorial to victims of COVID-19.
Department of Architecture welcomes Fulbright Scholar from Turkey
9/29/21
The UB Department of Architecture is pleased to welcome Duygu Gokce as a Fulbright Scholar from Turkey. A lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Duzce University, Gokce conducts interdisciplinary housing research bridging the disciplines of typo-morphology - or the classification of urban elements such as buildings, streets and plots - and environmental psychology.
Winning competition entry proposes public-private space for enjoying Berlin's Techno music scene
11/22/21
Bee Breeders’ international architecture competition “Berlin Techno Booth” has announced Jackson Gaylord, a Master of Architecture student at UB, as the “Green Prize” winner.
2021-22 Banham Fellow Young-Tack Oh to explore the hidden and often-overlooked forces of Buffalo's urban fabric
9/8/21
We're pleased to welcome architectural designer and researcher Young-Tack Oh as our 2021-22 Peter Reyner Banham Fellow. A founding member of the creative collective Archipleasure, he pursues speculative research on the marginal and overlooked occurrences in contemporary urbanism.
Urban planning PhD student selected for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy fellowship
9/15/21
A University at Buffalo doctoral student in urban planning has been selected as a recipient of the national Health Policy Research Scholars (HPRS) fellowship from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
Brian Carter is featured essayist in book on Canadian modern architecture selected for 2021 RAIC President's Medal
8/17/21
UB professor of architecture Brian Carter is a featured essayist in the book Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present, which has just been presented with the RAIC President's Medal for Multimedia Representations of Architecture.
Advancing Racial Justice
2/8/21
The School of Architecture and Planning celebrates the work we do together to "see" and eliminate the legacies of systemic racism and mobilize our professions as forces for regenerative change.
Brian Carter and Annette LeCuyer publish tribute book on Canadian architect Barry Sampson
1/24/22
"Barry Sampson: Teaching + Practice," co-edited by UB architecture professors Brian Carter and Annette LeCuyer, is a book dedicated to Canadian architect Barry Sampson and his substantial contribution to the field of architecture.
MArch students win Indigenous Futurism Model Making Competition
8/30/21
MArch graduates Sangeethan Othayoth and Sindhu Sriram have won the Indigenous Futurism Model Making 2021 competition in the Mechanical model category.
UB researchers release major U.N. report on food systems planning
2/17/21
UB researchers were the driving force behind the publication last week of a major report that details strategies local governments in low- and middle-income countries can use to create more innovative and equitable community food systems.
UB teams with Alfred University to advance stackable ceramic façade prototype
8/5/21
A team of UB architecture faculty and students have developed a stackable ceramic facade system that opens new possibilities in user-generated architecture and sculptural geometries in terra cotta.
Building racial justice through grassroots development on Buffalo's East Side
4/14/21
Chiwuike "Chi-Chi" Owunwanne of the University at Buffalo Regional Institute serves as the Program Director for the East Side Avenues initiative, which provides capital and organizational support to transformational projects in targeted areas along four commercial corridors on Buffalo’s East Side.
Celebrating the new academic year
8/30/21
Dean Robert Shibley marks the start of the new academic year and our full return to campus. We are together again, ready and eager to learn in place.
Parking reform could re-energize downtowns
6/15/21
For urban planners, parking rules established decades ago have become a contentious 21st-century challenge. Parking takes up about one-third of land area in U.S. cities; nationwide, there are an estimated eight parking spaces for every car..
MSRED student Mythea Mazzola discusses the UB experience
10/5/21
Mythea Mazzola is a MS in Real Estate Development student at UB with a passion for creating an inclusive built environment, developing entrepreneurial and forward-thinking projects, and diversifying the real estate industry.
Passionate about real estate? There's a club for that.
9/29/21
Students in UB's MSRED program have launched UB's first student organization in real estate to support networking, engagement with the professional community, and student leadership development.

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