University at Buffalo (UB)
September 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Housing Faculty Panel
September 9, 2026 • 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm • Crosby Hall - Room 116 • Virtual option
As climate change, migration, aging infrastructure, and deepening inequality increasingly intersect, the most pressing housing questions are no longer confined to the design of the dwelling itself. Instead, they encompass the social, environmental, and civic infrastructures that make housing—and urban life—possible. In this opening event, Gregory Delaney, Xuanyi Nie, and Kristine Stiphany will introduce the School’s 2026–27 Public Program theme, Housing +, and the international architects and planners whose work across the United States and Latin America creates new architectures, plans, and landscapes from these expanded relationships.
Faculty Panelists
Headshot of Gregory Delaney.
Gregory Delaney
Gregory Delaney is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, where he teaches architecture history, urbanism, and design studios at both undergraduate and graduate levels. His work navigates the intersections of architecture, urban design, and critical preservation, fostering cross-disciplinary thinking, with an investment in public discourse. Committed to experiential learning, he integrates site-based analysis, community engagement, and international travel into his teaching.
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Xuanyi Nie
Xuanyi Nie is an assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo and a faculty affiliate of the UB Asia Research Institute. His research examines how social infrastructures shape urban inequality, governance, and everyday life across the United States, China, and Southeast Asia. He investigates healthcare and civic infrastructures, including hospitals, green spaces and participatory platforms, that shape access to resources and opportunities, structure spatial hierarchies and mediate inclusive and exclusive practices. His work has been published in journals including Urban Studies, Regional Studies, Urban Geography, Cities, The Gerontologist and Journal of Planning Education and Research. Xuanyi also serves as an international corresponding editor for Urban Studies and an early career editor for Journal of Planning Education and Research. Before joining UB, he taught at the National University of Singapore and Harvard Graduate School of Design and worked with UN-Habitat on international planning projects.
Headshot Kristine Stiphany.
Kristine Stiphany
Dr. Kristine Stiphany is a licensed architect and Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo. Stiphany is a built environment ethnographer of contemporary Brazil and the United States whose research examines the sociotechnical dimensions of non-formal housing environments, everyday infrastructures, and adaptive economies. She is particularly interested in participatory methods, data transitions, and citizen-led development. Her recent project, SPARKS! Oasis, received a Design Award from the Texas Society of Architects. She is co-editor of Insurgent Urbanisms in the Americas. Stiphany has received a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of São Paulo Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, as well as fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the Andrea von Braun Foundation for Interdisciplinary Studies. Her current research on collective housing and land development in the United States is supported by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.