January 28, 2026

The Resilient Campus - Competition Exhibition

Exhibition Open
January 28, 2026 - March 13, 2026
Crosby Hall, Room 116, UB South Campus

Learn more about the competition  for this event
Group of students point at the competition board on display on the wall of Crosby Hall.

Photo: Douglas Levere

The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning is excited to showcase the final team submissions for The Resilient Campus, an international design competition — which set out to address resilience and adaptability challenges to provide insights for rethinking campus environments at large.

The competition challenges architects, landscape architects, planners, and other allied design professionals to boldly envision UB’s South Campus—a public campus on its way to becoming carbon neutral—as a socio-ecologically integrated landscape. Framed by a planetary polycrisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and human vulnerability, the competition positions the University as a test site where design strategies can be replicable across all scales of the built environment.

Exhibition Details

Exhibition Dates
 January 28 – March 13, 2026

Location
Crosby Hall, 1st Floor
UB South Campus
280 Hayes Rd
Buffalo, NY 14214

Curated by
Maia Peck, Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Exhibitions
Julia Czerniak, Dean and Competition Coordinator
Jason Sowell, Associate Professor and Competition Advisor

Exhibition Design by
Maia Peck
Julia Czerniak
Wade Georgi
Stephanie Cramer
Bruce Majkowski
Zachary Izzo
Edwin Sanchez Rodriguez

Team entries being showcased

  • STOSS Landscape Urbanism + Höweler Yoon Architecture
    Faculty Liaison: Maia Peck
    Student Assistants: Janice Ng, Edwin Sanchez Rodriguez, Ethan Ikegami
  • OBRA Architects + LOLA Landscape Architects
    Faculty Liaison: Jon Spielman
    Student Assistants: Ryan Bingham, Ben Jellinick
  • MVRDV + RIOS
    Faculty Liaison: Randy Fernando
    Student Assistants: Lydia Diboun, Kaya Jost, Gianni Rinaudo
    MASS + EinwillerKuehl + SITELAB Urban Studio + Second Nature Ecology and Design
    Faculty Liaisons: Joyce Hwang, Hiro Hiroaki
    Student Assistants: Ryan Mellen, Ashley Johnson, Will Sundell
  • LTL Architects + Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects + Derive Engineers
    Faculty Liaisons: Kristine Stiphany, Nick Bruscia
    Student Assistants: Berkan Sari, Gennaro Rovello, Allison Lavis, Shruti Kunadia
  • Barkow Leibinger + TOPOTEK1 + Transsolar KlimaEngineering + Guy Nordenson and Associates
    Faculty Liaisons: Martha Bohm, Mohamed Aly Etman
    Student Assistants: Danny Escandon, Jamie Jiang, Sukriti Sharma
  • ASPECT Studios + Woods Bagot Architecture + Dr. Jillian Wallis
    Faculty Liaison: Elaine Chow
    Student Assistants: Alec Pitillo, Ester Rafailova, Daniel Syperski