What We Did Last Summer: School of Architecture and Planning Summer Study Programs

This exhibition highlights student work produced during UB’s School of Architecture and Planning summer programs, both domestically and abroad in Buffalo, New York City, Costa Rica, Ireland/Scotland, Italy, Spain, Europe, and Japan. Across studios, workshops, and seminars, students engaged new cultural, material, and environmental contexts, translating lived experience into design thinking.

Together, these drawings, guidebooks, postcards, mappings, and digital fabrications document a summer of inquiry, experimentation, and discovery that reflect encounters with unfamiliar scales, traditions, climates, and different modes of practice. They offer a record of learning that extends beyond the typical studio or classroom setting, demonstrating how exposure to diverse places and ways of working can expand design imagination, critical reflection, and our disciplinary perspectives.