Events

An alumni speaker series offering current students the opportunity to hear how UB architecture graduates have designed their careers. Increase your network, be mentored, and learn about various career trajectories and work experiences in a casual, conversational format that encourages Q+A. 

Join us for a week of critique and debate around the creative work of our students. Final Review week in the Department of Architecture features architectural studios from the undergraduate to graduate level as well as a day of thesis and directed research presentations.

February 6, 2023

Join us for a Perspectives Alumni Q&A as alumnus Barry Yanku (MArch '80, BPS '75) shares his professional journey as vice president and aviation studio design director for Corgan Inc. Initially pursuing a career in the performing arts, Barry turned his love for dance into a 40+ year career in architecture design.

March 1, 2023 | "Biosynthetic Design: Towards Adaptive Architecture"

Sabin will present ongoing trans-disciplinary research and design spanning across the fields of cell biology, materials science, physics, fiber science, fashion, mechanical and structural engineering, and architecture.

March 8, 2023 | "Working Relationships: Client | Architect"
Join the Senenmut Alumni Association for the 6th annual Table Talks, bringing students, faculty and allied arts and industry leaders together to raise awareness of professional opportunities in Western New York and build up our city and our workforce.

March 16, 2023
Walsky shares her professional journey as Senior Associate of M Moser Associates. Initially practicing earth construction and teaching at the Auroville Earth Institute, then moving to the UAE to consult on innovative technologies, including water treatment, earth building and sustainable materials.

March 29, 2023 | "Why Memorials Are Strange"

Shanken publishes on the topic of architecture and memory, the history of preservation, keywords in architecture, and the visual culture of architecture and planning.

April 4, 2023
Perreault shares her professional journey as Health Practice Leader for CannonDesign’s Buffalo office. Elisabeth Perreault engages healthcare organizations in and around North America to design solutions that profoundly impact human life.

Canceled | April 5, 2023 | "Up-rooting / Re-rooting: Ephemeral histories & strategies of repair from Algeria"

Crane will speak about the ephemeral histories and seemingly small-scale initiatives of collective restitution.

April 26, 2023 | Jammal Lecture "Fifty years of urban planning in the Kashmir Valley"
Hakim's lecture will focus on the spatial planning of Srinagar tracing the history of the plan documents from the date the formal planning was instituted in the Valley.

Postponed to May 4, 2023 | Bethune Lecture "Context is Everything"
Brooks will cover her practice's recent work, with a focus on four ideals: civicness, authenticity, generosity, and beauty.

May 24 - Sept. 1, 2023 | An exhibition of drawings, models, mock-ups and community initiatives by students of the University at Buffalo's School of Architecture and Planning.

Join us for a week of critique and debate around the creative work of our students. Final Review week in the Department of Architecture features architectural studios from the undergraduate to graduate level as well as a day of thesis and directed research presentations.

November 17, 2022

A program in our Perspectives alumni speaker series, Barbara Campagna shares her journey to becoming  “the leading national architect and policymaker for the integration of preservation values into green building practices." (AIA, 2009)

November 16, 2022

This event brings together three social justice activists who have been focused on improving the quality of life on the East Side of Buffalo to share of their experience.

Nov. 9, 2022, 6 - 8 PM

Join Mark Shepard, UB associate professor of architecture and media study, for the launch of his award-winning book, There Are No Facts, examining the uncommon ground we share in a post-truth world, featuring a reception and panel discussion with leading experts across the fields of architecture and media. 

November 2, 2022

Join James Throgmorton as he shares his story of serving twice on Iowa City, IA's city council (once as mayor) and how his planning knowledge and scholarship informed that work - and vice versa.

November 2, 2022

Join Delia Wendel, of MIT, as she presents "Trauma Heritage and Repair: Learning from Rwanda".

October 26, 2022

Join Daniel D'Oca, Associate Professor in Practice of Urban Planning at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, as he discusses community engagement in urban environments.

October 19, 2022

Jerome W Haferd, of CCNY, highlights work in the public and pedagogical realm which deals with intersectional questions of queerness, Blackness, and otherness as they reorient our space-making and space-taking vocabulary for both architecture and urban design.

October 13, 2022

A program in our Perspectives alumni speaker series, Michael Maggio shares his journey to becoming the director at Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the world's largest museum planning and design firm. 

Oct. 12, 2022

Join us as Adedoyin Teriba, assistant professor of modern and contemporary architecture & urbanism at Dartmouth College, examines the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture as a space to explore American identity and citizenship. 

Opening Reception: Oct. 7, 2022

Explore sketching as a form of inquiry in this exhibition of selected drawings by UB Professor Hiroaki (“Hiro”) Hata. Featuring more than 80 sketches made by Hata during his study of Italian Renaissance urbanism in the 1980s, the exhibition will open with a public reception on Oct. 7 and run through Nov. 18, 2022.

The public lecture series for the 2022-23 academic year is dedicated to the entwined, even hopeful, themes of Recovery/Reclamation as a reflective response to the racially motivated shooting at the Tops supermarket on Buffalo’s East Side on May 14, 2022. In response, we will engage a range of speakers who address the subjects of recovery and reclamation through their work in an effort to place this recent tragedy within a broader history and perspective. 

September 22, 2022

A program in our Perspectives alumni speaker series, Kevin Dworak shares his journey to private practice and founding Kevin Dworak Design. 

Sept. 20-21, 2022

Sheila Foster, the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law and Policy at Georgetown, comes to UB Sept. 19-22 as the 2022 Will and Nan Clarkson Chair in Planning. She is a highly acclaimed expert on environmental law and justice and urban land use law. 

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

All are invited to join us for “Plus You,” a concluding celebration of our 50+ Alumni Exhibition. As we step into the next half century, “Plus You” celebrates the power of our collective to drive innovation and impact on the professions and communities we serve.