Public Programs

Spring 2025

FALL 2024. Public programs. Wednesdays 6pm. Hayes Hall Room 403 (Unless otherwise noted). The public programs of the School of Architecture and Planning is supported by the following individuals and institutions: Jambal UBT Department of Architecture, UB Department of Urban and Regional Planning & UB Asia Research Institute, Rudy Bruner Center for Urban Excellence, Urban Land Institute Western New York Women’s Leadership Initiative.

Full Lineup

Lydia Kallipoliti
1/29/25
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
This talk seeks to reveal how architecture constructs, distributes, and leverages power via material upcycling, interspecies alliances, biopolitics and excremental processes.

Reimagining Black Futures

Part I: Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Part II: Wednesday, February 12, 2025
This panel, part of the School’s programming for Black History Month, aims to understand, explore, and discuss a series of contemporary projects in the city of Buffalo through the lens of both opportunities and challenges.

A conference room with arched windows, featuring a presenter standing near a large screen. Attendees are seated, listening attentively.

Table Talks

Wednesday, February 19, 2025
The UB Senenmut Alumni Association presents the 8th Annual Table Talks: A Professional Networking Event.

Catherine Griffiths
2/26/25
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
In this lecture, Catherine Griffiths advocates for a counter-algorithmic design practice—one that contests the black-boxed nature of artificial intelligence by revealing the constituencies of models and what is left excluded or unmodeled.

Cameron Sinclair

Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Labyrinth Workshop, 15 Allen Street
Cameron Sinclair, Professor in the Department of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Planning, will explore topics related to humanitarian architecture and design diplomacy.

Alex Schwartz
12/11/24
March 10–14, 2025
Alex Schwartz, professor of public and urban policy at The New School, is UB's 2025 Will and Nan Clarkson Chair in Affordable Housing. His research focuses on housing and community development, including public housing, affordable housing programs, mixed-income housing, and fair housing.

Collage of Lan Deng, Lan Wang, Youqin Huang, Tim Oakes, and Jamie Peck.

Social Transformations and Urban Transitions in China Symposium

Saturday, March 29, 2025
9:00 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
This conference gathers scholars and experts from diverse fields in the United States and around the world to engage in a rigorous examination of the physical, social, and economic aspects of China’s ongoing urbanization.

Sarah Williams
4/2/25
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Williams will explain how we can use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression, something Williams calls "Data Action", which is also the title of her recent book.

Mannequins wearing white paper costumes, spiky paper headpieces, and layered, geometric paper vests.

Atelier Week Open Studio

Wednesday, April 9, 2025
5:00-8:00 p.m.
Parker, Hayes, and Crosby Hall

The image shows a group of people in a workshop or makerspace, posing with cardboard models and projects secured with blue tape, surrounded by tools and materials.

Exhibition Opening: "Fragments: Then and Now"

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Assembly House, 150 Edward Street

Richard Gluckman

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Richard Gluckman, Partner at Gluckman Tang Architects.

David Benjamin

Wednesday, April 23, 2025
David Benjamin, Founding Principal of The Living and Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP, combines research and practice to explore new ideas through prototyping.

2024-2025 Public Programs Committee: Mark Shepard and Hadas Steiner, supported by Ashley Godoy; poster designed by Lukas Iverson.

The public programs of the School of Architecture and Planning are supported by the following individuals and institutions: Will and Nan Clarkson Visiting Chair, UB Department of Architecture, UB Department of Urban and Regional Planning, UB History and Asian Studies, UB student group AASAP, and the UB Senenmut Alumni Association.