This October, the Rudy Bruner Center for Urban Excellence (RBC), housed within the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning, held the inaugural Rudy Bruner Debates on Urban Excellence.
After a comprehensive, multi-year review, the School of Architecture and Planning’s professional Master of Architecture program has earned the maximum, eight-year continuing accreditation by the National Architectural Accreditation Board.
A steadfast supporter of the School of Architecture and Planning, the Buffalo/WNY chapter of the American Institute of Architects presented several students and faculty members with awards at the AIA Buffalo/WNY 2024 Design Awards gala, held on November 14 at the Admiral Room in downtown Buffalo.
Shawntera Hardy (MUP ’04) winner of UB’s 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award, shares her career achievements and thoughts on the power the discipline of planning holds.
In October 2024, The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning was pleased to host, in partnership with the Asia Research Institute, the third annual Koren Studies Symposium—“(Un)Defining Korean Architecture: Modernity, Stories, and Transformation.”
2024-25 Banham Fellow Tiffany Xu comes to UB with an expansive spirit of experimentation and a proposal to explore construction systems through the dimensions of materiality and the surprising context of contemporary fiction.
The Big Projects Studio focused on the schematic development of a large-scale plan for the city of Buffalo, which considers the full removal of both the NY-198 (Scajaquada Expressway) and NY-33 (Kensington Expressway), and the resulting design and development opportunities in connection with the Olmsted Park System and GBNRTC’s “Region Central” plan.