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.
For graduate architecture student Sriya Radhakrishnan, her selection as 2024-25 Brunkow Fellow and editor of Intersight 27 – this year’s journal of student work – comes as a full circle moment in her journey to UB.
Coming soon to the wildflower meadow on UB’s South Campus is “Pollinator Lounge,” a multi-species design installation that invites us to sit among the unsung heroes of urban biodiversity at work in our own backyard.
The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning is pleased to share students in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Ehler Htoo; Rishabh Chopra; Julia Hayden; Leah Smolen; Sakshi Surawar; Leslie General; Madhumitha Kodimyala; Ale Andrzejewski; Jaden Keech; Satya Swaroopini Gangupati; Ian McCully; and Frankie Zhou; along with Kelly Gregg, assistant professor, have received the 2024 Great Places Award from the American Planning Association, New York Upstate Chapter.
A graduate design studio last spring produced two memorials that pay respect to the hallowed grounds on which the home of the architecture school rests.
A distinguished panel of architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and environmental designers joined Dean Julia Czerniak at the School of Architecture and Planning for “FAUNA: Designing for More Than Human Worlds.”
Meet Julia Hunt (BS '17), director of digital fabrication and clinical assistant professor, who fosters a culture of making in our school’s fabrication workshop.
The inaugural class goes through the Community Climate Leadership program offered through a partnership between UB and PUSH Buffalo. Resilient Building Lab researchers Nick Rajkovich, associate professor in the Department of Architecture, and Laura Lubniewski, clinical assistant professor in the Department of Architecture developed the curriculum.
Our current collective efforts focus on enhancing communications, advancing faculty research, scholarship and creative work, expanding our spheres of work, and building new programs. In all that we do, we prioritize the success of our students — the core mission of higher education. We are pleased to share just a snippet of what's in the works for Fall 2026 semester programs.