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Media Mentions

Our faculty are frequently called upon to inform critical issues facing the world today. See the latest faculty and school mentions in the press.

  • Dim the lights and let the "moonbow" shine over Niagara Falls
    7/27/18

    A glorious "moonbow," or lunar rainbow, would shine over Niagara Falls during full moons - if it weren't for light pollution. An editorial published by Ernest Sternberg argues a binational effort to dim the lights could create something beautiful, and invigorate tourism. 

  • UB initiative to help workplace industry navigate mega trends
    7/23/18

    The UB Innovation Exchange 2018 – the first in a series of annual events on the emerging workplace – recently convened more than 80 industry leaders at One World Trade Center in New York City in an interactive workshop setting to consider the field’s most disruptive trends.

  • Documentary showcases how architecture students of the University at Buffalo are shaping the city
    7/20/18
    An article on Architect News reports on a new documentary at the Venice Architecture Biennale that showcases how students in the UB School of Architecture and Planning are learning from and rebuilding the City of Buffalo. The article notes that UB students and faculty are becoming an integral part of Buffalo’s renaissance, whether working with local refugee entrepreneurs or revitalizing local fabrication and industry, with students using the city itself as a laboratory, deeply embedding themselves in the community and the challenges it faces. The article includes a short video that was shown at the exhibition. The article also appeared on SeriouslyArchitecture.com. 
  • Behind the scenes of See It Through Buffalo
    7/20/18

    The documentary short produced by the School of Architecture and Planning for the Time Space Existence exhibition in Venice offers a poetic visual experience of the city’s urban context and the school’s complex relationship to it over the past five decades.

  • Studio explores materials and boundaries through wooden cages
    7/19/18
    In a spring  2018 Material Culture Graduate Research Group Design Studio, titled “Cages,” students were given the opportunity to study architecture through material exploration and manipulation—specifically, through wooden cages.
  • How an architecture school shapes, and is shaped by, its city
    7/19/18

    Hear from film's director and the creative team behind See It Through Buffalo, a film about a school shaping, and shaped by, its city. The documentary is on view in Venice as part of the international Time Space Existence exhibition.

  • Jin Young Song's Korean folk art-inspired design up for Architizer A+ Award
    7/17/18

    A ferry terminal in in Seoul, Korea, designed by Professor Jin Young Song has been nominated for an Architizer A+ Popular Choice Award, in the category of Unbuilt Transportation.

  • Wilson Foundation supports WNY trails and parks with $1 million
    7/13/18
    An article in Business First about funding to expand access and improve parks and trails throughout metropolitan Buffalo reports the UB Regional Institute has launched Imagine LaSalle and interviews Robert Shibley, dean of the UB School of Architecture and Planning, who said the focus is on public engagement around what currently exists in LaSalle Park, and what it could and should be. “We’re talking to folks that are in touch with the park in a pretty direct way, so there’s this broad cross-section of folks,” he said. “This is an opportunity to take that conversation with the same people who are heavy park users into another level of aspiration. Part of our goal here is to inspire people about the possibilities of this park.” The article also quotes Laura Quebral, director of the UBRI.
  • Smaller cities trump metropolises in attracting tech workers, firms
    7/11/18
    An article in The Washington Times about the growing number of small towns that are attracting workers in the STEM fields because of the resources and amenities they offer interviews Robert Shibley, dean of the UB School of Architecture and Planning, who said that Buffalo’s revitalization efforts have largely succeeded because city planners capitalized on Buffalo’s comparative advantages, the same way small cities have outpaced Silicon Valley in technology. “There’s no question that if the businesses you’re trying to attract are STEM-based, and you have a college and university configuration that’s delivering STEM students to the marketplace, you have an advantage if you get your business closer to that labor force,” he said.
  • Urban Affairs Association honors Henry Taylor for scholarship that makes an impact
    7/11/18
    Henry Louis Taylor Jr., UB professor of urban planning, has received the Urban Affairs Association's 2018 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award in recognition of his more than 40 years of research-driven activism for distressed urban communities.
  • Coping with heat waves: 5 essential reads
    7/6/18
    An article in The Conversation about dealing with the oppressive heat that has plagued much of North America since the end of June suggests that cities need to do more to mitigate the effects of heat waves, and reports Nick Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, has worked with planners around Cleveland to understand how they prepare for hot weather. “In Cleveland, preparing for extreme heat events has brought professionals together and encouraged overlapping approaches because no single strategy is foolproof,” he said, adding officials “should pursue multiple solutions rather than looking for one ‘best’ option.” The article appeared in news outlets around the country, including the San Francisco Chronicle, WTOP in Washington, D.C., Houston Chronicle and Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
  • The Country With No Public Transport Fares
    6/28/18
    An article in U.S. News & World Report about plans by government officials in Estonia to roll out free public transportation nationwide, which, if successful, would make the Baltic state the first country to implement such a system, interviews Daniel Hess, professor of urban and regional planning in the UB School of Architecture and Planning. “As we continue to urbanize and have denser places that need many people reaching them, there will be an increasing need for public transit to serve these places with high-capacity transit vehicles, such as buses, streetcars or subways," he said. "Any growing city where there's a premium on land value and the traffic is choking, and where it’s very expensive to travel by car and park, seems a possibility for free public transport.”