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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.

  • Stratigakos named vice provost for inclusive excellence
    6/27/18
    UB architecture professor Despina Stratigakos, who has been serving as interim vice provost for inclusive excellence since February, will assume the position on a permanent basis.
  • Study abroad program takes students throughout Spain
    6/26/18
    UB architecture professor Miguel Guitart recently kicked off an exciting study abroad program in Madrid with a lecture series that will put students face to face with top practitioners, scholars and design thinkers from across Spain. 
  • Inside Ford’s plan to remake Detroit–and itself
    6/25/18
    An article on Fast Company’s Co.Design about Ford Motor Co.’s plan to remake Detroit – and itself – interviews Robert Silverman, professor of urban and regional planning in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, who said there has always been a concern that a flood of money will lead to swift gentrification. “The area has been teetering between revitalizing and falling by the wayside for years,” he says. “There are definitely places that will develop slower around the old station, so there’s probably still space for things like affordable housing and business development that smaller mom-and-pop and local businesses can be involved in.”
  • "Send our Students to Venice" crowdfunding campaign raises $20,000
    6/21/18

    More than 100 friends of the School of Architecture and Planning donated $20,000 to a crowdfunding campaign that will send nearly two dozen students to Venice to participate in the school's See It Through Buffalo exhibit.

  • School debuts “See It Through Buffalo” documentary at Venice as ode to its city
    6/14/18

    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.

  • Designing a City That Makes Room for Nature
    6/7/18
    A story on KCET-TV in Los Angeles about designing cities that allow birds and other wildlife to safely coexist with humans interviews Joyce Hwang, associate professor of architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning, about her work, which includes a bat tower that provides a livable habitat in an aesthetically striking form that creates public awareness, and her Generative Zoning project that looks to the unused and abandoned urban spots created by zoning regulations. Perhaps, she said, the fact that the U.S. is already considering bird-safe buildings to minimize the No. 1 cause of death for urban birds, flying into windows, means that we are moving forward. 
  • 2018 Commencement marks historical moment for School of Architecture and Planning
    6/7/18

    “You have, by this point, put your career on a vector,” Daniel B. Hess, UB professor and chair of urban planning told the Class of 2018 in his address to graduates. “However that vector may change… resilience and flexibility in your professional life are important. Do not limit yourself to a normal or expected routine. Become the main character in your own story."

  • Summer Road Trip: 36 Hours in Buffalo
    6/6/18
    An article on Cleveland Scene about things to do in Buffalo this summer includes Assembly House 150, a project by Dennis Maher, clinical assistant professor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, that is home to his students’ projects as well as the Society for the Advancement of Construction-Related Arts (SACRA), a training program that allows prospective builders to create new projects incrementally. "We're looking at unique opportunities and needs, and trying to draw relationships between those things," he said. A story on WKBW-TV also looks at his SACRA work and interviews Maher and his students.
  • Construction arts program transforms space and students
    6/1/18

    The Society for the Advancement of Construction-Related Arts, founded by UB architecture professor Dennis Maher, will infuse the region's workforce with skilled craftspeople who can contribute to a range of construction jobs, including the the growing number of historic preservation projects happening throughout Buffalo.

  • The industries projected to have the most job openings in WNY
    5/31/18
    WKBW-TV reports on a 2017 labor market assessment commissioned by Invest Buffalo Niagara and prepared by the UB Regional Institute, which identified seven industries projected to have the largest number of job openings in the next few years.
  • For Rent: The Quad Space House
    5/19/18
    An article on Buffalo Rising reports the Quad House, a small, efficient and futuristic house in Buffalo’s Black Rock neighborhood that was designed and constructed by four UB School of Architecture and Planning students, is available for rent.
  • MUP student Erin Sweeney wins Fulbright to study food systems planning in Singapore
    5/15/18
    Erin Sweeney, who will graduate this week with her Master of Urban Planning degree, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholar Research Award to advance her research in food systems planning in support of small-scale farmers in Singapore.