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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.

  • Dispersed Practice
    11/25/17

    From office, to airport, to artist colony, architecture faculty member Joyce Hwang reflects on her navigation of multi-locational practice. Read her blog contribution to ArchiteXX, an organization for women dedicated to transforming architecture through academy-to-practice connections.

  • Charles Davis shines a light on student activism in Harvard Design Magazine
    11/20/17

    An essay by UB architectural historian Charles Davis, II, published in the latest issue of Harvard Design Magazine, places the recent history of campus protests into historical perspective to speculate on the future role of progressive student movements in reforming American society.

  • RFP02 Benches: A Design-Build Competition
    11/20/17

    Continuing a series of design-build competitions that activate the newly renovated Hayes Hall as a site for research through making, the school invites faculty and students to submit proposals for the design and fabrication of window seating areas on the building's staircase landings.  

  • [WEAVING IN] wins: UB NOMAS team gets second win in annual design competition on the national stage
    11/20/17

    UB’s chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students recently won their second award in the national Barbara G. Laurie NOMA Annual Student Design Competition. 

  • IDeA Center publishes new resources on inclusive design
    11/16/17

    The two books were published by faculty and staff of the IDeA Center and offer architects, planners and building professionals practical resources for designing accessible, inclusive products and environments. 

  • Collaborative studio brings together architecture students from UB, University of Toronto
    11/13/17
    The architecture programs at the University at Buffalo and University of Toronto are engaged in a joint research studio on the potential applications of paper and fibers in temporary structures.
  • Urban planning studio on Scajaquada Creek wins state planning award
    11/6/17
    A graduate urban planning studio’s plan for preserving the cultural and historical landscape of Buffalo’s Scajaquada Creek corridor has won the American Planning Association New York Upstate Chapter “Outstanding Student Project” award for 2017.
  • America's Lost Buildings: Architects Remember Their Favourite Vanished Landmarks
    11/3/17
    An article in The Independent that asked five architecture experts to name the one building or structure they wish had been preserved quotes Kerry Traynor, clinical associate professor of urban and regional planning, who lamented the loss of Humboldt Parkway, a crucial component of a much larger Buffalo park and parkway system that was demolished to make way for an expressway linking the suburbs and downtown. “In order to clear the way for the new highway – dubbed the Kensington Expressway – the state cut down trees, tore up the parkway and demolished homes. The new highway displaced families, divided neighborhoods by race and income and caused property values to plummet. As neighborhoods fell apart, businesses shuttered their doors,” she said.
  • Tiny Design Gets Big Recognition for UB Students at International MICRO HOUSE Competition
    11/2/17

    Two architecture students have received global recognition for their “Micro-House” design submitted to the Future House: MICRO HOUSE competition, organized by Future House Organization.

  • Banham Fellow wins LafargeHolcim Award
    11/1/17

    Sarah Gunawan's "Synanthropic Suburbia" proposes a residential design with novel, symbiotic relationships between human resident and animal neighbors. Gunawan is the school's 2017-18 Peter Reyner Banham Fellow.

  • Julia Jamrozik presents work at symposium on public art
    11/1/17
    Assistant Professor Julia Jamrozik recently presented” ‘Full Circle’ and other ways of bringing people together” at the symposium ‘Public Art: New Ways of Thinking and Working’ at York University in Canada.
  • Universal Design Is Design for All
    10/27/17
    An article on Professional Builder about builders who are embracing universal design concepts reports that nearly three years ago Beth Tauke, associate professor of architecture, and her sister built LifeHouse, a concept home completely based on universal design principles, in the lakefront planned community of Newport Cove in Illinois and had people tour the model and answer a 65-question survey. “Seventy-eight percent of the people on the tour said they saw value in owning a UD home. That’s really good news,” she said. “People have to see value before they’ll pay for it.”