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A stop-motion animation about low-resource architectural possibilities for a distressed urban site, produced by UB architect duo Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis, has been selected for the 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale in Portugal next fall.

Associate Professor Daniel B. Hess, PhD, traces the democratization of urban planning in post-Soviet Latvia in a “best-in-issue” article just published in Town Planning Review.

A group of 19 students from the School of Architecture and Planning visited four high-profile firms in the Big Apple earlier this month as part of UB's "Road Trip New York City" career networking and development program.

"These are the places that are left behind, forgotten," says Henry Louis Taylor, UB professor of urban planning and director of the Center for Urban Studies.

With 35 years of experience in urban planning and development, School of Architecture and Planning adjunct professor David Stebbins has learned a few things about how to create a vibrant urban center. His recent co-authored article, entitled “Making Downtowns What They Used to Be,” was featured in Urban Land Magazine.

UB’s Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDeA Center), in collaboration with the Global Universal Design Commission, has developed the first set of universal design certification standards for commercial buildings, looking to the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) guidelines as a model.

A café in Buffalo designed by UB architects Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis as an architectural experiment in non-mechanical heating and cooling has been recognized with a “Best of Canada Design” citation by Canadian Interiors magazine.

Buffalo School architecture professor Jin Young Song's design concept for “Prefabricated Apartment Remodeling Type” (or P-A-R-T) has been recognized with an AIANYS citation in the category of "Unbuilt Young."

Gary Scott Danford, PhD, one of the first faculty members of the School of Architecture and Planning and an integral member of the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDeA Center), has passed away at the age of 68.