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

  • 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.”
  • Wright and the Buffalo School of Arts & Crafts Conference
    10/17/17
    An article on Buffalo Rising reports an international conference commemorating the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth, his legacy and Buffalo’s preeminent place in the origins of the American Arts and Crafts movement will be celebrated Oct. 20-22, and includes an ongoing exhibition through Oct. 29 in Hayes Hall on the UB South Campus.
  • Canadian design wins big at LafargeHolcim sustainability awards
    10/17/17
    An article in Canadian Architect about the LafargeHolcim sustainability awards reports Sarah Gunawan, adjunct instructor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, received third place in the Next Generation Prize for her playful project that imagines a wildlife habitat adapted into the single-family homes that make up Markham, Ontario.
  • Food Lab, international partner launch first global database of food systems planning policies
    10/16/17

    Imagine an apartment tower that expands – and downsizes – in response to rapidly changing lifestyles. This off-the-charts smart building design has won UB architecture professor Jin Young Song first place in an international competition to consider design in the “self-evolving city.” 

  • Jin Young Song's award-winning design takes “smart home” concept to new robotic heights
    10/16/17

    Imagine an apartment tower that expands – and downsizes – in response to rapidly changing lifestyles. This off-the-charts smart building design has won UB architecture professor Jin Young Song first place in an international competition to consider design in the “self-evolving city.” 

  • Aging Actively
    10/15/17
    An article about ways Western New York seniors can age actively reports a study conducted by the UB School of Architecture and Planning in 2012 found that Erie County has a higher population of seniors compared to the state or the nation.
  • Is Wall Street upending Nashville neighborhoods? These professors want to know
    10/13/17
    An article in The Tennessean about Wall Street investors who have snapped up thousands of homes in Tennessee to convert them into rentals looks at the impact it will have on neighborhoods, and reports Robert Silverman, professor of urban and regional planning in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, and a colleague are gathering and analyzing property records from nine counties in the Greater Nashville market. “The single-family rental housing market is starting to get commercialized in ways that it hasn’t before,” he said. “There’s not a lot known about the impact on the housing market in general or the impact of neighbors or homeowners. That’s what this research is all about.”
  • Designing accessible public transportation
    10/13/17

    Research by the IDeA Center on accessible public transit is making its way onto the region's buses - and informing national transportation standards.

  • Shaping the conversation around equity in food systems
    10/12/17
    BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo is helping drive the conversation within the planning community around how food systems can create broader social change.