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  • Memorializing Hayes Hall’s past
    10/10/24

    A graduate design studio last spring produced two memorials that pay respect to the hallowed grounds on which the home of the architecture school rests.

  • FAUNA: Designing for More Than Human Worlds
    10/4/24
    A distinguished panel of architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and environmental designers joined Dean Julia Czerniak at the School of Architecture and Planning for “FAUNA: Designing for More Than Human Worlds.”
  • UB continues to rank among the top public universities
    9/24/24

    The university is No. 36 among public universities in U.S. News & World Report's latest rankings of the top universities in the nation.

  • A Culture of Making With Julia Hunt
    9/23/24
    Meet Julia Hunt (BS '17), director of digital fabrication and clinical assistant professor, who fosters a culture of making in our school’s fabrication workshop.
  • Training WNY’s new sustainability workforce
    9/13/24

    The inaugural class goes through the Community Climate Leadership program offered through a partnership between UB and PUSH Buffalo. Resilient Building Lab researchers Nick Rajkovich, associate professor in the Department of Architecture, and Laura Lubniewski, clinical assistant professor in the Department of Architecture developed the curriculum.

  • UB Faculty Announced as Conserving Black Modernism Initiative Grant Recipient
    8/14/24
    Albert Chao, adjunct instructor for the Department of Architecture, and Scott Ruff, adjunct associate professor at Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture, were recently awarded a grant from the African American Cultural Heritage Fund (a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation) and the Getty Foundation’s Conserving Black Modernism program for their work supporting the Buffalo house and studio of architect Robert T. Coles. 
  • UB faculty and M.Arch student receive Best Paper Award
    8/6/24
    The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) hosted its 55 annual conference in Portland this past June. Shreya Jaiswal, 2023 alumna of UB’s Master of Architecture program, along with professors Martha Bohm, Korydon Smith, and Edward Steinfeld, received this year’s Best Paper Award. The paper, “Sensory Engagement and Spatial Harmony: Unveiling the Role of Fire in Multisensory Design,” was a culmination of Jaiswal’s thesis research with Bohm, Smith, and Steinfeld and selected out of 380 presenting authors.
  • Urban planning doctoral student reveals citizen-driven disaster response in analysis of the 2022 Buffalo Blizzard
    8/5/24
    Newly minted urban planning doctorate Fuzhen Yin is carving out new territory in the field of urban informatics through research that links social media, machine learning and spatial analysis to generate insights on disaster response in cities.
  • UB architecture students finetune fabrication skills in summer furniture-making studio
    7/18/24
    Architecture students at the University at Buffalo took a deep dive into digital technologies this summer through a 16-day micro studio applying the School of Architecture and Planning’s advanced fabrication tools to the art of furniture construction.
  • Happier, more connected neighborhoods start right in the front yard
    7/2/24
    A salve for America’s loneliness epidemic could exist right in front of its homes.
  • UB architect's design chosen for 5/14 memorial
    5/21/24
    Design holds significant power to inspire hope, healing, and remembrance. UB architect Jin Young Song, alongside partner Douglass Alligood, hopes their memorial concept "Seeing Us" will provide this for Buffalo. The design was chosen by the 5/14 Memorial Commission to honor the victims of the racially motivated mass shooting on May 14, 2022, at a Tops grocery store, which resulted in the deaths of 10 Black individuals and injuries to three others.
  • Hedgework installation opening
    5/15/24
    Found at Building 77 in Brooklyn NY, Hedgework emerges as an urban landscape intervention, embodying the essence of a sentient hedgerow. This installation was crafted by a collective of public artists, architects, and urban planners, including Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of CAST, Mark Shepard. The project moves past conventional boundaries to foster deeper connections between humans and the natural world.