The School of Architecture and Planning’s Resilient Buildings Lab is at the helm of new research on how buildings in New York State will need to adapt to the changing climate.

An architecture studio on refugee housing and newly built church and parish center in Madrid have earned two UB architecture faculty members national recognition as inspiring educators who creatively engage architectural practice and extend their work into the public sector.

We are pleased to welcome three new members to the Dean’s Council, a leadership group of professionals in architecture, urban planning and real estate development that works in direct support of the mission of the school.

Students in Jin Young Song’s fall studio spent the semester creating designs for a new UB Police headquarters that would foster good relations with students and the larger campus community.

john powell, director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley, is a legal scholar and internationally recognized thought leader on questions of race, equity and social justice. He will visit UB Feb. 6-10, 2017, as the Will and Nan Clarkson Chair in Planning.

Nicholas Hills, Lisa Liang, Griffin Perry, Dylan Russ and Peter Vidulich II each received a $100 award from Hyatt’s All Things Creative, a go-to spot for generations of UB architecture students for course-required and general architectural supplies.

UB's chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students earned honorable mention in the Barbara G. Laurie Annual Student Design Competition for its proposed cultural center for a Los Angeles neighborhood that once restricted minorities from living there.

A fall architecture studio had students explore local rowing houses for inspiration in redesigning a new row facility for UB along the Buffalo River.

UB's chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students earned honorable mention in the Barbara G. Laurie Annual Student Design Competition for its proposed cultural center for a Los Angeles neighborhood that once restricted minorities from living there.

The School of Architecture and Planning community is mourning the loss of a longstanding friend and leader in the profession. Mark Mendell, retired president and co-chairman of CannonDesign and one of six founding members of the School of Architecture and Planning’s Dean’s Council, died Oct. 25, 2016, at the age of 77.