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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.

  • First-year architecture students receive Hyatt’s Design Awards
    1/10/17

    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.

  • Buffalo Becomes First City to Bid Minimum Parking Goodbye
    1/9/17
    An article in The Atlantic’s CityLab about the new Buffalo Green Code, which rewrote zoning and land-use regulations to make them simpler and easier to understand, quotes Robert Silverman, professor of urban and regional planning in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, who predicted that Buffalo may end up following the path of Miami and Denver, the only two other cities to adopt form-based code and are facing affordable housing crises. “Even though Buffalo is losing population, its Green Code really focuses on dense development in a much smaller footprint, and having less density in older neighborhoods outside of it,” he said. “So it essentially creates more demand in a smaller area for development to take place, which has an upward pressure on the cost of commercial and retail property and also on housing.”
  • Pushing the Building Envelope: Metal Products for Creating Striking Façades
    1/4/17
    A story on Architizer about architects who are using metal products to construct striking facades reports a UB School of Architecture and Planning design team won multiple awards for Project 2XmT, which features self-structuring lightweight screens custom-fabricated by Rigidized Metals in thin-gauge textured stainless steel.
  • Building Tomorrow’s Eco-Home
    1/4/17
    An article on Triple Pundit, a global media platform covering people, the planet and profit, reports on UB’s GRoW Home, which won second place in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, and quotes Martha Bohm, assistant professor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning. “This is one that doesn’t show up on the energy meter and your energy bill each month. But we consider the food that is brought into the house each month to sustain the residents is part of the energy footprint of the house,” she said. “So we tried to incorporate food production at a very local and sustainable level within the house in the greenhouse that is attached to it.”
  • UB earns top finish in national intercollegiate real estate development competition
    12/22/16

    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.

  • Architecture students design new UB rowing boathouses
    12/16/16

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

  • HUD job to pit Carson ideology against long-standing housing policy
    12/5/16
    An article in The Washington Post about Donald Trump’s selection Monday of retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development quotes Robert Silverman, professor of urban and regional planning, who predicted that Carson will reduce the level of scrutiny lenders face about how loans are distributed to minority groups. “Less regulation will allow them to originate loans they might consider higher-risk,” he said. The article also appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
  • UB’s minority architecture student organization earns honors in national-level design competition
    12/1/16

    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 Future of Housing Segregation Under Trump
    11/29/16
    A story in The Atlantic about the future of housing desegregation in a Donald Trump administration interviews Robert Silverman, professor of urban and regional planning in the School of Architecture and Planning. “The HUD Secretary can really set the tone in terms of making decisions about where resources are allocated, and where staff are provided to take on enforcement roles,” Silverman said.
  • Another Voice: New train station will continue city’s renaissance
    11/28/16
    An opinion piece by Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown about the city’s renaissance and the process of choosing the best location to construct a new passenger train station notes that Robert Shibley, dean of the UB School of Architecture and Planning, agreed to facilitate discussions about the project within 24 hours of an announcement by Gov. Andrew Cuomo of a $1 million investment in the planning process. “It was critically important to have someone of Shibley’s planning background and experience to help move this process along, guaranteeing that it would be  a thoughtful, in-depth and transparent consideration of the best location for such a facility,” he writes.
  • Annette LeCuyer, faculty lead for senior studios, honored for teaching and mentoring
    11/27/16
    UB professor of architecture Annette LeCuyer, who has guided students through the undergraduate program’s most challenging courses, has been recognized by the university with the 2016 Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring.
  • UB's Taylor says Cubans inside island nation are likely mourning Castro's death
    11/26/16
    A story on WBFO-FM about the death of Fidel Castro at age 90 interviews Henry Louis Taylor, director of UB’s Center for Urban Studies and the author of “Inside El Barrio: A Bottom-Up View of Neighborhood Life in Castro’s Cuba.” Castro allowed neighborhoods to shape everyday life and culture, despite scarce resources, and that helped sustain his power at a time when other communist regimes collapsed, he said.