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MArch graduates Sangeethan Othayoth and Sindhu Sriram have won the Indigenous Futurism Model Making 2021 competition in the Mechanical model category. 

UB professor of architecture Brian Carter is a featured essayist in the book Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present, which has just been presented with the RAIC President's Medal for Multimedia Representations of Architecture.

A team of UB architecture faculty and students have developed a stackable ceramic facade system that opens new possibilities in user-generated architecture and sculptural geometries in terra cotta.

Continuing a trajectory of rising prominence, UB’s professional Master of Urban Planning program has been reaccredited for the longest term possible by the discipline’s national accrediting board.

UB students participating in the annual Diversity + Design Competition have generated a series of thoughtful proposals for a memorial to victims of COVID-19.

Did you know that health care and aging-oriented organizations have identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) older adults as an at-risk and underserved population?

The organizations and agencies that form the “safety net” for those living in poverty in the Buffalo Niagara region target their efforts with data and insights thanks to a new online resource developed by the UB Regional Institute.

Students in the Department of Architecture’s Material Culture research seminar last semester, under the direction of Miguel Guitart, assistant professor of architecture, explored ground-related architecture, focusing on mass, material recirculation and the relationships between construction and the land on which it sits. The installation is scheduled to remain on-site for two years as part of a study of its decay and erosion over time. Photos: Douglas Levere

Recent Master of Architecture graduate Madeleine Niepceron views architecture through the lens of inclusivity and ardently believes the built environment must benefit all users, irrespective of their age, gender, ability level or background.

For urban planners, parking rules established decades ago have become a contentious 21st-century challenge. Parking takes up about one-third of land area in U.S. cities; nationwide, there are an estimated eight parking spaces for every car..