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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.

  • UB students size up Wilson's parks
    10/7/16
    An article in the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal reports a group of students from the UB School of Architecture and Planning are conducting a study of the parks and recreational sites in the Village of Wilson, and in December will suggest a master plan to the village board.
  • Students’ ‘late entries’ to 1913 design competition earn national honor
    10/7/16

    A University at Buffalo architecture studio conceived as a response to a century-old design competition on the urban grid has garnered its own national attention as a winner of Architect Magazine’s inaugural Studio Prize for excellence in studio curricula. 

  • UB Food Lab, UN FAO to lead training session at United Nations conference in Ecuador
    10/7/16
    The University at Buffalo Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab (Food Lab) has partnered with a United Nations agency to lead a training session on food systems planning and policy as part of an upcoming UN conference that happens once every 20 years.
  • A new day for Hayes Hall
    10/6/16
    As he addressed the hundreds gathered in front of Hayes Hall for the historic building's recent Grand Reopening Celebration, Dean Robert Shibley exalted in the outcome of the five-year renovation of a treasured university and community resource: "[It] has given us the best of the old, and the best of the new."
  • The Subtle Phrases Hillary Clinton Uses to Sway Black Voters
    9/29/16
    An article in The New York Times about the carefully chosen language that Hillary Clinton used to discuss race in Monday night’s presidential debate interviews Henry Louis Taylor Jr., professor of urban and regional planning in the School of Architecture and Planning. “She used a phrase, but I don’t believe she understood it,” he said, noting that Clinton has not offered a “comprehensive urban strategy,” nor had she discussed “a continuation of Obama’s urban strategies.” The article also appeared in the Boston Globe.
  • An Architect Built a Mysterious Dreamland Inside a House
    9/28/16
    An article on The Creators Project, an arts and technology site founded in partnership with computer processor Intel and growing media empire Vice, features “A Second Home,” the a multi-media collage by Dennis Maher, clinical assistant professor of architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning, now open at Pittsburg’s Mattress Factory. The article notes that Maher calls the project “[A] mysterious wonderland that cleaves, intermingles and collages a house's physical and metaphysical counterparts. [It] fosters the emergence of a radically interior world: one that dreams of memories that it has never had, conjures the places that it has always wanted to be and draws its own magic out of the grains of the woodwork.”
  • Discussion targets segregation as the source of Buffalo poverty
    9/23/16
    A story on WBFO-FM reports on the opening of UB’s 2016 Buffalo Humanities Festival and a talk in the Downtown Library about how segregation continues to restrict spreading economic prosperity to all part of Buffalo. The story quotes Henry Louis Taylor, professor of urban and regional planning in the School of Architecture and Planning. “They'll either be doing it by race. They will be doing it by class. But it will segregate because just like a hungry dog eats, the land market flips value from low to high,” he said, adding that he believes poor people have to combine and work collaboratively to turn things around. 
  • A Closer Look: UB's Hayes Hall
    9/23/16
    The Buffalo News posted a photo gallery of Hayes Hall to coincide with the building’s reopening ceremony on Friday. The gallery includes historic photos from University Archives. Additional photos and information on the cover on the paper’s City & Region section are not available online.
  • The day has arrived! Hayes Hall reopening events coverage
    9/23/16

    Hundreds are expected to attend the two-day celebration. Participation is also available via social media and select live streaming.

  • Students excited to return to renovated Hayes Hall
    9/21/16

    Architecture and planning students are raving about the new design and technology upgrades.

  • Paper-strong: students transform pliable material into full-scale structures
    9/13/16

    A group of architecture students have turned material convention on its head by transforming mounds of paper waste into rigid columns, canopies and enclosures.

  • Hollywood Architects
    9/7/16
    An article by Despina Stratigakos, associate professor and interim dean of the Department of Architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning, in Places Journal, a publication about the future of architecture, landscape and urbanism, about diversity in films notes that onscreen work worlds are disproportionately populated by white men, and that architecture is among the whitest and most masculine. “That Hollywood would reinforce the stereotype of the white male architect is hardly surprising. After all, the profession itself has been overwhelmingly white and male,” she writes.