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A WIVB-TV special report on refugee housing in Buffalo interviews Erkin Ozay, assistant professor of architecture, whose spring 2016 studio challenged students to develop ideas for re-energizing the city’s East Side by rehabilitating vacant properties for use as refugee housing. “It’s still an affordable part of the city. It is also an emerging neighborhood in terms of immigrant populations moving there and perhaps also for resettlement. At the same time, it is a part of the city that has such long and deep multicultural roots, and it has great urban assets,” Ozay said.

Articles in Architect Magazine reports on “Urban Fortress,” “Hidden Passage,” “(re)Proun” and “Piax,” student projects completed in Good Grids, a studio course at the School of Architecture and Planning, that won 2016 Architect Studio Prizes

An article about Buffalo’s Outer Harbor and efforts to protect it from overdevelopment quotes Lynda Schneekloth, professor emeritus of architecture, who said holding the Outer Harbor in public trust is ultimately the most responsible use for it. “Our principle is you do not sell or privatize the waterfront,” she said. “The land should belong to everybody, it should not be given to the privileged few.” A story also aired on WBFO-FM.

A story in Architect Magazine looks at how design students in legacy cities like Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland are drawing inspiration from - and helping to revive - their surrounding communities. In a comprehensive review of this work, the reporter writes: "Perhaps no other American architecture school has done that as much as Buffalo’s has."

An article on Buffalo Rising reports on the Bailey Green initiative, a master plan by the UB School of Architecture and Planning to develop a 33-acre zone around Bailey Avenue and Genesee Street to transform it into a livable, walkable urban destination.

An article on Art Daily reports on “A Second Home,” an installation created by Dennis Maher, clinical assistant professor of architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning, that will open in the Mattress Factory and fill all three floors of the late-19th-century row house with artifacts and personal effects such as furniture, toys, books, doll houses, antiques and models. An article also appeared on DADA, the website of the Dallas Art Dealers Association.

An article on Buffalo Rising reports on the Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop being hosted by Boston Terra Cotta in partnership with the UB School of Architecture and Planning and other organizations, and quotes Omar Khan, associate professor and chair of architecture. “The Western New York region offers both a historical connection to clay experimentation and a contemporary ceramics research hub, anchored between Boston Valley, the University at Buffalo and Alfred University,” he said. “With its wealth of resources for terra cotta exploration, Buffalo is the perfect venue for this important workshop.”

An article in Governing magazine about areas where housing prices are rising the fastest, making affordability difficult for working families, quotes Robert Silverman, professor of urban and regional planning in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, who said that in Buffalo much of the recent development downtown consists of more-expensive senior housing or high-end complexes, while at the same time, more people are renting because they don’t qualify for mortgages or can’t find properties as a result of few housing starts.

Robert Shibley, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, is quoted in a feature on design education in Rust Belt cities, which appears in the August issue of Architect magazine, the journal of the American Institute of Architects. “We’re a consulting firm that never goes home when the job’s done. You’ve got the cheapest lab in the world, which is right outside your door. You have to imagine ways of building value into it,” Shibley said. The story also mentions UB’s collaboration with Boston Valley Terra Cotta and the bicycle weather station project created by Nicholas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture.

An article reports UB’s most recognizable building – Hayes Hall – has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, and quotes Robert Shibley, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, and Kerry Traynor, clinical assistant professor of urban and regional planning who prepared the final National Register application with the state’s historic preservation office. “Hayes Hall has always been a celebrated landmark for the University at Buffalo and our surrounding region. Now, thanks to research and a nomination prepared by our faculty and students, it’s nationally recognized as a building of architectural significance,” Shibley said. “It’s a clear indicator of the university’s commitment to historic preservation and adaptive reuse.”