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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.

  • Grand reopening of Hayes Hall scheduled for Sept. 23, 2016
    6/20/16

    Five years in the making, the renovated Hayes Hall will reopen to students next fall and once again serve as the heart of UB’s South Campus. Join us for the ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sept. 23, as well as for exhibits, symposia, building tours and much more to be held Sept. 23-24.

  • UB Architecture Students Win Theatre Renovation Prize
    6/17/16

    UB students KelseyLiz Habla and Charles Canfield have an award-winning proposal to turn Buffalo’s Cyclorama Building into a year-round home for the beloved theatre company Shakespeare in Delaware Park.

  • Conventus, a symbol of a 'new Buffalo'
    6/14/16
    An article in Business First about the Conventus building downtown reports Rigidized Metal, in conjunction with the UB School of Architecture and Planning, created artsy windscreens for the building.
  • GUEST VIEW: High-quality public housing benefits Niagara Falls residents
    6/11/16
    An article in the Niagara Gazette reports that a study conducted by the Regional Institute of SUNY Buffalo and the Mobile Safety-Net Team of the John R. Oishei Foundation produced an extremely insightful view of the challenges in daily living faced by the most vulnerable residents of Niagara Falls. The study observed that “over three-quarters of lower-income renters pay more than 30 percent of their household income on housing” and that “over half of all renters live in housing that is substandard or overcrowded or lacking in complete plumbing or kitchen facilities.”
  • Where lack of sanitation prevents children from completing school, UB students offer help
    6/10/16

    Over one week in late May, teams of University at Buffalo students representing a range of fields —architecture and planning, engineering, public health, chemistry, computer science, pharmacy and management — put their heads together to develop actionable ideas to help solve this problem in two countries with critical need: India and Uganda.

  • A City Planning Exercise in Tartu City Center
    6/3/16

    Imagine redesigning a city in only 2 days. That’s exactly what American and Estonian students did recently as part of a summer study abroad program in Estonia under the direction of urban and regional planning faculty member Daniel B. Hess.

  • Main Street retailers starting to see persistence pay off
    5/31/16
    UB planner Robert Silverman is quoted in a front-page article in The Buffalo News about retailers on Main Street in downtown Buffalo who are beginning to see their businesses flourish after a long period of stagnation. 
  • Faculty play lead role in echo Art Fair's inaugural architecture exhibition
    5/23/16

    The 2016 echo Art Fair in Buffalo, a fine arts exposition that has emerged as one of the region’s most notable art events, opens this weekend with its first-ever architecture exhibition, “Light Industry.”

  • Despina Stratigakos to join Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
    5/23/16

    Architectural historian Despina Stratigakos has been invited to advance her research on the wide-ranging architectural influences of Germany’s Third Reich as a 2016-17 member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, one of the world’s leading centers for “curiosity-driven” research and a bastion for academic freedom. 

  • The story of the Niagara River: The water wonder of the world
    5/22/16
    An article in the Toronto Globe and Mail on the wonders of Niagara Falls and the role the falls have played in industry, the economy and history quotes Lynda Schneekloth, professor emeritus of architecture. “The first sewage treatment plant on the river was built only in 1936,” she said. “We used the rivers as sewers for years. And we have tried, together, to take care of these waters once it became clear how badly we had treated them.”
  • Nation’s top transportation official sees benefit of revival of Humboldt Parkway
    5/21/16
    An article about a recommendation by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx that Buffalo consider resurrecting at least a portion of the city’s Humboldt Parkway by building a deck over a three-quarter mile portion of the Kensington Expressway reports a 2014 economic study prepared by the UB Regional Institute’s Urban Design project found there would be significant economic impact from an increase in property values along the parkway, higher tax revenues and hundreds of construction jobs.
  • Echo Art Fair moves to former East Side factory
    5/12/16
    An article previews Echo Art Fair, which offers a special focus on Buffalo’s architectural heritage, to be held May 14-15 in the former American Axle plant on East Delevan Avenue, and notes it will include a series of four installations, dubbed “Light Industry,” designed by faculty members from the UB School of Architecture and Planning. The article quotes Jordan Geiger, assistant professor of architecture, who said, “The city is seeing lots of value in preservation, but also in looking forward. I think that that’s vitally important that a city is taking care of its heritage but also making itself always anew through some smart creativity in its architecture.”