It is a place that Leticia Avila describes as having a “magical atmosphere” and ties together a dynamic career path the Master of Architecture student has been on.
I write today to update you on our preparations for the fall 2020 semester as we work to implement university guidelines for a return to campus in a modified in-person capacity.
The recent demolition of the Paul Rudolph-designed Shoreline Apartments in Buffalo, NY, highlights one of the key tensions of preserving modern architecture: how to balance the needs of occupants with historically significant designs.
A UB partnership with local industry has engineered a DIY fabric mask that is not only a potentially high-performing alternative to industrial solutions like the N95 mask, but is affordable and scalable.
Samendy Brice (MArch '20) has been awarded the 2019-20 ARCC King Medal, the Deptartment of Architecture's Thesis Prize, for her proposal of a border market as a structural element and condition of exchange along the contested border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Associate professor and former chair of architecture Omar Khan is headed to the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has been appointed head of school, effective Aug. 1.
Along with our faculty, students, staff, and alumni, we are enraged by and grieve the recent killing of Mr. George Floyd at the hands of a police officer. In support of racial justice and building on the School’s collective commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity, we wil execute an explicitly anti-racist approach across all our operations.
Buffalo architect Mike Tunkey (BPS ’00) is mobilizing a diverse network of partners to make more effective DIY masks for at-risk community members during the COVID-19 crisis.
Graduate urban planning students exploring how to plan for complex, highly variable challenges got a timely, real-world lesson this spring with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most disruptive crises to hit the globe in decades.
Henry Louis Taylor Jr., professor of urban and regional planning, is available to speak with media about the impassioned protests occurring across America against racism and social injustice following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.
UB student Nicole Little has put her design skills to work for Buffalo’s Fruit Belt community, helping residents to visualize alternate futures for their built environment through the creation of their own graphic novel.
We are pleased to unveil this year's annual publication of student work - Intersight 22 - which captures the present intellectual and cultural moments of our school.
