The School of Architecture and Planning celebrates the work we do together to "see" and eliminate the legacies of systemic racism and mobilize our professions as forces for regenerative change.
As we open the spring 2021 semester, we embrace signs of hope – the deployment of a COVID-19 vaccine, the prospect of relief from the pandemic, and UB's plans to return to campus more fully in fall 2021. Still, we continue to adapt with creativity and optimism to the changing circumstances of this historic moment.
Justina Dziama, a recent graduate of UB’s architecture program, will exhibit her research on material transformations in the post-industrial landscape, as part of the Buffalo Arts Studio’s Activism in the Arts project.
In a barren field in the shadows of towering grain elevators at Silo City, a group of University at Buffalo architecture students have created a beautiful structure that will continue to evolve and take shape. And they did it amid the stops and starts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While the pandemic has caused thousands of small businesses to temporarily close or shutter for good, the disappearance of the corner coffee shop means more than lost wages.
In the culminating studio of the BS in Architecture program, Urban Life - Self + Society focuses on the urban dwelling as a threshold between self and society, between local and global, and between nature and culture.
Daniel B. Hess, UB professor and chair of urban planning, is co-editor of a viewpoint series on the planning discipline’s response to a changed world, published this month by Town Planning Review (Liverpool University Press).
A team of UB researchers has received a nearly $1 million grant from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) to test inclusive organizing models that advance policies supporting urban agriculture.
UB architecture students are leveraging the power of design to help New York City (NYC) build awareness of COVID-19 safety guidelines among a particularly at-risk population: residents of multi-family housing.
UB architecture professor Joyce Hwang will explore the future of cities in America’s heartland as one of 12 designers selected to participate in the prestigious Exhibit Columbus program.
We’re proud to share that Chiwuike "Chi-Chi" Owunwanne of the University at Buffalo Regional Institute has been recognized among the 2020 class of Buffalo Black Achievers. Chi-Chi serves as the Program Director for the East Side Avenues initiative, which provides capital and organizational support to transformational projects in targeted areas along four commercial corridors on Buffalo’s East Side.
