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  • Nominations for 2022 Watts Scholar invited
    2/10/22
    In honor of Black History Month, the School of Architecture and Planning welcomes applications for the 2022 Watts Scholar. The scholarship program for UB architecture students from underrepresented groups is supported by Watts Architects & Engineers, a progressive, minority-owned architecture and engineering firm with offices in Buffalo, Syracuse, and New York City. 
  • Winners of senior architecture housing studio announced
    2/1/22
    The 2021 senior architecture "Housing as Process" design studio focused on housing-led, mixed-use development programs that build on social capital in the community. It is the culminating studio of the BS in Architecture program, with the final review organized as a competition judged by a blind panel of jurors. The winning teams are each awarded a $2,500 prize.
  • Brian Carter and Annette LeCuyer publish tribute book on Canadian architect Barry Sampson
    1/24/22
    "Barry Sampson: Teaching + Practice," co-edited by UB architecture professors Brian Carter and Annette LeCuyer, is a book dedicated to Canadian architect Barry Sampson and his substantial contribution to the field of architecture.
  • GRoW Home opens to visitors
    1/13/22
    UB's “GRoW Home” - designed and built by UB students - is now open on UB’s North Campus as the GRoW Clean Energy Center, for use as a clean energy education center and tour, meeting and event space. 
  • Dean Robert G. Shibley elevated to SUNY Distinguished Professor
    12/23/21
    Robert G. Shibley, professor and dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, has been elevated to the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system, SUNY Distinguished Professor. The honor recognizes faculty with national and/or international prominence and distinguished reputations within their chosen fields.
  • Marion Brush to retire after 21 years as the face of the School of Architecture and Planning
    12/13/21

    Every day for over 21 years, Marion Brush took her seat at the central reception desk for the School of Architecture and Planning happy to be there. Indeed, it is this simple but profound attitude that set the tone for the School as Brush greeted faculty, staff and students with an easy smile, an eagerness to assist and, if you were lucky, a colorful story from a life lived well.

  • Jin Young Song earns multiple international honors for facade research
    12/7/21
    Jin Young Song, UB associate professor of architecture, has received multiple recent international honors for his research on facade systems, including an invitation to the 3rd Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021 and two competition wins, one of which has earned Song a project commission.
  • Tackling health disparities from all sides
    11/29/21

    To more powerfully address and reverse Buffalo’s entrenched health disparities, the Center for Urban Studies, dedicated to regenerating underdeveloped neighborhoods, is joining the Community Health Equity Research Institute at UB.

  • Bridging culture and community
    11/22/21

    UB architecture professor Christopher Romano plays a pivotal role in the dramatic transformation of a 126-year-old building on Buffalo’s East Side into a flexible indoor-outdoor performance and event space. It’s  the latest progression in the contemporary performance theater’s plan to create a cultural campus and site of engagement on the city’s East Side.

  • Winning competition entry proposes public-private space for enjoying Berlin's Techno music scene
    11/22/21

    Bee Breeders’ international architecture competition “Berlin Techno Booth” has announced Jackson Gaylord, a Master of Architecture student at UB, as the “Green Prize” winner.

  • Remembering Harold Cohen
    11/19/21
    Harold L. Cohen, Dean of the School of Architecture and Environmental Design from 1974 to 1984, died peacefully at home in Buffalo on November 2, 2021. He was 96 years old.
  • UB report details current state of Buffalo’s Black community
    10/26/21

    “Chilling.” That’s the word a prominent Buffalo pastor used to describe the findings of a new report by researchers from UB’s Center for Urban Studies on the state of the Black community in Buffalo.