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  • Big Projects Studio—A Catalyst for Conversation
    10/22/24

    The Big Projects Studio focused on the schematic development of a large-scale plan for the city of Buffalo, which considers the full removal of both the NY-198 (Scajaquada Expressway) and NY-33 (Kensington Expressway), and the resulting design and development opportunities in connection with the Olmsted Park System and GBNRTC’s “Region Central” plan. 

  • Editor of Intersight 27 highlights journey of discovery in call for student work
    10/21/24
    For graduate architecture student Sriya Radhakrishnan, her selection as 2024-25 Brunkow Fellow and editor of Intersight 27 – this year’s journal of student work – comes as a full circle moment in her journey to UB.
  • Architecture installation creates multi-species "lounge" for people and pollinators
    10/17/24
    Coming soon to the wildflower meadow on UB’s South Campus is “Pollinator Lounge,” a multi-species design installation that invites us to sit among the unsung heroes of urban biodiversity at work in our own backyard.
  • UB Faculty and Planning Students Receive Great Places Award
    10/15/24
    The University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning is pleased to share students in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Ehler Htoo; Rishabh Chopra; Julia Hayden; Leah Smolen; Sakshi Surawar; Leslie General; Madhumitha Kodimyala; Ale Andrzejewski; Jaden Keech; Satya Swaroopini Gangupati; Ian McCully; and Frankie Zhou; along with Kelly Gregg, assistant professor, have received the 2024 Great Places Award from the American Planning Association, New York Upstate Chapter. 
  • Memorializing Hayes Hall’s past
    10/10/24

    A graduate design studio last spring produced two memorials that pay respect to the hallowed grounds on which the home of the architecture school rests.

  • FAUNA: Designing for More Than Human Worlds
    10/4/24
    A distinguished panel of architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and environmental designers joined Dean Julia Czerniak at the School of Architecture and Planning for “FAUNA: Designing for More Than Human Worlds.”
  • UB continues to rank among the top public universities
    9/24/24

    The university is No. 36 among public universities in U.S. News & World Report's latest rankings of the top universities in the nation.

  • A Culture of Making With Julia Hunt
    9/23/24
    Meet Julia Hunt (BS '17), director of digital fabrication and clinical assistant professor, who fosters a culture of making in our school’s fabrication workshop.
  • Training WNY’s new sustainability workforce
    9/13/24

    The inaugural class goes through the Community Climate Leadership program offered through a partnership between UB and PUSH Buffalo. Resilient Building Lab researchers Nick Rajkovich, associate professor in the Department of Architecture, and Laura Lubniewski, clinical assistant professor in the Department of Architecture developed the curriculum.

  • UB Faculty Announced as Conserving Black Modernism Initiative Grant Recipient
    8/14/24
    Albert Chao, adjunct instructor for the Department of Architecture, and Scott Ruff, adjunct associate professor at Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture, were recently awarded a grant from the African American Cultural Heritage Fund (a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation) and the Getty Foundation’s Conserving Black Modernism program for their work supporting the Buffalo house and studio of architect Robert T. Coles. 
  • UB faculty and M.Arch student receive Best Paper Award
    8/6/24
    The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) hosted its 55 annual conference in Portland this past June. Shreya Jaiswal, 2023 alumna of UB’s Master of Architecture program, along with professors Martha Bohm, Korydon Smith, and Edward Steinfeld, received this year’s Best Paper Award. The paper, “Sensory Engagement and Spatial Harmony: Unveiling the Role of Fire in Multisensory Design,” was a culmination of Jaiswal’s thesis research with Bohm, Smith, and Steinfeld and selected out of 380 presenting authors.
  • Urban planning doctoral student reveals citizen-driven disaster response in analysis of the 2022 Buffalo Blizzard
    8/5/24
    Newly minted urban planning doctorate Fuzhen Yin is carving out new territory in the field of urban informatics through research that links social media, machine learning and spatial analysis to generate insights on disaster response in cities.