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  • Gresham lecturer talks universal design
    11/1/24

    UB faculty member Edward Steinfeld explained the difference between accessibility and universal design during the annual lecture.

  • 2024-25 Banham Fellow Tiffany Xu explores construction through lens of contemporary fiction
    10/30/24
    2024-25 Banham Fellow Tiffany Xu comes to UB with an expansive spirit of experimentation and a proposal to explore construction systems through the dimensions of materiality and the surprising context of contemporary fiction.
  • Changing the narrative on women in architecture
    10/28/24

    For the first time in the School of Architecture and Planning’s 50-year history, the first-year architecture studio has more women than men.

  • Honoring a pioneer with equitable action
    10/24/24

    An event at UB aims to strengthen Buffalo’s support for equitable urban agriculture policy.

  • 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.