UB takes great pride in its longstanding tradition of welcoming international students and is especially pleased to highlight the exceptional diversity of the Spring 2025 City Arts cohort, which included 16 students from nine countries.

In 2022, Architects FORA created a new scholarship opportunity, aptly named “the FORAship.” This year, they have honored two students at the UB School of Architecture and Planning with support through this scholarship program – Ada Rodriguez (MArch ‘26) is this year’s FORA Fellow, and Md Ahsan Ullah (MArch ‘26) received the FORA Scholarship Award.

Two students in the UB School of Architecture and Planning – Kimia Ghaderian (MArch ’25) and Ying Wang (BS Arch ’25) – have been selected for the prestigious METROPOLIS Future100 class of 2025. 

The UB School of Architecture and Planning is pleased to announce that Erkin Özay has been named Chair of the Department of Architecture.

The Spring 2025 semester saw the introduction of a new course at the UB School of Architecture and Planning, Indigenous Planning, with a culminating experience at the end of the semester – a visit to the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum guided by community leaders and elders.

Once per year, the School of Architecture at the University of Navarra in Spain releases a prestigious peer-reviewed publication titled Revista de Arquitectura (RA). This past year, Miguel Guitart, associate professor in the UB Department of Architecture, had the honor of serving as guest editor of the most recent edition, No. 26.

On April 24, a new exhibition titled Lightly Speaking opened in the lobby of UB south campus’s Hayes Hall. This exhibit showcases the culmination of work by the UB Department of Architecture’s 2024-25 Banham Fellow Tiffany Xu as well as work by the 13 students in her ARC 606 spring graduate studio. 

Shawn Chiki (BS Arch '13), a UB adjunct faculty member of architecture, has taken students into the expansive new spaces of generative AI for design and the built environment, enabled by his passion for multi-media and 3D arts and technology. Here he shares the journey - and where he's headed next.

UB School of Architecture and Planning Dean Julia Czerniak announced that Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, the pioneering partners behind KieranTimberlake’s research-driven architectural practice, will address the Class of 2025 at the School’s 53^rd Commencement, which will take place on May 16^th at UB’s Center for the Arts.

On April 15, The Assembly House partnered with the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning to host the opening of a new two-part exhibition in their space, Fragments: Then and Now. This exhibit features the work of two architecture studios from the School, each working in a different medium, one with wood and one with plaster. 

On April 9, visitors stepping through the front doors of Crosby Hall for the UB School of Architecture and Planning’s Open Studio were met with bold red lettering painted across a stark white wall. This display announced the Spring 2025 faculty exhibition – FRAME/WORKS, which was curated by adjunct instructor Maia Peck with the assistance of adjunct instructor Gabriela Zappi.

The School of Architecture and Planning, in collaboration with UB’s Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, the UB Asia Research Institute, and the International Association for China Planning, recently gathered scholars from across the disciplines to discuss to the shifting dynamics of China’s ongoing urbanization.