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Spring 2022 final reviews recap
5/25/22
As the 2021-22 academic year comes to a close, students in the School of Architecture and Planning presented the final projects across our programs in architecture, urban planning and real estate development.
Winning teams announced for senior studio | Urban Life: Self + Society
12/18/19
Four teams of senior architecture students were recognized for their proposals during the senior competition final review. The fall studio is the last design studio in the BS Arch curriculum, when students tackle integrated architectural design - a synthesis of concept and construct addressing design strategy, program, site, construction, and technology.
Fall 2019 final reviews recap
12/17/19
As 2019 comes to a close, students in the School of Architecture and Planning pull out all the stops in preparing to present the projects that they have worked on through the course of the fall semester. Faculty and guest critics from firm and schools around the region come together to review student concepts and provide feedback.
As mayor of Kabul, UB alum is rebuilding an ancient city with modern tools of urban planning
12/17/19
Five years ago, Ahmad Zaki Sarfaraz returned to Afghanistan with a UB degree in hand and aspirations to rebuild his war-torn country with the tools of urban planning.
Charles Davis' latest book explores the racial politics of Modern architectural style
12/3/19
In his recently published book, assistant professor Charles Davis II reveals the ways in which parallels between racial and architectural characters provided a rationalist model of design that fashioned some of the most influential national building styles of the past.
Digging into the catalog of Annette LeCuyer
11/18/19
In line with our 50th anniversary focus on innovation in building and materials, we take a look back into the catalog of Professor Annette LeCuyer, who has authored several books on building technology in contemporary architecture.
Estate sale find leads to A.E. Minks Archive Project
11/11/19
UB architecture professor Dennis Maher knew he had a rare find when he happened upon a bucket of aged architect’s drawings at a Buffalo estate sale two years ago.
Thesis project captures grain elevators as sites of material agency
11/1/19
Justina Dziama is a recent graduate of the Master of Architecture program and the International Media Architecture Master Studies Program, a joint degree of UB and the Bauhaus Universitat Weimar.
As the climate changes, architects and engineers need to design buildings differently
10/24/19
As climate change intensifies, much of the nation's building stock will need upgrading to strengthen it against flooding, snowstorms and other weather hazards.
UB part of decades-long effort to earn international wetland status for Niagara River Corridor
10/23/19
The Niagara River — and nearly two decades of work by community leaders and partners at the University at Buffalo — gained national prominence recently when the river and its corridor became a Wetland of International Importance and part of the Ramsar Convention.
Addressing climate change through Passive House design
10/22/19
Reflecting the urgency and centrality of the climate crisis to the work of architects, UB alumnus James Hartford (MArch ’95) describes it as a “newly understood force – a force that we must account for in our designs just as we deal with Newtonian gravity.”
Celebrating our first 50 years with bold ideas for the next
10/2/19
This is our invitation to consider new possibilities for our disciplines as creative, innovative and regenerative forces in our world.

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