In Brief

The School of Architecture and Planning’s professional Master of Architecture program has earned an eight-year term of continuing accreditation, the longest interval awarded by the National Architectural Accrediting Board. 

The School of Architecture and Planning kicked off its new graduate track in real estate development this fall. The three-semester specialization within the Master of Science in Architecture program closely engages Buffalo’s development community. “

Daniel B. Hess, PhD, associate professor of urban and regional planning, will spend the next two years developing design and planning solutions for these Soviet-era estates through a research fellowship that will take him to the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Already a published scholar and research pioneer in rural food systems planning, urban planning student Jennifer Whittaker (MUP ‘15) was recently honored with the distinguished SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.

“Doppelgänger,” the joint master’s thesis of Nima Vakili (MArch/MFA ‘15), Vincent Krause and Jan Poneß, has recently been announced as a first-prize winner in the aed neuland German design competition.

Harold Cohen, who as dean from 1974-1984 nearly doubled the school’s faculty and established its philanthropic base by forming the Friends of the School of Architecture and Planning, has spent the past 15 years launching a second career as an artist. Now 90, Cohen works from his studio in downtown Buffalo experimenting with material and techniques to create prints, paintings, woodcuts and sculptures.

Beyond Patronage (Actar Publishers, 2015)

Marius Laurinkus, one of 11 students participating in a nine-week studio in China this past summer with architecture professor Shannon Bassett, paints an accurate picture of the development environment across much of China.

Some of the most iconic photos of Adolf Hitler show him at his most intense, eyes alight with frenetic energy as he addresses an audience or salutes a crowd. Equally haunting, however, are another set of images that are oft-forgotten: In the years preceding World War II, news outlets worldwide ran profiles of the Nazi leader that portrayed him as a country gentleman — a man who played catch with his dogs, had refined taste in décor and took post-meal strolls outside his mountain estate.