School of Architecture and Planning Magazine

In Brief

  • Students’ ‘late entries’ to 1913 design competition earn national honor
    10/14/21
    An architecture studio conceived as a response to a century-old design competition on the urban grid has garnered national attention as a recipient of Architect Magazine’s inaugural Studio Prize for excellence in studio curricula.
  • Dennis Maher’s “A Second Home” is a Dreamscape of the House and Mind
    10/14/21
    Dennis Maher’s “A Second Home” is a Dreamscape of the House and Mind
  • Welcome, Zoe Hamstead
    10/14/21
    Zoe Hamstead has joined the School of Architecture and Planning as assistant professor of environmental planning.
  • One Region Forward receives national planning award
    10/14/21
    A sustainable development plan for the Buffalo Niagara region led by the UB Regional Institute was awarded a 2016 APA National Planning Achievement Award for Public Outreach.
  • Shibley Elevated to FAICP
    10/14/21
    Dean Robert G. Shibley has been elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Nominated by the New York Upstate Chapter of the American Planning Association, Shibley is recognized for his planning leadership and community service over the past four decades, and for his role in advancing, championing and quietly leading the revitalization of Buffalo and Western New York.
  • Stratigakos heads to Institute for Advanced Study
    10/14/21
    UB architectural historian Despina Stratigakos is spending the 2016-17 academic year advancing her research on the architectural in uences of Germany’s Third Reich as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, one of the world’s leading centers for “curiosity- driven” research and a bastion for academic freedom.
  • Study Abroad Expands to Madrid
    10/14/21
    Students can now explore Madrid and the historic Catalonia region of Spain through summer study abroad. Led by Miguel Guitart, a visiting faculty member in architecture who also practices in Madrid, the program’s opening session last summer featured “seeing and drawing” tours of the city, an in situ seminar on Modern and Contemporary Spanish Architects and weekly guest lecturers. Students incorporated their experiences into their studio project, a
  • Architecture for the birds (literally)
    10/14/21
    Architecture faculty member Joyce Hwang’s latest creation is a bird-friendly public art installation that both promotes awareness of local avian species and calls attention to a common but often invisible peril: bird-glass window collisions.
  • Taking food systems planning to the world
    10/14/21
    UB’s Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab delivered tools and techniques in community-based food systems planning to leaders from around the world as part of the Habitat III Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development in Quito, Ecuador. The global event hosted by the United Nations takes place only once every 20 years.
  • Uncovering cultural landscapes
    10/14/21
    Urban planning students have assumed an almost investigative role as they explore two of Buffalo’s most historically significant — and hidden — landscapes: the Buffalo Belt Line, a former passenger rail line that loops the city almost unnoticed; and the Scajaquada Creek, a largely buried 13-mile stream whose shores trace the evolution of Buffalo.
  • Annette LeCuyer honored as teacher, mentor
    10/14/21
    Architecture professor Annette LeCuyer, who has guided students through the undergraduate program’s most challenging courses, has been recognized by the university with the 2016 Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring.
  • National Competition Winners
    10/14/21
    It was a winning semester for students in UB’s chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students and the school’s new graduate real estate development specialization, with both groups earning top placements in national intercollegiate competitions this past fall.