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Explore the scholarly, curricular and creative work of our faculty and students as we mobilize our disciplines on today's most pressing societal challenges. Through studios, sponsored and independent research, faculty and students across our programs engage with real-world projects that reimagine our built environment, innovate modes of practice and transform communities both locally and globally.

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  • Planning Corruption or Corrupting Planning?
    12/1/21
    Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, assistant professor of urban and regional planning, and Wes Grooms, planning theorist, urban political economist and a visiting assistant professor of urban and regional planning, join forces with renowned authors  to better understand corruption and how it complicates planning. 
  • Bridging culture and community
    11/22/21

    UB architecture professor Christopher Romano plays a pivotal role in the dramatic transformation of a 126-year-old building on Buffalo’s East Side into a flexible indoor-outdoor performance and event space. It’s  the latest progression in the contemporary performance theater’s plan to create a cultural campus and site of engagement on the city’s East Side.

  • Barry Sampson Teaching + Practice
    9/14/21

    This book documents the ideas and work of notable Canadian architect Barry Sampson, who was Professor of Architecture at the University of Toronto for nearly thirty years, and an instrumental part of the evolution of Baird Sampson Neuert, a significant critical practice in Toronto that influenced the development of ideas in the city, throughout the region, and more widely.

  • Ground-level Agricultural Survey System (GLASS)
    3/4/19

    So Ra Baek & Martha Bohm join UB mathematics associate professor John Ringland in developing tools to characterize food cultivation practices along roadside transects as a potential complement to traditional remote sensing approaches.

  • Age-Focused Design - A Pedagogical Approach Integrating Empathy and Embodiment.
    11/11/18
    Julia Jamrozik, assistant professor of architecture, and Sarah Gunawan discuss an innovative approach to age-foccused design.
  • Tapping social media for unbiased community input on planning issues
    3/28/18

    A team of planners from the University at Buffalo and University of Tartu in Estonia are tuning into chatter on social media to gather valuable unbiased data on resident perceptions of urban neighborhoods across Estonia.

  • LIGHT/STATION
    2/1/18
    Chris Romano’s project Light/Station transformed an abandoned gas mart into a striking 1,545-square-foot design studio, green room and conference facility for Buffalo-based Torn Space, a critically acclaimed, avant-garde theater company.
  • Dispersed Practice
    11/25/17

    From office, to airport, to artist colony, architecture faculty member Joyce Hwang reflects on her navigation of multi-locational practice. Read her blog contribution to ArchiteXX, an organization for women dedicated to transforming architecture through academy-to-practice connections.

  • Understanding and applying principles of social cognition and decision making in adaptive environmental governance
    9/28/17
    Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, assistant professor of urban and regional planning, and collaborators review principles of social cognition and decision making that shape and constrain how environmental governance systems adapt.
  • Map the gap: alternative visualisations of geographic knowledge production
    3/21/17
    Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, assistant professor of urban and regional planning, and Margath Walker develop a new method for visualizing knowledge production which is attentive to the multiple elements embedded in research processes. 
  • Architectural Practice, Volumes I-III
    1/5/17
    Across three volumes, this series of texts curated by UB assistant professor of architecture Miguel Guitart and Madrid architect Daniel Gimeno documents twenty texts and twenty visions, twenty teaching methods and twenty ways of designing. The collection of texts illumnates practicioners visions, teaching methods and ways of designing, and transports the reader to an intimate place which has inspired the works of some of the most outstanding architects of our time.
  • Beyond patronage: reconsidering models of practice
    4/8/15
    Assistant professor of architecture Martha Bohm, MArch graduate Gabrielle Printz & associate professor of architecture Joyce Hwang examine the shifting landscape of patronage within the field of architecture.
  • 2xMT
    5/31/13
    The research represented by project 2XmT has an underlining goal of producing self-structuring and lightweight architectural screens built entirely from thin-gauge sheet metal. Using only textured stainless steel, the research attempts to investigate the relationship between structure and appearance through performative analyses at full-scale.
  • Elevator B
    5/30/12
    Elevator B is a 22 -foot-tall, free-standing steel, glass and cypress tower that was raised in "Silo City," an area along the Buffalo River where several massive abandoned grain elevators are located. The bee colony that now inhabits the tower was living in the walls of a long unused outbuilding destined for rehabilitation.