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The Builders and the Doers: The School of Architecture and Planning Celebrates Staff during its Women’s History Month
3/31/21
In recognition of Women's History Month, we're proud to celebrate the distinguished women of UB's School of Architecture and Planning and their boundary-breaking contributions to gender equity. Today we celebrate Carol Ramos-Gerena, a student in our urban planning PhD program with research interests in food systems planning, urban agroecology and food sovereignty.
PhD student Carol Ramos-Gerena reflects on the power of urban planning to advance gender equity
3/30/21
In recognition of Women's History Month, we're proud to celebrate the distinguished women of UB's School of Architecture and Planning and their boundary-breaking contributions to gender equity. Today we celebrate Carol Ramos-Gerena, a student in our urban planning PhD program with research interests in food systems planning, urban agroecology and food sovereignty.
Commencement 2021 to be held in person, Friday, May 14
3/17/21
The School of Architecture and Planning is pleased to announce that its commencement ceremony will take place as an in-person, outdoor event on Friday, May 14, 2021, at 5:00 PM (tented location on North Campus TBD).
2021 Watts Scholar Petreen Thomas activates design for social and racial justice
3/8/21
For Petreen Thomas, a great deal of power exists in design – a concept that is shaping her future aspirations as an architect and urban designer, with an eye toward public interest design.

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Media Mentions

Robert Silverman considers impact of fast growth in cities across the U.S.
10/12/20
Robert Silverman, professor of urban planning, participates in a Wallethub Q&A on the fastest growing cities in the U.S. and the positive and negative effects. Silverman was among a panel of experts consulted for their perspective on the biggest challenges faced by cities experiencing rapid population growth, questions of social justice, and whether authorities should do more to ensure current residents aren’t “priced out” of established neighborhoods in the face of population growth. The interview also addresses expectations for a reshaping of large cities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Charles Davis discusses antiracist curriculum in Harvard's The Crimson
10/7/20
UB architecture professor Charles L. Davis II was featured in The Crimson, the student newspaper of Harvard University, to discuss his research on antiracist architecture in an online lecture hosted by the Graduate School of Design. His lecture, entitled “Cannon Fodder: Debating the Racial Politics of Canonicity in Modern Architectural History,” called for an antiracist framework when viewing architecture both in the past and the present.
Washington Post reviews Despina Stratigakos' "Hitler's Northern Utopia"
8/20/20
The Washington Post reviewed “Hitler’s Northern Utopia,” a new book by Despina Stratigakos, professor of architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning. “Drawing from a staggering trove of archival letters, maps, plans and diaries, Stratigakos’s ‘Hitler’s Northern Utopia’ gracefully juxtaposes the oppressor’s dream with Norway’s brutal reality as she examines the country’s occupation and the labor force that worked on building the Nazi fantasy state that never was,” the reviewer writes.
Henry Taylor weighs in on Breonna Taylor's death, racist police violence and gentrification
7/22/20
Henry Louis Taylor Jr., professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and director of UB’s Center for Urban Studies, wrote an opinion article for NBC News titled “Breonna Taylor’s death and racist police violence highlight danger of gentrification.” In the article, Taylor wrote: “Breonna Taylor is just one of many Black women and men who have been killed by police recently. But her death highlights a distinct genre of racially motivated police aggression, harassment and violence that has emerged over the past two decades. White in-migration to cities has created places where dangerous encounters frequently occur between Blacks and the police.” The article also appeared in DNYUZ.

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Events

Xu Tiantian, DnA_Design and Architecture
4/21/21
April 21, 2021
Join us for the UB Confucius Institute's Distinguished Architecture Lecture featuring Xu Tiantian, founding principal of DnA_Design and Architecture, Beijing. An Internationally-recognized architect Xu Tiantian has designed a series of new buildings in China beyond the city and includes the development of facilities for village communities designed to provide employment, improve amenities, and build social infrastructures. Her work has been identified by international critics as a model for rural renaissance.
India Walton
4/14/21
April 14, 2021
Join us for a talk with India Walton entitled "Running for Our Lives: Creating Equity through Policy and Politics." Having lived through and organized around the inequities faced by Black communities, Black women are taking their seat at the table to guide policy decisions and lead political movements with the belief that the people closest to the problems are closest to the solutions.
Jason Hackworth
4/7/21
Apr. 7, 2021
Join Jason Hackworth, University of Toronto professor of geography and planning, for a discussion of race and racism as active causes of urban decline in America.
Ben Davy, University of Johannesburg | 2021 Jammal International Fellow
3/30/21
March 30, 2021
Join us for the 2021 Jammal International Lecture with Ben Davy, visiting professor of law at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa), who will consider the disintegration of key values of urban governance: hope, generosity, self-restraint, justice and simplicity.
Pascale Sablan
3/24/21
March 24, 2021
Join us for a talk with Pascale Sablan, an associate with Adjaye Associates and founder and executive director of Beyond the Build Environment. Her lecture, "I Was Asked to Stand," educates and empowers us to understand the cause and possible solutions to the disparity in the lack of representation, documentation, and acknowledgement of the great works of women and bipoc designers.
Engendering Equity in Architecture and Planning
3/17/21
March 17, 2021
Join us for a panel conversation with women faculty of the School of Architecture and Planning on opportunities for advancing gender equity and future feminist directions for the planning and design disciplines.
Ashanté Reese
3/12/21
March 12, 2021
Join us for a talk with Ashanté Reese, assistant professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Reese will present a lecture titled Nourishing and Sustaining Black Lives: Thinking, Writing, and Living Beyond “Access”.
Sierra Bainbridge, 2021 Clarkson Chair in Architecture
3/10/21
March 10, 2021
We are pleased to welcome Sierra Bainbridge of MASS Design Group as the 2019-20 Clarkson Chair in Architecture. Bainbridge leads MASS Design's work on the Kayanja Center, a rural health care center in Uganda, and school projects in the DRC, Tanzania, Zambia and Rwanda.
Explore programs in historic preservation at UB
2/24/21
February 24, 2021
Students, local professionals, and community activists are invited to attend an information session on UB's programs in historic presevation. Join the conversation on the state of historic preservation in Buffalo in past, present and future contexts.
Edward Goetz
2/24/21
Feb. 24, 2021
Join us for a talk on the legacies of whiteness in urban planning with Edward G. Goetz, a professor of urban planning with the University of Minnesota. Goetz specializes in housing and local community development planning and policy with a focus on issues of race and poverty.