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.
A movement that came to be known as the School of Architecture and Planning's “maker culture” emerged in the 1990s. It expressed an interest in hands-on work, a desire to build at full-scale, a curiosity to explore the properties of building materials, an inclination to experiment and, most of all, a drive to experience the materiality of architecture in an unmediated way.
A perforated metal facade developed by UB architecture professor Christopher Romano and Buffalo-based Rigizied Metals Corp. has earned an Architect's Newspaper Editors' Choice award for Best of Products in the facade category.
Professor Annette LeCuyer is the author of books on contemporary architecture and building technology exploring such questions as polymers and plastics in construction and strategies for metal in architectural facades.
The Buffalo News reports on how Buffalo organizations plan to use food to empower people and build a new economy that benefits working-class residents. It mentions the groups are working with UB’s Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab, which is led by Samina Raja, professor of urban and regional planning.
The Buffalo News reports that Dennis Maher, clinical professor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, and his students have been studying old architectural renderings and blueprints designed by August Minks who, as part of A. Minks & Son Architects, designed nearly 40 buildings in Buffalo more than a century ago. Maher bought the documents for $20 at an estate sale in Grand Island. "I've been collecting things for 20 years," Maher said. "The essence of a lot of my work is repurposing found things, and also thinking about the built environment. I was basically unfolding and unfurling the drawings and realizing what a treasure trove this is."
An article in The New York Times quotes Robert Silverman, professor of urban and regional planning, about Apple’s $2.5 billion plan to help address affordable housing issues in California. Initiatives like Apple’s “definitely relieve some of the pressure on the housing market,” said Silverman, an affordable housing expert. “But you need an extensive policy at the state or federal level to reach more people.”
The Conversation published an article by Nicholas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture, about how architects and engineers must design buildings differently as the climate changes. "We interviewed more than 40 architects, engineers, planners and government officials in the northeastern United States to understand how they were preparing," he writes. "The majority of building-related professionals assumed that future weather conditions would resemble the past. But trends in the data show that this is not the case." Numerous news outlets carried the story online, including Phys.org, the Times Union in Albany, San Francisco Chronicle and Houston Chronicle.
The two fall 2019 senior Environmental Design (END 450) workshops invite you to attend their final presentations focusing on cross-municipal coordination and neighborhood improvements in two unique local contexts.
The fall 2019 graduate studios in urban planning and real estate development invite you to attend their final presentations on three unique Buffalo-based planning and development projects.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 - Monday, December 9, 2019
Join us for our Fall 2019 final reviews. Explore student work from freshman to senior studio, our graduate research groups and thesis and directed research from our master's programs.
Join us for the launch of Intersight 22, the 2019-20 journal of student work. Learn more about the vision for this year's book from editor and Brunkow Fellow Lizzy Gilman (MArch '20).
Peter Galison, the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University, works at the intersection of physics, history and philosophy of science, and film. Galison will present "Philosophy of the Shadow," addressing the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration's hunt for an objective image of a black hole
