While medicine, law, and other professions have made
considerable progress, race and gender equity remains a major
concern in architecture and planning, and among the organizations
that oversee education and practice.
The School of Architecture and Planning was created half a
century ago as a direct challenge to orthodox design education. We
live those original principles today, committed to architecture and
planning as interdisciplinary problem-solving enterprises, rooted
in social engagement, nourished by research-in-practice, animated
by making and doing, and committed to meeting the needs of clients,
communities, and society in an increasingly complex urban
world.
The School of Architecture and Planning is on a strong
trajectory of growth with goals to expand our faculty in both the
Department of Architecture and the Department of Urban and Regional
Planning.
The School of Architecture and Planning and the University at
Buffalo offer a range of financial support opportunities for
students. Resources range from financial aid to scholarships to
student employment.
Awarded to graduating first-professional-degree candidates
chosen from each of our master's programs for consistent,
high-caliber design work performed in the design studios.
The School of Architecture and Planning, in partnership with the
university, our alumni, our faculty and staff, and our
philanthropic supporters, provides support to our undergraduate and
graduate students. In addition to tuition scholarships, stipends
for travel and supplies, and support for study abroad, our
students, like our faculty, are actively engaged in teaching,
research, and service—and are rewarded for their hard
work.
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The School of Architecture and Planning, in partnership with
local chapters of the American Institute of Architects and the
American Planning Association, has developed a Professional Mentor
Program for alumni and friends to share their experiences and
advice with current students.
Search job and internship opportunities in architecture and
planning. The following openings require varying levels of
education and experience and have been posted by employers on UB
Career Services' BullsEye system.
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Incoming students jumped right into the classroom on a
daylong orientation tour of Buffalo's world-class architecture and
urban design. A key component of orientation, the tour introduces
UB's future architects and planners to the city as a source of
inspiration and site of investigation.
Two faculty additions will advance the school's rich traditions
in teaching and research that situate design and planning in their
social, political and historical contexts.
Until three years ago Juweria Dahir (BA ’15) knew no one
in Buffalo other than her husband and his family. Now she is more
deeply immersed in the workings of this city, and in the lives and
fortunes of its people, than most native-born residents.
It was show-and-tell time for UB’s Communities of
Excellence last week as members of the research institutes that
have been impacting our world for the past two years gathered for
their annual progress review.
With Hurricane Irma leading to massive closures - including
hospitals - urban planning professor Daniel B. Hess, an expert on
emergecy planning infrastructure, explores the intensive work that
goes into hospital planning for catastrophic events.
Students took everyday items - plywood palettes and garbage
totes - and turned them into neighborhood beatification projects
for their own communities through a Center for Urban Studies summer
camp program.
Preservation efforts must be galvanized; they require
mobilization, time and resources. Preservation planner and UB
professor Kerry Traynor was one of five architecture experts who
answered the question: What’s one American structure you wish
had been saved?
An article in the Smithsonian about America’s lost
structures includes a piece by Kerry Traynor, clinical associate
professor of urban and regional planning, who laments the loss of
Buffalo’s Humboldt Parkway, which was torn up in the 1950s to
make way for the Kensington Expressway. “The new highway
displaced families, divided neighborhoods by race and income and
caused property values to plummet,” she writes.
An article in Canadian Architect highlights a colorful display
created by Julia Jamrozik, assistant professor of architecture, and
her design partner Coryn Kempster called “Vertical Line
Garden,” which is featured as part of this year’s
International Garden Festival, a series of installations on display
at historic Redford Gardens in Quebec.
An article in The Conversation about America’s lost
structures includes a piece by Kerry Traynor, clinical associate
professor of urban and regional planning, who laments the loss of
Buffalo’s Humboldt Parkway, which was torn up in the 1950s to
make way for the Kensington Expressway. “The new highway
displaced families, divided neighborhoods by race and income and
caused property values to plummet,” Traynor said. The article
also was published on the Los Angeles Times, via the Associated
Press.
An article on Truthout, a nonprofit progressive news
organization, about how the large-scale privatization of New
Orleans’ schools perpetuates inequality interviews Robert
Silverman, professor of urban and regional planning, who said
for-profit spin-offs of nonprofit housing initiatives are becoming
more common, but profit incentives also raise concerns about
“mission drift.” "The other side of it is, when the
nonprofit starts dabbling in these for-profit ventures, it opens up
arguments that can be made for why the people working for the
nonprofit themselves should be given living wages," he said.
The Wright's Larkin exhibition foregrounds the remarkable
synergy between The Larkin Company and Frank Lloyd Wright, the
period’s two most disruptive forces in their respective
fields. Please join us for the opening reception on June 7 in UB's
Hayes Hall; the exhibition runs through Oct. 29, 2017.
In context of today's political environment, we present
architects, designers, urban planners, and researchers at work
across boundaries – national borders, cultural lines, or
disciplinary demarcations.
Nader Tehrani's research targets material culture as the
basis for speculation— exploring material properties,
negotiating materials and their geometric predispositions and
challenging the means and methods of building processes.
This international conference will zero in on how and why the
Buffalo region became the national capital for design, production
and innovation in American Arts and Crafts.
