A group of graduate architecture students recently gathered on UB's South Campus in graceful dance - all at a safe distance - as they tested out their creations in wearable spatial distancing devices.
A powerful partnership that brought UB faculty and community leaders together to fight against health disparities has allowed the community to respond more effectively to the pandemic than many cities across the nation, university and community leaders said today.
Director of UB's Center for Urban Studies and a member of the urban planning faculty for more than 30 years, Henry Taylor continues to bring his impassioned perspective on urban life and racial justice to both the university and the city he calls home.
As we open the spring 2021 semester, we embrace signs of hope – the deployment of a COVID-19 vaccine, the prospect of relief from the pandemic, and UB's plans to return to campus more fully in fall 2021. Still, we continue to adapt with creativity and optimism to the changing circumstances of this historic moment.
UB architecture professor Joyce Hwang will explore the future of cities in America’s heartland as one of 12 designers selected to participate in the prestigious Exhibit Columbus program.
Environmental design students at UB will work this semester with regional leaders to conduct a feasibility study for an intercity high-speed bus line along the New York State Thruway.
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.
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.
UB architecture students are leveraging the power of design to help New York City (NYC) build awareness of COVID-19 safety guidelines among a particularly at-risk population: residents of multi-family housing.
Daniel B. Hess, UB professor and chair of urban planning, is co-editor of a viewpoint series on the planning discipline’s response to a changed world, published this month by Town Planning Review (Liverpool University Press).
Justina Dziama, a recent graduate of UB’s architecture program, will exhibit her research on material transformations in the post-industrial landscape, as part of the Buffalo Arts Studio’s Activism in the Arts project.
As we celebrate Women’s History Month, we recognize the varied backgrounds of women and the diversity of their experiences in considering issues of equity and justice.
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).
In a barren field in the shadows of towering grain elevators at Silo City, a group of University at Buffalo architecture students have created a beautiful structure that will continue to evolve and take shape. And they did it amid the stops and starts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Along with our faculty, students, staff, and alumni, we are enraged by and grieve the recent killing of Mr. George Floyd at the hands of a police officer. In support of racial justice and building on the School’s collective commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity, we wil execute an explicitly anti-racist approach across all our operations.
In his latest book, UB Professor of Architecture Brian Carter explores Beijing-based architect Zhu Pei’s museum for the Imperial Kiln in Jingdezhen, China, a globally significant example of contemporary civic architecture that preserves and celebrates the remains of the region’s porcelain industry, dating back to the Ming and Qing dynasties.
While the pandemic has caused thousands of small businesses to temporarily close or shutter for good, the disappearance of the corner coffee shop means more than lost wages.
In the culminating studio of the BS in Architecture program, Urban Life - Self + Society focuses on the urban dwelling as a threshold between self and society, between local and global, and between nature and culture.
A UB partnership with local industry has engineered a DIY fabric mask that is not only a potentially high-performing alternative to industrial solutions like the N95 mask, but is affordable and scalable.
A perforated metal facade developed by UB architecture professor Christopher Romano and Buffalo-based Rigidized Metals Corp. has earned an Architect's Newspaper Editors' Choice award for Best of Products in the facade category.
UB architecture professor Dennis Maher knew he had a rare find when he happened upon a bucket of aged architect’s drawings at a Buffalo estate sale two years ago.
We are pleased to unveil this year's annual publication of student work - Intersight 22 - which captures the present intellectual and cultural moments of our school.
Universal design has long been embraced by businesses eager to create safer, healthier and more supportive facilities for their employees and visitors, regardless of age or ability. The challenge for many is how.
Five years ago, Ahmad Zaki Sarfaraz returned to Afghanistan with a UB degree in hand and aspirations to rebuild his war-torn country with the tools of urban planning.
As climate change intensifies, much of the nation's building stock will need upgrading to strengthen it against flooding, snowstorms and other weather hazards.
John Paul Eberhard, path-breaking architecture educator, researcher, and practitioner, and founding Dean of the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, died on Saturday, May 2.
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.
Along with our faculty, students, staff, and alumni, we are enraged by and grieve the recent killing of Mr. George Floyd at the hands of a police officer. In support of racial justice and building on the School’s collective commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity, we wil execute an explicitly anti-racist approach across all our operations.
A team of UB researchers has received a nearly $1 million grant from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) to test inclusive organizing models that advance policies supporting urban agriculture.
The recent demolition of the Paul Rudolph-designed Shoreline Apartments in Buffalo, NY, highlights one of the key tensions of preserving modern architecture: how to balance the needs of occupants with historically significant designs.
Professor Brian Carter recently reflected in "Drawing Matter" on how the coronavirus pandemic changed methods of teaching and making in studio at the School of Architecture and Planning.
UB students participating in the annual Diversity + Design Competition have generated a series of thoughtful proposals for a memorial to victims of COVID-19.
UB researchers were the driving force behind the publication last week of a major report that details strategies local governments in low- and middle-income countries can use to create more innovative and equitable community food systems.
A team of UB architecture faculty and students have developed a stackable ceramic facade system that opens new possibilities in user-generated architecture and sculptural geometries in terra cotta.
We're pleased to welcome architectural designer and researcher Young-Tack Oh as our 2021-22 Peter Reyner Banham Fellow. A founding member of the creative collective Archipleasure, he pursues speculative research on the marginal and overlooked occurrences in contemporary urbanism.
The School of Architecture and Planning celebrates the work we do together to "see" and eliminate the legacies of systemic racism and mobilize our professions as forces for regenerative change.
A University at Buffalo doctoral student in urban planning has been selected as a recipient of the national Health Policy Research Scholars (HPRS) fellowship from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
UB professor of architecture Brian Carter is a featured essayist in the book Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present, which has just been presented with the RAIC President's Medal for Multimedia Representations of Architecture.
Chiwuike "Chi-Chi" Owunwanne of the University at Buffalo Regional Institute serves as the Program Director for the East Side Avenues initiative, which provides capital and organizational support to transformational projects in targeted areas along four commercial corridors on Buffalo’s East Side.
For urban planners, parking rules established decades ago have become a contentious 21st-century challenge. Parking takes up about one-third of land area in U.S. cities; nationwide, there are an estimated eight parking spaces for every car..
Mythea Mazzola is a MS in Real Estate Development student at UB with a passion for creating an inclusive built environment, developing entrepreneurial and forward-thinking projects, and diversifying the real estate industry.
Students in UB's MSRED program have launched UB's first student organization in real estate to support networking, engagement with the professional community, and student leadership development.
The UB Department of Architecture is pleased to welcome Duygu Gokce as a Fulbright Scholar from Turkey. A lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Duzce University, Gokce conducts interdisciplinary housing research bridging the disciplines of typo-morphology - or the classification of urban elements such as buildings, streets and plots - and environmental psychology.
As the journal of student work for the year 2020, Intersight 23 chronicles the School of Architecture and Planning’s inspired response to a historic moment. It is an honest and hopeful exploration of how a community of students and their faculty struggled, adapted and grew together during a time of unrelenting challenge. The body of student work cataloged here is the ultimate triumph, revealing that out of the disruption we have emerged with new insight, agency and aspirations for a better world.
In planning, design, development, and preservation, our approach to education is place-based and people-based. This is a reflection of the ways in which we engage communities and offer pathways for improvement to help address pressing challenges.
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.
I write today to update you on our preparations for the fall 2020 semester as we work to implement university guidelines for a return to campus in a modified in-person capacity.
In March 2020, the transformation was abrupt and sweeping. It was also imperfect. For most institutions of higher education – including the University at Buffalo and the Department of Architecture – faculty, staff, and students had one week to overhaul the norms, techniques, and tools of design education. It was particularly upending for a department largely defined by “hands-on” learning.
On May 14, a distinguished group of 264 architects, urban planners, environmental designers and real estate developers joined the ranks of UB alumni as the School of Architecture and Planning convened its 49 Commencement ceremony on UB’s North Campus.
Earlier this month, the clanging sound of more than 300 UB-Blue cowbells filled the air on UB’s South Campus as the School of Architecture and Planning gathered for Award’s Day + Atelier 2021, a festive celebration of student academic achievement.
Recent Master of Architecture graduate Madeleine Niepceron views architecture through the lens of inclusivity and ardently believes the built environment must benefit all users, irrespective of their age, gender, ability level or background.
Jeremy Sanford is a graduate student studying Environmental and Land Use Planning. At the School of Architecture and Planning's Community Resilience Lab, he provides support for health and energy research with People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH) - Buffalo and conducts environmental justice research. He strongly believes that planners have a central role in enhancing racial justice and promoting healthier and sustainable environments.
Students in the Department of Architecture’s Material Culture research seminar last semester, under the direction of Miguel Guitart, assistant professor of architecture, explored ground-related architecture, focusing on mass, material recirculation and the relationships between construction and the land on which it sits. The installation is scheduled to remain on-site for two years as part of a study of its decay and erosion over time. Photos: Douglas Levere
Did you know that health care and aging-oriented organizations have identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) older adults as an at-risk and underserved population?
The organizations and agencies that form the “safety net” for those living in poverty in the Buffalo Niagara region target their efforts with data and insights thanks to a new online resource developed by the UB Regional Institute.
Architecture professor Joyce Hwang celebrates and centralizes urban wildlife in a trio of projects on display at the "Outside Design" exhibition as part of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, which runs through December 19.
The Graham Foundation grant will support the publication of the first in-depth study of the aesthetic and ideological constructions of the "domestic" Adolf Hitler and how this was used to soften his public image and seduce audiences in Germany and abroad.
This year's Banham Fellow, architect and writer Ang Li, will lead a yearlong seminar and site-specific installations that explore the role of the industrial monument as a trope in architectural history and practice.
A group of architects, professors and activists, including the School of Architecture and Planning's Despina Stratigakos, recently came together for the 3rd Wikipedia Editathon in New York City to to celebrate and write into history women who have played significant roles in the American built environment.
Buffalo School architecture professor Jin Young Song's design concept for “Prefabricated Apartment Remodeling Type” (or P-A-R-T) has been recognized with an AIANYS citation in the category of "Unbuilt Young."
The School of Architecture and Planning has announced that Howard Zemsky, the Buffalo developer turned state economic development leader, will receive the 2015 Dean's Medal.
A new book by UB architectural historian Despina Stratigakos shows how propagandists used lifestyle stories to soften Hitler’s image prior to World War II.
The One Region Forward Community Congress on February 12, 2015, welcomed over 150 guests in celebrating nearly three years of research, community engagement, partnership building and planning by over 5,000 citizens and more than 700 local organizations.
Jin Young Song, assistant professor of architecture at the School of Architecture and Planning, recently received 2nd place in an international competition to design housing for the Dharavi Slum in Mumbai, India, using repurposed shipping containers.
Two UB faculty members, including Ernest Sternberg, professor and chair of urban and regional planning, have co-authored a book on the planning decisions and engineering challenges that surround one of this nation’s most significant pieces of public infrastructure: bridges.
School of Architecture and Planning professors Beth Tauke and Korydon Smith, and architectural historian and alum Charles Davis are co-editors of Diversity and Design, a widely anticipated publication to help students understand and creatively address issues surrounding social diversity in design practice.
Jin Young Song, assistant professor of architecture, has received funding from the New York State Council on the Arts to develop a facade that imitates the leaves of a tree in its dappling and diffusion of natural light.
Over 100 citizens across Western New York are better prepared to effect change in their communities thanks to a planning boot camp offered by the School of Architecture and Planning and its UB Regional Institute.
The American Planning Association, which sponsored the competition, announced the finalists last month at the APA national conference in Seattle, where the School of Architecture and Planning students also had the opportunity to formally present their ideas.
A new cafe on Buffalo's West Side, designed by UB architects Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis, prompts us to rethink how we heat — and use — the space we occupy in winter.
A café in Buffalo designed by UB architects Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis as an architectural experiment in non-mechanical heating and cooling has been recognized with a “Best of Canada Design” citation by Canadian Interiors magazine.
UB will invest $25 million in a major multi-disciplinary research initiative to confront grand challenges facing humankind. School of Architecture and Planning faculty members are the forefront of two of these 'Communities of Excellence': Global Halth Equity and SMART (Sustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Robotic Technologies).
Dean Robert Shibley has been selected among an esteemed class of 25 top educators in architecture and design by DesignIntelligence, an international publication for design leaders.
A group of Buffalo Public Schools students are responsible for the award-winning idea that claimed a regional prize as the “Most Inspiring Essay” in the 2014 Future City Competition, sponsored by DiscoverE, the philanthropic arm of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NPSE).
The School of Architecture and Planning’s Department of Architecture received a positive review by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). The rigorous external evaluation measures the quality of the program against a set of standards for architecture programs across the U.S.
An expert on economic modeling related to natural and man-made disasters, JiYoung Park is co-editor of a new book that assesses simulated events ranging from attacks on sports stadiums to the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.
Civil rights leader Shirley Sherrod shared her powerful message of hope and resiliency amid overwhelming obstacles as part of a food justice event organized this week by the Food Lab in the School of Architecture and Planning.
The two-year fellowship will take Hess, associate professor of urban and regional planning, across the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to research design and planning solutions for aging Soviet-era housing estates.
Jennifer Whittaker (MUP '15), an emerging leader in food systems planning, has just earned the distinguished SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.
WBFO's Chris Caya talks to the School of Architecture and Planning students and faculty about their entry into in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon.
An article in The Wall Street Journal listing “The Best Architecture of 2014” includes the University at Buffalo’s Solar Strand, calling 3,200-panel, ground-mounted photovoltaic array a “small but telling model of landscape architecture at its most forward-thinking.”
Architecture faculty member Miguel Guitart is co-editor of the just-released Architectural Practice II, the second publication in a series exploring how practicing, researching and teaching architects reflect on the early stages of their design.
The School of Architecture and Planning's Department of Architecture received a positive review by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). The rigorous external evaluation measures the quality of the program against a set of standards for architecture programs across the U.S.
Gary Scott Danford, PhD, one of the first faculty members of the School of Architecture and Planning and an integral member of the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDeA Center), has passed away at the age of 68.
Follow Lisa, Dan, Alan, Quincy, Greg, Carl, Marius, Nahshon, Eliana, Gary, Kamilah and Crystal right here as they blog about their experiences as architects and as students in the beautiful, fascinating and rapidly changing country of China.
R.J. Multari, assistant dean for undergraduate education at the School of Architecture and Planning, has been recognized by Erie Community College for his work in aligning the college’s architecture technology program with the School of Architecture and Planning’s undergraduate program.