Events

Saturday, May 8, 2021, 12 Noon

The School of Architecture and Planning is pleased to invite students, faculty and staff to a School-wide, in-person celebration of our students and their achievements. Award's Day + Atelier 2021 will feature our annual presentation of student awards, an exhibition of student work, and special recognition of our Class of 2020 graduates, and lunch, compliments of UB's Big Blue food truck. Options for virtual participation are also available. 

May 3-10, 2021

The Department of Urban and Regional Planning invites all to attend final studio presentations exploring topics including COVID-19 evictions, opportunities for electric micromobility deployment in Buffalo, NY, and comprehensive planning options for the Village of Springville, in southern Erie County. 

Friday, April 30, 2021 - Friday, May 7, 2021

Join us for a week of critique and debate around the creative work of our students. Final Review week in the Department of Architecture features architectural studios from the undergraduate to graduate level as well as a day of thesis and directed research presentations.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.  

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”.

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. 

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.

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. 

In celebrating Reyner Banham's 99th birthday and the 20th year anniversary of Banham Fellowship at the University at Buffalo, “20 Years, 21 Banham Fellows” is a symposium organized around themes explored in Banham’s experimental criticism.

Feb. 10, 2021
Join us for a book launch lecture with Daniel B. Hess and Alex Bitterman, co-editors of The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence (Springer, 2021), which provides an in-depth overview of the formation, maturation, current challenges, and future prospects of LGBTQ+ spaces in urban environments. 

‘Volatile Ecologies’ is a design expedition examining the environmental degradation in the industrial waterfront of Buffalo through the lens of scenario planning and prototype making. The exhibition features the research of Zherui Wang, UB's 2020-21 Peter Reyner Banham Fellow, and students in his fall 2020 graduate studio at UB. 

Monday, Dec. 7, 2020 - Friday, Dec. 11, 2020

Join us for a week of critique and debate around the creative work of our students. Final Review week in the Department of Architecture features architectural studios from the undergraduate to graduate level as well as a day of thesis and directed research presentations.

Sept. 16, 2020
Organized by Charles Davis II, assistant professor of architectrural history, this colloquium invites you to consider opportunities to recover black narratives of space to propel us toward a more equitable reconsideration of canonical histories of American architecture. 

Sept. 18, 2020

Join Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, and Mabel O. Wilson for a conversation about their new edited volume, "Race and Modern Architecture," a long-anticipated volume that challenges us to write race back into architectural history.

Sept. 22 & Sept. 29, 2020

All faculty and staff are encouraged to attend two workshops in support of our shared commitment to inclusion and racial justice within our own learning and work spaces and across the greater community. The workshops are presented by Dr. Maura Belliveau, director of the University at Buffalo's Center for Diversity Innovation (CDI). 

Sept. 23, 2020

We're pleased to welcome Kunlé Adeyemi as our 2020 Clarkson Chair in Architecture. Adeyemi, an architect, designer and development researcher, is the founder and principal of NLÉ – an architecture, design and urbanism practice for innovating cities and communities. 

Oct. 7, 2020

Join Jeffrey Lowe, associate professor or urban planning at Texas Southern University, as he explores the experience of the African American planner and their efforts towards racial inclusion, social justice, and diversity in the planning movement. 

Oct. 16, 2020

Join Erkin Özay, assistant professor of architecture at UB, and Paola Aguirre Serrano of Borderless Studio, for a conversation about Ozay's new book, Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore (Routledge, 2020), which examines the role of the contemporary public school as an instrument of urban design.

Oct. 21, 2020

Architect and educator Jennifer Newsom presents this year's Bethune Lecture as she considers racial constructs in the built environment as openings for critical public engagement in design. Newsom is assistant professor of architecture with the University of Minnesota and co-founder of Dream The Combine, which creates art and architecture as sites of interaction. 

Oct. 28, 2020

Limited exposure to the professions of architecture and planning and their networks, as well as limited access to resources, creates an uneven playing field for students in design schools. Are architecture and planning education structured in a way that sets up people of color to fail as they join the profession? If so, what elements are the most hindering for the progress of people of color? Join us for a panel conversation with leading practitioners and scholars. Sponsored by AASAP and ubNOMAS.

Nov. 4, 2020

Join representatives from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) for a presentation about your career in architecture, licensure, and beyond.

Nov. 18, 2020

Join professor of urban planning Henry Louis Taylor Jr., for a conversation on race, class and the underdevelopment of Black neighborhoods, including predatory development practices in the city-building process.

Dec. 9-11, 2020    

The School of Architecture and Planning's Fall 2020 studios in urban planning, environmental design and real estate development invite you to their final presentations on four unique Buffalo-based planning and development projects.

July 22, 2020

Thinking about next steps in your career? To become a licensed architect, you will need to be familiar with NCARB (National Council of Architectural Registration Boards). Learn about AXP Experience (internship requirements) and the ARE (Architecture Registration Examination). 

July 15, 2020

Sponsored by the AIA Center for Emerging Professionals as part of the AIA's COVID-19 series, this webinar is designed to help new grads and find out what firm leaders are looking for in potential candidates. Get tips on what you need to stand out from the crowd and how to navigate the virtual interview process.

July 8, 2020

Learn about the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for students and recent graduates. Megan Stewart from UB's Office of Fellowships and Scholarships will introduce the Fulbright program and application process. Matthew Straub, recent UB Architecture graduate, will also share his personal experiences as a Fulbright in Germany.