Architecture News
07.28.08 New Faculty Appointed
Laura Garófalo has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture. Laura Garófalo received her M.Arch. from Yale University, and her B.Arch. from the University of Miami, FL. Her research and practice focuses on the conjunction of natural and architectural systems. Her firm Liminal Projects, co-founded with Professor O. Khan, has been exhibited at the Architectural League of New York, and the National Building Museum, and was selected by the Architectural League of New York as Notable Young Architects. Recent premiated design competition entries include “What if” New York City Post-Disaster Housing Design Competition (with D. Hill, N. Tang), 2008; Landscape Division Gold Medal in the Biennial Miami + Beach, 2007; Phase 1 of Jardins Ephemeres Design Competition (with A. Latona, R. Godlewski), 2007; and honorable mention in GreenStop Sustainable Design Competition (with C. Mackowiak, A. Kryiwinski, K. Suczynski), 2006.
07.26.08 McHale Fellow Named
James Lowder, the 2008-09 McHale Fellow at UB’s School of Architecture and Planning, is a graduate of Princeton University. James has worked in practice with Daniel Libeskind, Eisenman Architects, Reiser + Umemoto and Coop Himmelblau. He has been succesful in a number of significant design proposals for projects in Europe and in Asia and has also taught both in North America and Australia.
07.25.08 Banham Fellow Named
Michael Kubo will be the 2008-09 Banham Fellow at UB’s School of Architecture and Planning. A graduate of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Michael has worked with the Office of Metropolitan Architecture/AMO in Rotterdam, taught at the GSD and Pratt Institute in New York, and has been actively involved with a wide range of architectural publications. The founder and editorial director of Actar Publishers Inc. in New York, he has authored and edited numerous books including The Function of Ornament with Farshid Moussavi. He also curated and designed the exhibition, “Learning from Cities,” which was shown at the 10th Annual International Architecture Biennale in Venice.
01.28.082008 Martell Visiting Critic
The Department of Architecture is pleased to announce the 2008 Martell Visiting Critic, Thom Mayne, Professor of Architecture at UCLA. He was a founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and has held teaching positions at Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, The Berlage Institute in the Netherlands, and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. Currently, he holds a tenured faculty position at the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture. His distinguished honors include Pritzker Prize Laureate, Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy of Design in Rome, the Alumni of the Year Award from USC, Member-elect from the American Acadmy of Arts and Letters, and the 2000 AIA/LA Gold Medal in Architecture. With Morphosis, he has been the recipient of 25 Progressive Architecture awards, 54 AIA awards and numerous other design recognitions. He will give a public lecture on Monday, April 14, at 5:30 p.m. in 148 Diefendorf Hall.
2008 Clarkson Chair of Architecture
The Department of Architecture is delighted to host the 2008 Clarkson Chair in Architecture, Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. He will be in residence during the week of March 24, 2008. A public lecture will be given on Wednesday, March 26, at 5:30 p.m. in 301 Crosby Hall.
Shepard straddles two fields
New faculty member helped to develop dual-degree program
Mark Shepard, assistant professor of architecture and media study, came to UB for the unique opportunity to help launch a dual-degree program, and to explore and combine his interests in two very different, yet very complementary fields of study.
Shepard says no other architecture school in the U.S. has such a program, allowing students to combine master's degrees in architecture and fine arts -- building expertise in both architecture and digital media.
"Digital media and information systems are rapidly permeating the built environment," he explains. "Moving beyond immersive, screen-based interactive environments, digital media today incorporates hybrid spaces that integrate both the virtual and actual dimensions of everyday life." Read More
RERC on Universal Design Receives $5 Million Grant
The Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA Center) in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning has received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) to fund a second five-year cycle of its Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design and the Built Environment (RERC-UD).
