Architecture News
03.01.08 2008 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.
03.01.08 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.
09.01.07 New Banham Fellow
Eva Franch Gilabert has been appointed as the 2007 Banham Fellow. Franch Gilabert studied at TU Delft, at ETS Arquitectura Barcelona where she received her Diploma in Architecture with Honors in 2003 and at Princeton University where she received her M.Arch degree in 2007. Her work draws on cultural, political, social, technological and formal archeologies in addressing the contemporary need for local desires and global understandings. Her research in architecture focuses on the search of representation of collective aspiration through conceptual, ideological and formal constructions of meaning through doubt. Her current research at Buffalo, “Architecture of doubt,” focuses in three operative fields: utopias (historic), metaphors (formal-cognoscitive) and atmospheres (experiential). Franch’s work has been exhibited at the Center for Architecture in New York and internationally at the Korean Institute of Architects in Daegu, FAD Barcelona, and the NAI Rotterdam. Publications include “CityThemeCity” and “Content_A” in Pidgin, “Dementia” in Postboks, “Pause Pavillion” in Pasajes, “Generative Metaphors” in Sources of Architectural Form, and “R.E.D. Studies” in Imagined Spaces. She is a registered architect in Catalonia.
09.01.07 New Faculty Join Architecture
Despina Stratigakos has been appointed in a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Architecture. Stratigakos is an architectural historian with an overarching interest in gender and modernity in European cities. Her forthcoming book, A Women’s Berlin (University of Minnesota Press), investigates the conception of a city built by and for women, a place that was imagined and partially realized in the years before the First World War. She has published on the public image of women architects; the gender politics of the Werkbund; connections between architectural and sexual discourses in Weimar Germany; and exiled Jewish women architects in the United States. Stratigakos received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College and taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at the University at Buffalo.
Sergio Lopez-Piñiero has also been appointed to a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Architecture. He received his Diploma in Architecture from ETS Arquitectura Madrid in 1998 and his MArch degree from Princeton University in 2004, where he was awarded with the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize. He has previously worked as a designer at Foreign Office Architects (London, 2000-02) and at no.mad (Madrid, 1998-2000). A registered architect in Madrid, he maintains an independent practice, Holes of Matter. His work focuses on the production of blank architecture. With its unparalleled capacity to accommodate any urban player’s desire, blank architecture can only be an enabler. However, due to its apparent lack of inherent ideological content, blank architecture remains constantly available for appropriation and is always on the verge of vanishing into excess. The development of this architectural proposition will be shown in his forthcoming book, The Enabler, published as the result of the work produced when he was 2006 Banham Fellow.
05.09.07 2007 Clarkson Chair of Architecture
The Department of Architecture was delighted to host the 2007 Clarkson Chair in Architecture, Joan Ockman, Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
04.27.06 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
11.07.05 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).
