What do Chautauqua County and Central Africa have in common? Most people would struggle to answer that question, but not Korydon Smith, chair and professor in the Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, and co-director of UB’s Community for Global Health Equity
When Samnatha Vetter came to UB nearly four years ago to study architecture, she was prepared to let go of her dream to run competitively at the college level. It was too much, many said – the rigor of architecture school on top of college athletics.
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning will welcome three early-career scholars whose research urges reframing of urban planning scholarship and practice. Scholars will arrive at UB later this month as part of the Visiting Future Faculty or VITAL program.
In honor of Black History Month, the School of Architecture and Planning welcomes applications for the 2022 Watts Scholar. The scholarship program for UB architecture students from underrepresented groups is supported by Watts Architects & Engineers, a progressive, minority-owned architecture and engineering firm with offices in Buffalo, Syracuse, and New York City.
The 2021 senior architecture "Housing as Process" design studio focused on housing-led, mixed-use development programs that build on social capital in the community. It is the culminating studio of the BS in Architecture program, with the final review organized as a competition judged by a blind panel of jurors. The winning teams are each awarded a $2,500 prize.
"Barry Sampson: Teaching + Practice," co-edited by UB architecture professors Brian Carter and Annette LeCuyer, is a book dedicated to Canadian architect Barry Sampson and his substantial contribution to the field of architecture.
UB's “GRoW Home” - designed and built by UB students - is now open on UB’s North Campus as the GRoW Clean Energy Center, for use as a clean energy education center and tour, meeting and event space.
Robert G. Shibley, professor and dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, has been elevated to the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system, SUNY Distinguished Professor. The honor recognizes faculty with national and/or international prominence and distinguished reputations within their chosen fields.
Every day for over 21 years, Marion Brush took her seat at the central reception desk for the School of Architecture and Planning happy to be there. Indeed, it is this simple but profound attitude that set the tone for the School as Brush greeted faculty, staff and students with an easy smile, an eagerness to assist and, if you were lucky, a colorful story from a life lived well.
Jin Young Song, UB associate professor of architecture, has received multiple recent international honors for his research on facade systems, including an invitation to the 3rd Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021 and two competition wins, one of which has earned Song a project commission.
To more powerfully address and reverse Buffalo’s entrenched health disparities, the Center for Urban Studies, dedicated to regenerating underdeveloped neighborhoods, is joining the Community Health Equity Research Institute at UB.
UB architecture professor Christopher Romano plays a pivotal role in the dramatic transformation of a 126-year-old building on Buffalo’s East Side into a flexible indoor-outdoor performance and event space. It’s the latest progression in the contemporary performance theater’s plan to create a cultural campus and site of engagement on the city’s East Side.
