School News
4.11.12 Banham Fellow Exhibit to Open at CEPA Gallery
"The Assembly of Trash," an installation and salon about experimental forms of engagement with the waste stream, will open on Saturday, April 14, at the CEPA Underground Gallery on Main Street in Buffalo. Curt Gambetta, the UB School of Architecture and Planning Banham Fellow, curated the exhibit which features work by students from the school. A program will run from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m.followed by an opening reception.
2.10.12 Dean Shibley to Head the Jury for International Design Competition for Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital Reuse
Credit: Hiroaki Hata
An international design/development competition aimed at finding an appropriate reuse for Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital is getting key support from the School of Architecture and Planning. Dean Robert G. Shibley heads the jury that will award a $1 million first prize to the team offering the best and most do-able proposal for reuse of the facility, which will close at the end of March. The Urban Design Project is also staffing the competition.
UDP also provided support last year for an Urban Land Institute “advisory services panel” that explored the redevelopment potential of the building and site. The location on Gates Circle – at the terminus of a Frederick Law Olmsted designed parkway, close by the vibrant Elmwood Village, and a short drive from the burgeoning Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus – is both strategic and sensitive.
Kaleida Health turned to the competition format as a way to generate interest in a redevelopment that will make best use of the site, respect the values of the adjacent communities, and contribute to the resurgence of the city and region. Finalists in the competition will be invited to exhibit their programs, design concepts, and financial proposals at a public event to be scheduled for late April.
See coverage in the Buffalo News.
2.3.12 Dean Robert G. Shibley Tapped to Lead Design Competition for New Medical School Building Downtown
Dean Robert G. Shibley, as UB’s campus architect, will oversee a competition to select the design team for the new $375 million UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences downtown. Design presentations will take place in March 2012 at the Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo. The project will benefit from a unique approach to university construction given its scope and significance to UB’s emerging downtown campus. Design challenges include creating a “front door” to the medical school and envisioning a space conducive to interdisciplinary learning and research and innovation. The relocation of the Medical School is a major step forward for the UB 2020 strategic plan, to which Shibley contributed through his leadership on the development of “Building UB: The Comprehensive Physical Plan,” the university’s first master plan since creation of the North Campus in the 1970s. Shibley now oversees the implementation of that plan as campus architect.
More coverage on this event can also be found on the Buffalo News website.
10.21.11 SA&P Hosts Grain Elevator Tour
For the most part, Buffalo’s grain elevators, colossal concrete artifacts of the city’s industrial past, can be appreciated only from a distance. That changed, for an afternoon, when the UB School of Architecture and Planning offered the community a rare chance to get up close. On October 21, 2011, the school welcomed the community inside for tours, music and festivities as part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference held here in Buffalo. Read more...
More coverage on this event can also be found on the Buffalo News website.
06.25.11 Olmsted Homage
The School of Architecture and Planning's Urban Design Project has published "Olmsted in Buffalo and Niagara," the first history and guidebook written about the visionary landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in Western New York. http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/mail/8WNZY9
06.21.11 MUP Studio Project Wins APA Award
The MUP studio project "The Fruit Belt: A Conservation District" is being honored with the Outstanding Student Project award from the Western New York chapter of the American Planning Association. The MUP students worked with the Fruit Belt neighborhood in the City of Buffalo to explore various tools to help guide future infill development in the neighborhood while protecting the neighborhood’s character. The final report proposes designating the neighborhood a conservation district, which would make the Fruit Belt the very first conservation district in New York State. The report offers a comprehensive analysis of an alternative planning approach to help guide inconsistent infill development in the community. In addition, the report offers a comprehensive evaluation of the historic structures of the neighborhood, demographics, political conditions, the built environment, best practices for conservation districts, case studies, an explanation of why a conservation district would fit the Fruit Belt, an analysis of the character of the Fruit Belt, a draft set of design guidelines, and a sample Fruit Belt conservation district ordinance. According to the WNY chapter of the APA, “The Fruit Belt: A Conservation District” exemplifies high standards of quality, excellence, and professionalism in planning. For more information, please visit http://wnyapa.com/default.aspx
06.20.11 M.Arch. Student Wins AIA Award
MJ Carroll, a 3.5-year MArch student, has been honored with the 2011 AIA New York State Student Award. The Student Award Program serves as a way of engaging and recognizing students in focused design inquiry, allowing them to share ideas on design concepts which improve upon natural and built environments, while positioning them to assist in advancing both the profession and community at large. The theme for this year’s award program is universal design. For more information, please visit http://www.aianys.org/
1.3.11 New Architecture Chair Named
The School of Architecture and Planning is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Omar Khan has been appointed as chair of the Department of Architecture. Professor Khan is an architect, educator, and researcher whose work spans the disciplines of architecture, installation/performance art, and digital media. He is active in the situated technologies graduate research group where his projects and teaching explore the intersection of architecture and pervasive computing for designing responsive architecture and environments. Professor Khan serves as co-director of the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies and as co-principal with Laura Garófalo of Liminal Projects, an architectural design office. Professor Khan, a graduate of Cornell and MIT, joined the School of Architecture and Planning in 2002.
11.01.10 Global Studios Exhibit Opens
An exhibit opened this week that shows the work of students who participated in the global studio programs during the summer 2010 in Costa Rica, Japan, Spain, and the UK.
10.26.10 New Dean Appointed
Provost Satish Tripathi recently announced that Professor Robert Shibley has been named Dean of UB’s School of Architecture and Planning effective January 1, 2011. The full announcement may be found at the following link: http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/2010_10_28/shibley_dean
08.11.10 School to Undergo Restoration
The School of Architecture and Planning is pleased to announce that Hayes and Crosby Halls -- two of the most historic structures and iconic buildings at UB -- are set to undergo restoration and renewal as part of a $50 million project that will preserve their historic exteriors while creating academic spaces befitting of a 21st century school of architecture and Planning.. For the full story, please see UB's NewsCenter.
