Brian Carter was a contributing author to the 4th Edition of Rough Guide to Sustainability – A Design Primer recently published by the RIBA. Professor Carter has also been invited to join a team of architects, engineers and clients exploring the use of concrete in modern architecture. The first meeting will be held at St. Johns College, Oxford.

Mark Shepard contributed an essay to Harvard Design Magazine‘s issue on Urbanism’s core (HDM 37), titled “Beyond the Smart City: Everyday Entanglements of Technology and Urban Life.” This issue is the third in a series addressing disciplinary cores in architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism respectively. “In contrast to architecture and landscape architecture, however, urbanism is a synthetic field, subsuming not only the discipline of planning and the practice of urban design but also concepts of the relationship between them. These three issues will help instigate new disciplinary methods and domains of investigation.” (Mostafavi, HDM 35)

Harry Warren designed a Music School at Onondaga Community College while a Design Principal at Cannon. The project was recently finished and won a Design Honor Award from the WNY AIA.

In January, Christopher Romano and Nicholas Bruscia‘s “project 2XmT” was selected as the Best Fabrication Project of 2013 as part of the first annual Best of Design Awards: http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=7069.  “project 2XmT” was also published in Metropolis Magazine: http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-View/March-2014/Innovation-at-SUNY-Buffalo-Benefits-From-Local-Skills/ and is in the running for two Architizer A+ Awards (public voting is open until March 21st): Architecture + Fabrication: https://awards.architizer.com/public/voting/?cid=44 and Architecture + Materials: http://awards.architizer.com/public/voting/?cid=46.  Additional information can be found at http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2014/03/012.html  

In February, Christopher Romano and Nicholas Bruscia completed a large-scale installation of their SKIN competition winning entry titled, “project 3xLP”, at the University of Texas at Austin as part of the TEX-FAB 5 event.  The exhibition will next be traveling to Houston, TX and then to Dallas, TX as part of the Facades + Conference in October 2014.  “project 3xLP” was done in collaboration with Philip Gusmano, MArch 2015, Daniel Vrana, MArch 2015, and David Heaton, BS 2014 with fabrication sponsorship by TEX-FAB, Rigidized Metals Corporation, A. Zahner Company and technical support from ARUP, Montreal.  News about “project 3xLP” can be found at: Texas Architect Magazine: https://texasarchitects.org/v/texas-architect-magazine/ and Inhabit: http://inhabitat.com/patterned-3xlp-wall-made-from-locally-sourced-steel-wins-the-skin-digital-fabrication-competition/3xlp-wall-5/?extend=1

Jin Young Song‘s project QUBE is an Architizer A+ Award finalist. It intends to innovate furniture design with an architect’s view, creating a catalyst, a little item to exemplify the holistic change of mechanism in our experience within living space.See: https://awards.architizer.com/public/voting/?cid=62
and http://ap.buffalo.edu/news/youngsong_qube.html