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Robert G. Shibley, dean of the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning, has received the American Institute of Architects’ Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture in recognition of his contributions to design excellence in public architecture over 40 years of teaching, scholarship and critical practice. The prestigious lifetime achievement award was bestowed at the 2014 AIA National Convention in Chicago on Thursday, June 26, 2014. The jury cited Shibley’s leadership and broad-based community collaboration to produce award-winning plans for Buffalo that have spurred new investment and elevated public expectations for design and planning. As UB’s campus architect, Shibley led the development of an ambitious campus master plan that sets new standards for campus architecture. An internationally noted scholar, Shibley has translated this work into models, best practices and case studies for application across the disciplines of architecture and planning. Read more at http://ap.buffalo.edu/news/shibley_thomas-jefferson-award.html

Shibley was also recently recognized by the American Institute of Architects New York State for his design influence on public architecture across the state. He is the first recipient of the AIANYS’s Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Award, which honors architects employed in the public sector in New York State for their contributions to design excellence in public architecture. The award is part of the inaugural Excelsior Awards for Public Architecture, established by the AIANYS and state contracting agencies to provide models for future state-funded building design and professional practice and advocacy. Among other things, the jury cited Shibley’s contributions over the past 32 years as a public architect in service to UB and the region and state that hosts it. In particular, Shibley’s leadership of the UB campus master plan and his innovative use of design competitions was highlighted for elevating expectations for quality architecture at UB and in the Buffalo region. Read more at http://ap.buffalo.edu/news/shibley_nelsonrockefeller.html

Two UB architecture faculty members have won internationally-prominent lifetime achievement awards for their “significant and lasting” contributions to environmental design research, practice and teaching. Lynda Schneekloth, professor emerita of architecture, and Sue Weidemann, PhD, visiting professor of architecture, have each been honored with a 2014 Career Award from the Environmental Design Research Association, a worldwide interdisciplinary organization concerned with the inter-relationships of people with their built and natural surroundings. Schneekloth, who joined UB’s architecture department in 1982, is widely regarded for advancing the dynamics of professional and citizen engagement in placemaking through reflective practice, scholarship, and teaching. She has made significant contributions to environmental design research and practice through the reconceptualization of knowledge and the role of the imaginal in making and unmaking places. For the past 35 years, Weidemann, an environmental psychologist, has focused her practice, research and teaching on the relationships between people and the places and spaces they use. Her contributions to the field include pioneering research on housing satisfaction and workplace design and the development of widely cited social science- and survey-based design methodologies. Read more at http://ap.buffalo.edu/news/edra_careerawards.html

Jordan Geiger published his essay and in-progress project, “Niagora,” for the inaugural issue of the Applied Research Practices in Architecture Journal. ARPA journal is an online resource organized by the Columbia University GSAPP. “Niagora” explores  US/Canadian border crossings as sites of opportunity for redevelopment, with the introduction of electronic toll collection and pass control services. http://arpajournal.gsapp.org/niagora/

Georg Rafailidis presented a paper on the project ‘Free Zoning’ at the annual Atmospheres symposium at the University of Manitoba earlier this year. He also presented a paper documenting the first year design studios he coordinated at the 30th annual National Conference on the Beginning Design Student at the Illinois Institute of Technology and will also present the work at the ACSA Fall conference later this year in Halifax, Canada at Dalhousie University. Rafailidis also presented his research on corbelled structures at the fifth annual Sustainable Structures Conference at Portland State University. He received a McDowell Colony fellowship and was a resident from March to April of this year for his research on corbelled structures and the integration of Phase Change Material into ceramic building blocks. In addition, the project MirrorMirror designed by Davidson Rafailidis is the winner of two 2014 AZ Design Excellence Awards, earning both the “People’s Choice Award” and an “Award of Merit” in the Temporary Architecture category sponsored by the design magazine Azure. The project is in the July/August issue of the magazine. MirrorMirror was set-up at the Albright Knox Art Gallery in June and is currently installed at Canalside in downtown Buffalo. It will return to the New Museum in New York for the 2015 IDEAS City Festival. Georg Rafailidis was selected as a participant in the 24th Biennial of Design at the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) in Ljubljana, Slovenia in September this year.

Jin Young Song’s project Slanted memorial is selected for Bracket 4 Take Action. https://www.brkt.org/issue/contents/all/169/slanted-memorial/13/bracket-takes-action. His project Qube1 is featured in the Architizer article. http://architizer.com/blog/this-ten-hottest-products-trending-this-summer/

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Joyce Hwang‘s practice, Ants of the Prairie, was featured in the Architect’s Newspaper: http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=7224. She was also featured in Architect Magazine, as part of its ‘Next Progressive’ series: http://www.architectmagazine.com/architects/ants-of-the-prairie-into-the-wild_o.aspx. This article will be printed in the May 2014 issue. “Bat Tower,” completed in 2010, was published in Rough Guide to Sustainability – A Design Primer, 4th Edition, by Brian Edwards, published by RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects). On March 13, Professor Hwang delivered a lecture in New York City as part of the 2014 Emerging Voices Award, organized by the Architectural League of New York (http://archleague.org/2014/03/emerging-voices-ants-of-the-prairie-and-rael-san-fratello/). She also gave invited lectures at Hobart and William Smith Colleges on March 6, and at Syracuse University on April 1 as part of a symposium, “Transections: an interdisciplinary exploration of design between the sciences and the humanities” (http://soa.syr.edu/email/2014/transections.html).

Jin Young Song and his research team, Brian Ravinsky (March/MUP) and Yan Duan (MUP) has won the Nila T. Gnamm Junior Faculty Research Fund from UB APEC Study Center. The research titled, Prefabricating the Vernacular, is exploring the vernacular architecture focusing on Façade in order to find an alternative way of designing urban housing in the Southeast Asia region under the critique of the distorted modernization in already developed Asian cities. Song will lead the research team for the next two semesters. Jin Young Song’s project Qube also won the Architizer A+ Jury Award in the Products +Living category.

Christopher Romano and Nicholas Bruscia‘s “project 2XmT” has been selected as the winner of three Architizer A+ Awards. Architecture and Fabrication Category: Popular Choice Winner and Jury Winner, Architecture + Fabrication Category: Jury Winner.  Info can be found at: https://awards.architizer.com/winners/list/?id=2#cat-44-special and http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2014/04/012.html.  More recent news regarding “project 3xLP” can be found on Bustler, http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/winning_skin_installation_3xlp_to_begin_tour_this_fall_in_texas and Archinect, http://archinect.com/news/article/97192468/winning-skin-installation-3xlp-to-begin-tour-this-fall-in-texas.

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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

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This year’s John and Magda McHale Fellow is Swiss architect Philippe Rahm. He will be conducting research on “meteorological architecture” through a graduate studio, multiple presentations and a public lecture. This year’s Peter Reyner Banham Fellow is Curt Gambetta, who will be conducting research on the public life of sanitation infrastructure through seminars, a public lecture and exhibition.  He will also be teaching design studio in the Junior year. 
Professor Edward Steinfeld presented at the U.S. Launch and Symposium for the World Report on Disability on September 12-13 in Arlington, VA. The World report on disability summarizes the best available scientific evidence on disability and makes recommendations for action in support of the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Development of the Report was sponsored by the World Health Organization and the World Bank. Professor Steinfeld was the primary contributor to the built environment section.  
Dennis Maher has been selected by the John R. Oishei Foundation to be a member of the Oishei 20 Leaders Group. The distinction recognizes emerging leaders of the city of Buffalo who are under the age of 40. He has also been named a winner of the 2011 Real Art Ways STEP UP Competition.  The award recognizes emerging artists residing in New York and New England with a solo exhibition at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT, one of the oldest alternative spaces in the U.S. http://www.realartways.org/visualarts.htm#stepup11 
Jordan Geiger presented a commissioned research and design installation at "Les Modernes," international biennial arts festival in Normandy, July-August 2011. "Emission," was produced with grad students Daniel Barry and Adam Laskowitz of the Situated Technologies Research Group at the University at Buffalo's Architecture Department. Geiger will also be presenting "The ABCs of VLOs," on the architecture and interaction design of Very Large Organizations, at the international workshop, "Territoriality of the Commons," Erkner, Germany, September 2011. 
Christopher Romano, Shadi Nazarian, and Nicholas Bruscia presented a paper titled, "The Living Wall: A Microcosm of Design/Build Practice" at this year's Building Technology Educator's Society Conference in Toronto.   
Joyce Hwang served on the jury for the Animal Architecture Awards Competition (http://www.animalarchitecture.org/animal-architecture-awards/). 
Martha Bohm and Chris Romano led the Sustainable Futures interdisciplinary service learning abroad program from May 24 to August 2 in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Students from four US universities participated, and faculty from UB, University of Maryland, University of Wisconsin, and University of Costa Rica taught coursework. The students’ design for renovation of the Monteverde Institute is scheduled to break ground this fall. Concurrently, the program brought practitioners down to Costa Rica for the first of an annual two-week AIA CEU program focused on sustainable design in the tropics. http://www.sustainablefutures2011.org

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University at Buffalo Professor of Architecture and director of UB’s Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDeA Center), Edward Steinfeld, co-chaired The International Conference on Best Practices in Universal Design with his son, Aaron Steinfeld, a systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, and Peter Blanck, chair of Syracuse University’s Burton Blatt Institute. This was one of six conferences that took place in Toronto between June 5 and June 8 as part of the 2011 Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and Technology (FICCDAT).  The three-day universal design conference covered subjects including housing and home modifications, along with public building, community environments and public transportation. Steinfeld and Kate Seelman of the University of Pittsburgh gave the opening keynote based on “Enabling Environments”, their chapter in the recently released World Health Organization’s World Report on Disability. Beth Tauke, Associate Professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, presented “Bridging the Gap: Using Architecture & Social Justice to Increase Access to UD” and the “Universal Design Identity Program”, as well as two poster sessions including “The LIFEhouse™: A Sense-ible Home for ALL of Life” and Finding a New Lockwood: Multi-sensory wayfinding in a university library”.

Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis participated in the International Architecture Festival Eme 3 in Barcelona from July 1 to July 3. They exhibited their project “Selective Insulation,” gave a lecture and took part in a debate about “sustainability vs. greenwashing.” For more information:
http://eme3.org/index.php?/program-eme320/program/
http://eme3.org/index.php?/eme32011/participants2011/. “Selective Insulation was also published in “ARCHITECTURE LOW COST, LOW TECH,” Actes Sud, 2011, and in “Inventario” 02.

Prof. Rafailidis also published “Cafe Culture in an Era of Precarious Employment,” by Tonya Davidson and Georg Rafailidis in Canadian Dimension Volume 45, Issue 2 May/June 2011. And Stephanie Davidson is also participating in the 63rd Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY from July 24 to September 25.

Dr. Jean La Marche conducted a graduate studio in the Material Culture Group in the spring term. Students designed and constructed four towers at Griffis Sculpture Park in western New York. The 1st year students also designed and built their final semester project, the “Living Wall,” at Griffis Park: http://www.griffispark.org.

Dennis Maher completed a new installation at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts as part of the Pittsburgh Biennial. The Biennial is a collaboration between the PCA, the Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Museum, and the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon: http://biennial.pittsburgharts.org/. Prof. Maher has also been selected to be the next Artist-in-Residence at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. His forthcoming project, “The Real and the Unreal House,” will open at the Albright Knox in 2013.

Robert Garlow, a graduate student in the Material Culture Group, was one of seven finalists in Art Park, New York sculpture competition.

MJ Carroll, a graduate student in the Inclusive Design Group, won the 2011 AIA New York State Student Award. 

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Beth Tauke and Jean La Marche worked on a team that won the 2011 Golden Key Award by the Greater Chicago Home Builders Association and a National Home Builders Association Award for their work on the Lifehouse, a house that is built on universal design principles. 

Joyce Hwang‘s projects “Bat Tower” and “Intensified Reflections” were included in a new book: Art+Scape, recently published by Dopress Books, based in Shenyang, China (http://www.dopress.com/DopressBooks.asp).Both Mark Shepard and Joyce Hwang were mentioned in The Pop Up City, an Amsterdam-based blog on urbanism and design, in their series of articles “Top Ten Trends for 2012.” Mark is listed in “Trend 9: Revival of Psychogeography:” http://popupcity.net/2012/01/trend-9-the-revival-of-psychogeography/ and Joyce is listed in “Trend 7: Design for Animals:” http://popupcity.net/2012/01/trend-7-design-for-animals/. Joyce Hwang was first selected by the MacDowell Colony for a fellowship. Then, after her residency was over, she was named a “National Endowment for the Arts Fellow at the MacDowell Colony.”

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Professors Martha Bohm and Christopher Romano led the Sustainable Futures interdisciplinary service learning abroad program from May 20th to July 30th in Monteverde, Costa Rica.  Students from two US universities participated, and faculty from UB, University of Maryland, University of Wisconsin, and University of Oregon taught coursework.  The students worked on the design for a waste water treatment plant in the town of Santa Elena and for a large scale, sports complex in the village of Los Llanos.  In addition, on June 22nd, Professor Bohm and Program Coordinator Anibal Torres organized a half day “Forum on the Future of Sustainable Design” in Monteverde.  Invited guests included landscape architect Alberto Negrini, architect Pietro Stagno, and director of the Federal Association of Engineers and Architects” Olman Vargas Zeledon.” http://www.sustainablefutures.org

Assistant Professor Georg Rafailidis and Clinical Assistant Professor Stephanie Davidson were awarded an honorary mention at the 2012 R+D (Research + Development) Award by ARCHITECT, the magazine of the American Instutute of Architects AIA, for their research on Phase Change Materials (http://www.architectmagazine.com/research/2012-rd-awards-honorable-mention-thermometric-fac.aspx). The project Found Space Tiles, ceramic tiles by Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis has been selected to be shown by Material (matera.nl) in the exhibition Architect@Work in Shanghai China, September 2012. The project Bulged Penny Rounds, ceramic tiles, has been selected in the exhibition Think: Material at IIDEX in Toronto, Canada, September 2012. Work by Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis was featured in the recent issue (#27) on haptics of Intérieurs Magazine (http://www.magazineinterieurs.com/).

A project by Assistant Professor Dennis Maher was featured in a one-person exhibition at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. In “The House of the Unmaker,” Maher transported furnishings and objects from his own house and re-framed them through a new construction in the gallery. The exhibition publication includes an essay by Peggy Deamer (Yale School of Architecture). Maher also exhibited work as one of two jury-selected featured artists at the Echo Art Fair in Buffalo. In addition, sets designed and built by Dennis Maher are featured in the new short film Dissent, by Italian director Helmut Dosantos.  Dissent recently screened at the AOF International Film Festival in Los Angeles. Dennis Maher also has begun his residency as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Artist-in-Residence. Maher is working with local tradespeople in the home renovation industry in order to re-imagine living environments as material, social, and psychological constructs. Information about the project can be read at http://www.albrightknox.org/education/artist-in-residence-program/dennis-maher/

In addition, Dennis Maher and Adjunct Professor Nerea Feliz led a summer study abroad program in Barcelona Spain. Students made use of new studio space in the Gothic quarter of the city by working on a large scale collective city drawing, and proposing its transformation into a vertical Rambla construction.

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An article on Digital Journal reports Beth Tauke, professor of architecture, is part of a team of sisters who received the Gold Award from the Chicago Home Builder's Association and the Best Universal Designed Home from the National Association for Home Builders for a concept house they created in suburban Chicago. http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/589626. The home meets the physical needs and lifestyle of people of all ages. It has also been published at http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/mail/EPZA7D 

Kenny Cupers gave a lecture at the University at Michigan on February 23: http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/news_and_events/events/?event=0000c0a8de11000007d2ce0100000134d6b7d0793204581b 

Beth Tauke was a jury member for the AIA 2012 Diversity and Inclusion Awards. She also gave a lecture at the Museum of Disability History on March 7 on "The Sensible House." 

Hadas Steiner presented a paper, "Architecture's Biological Legacy," in Scholars @ Hallwalls lectures sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute: http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/mail/7KNZMX 

An article in Metropolis Magazine about the Wounded Warrior Project, which provides accessible housing to injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, reports the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research is funding a five-year, $4.75 million study by UB's Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access of the houses located in Virginia's Fort Belvoir. http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20120214/coming-home 

Laura Garófalo's project Buoyant was selected by an international jury to be featured at the 13th International Garden Festival of the Jardins de Métis/Redford Gardens in Quebec, Canada. The installation will be at the Jardin de Métis in the summer of 2012. 

In March Laura Garófalo participated in the jury of the d3 Housing for Tomorrow International Competition, in New York City as a co-director. She also presented the paper "Laminar Folds: Fabric Structure Molds to Jigs" at the ACSA 100th Anniversary National Convention in Boston, MA in the Advanced Composite Fabrication Technologies for Architecture session.

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Professor Edward Steinfeld was awarded the rank of SUNY Distinguished Professor recognizing his career achievements. Only seven faculty in the entire SUNY system were awarded that rank in 2012. Dr. Steinfeld is internationally known as a lead researcher on accessible environments and inclusive design. Dr. Steinfeld also was a keynote speaker at the Universal Design 2012 Conference in Oslo, Norway, where he spoke on the “Goals of Universal Design.”
Professors Hiro Hata and Harry Warren are one of two finalists in the $100 million Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital reuse competition. They are part of the Chason- Affinity team proposing a new Veterinary School.

Associate Professor Omar Khan and Assistant Professor Laura Garofalo won Second Place in the Second Annual Modern Atlanta Prize Competition/Green Dwelling. Their winning entry was displayed at this year’s “Design is Human Week” in Atlanta, GA. The jury looked for “projects that critically consider today’s notions of sustainability as applied to the modern dwelling…[and] showcase a critical investigation into sustainable design practices …as well as projects that thoughtfully dealt with unique geographical, social, political or cultural conditions.”

Associate Professor and Associate Dean Beth Tauke gave two presentations at June UD 2012: Oslo, an international conference on universal design in public space: “LIFEhouse_: Consumer Preference Study for Universal Design Features” and “Bridging the Gap: Using Architecture and Social Justice to Increase Access to Universal Design.”

Master of Architecture/Master of Urban Planning dual degree students and recent graduates, Courtney Creenan and Michael Moch presented “Inclusive Public Toilet Design,” research, proposals and built work from Beth Tauke’s inclusive design graduate studio in the fall 2011.

Assistant Professor Laura Garofalo’s installation, Buoyant, part of the 13th International Garden Festival at Reford Gardens/Jardins de Metis, opened on June 23rd and will be shown until September 30, 2012.

In June, Assistant Professor Jordan Geiger opened “Beau-Fleuve,” an interactive play structure and workshop for immigrant and refugee youth in Buffalo, as part of the Fluid Culture program of lectures and public arts. The project gathers oral history and maps global paths to an online map with the invisible policies and technologies that attend migration today.

Clinical Assistant Professor Nicholas Bruscia and Assistant Professor Jordan Geiger presented research of the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies at the Tokyo University of Science’s Digital Studio.  Bruscia and Geiger also organized two exhibitions of their Tokyo-based summer study program at Shibaura House, a new multi-use building for public and cultural events.

Assistant Professor Joyce Hwang participated as a speaker in “Interrogating Green,” a roundtable discussion at Storefront for Art and Architecture which featured a selection of contributors to Praxis 13: Ecologics. The event centered on the interrogation of contemporary approaches to sustainability in architecture: http://www.storefrontnews.org/archive/2010?c=&p=&e=483. She also gave a lecture in July titled “Constructing Wilderness” at the University of Waterloo in Cambridge, Ontario as part of their School of Architecture lecture series.

Assistant Professor Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Adjunct faculty Curt Gambetta and Assistant Professor Joyce Hwang participated in reviews at the University of Waterloo in July as guest critics for Lola Sheppard’s second-year studio.

A team of graduate students (including Courtney Creenan, Kyle Mastalinski, Daniel Nead, Scott Selin, and Lisa Stern) has completed a project called Elevator B, a collaborative project by graduate students from the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning with the support of Rigidized Metals, a Buffalo based building material manufacturer. The overall goal of the project was to successfully design for the relocation and habitation of a colony of honeybees occupying a building which is scheduled for significant modification at Silo City, a dense cluster of grain elevators in Buffalo, New York.  Elevator B was selected from a group of ten entries by a mixed panel of jurors, who represented Rigidized Metals, the fields of architecture and planning, and the bees: www.hivecity.wordpress.com.

Andrew Perkins and Matt Bain, both recent graduates from the Department of Architecture, SUNY-Buffalo, have been asked and commissioned to work on house in Flint, Michigan as part of the Flint Public Art Project. The invitation was offered because of the thesis that they had recently completed in Buffalo, New York. A more in depth description of the project they’ll be working on can be found at the blog which will cover it:  http://dwellingonwasteflint.blogspot.com/p/about.html . The Flint Public Art Project, which will contain dozens of other installations and performances and constructions:  http://www.flintpublicartproject.com/

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