Architecture and Planning, School of

135 Hayes Hall
South Campus
Buffalo, NY 14214-3087
(716) 829-3485
Fax: (716) 829-2297
Web: Architecture and Planning, School of
Kenneth J. Levy, Interim Dean
John S. Bis, Associate Dean
M. Beth Tauke, Associate Dean
Ruth D. Bryant, Assistant Dean
Bruce Majkowski, Assistant Dean
Established in 1968, the School of Architecture and Planning annually serves approximately 600 undergraduate students. The University at Buffalo is the only campus in the State University of New York system offering accredited professional degrees in both architecture (M.Arch.) and urban planning (M.U.P.). Since 1977 the school has occupied historic Hayes Hall, the landmark building on the university's South Campus.

Facilities
The Architecture and Planning Library, located in Hayes Hall, is one of ten libraries within the University at Buffalo. In addition to its book and journal collections, the Architecture and Planning Library collection includes student theses, maps and plans, a vertical file, a collection of CD-ROMs, census materials, and computer-aided design work. Web:ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/apl

The Computing Resource Laboratories comprise two sets of facilities: a central collection of laboratories and computing classrooms, and a collection of distributed facilities located in the graduate and undergraduate architecture and planning studios. A wide variety of software packages is provided to support the specific needs of architecture and planning students. Input and output needs are provided through a variety of specialized devices, including color scanners, a slide scanner, a film recorder, several digital cameras, CD-R/CS-RW writers, and large- and small-format digitizers. Hard-copy output is provided through laser printers, color printers, and a large-format color postscript plotter. Web: www.ap.buffalo.edu/~crl

The Dyett Exhibition Hall is an exhibition space created as a place to display student and faculty work, as well as to feature national and international traveling exhibits.
Web: www.ap.buffalo.edu/general/facilities/dyett_gallery.htm

The Materials and Methods Shop, a machine and assembly space, is available for schoolwide projects and independent work. This complete machine and assembly shop, one of the finest in any U.S. architecture school, contains 7,000 square feet of high-bay space and is supplied with full woodworking capabilities, welding and milling equipment, lathes, sheet-metal machines, a vacuum-forming machine for molding plastic, and a variety of hand tools.

The Visual Resources Center is a joint school and university libraries facility. It directly supports the curriculum with its ever-growing collection of 31,000 slides, 250 videotapes, and audiovisual equipment. It is linked to the university's other collections through the University Libraries' online computerized index service.

Centers
The Center for Comparative Studies in Development Planning is concerned with the processes of planning and development in lesser-developed countries and other countries, especially as they relate to, and evolve in, a changing global context. The center organizes small conferences and colloquia hosting Fulbright scholars, foreign graduate students, professionals, and government officials who are sponsored by such organizations as USAID and USIA.

The Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access is dedicated to improving the design of environments and products by making them more usable, safe, and appealing to people with a wide range of abilities through their life spans. The center is active in basic and applied research, design development, community service, and education. Current programs focus on home modifications, functional assessment, and universal design. Web: www.ap.buffalo.edu/~idea

The Center for the Study of Space is an interdisciplinary research center established by the Department of Architecture and the Department of Comparative Literature. Its focus is the study of space as it is understood within the textual and the theoretical disciplines and the physical and tectonic disciplines.

The Center for Urban Studies was established to discover solutions to problems facing African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Native Americans, women, and low-wage white workers living in central cities and metropolitan regions. Considered a major force for change in Western New York, the center's research activities and community and economic development projects provide students with many opportunities to work with faculty members, practitioners, inner-city residents, and community activists on different community and economic development projects. Web: http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/apas

The Center for Virtual Architecture is dedicated to the examination of new technologies and their relation to the study of architecture. This intention is pursued through analytical, historical, theoretical, and design research methodologies.

Community Programs
The Architectural Awareness Project, known as TAAP of Buffalo, is an educational project sponsored by the Friends of the School of Architecture and Planning, and is designed to help children and adults understand and take pride in the great architectural heritage of their city and its environs.

The Friends of the School of Architecture and Planning, founded in 1976, further the goals of the school and promote architectural and planning awareness within the community at large. The Friends' support and financial contributions have created the R. Buckminster Fuller Scholarship, have underwritten and actively sustained the school's library, have initiated the Architectural Awareness Project, have promoted the publications of nationally competitive student design work, and have sponsored highly successful panels and forums.

The Urban Design Project is a teaching resource that focuses on issues of community development and urban revitalization while fostering intellectual exploration of architecture and planning. From 1994 through 1999, the project led the five-year public visioning process for downtown Buffalo and all its council districts. The project also oversaw the master planning and conceptual design development for the facilities supporting the Bosque Eterno de los Niños and the Instituto de Monteverde in Costa Rica. Web: www.urbandesignproject.org

Publications
Intersight is a schoolwide, student-edited scholarly journal published biennially. The founders of the journal set out to create a participatory forum for distinguished colleagues, faculty, graduates, and students to express their views and ideas about architecture and planning. The mission of Intersight is to publish writing, research, and design work that articulates a speculative, theoretical, or pedagogical position, and reflects the intellectual life of the school.

Academic Affairs

Phone: (716) 645-6003

Fax: (716) 645-2549

Last updated: Thursday, 09-Dec-2004 15:21:16 EST