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After the Hurricane: Social Impact Design in Puerto Rico

During a trip to Puerto Rico over spring break, architecture students proposed emergency housing solutions to be used in disaster relief efforts and helped build housing for those still displaced in Puerto Rico.

Post-Disaster Resilience

In an op-ed in Salon, Associate Professor Farzana Gandhi explains that relief efforts after a natural disaster should solve long-term solutions, not just immediate needs.

The “Reshape” of Water

NYIT students participate in an international workshop about the water basin of a river and how to improve water services to a poor area of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Borrowing Landscape

A collaboration between two architects influences a body of research around structures, light, and landscapes.

Jeffrey Raven

Architecture is a family tradition for Jeffrey Raven, NYIT's director of the graduate program in Urban and Regional Design. He has more than 20 years of experience, including running his namesake firm, RAVEN A+U. Longer still is an appreciation for architecture gleaned from living in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Jason Van Nest

Jason Van Nest is an architect, a professor, and a technology consultant.

Michael Schwarting

Schwarting's efforts to "green" Port Jefferson date back nearly a decade—to the NYIT classroom where he involved students in designing ideas later presented to the mayor, village trustees, and others. The project was well received, and Schwarting continued to work on it with his architecture firm.

Farzana Gandhi

Gandhi believes that it is imperative that we offer our students lateral and comprehensive ways of thinking, communication, and visual representation in our increasingly connected world. After leading students in a traveling design studio program in India, she said, I was happy to see our students engaging so critically with local architects. Discussions centered on pressing contemporary issues that could inform solutions locally, but also within larger global contexts.

Spring 2015 Design Studio Review

This studio engages Brooklyn as a design laboratory and introduces the ideas, representations, and techniques of contemporary urban design through the lens of climate resilience and the Global EcoDistrict Protocol.