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  • Preservation manager at the Weeksville Heritage Center, Zulmilena Then, BArch ’09, was interviewed for Black Enterprise about Brooklyn’s Weeksville houses. “Growing up in Brooklyn, I didn’t know about Weeksville until I was an adult,” Then said. “These buildings are an anchor to our people and connection to … our past. [They] add to the pride that one feels about the neighborhood itself.”

  • Sylvia Morse, senior program manager for research and policy, has been awarded the prestigious Global Exchange Fellowship with Urban Design Forum. The group of housing policy researchers, tenant advocates, architects, and other experts will explore what lessons NYC can learn from across the world to tackle our housing crisis. 

  • Joan Semmel, BFA Art Teacher Education ’63; MFA ’72, was interviewed for Apollo Magazine’s “In the studio with…” series. “I don’t have a schedule,” said Semmel, “that’s one of the nice things about being an artist—so if I don’t feel like working, I don’t. But most of the time I do.” Semmel was also featured in Martin CID Magazine.

  • Devin B. Johnson, MFA Fine Arts ’19, was interviewed for Frieze. “I believe that urban spaces possess a memory, much like the body,” Johnson says. 

  • Academic Director of the Landscape Architecture Program and Associate Professor of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design Rosetta S. Elkin was featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine for an article about landscape architects seeking novel solutions in the face of difficult regulations.

  • Assistant Professor of Film and Video Matías Piñeiro’s film, Viola, is recommended by Condé Nast Traveller as the film to watch if you’re going to Argentina. “Beyond the Shakespeare-inspired entanglements that push the plot, the film takes viewers through the breadth of Buenos Aires, tracing the city’s bohemian bones—from its boulevards to its bedrooms.”

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