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Bryan C. Lee Jr. '08 Named 2021 Cooper Hewitt Emerging Designer

Friday, September 24th, 2021
Bryan Lee ‘08 and his firm Colloqate have been dismantling systemic racism in the broader social arena and in the practice of architecture for some time now. In his keynote lecture during the Hillier College 2020 Design Showcase, Lee describes how, through the process and outcomes of design, designe...

NSF Funds Collaborations Within an Immersive Augmented Reality Environment

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021
Submitted by Nisha Mistry  My name is Nisha Mistry ‘21, I am a digital design graduate from the Hilliler College of Architecture and Design. Our research project is entitled Molecular Augmented Reality for Design and Engineering (MADE): Effectiveness of AR Models on Discovery, Learning and Edu...

1st and 3rd Place IIDA Awards to Second Year Interior Design Students

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021
Interior design students Shela Picon placed 1st for Night Owl Cafe and Constance Chu for the Sprout: Wellness Center, work they completed in their second year interior design studio with Prof. Goldman. This is the first time the School of Art + Design has had a first place winner from the second yea...

Taher Updates National Council for Architectural Registration Boards Curricula

Monday, June 21st, 2021
News post submitted by Dr. Rima Taher.  Dr. Rima Taher is a senior university lecturer at the Hillier College of Architecture & Design, at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), and is a part-time instructor in the graduate program at the NJIT-Department of Civil & Environmental En...

Interior Designers Palacio and des Lauriers Win Awards and Recognition

Monday, April 26th, 2021
Nicole Palacio and Okhyun Des Lauriers were both awarded scholarships for interior design by the Network of Executive Women in Hospitality (NEWH).  Palacio is a 3rd year design student who submitted work she completed in 2nd year with Prof. Goldman. Des Lauriers is also a third year interior d...

Learning and the Design of Equitable Education

Monday, April 26th, 2021
Mark Thaler, M.Arch ‘94, is co-leading Gensler’s Global Education Practice, where they have set out to address the inequities in education and reimagine learning. Using research and the tools of design they are working with educators, administrators, school districts and students to distinguish how ...

Embracing Change, New Directions and New Challenges

Friday, April 23rd, 2021
Not unlike the way interior design plans change as concepts develop and become better; Ida Colón knows that in professional life it is important to embrace change, because that is what brings about development, maturity and opportunity.   Colón was a transfer student from Rutgers whe...

How Creativity, Persistence and Skills Will Get You Just About Anywhere

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
Renee Collins, B.S. Industrial Design ‘18 went to high school at Sussex Tech and obtained her cosmetology license there. When her best friend was admitted to NJIT, Collins came along for the campus tour and thought, “This is pretty nice,” and applied. “I think I had an idea of what Industrial D...

NJIT Professor Becomes Editor in Chief for Society of Architectural Historians Archipedia

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) has named Gabrielle Esperdy, Professor in the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, to the role of editor in chief for the Buildings of the United States (BUS) book series and SAH Archipedia. BUS was inspired by the famous Pevsner Guides to Buildin...

The Hillier College of Architecture and Design History Project

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
This story was submitted by Maya Gervits. As we approach the 50th anniversary of the New Jersey School of Architecture at the J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier College of Architecture and Design, working on preserving the narratives of the college’s history seems both timely and necessary. Such a st...