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NJIT Interior Design Student Haylee Merola Wins 2022 NEWH Green Voices Award

Thursday, November 17th, 2022
Haylee Merola, 4th year interior design student at NJIT, is the undergraduate winner of the 2022 NEWH (Network of Executive Women in Hospitality) Green Voice Design Competition. The competition “provides students with the opportunity to showcase their design skills while utilizing the very best in s...

Architecture Professor Wins NSF Grant to Develop Design Tools for Residential Housing

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Taro Narahara, associate professor at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, won a National Science Foundation I-Corps award for the development of flexible and intuitive design tools for multifamily residential housing. This project proposes a platform for users to visually study possible...

Hillier College Students Receive a Medal at the 2022 Dana Knox Research Showcase

Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
Just ahead of the Earth Day, two Hillier College of Architecture and Design students Jeongseo Lee, Ph.D. student in Urban Systems, and Elizabeth Kowalchuk, Undergraduate Senior in Architecture, received one of the 2022 Dana Knox Research Showcase medals for “An Evaluation Framework for a Net-Zero En...

Design/Build Studio Helps Create Urban Oasis One Parklet at a Time

Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
‘Every architect should experience building a structure that they design’ – that is the motto behind the Design/Build options studio led by Professors Erin Pellegrino and Charlie Firestone. This semester their students are building a Parklet, in collaboration with the Hanini Group. The concept of th...

Interview with Andrew Whalley, Design Showcase 2022 Speaker

Monday, April 25th, 2022
Andrew Whalley OBE, Chairman of Grimshaw, delivered his lecture ZERO at the Design Showcase 2022. Known for designing net-zero-carbon buildings and considerations of the building life cycle performance in their designs, Grimshaw committed itself to operating as a net zero company. This commitment is...

Architecture Students Innovate Precast Concrete for Affordable Housing Micro-Units

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Architecture professor Gernot Riether has teamed up with engineering professor Mohamed Mahgoub to develop the Precast Concrete Institute (PCI) Research Studio as part of a four-year grant from the PCI Foundation. The key components of the grant include industry partnership, new precast concrete curr...

Design and Life Cycle Assessment – eLCAd' 22 Recap

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Consideration of Cradle to Grave environmental impacts plays an increasingly important role in product design and development across the industrial spectrum. This aspect of architecture and design was the focus of Environmental Life Cycle Assessment in Design 2022 (eLCAd 2022), a three-day internati...

Design Showcase Celebrates Work of Students, Alumni in Hillier's Biggest Event of the Year

Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) transformed its gallery and packed its lecture hall for the college’s highly-anticipated signature event that celebrated student and alumni work, and hosted a presentation and Q&A by architect Andrew Whalley, chairman of Grimshaw. The S...

NJIT Students Take On Housing Crisis with Deployable Shelter Prototype

Monday, December 13th, 2021
The “Place of Dwelling” (POD) was born out of the efforts of 15 architecture students and adjunct professors Erin Pellegrino and Charlie Firestone. It was presented to the public on the Hillier College Green on Monday, December 6th.The development of the POD is testament to the foresight of Tom...

Steve Aluotto '80 of NK Architects Reflects On Recent AIA Awards

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
NK Architects, headed up by President and CEO Steve Aluotto ‘80, has been awarded four distinctions by AIA New Jersey: a gold medal in Non-Residential/Institutional for the Classroom in the Sky, and 3 merit awards in Non Residential Interior Architecture for the SUNY College of Optometry, Pediatric ...