Waste: From Not In My Backyard to Zero Waste Neighborhoods

Thursday, December 16th, 2021
Waste comes in many forms; solid and aerosol, visible and invisible, and waste disposal practices, such as ocean dumping, happen at scales that are at once unimaginable and unsustainable. Transforming the paradigm of how the architecture and design community tackles waste, waste education and resear...

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 To...

NJIT Students Design & Build Home to Address Newark's Housing Crisis

Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
Fifteen undergraduate students in NJIT's architecture program have designed and built a prototype home that may be part of the solution to Newark’s housing crisis. The “tiny home” is approximately 8 feet by 12 feet and was designed to help address the city’s homeless population.  Erin Pellegrin...

The School of Art + Design Comes of Age

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
Not unlike the debutante who is introduced to society at their coming of age, the School of Art + Design has emerged as the debutante of the season. This debut is not the first excursion into design society for the School of Art + Design.  Established in 2008, the ...

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 ...

Tobiloba Fashae Comes to NJIT For Industrial Design, Supercars and Yo-Yos

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021
Tobiloba Fashae knew he wanted to learn how to design the technology of the future while still attending Hunterdon Regional High School. At first, it was automotive engineering since he’s an avid fan of high-performance sports cars. During an isolated year of self-reflection in his senior year of hi...

NJIT a 'Best Global University' in US News & World Report Ranking

Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology is among the Best Global Universities identified by U.S. News and World Report in its eighth edition of the annual ranking. Only 271 U.S. universities made the 2022 list, which spans 91 countries in six continents. Globally, NJIT ranked in the top half of some...

Living with Trash: Dumps to Density and Recycling to Upcycling

Thursday, October 21st, 2021
Organized by AIA New York, Pratt Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design, NJIT’s Hillier School of Architecture, and SOM, AIA New York and the Center for Architecture at 536 LaGuardia Place New York, are hosting Wast(ED): Living with Trash on Tuesday from 3-8pm. The two panels, Fr...

How the Largest African American Architecture Firm Walks the Talk

Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
Brian Tibbs ‘91 was recently named the managing partner at Moody Nolan, the largest African-American-owned architecture firm in the United States  and recognized by AIA as the 2021 Firm of the Year, its highest honor for an architecture office. Moody Nolan was founded in 1984 by Curtis Moody, F...

Michael Rodriguez Takes A Winding Road to Success

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
Sometimes the road less traveled can lead to the most fertile grounds. Michael Rodriguez’s road led him to an internship, NJIT, construction management and back. College and a career don’t always follow neatly one after the other for him and for many NJIT students.  Rodriguez, 40, started class...