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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 1,75...

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, From Dumps t...

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, FAIA, ...

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 at N...

Newly Renovated Weston Alumni Lecture Hall Officially Opens

Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
The newly renovated Weston Alumni Lecture Hall, located on the ground floor of the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, is officially open. The lecture hall, formerly the Weston Lecture Hall, is named for the school’s alumni, whose donations helped fund the renovations. “This event has been a...

An Engineer and an Architectural Historian Win the 2021 Excellence in Research Awards

Thursday, October 7th, 2021
Nirwan Ansari, an electrical and computer engineer who is a pioneer in the field of communications networks, and Gabrielle Esperdy, an architectural historian and trailblazer in the digital humanities, are the winners of the Board of Overseers Excellence in Research award for 2021. Atam Dhawan, sen...

Digital Archive of Newark Architecture Goes AR

Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
There is nothing outwardly special about the old brick building on State Street and Broadway. To the layperson, it’s just another pile of bricks near a highway entrance. Through a phone app and a camera lens, the NJIT Littman Architecture Library’s Digital Archive of Newark Architecture (DANA) will ...

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...