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Shaping the Future of Cities: The Newark Civil Rights Museum & Center for Restorative Justice

Tuesday, January 19th, 2021
The Spring 2021 "Shaping the Future of Cities” studio is being taught by Roger Smith, design director at Gensler. The challenge for students is to re-imagine the American City and explore the possibilities for developing 21st century models for building an equitable future. The events of 2020 have h...

Miguel Rodrigues aka Kaliptus Published in Collaborations - Vol.1 by APEX Collective

Thursday, December 17th, 2020
The book, Collaborations Vol. 1, by APEX Collective, includes works of art, particularly painting collaborations, created from 2014-2020 by various artists that were exhibited in a multitude of art galleries, including the Ryan Joseph Gallery in Denver, Knew Conscious Gallery also in Denver, Alex Gr...

Kum-Biocca Presents Projection Mapping at SIGGRAPH Asia

Thursday, December 17th, 2020
SIGGRAPH ASIA Siggraph Asia Projection Mapping work title AI: Artificial Interruption The artificial, a curtain of cubes, interrupts, and rolls over the natural order. Leaves fall and freeze into polygonal crystals. As the artificial interruption spreads, fields and leaves shatter into ice cubes....

Alumna Masha Drozdov '09 on Responsibility and the Value of Technical Skills

Thursday, December 17th, 2020
Masha Drozdov is a frequent guest critic for the advanced integrated architecture studios at Hillier College and Columbia GSAPP and has also participated as a guest for the Alumni Tea discussions at NJIT with students who are figuring out what their career paths will be. Masha’s admiration for Louis...

Architecture Studios Present Research and Projects at Super Jury

Thursday, December 17th, 2020
After final reviews at the end of this semester the advanced Architecture Studios presented their projects at the Super Jury. The goal is to share the research undertaken and knowledge gained through new approaches to design and studio instructors present their students' work to everyone at the coll...

Pandemic Gives Architects New Challenges in Designing for Health Concerns

Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
Architects consider cost, design aesthetics, materials, uses and a host of other factors when planning new spaces, but now the COVID-19 pandemic is making occupant health another factor to consider. Designing in the context of current events and lifestyle changes is nothing new for architects, wheth...

Interior/Digital Design Students Team Up on Coffee Shop Prototype

Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
The team of interior and digital design students who collaborated with students in the Tuchman school of management on the COCO Coffee Shop include Sandy Ghattas, Claritza Guerrero, Ahn Ly, Rua Elmosallamy, and Suzanne Hlinka. "Our values are driven by the fact that both ends of the NJIT spectrum ...

Architecture Students Propose NJIT Master Plan, New Building Designs

Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
It is a long-standing practice within architecture studios to assign real-world projects to students as they develop the skills to build for the future. In a studio taught by Associate Professor Darius Sollohub, the reimagining of the Mueller Florist Supplies site continues this practice. Hillier Co...

Hillier Design Professor Wins Awards for Augmented Reality Prototype

Monday, December 7th, 2020
Hannah Kum-Biocca, an assistant professor at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, won two awards for an augmented reality project that she submitted to the EuroXR 2020 conference in Valencia, Spain. In her project, visitors to physical museums can wear a Microsoft Hololens headset to g...

New NJIT Course Puts Students in Charge of Planning a Business

Monday, December 7th, 2020
Students in a new NJIT course that delivers the experience of planning a business on campus appreciate the latitude that instructors give them to make decisions. “They guide you and respond to specific questions, but they won’t tell you exactly what to do and how,” said Marina Arrese ’21, a business...