Dongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, presented his paper, “The Politics of Space and its Shadows,” at the “New Instrumentalities” 2018 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) & El Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM) International Conference, June 15, 2018 in Madrid, Spain. The paper will also be published in the conference proceedings.

Dongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, delivered a lecture, "Imagining the Impossible: The DMZ as a Productive Territory,” on June 11, 2018 at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), as part of their Urban Design Lecture series.

Rozina Vavetsi, M.SC., associate professor and chair of the Department of Digital Art and Design, received two Graphic USA 2018 InHouse Design Awards on May 25, 2018, for her posters “Breaking into the Creative Market” and “POP! 2018 Academic Survey,” and had her work featured at the Graphic USA 2018 online and print publications.

Dongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, was selected as the 2018 Sherman Family Emerging Scholar by The Korea Society in New York City. Kim will present a lecture on his ongoing research on the Korean Demilitarized Zone as part of the Sherman Family Emerging Scholar Lecture Series, which encourages new American thought leadership on Korea. The lecture will be held at the Korea Society in September 2018, prior to its annual gala. The competition is open to emerging scholars from academe, think tanks, research, or analysis and from across disciplines. The award is named for the Sherman family and Philip Sherman, who served as Citi representative in Korea in Korea in the 1970s.

Naomi Frangos, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, had her curated exhibition of NYIT student work, Inhabiting Surface, Studies in Variable Formwork Design, reviewed by Alex Schweder, in The Architect’s Newspaper, on April 24, 2018. The article, "Trace Solids: Experiments with Fabric Form Concrete on View at NYIT”, focused on student-made fabric form concrete structures produced in a five-day intensive design-build workshop organized and led by Frangos, in collaboration with Assistant Professor Rennie Tang from Cal Poly Pomona, and international experts in fabric form Remo Pedreschi, professor at University of Edinburgh, and Ronnie Araya, a Chilean architect, formerly at C.A.S.T. lab, University of Manitoba.

Jeffrey Raven, MSt., associate professor and director of the graduate program in architecture, urban and regional design, is the coordinating lead author of the chapter on Urban Planning and Urban Design in a new book, Climate Change and Cities, published on April 16, 2018 by Cambridge University Press. The confluence of research and operational application in this scholarship provides a blueprint for how to convincingly configure sustainable and climate-resilient urban districts. Raven has been presenting this work across multiple platforms and locations worldwide and is organizing workshops with urban designers/urban planners, climatologists, policymakers, stakeholders, and graduate students working side-by-side.

Naomi Frangos, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, self-published the exhibition catalog, Inhabiting Surface: Studies in Variable Formwork Design,” featuring the work produced during a five-day collaborative workshop in fabric form concrete. ISBN: 978-1-38-880024-6. Exhibition curated by Naomi Frangos, Center Gallery, Ed Hall, NYIT, New York.

Rozina Vavetsi, M.SC., associate professor and chair of the Department of Digital Art and Design, made a visual presentation entitled “Design your Information” at the 2018 Design Principles and Practices conference on March 5, 2018 in Barcelona, Spain. The presentation focused on the visualization methods used to showcase complex information in digestible and aesthetic ways and emphasized the importance of information design as an integral part of the graphic design curriculum.

Frances Campani, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, and Jon Michael Schwarting, M.Arch., professor of architecture, delivered a lecture on the Aluminaire House Project at the Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA, on February 23, 2018. The lecture was part of the annual Modernism Week series of lectures and events. A related article, "First American Project by Desert Modernism Architect to be Rebuilt in Palm Springs," published on February 23 on Smithsonian.com, cites an article from NYIT Magazine, Modern Artifact: The Story of Aluminaire House," and the work of Campani and Schwarting.

Naomi Frangos, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, has won acclaim for her work on the 300,000 sq.ft., $107 million contemporary dance complex, Le Wilder ESPACE DANSE in Montreal. The complex was reviewed by David Theodore, Ph.D., in his article, “Dancing up a Form,” published on January 25, 2018, in Canadian Architect. Frangos was design architect at Lapointe Magne + Associates for the project, which was nominated for the 2017 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize and has received extensive appraisal in the media through numerous publications in local newspapers.