Department of Architecture

Portrait of Shikha Gandhi

Intern Insight: Shikha Gandhi

Architecture student Shikha Gandhi’s internship with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection offered everything she hoped for as an aspiring sustainable and community-centered architect.

Intern Insight: It Takes Two

Graduate architecture students Yeisy Batista Perez and Angela Madrigal spent five months interning with the well-known, Manhattan-based architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox.

Portrait of Chana Rhodes

Using Architecture to Help People

Chana Rhodes was drawn to architecture because she wants to help people. The AIA scholarship winner is doing just that by designing spaces for course projects with humans—and animals—in mind.

Portrait of Ghita Akkar

A Passion for Architecture

Growing up in Casablanca, Ghita Akkar (B.Arch. ’09) was impressed by the diverse architectural designs in the city. Knowing she wanted to pursue a career in architecture, she found her place at New York Tech and now owns her own firm.

New York Tech alumni John and Roxanna Kariyannis

A Match Made in Architecture

John and Roxanna Kariyannis have been a remarkable duo ever since their days at New York Tech. It has only gotten better in the 18 years they have been married and raising their son and niece.

Growing Long Island’s Tech Workforce

Alongside major partner Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York Tech is educating leaders for this booming technology corridor.

Every Voice Is Special Because It Is Different

Professor of Architecture Giovanni Santamaria, Ph.D., talks about how far society has come and how much more needs to be done for the LGBTQ+ community.

Future Architects Witness Historic Restoration

NYIT de Seversky Mansion is undergoing several phases of repair to preserve its historic architecture and two School of Architecture and Design classes received a front-row seat.

A group of 7 people who are key players in the BRIIC building construction standing in one row.

Alumni Contributing Expertise to BRIIC Construction

School of Architecture and Design and College of Engineering and Computing Sciences alumni are among those developing a major new construction project on the Long Island campus.

News Byte: The Aluminaire House is Now Home

After a two-year delay, the reconstruction of the Aluminaire House at its permanent location at the Palm Springs Museum of Art is now complete.