On behalf of Newark’s Mayor Ras J. Baraka, Junius Williams, the city’s historian and chair of the Museum Advisory Committee (MAC), with a team of students from NJIT, is leading the effort to transform the 1st Precinct police building, an historic symbol of oppression, into a community museum and a home for the Office of Violence Prevention and Trauma Recovery.
New Jersey Performing Arts Center holds its stars to the highest standards, so the Newark organization is building its new arts education center with the same care, starting with designs from architecture students at NJIT.
Joann Lui '11, an architect in Lawrenceville, N.J., is only 32 but may have already helped more people thrive in her field than most professionals could mentor in a whole career.
In 2018 Lui founded a Facebook group called Women Architects Collective, which now has more than 3,000 members who join from around the world, all seeking a safe space to discuss industry issues such as harassment, inclusion, job searching, technical matters and more.
Student clubs come and go, but right now the Highlander chapter of NOMAS — National Organization of Minority Architecture Students — is being primed for a comeback, according to faculty advisor Mark Bess, a university lecturer in Hillier College of Architecture and Design since 2004.
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.
Undergrads Suzanne Hlinka ’21 and Nada Boules ‘21 have been applying the skills in game development and interior design that they’ve picked up at NJIT, and Mother Earth is thanking them for it. This past year, the pair of students began artistic projects promoting a more sustainable planet, and now, their creative talents have been recognized with the “Jim Wise Scholarship for Theatre: Communicating the Environment Through Art.”
New Jersey Institute of Technology ranks in the top quarter of U.S. universities and colleges in the The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings for 2021.
NJIT's new 500-bed apartment-style residence hall, announced early this year for the southwest corner of Warren and Wickliff streets, will emphasize single-occupancy bedrooms and will be constructed with environmentally-friendly methods.
The community is scheduled for its groundbreaking in the second quarter of 2021 and opening in fall 2022. A name is not yet selected. It's temporarily called Vue on Warren in a slide show from the developer.
The Solar Decathlon exhibition opened Monday April 15 at the Littmann Library at the College of Architecture and Design. The exhibition documents the design and construction of the solar house that was built as part of the final phase of Solar Decathlon China, a competition by the U.S. Department of Energy. The interdisciplinary team of NJIT engineering, interior design and architecture students was led by Han Yan, Ph.D. student in urban systems, and Gernot Riether, director of the School of Architecture at NJIT.
At the initiation of College of Architecture and Design (CoAD) interim Dean Tony Schuman, six area schools of architecture are participating in a semester-long housing studio organized around the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ASCA) Timber in the City design competition.
