Born and raised in Newark’s West Ward, Jonathan Isaacs ’18 didn’t have to travel far to find the perfect college.
They were newly arrived from China for a semester-long, customized, professional development program at NJIT, and for most of them the journey marked their first time coming to the United States. While some of the 10 employees from the China Triumph International Engineering Company, Ltd. (CTIEC) were still recovering from jet lag, all were happy to be settling in at the university, as evidenced during an official welcome luncheon held Feb. 14.
Michael Chiappa ’18, a graduate architecture student in the College of Architecture and Design, has been elected to serve as northeast quad director on the 2018-2019 National Board of the American Institute of Architecture Students, becoming the first student from NJIT to do so in the organization’s 62-year history.
A bench with armrests; “No Loitering” signs; cul-de-sacs; the Regional Contribution Agreement — all seemingly innocuous signs, objects, passages and policies that are used as weapons to restrict access to public spaces.
The College of Architecture and Design (CoAD) will unveil an exhibition that showcases Portuguese architecture as a national resource, through various scales and diverse programs in public and intimate spaces, for investment in new areas of intervention.
From organizational principals to programmatic questions and spatial strategies, there are many issues that get resolved from the basis of architectural design.
Associate Professor of Architecture Maria Hurtado de Mendoza explains the relationship between the conceptual approach of a project and its materiality in “Clinical: An Architecture of Variation with Repetition.”
"Artists are here to disturb the peace."
-James Baldwin
First things first: Dominique Duroseau isn’t here to make you comfortable.
The College of Architecture and Design (CoAD) alumna’s unflinching exhibit, “Black Things in White Spaces,” caused quite a stir when it opened at Gallery Aferro during the 16th Annual Open Doors Citywide Arts Festival in Newark.

Whole Foods Market, Chipotle and Hotel Indigo – Newark’s first boutique hotel – have all served as signifiers of urban revitalization in New Jersey’s largest city.
Lecturers bring diverse experiences and viewpoints to our students, faculty and the greater university community.
During the 2015 fall semester, there was a collective of interior, digital and industrial designers and architects holed up in the Idea Factory on the lower level of Cypress Hall creating the legends of tomorrow.