NJIT has been ranked the top school in New Jersey for students to study game design, according to Animation Career Review. NJIT also reached No. 20 for schools in the East.
The Hillier College of Architecture and Design Gallery at NJIT opened its doors to its spring exhibition featuring professional artists Gianluca Bianchino and Kati Vilim. The works consist of abstract geometric paintings and wall reliefs in the manner of assemblage or multimedia sculpture.
New Jersey was built by design. It’s a strange and complicated place – flawed and often misunderstood. DENSE, a new magazine launched by a group of mostly NJIT alumni, tells the Garden State’s story through a critical lens. Design, in the eyes of DENSE, is a tool for change in a state that needs plenty of it.
Fifteen undergraduate students in NJIT's architecture program have designed and built a prototype home that may be part of the solution to Newark’s housing crisis. The “tiny home” is approximately 8 feet by 12 feet and was designed to help address the city’s homeless population.
Erin Pellegrino and Charlie Firestone, adjunct professors of the design studio, also explore some of the root causes of homelessness and how people may be impacted both by individual circumstances and societal structures.
NK Architects, headed up by President and CEO Steve Aluotto ‘80, has been awarded four distinctions by AIA New Jersey: a gold medal in Non-Residential/Institutional for the Classroom in the Sky, and 3 merit awards in Non Residential Interior Architecture for the SUNY College of Optometry, Pediatric Optometry Suite, and in the Open Category for Kean University Liberty Academic Hall and Kean University Sch
Brian Tibbs ‘91 was recently named the managing partner at Moody Nolan, the largest African-American-owned architecture firm in the United States and recognized by AIA as the 2021 Firm of the Year, its highest honor for an architecture office. Moody Nolan was founded in 1984 by Curtis Moody, FAIA, and the late engineer Howard E. Nolan.
Sometimes the road less traveled can lead to the most fertile grounds. Michael Rodriguez’s road led him to an internship, NJIT, construction management and back. College and a career don’t always follow neatly one after the other for him and for many NJIT students.
Bryan Lee ‘08 and his firm Colloqate have been dismantling systemic racism in the broader social arena and in the practice of architecture for some time now. In his keynote lecture during the Hillier College 2020 Design Showcase, Lee describes how, through the process and outcomes of design, designers can get to Design Justice. It is a practice where designers and the community work together to produce spaces that will serve the people who will use it.
Jose Merino’s hands may never be this callused again. He’s leading one of two teams of NJIT architecture students to design and construct a 10x10 wooden hut called a “Sukkah” in rabinic tradition, for a design competition in Princeton later this month called “Sukkah Village 2021.”
“I’ve always wanted to do a design competition that involved us actually building it,” said Merino of his team’s project, “A Windowed Sukkah.” The design team includes Daniela Liberato and Albert Dorman Honors Scholars, Claudia AbouDiwan, and Silas McBride.
The graduating Class of 2021 was honored and feted in all of the ways possible; they walked across the stage in caps and gowns and were acknowledged in person by remarks from the Dean followed by a return to Weston Hall for a reception and balloon release, and then joined again for a virtual celebration awards ceremony and showcasing their work, with family and friends invited.
