We have had an interesting journey since graduating in 2016. Natalia and I both went into design jobs after graduating. In our free time we would collaborate together on design projects and after seeing that we have a good work relationship decided to start a studio.

NJIT alumnus Muhammad Alnakash and I are co-founders of CheckSET Review where we are reinventing Quality Assurance & Risk Management for developers, contractors, and architects through expert peer reviews. By proactively identifying errors and omissions embedded in contract documents, we help reduce construction RFI's and change orders, saving significant time and money for project stakeholders.

Faculty from Hillier College of Architecture and Design are formalizing their previously ad hoc collaborations with multiple NJIT departments, the City of Newark, local neighborhood groups and private developers into a new entity called the Newark Design Collaborative.

See the faculty submissions of student work SIGGRAPH 2020 gallery here. 

SIGGRAPH Educators Forum panel moderated by Prof. Glenn Goldman on School to Work Transition will be joined in discussion by:  

Thanks to all the hard work by Interior Design Program Coordinator David Brothers pictured above, and A+D Dir. emeritus Glenn Goldman, and all of the excellent faculty who teach these courses, the Interior Design program continues to be one of the best programs in the country to get your degree.  

Cape May's new Harriet Tubman Museum, which is hosting virtual openings this year due to COVID-19 and plans to open conventionally in spring 2021, has a touch of Highlander inside.

In the 1950’s it was uncommon to see a black woman practicing architecture. Pictured here during her tenure at Gruen Associates, Norma Merrick Sklarek was an uncommon woman. She is recognized as the 3rd African American woman to be licensed to practice architecture in the U.S., after Beverly Loraine Greene and Georgia Louise Harris Brown. As the stories of her predecessors were unknown to her, she keenly felt the absence of others like herself in the profession.