Interior design students Shela Picon placed 1st for Night Owl Cafe and Constance Chu for the Sprout: Wellness Center, work they completed in their second year interior design studio with Prof. Goldman.
News post submitted by Dr. Rima Taher.
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.
The recently formed Newark Design Collaborative (NDC) is engaging four students in a research project to study how other schools of architecture across the country have structured their community design engagement initiatives, from issues of scope and mission to practical details like funding and liability. The student team members conducting the research include Ebony Payne, Sam Roberts, Noelle Kruse and Silas McBride.
Nicole Palacio and Okhyun Des Lauriers were both awarded scholarships for interior design by the Network of Executive Women in Hospitality (NEWH).
Palacio is a 3rd year design student who submitted work she completed in 2nd year with Prof. Goldman. Des Lauriers is also a third year interior design student.
Mark Thaler, M.Arch ‘94, is co-leading Gensler’s Global Education Practice, where they have set out to address the inequities in education and reimagine learning.
Not unlike the way interior design plans change as concepts develop and become better; Ida Colón knows that in professional life it is important to embrace change, because that is what brings about development, maturity and opportunity.
Renee Collins, B.S. Industrial Design ‘18 went to high school at Sussex Tech and obtained her cosmetology license there. When her best friend was admitted to NJIT, Collins came along for the campus tour and thought, “This is pretty nice,” and applied. “I think I had an idea of what Industrial Design was but I didn’t really understand. I wanted to design products for the beauty industry instead of being a hairdresser. It was a lot larger than my conception of it.
The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) has named Gabrielle Esperdy, Professor in the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, to the role of editor in chief for the Buildings of the United States (BUS) book series and SAH Archipedia. BUS was inspired by the famous Pevsner Guides to Buildings of England.
This story was submitted by Maya Gervits.
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the New Jersey School of Architecture at the J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier College of Architecture and Design, working on preserving the narratives of the college’s history seems both timely and necessary. Such a study can promote a better understanding of how the institution has evolved and help explore its relation within the university, local community, and other institutions concerned with architects’ and designers' education.
