School of Architecture and Planning

Architecture students touring Labatt Brew House for their fieldwork.

We are proud to be one of only a handful of schools where architecture and planning work purposefully together. Creating greener, cleaner, healthier places to live and work. Innovating materials and construction systems for a more sustainable built environment. Planning communities that promote safe and healthy food and water. With your help, we are leading the way for a better, smarter, healthier, more efficient, and equitable world.

Student presentation for the project Urban Design Connecting Buffalo happened in December 2022 in Hayes Hall"Housing affordability … the future of work … innovations in design and construction … the effects of rapid technological changes on the built environment … the need to build healthy and equitable communities …

These are challenges that call for real estate professionals who can work across disciplines and professions, who are fluent in architecture, planning, and finance, and who have the skills to devise creative solutions to new challenges and changing demands.  UB’s growing MS in Real Estate Development delivers this multidisciplinary learning, and its students are inspired to “imagine a better world, then build it.”  Our graduates are making an impact, and are leading lives of consequence.

We are pleased to join with others in continuing to support how the real estate development program makes it more feasible for students to attend UB, adds to the richness of their experience through scholarships, funding attendance at conferences, and the costs of acquiring specialized credentials, and makes other enhancements that provide an outstanding educational ROI".  

   -- Mark and Catherine Foerster     

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School of Architecture and Planning Model City Builders Match
Dean Julia Czerniak will match all gifts, dollar for dollar, made to the Model City Builders Summer high School Career Exploration Program Fund (up to $2,500).
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President Tripathi's Graduating Class Match
Secure your philanthropy cord & have double the impact! President Tripathi will match any gifts of $20.25 made by any current undergraduate senior up to $2,500
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President Tripathi's Highest Climbers Challenge
President Tripathi's Highest Climbers Challenge will award $5,000 to the UB Fund for the top two units that have the greatest percentage increase of donors compared to last year's UB Giving Day. The first and second place units will receive $3,500 and $1,500, respectively for expanding our base of supporters and providing a solid foundation for future growth and impact. *Results are not official, winners will be notified.*
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President Tripathi's Loyal Blue Match
President Tripathi's Loyal Blue Match will match gifts dollar for dollar made by Loyal Blue donors up to $15,000. *Individual gifts will only be matched up to $1,000*
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President Tripathi's Participation Challenge
President Tripathi's Participation Challenge will award $15,000 to the UB Fund for the top three units that have the greatest number of donors during UB Giving Day. The first-, second- and third-place units will receive $7,500, $5,000 and $2,500, respectively for fostering active philanthropic engagement in UB Giving Day. *Results are not official, winners will be notified.*
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On UB Giving Day, it’s our goal to identify supporters who have included a gift to UB in their will, but have not yet let us know. If this applies to you, contact Wendy Irving, Associate Vice President for Planned Giving at (877) 825-3422 or dev-pg@buffalo.edu. Together we can learn about your giving intent, and help you to create a lasting legacy at UB.
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