Meet CED Alums

Remembering Professor Emeritus Allan B. Jacobs, an influential urban planner and thinker about cities. Jacobs had an outsize impact on the field of urban design and led generations of students to grasp the importance of observation in understanding how great cities work.

The College of Environmental Design is delighted to announce that Aleks Baharlo (MArch 1997) will take the helm of the Nancy and Douglas Abbey Master of Real Estate Development + Design as its executive director in January 2025.

CED alum José Gámez (MArch 1992) steps into a new leadership role at UNC Charlotte, where he has been on the faculty since 2002.

CED teams won first and second place at the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) Student Design Competition.

Lester Wertheimer (BA Architecture 1951, MArch 1952) recalls studying with Erich Mendelsohn, meeting Frank Lloyd Wright, and spending the night atop a pyramid in Giza.