2022 Alumni Event

Thank you join us for our 2022 Alumni Event celebrating our amazing alumni career achievement and faculty / staff service honorees.

Photos below are taken by Alumnus Gilbert Santana

Wayne Benjamin '80

Wayne Benjamin, City College of New York Class of 1980, is a licensed architect with 40 years of diverse experience in architecture, planning, construction management, project management, and community development. His professional interests include community revitalization, urban design, real estate development, city planning, historic preservation, and adaptive re-use. Read more about Wayne…

Catherine Seavitt Nordenson '07

Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, FASLA, AIA is a professor and director of the graduate landscape architecture program at the Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York. A registered architect and landscape architect, she is a graduate of the Cooper Union, Princeton University, and the City College of New York. Read more about Catherine…

Willy Zambrano '90

Willy Zambrano, FAIA, is the Founder and Design Principal in Charge at Zambrano Architectural Design, an award-winning multidisciplinary design studio in Freeport, LI. Willy’s studio focuses on designing for diverse clientele and building typologies for the past 23 years.  Read more about Willy….

Hillary Brown

Hillary Brown FAIA is Professor Emerita of Architecture at the Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York (CCNY), City University of New York. Until 2021, she served a term as Program Director of the College’s interdisciplinary master’s program: Sustainability in the Urban Environment, developed with the Grove School of Engineering, Spitzer School of Architecture and CCNY’s Division of Science, and Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. She was on the program’s Executive Committee for 13 years since joining Spitzer faculty. Read more about Hillary…

Jerrilyn Dodds

Jerrilynn Dodds is Harlequin Adair Dammann Chair in the History of Art at Sarah Lawrence College. She taught at City College School of Architecture from 1990 until 2007, and was Special Faculty Advisor to the Provost of CCNY until 2009 (working for nearly 20 years at City College). (She received the CCAP Teacher’s award in 2001). She has also taught at Columbia University, Harvard University and MIT, and led exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other institutions. In 2021, she was Slade Professor of Fine arts at Oxford University, and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College. Read more about Jerrilyn….

Michael J. Miller, Ed.D.

Dr. Michael J. Miller is Associate Dean at the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York - New York City’s flagship public school of architecture, and one of the most diverse architecture schools in the country. He is an experienced administrator and leader with over 20 years of experience in the arts and higher education at both public and private institutions. Read more about Michael…