A team of architecture students from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is helping to redevelop one of the state’s oldest cities: Paterson.The students, all of whom attend the New Jersey School of Architecture (NJSOA) at NJIT, recently briefed Paterson officials on their plan to redesign nine neighborhoods in the city. And on May 17, starting at 6:30 p.m., the students will present their plan to the Paterson City Council.  >>

Craig Schwitter, a partner in the Buro Happold engineering firm, will speak on “Engineering Complexity: Performance-Based Design in Use” today at 5:30 p.m. in the Weston Lecture Hall of New Jersey School of Architecture. The event, which is free and open to the public, concludes the school's Fall Lecture Series. For more information or reservations, call 973-596-3080. >>

In the latest example of institutional collaboration proposed by the presidents of New Jersey’s research universities and envisioned by Gov. James E. McGreevey, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have announced a new dual-degree program. >>

Starting next fall, graduates from Rutgers' Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and NJIT's New Jersey School of Architecture will receive a dual Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP) and Master in Infrastructure Planning (MIP) upon completion of 60 credits. To complete the dual-degree program, each school will accept 12 credits from the other toward graduation requirements, thus reducing by 24 the total of 84 credits that would be needed to obtain the two degrees separately. The New Jersey School of Architecture's MIP is the only program of its type in North America that focuses on infrastructure planning and design, and on interdisciplinary relationships with infrastructure engineering and technology. >>

Nine teams of architecture students from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) competed in a masonry design competition, with five teams winning $18,500 in prize money.   The contest, sponsored by The Masonry Contractors of New Jersey and co-sponsored by The International Masonry Institute, taught the students techniques they don’t commonly encounter in design studios: how to spread mortar and lay brick. >>

The New Jersey School of Architecture (NJSOA) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) recently announced the appointment of prominent educational facilities architect Jeanne K. Perantoni, a principal of SSP Architectural Group, Inc., Somerville, to the NJSOA Board of Advisors.  A graduate of Princeton University and the recipient of a Masters of Architecture from Rice University, Perantoni began her architectural career in 1984.  Since that time, she has worked in the long range planning and design of educational facilities.   >>