Buffalo sits on the U.S.-Canadian border, on the edge of Lake Erie and just south of Niagara Falls, providing the region an abundance of natural resources and economic advantage, today and throughout the region‘s history. As the terminus of the Erie Canal, Buffalo was once one of the nation‘s largest ports and remains a symbolic connection between east and west. Buffalo‘s period of great wealth brought master architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, H.H. Richardson and Daniel Burnham to the city to design some of their most important buildings. Frederick Law Olmstead, designer of New York‘s Central Park, laid our Buffalo‘s network of parks and parkways.
In the midst of an urban renaissance, Buffalo is again a center of progressive planning and design — a distinction that has much to do with our students and faculty. The Buffalo School engages the city, its buildings, landscapes, industries and communicates as labs for research, experimentation and intervention, and is a primary contributor to the region in everything from climate-related planning to industry-applied design technologies.
For more information on what to expect in Buffalo, please visit: www.buffalo.edu/prospective_students