![Jacob Moore](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2023-08/jacob-moore.jpg?itok=qEpF0nPY)
The Architectural League of New York | Lecture by Jacob Moore
Jacob R. Moore is the executive director of The Architectural League of New York, where he leads all aspects of one of the most respected architectural institutions in the nation, a diverse association of professionals and students who seek to enrich the practices of architecture, design and urbanism by engaging the enduring and evolving needs of the fields.
![Kenny Wong](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2023-10/wong_kenny.png?itok=sBy7GX8u)
CAPLA lecturer selected for ACSA cohort focused on climate action, communication
Lecturer Kenny Wong has been selected to join the 2024 cohort of the Academy for Public Scholarship on the Built Environment: Climate Action.
![Oscar Lopez](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/studio/Oscar-Lopez-hdr.jpg?itok=n3Q7qkjN)
Haptics of Place: Oscar Lopez, Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Senior Lecturer in Architecture Oscar Lopez, who joined CAPLA in 2016, teaches undergraduate and graduate architecture studios while practicing architecture and conducting research on what he calls the haptics of place, "essentially, combining both the real and the unreal qualities of architecture."
![Dry border](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/studio/dry-field-border.jpg?itok=K0Aj-MNq)
With $6M Grant, Researchers Will Explore How Southwest Communities Can Best Adapt to Climate Change
University of Arizona researchers, including CAPLA's Ladd Keith, are furthering their efforts to examine how water, aridity and heat impact communities in the American Southwest thanks to a $6 million grant from NOAA's Climate Adaptation Partnerships program.
![Map of China](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/studio/ingram-china-map-hdr.jpg?itok=HSHvvjzy)
CAPLA Student-Faculty Team Uses GIS to Create Digital Atlas and Award-Winning Poster of Historical Buddhist Sites in Hangzhou, China
This spring, MS Urban Planning student Glenn Ingram, recent MLA graduate Mattea Wallace and Associate Professor Philip Stoker, working with UArizona East Asian Studies Professor Jiang Wu, created the “Regional Religious Systems in Hangzhou China” story map using GIS. This fall, Ingram's poster from the project won an award.
![MLA students at Park(ing) Day 2022](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/studio/parking-day-2022-hdr.jpg?itok=VAD3lYKZ)
UArizona Landscape Architecture Students Partner with AIA Southern Arizona for Park(ing) Day 2022
For Park(ing) Day 2022, members of the American Society of Landscape Architecture UArizona student chapter partnered with the American Institute of Architects Southern Arizona to temporarily repurpose parking spaces on downtown Tucson’s Congress Street as a “pop-up” parklet.
![Sandra Bernal Cordove](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/studio/sandra-bernal-hdr.jpg?itok=IsqQ34I1)
Learning as Rich Experience: Sandra Bernal Cordova, Lecturer and UArizona Hispanic Serving Institution Fellow
UArizona Hispanic Serving Institution Fellow Sandra Bernal Cordova, who joined CAPLA in 2018 as a lecturer, uses her built environment research, community service and cross-campus collaborations to inform the classes she teaches and co-teaches, which include Water Efficiency in Building, Equitable Cities and the Sustainable Built Environments Capstone.
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Lecture Recap and Video: Seth Okyere on 'Walking the Unwalkable City: An Exploration of Walking Conditions, Experiences and Interventions in the Global South'
Seth Okyere lectures on "Walking the Unwalkable City," a discussion which brings forward conditions and experiences of a walking city that is not walkable and, most importantly, resident improvisations to minimize walking inequities.
![The Temporal Passage, by Jacob Downard](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/studio/the-temporal-passage-hdr.jpg?itok=TjV4Yx-S)
The Temporal Passage: Jacob Downard '22 B.Arch
The architecture of The Temporal Passage responds to the site's volcanic conditions by being conceptually rooted in scale, time and the moving materials of our living earth in an attempt to convey the magnitude of these natural forces. It further explores the spatial and conceptual juxtapositions between the human-operated straight line and the ensured chaos of nature.
![Michael Silver](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/studio/mike-silver-hdr.jpg?itok=kYvODg91)
Design Poetics: Michael Scott Silver, Assistant Professor of Architecture
Assistant Professor of Architecture Michael Scott Silver joined CAPLA this fall. His research and practice focus on the relationship between existing cultures of labor and the effects new automation technologies will have on the built environment.
![Zsalina Allen](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/studio/ZsalinaAllen_1.jpg?itok=jhWATgqD)
Sustainable Scandinavian Pursuits: Zsalina Allen ’23 MS Urban Planning
This summer, graduate student Zsalina Allen participated in a sustainable transportation study abroad program in Denmark and Sweden. She documented her travels in a fascinating and entertaining blog. We followed up to learn more about her experience in Scandinavia, as well her UArizona MS Urban Planning experience.