CCNY Architecture Alumni

08/05/2025

07/31/2025

Event Postponed:
Todays AAG Summer Happy Hour POSTPONED due to weather

07/23/2025

Join us for a fun-filled evening of networking and socializing at the AAG Summer Happy Hour!
This in-person event will take place at the Brass Monkey on Thursday July 31st 2025 at 6:30 PM.
Meet and mingle with fellow professionals and new grads in a relaxed and casual atmosphere.
All CCNY Alumni, faculty staff and friends are welcome to join.
We look forward to catching up with the amazing alumni of the architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, sustainability programs and beyond.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to expand your network and have a great time.
See you there!

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07/16/2025

Save the date for a fun-filled evening of networking and socializing at the AAG Summer Happy Hour!

This in-person event will take place on Thursday July 31st 2025 at 6:30 PM.

Catch up and meet fellow professionals and new grads in a relaxed and casual atmosphere.

All CCNY Alumni, faculty staff and friends are welcome to join.

We look forward to catching up with the amazing alumni of the architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, sustainability programs and beyond.

06/24/2025

Patrick Williams, B. Arch 1993 + BSc in Arch 1992

Born in Jamaica, Patrick Williams is an award-winning architect with a successful career
of innovative design and project delivery on various building types, predominantly in the
K-12, Higher Education and Federal market sectors. After previously holding leadership
roles with Moody Nolan, SHW Group and Stantec, he practiced as a sole proprietor,
passionately addressing social justice issues on projects guided by the triple bottom line
approach to sustainability. A strong and active proponent of evidence-based design,
Patrick routinely incorporates those strategies.

Favorite CCNY Memory:
My favorite memory at CCNY was when I earned second place in the Hong Kong
Students Association Photography Competition in 1992. While taking a black & white photography course in the Fall 1991 semester, I was continually encouraged by my art professor who saw something in my work that I did not at that time. On a whim, I submitted a photo I had taken of the NAC as viewed through the Oculus, but at night. I was humbled and surprised at the award presentation.

More Info on Website: www.ccnyarchalumni.org/alumni-spotlight

02/13/2025

Nnadozie (“Nana”) Okeke (B. Arch 2001) Principal at David Brody Bond/Page

He joined the firm from Garrison McNeil & Associates following the successful collaboration of the two firms on the Harlem Children’s Zone. This community center includes a charter school and child-care facilities for at-risk youth. The facility integrates educational, recreational, and social service spaces to strengthen community
involvement and interaction. Mr. Okeke also previously worked for the internationally renowned architect David Adjaye. Mr. Okeke’s work at Adjaye Associates focused on public works in Accra, Ghana, where he spent a couple of years developing the Marine Drive and Ghana Trade Fair master planning
projects.

More info on website …

Favorite Memory of my Time at CCNY:

I have very fond memories of Shepard Hall, the inspiring neo-gothic former home of the Architecture School. There we had fantastic studio sessions with the likes of Professors Gary McNeil and Alan Feigenberg. I remember turn of the century architectural history discussions with Prof. Twombly.

I recall the camaraderie shared between the diverse Student Body, and the hunger we all had to study Architecture.

02/07/2025

👀🎉 congrats !

CCNY welcomes the inaugural Michael Sorkin Visiting Distinguished Lecturer at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture! Marina Correia, '06 — a practicing architect, activist and scholar in the history and theory of architecture and urbanism — returns in this new role intended to encourage conversations about the history of urbanism and the current problems and potentials of urban environments and architecture.

Learn more about this appointment and tribute to the late distinguished professor and director emeritus of the graduate Urban Design program: https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/spitzer-schools-marina-correia-honors-her-mentor-michael-sorkin

02/04/2025

Mark G. Barksdale AIA, NOMA, NCARB, PP, JD
B.S., Arch, ‘73

Architect and Planner | New York

Mark G. Barksdale is a native of Washington, D.C. and was raised in New York City. He was educated in the NYC public school system, from kindergarten through 12th grade at BrooklynTechnical High School, where he was a member of the Arista Honor Society. He has lived in all the boroughs of New York City (except Staten Island), including the South Bronx, Bedford Stuyvesant, Williamsburg/Bushwick, and Jamaica, Queens.

He is licensed as an architect in New York and New Jersey, and as a licensed Professional Planner in New Jersey. After City College, he earned two Master’s degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (in Health Services Planning & Design - 1976, and Urban Planning - 1984), and later earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale University’s School of Law (1991).

He has worked on numerous projects in his career, particularly hotel, healthcare and transportation projects. He is also the former Director of Planning, Zoning and Sustainability for the City of Newark, New Jersey. Memberships include the American Institute of Architects, former Vice President of the NY Coalition of Black Architects (nycobaNOMA), and former Vice Chairman of Community Board 12 in Manhattan.

02/03/2025

Meet Atim Annette Oton- a Nigerian-born, American and British educated designer turned Curator. She is the director and curator of Calabar Gallery in New York and is the African Art Curator for AMREF Health Africa ARTBALL. A daughter of an American-Caribbean art collector and Nigerian journalist, she spent her formative years in Calabar, Nigeria; studied architecture at the City College of New York and did graduate studies at the Architectural Association Graduate School in London, England.

She worked in architecture for several years after graduate school and by 2000, she was part of the design team that won the African Burial Ground Interpretive Center, helped create Blacklines Magazine and became the Associate Chair of Product Design at Parsons School of Design before leaving to create her retail company in 2004 and opening Calabar Gallery in 2016. Her gallery, Calabar represents underserved artists locally and globally: African, African American and Caribbean artists with the mission of providing a place for community, exhibition, creative initiatives and projects.

In 2021, she began selecting and curating images from Black Artists for Puzzles by SpinMaster Games sold at Target, Walmart and Amazon. She is the organizer for Harlem Arts Stroll, an advisor to The Downtown Biennial and was an advisor to The David Prize from 2019-2021 which awarded $200,000 yearly to 5 New Yorkers.

02/02/2025

William Garrison McNeil graduated with the Bachelor or Architecture Degree at the City College of New York in 1965 and a Master of Science in Urban Design at Columbia University in 1969. While a student at Columbia University he was a recipient of the William Kinne Fellows Traveling Scholarship. After graduation, he joined the adjunct faculty at Columbia University, where he taught for 3 years. During that time he had the opportunity to teach with J. Max Bond Jr. and they were able to bring 30 architecture students to Ghana through the William Kinne Traveling Scholarship for a month, which would be the first time this scholarship was used to fund architecture student travel to Africa. 

He joined the Architecture Faculty at the City College of New York in 1972, and his tenure at CCNY lasted over 40 years, amongst which he taught design studios, architectural management, various electives, served as Chair, as well as Thesis Coordinator.  A registered Architect in NYS, he has also run his own Harlem based Architectural Practice for over 40 years. Projects which he has worked on include The Apollo Theater, The Promise School at Harlem Children’s Zone, Carmine Street Recreation Center, New York City Parks Department, Jackie Robinson Recreation Center at the Harlem YMCA. In addition to being a Firm Owner and a Professor, he has also served as the New York City Planning Commissioner, as a Member of the New York State Board of Architecture, as a Member Community Board 9 in Harlem and one of the founding members of nycobaNOMA. He is also the recipient of the 2017 Career Achievement Award on behalf CCNY Architecture Alumni Group.

02/02/2025

We look forward to using this platform to celebrate and spotlight the amazing alumni from our school.

This month , in celebration of Black History Month, the CCNY Architecture Alumni Group is proud to honor the profound legacy of Black alumni who have shaped our school and the field of architecture and beyond. Stay tuned.