Professional Practice
The Resilient Campus International Design Competition
Date: 8/26/2025 - 9/26/2025
Description:
The Resilient Campus challenges architects, landscape architects, planners, and other allied design professionals to boldly envision the University at Buffalo’s South Campus—a public campus on its way to becoming carbon neutral—as a socio-ecologically integrated landscape that engages the pressing and intertwined challenges of climate change. As a forward-looking academic environment, its design should foster a resilient, adaptable, and inclusive setting that recognizes and integrates the interdependencies among its many constituencies and species, human and non-human.
The challenge foregrounds resilience and sustainability—both crucial for long-term well-being—as related but distinct concepts that focus on different aspects of a living system's ability to thrive and to flourish.
The Resilient Campus is a two-stage competition.
Three (3) Architecture / Landscape Architecture teams with proven expertise in resilience have been pre-selected to the Stage Two Competition. In this call (Stage One), up to four (4) teams will be selected through an open call for RFQs.
Sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning