The media lab contains specialized computing systems supporting media integration through a color flatbed scanner and a video input device. An assortment of plotters, laser printers and a color paint jet printer provide hardcopy results for the labs. The Materials and Methods Shop is available for school-wide projects and independent work. This machine and assembly space, containing 7,000 square feet, is located in Parker Hall and is open days, nights, and weekends. The facility is supplied with full woodworking capabilities, welding and milling equipment, lathes, sheet metal machines, a vacuum forming machine for modeling plastic, and a variety of hand tools.
Assistance is available from the director or one of the shop monitors.
Many examples of student work are exhibited in this high-bay space. The Center for Comparative Studies in Development Planning is concerned with the processes of planning and development in lesser-developed countries and other countries, especially as they relate to, and evolve in, a changing global context. Given the prevailing problems in developing countries and the tensions between theory and the practice of planning, a comparative mode of inquiry addresses issues of appropriate education and training for local planners, and the integration of disciplines among them and other professionals involved in national development. The Architecture and Planning Library, located in Hayes Hall, is one of ten libraries within the University at Buffalo. In addition to the book and journal collections, the Architecture and Planning Library includes product catalogs, student theses, plans, a vertical file, and selected census material.