Anthony Schuman

Anthony W. (Tony) Schuman is a registered architect and Professor of Architecture in the Hillier College of Architecture and Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), where he has served as both undergraduate and graduate program director and as Interim Dean. He is a past president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). His articles on housing design and community development appear in numerous books, scholarly journals and conference proceedings. He was co-editor of Newark Landmark Treasures: A Guide to the Landmark Buildings, Parks, Public Art & Historic Districts in New Jersey’s Metropolis, Co-Editor; (Newark Preservation and Landmarks Committee, 2016), published on the occasion of the 350^th anniversary of Newark’s founding. Tony was a founding member of a series of advocacy and activist organizations in the architecture and planning professions, including Urban Deadline, The Architects' Resistance (TAR), Homefront, and Planners Network.

Schuman is a trustee of the Newark Preservation and Landmarks Committee (NPLC), and Lincoln Park/Coast Cultural District, Inc. He is the recipient of the 2011 Charles Cummings award from NPLC for his efforts to preserve and celebrate Newark’s social and cultural history; the 2006 NJIT Board of Overseers Foundation Award for Institute and Public Service; and the city medal from the Newark Municipal Council in 2007 for organizing a three-day celebration of the Newark Eagles Negro Leagues Championship baseball team of 1946. In 2010 he was named a Distinguished Professor by ACSA. The Design Futures Council named him one of the “30 most admired educators for 2013”. In 2020 he received the university-wide Robert W. Van Houten Award for Teaching Excellence.

M. Architecture; Columbia University in the City of New York; Architecture; 1970

M.A.; Columbia University in the City of New York; French; 1966

B.A.; Wesleyan University; French; 1965

2020 Van Houten Award for Excellence in Teaching, NJIT Alumni Association

MARC 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

design studio; infrastructure planning; housing and urban development; Newark, NJ; architecture's social engagement

housing design and policy; urban history and development; the city of Newark; community engagement in schools of architecture

Schuman, Anthony W., & Gordon, Mark W (2016). Newark Landmark Treasures: A Guide to the Landmark Buildings, Parks, ublic Art & Historic Districts in New Jersey's Metropolis. Newark, NJ: Newark Preservation and Landmarks Committee

Toward an Architecture of Solidarity
Berkeley Prize Competition, November 2014

Design with the Other 90%: Cities
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH), March 2013

The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World
Shelterforce magazine online, May 2014

The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World
Progressive Planning magazine, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2014

Schuman, Anthony W. (2013). Bruce Dale: A Planner's Life. Progressive Planning(No. 196, Summer 2013), 4 pages.

Schuman, Anthony W. (2011). Community Engagement. ACSA News, ACSA, 40(6, Feb. 2011), 1 page.

Schuman, Anthony W. (2012). Community Engagement: The Evolution of Architecture’s Social Vocation in Schools of Architecture, Joan Ockman (Ed.), MIT Press. Boston, MA: MIT Press

Schuman, Anthony W. (2010). "Ghetto", Christian Topalov, Laurent Coudroy de Lille, Jean-Charles Depaule et Brigitte Marin (Eds.), ed. Robert Laffont. (pp. 529-534). Paris: ed. Robert Laffont