“I build architectural dream worlds,” Dennis Maher, clinical assistant professor in the UB Department of Architecture, said of his work. And this is exactly what you’ll find when you pass through the ...

As Hurricane Katrina raged through New Orleans in 2005, neighborhood after neighborhood collapsed from flooding. Of the houses that stood, many still had to be bulldozed due to mold within the walls.

In most homes, it completely surrounds us side to side and overhead. We take for granted the wonderful finish, texture and surface it provides every day for decades on end. “It” is what we commonly ...