Dr. Julio Martinez San José

A beautiful human being. I remember Dean San Jose, Julio, well. His re-design of the interior space of NYIT's Education Hall and its small art and architecture library accommodated me, an instructor, gracefully, solving a space crunch in the English Department and providing a convenient venue for researching my content area, Writing for the Arts & Architecture. I agree absolutely with others who found him scholarly, quiet, caring, elegant and welcoming. His talent and personality made him...

Julio is remembered and he will be missed. I am glad to have known him back in the 1970's as Associate/acting dean of architecture at Syracuse. I admired his amazing drawings. When I asked him for a recommendation for graduate school, he happily complied and I was admitted, earning my Master's at CMU then later my Doctorate at Harvard. I was impressed that he even knew who I was but actually he knew a lot about me and expressed my importance to the program and the legacy of the school. ...

I have so many memories of having Dr. Julio San Jose as the Dean of Architecture at NYIT. He was clever in how he lured some well renowned architects to come to our school. We had some amazing professors visit us to teach. He elevated our level of education and challenged us to think. He was a gifted artist, I remember him calling me into his office to show me the progress of his famous "Bowl of Nuts", a drawing so detailed that one could literally pluck the nuts right out of the bowl. I felt...

I was a graduate student with Julio M San Jose in urban design. He made my studies in Urban Design at Syracuse. I have been looking for him to tell him that. I am sorry he is gone.

I was a student at New York Institute of Technology when Dr San Jose was the dean. He was always an inspiring man. Elegant, quiet, and caring. A wonderful artist. He always tried to light a fire under the students. It was a pleasure knowing him.