Welcome to Architecture
Collaborative research and education for a sustainable future is our mantra as we move forward to realize the full potential of our multidisciplinary School for leadership in planning, design, development and preservation of our environment. Strong relationships with the professional community of the Baltimore-Washington area support the interdisciplinary thrust of the School. With our four academic disciplines and the Center for Smart Growth, we are uniquely positioned to inform the rebuilding of the nation's infrastructure, to contribute expertise to the greening of the building industry, to educate students for an increasingly knowledge-based, performance-oriented, collaborative practice, and to mentor the next generation of architectural educators.
The current economic crisis has hit our professional community hard; created a harsh new reality for our soon-to-be graduates; and challenges us to do more with less. Our opportunity is to create the knowledge and educate the students that will be poised to implement change as resources begin to flow.
Madlen Simon, AIA
Associate Professor and Architecture Program Director
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Architecture News
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UM Progresses in Solar Decathlon 2011 Competition
The University of Maryland has been selected to continue in the second stage of the RFP process for the U.S. Department of Energy Competition, Solar Decathlon 2011. There is still time to get invovled. Check out this release to learn more.
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Architecture Students Participate in Interdisciplinary Memory House/Desire House Project
Architecture students, together with students from Dance and College Park Art Scholars, constructed an installation inspired by Chinese desire houses during a three-week winter term course. A series of public events held the week of February 8 will celebrate this work.
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Maryland Takes Top Three Places in Inter-School Competition
Ten Architecture seniors compete and win in an Inter-School Competition sponsored by the National Building Museum. Each team was made up of one member from four local schools - University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, Catholic University and Howard University.
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Fall 2009 Lecture Series
Next Lecture: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | 6:15pm
Adèle Naudè Santos, FAIA
MIT School of Architecture and Planning | Professor and Dean