People

People come to Maryland to study architecture from vastly different backgrounds, at different stages of life maturity, and from around the world. The diversity of people, culture and life experiences are represented in both the undergraduate and graduate student bodies, and in the faculty. Many of the faculty have received university-wide, regional and/or national recognition for their commitment to teaching and architectural education.

Architecture News

• AIAS Featured in Washington Post Transforming Space Into Universal Design

  A group of American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) is featured in The Washington Post real estate section for their contributions toward transforming a DC home into a model of universal design.

• UM and NASA Join Forces: Architecture Students Conceptualize Proposed Center

  Aided by a research grant from NASA, eight architecture graduate students have designed concepts for the proposed Science Education and Exploration Center (SEEC).

• Discovering Architecture Program Open for Summer 2008

  Once again this year, the Architecture Program will offer Discovering Architecture for high school students as part of the Young Scholars Program from July 14 - August 1.

• Dean Rockcastle Interviewed in The New York Times

  Garth Rockcastle, Dean of the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, is featured in today's New York Times in the Real Estate section.