Architecture

• Fall 2009 Lecture Series

  Next Lecture: Wednesday, December 2, 6:15pm
  Adèle Naudè Santos, FAIA
  MIT School of Architecture and Planning | Professor and Dean

• Join Team Maryland To Compete And Win The 2010 Uli-Hines Prize

  Want to be on a winning team and take home $50,000 your trouble? Faculty in all the disciplines are committed to working with one or more teams to earn Maryland the $50,000 top prize in the 2010 National ULI-Hines Competition-- the largest Design and Development Competition in the country.

• Maryland Alums, Faculty Selected for 2009 AIA Potomac Valley Design Awards

  AIA Potomac Valley honored numerous Maryland faculty and alumni at its 2009 Awards Gala.

• NSHOF Comprehensive Design Studio Exhibit in Annapolis, MD

  October 13-30, 2009
  Annapolis Mayor's Office
  160 Duke of Gloucester Street
  8:30am - 4:30pm, weekdays

• Ruth Adler Schnee: A Passion for Color and Design

  Documentary Film Screenings
  Monday, October 5, 6:15pm and Friday, October 9, 11am and 2pm
  Architecture Building Auditorium
  
  Exhibit Opening Lecture + Reception with Ruth Adler Schnee
  Friday, October 9, Noon
  Architecture Building Auditorium + Kibel Gallery
  

• Mahmoud Riad Wins AIA Maryland Student Design Competition

  Mahmond Riad, a recent graduate of the master's of architecture program wins AIA Maryland Student Design Award for his project entitled, Architecture: Music, City, and Culture. Riad also received the architecture program spring semester Thesis Prize for this work.
  

• Schumacher's Cattaneo Exhibit Headed for UVA

  Casa Cattaneo: A Jewel of Italian Rationalism
  November 9-27, 2009
  University of Virginia

• Architecture Graduate Student, Daniel Ankri, Wins at ACSA Competition

  Daniel Ankri, architecture graduate student, wins honorable mention at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Preservation as Provocation: Rethinking Kahn's Salk Institute, International Student Design Competition.

• Interdisciplinary Hillman Design and Development Case Competition

  The Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development and Developer, David Hillman, are co-sponsoring an interdisciplinary design and development competition and the winning team will walk away with $15,000.
  

• Students Teach Visually Impaired During NFB Youth Slam

  July 26 - August 1
  Architecture Building, Great Space

• Thomas L. Schumacher, Architect and Educator, Dies at 67

  Thomas L. Schumacher, professor of architecture at the University of Maryland and fellow of the American Academy in Rome, died on July 15, 2009 after a short battle with brain cancer. He was 67.

• LEAFHouse Participants on Voices of the Chesapeake Bay Radio Show

  LEAFHouse Team Leader Brittany Williams, along with faculty advisers Dr. Kaye Brubaker, Julie Gabrielli and Amy Gardner will be featured on the radio program Voices of the Chesapeake Bay with noted radio host Michael Buckley.  

• New Center for the Use of Sustainable Practices (CUSP) Announced

  Using LEAFHouse as a pilot project, the new Center for the Use of Sustainable Practices (CUSP) was formed.  CUSP joins the National Center for Smart Growth as a sister center, in order to explore research, design, education and outreach activities related to sustainable practices at the scale of the building, the community, and the city. 

• Architecture Program Work Published in form-Z Joint Study Journal

  The work of several Architecture Program faculty and students was recently showcased in the 2009 publication of the form•Z Joint Study Journal - Partnerships in Learning 16 - Digital Media and the Creative Process.

• Associate Professor Amy Gardner Receives Award for the Gilmer Project

  Associate Professor Amy Gardner's firm, Gardner Mohr Architects, LLC, has been awarded a 2009 Remodeling Design Award for Merit, a national award honoring excellence in design - as well as functional value, cost-effectiveness and sensitivity to the existing structure and surroundings. 

• Architecture Program Well Represented at ASCAAD Conference in Bahrain

  Papers presented at the ASCAAD Conference in Bahrain include those authored by: Michael A. Ambrose, Carl Lostritto, Johnathan Healey and Lisa LaCharité-Lostritto. Papers by Marek Hnizda and Mahmoud Riad were published in the conference proceedings.

• LEAFHouse Receives Washingtonian Residential Design Award

  LEAFHouse, Maryland's Solar Decathlon 2007 house, has received an Award for Distinctive Residential Architecture in the Washingtonian / American Institute of Architects 28th Annual Awards Program.

• Maryland Team in the Winner's Circle in AIAS/AARP Livable Communities Design Competition

  A team of seniors in the Architecture program has won second place in the national competition. Alice Chiang, Tony Maiolatesi, Dan Reed and Sandra Schwartz collaboratively designed a mixed-use development that incorporates housing, retail and community amenities.

• Birx Honored with American Institute of Architects Fellowship

  Glenn W. Birx, FAIA, LEED AP, BS Arch '80, honored with AIA fellowship for his leadership and expertise in the profession of architecture, particularly in the design of colleges and universities worldwide.

• Architecture Faculty and M.Arch. Student Present at CAADRIA Conference in Taiwan

  Assistant Professor Michael A. Ambrose and graduate student Joseph Kunkel (M.Arch. 2009) are in Taiwan this week to present a paper co-authored with two former UMD graduate students in architecture.

• Sustainability Exhibit Designed and Built by Students

  Drawing the Line
  Gallery Talk and Reception—Monday, April 27, 6:30pm
  Architecture Building, Linear Gallery
  

• Places of Refuge: The Dresser Trunk Project

  Gallery Talk and Reception: Monday, April 20, 6:30pm
  Curator William Darryl Williams with Yolande Daniels and Gary Bowden

• Collaborative Faculty/Student Urban Design Work Exhibited in Brooklyn

  The work of the Maryland Urban Research Studio will be exhibited in Brooklyn, NY, April 11–May 9, 2009. The exhibition will feature Ground Work/s, a project created by the studio in 2008.

• Architecture in the Schools

  Student Presentations: Wednesday, April 16, 6:30pm
  Architecture Building, Great Space

• UM AIAS Chapter Hosts Spring Quad Conference

  April 3-5, 2009
  Highlights: Moshe Safdie keynote, Beaux Arts Ball, architecture tours of Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis.

• Interdisciplinary Team Reaches Finals in National Real Estate Development Competition

  For the second year in a row, a team of students from the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation has been selected to advance to the finals of the annual Real Estate Investment and Development Organization (REIDO) Case Competition.

• Dennis Jankiewicz Receives 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award

  Dennis Jankiewicz, B.Arch '73, has been awarded the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation's 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award.

• Interdisciplinary Student Team Top 10 in National Urban Design Competition

  A team of five graduate students from the Planning, Architecture and Real Estate Development programs shares the winner's circle with MIT, Harvard and Columbia at the HINES Urban Design Competition.

• Adaptive Reuse Architecture Studio Participates in Rockville Community Charrette

  The studio spent a weekend in Rockville brainstorming strategies for saving, restoring and reinventing the "Pink Bank," a 1960s-era modernist building currently slated for destruction.

• Washington on the Move: The Architecture of Transportation

  The School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation will host the Eighth Biennial Symposium on the Historic Development of Metropolitan Washington, DC on Saturday, March 7, 2009.

• Spring 2009 Lecture Series

  Next Lecture: Friday, May 8, 7:00pm
  Greg Pasquarelli: SHoP Architects
  Architecture Building Auditorium
  

• Pompeii/Stabiae Study Abroad Program Featured on CBS News

  Pompeii/Stabiae study-abroad program in Italy's Vesuvian region was recently featured on the CBS Evening News. Coverage includes interviews with architecture alums Leonardo Varone, M. Arch. '06 and Nandor Mitrocsak, B.S. Arch. '06, M. Arch. '08.

• Dickson and Yazdanseta Win Architecture Thesis Award

  Beret Dickson and Farzam Yazdanseta, Fall '08 graduates of the M. Arch. program, are the winners of the Architecture Thesis Award.

• Spring 2009 Kea Distinguished Professor Announced

  Frances Halsband, FAIA will serve as the Spring 2009 Kea Distinguished Professor in the Architecture program.

• LEAFHouse Published in AIAS Journal

  The University of Maryland's award-winning LEAFHouse was published in the Fall 2008 issue of Crit, the journal of the American Institute of Architecture Students.

• SUBSEQUENT ACTION: Creative Work on Neglected Ground

  Friday, December 5, 2008
  Architecture Building, Kibel Gallery
  6:30-8:30pm

• Spring Commencement 2009

  Thursday, May, 21, 7:00pm - Comcast Center (University)
  Friday, May 22, 9:30am - Samuel Riggs Alumni Center (School)

• Interdisciplinary Career Fair

  Friday, March 6, 2009, 1:00pm
  Architecture Building, Great Space
  

• UM Alumni Recognized with Four Design Awards for New MSU Library

  A collaborative team led by three University of Maryland Architecture Program alumni has received four awards for the new Morgan State University Library in Baltimore.

• First Friday: Thesis Exhibition + AIAS Social

  Friday, December 5, 2008
  Architecture Building, Kibel Gallery
  6:30–8:30pm
  

• Comprehensive Design Studio Reviews

  Monday, December 15, 2008
  Architecture Building
  10:30am-2:30pm

• M. Arch. Student Published in White House Redux Competition Book

  Ritsaart Marcelis, M. Arch. '09, was recently published in a book documenting the White House Redux Competition, judged by Elizabeth Diller, Mark Wigley, John Maeda and others.

• UM Alum Leads Design Team for New Green NOAA Building

  Roger Schwabacher, M. Arch '99, Senior Associate, HOK, is the lead designer for the new 280,000SF NOAA National Center for Weather and Climate Prediction.

• Fall Lecture Series: Living on the Edge with Bing Thom

  Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 6:30pm
  Guy Lombardo Memorial Lecture
  Architecture Building Auditorium

• M. Arch. Thesis Presentations

  Monday, November 17, 9am–6:30pm
  Architecture Building
  

• M. Arch. Student Wins International Digital Modeling Competition

  Competing in a field of students from more than 150 universities in 27 countries, Farzam Yazdanseta, M. Arch. 2008, has won the top prize for architecture in the 2007–08 form•Z Joint Study Program Competition.

• Kea Professor Filippo Caprioglio Speaks at the Italian Embassy

  Friday, November 14, 6:30pm
  Italian Embassy, Washington, DC
  Free Admission - RSVP Required

• Fall Lecture Series: In-Site with Patricia Patkau

  Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 6:30pm
  Colden “Coke” Florance Lecture
  Architecture Building Auditorium

• LEAFHouse Returns to Campus

  LEAFHouse, the University of Maryland's award-winning 2007 Solar Decathlon entry, is back on campus!

• Assistant Professors Oakley and Ambrose Awarded 2008-2009 CTE-Lilly Fellowships

  The Architecture Program is proud to announce that Assistant Professors Deborah Oakley and Michael A. Ambrose have been awarded the prestigious University of Maryland CTE-Lilly Fellowship for the 2008-2009 academic year.

• Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches

  Friday, October 3, 2008, 7:00pm
  Architecture Building, Kibel Gallery
  

• Maryland Students Sweep 2008 AIA Maryland Design Awards

  For the second year in a row, Maryland Architecture students have won the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards in the AIA Maryland Design Awards Competition.

• Stereotomy Lecture: Stone Vaults for the Modern World

  Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 6:30pm
  Architecture Building Auditorium

• Fall Lecture Series: The Archaeology of Tomorrow

  Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 6:30pm
  Architecture Building Auditorium

• Gary Bowden, Professor of the Practice, Interviewed on NPR

  Gary Bowden, Professor of the Practice at the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, is featured today on Baltimore's NPR station (88.1FM) during Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast.

• Fall Kea Lecture: Questions! Answers?

  Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 6:30pm
  Architecture Building Auditorium

• 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.

• Potomac Valley AIA Announces
  2008 Art + Architecture Contest Winners

  The Potomac Valley Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA PV) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2nd annual Art+Architecture Contest. The competition was organized and coordinated by Peter Noonan, AIA, Professor of the Practice at University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

• 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.

• Architecture Students Offer Design Solutions for Proposed Hall of Fame

  Monday, May 12, 2008, 2 p.m.
  You are invited to Architecture in Sailing, a studio presentation of student designs for the proposed National Sailing Hall of Fame in Annapolis, Maryland.

• LEAFHouse Featured in New York Times Magazine's Green Issue

  The New York Times Magazine featured the University of Maryland's award-winning LEAFHouse in its April 20 issue.

• M.Arch. Thesis Reviews April 22-24

  Spring 2008 Master of Architecture thesis reviews will be held at the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation April 22-24.

• Special Colloquium - Visions of Place: Regionalism and Architecture

  Friday, May 9, 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
  You are invited to attend Visions of Place: Regionalism and Architecture, a colloquium celebrating the teaching career of Professor Emeritus William Bechhoefer on the occasion of his retirement from the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

• Special Presentation: Architecture in Education

  Wednesday, May 7, 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
  You are invited to attend Architecture in Education, a studio presentation of student designs for a new Amidon Elementary School in Washington, DC.  The studio benefits from a collaboration with the UM College of Education.

• Spring 2008 Lecture Series

  Next lecture: Wednesday, April 23, 6:30 p.m.
  Doing More: Eric Naslund, Studio E Architects
  2008 Kea Distinguished Professor Lecture

• Architecture Students to Present at Graduate Research Interaction Day

  Three students from the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation will present research-based design at the University of Maryland's Graduate Research Interaction Day (GRID) on April 17th in the Stamp Student Union. 

• Real Estate Development Team Wins $15,000 First Prize

  A team of Masters of Real Estate Development (MRED) students win first place and $15,000 at the Second Annual REIDO Real Estate Development Case Competition.

• Prof. Ambrose and Three M.Arch. Students to Present Papers at CAADRIA Conference

  The Computer-Aided Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) Conference will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on April 9-12, 2008. 

• AIAS Art Auction - April 11th

  Don't miss the AIAS Art Auction, with artworks donated by Cesar Pelli, Mark McInturff, Roger Lewis, Michael Graves, and many more!

• New Student Exhibit Showcases Study Abroad Experiences

  Invitation to a new exhibition "Out of Bounds" featuring a collection of sketches and photographs, which highlight the variety of venues visited in 2007 by the students from the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

• School Experts from Zurich and Washington to Convene for Urban School Design Symposium

  "Defining the Urban School in the 21st Century," an international symposium, will be held at the University of Maryland on February 16.

• New Gallery Show to Feature 31 International Examples of Innovative School Buildings

  “School Buildings—The State of Affairs,” a traveling exhibit organized by Professor Isaac Williams with partners from AIA DC and the Embassy of Switzerland, will be on display in the Kibel Gallery February 15–March 14, 2008.

• Professors Schumacher and Ambrose Publish Essays in New Monograph

  Architecture Professors Thomas L. Schumacher and Michael A. Ambrose contributed to a new monograph on the work of Giovanni Caprioglio.

• Maryland Team Envisions the "City of the Future"

  A faculty/student team from the University of Maryland competed in "City of the Future," a design competition staged by the History Channel.

• New Architecture Graduates Share Their LEAFHouse Experience

  Three architecture students graduating this month are profiled by the UM Newsdesk. Learn more about their involvement in LEAFHouse.

• M. Arch. Thesis Reviews December 12-13

  Fall 2007 Master of Architecture thesis reviews will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Maryland is #1 Solar Decathlon Team in America

  In a field of 20 U.S. and European universities, the University of Maryland placed 2nd overall in the Solar Decathlon and won the People's Choice Award.

• New Gallery Show Features the Work of Grimshaw Architects

  “Macro to Micro” is now open at the Kibel Gallery.

• Maryland Students Sweep AIA Maryland Design Competition

  Florence Ho and Brian Essig, graduate students in the Architecture Program, were honored for design excellence by the AIA Maryland Society.

• Maryland Students Sweep Storm Housing Design Competition

  Students in the Fall 2007 graduate-level Advanced Technology course took the top three places in Storm Housing 2007, an international design competition sponsored by the Tilt-Up Concrete Association. Maryland students also received four honorable mentions in a field of nearly 60 entries.
  

• LEAFHouse Wins at Solar Decathlon 2007

  University of Maryland's LEAFHouse wins the BP Solar People's Choice Award and places 2nd overall in the Solar Decathlon 2007.  Click here to see the final scores.

• LEAFHouse Featured on Voice of America

  LEAFHouse, the University of Maryland's entry in the Solar Decathlon 2007 competition, was recently featured on Voice of America. Read more and download the video at Voice of America.

• Gallery Talk

  The Kibel Gallery will host a panel discussion, Architectural Design and Structural Innovation, on Monday, September 24, at noon. Come for lunch and an illuminating conversation! Free and open to the public. Event Details

• New Exhibit Features Innovative Structures of Waclaw Zalewski

  The new exhibit at the Kibel Gallery examines the work of Waclaw Zalewski, one of the most innovative and influential structural designers practicing today. The show includes an ingenious folding pavilion for a world's fair in Seville, a roof of steel that floats on a halo of light in a Korean arena, and a soaring supermarket roof in Poland.

• Assistant Professor Isaac Williams awarded Henry C. Welcome Fellowship

  Isaac Williams, Assistant Professor of Architecture, at the School of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation is a recipient of this year's Henry C. Welcome Fellowship, issued by the Maryland Higher Education Commission. The Welcome Fellowship is a state-wide competitive grant program that supports the research, creative work, publications, and speaking engagements of accomplished and promising new full time faculty of diverse backgrounds.

• LEAFHouse in the News

  The project, called Leading Everyone to an Abundant Future House or "LEAFHouse," boasts of 48 solar panels powering 52 batteries and floors heated by rain water. It is the brainchild of architecture, engineering and even some communication students at the University of Maryland.

• Michael Vergason, FAAR Named the Spring 2007 Visiting KEA Professor

  Michael Vergason, FAAR of Michael Vergason Landscape Architects, Ltd. (MVLA) Named the Spring 2007 Visiting KEA Professor

• School Wins Two Congress for the New Urbanism Awards in 2007

  College Park – Thursday, March 22, 2007 -- Alejandra Hernandez, who received her Master of Architecture degree in December 2006, has won the coveted 2007 Charter Award from the Congress for the New Urbanism.