MAPP News
2nd Annual Colvin Case Study Challenge Winners
First Place: Kevin Turner and Christopher TringaliSchool: SUNY BuffaloProject: Delaware North Building, Buffalo, New York Faculty Adviser: Mark FoersterMentor: David StebbinsSecond Place: Jainam Shah and Vandana VishnubhotlaSchool: New York UniversityProject: Via Verde, South Bronx, New YorkFaculty ...View Article Details for 2nd Annual Colvin Case Study Challenge Winners 
Maria Day-Marshall Appointed Director of UMD’s Real Estate Development Program
The University of Maryland’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation welcomes Dr. Maria Day-Marshall, a 30-year veteran of housing policy, government and finance, as the new director of the school’s Real Estate Development Program [MRED]. Day-Marshall was most recently the interim executiv...View Article Details for Maria Day-Marshall Appointed Director of UMD’s Real Estate Development Program Architecture students win big at this year's Interschool Design Competition
Over the past two decades, the three Washington area chapters of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Washington Architectural Foundation, and the National Building Museum have collaborated to organize the annual Interschool Design Competition. These competitions expose students to the va...View Article Details for Architecture students win big at this year's Interschool Design Competition Preservation Super Hero: Lucinda Philumalee (MHP 2010, MRED 2012)
MAPP Alumni Spotlight: Lucinda Philumalee, MHP 2010, MRED 2012Lucinda (Lu) Philumalee is a bit like Clark Kent. By day, she works as a mild-mannered estimator at Harkins Builders, where she budgets and estimate projects for construction on a rolling basis, about one every three weeks. Yet, when 5:00...View Article Details for Preservation Super Hero: Lucinda Philumalee (MHP 2010, MRED 2012) 
Putting the “Quadruple Bottom Line” to Work: Marcus Ervin (MRED '09)
The first course Marcus Ervin took in real estate development, he nearly failed. An undergraduate architecture student at Morgan State University, Marcus took the course in hopes of parlaying the knowledge into a side job in the industry to earn some additional income. It was more than he expected. ...View Article Details for Putting the “Quadruple Bottom Line” to Work: Marcus Ervin (MRED '09) Alumni Profile: Rameez Munawar (B.S. Architecture ’12, MRED ’14)
In 2014, five MAPP graduate students clinched first place at the ULI Hines Competition, edging out 160 collegiate teams with their imaginative revitalization concept for the Nashville, Tn., neighborhood of Sulfur Dell. Of the five students, Rameez Munawar was the lone delegate from MAPP’s real estat...View Article Details for Alumni Profile: Rameez Munawar (B.S. Architecture ’12, MRED ’14)