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A Peek Inside: The Architecture Studio
This story was originally published in Maryland Today. Written by Karen Shih '09. Photos by Stephanie S. Cordle.Power cords curl like jungle vines from the ceilings, snaking between black metal dividers and miniature construction projects. Throughout the industrial space, with its concrete floors an...View Article Details for A Peek Inside: The Architecture Studio 
9 MAPP Faculty Awarded 2025 Jashemski Grants
Nine faculty members from the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation received over $75,000 in funding from this year’s Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski and Stanley A. Jashemski Research Grant Program. Now in its 18th year, the program funds archeological and other re...View Article Details for 9 MAPP Faculty Awarded 2025 Jashemski Grants 
Five Questions with John Bryant
John Bryant M.Arch ‘07 was a fish out of water when it came to designing for Florida's climate.A transplant from the Northeast and a new architect for Sweet Sparkman—Sarasota, Florida's largest architecture firm—one of Bryant‘s first big jobs was to revitalize a historic pavilion along Siesta Key Be...View Article Details for Five Questions with John Bryant 
In Entrepreneurial Challenge, Architecture Students Build the Next Big Business
Some Maryland homeowners use bamboo to bring life to their outdoor spaces. To others, it can be a pesky plant. But, for two University of Maryland students, the pervasive perennial was the selling point that won them the first-place prize at this year's ArchiNova 2.0: Architects as Entrepreneurs Stu...View Article Details for In Entrepreneurial Challenge, Architecture Students Build the Next Big Business 
‘Design Is a Universal Language’
This article was originally published in Maryland Today.Asked to design a researcher’s cabin set in the wetlands of Uganda, a group of University of Maryland architecture undergraduates envisioned a three-room, 538-square-foot structure made of locally sourced wood. A larger central space serves as ...View Article Details for ‘Design Is a Universal Language’ 
Designing Solutions to “Emerging Challenges”
In the mid-aughts, acclaimed architect Nader Tehrani was tapped to reconceive the historic Hinman Research Building on Georgia Tech’s campus for its College of Architecture. But when the market crashed in the early days of the project, Tehrani and the team at his architecture firm, NADAAA, had to fi...View Article Details for Designing Solutions to “Emerging Challenges”