MAPP News
MAPP Mourns Karl Du Puy, Professor Emeritus of Architecture
Peter Noonan has a perspective that few architecture alumni have, but all would envy. Thirty years ago, he had the great opportunity to study architecture and the urban form under Professor Karl F.G. Du Puy, an experience that launched an established career in practice and solidified his love for cities. But it was working alongside Du Puy years later that cemented his love for teaching.View Article Details for MAPP Mourns Karl Du Puy, Professor Emeritus of Architecture 
Clearing Up the Runoff
Assistant Professor Marccus Hendricks, along with colleagues from the National Center for Smart Growth, the iSchool, the A. James Clark School of Engineering, Facilities Management and others will study stormwater runoff from campus into regional waterways using new outdoor sensors, which provide a real-time view of water quality and quantity as well as infrastructure performance on campus. Read more about this project in Maryland Today.View Article Details for Clearing Up the Runoff 
Now Online: Kibel Gallery Exhibit, "Making the Holodomor Memorial: Context & Questions"
The Kibel Gallery's latest exhibit, "Making the Holodomor Memorial: Context & Questions" has been digitized and is available to explore online. Read about MAPP alum and memorial designer Larysa Kurylas' (B.ARCH '80) journey from conceptualization to realization in Washington, D.C., learn about the famine's history, view photographs and explore questions surrounding truth and loss.View Article Details for Now Online: Kibel Gallery Exhibit, "Making the Holodomor Memorial: Context & Questions" 
Lindsey May Earns AIA/DC’s Inaugural Architectural Educator Award
The Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA|DC) and Washington Architectural Foundation (WAF) have awarded Assistant Clinical Professor Lindsey May the distinction of AIA|DC’s 2020 architectural educator.View Article Details for Lindsey May Earns AIA/DC’s Inaugural Architectural Educator Award 
New Kibel Exhibit Looks at the Complex Process of Memorializing Tragedy
The first thing you notice are the stalks of wheat. Cast in bronze and measuring 30 feet long, the sculpture depicts a bountiful wheat field that slowly recedes into the background until it finally disappears. The stunning visual depicts the confiscation of Ukraine’s wheat crop by Stalin in 1932 and 1933, an orchestrated act of oppression through engineered starvation, resulting in over four million deaths. Today, it is known as Holodomor, which in Ukrainian means “hunger by extermination.”View Article Details for New Kibel Exhibit Looks at the Complex Process of Memorializing Tragedy 
Uncovering a Secret Famine: New Kibel Exhibit and Talk Series Examines Loss, Truth and Remembrance in the Era of “Fake News”
Imagine living in the agricultural epicenter of Europe, yet being so hungry you must eat dried nettle leaves to survive. This was the reality for millions of Ukrainians in 1932, the victims of one the worst manufactured famines in human history. Called Holodomor, which loosely translates to “death by starvation” in Ukrainian, Stalin’s year-long campaign to starve Ukrainian wheat farmers into submission resulted in nearly four million deaths and was kept quiet for nearly half a century, proclaimed “fake news” by the Soviet regime.View Article Details for Uncovering a Secret Famine: New Kibel Exhibit and Talk Series Examines Loss, Truth and Remembrance in the Era of “Fake News”