MAPP News
Budding Architects and Chipboard Collide with Return of TERP Young Scholars Program
Discovering Architecture, a three-week program for high school students grades 9-12, returned this summer after a two-year pandemic hiatus, bringing buzz back to the Great Space as students sketched, built and presented their first projects as fledgling architecture students. Part of the university-...View Article Details for Budding Architects and Chipboard Collide with Return of TERP Young Scholars Program 
Through Newberry Fellowship, Juan Burke Charts New Book, Curriculum
Since the dawn of civilization, maps have been an instrumental tool for discovering the world around us. They decipher unfamiliar cities, illustrate climate zones and natural features and facilitate a faster route to work. But Assistant Professor Juan Burke will tell you that maps, especially the an...View Article Details for Through Newberry Fellowship, Juan Burke Charts New Book, Curriculum 
The School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Mourns Former Dean John Steffian
Architect, educator and second Dean of Maryland’s School of Architecture, John Steffian passed away on August 2, 2022. He was 89. A generous and affable leader of the school for seven years, Steffian played a pivotal role in establishing the school’s place both at the University of Maryland and in t...View Article Details for The School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Mourns Former Dean John Steffian 
Students Channel Animal Instincts to Create Urban Spaces
One of Washington, D.C.’s fastest-growing hot spots may be a recreational and culinary boon for D.C.’s human inhabitants—but it’s a bummer for its winged ones, particularly the reclusive American bittern, a native bird that makes its home along the Anacostia.So when undergraduate architecture studen...View Article Details for Students Channel Animal Instincts to Create Urban Spaces 
New Grant to Fuel Affordable Housing Efforts Along Maryland’s Purple Line
The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) Board of Directors has awarded The Purple Line Corridor Coalition (PLCC) a $75,000 grant to safeguard affordable housing along the tracks of Maryland’s Purple Line Light Rail. The grant, part of the new Housing Affordability Planning Program (...View Article Details for New Grant to Fuel Affordable Housing Efforts Along Maryland’s Purple Line 
The Epic Story Behind MAPP's First Study Abroad
In the summer of 1971, just three years after the University of Maryland established the state’s first-ever architecture program, Dean John Hill, Kea Distinguished Professor Charles Moore, and then-Assistant Professor Roger Lewis took the program’s inaugural class on an epic architectural trek acros...View Article Details for The Epic Story Behind MAPP's First Study Abroad