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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 Casey Dawkins on the Latest Housing Crisis Casualty: Mobile Homes
Professor of Urban Studies and Planning Casey Dawkins was quoted in a Washington Post story on trailer parks, one of the country’s biggest sources of affordable housing, and what is behind rising rents. “Land prices are going up, housing costs are going up and that’s spilling into mobile homes,” he ...View Article Details for Casey Dawkins on the Latest Housing Crisis Casualty: Mobile Homes Work to Preserve Former Slave Quarters Featured on 60 Minutes
Associate Research Professor Dennis Pogue and his decades-long work to preserve the dwellings of Virginia’s enslaved was featured in a story about a Black family tracing its origin story to a plantation they purchased on CBS’s 60 Minutes. “We start from the idea that these places matter.” Watch the ...View Article Details for Work to Preserve Former Slave Quarters Featured on 60 Minutes