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Fri, 04/08/2022 - 12:00

The urban evolution of a seaside town’s public space has earned a team of urban designers, including MAPP lecturer and alum Marques King (M.ARCH ‘14), a 2022 Charter Award from the Congress for the New Urbanism in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor Category. The project, executed over the last...

Thu, 04/07/2022 - 12:00

Design concepts for a Maryland coastal gem offer a compelling case study for leveraging a site’s natural resources to lighten the human ecological footprint. Fourteen design proposals for a new 9,000-square-foot public facility for Assateague State Park form the foundation of a new report, submitted...

Tue, 04/05/2022 - 12:00

There’s an adage that Professor of Architecture Matthew Bell, FAIA shares with his students about the mark of a successful design project: if you did your job right, it will feel like the building has always been there.So, it’s no surprise that the latest project by two of Bell’s former students—Jea...

Mon, 04/04/2022 - 12:00

What if student artwork could be displayed, gallery-style on wide panels, along the high-traffic outdoor staircase flanking UMD’s Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building and Campus Drive, bringing the beauty and wonder conceived inside dramatically out on view?This clever concept wasn’t cooked up ...

Tue, 03/29/2022 - 12:00

In a new report, UMD Environmental Finance Center's Dr. Jennifer Egan and a team led by the Trust for Public Land identify the economic benefits provided by parks in New York City. Nature provides important services and benefits to humans, and valuation of an area's natural resources helps people be...

Fri, 03/18/2022 - 12:00

A few days after fighting in the Syrian civil war ripped the millennia-old minaret off the Great Mosque of Aleppo, Syrian blogger Amal Hanono published an elegy to the symbolic piece of skyline, now absent.“They say that people make their cities,” she wrote in 2013. “But if you are from Aleppo, one ...