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Studio Brings the “Heart of Campus” to Center Field
For years, the University of Maryland community has recognized the campus’ iconic McKeldin Mall as the “heart of campus.” Geographically, however, one would need to look north, to UMD’s Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium, home to the Terp baseball team. This topographical reality represents a larger disconnect—a physical division, where students must maneuver around UMD’s looming stadiums to traverse north and south on campus, as well as a perceived social division between students and student-athletes.View Article Details for Studio Brings the “Heart of Campus” to Center Field 
2016 AIA COTE Award Winner
A design project conceived by two graduate students from the University of Maryland’s (UMD) Architecture Program has placed in the 2016 AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Design Competition. Graduate students Erin Barkman and Emily Latham’s winning design, entitled, “Creativity Sustaining Community,” delicately integrates a proposed corporate headquarters for Pigmental Animation Studio into the streetscape of Georgetown, boosting both the social and environmental capital of the community.View Article Details for 2016 AIA COTE Award Winner 
First Annual Colvin Case Study Challenge
The Colvin Institute at the University of Maryland is proud to announce the 1st Annual Colvin Case Study Challenge. The Challenge is a national real estate paper competition, where projects are judged on the depth of understanding of markets, project valuation, finance, urban design, entitlement processes and operational issues by leading real estate professionals. This is a retrospective written case study documenting a recently completed (within 5 years) project in your region.Competition Highlights:View Article Details for First Annual Colvin Case Study Challenge Restoring an Ancient Community with 21st Century Technology: Stabiae, Italy
Since 2004, the University of Maryland’s Architecture Program has been a major player in uncovering one of the largest excavation sites in the ancient world: the Roman villas of Stabiae. Located on the western coast of Italy, Stabiae was a holiday mainstay for the Roman elite prior to the devastating eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, which buried the resort in over two meters of volcanic ash in 79 AD.View Article Details for Restoring an Ancient Community with 21st Century Technology: Stabiae, Italy 
UMD Leads 2015 Regional Design Awards
Architecture program wins big at AIA Maryland Design Awards and AIA Baltimore’s B-More Resilient CompetitionStudents from the University of Maryland’s Architecture program put on a tremendous showing this year at two regional design forums, The AIA Maryland 2015 Excellence in Design awards and the AIA Baltimore “B-More Resilient” Rowhouse Design Competition, snatching up eight awards for design excellence and making UMD the biggest collegiate winner to participate in either competition.View Article Details for UMD Leads 2015 Regional Design Awards 
Spring Studio with Iraqi University Aims to “Bridge the Gap”
Gensler-UMD partnership will pair students from UMD and Al-Nahrain University in first-ever architecture international design studioView Article Details for Spring Studio with Iraqi University Aims to “Bridge the Gap”