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  • Students presenting their architecture project on sustainably harvesting and repurposing bamboo.

    In Entrepreneurial Challenge, Architecture Students Build the Next Big Business

    Some Maryland homeowners use bamboo to bring life to their outdoor spaces. To others, it can be a pesky plant. But, for two University of Maryland students, the pervasive perennial was the selling point that won them the first-place prize at this year's ArchiNova 2.0: Architects as Entrepreneurs Student Challenge.
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  • People in a classroom on a Zoom call with students for Uganda Martyrs University

    ‘Design Is a Universal Language’

    This article was originally published in Maryland Today.Asked to design a researcher’s cabin set in the wetlands of Uganda, a group of University of Maryland architecture undergraduates envisioned a three-room, 538-square-foot structure made of locally sourced wood. A larger central space serves as the relaxation area, while two attached rooms create separate work and sleep stations, a layout meant to support work-life balance.
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  • Nader Tehrani giving a lecture

    Designing Solutions to “Emerging Challenges”

    In the mid-aughts, acclaimed architect Nader Tehrani was tapped to reconceive the historic Hinman Research Building on Georgia Tech’s campus for its College of Architecture. But when the market crashed in the early days of the project, Tehrani and the team at his architecture firm, NADAAA, had to find a way to deliver on the college’s programming needs—with half the budget. 
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  • The Class of 1972 in Golden graduation gowns

    Celebrating the School of Architecture Class of 1975 50th Reunion

    In 2022, the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation began celebrating 50th reunions with our first graduating classes. We have been delighted to host the classes of 1972, 1973 and 1974 in College Park. Now Class of 1975, it’s your turn!  
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  • Heather Wellington in a blue suit

    Five Questions with Heather Wellington

    Heather Wellington MRED ’11 admits she had no idea what real estate development was as an undergraduate student. A finance major at George Washington University, she had reluctantly resigned herself to a future on Wall Street. “My classmates were super excited about it—I was not,” she said. “I liked being out and looking and touching and feeling, but didn't know the word for it at the time.”
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  • Students next to their winning precast concrete project

    In Concrete Design Competition, UMD Breaks the Mold

    The typical data farm’s destiny as a dreary digital fortress was reconceived as a stunning homage to the nation’s first union station by University of Maryland architecture students, “cementing” victory in an inaugural nationwide competition. 
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