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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!View Article Details for Celebrating the School of Architecture Class of 1975 50th Reunion 
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.”View Article Details for Five Questions with Heather Wellington 
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.View Article Details for In Concrete Design Competition, UMD Breaks the Mold 
Come on, Feel (and Make) the Noise
This article was originally published in Maryland Today. The packet of unfamiliar sheet music was a signal that I might be in over my head as a rookie guitar player. (And by unfamiliar, I mean the actual symbols on the page—is that a parenthesis on its side?)I looked warily at my colleague, Ken Filler, who sat next me with an enormous plastic bowl of rice and mouthed, “What did we get ourselves into?”View Article Details for Come on, Feel (and Make) the Noise 
“The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had as an Architecture Student”
Written by Maggie Haslam and Brianna Rhodes. Photos by Jelena Djakovic.How do you create more foot traffic in a slice of downtown Washington, D.C. that has seen more retreat than feet—first emptying after the pandemic, and now with a shrinking federal workforce?View Article Details for “The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had as an Architecture Student” 
Brutal Truths About “The Brutalist”
At a key moment in Brady Corbet’s film “The Brutalist,” architect Laszlo Toth, a tortured visionary played by Adrian Brody, berates another architect for revising his design of a career-making project in rural Pennsylvania: “Everything that is ugly, stupid, cruel, but most importantly, ugly … is your fault,” he roars. The scathing scene is one reason the film lives up to its name (copious drug use, violence and sexual assault, and a nearly four-hour run time also help). But it’s realistic, said architecture Assistant Clinical Professor Ken Filler.View Article Details for Brutal Truths About “The Brutalist”