Michelle Magalong Named Assistant Professor
Dr. Michelle Magalong, a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, will be promoted to Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation, shifting into her new role in the Fall of 2022. Magalong’s appointment marks a significant milestone for the Universit...
Planning Practicum Tackles America’s Hidden Infrastructure Crisis: Public Schools
Over the past two years, schools across the United States have grappled with how to educate kids in the era of COVID-19. But, for a large subset of schools, the battle to provide a safe place to learn stretches beyond a global pandemic: Aging school infrastructure is compromising the health and safe...
PALS "Playlist" Highlights Musical History of Prince George's County
The "Sounds of Prince George's County" connects legendary artists--from Judas Priest to Duke Ellington--with their local roots in a new Spotify playlist, thanks to doctoral candidate Julia Kuhlman, who studies musicology and created the playlist through the university’s Partnership for Action Learni...
A Rooted Return
Written by SALA LEVIN ’10 In 1902, Robert Harrod Rr. signed the deed to own land in the very county where he had spent the beginning of his life legally owned and enslaved.He bought 13 acres near present-day FedEx Field, which he farmed throughout his life, then divided into smaller parcels for eac...
Resumes and Elbow-Bumps: MAPP’s Career and Internship Fair Returns In-Person, Helping Students Find their Fit
In 2019, architecture senior Dallas Chavez (B.S. Architecture ’19) was waiting to speak with a firm at MAPP’s Architecture, Planning, Preservation and Real Estate Development Career and Internship fair when something caught his eye at a nearby table: images of detailed limestone facades, beautiful 1...
Will Bien Duggan Makes the Case for Affordable Housing, Living by Example
The cooperative housing movement could be the great neighborhood equalizer. A model lauded by experts for giving agency to residents, diversifying housing choice and building wealth, co-ops offer residents an equal stake in the purchase and management of a building, while simultaneously reducing cos...
A Tumultuous History, Cast in Stone and Bronze/ Alum’s Study of Ukraine’s Memorials Traces Quest for Democracy Under Soviet Shadow
For days, architect Larysa Kurylas ’80 had weighed her safety working in Kyiv against the advice of her American ex-pat and Ukrainian friends who were skeptical of a Russian advance on the capital.But in the early hours of Feb. 11, unable to sleep in her apartment, she tuned into “PBS NewsHour” and ...
A Story in Progress
Isabel Anderson sits in a quiet corner of the Architecture Building, spiral-bound notebooks spread neatly across her desk. Working quickly with her pencil, Anderson is telling a story: not through words and phrases, but one that’s carefully constructed with walls and windows.Anderson's project is pa...
An Assault on Architecture to Target a People
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 ...
"School" of Thought: How Fish Farms Might be the Secret to Sustainable Cities
When it comes to aquaculture, we are missing the boat. One of the fastest growing food producers on the planet, aquaculture, or fish farming, is now responsible for half of the seafood on the world’s dinner plate. But aquaculture’s centuries-old history and versatile applications, says Clinical Assi...