Going the Distance: Delivering Meaningful Education in a Virtual World
It’s a beautiful April afternoon and ARCH 402 students are sketching unit layouts for a multifamily housing project. Clinical Assistant Professor of Architecture Brittany Williams is reviewing one student’s work while others observe, offering feedback on outdoor spaces and sketching over the drawing to show how they might consider light and air in their design. It is a typical scene for the undergraduate design studio, with one major caveat: it’s happening entirely online. The feedback is happening in a Zoom meeting; the sketching, using a stylus and Zoom’s annotation tool.
Lindsey May named Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Strategic Initiatives
Lindsey May, a clinical assistant professor of architecture and assistant director of the architecture program, has been named Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Strategic Initiatives for the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. May will oversee several priority initiatives at the school, including advising and recruitment, and will work closely with program directors to plan and manage undergraduate and graduate curriculum.
Casey Dawkins on the Latest Housing Crisis Casualty: Mobile Homes
Work to Preserve Former Slave Quarters Featured on 60 Minutes
The Epic Story Behind MAPP's First Study Abroad
In the summer of 1971, just three years after the University of Maryland established the state’s first-ever architecture program, Dean John Hill, Kea Distinguished Professor Charles Moore, and then-Assistant Professor Roger Lewis took the program’s inaugural class on an epic architectural trek across Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa. Over the course of 32 days, the intrepid group traveled across eight countries over two continents exploring architectural marvels both extravagant and every day.
New Grant to Fuel Affordable Housing Efforts Along Maryland’s Purple Line
The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) Board of Directors has awarded The Purple Line Corridor Coalition (PLCC) a $75,000 grant to safeguard affordable housing along the tracks of Maryland’s Purple Line Light Rail. The grant, part of the new Housing Affordability Planning Program (HAPP) and backed by the Amazon Housing Equity Fund, was one of 10 awarded to support regional projects that address transit-oriented affordable and low-incoming housing initiatives.
Budding Architects and Chipboard Collide with Return of TERP Young Scholars Program
Discovering Architecture, a three-week program for high school students grades 9-12, returned this summer after a two-year pandemic hiatus, bringing buzz back to the Great Space as students sketched, built and presented their first projects as fledgling architecture students. Part of the university-wide living-learning summer experience Terp Young Scholars, Discovering Architecture is a hands-on introduction to the college experience, studio life and the techniques that make beautiful spaces.
Making (an Even Greater) College Park
Written by Jeremy Berlin
Prime Real Estate
When Eric Walter ‘04 MRED ‘10 was first breaking into real estate development after graduating from the University of Maryland, the prevailing response he heard from recruiters was, “You’re never going to get hired.”
Through Newberry Fellowship, Juan Burke Charts New Book, Curriculum
Since the dawn of civilization, maps have been an instrumental tool for discovering the world around us. They decipher unfamiliar cities, illustrate climate zones and natural features and facilitate a faster route to work. But Assistant Professor Juan Burke will tell you that maps, especially the ancient analogs crafted before the age of satellites, can also tell a story: about the political and social undercurrents of the day, how cities change over time and how civilizations interpreted it all.