Casey Dawkins on the Latest Housing Crisis Casualty: Mobile Homes
Professor of Urban Studies and Planning Casey Dawkins was quoted in a Washington Post story on trailer parks, one of the country’s biggest sources of affordable housing, and what is behind rising rents. “Land prices are going up, housing costs are going up and that’s spilling into mobile homes,” he ...
Work to Preserve Former Slave Quarters Featured on 60 Minutes
Associate Research Professor Dennis Pogue and his decades-long work to preserve the dwellings of Virginia’s enslaved was featured in a story about a Black family tracing its origin story to a plantation they purchased on CBS’s 60 Minutes. “We start from the idea that these places matter.” Watch the ...
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 acros...
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 (...
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-...
Making (an Even Greater) College Park
Written by Jeremy BerlinWant to look into the future?
Jessica Jones MRED ‘09 and Tom Parker ‘09, MRED ‘17 in front of Aster in College Park, Md.
Try driving around College Park, Maryland, on an arctic Tuesday in January. You’ll see nondescript office buildings become high-tech research hubs. Past-...
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.” This was probably not the story that Elliot Genus ‘26, who graduates from UMD this ...
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 an...
The School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Mourns Former Dean John Steffian
Architect, educator and second Dean of Maryland’s School of Architecture, John Steffian passed away on August 2, 2022. He was 89. A generous and affable leader of the school for seven years, Steffian played a pivotal role in establishing the school’s place both at the University of Maryland and in t...
Students Channel Animal Instincts to Create Urban Spaces
One of Washington, D.C.’s fastest-growing hot spots may be a recreational and culinary boon for D.C.’s human inhabitants—but it’s a bummer for its winged ones, particularly the reclusive American bittern, a native bird that makes its home along the Anacostia.So when undergraduate architecture studen...