Alum Taps into Hometown’s History
Tonight, residents of Granite Falls, Minn., population 3,000, will hoist pints of Deer Brand Lager and Hop Dish IPA at the new Bluenose Gopher Public House to honor the 159th birthday of the establishment’s namesake: Congressman Andrew Volstead, former mayor, resident lawyer and notably, congression...
URSP Student Elissa Silverman Elected to At-Large Seat of Washington, D.C. City Council
Last month, D.C. residents elected MAPP’s own Elissa Silverman, a graduate student in the Urban Studies and Planning Program, to the At-Large Seat of the Washington, D.C. City Council. After narrowly losing a seat in her first council campaign in 2013, Elissa won her second election handily, capturi...
HISP Students Cast New Light on a Fundamental Skill
Students employ LiDAR technology to offer new insights in historic restoration in VirginiaFairfax County’s Ash Grove Plantation has seen its fair share of history. Built by the county’s namesake, Brian Fairfax, in 1790, the Plantation was at different times a family home, a boarding school for young...
Alumni Profile: Meet Abraham Murrell
Before MAPP alum Abraham (Abe) Murrell (B.S. Architecture ’13) starts his master’s degree in architecture this fall, he has a small to-do list. It’s an ambitious list to squeeze into six months: Abe wants to travel, volunteer and also get some hands-on experience in construction. Even more ambitious...
PALS Delivers One Million Dollars in Project Value to Maryland Communities
Sixteen disciplines. Three hundred and fifty students. Nearly one million dollars in project value. This year, a new campus-wide program proved its strength in numbers, delivering sustainable solutions to environmental, social and economic challenges to two Maryland cities. Twenty-nine projects—whic...
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...
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 pri...
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...