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.
Designing Solutions to “Emerging Challenges”
In the mid-aughts, acclaimed architect Nader Tehrani was tapped to reconceive the historic Hinman Research Building on Georgia Tech’s campus for its College of Architecture. But when the market crashed in the early days of the project, Tehrani and the team at his architecture firm, NADAAA, had to find a way to deliver on the college’s programming needs—with half the budget.
Lung-Amam Named Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning Willow Lung-Amam has been named a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization located in Washington, D.C. Lung-Amam joins more than 300 experts in government and academia to address a spectrum of policy issues through research, recommendations and analysis.
‘Design Is a Universal Language’
This article was originally published in Maryland Today.Asked to design a researcher’s cabin set in the wetlands of Uganda, a group of University of Maryland architecture undergraduates envisioned a three-room, 538-square-foot structure made of locally sourced wood. A larger central space serves as the relaxation area, while two attached rooms create separate work and sleep stations, a layout meant to support work-life balance.
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?”
In Entrepreneurial Challenge, Architecture Students Build the Next Big Business
Some Maryland homeowners use bamboo to bring life to their outdoor spaces. To others, it can be a pesky plant. But, for two University of Maryland students, the pervasive perennial was the selling point that won them the first-place prize at this year's ArchiNova 2.0: Architects as Entrepreneurs Student Challenge.
Five Questions with John Bryant
John Bryant M.Arch ‘07 was a fish out of water when it came to designing for Florida's climate.A transplant from the Northeast and a new architect for Sweet Sparkman—Sarasota, Florida's largest architecture firm—one of Bryant‘s first big jobs was to revitalize a historic pavilion along Siesta Key Beach that could withstand Category 3 hurricanes, the hot, humid conditions of the Sunshine State and the instability of sand.
UMD’s Bridging the Gap Studio Awarded Studio Prize by Architect Magazine
Bridging the Gap, a collaborative, cross-continental design studio between the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Al-Nahrain University in Iraq, was awarded Architect Magazine’s 2019 Studio Prize.
Restoring an Ancient Community with 21st Century Technology: Stabiae, Italy
Since 2004, the University of Maryland’s Architecture Program has been a major player in uncovering one of the largest excavation sites in the ancient world: the Roman villas of Stabiae. Located on the western coast of Italy, Stabiae was a holiday mainstay for the Roman elite prior to the devastating eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, which buried the resort in over two meters of volcanic ash in 79 AD.
TERP Feature: “Bridging the Gap” by Creating Space for Community
This spring, graduate and undergraduate students from UMD's architecture program collaborated virtually with students from Al-Nahrain University in Baghdad for a joint-studio called "Bridging the Gap.” Now, in its second year, this cross-cultural, virtual classroom centers on bridging the distance and cultural gaps that exist across two continents, by exploring the commonalities, differences and challenges of each culture through site-specific projects. This year, the teams targeted marketplaces.