Dr. Willow Lung-Amam Promoted with Tenure to Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning
Willow Lung-Amam has been promoted with tenure to Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning by the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She serves as Director of Community Development with the National Center for Smart Growth (NCSG) and teaches courses in...
Madlen Simon Promoted to Full Professor of Architecture
Madlen Simon, AIA has been promoted to full professor by the University of Maryland’s Architecture Program. She currently serves as Professor and as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Outreach for the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she has been teaching since 2006.A...
Alumnae Amalie ElFallah Receives Fulbright Award
Written by Dan Novak Amalie ElFallah (B.S. Architecture ’18) has been awarded the Fulbright U.S. Student Program’s two-year Laurea Magistrale in Architecture and Urban Design at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy. The program trains students in advanced architectural design and develops theoretical,...
Finding Friendship in Warm Waters
A conversation with a stranger—in the checkout line, riding a quiet elevator or waiting for class to start—can spark a human connection that brightens an otherwise ordinary day. Yuval Zohar ’08 has had plenty, with one distinction: He’s usually naked. In these cases, he has disrobed and descended in...
Speaking of Books with Yuval Zohar
Speaking of Books with Yuval Zohar ’08 "Toward a Nude Architecture: A Visual Compendium of Japanese Hot Springs"About the BookAs one of the most volcanically active geographies in the world, the islands of Japan gush with nearly 30,000 naturally occurring hot springs, or onsen, of varying temperatur...
February 3, 2026
February 3, 2026
Placemaking as an Essential Practice: Building Thriving Communities
This Guy Lombardo lecture is part of Spring 2026 Architecture Lecture series. In Partnership with the Neighborhood Design Center.This lecture will be the kickoff for the Vision is Yours conference, held on April 23 - 24, 2026.Placemaking as an Essential Practice: Building Thriving CommunitiesElena M...
April 22, 2026
April 22, 2026
A Design Career Takes Off
This article originally was published in Terp.AN AIRPORT’S MOVING walkway offers a window into the spectrum of human emotion in motion: the exhaustion of a mother placating her toddler with M&Ms; the collective fury over a canceled flight; the apathy brewing in a stagnant queue at Starbucks.But ...
UMD Program Plants Seeds of Stormwater Relief
Of the many ways downpours disrupt the small town of North Brentwood, Maryland—from flooded basements to sodden front yards—one in particular is surprising: the walk to school. One of Prince George’s County’s oldest and lowest-lying towns along the Anacostia River is often overwhelmed by rain, with ...
Maryland Takes Top Honors at 2022 AIA Baltimore Design Awards
Two stunning urban enclaves—“Stack Alley” by graduate students Joseph Chase Edwards (B.S. Architecture ’20) and Marcelino Defngin (B.S. Architecture ’21) and “Dwelling in the City” by undergraduate student Meredith Eby (B.S. Architecture ’22)—were awarded top honors in the graduate and undergraduate...
Spring 2026 Dean's List
Name
Adams, Jacob Michael
Adamu, Tesnim
Adkins, Grace Jane
Adzannur, Emmy Cevyra
Al-Azawi, Maryam A
Alexander, Kevin
Allanach, Zachary Logan
Almeida, Katherine Elizabeth
Altman Farrell, Isabelle June
Amam, Ashay Lung Ke-Bing
Andres, Luis Daniel
Antezana, Emanol Alessandro
Arevalo, Yessenia Rocio
Arrowood, Elizabeth Kidder
Baker, Ashley Yuengling
Barake, Alexandra Marie
Barre, Alyssa Abdi
Bartholomew, Mia Isabella