UMD Team Makes “Final Four” in HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition
An interdisciplinary team of graduate students from UMD’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation has landed one of four finalist slots in the 2023 HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning (IAH) Competition, beating out interdisciplinary teams from some of the most ...
UMD Team Makes “Final Four” in HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition
An interdisciplinary team of graduate students from UMD’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation has landed one of four finalist slots in the ninth annual HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning (IAH) Competition 2022, beating out 28 teams from some of the most fo...
UMD Team Takes First Place in Affordable Housing Design Competition
A dynamic second act for the largest performance hall in the Southeastern United States earned a team of University of Maryland graduate students top honors—and a $20,000 first-place prize—in the ninth annual Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition sponsored by the U...
EFC Director Honored at 2023 Maryland Research Excellence Celebration
More than 200 University of Maryland faculty scholars and researchers were honored on March 28 at the 2023 Maryland Research Excellence Celebration.The event, held at the Hotel at the University of Maryland and co-hosted by Senior Vice President and Provost Jennifer King Rice and Vice President for ...
Rents Already Rising Along Purple Line, UMD Study Finds
Trains on Maryland’s Purple Line won’t begin service for at least another two years, but according to a new University of Maryland study, some residents living along the future transit corridor began seeing spikes in rent just after construction shovels broke ground.Published this month in Internati...
MAPP Announces the 2023 Architecture Scholarship-Internship Winners
Six talented graduate-level architecture students have been awarded scholarship-internship opportunities in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C., area through the generous support of partner firms Ayers Saint Gross, Design Collective, David M. Schwarz Architects, Gensler, Torti Gallas + Partners and WDG. ...
Professor David Cronrath Retires
Written by Christine Cestello HinojosaDean (2010-2016)David Cronrath, who served as dean of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation from 2010 to 2016, has begun his retirement. After arriving here from Louisiana State, he served six years as dean, transitioned to the office of the prov...
William P. Mallari Elevated to FAIA
Written by Christine HinojosaMAPP congratulates William P. Mallari, AIA (B.ARCH ’80) as he is elevated to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows. This prestigious honor is awarded to members who have made significant contributions to the architecture profession. He will be celebrate...
Unmasking a Secret Famine: Larysa Kurylas (B.ARCH '80)
Alumni Profile: Larysa Kurylas (B.ARCH ’80)In November 2009, a week before Thanksgiving, Washington, D.C.-architect Larysa Kurylas found herself driving a complete stranger to Dulles International Airport. In the stranger’s hands was a box, holding a model and drawings for a memorial design competit...
William Kevin Wyllie
Lecturer, Architecture