Placemaking as an Essential Practice: Building Thriving Communities
4 - 6 p.m.
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...
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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
William Bonstra Endowment to Provide Need-based Student Support through New Terpstart Program
Bill Bonstra, FAIA (B.ARCH ’83) has spent his career as an architect seeking to enrich people’s lives through thoughtful design, a philosophy he has extended to his relationship with the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation for over 30 years. This past month, Bonstra, who has supported ...
Ariel Bierbaum Receives Research Grant from Spencer Foundation
MAPP is proud to announce that Ariel Bierbaum, along with her team of three other researchers, has secured $50,000 in research grant funding from the Spencer Foundation’s Small Research Grants Program. The grant will allow continuing work into the socioeconomic impact of public school closures in Ph...
Inspiring the Profession through Experience – The Thomas L. Schumacher Memorial Endowment
Towards the end of a difficult spring semester in 1985, Chris McCabe (B.S. Architecture ’85, M.ARCH ’87) was at a crossroads. Having studied architecture at UMD for four years, she was uncertain as to whether she had the talent and confidence needed to tackle the Master’s program in architecture. Fo...
First Annual Colvin Case Study Challenge
The Colvin Institute at the University of Maryland is proud to announce the 1st Annual Colvin Case Study Challenge. The Challenge is a national real estate paper competition, where projects are judged on the depth of understanding of markets, project valuation, finance, urban design, entitlement pr...
2022 Kea Professor Corie Sharples on Designing Skylines, Re-Thinking Construction and Revisiting Old Haunts
Of all the iconic places conceived by SHoP Architects along New York City’s skyline, the one that gives Founding Principal Corie Sharples ‘87 the most satisfaction is the place she once vowed never to return: South Street Seaport’s Pier 17, a slice of Manhattan’s East River Waterfront that once hous...