Resumes and Elbow-Bumps: MAPP’s Career and Internship Fair Returns In-Person, Helping Students Find their Fit
In 2019, architecture senior Dallas Chavez (B.S. Architecture ’19) was waiting to speak with a firm at MAPP’s Architecture, Planning, Preservation and Real Estate Development Career and Internship fair when something caught his eye at a nearby table: images of detailed limestone facades, beautiful 1...
Will Bien Duggan Makes the Case for Affordable Housing, Living by Example
The cooperative housing movement could be the great neighborhood equalizer. A model lauded by experts for giving agency to residents, diversifying housing choice and building wealth, co-ops offer residents an equal stake in the purchase and management of a building, while simultaneously reducing cos...
A Tumultuous History, Cast in Stone and Bronze/ Alum’s Study of Ukraine’s Memorials Traces Quest for Democracy Under Soviet Shadow
For days, architect Larysa Kurylas ’80 had weighed her safety working in Kyiv against the advice of her American ex-pat and Ukrainian friends who were skeptical of a Russian advance on the capital.But in the early hours of Feb. 11, unable to sleep in her apartment, she tuned into “PBS NewsHour” and ...
A Story in Progress
Isabel Anderson sits in a quiet corner of the Architecture Building, spiral-bound notebooks spread neatly across her desk. Working quickly with her pencil, Anderson is telling a story: not through words and phrases, but one that’s carefully constructed with walls and windows.Anderson's project is pa...
An Assault on Architecture to Target a People
A few days after fighting in the Syrian civil war ripped the millennia-old minaret off the Great Mosque of Aleppo, Syrian blogger Amal Hanono published an elegy to the symbolic piece of skyline, now absent.“They say that people make their cities,” she wrote in 2013. “But if you are from Aleppo, one ...
"School" of Thought: How Fish Farms Might be the Secret to Sustainable Cities
When it comes to aquaculture, we are missing the boat. One of the fastest growing food producers on the planet, aquaculture, or fish farming, is now responsible for half of the seafood on the world’s dinner plate. But aquaculture’s centuries-old history and versatile applications, says Clinical Assi...
Alum Allison Wilson Earns AIA’s 2022 Young Architects Award
The American Institute of Architects has awarded Allison Wilson, a senior associate at Baltimore’s Ayers Saint Gross (ASG) and a 2011 M.ARCH alum, with a 2022 AIA Young Architects Award. The AIA Young Architects Award honors individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and made significa...
In 24 Hours, Six Campus Sites Reimagined
What if student artwork could be displayed, gallery-style on wide panels, along the high-traffic outdoor staircase flanking UMD’s Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building and Campus Drive, bringing the beauty and wonder conceived inside dramatically out on view?This clever concept wasn’t cooked up ...
Two Alumni Find Recognition and Meaning in New D.C. Project
There’s an adage that Professor of Architecture Matthew Bell, FAIA shares with his students about the mark of a successful design project: if you did your job right, it will feel like the building has always been there.So, it’s no surprise that the latest project by two of Bell’s former students—Jea...
Studio Report Emphasizes Element-Embracing Design Strategies for Maryland Barrier Island
Design concepts for a Maryland coastal gem offer a compelling case study for leveraging a site’s natural resources to lighten the human ecological footprint. Fourteen design proposals for a new 9,000-square-foot public facility for Assateague State Park form the foundation of a new report, submitted...