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Bladensburg Waterfront Park in Prince George's County, Maryland
2022 - Present

Port Towns Maryland Walkable Watershed

OverviewThe Port Towns Walkable Watershed (WW) project is a community-based, green infrastructure planning tool to address flooding and resilience. The University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center, Skeo, Defensores de la Cuenca, and Hirschman Water & Environment are supporting this grant funded effort. The WW planning approach is unique in linking environmental and social equity goals.
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Pepco Awards 2024 Group Photo
2024 - Present

Pepco and Delmarva Power Sustainable Communities Grant Programs

The 2025 Grant Program offers funding for two key initiatives: Environmental Stewardship and Community Resiliency. The Environmental Stewardship program supports projects that aim to protect water quality, reduce urban heat islands, and provide social benefits like health and community cohesion. Eligible activities include conservation efforts, pollution prevention, community engagement, improvement of open spaces (such as installing recreation trails or informational kiosks), and land acquisition for open space or conservation easements.
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Peter Noonan and a view inside a house with wooden structures.

Professor Peter Noonan Elevated to 2025 AIA College of Fellows

Professor of the Practice and architecture alum Peter Noonan (‘88, M.Arch '92) is one of 83 individuals who has been elevated to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows this year. The honor is the organization's highest distinction; less than 3% of AIA members hold the designation.
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A grid-structured home with large windows, pictured at dusk.

Terps Hit “Home” Run in Forbes Best List

If you are building a home in the rolling landscape of Virginia’s Blue Ridge mountains magnificent views are as much a requirement as an extra bedroom. But architects Amy Gardner and Brittany Williams ‘05 M.Arch ‘07 decided early on in the project that scenery was only part of the equation— if sited and designed just right, they could also capture sunlight and ample mountain breezes, allowing the homeowners to power and ventilate the home, minimizing the need for AC even on sunny, hot and humid August summer days.
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McMillan Reservoir center with sand bins in background

An Abandoned D.C. Water Site Regains its Utility

For decades, abandoned concrete silos cresting the horizon like post-apocalyptic chess pieces presented an eerie curiosity for drivers crawling along one of the busiest arteries in and out of Washington, D.C.
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Portrait of Ken Filler, AIA

Ken Filler, AIA

Assistant Director, Undergraduate Architecture ; Assistant Clinical Professor

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Fresco at a Villa in Ancient Stabiae

Kibel Gallery Opening & Talk: STABIAE and the Visual Preservation of Architecture

Kibel Gallery Opening and TalkSTABIAE and the Visual Preservation of ArchitectureCurated by Joseph C. Williams, Lindsey May, and Lauren McNamara
October 3, 2025
December 22, 2025
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A person reading a book with holodomor memorial molds in the foreground

Making the Holodomor Memorial: Context & Questions

Whose truth? How do we mark loss? Why here? Why now?From 1932 to 1933 Josef Stalin’s communist government engineered and exploited a wheat shortage to starve millions of Ukrainians to death as the regime swept away small farms for a system of collective agriculture.
February 25, 2022
July 10, 2022
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People sitting on wooden cubes and pointing to a screen of the Dupont Underground sitemap

The Dupont Underground: Layered History & Possible Futures

The Kibel Gallery is proud to present The Dupont Underground: History & Potential Futures, a specially commissioned animation investigating the once abandoned underground streetcar station that has been transformed into a cultural institution for arts and architecture in Washington, D.C.
April 3, 2023
June 15, 2023
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In the foreground are bookshelves and in the back is a person looking at the exhibit

Embracing Differences

The "Embracing Differences" exhibition displays the winning projects from 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.The Kibel Gallery will display information on the vision, selection process, and historical data on past winners.
October 20, 2023
January 15, 2024
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