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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ken Filler, AIA
Assistant Director, Undergraduate Architecture ; Assistant Clinical Professor
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
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
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
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