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Some Maryland homeowners use bamboo to bring life to their outdoor spaces. To others, it can be a pesky plant. But, for two University of Maryland students, the pervasive perennial was the selling point that won them the first-place prize at this year's ArchiNova 2.0: Architects as Entrepreneurs Student Challenge.

This article was originally published in Maryland Today. The packet of unfamiliar sheet music was a signal that I might be in over my head as a rookie guitar player. (And by unfamiliar, I mean the actual symbols on the page—is that a parenthesis on its side?)

This article was originally published in Maryland Today.

Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning Willow Lung-Amam has been named a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization located in Washington, D.C. Lung-Amam joins more than 300 experts in government and academia to address a spectrum of policy issues through research, recommendations and analysis.

In the mid-aughts, acclaimed architect Nader Tehrani was tapped to reconceive the historic Hinman Research Building on Georgia Tech’s campus for its College of Architecture. But when the market crashed in the early days of the project, Tehrani and the team at his architecture firm, NADAAA, had to find a way to deliver on the college’s programming needs—with half the budget.

The typical data farm’s destiny as a dreary digital fortress was reconceived as a stunning homage to the nation’s first union station by University of Maryland architecture students, “cementing” victory in an inaugural nationwide competition.

In 2022, the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation began celebrating 50th reunions with our first graduating classes.

Heather Wellington MRED ’11 admits she had no idea what real estate development was as an undergraduate student. A finance major at George Washington University, she had reluctantly resigned herself to a future on Wall Street.

Legendary architect and teacher Harold Adams, FAIA, died April 12, 2022, at his home near College Station, Texas, following a short illness. He was 82.

Written by Maggie Haslam and Brianna Rhodes. Photos by Jelena Djakovic.

At a key moment in Brady Corbet’s film “The Brutalist,” architect Laszlo Toth, a tortured visionary played by Adrian Brody, berates another architect for revising his design of a career-making project in rural Pennsylvania: “Everything that is ugly, stupid, cruel, but most importantly, ugly … is your fault,” he roars.

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