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When Eric Walter ‘04 MRED ‘10 was first breaking into real estate development after graduating from the University of Maryland, the prevailing response he heard from recruiters was, “You’re never going to get hired.”

Written by Jeremy Berlin

Discovering Architecture, a three-week program for high school students grades 9-12, returned this summer after a two-year pandemic hiatus, bringing buzz back to the Great Space as students sketched, built and presented their first projects as fledgling architecture students.

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) Board of Directors has awarded The Purple Line Corridor Coalition (PLCC) a $75,000 grant to safeguard affordable housing along the tracks of Maryland’s Purple Line Light Rail.

In the summer of 1971, just three years after the University of Maryland established the state’s first-ever architecture program, Dean John Hill, Kea Distinguished Professor Charles Moore, and then-Assistant Professor Roger Lewis took the program’s inaugural class on an epic architectural trek across Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa.

It’s a beautiful April afternoon and ARCH 402 students are sketching unit layouts for a multifamily housing project. Clinical Assistant Professor of Architecture Brittany Williams is reviewing one student’s work while others observe, offering feedback on outdoor spaces and sketching over the drawing to show how they might consider light and air in their design.

Lindsey May, a clinical assistant professor of architecture and assistant director of the architecture program, has been named Associate Dean of Academic Affairs & Strategic Initiatives for the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Sixteen disciplines. Three hundred and fifty students. Nearly one million dollars in project value. This year, a new campus-wide program proved its strength in numbers, delivering sustainable solutions to environmental, social and economic challenges to two Maryland cities.

Before MAPP alum Abraham (Abe) Murrell (B.S. Architecture ’13) starts his master’s degree in architecture this fall, he has a small to-do list. It’s an ambitious list to squeeze into six months: Abe wants to travel, volunteer and also get some hands-on experience in construction.

Students employ LiDAR technology to offer new insights in historic restoration in VirginiaFairfax County’s Ash Grove Plantation has seen its fair share of history.