UMD Students and Alumni Take Home Top Awards at 2023 AIA Maryland Awards
Written by Brianna RhodesEight University of Maryland students were recognized for their visionary architectural projects at the annual AIA Maryland Excellence in Design Awards on Thursday, Sept. 21, at College Park City Hall. A number of MAPP alumni also won awards this year, including jury citations, merit and honor awards. They were recognized for an array of project designs ranging from complexes to libraries.
All Hail David Do
Originally published in TERP Magazine, written by Karen Shih '09, photos by Stephanie S. Cordle.JUST BEYOND THE MAZE of hallways under New York City’s Penn Station, the din outside is disorienting: Cars honk incessantly in bumper-to-bumper traffic, pedestrians jostle each other on the sidewalk, and exhaust and cigarette smoke clog the air.
The Cool Day Jobs of UMD’s Adjunct Professors
Originally published in Maryland Today, written by Annie Krakower. In between days spent defending the Earth from asteroids, teaching jujitsu, studying crime scenes and excelling at hundreds of other vocations, experts across the Baltimore-Washington area come to the University of Maryland to do it some more.
Distilling a Dream into a Destination
Twenty minutes north of Maryland’s bustling downtown Bethesda, Montgomery County’s vast Agricultural Reserve could be another planet. But among the agrarian outposts nestled along serene, rolling fields is a barn that could easily fit into both: with a seemingly endless backdrop of blue sky, it's a sleek interpretation of its rural counterparts and the state’s latest destination for sampling Maryland-grown spirits at their source.
AIAPV Honors Two MAPP Alums as 2024 “Emerging Professionals”
Written by Brianna Rhodes
MAPP Alums Receive Top Honors at AIA PV 2023 Excellence in Design Awards
Written by Brianna Rhodes Ten MAPP alumni were among the recipients who took home awards at this year's Excellence in Design Awards during the AIA Potomac Valley (AIA PV) Design + Leadership awards celebration on Thursday, Oct. 19. The event took place at the Montgomery County Planning Department’s headquarters building in Wheaton, Maryland.
For Urban Studies Professor and Alums, It’s (Not) Just Lunch
The food just kept coming: heaps of steaming noodles, pillowy pork buns, glistening spears of Chinese broccoli. As the dishes amassed on the tractor tire-sized lazy Susan, University of Maryland Associate Professor Emeritus Alexander Chen turned to his former students at the table. He taught them how to plan cities, inform federal policy and spearhead community development—but apparently not how to coordinate a dim sum order. “You’d think after nearly 10 years, we could get this right,” he said, shaking his head. “We always order way too much food.”
Craig Spangler Receives UMD President’s Award
MAPP alums are no strangers to receiving top awards worldwide, but being recognized at their alma mater makes being an award recipient extra special. Just ask Craig Spangler, AIA (B.ARCH ‘82), who received the President's Award at the Alumni Association’s 2023 A Celebration of Terps: Featuring the Maryland Awards on Nov. 10.
Tribal Loyalties
Written by Sala Levin ’10 for TERP Magazine.American Indians have long been denied fair access to homes, health care, schooling and jobs. For Joseph Kunkel M.Arch. ’09, the mission to change that is personal. Read more in TERP Magazine.
Joseph Kunkel: Highlighting Native History, Policy and Design
The Architecture Program opened its first Spring 2024 lecture series with architecture alum Joseph Kunkel (M.ARCH ’09) on Wednesday, February 7. His lecture, “Designing with Dignity: Policy, Advocacy, and the Art of Architecture,” provided insight on his work in the context of policy and its connection to Native land.