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News9.15.2017

Advanced Studio Visits Glass Fabricator

Students in Professor Christian Volkmann’s Advanced Studio, “Urban Glass House,” toured the 120,000-square foot production facility and got a company overview at GGI headquarters in Secaucus, New Jersey. Their studio focus is to develop glass pavilions, annexes, or other elements for pocket spaces in New York, focusing on research and technical documentation of architectural and spatial

News9.11.2017

Professor June Williamson in the News

Professor June Williamson is quoted in an article in Hour Detroit about the future of Detroit’s suburbs. She is also quoted in the Business Insider about the potential of grocery stores to invigorate suburban shopping malls. Her thoughts about suburbia have also been referenced in Politico and Citylab.com.

Alumni9.11.2017

Alum Wins Scholarship to Study in France

During the summer of 2017, Kaitlin Faherty (BArch ’17) held a full scholarship to study in France as part of the Summer Architecture Program at the Écoles d’Art Américaines de Fontainebleau. At the school’s graduation ceremony, Kaitlin was awarded first prize in architecture. She will return to Fontainebleau this summer as a teaching assistant in

News9.7.2017

Unbuild the Wall ACROSS | CRUZAR competition board

Students Win Honors in Unbuild the Wall Competition

A four-person team of graduate architecture and landscape architecture students won the first Honorable Mention in Archstorming’s summer 2017 international competition Unbuild the Wall. Their proposal, ACROSS | CRUZAR, transforms the US-Mexico border wall at Nogales into a social and cultural hub and stretches the footprint of the border into a formal, bi-national territory where people sharing the same

News9.1.2017

Student Project Wins 2017 ASLA Honor Award

Christine Facella MLA ’17 is a winner of a 2017 American Society of Landscape Architects Student Honor Award for her project “Forests on the Edge: Plant-Based Economies Driving Ecological Renewal in Haiti.” Using Haiti as a prototypical case-study, the project investigates the utilization of live fences as a catalyst for reforestation through the choreographed design

Alumni8.31.2017

Alum Selected for AIA Civic Leadership Program

Christina Hernandez M Arch ’15 has been selected for the Center for Architecture’s new Civic Leadership Program. Together with nine other young, talented, socially committed professionals, she will participate in a year-long series of programs and events to develop civic leadership skills. The CLP was initiated following the 2016 election to build on the groundswell of energy