Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

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A collection of images of student work from the 2025 Student Show

2025 Student Show

A nighttime scene of the South Side Community Art Center, featuring a historic brick building and a modern extension with people gathered outside.

Lui’s Future Firm designs $15M expansion of historic Black art hub in Chicago

A group of people sitting around a table in Studio Reassembled conversing and working on laptops.

Studio Reassembled Selected as Finalist For Architizer A+ Award

M.Arch Students Godfrey, Schwartz, and Rodriguez Named to 2025 Metropolis Future100

Pimentel Walker Earns Award for Activist Urban Planning Research

Portrait of Erin Kurtycz

Taubman College student wins prestigious SOM Foundation award

A series of cross-section heads made of a white plaster-like material.

Solo exhibition on Jazairy’s work on display at MIT Museum

Africa Alliance

Challenge yourself to ask hard questions, develop your own positions, and innovate with different methods for design, making, and research.

Learn in a dynamic design and planning culture. Decarbonize the built environment. Expand housing access and affordability. Experiment with computational design and AI. Address design-driven inequality for health and well-being.

Learn in a dynamic design and planning culture. Decarbonize the built environment. Expand housing access and affordability. Experiment with computational design and AI. Address design-driven inequality for health and well-being.

Learn in a dynamic design and planning culture. Decarbonize the built environment. Expand housing access and affordability. Experiment with computational design and AI. Address design-driven inequality for health and well-being.

Learn in a dynamic design and planning culture. Decarbonize the built environment. Expand housing access and affordability. Experiment with computational design and AI. Address design-driven inequality for health and well-being.

Urban Planning and Technology

Lead the way for better urban and regional futures with the knowledge, capabilities, and imagination to foster flourishing places and communities.

Four Urban Technology students gather around a computer in the studio.

Urban Technology students tour an urban garden on a bright sunny day in summer.

Participatory planning students pose for a group picture on a trip to Brazil.

Money.com (2022)

Top Public College for Your Money

QS World University Rankings (2024)

#8 in U.S. for Architecture & Built Environment

QS World University Rankings (2019-23)

#1 U.S. Public University

Wallethub (2023)

Best Small College Town in America

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