by Taubman College | May 15, 2024 | Faculty Updates, News
Taubman College’s Jose Sanchez has partnered with the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan to launch a novel series of online courses that provide essential programming skills with a creative twist. Programming for Designers is a three-course...
by Taubman College | May 13, 2024 | Faculty Updates, News
Taubman College conferred degrees on more than 250 students over the weekend of May 5, 2024, and presented awards for excellence to students and faculty. Students who graduate with a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree join the college’s global alumni base, which...
by Taubman College | May 9, 2024 | News
Caitlin Conway, senior research administrator at Taubman College, is one of 15 University of Michigan employees to win a Research Staff Recognition Award this year from the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR). The annual awards recognize the contributions...
by Taubman College | May 8, 2024 | Faculty Updates, News
Accessibility has largely been an afterthought in our built environment. Taubman College researcher Julia McMorrough is working to give disabled people a voice in the design culture through inclusive communication practices. McMorrough, associate professor of...
by Taubman College | May 6, 2024 | News
Taubman College Fellow Strat Coffman and former Fellow Leah Wulfman have won the prestigious Architectural League Prize for 2024. Organized by the Architectural League of New York, the prize is an annual competition, lecture series, and exhibition open to designers in...
by Taubman College | May 3, 2024 | Faculty Updates, News
Taubman College Assistant Professor Mania Aghaei Meibodi and Lecturer Irene Hwang have been awarded funding from the University of Michigan Bold Challenges’ Accelerate Program to explore innovative, interdisciplinary research projects. Bold Challenges, based in the...
by Taubman College | Apr 29, 2024 | In The News, News
Extreme heat is America’s deadliest weather hazard, killing more people than hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes combined. Yet one obvious solution – increasing access to indoor cooling – is hindered by a lack of reliable data on which households have working air...
by Taubman College | Apr 25, 2024 | News
Taubman College Urban Technology students participated in a consulting project with the State of Michigan’s population growth campaign, Let’s Grow Michigan. Over the last semester, students focused on creating innovative concepts to welcome new residents into Michigan...
by Taubman College | Apr 24, 2024 | News
Two Taubman College students have been named to the 2024 Metropolis Future100, which recognizes North America’s top graduating students in architecture and design. Axel Olson, M.Arch ‘24, and Sophie Pacelko, M.Arch ‘24, are in the final year of the three-year Master...
by Taubman College | Apr 23, 2024 | Faculty Updates, News
Jonathan Rule’s “Augmented Tectonics” project, which uses virtual realities to demystify construction concepts currently presented through abstract drawings and images, has become a showcase of the University of Michigan’s pioneering XR studio. Rule, an assistant...
by Taubman College | Apr 19, 2024 | News
With concepts ranging from straw-insulated housing to a community-based composting facility, the 2024 Student Show awards honor the best work by Taubman College’s undergraduate, graduate, and post-professional students. The Student Show, titled “SHOW…don’t...
by Taubman College | Apr 4, 2024 | News
Rachel Hrobon, M.Arch ‘18, has received Taubman College’s 2024 George G. Booth Traveling Fellowship. The Fellowship, which began in 1924, annually provides a $13,000 stipend to recent Taubman College graduates pursuing architectural research that requires...
by Taubman College | Apr 2, 2024 | News
Taubman College Professor of Architecture Łukasz Stanek co-curated an exhibition titled “The Gift: Stories of Generosity and Violence in Architecture” at the Architekturmuseum der TUM in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Germany. The exhibition includes student...
by Taubman College | Mar 26, 2024 | News
A team of Taubman College faculty members—Associate Professor of Architecture Jose Sanchez, Lecturers and ArcPrep Co-Directors Salam Rida and Torri Smith, and Lecturer and TVLab Manager Ishan Pal Singh—was awarded funding through the Arts Research: Incubation &...
by Taubman College | Mar 21, 2024 | News
Each year three teams of Taubman College architecture students are awarded funding to pursue self-initiated design studies through the Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) program. Initiated by the Class of 2013, ASRG provides a unique funding opportunity for...
by Taubman College | Mar 19, 2024 | Faculty Updates, News
What materials and methods will allow us to design and construct low-carbon buildings? How can architects and designers promote social justice through community ownership of land? Through its Pressing Matters grant program, Taubman College has funded five faculty-led...
by Taubman College | Mar 15, 2024 | Faculty Updates, News
The SOM Foundation announces Taubman College Assistant Professor of Architecture Gabriel Cuéllar as one of its 2023 Research Prize winners. He and his collaborator will receive a $40,000 prize to conduct original research contributing to this year’s topic, “Adapting...
by Taubman College | Mar 11, 2024 | News
The skills of architects are essential for society to achieve so many of its goals, in addressing climate change, social justice, health and wellness, housing, and construction. Engaged in local, national, and international conversations to advance ideas, Taubman...
by Taubman College | Mar 7, 2024 | News
Five Taubman College alums have been elevated to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows (FAIA) in 2024. The highest membership of the AIA honors architects for their exceptional work and contributions to architecture and society. Members who...
by Taubman College | Feb 29, 2024 | Faculty Updates, News
By implementing human-guided, interactive, multi-robot technology, Taubman College Assistant Professor of Architecture Mania Aghaei Meibodi and her colleagues at the University of Michigan are working together to enhance standard 3D printing practices for...
by Taubman College | Feb 29, 2024 | News
Five Taubman College students–Jamie Brackman, Jon Kent, Lyu Chen, Lauren Jenkins, and Jessie Williams–have been named 2024 Dow Sustainability Fellows. The Dow Sustainability Fellows program, supported by Dow and administered by the University of Michigan Graham...
by Taubman College | Feb 26, 2024 | Features and Awards, Faculty Updates, News
The Architect’s Newspaper recognized Detroit-based M1DTW for its portfolio of projects and Notes on a Practice with a 2023 Best of Practice Award in the Architect Small Firm (Midwest) category. Taubman College Associate Professor of Practice in Architecture Christian...
by Taubman College | Feb 21, 2024 | News
Several Taubman College students, faculty members, and student initiatives were honored with the North Campus Deans’ MLK Spirit Awards in 2024 for exemplifying the leadership and vision of Martin Luther King Jr. The annual awards recognize a commitment to social...
by Liz Fisher | Feb 15, 2024 | Portico, News
“I’m passionate about climate change,” says Rich von Luhrte. “If I were 25 again and going back to school, I might study to be an ecologist or an environmentalist.” As the architect of the Solar Energy Research Institute, which won 42 awards and was named the most...
by Taubman College | Feb 12, 2024 | In The News, Features and Awards, News
Taubman College Professor of Urban and Regional Planning Joe Grengs and Associate Professor of Architecture Sean Ahlquist are members of two project teams recognized with Graham Sustainability Institute Catalyst Grants. Since 2017, the University of Michigan’s Graham...
by Taubman College | Feb 7, 2024 | Features and Awards, News
The African Studies Association (ASA) recognized Taubman College Assistant Professor of Architecture Kuukuwa Manful with the 2023 ASA Graduate Student Paper Prize for her article “Building Classes: Secondary Schools and Sociopolitical Stratification in Ghana.” Manful,...
by Liz Fisher | Jan 24, 2024 | Portico, News
Kuukuwa Manful joined Taubman College as an assistant professor of architecture in the fall of 2023, but her connection to the college goes back much further. As a student at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana, she came to...
by Liz Fisher | Jan 17, 2024 | Portico, News
Not long after they graduated from Taubman College in 2014, Dillon Erb (left) and Daniel Kobran (right) walked to the Ann Arbor post office to file paperwork for their new software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, Paperspace. They had no idea that, nine years later,...
by Liz Fisher | Jan 10, 2024 | News, Portico
As University of Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh says, “Winning as a team is better than anything.” It’s a principle that holds true in Whitney Kraus’ planning and design director role at Compass Development Marketing Group, where she serves as a liaison between...
by Liz Fisher | Jan 3, 2024 | Portico, News
“Do you actually need a building?” may seem like an unusual question from an architect. But it’s a central one for Patricia Gruits, whose education at Taubman College, where she was a Taubman Scholar, taught her an openness and way of thinking based on leveraging...
by Taubman College | Dec 22, 2023 | News
From the secreting labor of silkworms to the migratory lives of a public housing development in Rome, from the fantasies of the perfect home to the silvery handholds of commercial building space, the public is invited to witness and interact with a gathering of worlds...
by Taubman College | Dec 13, 2023 | News
Recipients of Taubman College’s 2023 Urban Technology Prototype Grant explored EV battery maintenance, water quality monitoring, and environmental impact assessments following this year’s competition theme, “Green Seeds.” This year’s call for applications focused on...
by Amy Crawford | Dec 13, 2023 | Portico, News
As Taubman College celebrates a quarter century since A. Alfred Taubman’s transformational naming gift, we honor the past and embrace a promising future. In 1999, when real estate developer and investor A. Alfred Taubman gave $30 million to the University of Michigan...
by Annabel Curran | Dec 1, 2023 | In The News, News
On Friday, November 3, University of Michigan faculty and staff convened at Taubman College for a second workshop centered around the Low Carbon Building R+D Initiative. Participants in this multidisciplinary initiative include faculty members from the College of...
by Jesse Schmidt | Nov 30, 2023 | Faculty Updates
by Jesse Schmidt | Nov 30, 2023 | Faculty Updates
by Taubman College | Nov 10, 2023 | News
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $5 million to the University of Michigan Global Center for Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Transboundary Waters. Richard Norton, professor of urban and regional planning who holds a joint appointment as a...
by Taubman College | Nov 10, 2023 | Portico
During the pandemic, Martin Rodriguez Jr., M.Arch ’25, moved from Houston, Texas, to Berkley, Michigan. “I was doing commercial and hospitality design, and I knew exploring new techniques and ideas would help me be more creative in my work,” Rodriguez says. “I was...
by Taubman College | Oct 30, 2023 | News
“Preserving Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing in Detroit: A Case Study of Oakman Boulevard Community along the Joe Louis Greenway” has been awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Project in the 2023 Planning Excellence Awards. The Michigan Association of...
by Taubman College | Oct 26, 2023 | News
Dr. Mania Aghaei Meibodi, assistant professor of architecture at Taubman College, and her team from the Digital Architecture Research and Technologies (DART) Lab participated in this year’s Celebrate Invention event. Showcasing a wide range of creativity and...
by Taubman College | Oct 24, 2023 | News
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) has recognized June Manning Thomas, Centennial Professor Emerita of urban and regional planning and Mary Frances Berry Distinguished University Professor of urban planning, with a Distinguished Educator Award....
by Jesse Schmidt | Oct 17, 2023 | Faculty Updates
by Taubman College | Oct 17, 2023 | News
Meredith Miller, associate professor of architecture and director of the masters of architecture program, and Thom Moran, associate professor of architecture, are principal investigators, and Chris Humphrey, FabLab associate manager and lecturer in architecture, is a...
by Taubman College | Oct 16, 2023 | News
“When you go to look at university infrastructure … it’s hard to point to a space and say, this is an intentionally designed safe space. For the most part I think architects feel like they’ve done their job if they meet accessible agendas within the building code … My...
by Taubman College | Oct 10, 2023 | News
Kathy Velikov, associate dean for research and creative practice at Taubman College and professor of architecture, and Fabian Pfeffer, Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics director, have released the second of a two-video series that explores the divides in housing...
by Jesse Schmidt | Oct 10, 2023 | In The News, Faculty Updates
by Taubman College | Oct 4, 2023 | News
The Graham Foundation recognized Taubman College Ph.D. student Deepthi Bathala with a 2023 Carter Manny Writing Citation. The Ph.D. candidate earned this recognition for her dissertation titled “Famine Crops, Plantations, and Environmental Imaginaries: Botanical...
by Taubman College | Sep 29, 2023 | News
Tim Berke, Ph.D. student in urban and regional planning, was recognized with the Global Planning Educators’ Interest Group’s (GPEIG) 2023 award for the best student paper on an international planning topic. GPEIG is part of the Association of Collegiate...
by Taubman College | Sep 28, 2023 | Portico, News
Many of David Lepo’s fondest memories of Taubman College involve his friend, mentor, and urban planning professor, Katharine Warner. Warner, who passed away in 2022, was known to her students as “Kate.” Lepo recalls that his brother, who attended a different...
by Jesse Schmidt | Sep 26, 2023 | Faculty Updates
