Focus Area
Housing + Urbanism

Situated in close proximity to Detroit, we situate architectural practice in the context of complex global processes and urban transformation. Our faculty offer courses centered on experimentation and speculative design across regional structures and territory, urban housing, urban technologies, climate adaptation and resilience, civic space, innovative development practices, urban governance, and landscape processes.

Required Courses

  • ARCH 515, Sustainable Systems
  • ARCH 562, Collectives

Elective Courses

  • ARCH 409, Egalitarian Metropolis
  • ARCH 423, Introduction to Urban and Environmental Planning
  • ARCH 506, Design Activism + Social Justice
  • ARCH 506, High Density
  • ARCH 506, Land as Spatial Practice
  • ARCH 506, Physical Planning and Design Workshop
  • ARCH 509, Architecture & Urbanisms of Sociality
  • ARCH 518, Intro to Housing
  • ARCH 509, Climates: Actions for Good Living
  • ARCH 509, Politics of Balance
  • ARCH 509, Spaces of Exception
  • ARCH 517, Architect/Planner as Developer
  • ARCH 523, History of Urban Form
  • ARCH 531, American Space
  • ARCH 533, Possible Worlds
  • ARCH 672 / UD 732, Proposition / Urban Design Studio III (Climate)
  • UD 715, Theories and Methods of Urban Design
  • UD 716, City Making
  • UD 716, Urban Economics
  • UD 717, City as Thesis

In addition, the Urban Planning and Urban Technology curricula offer a range of additional course options.

Research Clusters and Initiatives

Africa Alliance
Collective for Equitable Housing
Public Design Corps
Sustainable Food Systems Initiative
Water, Infrastructure, and Coastal Resilience

Faculty

Ellie Abrons
Director of the Digital Studies Institute in LSA , Associate Professor of Architecture
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María Arquero de Alarcón
Professor of Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning
McLain Clutter
Professor
Gabriel Cuéllar
Assistant Professor of Architecture
Philip D’Anieri
Teaching Professor in Urban and Regional Planning
Adam Fure
Associate Professor of Architecture
Sharon Haar
Emil Lorch Collegiate Professor of Architecture
Andrew Herscher
Professor of Architecture
El Hadi Jazairy
Director of Master of Urban Design , Professor of Architecture
Larissa Larsen
Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
Jen Maigret
Professor of Architecture
Kit McCullough
Teaching Professor in Architecture
Malcolm McCullough
Professor of Architecture
A portrait of Malcolm McCullough with a white shirt and glasses
John McMorrough
Professor of Architecture
Ana Morcillo Pallarés
Associate Professor of Architecture
Cyrus Peñarroyo
Associate Professor of Architecture
Łukasz Stanek
Professor of Architecture
Antje Steinmuller
Chair of Architecture , Professor of Architecture
Portrait of Antje Steinmuller
Claudia Wigger
Lecturer
Craig Wilkins
Associate Professor of Architecture