This two-part event focuses on URP Ph.D. alumni who have gone on to non-academic career paths. In Panel 1, alumni will offer 8-minute talks about their career paths and current work, ranging from leadership in local governments to working for the United Nations. Panel 2 will ask alumni to reflect on how their doctoral training […]
The prize winners of the 2023-24 Architecture Student Awards will be announced at a luncheon, with jury-selected projects from each studio receiving a recognition of excellence. 2023-24 jurors are all former Taubman College Architecture Program fellowship recipients, including James Michael Tate, Texas A&M University (2014–2015 Willard A. Oberdick Research Fellow). Di Peter Yi, University of […]
In this workshop, we will play a worldbuilding game fætures. Playing this tabletop card game, you are invited to creatively envision speculative worlds through modes of collective brainstorming and individual imagination. The game enables you to work independently but never in isolation from your team, and everyone at the table has the same power to […]
For one night only, students will transform the Taubman College Commons into an ephemeral festivity space for the first annual “Taubman Architecture Ball,” a celebration of design and designers. This year’s theme, “Frameworks”, focuses on collaborative projects, essential structures, and making fun! This event is free; all Taubman students, faculty, staff, and guests are cordially […]
Even as digital technologies promise to transform urban planning and urban governance, they entrench structural inequities and discriminatory practices. To ensure that contemporary and emerging urban technologies are beneficial to urban communities -- historically marginalized communities as well as communities exponentially impacted by innovations in AI, surveillance technologies, and automation -- we must understand the […]
Scott Colman of Rice University will lecture on his recent book Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City, the first synthetic account of Hilberseimer in English, providing a contextual account of Hilberseimer's works which have until now been subject to fragmentary or highly specialized interpretations. The German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer […]
Join U-M and Taubman College faculty, staff, students, community partners, and funders on April 5 at the Michigan League for the 2024 Water@Michigan Symposium, which will center around water justice, access, and affordability across U-M and Michigan. From ensuring safe drinking water to tackling emerging contaminants and securing equitable access for under-resourced communities, the challenges […]
Sekou Cooke from UNC Charlotte will be presenting “Fresh and Clean: The Evolution of Practice as part of the Architecture Program's Winter 2024 series, "Building Culture," and is hosted by Taubman College’s chapter of NOMAS (National Organization for Minority Architecture Students
Extended Realities, Extended Feminisms brings together local, national, and international artists to create a site-specific multimedia exhibition and series of events on the University of Michigan campus and across the city of Ann Arbor. The exhibition will take place in a shipping container - the XR/XF pod - that will travel between 2 locations in […]
Bank failures and troubled commercial real estate have been in the news a lot. Join the Weiser Center for Real Estate and hear from a distinguished panel of banking executives at Wells Fargo, Huntington Bank and Bank of Ann Arbor if the problem is real, are failures due to real estate, and where do opportunities […]
