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Lecture & Panel Discussion: Ukraine Reconstruction

The Russian War against Ukraine ruins the cities and rich architectural heritage, monuments, and urban space. The lives of all Ukrainians have been jeopardized by this war that continues to brutally consume Ukrainian lives and territory. Over 6 million internally displaced people need affordable housing. While the rebuilding of Ukraine must be Ukrainian-led, it must […]

Urban Planning Ph.D. careers beyond academia: From local governments to the UNHCR

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 […]

Architecture Student Awards Luncheon

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 […]

fætures worldbuilding workshop With Alina Nazmeeva & John David Wagner

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 […]

Taubman Architectural Ball

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 […]

Radical Planning Speaker Series – Radical Technology Panel

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 […]

Reanimating Ludwig Hilberseimer – Scott Colman

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 […]