Christian Unverzagt

Christian Unverzagt is an associate professor of practice in architecture at Taubman College. He also founded Detroit-based M1DTW, a nationally recognized, architecture and creative studio working to reshape practice. M1DTW’s projects range from creative workspaces to commercial lifestyle spaces, adaptive reuse projects, and residential work. Select clients include Floyd, Signal-Return, Mills Pharmacy, 6 Salon, Library Street Collective, Eastern Market Corporation, and Samsung.

Unverzagt has received numerous awards for his work, including over a dozen honor awards from AIA Michigan and AIA Detroit, a NAHA for Best Salon Design in North America, and a “50 Books/50 Covers” award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts for one of the best-designed books of the year. M1DTW was recently recognized with a Best of Practice Award from The Architect’s Newspaper in the Small Firm (Midwest) category for its project portfolio and Notes on a Practice.

His work has been widely published in outlets including Dezeen, Wallpaper, Fast Company, The Architect’s Newspaper, Detroit Design Magazine, Estetica Italia, Salon Today, Architectural Record, and Azure Magazine.

Unverzagt teaches graduate design studio at Taubman College, is the faculty advisor for Dimensions, the student-produced journal of architecture at Michigan, and teaches the Dimensions workshop (ARCH 466) each year. Unverzagt is a long-time resident of Lafayette Park, Detroit, where he is an active community member, founding MiesDetroit.org to help steward the neighborhood’s design legacy while fostering awareness and discussion of its contemporary condition.

He received a Master of Architecture with distinction from SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan. Christian also studied at the California Institute of the Arts and The Bartlett, University College London.