Claudia Wigger

Lecturer
Teaching Areas
Architectural and Urban Design, Construction, Housing
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Office: 3180

Claudia Wigger is a lecturer at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, which she joined in 2011. She currently teaches core technical courses in construction, design studios, and seminars exploring issues of urban density. Her research focuses on high-density housing and intense mixed-use developments. She has received the 2021 Donna M. Salzer Award for Teaching Excellence, awarded by the graduating master’s class.

Claudia has 20 years of experience as a licensed architect through collaborations and international consulting, such as Foster and Partners and Sauerbruch Hutton, both in Berlin; RAD in Hong Kong; and Hamilton Anderson Associates in Detroit. Her professional experience bridges small-scale interior projects and large-scale mixed-use buildings and urban master plans. In 2008, Wigger co-founded ICE—ideas for contemporary environments, an architectural practice based in Detroit, Hong Kong, and Berlin. ICE’s design work has been featured in various international design publications, exhibitions, and digital media.

Claudia Wigger holds a master’s degree (Dipl.-Ing.) from Technical University Berlin.

Projects

Architecture, Sep 24, 2023

Courses

ARCH 552, Section 1
Fall 2025
Instructors: Ana Morcillo Pallarés, Sharon Haar, Claudia Wigger, Meredith Miller, Gina Reichert, Neal Robinson, Christian Unverzagt, Dawn Gilpin
ARCH 417, Section 1
Fall 2025
Instructors: Jonathan Rule, Thomas Moran, Claudia Wigger
ARCH 317, Section 1
Fall 2025
Instructors: Jonathan Rule, Thomas Moran, Claudia Wigger
ARCH 562, Section 1
Winter 2025
Instructors: Sharon Haar, Craig Borum, Gabriel Cuéllar, Lars Gräbner, Claudia Wigger, Kit McCullough, Laura Marie Peterson, Adam Smith, Christina Hansen
ARCH 506, Section 8
Winter 2025
Instructors: Claudia Wigger
UD 732, Section 1
Fall 2024
Instructors: El Hadi Jazairy, María Arquero de Alarcón, Claudia Wigger
ARCH 672, Section 1
Fall 2024
Instructors: Perry Kulper, María Arquero de Alarcón, El Hadi Jazairy, Ryan Ball, Claudia Wigger, Lars Gräbner, Geoffrey Thün, Jose Sanchez
ARCH 417, Section 1
Fall 2024
Instructors: Craig Borum, Claudia Wigger, Jonathan Rule
ARCH 317, Section 1
Fall 2024
Instructors: Craig Borum, Claudia Wigger, Jonathan Rule
ARCH 509, Section 1
Winter 2024
Instructors: Claudia Wigger
ARCH 562, Section 1
Winter 2024
Instructors: Sharon Haar, Craig Borum, Claudia Wigger, Christina Hansen, Gabriel Cuéllar, Laura Marie Peterson, Kit McCullough, Jonathan Rule
ARCH 317, Section 1
Fall 2023
Instructors: Craig Borum, Claudia Wigger, Jonathan Rule
ARCH 417, Section 1
Fall 2023
Instructors: Craig Borum, Claudia Wigger, Jonathan Rule
ARCH 672, Section 1
Fall 2023
Instructors: Lars Gräbner, Christina Hansen, María Arquero de Alarcón, Anya Sirota, Claudia Wigger, El Hadi Jazairy, Sharon Haar, Michael Kennedy, Perry Kulper, Stratton Coffman, Laura Marie Peterson