Dawn Gilpin

Lecturer in Architecture
Teaching Areas
Architectural Design, Architectural Representation, Design Research
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Office: 3330 / Liberty Research Annex

Dawn Gilpin is Lecturer IV in Architecture at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning where she teaches drawing, design, and representation. After receiving her M. Arch. from Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles Gilpin worked in the offices of Architectural Alliance and Meyer, Scherer, and Rockcastle in Minneapolis. Gilpin taught design and representation at the University of Minnesota where she co-directed a semester abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico and co-designed and participated in the exhibition The Home Show/Architecture Studio, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Co-founder and director of Adams + Gilpin, she works on a range of projects and creative endeavors focused on the reconfiguration of the status of accessibility within domesticity. Gilpin is honored to be a multiple-year recipient of the Donna Salzer Award for Teaching Excellence. Gilpin’s 2016 Wallenberg Studio, “The Radical and The Preposterous: Mind the Gap”, won one of six ARCHITECT Studio Prizes.

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 500, Section 1
Fall 2025
Instructors: Dawn Gilpin, Robert Adams
ARCH 500, Section 1
Winter 2025
Instructors: Dawn Gilpin
ARCH 509, Section 10
Fall 2024
Instructors: Dawn Gilpin
ARCH 432, Section 1
Fall 2024
Instructors: Jacob Comerci, Craig Borum, Olaia Chivite Amigo, Dawn Gilpin, Malcolm McCullough, Keith Mitnick, Cyrus Peñarroyo, Angela Cho, Francesca Mavaracchio
ARCH 509, Section 25
Winter 2024
Instructors: Dawn Gilpin
ARCH 442, Section 1
Winter 2024
Instructors: Anya Sirota, Zain Abuseir, Olaia Chivite Amigo, Stratton Coffman, Dawn Gilpin, Gina Reichert
ARCH 509, Section 10
Fall 2023
Instructors: Dawn Gilpin
ARCH 409, Section 2
Fall 2023
Instructors: Dawn Gilpin
ARCH 552, Section 1
Fall 2023
Instructors: Ana Morcillo Pallarés, Dawn Gilpin, Peter Halquist, Steven Mankouche, Julia McMorrough, John McMorrough, Gina Reichert, Neal Robinson, Jonathan Rule, Charlie O’Geen, Christian Unverzagt