Jen Maigret

Jen Maigret is a Professor of Architecture and Director of Climate Futures at Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning. Maigret’s research and creative practice reside at the intersection of architecture, culture, and ecological health. 

Jen Maigret is a licensed architect and served as Principal at PLY+ architecture, urbanism and design from 2018-2024 where she collaboratively led, with Craig Borum, a number of nationally and internationally recognized projects including the St. Mary Chapel, Michigan Animal Rescue League and the Marygrove Elementary School. In 2021, PLY+ was recognized with an Emerging Voices award by the Architectural League of New York. The Emerging Voices program is an annual invited competition for North American firms and individuals with distinct design voices and significant bodies of realized work, recognizing 8 firms annually. Her leadership at U-M includes serving as a faculty co-lead, with Lars Junghans, for the development of proposed carbon neutral Building Standards for the President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality (2020) and more recently serving on Design Guidelines RFP selection committee and U-M’s Resilient Grounds Steering Committee.

Maigret holds a master of architecture from the University of Michigan, a master of science in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Michigan and a bachelor of art in biology from Hartwick College. Her primary teaching focus is sustainable design, which she brings to a required course in the graduate architecture sequence and an elective, interdisciplinary course open to all undergraduate students at U-M.