by Jesse Schmidt | Sep 7, 2023 | Faculty Updates, In The News
by Taubman College | Sep 1, 2023 | News
The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) awarded nearly $450,000 in grants across seven research teams to investigate the effects of systemic racism and inform strategies to combat them. Two teams include members from Taubman College. Sankofa Community...
by Taubman College | Aug 31, 2023 | News
Taubman College welcomes new faculty members for the 2023–2024 academic year. These new colleagues join established faculty in offering students a breadth of opportunities for learning and professional development. Luke Bonner, Intermittent Lecturer of Urban and...
by Taubman College | Aug 24, 2023 | News
Two new fellows are joining Taubman College for the 2023 – 2024 academic year. The college is excited to welcome the unique perspectives and energy Olaia Chivite Amigo, who has also been a lecturer at the college, and Ryan Ball bring to Taubman College as they join...
by Taubman College | Aug 15, 2023 | News
The Urban and Regional Planning program at Taubman College welcomes new faculty and new leadership in fall 2023, coinciding with the beginning phases of developing a new strategic plan for the program. “It’s an exciting moment,” said Robert Goodspeed, associate...
by Jesse Schmidt | Aug 10, 2023 | Faculty Updates
by Jesse Schmidt | Aug 9, 2023 | Faculty Updates, In The News
by Taubman College | Aug 9, 2023 | News
With the assistance of funding from the Taubman College Student Conference Travel Grant, Katie Bailey, M.Arch ’23, and Joe Johnston, M.Arch ‘24, traveled to the 2023 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the 2023 UIA World Congress of Architects in...
by Taubman College | Aug 3, 2023 | News
The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) announced Kathy Velikov, professor of architecture and associate dean for research and creative practice at Taubman College, as the Society Award for Leadership recipient. The ACADIA Board of Directors...
by Claudia Capos | Jul 28, 2023 | News, Portico
After completing graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stratton Coffman explored several different fellowship options at various architecture schools before entering the Taubman College Architecture Fellowship Program last fall. The two-year...
by Taubman College | Jul 25, 2023 | News
The University of Michigan’s Graham Sustainability Institute is launching the Center for EmPowering Communities to foster decarbonization solutions that advance community goals and priorities. Sarah Mills, Ph.D. U.R.P. ’15 and associate professor of practice in urban...
by Taubman College | Jul 19, 2023 | News
With the assistance of funding from the Taubman College Student Conference Travel Grant, Aaron Comstock, B.S. Arch ’23, M.Arch ’25, recently traveled to the FIREHOUSE Station Design Conference, which connects public safety officials, fire chiefs, police chiefs,...
by Taubman College | Jul 17, 2023 | News
Collin Garnett, M.Arch ‘23, has received Taubman College’s 2023 George G. Booth Traveling Fellowship. The Booth Fellowship, which began in 1924, annually provides a $13,000 stipend to recent Taubman College graduates pursuing architectural research that requires...
by Taubman College | Jul 10, 2023 | News
A team of faculty members from the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, the College of Engineering, and the School for Environment and Sustainability met on June 15 for a Low Carbon Building R+D Initiative workshop. Participants also included the Graham...
by Taubman College | Jul 5, 2023 | News, Portico
“It’s a plus and a minus always seeing problems,” says Vince Hoenigman. “It’s helped me in my career because I could anticipate the problems we were going to run into and head them off. But it doesn’t exactly make you zen or comfortable in life because you’re...
by Taubman College | Jun 27, 2023 | News
El Hadi Jazairy, associate professor of architecture and director of the master of urban design degree program, has been recognized with a 2023 Graham Foundation Grant along with Rania Ghosn, associate professor of architecture and urbanism at the Massachusetts...
by Taubman College | Jun 23, 2023 | News, Portico
A conversation between Beth Gibbons, M.U.P. ’12, social governance and national resilience lead at Farallon Strategies, and Izzy Beshouri, M.U.R.P. ’24. Gibbons: There’s a huge need for people who understand the natural environment and want to work in the urban...
by Taubman College | Jun 21, 2023 | News, Features and Awards
In a transformative partnership, the University of Michigan will collaborate with Purdue University, Michigan State University, Notre Dame, and others to spearhead an innovative proposal for Next-Generation Factory-Built Housing (NextHouse). This collaborative effort...
by Taubman College | Jun 20, 2023 | News, Features and Awards
Lars Gräbner, associate professor of practice in architecture, and Christina Hansen, lecturer in architecture, have been recognized with the 2023 Most Innovative Multi-Family Architecture Studio Award from Build Magazine for their studio VolumeOne. Build Magazine’s...
by Taubman College | Jun 16, 2023 | News
Lauren Williams will join Taubman College as an assistant professor of architecture and digital studies in the fall of 2023. Williams is a Detroit-based designer, researcher, writer, and educator working with visual and interactive media to understand, critique, and...
by Taubman College | Jun 13, 2023 | News, Portico
When students Katie Economou, M.U.R.P. ’23; Kira Barsten, M.U.R.P. ’23; and Camilla Lizundia, M.U.R.P. ’22, enrolled in URP 611: Advancing Racial Equity, which featured workshops led by 2022 Sojourner Truth Fellow Britt Redd, they didn’t expect they’d be planning a...
by Amy Crawford | Jun 8, 2023 | News, Portico
Taubman College is on the leading edge of visualization as faculty and students use interactive tools to democratize design and create space for creative ideas and broader engagement. Midway down a second-floor corridor of the Art and Architecture Building, room 2106...
by Taubman College | Jun 7, 2023 | News, Features and Awards
Kathy Velikov, professor and associate dean for research and creative practice, and Charlie O’Geen, lecturer, are members of two project teams recognized with Graham Sustainability Institute Catalyst Grants. Since 2017, the Graham Sustainability Institute has provided...
by Taubman College | Jun 6, 2023 | News
Bill Bubniak has been appointed associate professor of practice in urban and regional planning and director of real estate initiatives at Taubman College. Bubniak will also serve as the Weiser Center for Real Estate director at the Ross School of Business. Bubniak, an...
by Taubman College | Jun 5, 2023 | Portico
Kristen Padavic’s fascination with architecture was evident from childhood. “I would go to sleepovers, and I would be taking pictures of the house and drawing the house while everybody else was watching a movie,” she says. It’s a habit that hasn’t changed much in her...
by Taubman College | Jun 5, 2023 | Portico
Before coming to Taubman College, Dylan Vaughn-Jansen, M.U.R.P. ’23, was a geospatial analyst for an environmental planning company. “I worked for planners and decided I wanted to do what they do. It’s about breaking down critical factors of how our communities work...
by Taubman College | Jun 1, 2023 | News, Features and Awards
Gina Reichert and Mireille Roddier have been named Institute for the Humanities Fellows. The Institute for the Humanities fosters work that engages with the humanities across time and space, strengthens synergies between humanities, arts, and disciplines across the...
by Taubman College | May 31, 2023 | News
Gabriel Cuéllar will join Taubman College as an assistant professor in architecture in the fall of 2023. Cuéllar is an architect, urban designer, and educator. Since 2016, together with Athar Mufreh, he co-directs Cadaster, a spatial practice that develops design...
by Taubman College | May 30, 2023 | News, In The News
Taubman College faculty members El Hadi Jazairy, associate professor of architecture and the director of the master of urban design, and Matias del Campo, associate professor of architecture, launched books in conjunction with Biennale Architettura 2023. The Biennale...
by Taubman College | May 25, 2023 | News
Matthew Wizinsky will join Taubman College as an associate professor of practice in urban technology in the fall of 2023. Wizinsky is a designer, educator, researcher, and author on contemporary interaction and communication design. He studied graphic design and...
by Taubman College | May 24, 2023 | News
Gradient has released Feed #3, “Infrastructures,” edited by Malcolm McCullough, professor of architecture; Cyrus Peñarroyo, assistant professor of architecture; Vyta Pivo, postdoctoral scholar and assistant professor of architecture; and Jono Bentley Sturt, lecturer...
by Jesse Schmidt | May 23, 2023 | Faculty Updates, In The News
by Jesse Schmidt | May 22, 2023 | Faculty Updates, In The News
by Taubman College | May 18, 2023 | Faculty Updates, In The News
by Taubman College | May 18, 2023 | Faculty Updates
Dr. Mania Aghaei Meibodi is participating in The Implementation Group’s (TIG) external review of the University of Idaho-Auburn University collaborative research project – PrinTimber – sponsored by the NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research...
by Taubman College | May 18, 2023 | News
Kuukuwa Manful will join Taubman College as an assistant professor of architecture in September 2023. Manful is currently a visiting post-doctoral scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and a post-doctoral scholar on...
by Taubman College | May 17, 2023 | News
Xiaofan Liang will join Taubman College as an assistant professor of urban and regional planning in January 2024. Currently a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Liang holds a Master’s in City and Regional...
by Jesse Schmidt | May 17, 2023 | Faculty Updates, In The News
by Taubman College | May 17, 2023 | News
With support from the U-M Arts Initiative, a collaborative project between U-M Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics and Taubman College faculty uses accessible narrative and visualization techniques to give an understanding of how extreme wealth inequality is in the...
by Jesse Schmidt | May 17, 2023 | Faculty Updates, In The News
by Taubman College | May 10, 2023 | Features and Awards
Robotically Fabricated Structure (RFS) has been awarded the Jury’s Choice Award for the 2023 Wood Design & Building Awards program! The Canadian Wood Council organizes the Wood Design & Building Awards, which “recognizes and celebrates the outstanding work of...
by Taubman College | May 8, 2023 | News
Kat Cameron, M.U.R.P./M.S. ’23, served as a student delegate to the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, in November 2022. The annual conference, one of the most extensive international meetings in the world, rotates annually...
by Taubman College | May 5, 2023 | News, Features and Awards
The inaugural semester of the Taubman Visualization Lab (TVLab) has been busy. Since its opening in January 2023, the TVLab has been integrated into seventeen courses. In addition, the flexible, collaborative, accessible space equipped with a broad range of Extended...
by Taubman College | May 3, 2023 | News
Taubman College congratulates the students who graduated the weekend of April 29, 2023, and joined the college’s global community of over 10,000 alumni. As part of weekend festivities, the following students and faculty received annual awards for excellence. Doctoral...
by Taubman College | Apr 28, 2023 | News
On April 13, 2023, several Taubman College students were recognized with Student Show and Willeke Prize awards. A team of Taubman College faculty and alumni selected winners from the 2023 Architecture Student Show. The awardees represent the best work by...
by Taubman College | Apr 27, 2023 | News
Upasana Roy, M.U.R.P. ’24, has been named a 2023 Catalyst Leadership Circle Fellow. The fellowship program, led by the Graham Sustainability Institute in collaboration with Michigan Green Communities and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy...
by Taubman College | Apr 26, 2023 | News
Taubman College students Jessica Hobbs, M.U.R.P. ’24, and Andy Larsen, M.U.R.P. ’24, have been named 2023 – 2024 student representatives to the Michigan chapter of the American Planning Association (MAP). Hobbs and Larsen will serve a one-year term on the...
by Taubman College | Apr 26, 2023 | News
Matias del Campo, associate professor of architecture, has received the 2023 Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize (TIP) for his project “Architecture and Artificial Intelligence.” The University of Michigan’s Office of the Provost presents the award to recognize...
by Taubman College | Apr 13, 2023 | News
Sarah Mills, Ph.D. U.R.P. ’15, will join Taubman College as an associate professor of practice in urban and regional planning beginning in fall 2023. Currently a lecturer in the School for Environment and Sustainability and a senior project manager at the Graham...
by Taubman College | Apr 12, 2023 | News
The 2023 Urban Technology Prototype Grant recipients will explore EV battery maintenance, water quality monitoring, and environmental impact assessments following this year’s competition theme, “Green Seeds.” Offered for the first time in 2021, the grant aims to...
