Student Groups

Agora Planning Journal

The Agora Planning Journal is a publication of student work from the Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Design and Real Estate Certificate Programs.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agoragram

Alpha Rho Chi (APX)

Alpha Rho Chi (APX) is the national co-educational fraternity for students and professionals of architecture and the allied arts. The fraternity recognizes the importance of meeting today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. The fraternity was founded with the objective “to organize and unite architecture students, the allied arts in the universities and colleges of America, and fraternity alumni, for educational and professional development purposes to promote the artistic, scientific, and practical proficiency of its membership and profession.”

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apx_iktinos
Email: alpharhochiexec@umich.edu 

American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS)

The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) is composed of a national office and member chapters from all of the architecture colleges in the United States, including AIA Huron Valley, and one in Canada. The purpose of AIAS is to organize architecture students and combine their efforts to advance the science and art of architecture. The mission of AIAS is to promote excellence in architectural education, training, and practice, and to foster an appreciation of architecture and related disciplines among all persons.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aias_uofm
Email: michiganaias@umich.edu

American Society for Muslims in Architecture (ASMA)

ASMA is an architecture community dedicated to growth, knowledge, empowerment, service, and advocacy. Islam has a long and rich architectural legacy of mindful, environmentally conscious, and beautiful architecture that is seldom sufficiently covered in architectural curriculums. As a chapter of a larger national professional organization, the ASMA Taubman chapter provides events, resources, mentorship, and other opportunities for Muslim students to find their voice in the profession of architecture. To learn more about ASMA national please feel free to visit our website at: asma.archi

Website: https://maizepages.umich.edu/organization/asma
Contact: mail@asma.archi

Aperture

A space where students can explore the tools and techniques that bring architectural design ideas to life. Exploring the craft of architectural storytelling – from a sketch to render, photo to 3D print.

Website: https://maizepages.umich.edu/organization/aperture
Instagram: @apertureorg

ARCH1

ARCH1 is a student-led architectural project team at the University of Michigan with the primary goal of researching, assessing landscape, designing, and constructing interesting solutions to global and local design competitions held year round.

The group’s primary objective is to collaborate in the efforts to generate a singular design proposal to a specific and researched architecturally based  project, submit the design, and win.

ARCH1 is the first architecture project team at the University of michigan. Driven by the competitive nature of architecture we aim to challenge contemporary architectural ideas and pursue truly unique works of architectural design that solve real world problems. 

Website: readymag.website/u3608352369/5346624/
LinkedIn: thearch1
Instagram: @arch1_uofm
Maize Pages: maizepages.umich.edu/organization/arch1

Architectural Representative Committee (ARC)

ARC (Architectural Representative Committee) is an independent student advisory board that supports and encourages active participation in the architecture community at the University of Michigan. The committee aims to inspire students in the architecture program to diversify, enrich, and strengthen all academic experiences by creating a recognizable channel through which they can express and act upon their academic, social, and global interests.

Email: arc.taubman@umich.edu
Instagram: @arc.taubman

Dimensions

Dimensions is the annual, student-produced journal of the Architecture Program that seeks to contribute to the critical discourse of architecture and architectural education by documenting the most compelling work produced by its students, faculty, fellows, and visiting lecturers.

Matters of Urban Design Student Association (MUDSA)

Matters of Urban Design Student Association (MUDSA) is a student-led organization representing the Master of Urban Design student body at Taubman College. MUDSA provides a platform to engage in contemporary debates on urbanism and advance students’ disciplinary and professional interests. Through public programming, social events, and networking opportunities, we bring a focus on the agency of urban design in world-making.

Email: MUDSA.board@umich.edu

Michigan Real Estate Club

The Michigan Real Estate Club is dedicated to enhancing and enriching the professional, academic, and personal experiences of its members and expanding real estate opportunities for the greater university community. They also provide a wealth of information for prospective students.

The current students in the Real Estate Family are a diverse group of business, law, public policy, urban planning, architecture, and natural resource students. This exceptionally talented group represents the progressive ideas that will combine to change the built environment that we live in. Whether you are a prospective student, current student, alumni, or corporate representative, the Michigan Real Estate Club is proud to introduce their organization and members to you.

National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS)

The National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) University of Michigan, as a mission, strives to build a strong foundation from which our organization can thrive. Through service and the contribution of time and other efforts from its dedicated members, we are building a strong local chapter and individuals who eagerly seek out relationships with other chapters as well as members and mentors of NOMA, the professional organization.

NOMAS attempts to create a community environment in which students feel comfortable as valuable members of the larger University of Michigan Architecture community. NOMAS acquires strength through grappling with issues and concerns that affect our college and community. We hope to make our presence felt throughout the college, given our immense interest in improving the climate and environment of the college within which we learn and work.

NOMAS provides academic as well as non-academic support to its members, offering opportunities for peer project reviews in addition to reviews by professional architects and members of NOMA.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nomas.taubmancollege
Email: nomas.taubman@umich.edu

P+ARG

The Planning and Architecture Research Group (PARG) is an organization created by and for doctoral students at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Our main purpose is to enhance the social and academic experiences of research students in the college. We seek to foster a sense of community among planning and architecture students and to sustain an exchange of ideas within and between our disciplines, with a primary focus on issues related to the built environment. We organize forums and workshops for sharing research across disciplines as well as casual social events.

We are best known for our Emerging Voices speaker series, which has brought more than a dozen outstanding scholars to campus since its inception in 2009. We also organize a biennial doctoral student conference and student workshops.

Email: parg-taub@umich.edu

Radical Planning Initiative (RPI)

Student-led initiative at U-M empowering future planners to center justice, community knowledge, and systems change within their practice.

Instagram: @taubman.radicalplanning

Urban Planning Student Association (UPSA)

The Urban Planning Student Association works to enhance the educational, professional development, and social opportunities available to urban planning students at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. We plan a variety of fun and educational events throughout the semester. Events and board meetings are listed in the UPSA newsletter. If you’re a student in the urban planning program (Master’s or Ph.D.), you are automatically a UPSA member

Email: upsa-board@umich.edu
Instagram: @upsa.taubmancollege

Urbanism Club

The Urbanism Club is a student-led activist group that pushes the urbanism agenda by informing the community about different tenets of urbanism. They bring local leaders and university faculty members to speak about different issues to better inform. They also conduct a variety of projects within the campus and Ann Arbor community to advocate for the improvement of the built environment.

Email: urbanism-club@umich.edu 

Urban Technology Student Organization (UTSO)

The Urban Technology Student Organization (UTSO) is a student-led organization that strives to create an inclusive environment for Urban Technology (UT) students and others with similar interests to gather. Since UT is an emerging discipline, there is a lack of awareness about the field and its possibilities. The organization hopes to foster a strong community by hosting social events, exploring our interests within the UT discipline, and enhancing in-class learning with technical training and real-world applications.

Email: utso-board@umich.edu

Urban Technology Consulting Club (URB Consulting)

URB Consulting is an interdisciplinary club where students across the university come together to solve difficult problems for organizations that do technology-driven work in cities and the built environment. The club works with real clients and also hosts various speakers, industry visits and social events throughout the year.

Website: urbumich.com

U-M Maize Pages

Maize Pages is the official campus directory for the more than 1,600 student organizations at the University of Michigan. Discover unique opportunities to connect and get involved on the U-M Ann Arbor campus.