Students and displays fill the atrium of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Lyric Hutchins (from left), Sundari Worby and Candice Lin participate in the show. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Vivienne Parente da Costa points out a feature of her work to Katie Posewitz (left) and Mo Zell, associate dean of the UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Brodie Kerst leans in for a close look at the creation of Eli Stevens (left) and Oliver Zell. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Madeline Erickson-Bell is a little shy as she shows her work to Brittany Gabrielse. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
UWM student Ben Hofstetter checks out the work of Amea Williams, who wants to study architecture someday at UWM. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Candice Lin and Sundari Worby eagerly show their work to Lance Daniel (left) and Tyler Hamelink. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Ben Lang explains a point to Wesam Alkhushayni (right) as Cierra Puls looks on. Behind them, Brett Van Dyck talks with and Eleanor Mechler-Hickson about her creation. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Vivienne Parente Da Costa shows the chair she designed to Katie Posewitz, Megan Kuroski and Destiny Brady. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Every year, architecture students build conceptual models of chairs, which are then critiqued by experts in the field. It’s training for the type of exercise they’ll undergo with regularity when they become architects or designers.
When the chairs were on display in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, children from the UWM Children’s Center saw them and wanted to build their own. So they did, using recyclable materials on hand. And this time, the architecture students got to be the ones doing the critiquing.
