Sam Schuermann

Education

M.Arch, Rice University
B.S.Arch, University of Cincinnati

Biography

Sam Schuermann is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning where she coordinates Design III, teaches in the core sequence, and delivers option level studios. Prior to her position as Assistant Professor, she served as the 2022-23 SARUP Architecture Fellow. Her teaching has been recognized via the ACSA 2024-25 New Faculty Teaching Award.

Schuermann is a designer, maker, and researcher whose work explores the objects, conventions, and material implications of domestic labor. By leveraging the aesthetics of domesticity, and working within the lineage of home economics education, Schuermann’s work questions and subverts a variety of socio-political and socio-economic constructs associated with the typical single-family home and lot. Her scholarship has been disseminated through a variety of venues including ACSA, STOA, MONU, Wisconsin Architect Magazine, and a residency at Art Omi, among others.