Faculty-led design of UWM Union garners major awards

The recent renovation of the UWM Union has been recognized with major architecture awards. Professor Jim Shields, FAIA, led the design team at HGA Architects & Engineers. The award-winning design clarifies previously confusing wayfinding, brings daylight into previously windowless areas, …

James Wasley Named 2024-25 Water Policy Scholar

The Center for Water Policy has announced James Wasley as the 2024-25 Water Policy Scholar. Wasley is a professor of architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The Water Policy Scholars program brings policy researchers across the Universities of Wisconsin together with freshwater scientists to frame …

Lindsey Krug receives ACSA New Faculty Teacher Award

Assistant Professor Lindsey Krug has been selected as one of four recipients of the 2024 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) New Faculty Teaching Award. According to the release by ACSA, the 2024 Architectural Education Awards honor architectural educators for exemplary …

Sam Schuermann presents Model Homes research project at Cornell AAP

Assistant Professor Sam Schuermann presented “Model Homes” as part of Cornell AAP’s mini lecture series titled “Discussions on Living and Architecture,” curated by Ekin Erar and Jonathan Levine. “Model Homes,” discussed architecture, housing, type, and the aesthetics of domesticity—particularly that of …

SARUP awards 2023 Marcus Prize to Beijing-based architect

Beijing-based architect Tiantian Xu has been awarded the 2023 Marcus Prize in Architecture, administered by the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The prize, which recognizes emerging global talents, is funded by the Marcus Corporation …

James Shields receives Design Excellence Award by WAIA

Architecture faculty Jim Shields, FAIA received a Design Excellence Award at the annual Wisconsin American Institute of Architects Awards Gala this month. The award was for the design of two recent additions to the Peninsula School of Art in Fish …

Mono-Poly-Dollar is an award-winning design and research studio

This semester, students at SARUP and collaborating with the University of New Mexico through Mono-Poly-Dollar, an interdisciplinary research and design studio that positions Dollar General Corp (DG), the largest and most influential of the American dollar store triumvirate—Family Dollar, Dollar …