The Spring 2025 Marcus Prize Studio is set to engage students in a bold and timely design challenge under the leadership of Marcus Prize-winning architect Tiantian Xu and Assistant Professor Sam Schuermann. Xu, the founding principal of DnA _Design and …
Winifred (Elysse) Newman has been named Dean of the College of the Arts and Architecture, effective June 2, 2025. Dr. Newman comes to UWM from Clemson University where she serves as the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs, Mickel …
About 75 city and county leaders, representatives of community organizations, land-use planning groups and foundations, and UWM faculty and staff gathered Friday to celebrate and officially launch the new UWM Center for Equity Practice and Planning Justice. The center, based at …
Assistant Professor Lindsey Krug has been awarded the 2024 Rotch Traveling Scholarship. This honor is the oldest scholarship of its kind in the U.S., awarded annually through a rigorous two-stage design competition organized by the Boston Society of Architects, a …
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, …
UWM’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning is a key partner in a new $3.4 million grant awarded to the city of Milwaukee by the U.S. Department of Energy. Milwaukee is using the grant to develop 25 all-electric, Net-Zero Energy Homes on …
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 …
A crowd gathered on February 23, 2024 to commemorate a bold new mural in Milwaukee’s Bronzeville neighborhood. The subject of the mural by Terrell Morgan – Ego the Artist is longtime SARUP faculty member and acclaimed urban planner, Welford Sanders, …
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 …
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 …
