The 2024-2026 Fitzhugh Scott Faculty Fellow, Iris Xiaoxue Ma, will be taking over and transforming part of the Jim Shields Gallery into a ceramic studio/workshop space during the Spring 2026 semester. Iris will use the gallery as a production space for her Fellowship show and a material resource center for all School of Architecture & Urban Planning students.
Maura Lucking is a historian of architectural modernism and the nineteenth century U.S. Her research studies design as the intersection of connected histories of race, craft, land, and labor. Jodi Melamed is professor of English and Race, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies at Marquette University. For spring semester 2024 she served as the Norman Freehling Professor at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan.
ULTRAMODERNE is an award-winning architecture and design firm located in Berkeley, CA. Led by co—principals Aaron Forrest and Yasmin Vobis, the office creates buildings and public spaces that are at once modern, playful, and generous.
An exhibition showcasing Iris Xiaoxue Ma's teaching and research work from 2025-2026 supported by UWM SARUP’s Fitzhugh Scott Faculty Fellowship.
SUPERjury is a day-long review and celebration of the most provocative undergraduate and graduate projects in the school. With projects nominated for consideration by both students and faculty, the goal of SUPERjury is to foster self-reflection and stimulate a conversation about the state of architecture within the school and how our work relates to contemporary issues in practice and the world.