Architecture
Award-winning architecture student working to make design more inclusive
Metropolis Magazine featured a design by UWM graduating senior Roe Jing Draus and recognized him as one of the top 100 graduating architecture students in the country. He was accepted in master’s programs at five universities but chose UWM.
Social justice advocate and urban designer Destiny Thomas to deliver Causier Lecture
Destiny Thomas, an urban planner and social justice advocate recognized as a national thought leader in designing just cities, will deliver the 2021 Charles Causier Memorial Lecture at UWM’s School of Architecture & Urban Planning.
Students at UWM, UW-Madison team up for success in creating zero-energy houses
For the fifth year in a row, a group of architecture students from UWM and engineering students from UW-Madison are working together to design a house for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon.
Mobile Design Box exhibit highlights UWM pop-up gallery’s impact
UWM’s Mobile Design Box is wrapping up a three-year run at its latest stop with an exhibit that showcases the pop-up gallery’s partnership with community partners as well as promising signs of neighborhood revitalization.
Telling Milwaukee’s story through architecture
UWM School of Architecture faculty marked the 50th anniversary of the school by picking the most important structures built in Milwaukee during each decade since the school was established in 1969.
Pulitzer-winning book inspires exhibit looking at solutions to homelessness
“Evicted” was required reading for students in a UWM architecture studio class. The students’ work will be on display at the Mobile Design Box through September.
Milwaukee/Madison student design team earns national notice
A combined team of students from the School of Architecture & Urban Planning at UW-Milwaukee and the College of Engineering at UW-Madison are attracting national attention for a design that combines the convenience of urban living with maximum energy-efficiency standards.
Bouchard wins national teaching award
Nikole Bouchard, assistant professor in the School of Architecture & Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has won the new faculty teaching award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
UWM’s youngest residents take a crack at architectural design
Just like architecture students, kids from the UWM Children’s Center built conceptual models of chairs. And just like the students, the children had their work critiqued – by the architecture students.
Alum helps recent foster children find homes
Children aging out of the foster care system need an affordable place to live. A south side neighborhood needed to rehabilitate deteriorating houses. UWM architecture grad John Miceli helped solve both problems with one project.