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.
Noted Chicago architect wins Marcus Prize, to lead design studio at UWM
American architect and MacArthur fellow Jeanne Gang, founding principal of Studio Gang, has been awarded the seventh Marcus Prize, an architectural prize offered worldwide to recognize an emerging global talent whose work is on a “trajectory to greatness.” The biennial $100,000 award is funded by the Marcus Corporation Foundation and administered by the School of […]
UWM architecture alums help fuel Milwaukee’s boom
More than $1.4 billion in building projects are underway in downtown Milwaukee, and graduates of UWM’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning are at the forefront of the boom.
Architecture grad hopes to build solutions to cities’ problems
UWM architecture graduate Jarincy Flores Rodriguez wants to leave her mark, “…so that when I design some really great building, I hope that my grandchildren would come and say, ‘My grandmother designed that.’”
UWM urban planning students to present ideas for downtown corridor
Sweeping changes are underway in downtown Milwaukee, from the new Bucks arena and the transformation of the Grand Avenue mall to development along the Milwaukee lakefront and in the Westown neighborhood. Architecture and urban planning students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will reveal their vision for a revitalized, pedestrian friendly corridor along Clybourn and Michigan […]
Warming Hive inflatable student architecture project on display
Art and architecture enthusiasts are invited to the premiere installation of The Warming Hive 3-5 p.m. Saturday, April 1, at The Open gallery, 832 E. Chambers St. The Warming Hive is an airy collaboration among 11 School of Architecture and Urban Planning students instructed by assistant professor Whitney Moon, as well as artists Katy Cowan […]
Architect revitalizes, repurposes and builds community
Architect and UWM grad Allyson Nemec has found a niche for her business in working with existing sites and buildings, rather than new construction.
Students design Rust Belt haven for refugees
Professor Don Hanlon challenged his architecture and urban planning students to help refugees while addressing population loss in the Rust Belt.
An architecture student builds her future at UWM
At UWM, architecture student Emily Newton learned how to design a building so that it enhanced both its neighborhood and its community.