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FINAL REVIEWS:
ARCH 320 – May 10, 2021 @ 1:15 PM CT
In this sophomore studio (the second full studio in our core sequence), we advance students’ fluency in processes for moving between analysis/observation and design synthesis within the context of a specific physical site and relationship to an actual human being’s needs (a “client”). We explore architects’ responsibilities and the relationships between site, inhabitant and program through an iterative and cumulative set of exercises that engage the idea of dwelling and co-living with a shared commons. Students in ARCH 320 encounter exercises in site observation, topography/site design, technical drawing, architectural precedent in dwelling, empathetic interviewing, diagramming, small-scale dwelling design and design collaboration with a partner.
Mo Zell/Nikole Bouchard – Zoom & Miro
Guest Critics 1:30–2:30pm – Richie Hands (Lamar Johnson Collaborative), Joe Gaudreau (Kahler Slater), and Amanda Golemba (Kahler Slater)
Guest Critics 2:30–3:30pm- Jeremiah Huth (Quinn Evans Architects), Mania Taher (UWM SARUP), and Leann Wacker (SOM)
Guest Critics 3:30–4:30pm – Matt Winder (Kahler Slater), Bill Noelck (Kahler Slater), and Wekeana Lassiter (Flad + UWM SARUP)
Lindsey Krug – Zoom & Miro
Guest Critics – Andres Camacho (SOM, Chicago), Claire Djang (Gehry Technologies, LA), and Nimet Anwar (Table of Co., Studio Gang, UT-Arlington, Chicago)
Gabby Bustos – Zoom & Miro
Guest Critics – Leyla Sanati (UWM, Milwaukee), Karla Sierralta (University of Hawaii), and Brett Benka (EUA) Milwaukee
Kyle Reynolds – Zoom & Miro
Guest Critics – Gerri Witthuhn (Interstice Architects), Frank Zimmerman (Perkins Eastman), and Karl Wallick (UWM SARIP)
Monika Thadhani – Zoom & Miro
Guest Critics – Jorge Rovira (SOM, Chicago), Paulina Szpiech (Buro Happold, Chicago), and Eloi Ruana Girones (RBTA-Ricardo Bofill, Barcelona)
Adam Thibodeaux
Guest Critics – Melody Hwang (Bjarke Ingels Group), Rachel Mulder (Yale, THING THING), and Leanne Nagata (Yale)
Trudy Watt – Zoom & Miro
Guest Critics 1:15-3pm – Chris Cornelius (UWM SARUP), Aura Venckunaite (IIT + SAIC), and Melissa Frost (Architecture Lobby)
Guest Critics 3:15-5pm – Joseph Altshuler (SAIC + Could be Architecture), Gabriel Fries-Briggs (UNM), and Joshua Jordan (Columbia GSAPP)
ARCH 825 – May 11, 2021 @ 1:15 PM CT
This studio provides a model for the entire building design process from programming to construction documentation. Graduate students in this studio must be able to comprehend the technical aspects of design, systems and materials, and be able to apply that comprehension to architectural solutions. This semester, students are proposing designs for a Center for Dance located in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood.
Jim Shields and Karl Wallick – Zoom & Miro
ARCH 650/850: Pleasure Palace – May 11, 2021 @ 1 PM CT
Sarah Aziz – Zoom & Miro passcode: Leisure
Guest Critics – Ben Nicholson (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago) and Lindsey Krug (UWM Design Fellow)
ARCH 650/850: Collective Imagination – May 11, 2021 @ 1 PM CT
The Collective Imagination design studio explores methods of dis-assembly, re-assembly, recycling, adaptive reuse and preservation of the built environment. Students have hacked, sampled and rearranged bits of historical and existing artifacts and materials to produce culturally relevant and ecologically sensitive forms, spaces, architectures and environments. The city of Milwaukee has provided the critical context in which students have operated. Milwaukee was once part of the industrial core of the country, but the city has suffered from deindustrialization, leaving it scarred from shifting populations and industries that have migrated elsewhere.
Throughout the semester, students have worked at a variety of scales to explore ideas related to wasted artifacts, architectures and environments. The end product of this studio is a Collective Imagination publication that presents a curated collection of the semester’s waste-related research and design interventions for 11 unique, existing buildings in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood.
Nikole Bouchard – Zoom & Miro
Guest Critics 1-2pm – Michael Jefferson (Cooper Union), Aleksandr Mergold (Cornell University), and Mo Zell (UWM SARUP)
Guest Critics 2-3pm – Maya Przybylski (University of Waterloo), Kyle Reynolds (UWM SARUP), and Thena Tak (University of British Columbia)
Guest Critics 3-4pm – Martin Hogue (Cornell University), Whitney Moon (UWM SARUP), Caroline O’Donnell (Cornell University), and Jill Stone (Carleton University)
Guest Critics 4-5pm – Lori Brown (Syracuse University), Joyce Hwang (SUNY Buffalo), Lindsey Krug (UWM SARUP), and Dennis Maher (SUNY Buffalo)
ARCH 650/850: Creating Vibrant Neighborhoods – Wells Street in Westown – May 11 @ 1 PM CT
Carolyn Esswein – Zoom
Guest Critics – Greg Patin (City of Milwaukee), Trudy Watt (UWM SARUP), and Gabriel Yeager (Milwaukee Downtown BID 21)
ARCH 650/850: Spancrete – May 11 @ 1:15 PM CT
Regenerative architecture inverts the discourse around sustainable design by maximizing positive ecological output rather than focusing solely on minimize energy and carbon input. This fundamentally changes our relationship to energy and carbon. The construction of architecture inevitably requires an expenditure of energy, and, given our contemporary modes of practice, extraction and negative impact on the environment. By taking on a single construction system, precast concrete, students will engage the idea of an architecture that resists this reality as a positive and generative ecological agent. This is the second in the Heavy + Light series of studios generously sponsored by the Spancrete.
Alex Timmer – SARUP Commons
Guest Critics – Bria Lange (Spancrete), Joe Shine (Spancrete), Mike Schmidt (Spancrete), Matt Foote (Spancrete), Clinton Krell (Spancrete), Jessica Timmer (Rinka), Audry Grill (Rinka), Chris Ludwig (Kahler Slater), Marc Roehrle (bauenstudio), Alex Timmer (UWM SARUP), and Matt Mabee (UWM SARUP)
ARCH 420 – May 12, 2021 @ 1:15 PM CT
Project 2 in this junior year core studio focuses on heat as a generator of form. Heat exchange and sustainable technical approaches are used in the creation of a spa and boathouse located on the Milwaukee River.
Wekeana Lassiter – Zoom & Miro
Guest Critics 1:15-3:30pm – Marion Clendenen-Acosta (Kahler Slater) and Molly Smith (Flad Architects)
Guest Critics 3:30-5:30pm – Zac Heaps (Flad Architects) and Keith Stachowiak (Smith Group)
Marc Roehrle – SARUP 4th Floor Alcove
Guest Critics – Royce Earnest, Alex Timmer (SARUP), and Mariana Arena (Engberg Anderson)
Brian Schermer – Zoom & Miro
Karl Wallick – Teams & Miro
Guest Critics – Kyle Reynolds (UWM SARUP), and Lindsey Krug (UWM Design Fellow)
ARCH 820 – May 12, 2021 @ 1:30 PM CT
Kyle Talbott – Teams & Miro
Guest Critics – Jonathan Goldstein (The Exhibits Team), Kevin Kinney (Madison College), and Gaby Bustos (UWM SARUP)
ARCH 583/802 – May 12, 2021 @ 6:30 PM CT
Gabby Bustos – Zoom
Guest Critics – Chris Ludwig (Kahler Slater), Paul Hohl (SETON), Gabrielle Norton (Johnson Design) Lisa Sun (UWM),
and Sauron Sanchez (Findorff)
May 13, 2021 @ 9 AM – 5 PM CT – Thesis Day
May 17, 2021 @ 12 PM – 5 PM CT – SUPERjury
RECOMMENDED:
May 17, 2021 @ 7 PM CT – A conversation with Nicholas D Hayes, author of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Forgotten House, and Catherine Boldt hosted by Boswell Book Company
Frank Lloyd Wright’s foray into affordable housing – the American System-Built Homes – is frequently overlooked. When Nicholas and Angela Hayes became stewards of one of them, they began to unearth evidence that revealed a one-hundred-year-old fiasco fueled by competing ambitions and conflicting visions that eventually gave way to Wright’s most creative period.
May 24, 2021 @ 2 PM CT – Lecture by Eric Höweler and J. Meejin Yoon hosted by UCLA
COMPETITIONS:
May 17, 2021 – Registration Deadline – Healthier Design Innovation Contest hosted by Parsons School of Design
Does your work exemplify healthy material innovation, design activism, or advocacy through design?
July 9, 2021 – Registration Deadline – 2021 Acanthus Awards hosted by The Chicago-Midwest Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art
The ICAA is the leading national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the practice and appreciation of the classical tradition in architecture and the allied arts. The purpose of the Acanthus Awards is to recognize excellence and distinction in classical and traditional architecture.
