Time and Place

Location: Architecture and Urban Planning Building

NOMAS Arts and Architecture Workshop

Workshop lead by Prescott Reavis, NOMA, LEED BD+C, Director of Community Planning and Project Manager at Asian Neighborhood Design, Director of Community Planning and Project Manager at UC Berkeley Center for Cities and Schools
Workshop is sponsored by NOMAS.

This workshop exposes youth to planning principles by having them work on a real community-based planning project. UW-Milwaukee’s NOMAS chapter will help to identify potential planning opportunities with the city or a community-based organization. Workshop participants will discuss the community’s history, demographics and culture. After determining assets, opportunities and community needs, students will examine zoning and land use, and working in groups to create a master plan. Each student will build a massing model based on their group’s master plan, leading to the creation of an updated neighborhood plan.

Bio

Prescott Reavis has over 20 years of experience working with youth to engage them with architecture. He merges arts, community planning and architecture, and allows students to understand and confront real-world architecture problems. His work is known across the nation for being innovative and having a great impact on youth. He teaches at the college level, works at multiple scales with architecture professionals, and is involved and owns multiple community-based programs that emphasize his expertise in architecture.

The National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS) at UW-Milwaukee will facilitate a one-day workshop with roughly 30 middle- and high-school students from Milwaukee Public Schools and the TrueSkool organization.

Need Directions?

Get directions to The School of Architecture and Urban Planning building at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is located at 2131 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Questions, comments?

All lectures are free and open to the public.
Additional information about the lectures and exhibitions can be found by contacting the main reception at (414) 229-4014, and by emailing any inquiries to Associate Dean Karl Wallick.