Time and Place
Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Date: Friday, May 9, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM followed by a reception hosted by AIAS.
Location: Jim Shields SARUP Gallery (AUP146) – UWM Campus – 2131 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53211
Sponsors – AIAS and WC Consulting Inc.
SUPERjurors Critics:
Alina Nazmeeva
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Assistant Professor
Alina Nazmeeva is a Tatarstan-born media artist and educator. Her work integrates XR, AI, textile, physical installation, digital simulation, and gaming engines as storytelling devices and as sites of critique. With these diverse media, Alina creates complex worlds focused on how technologies, emerging and established, shape the ways of knowing, living and becoming for both humans and non-humans. Alina is Assistant Professor of Computation at Illinois School of Architecture. She holds a Masters degree from MIT School of Architecture and Planning. She was a fellow-in-residence at the University of Michigan (2022-24), researcher-in-residence at Canadian Centre of Architecture (2022) and at Strelka Institute (2017). Alina’s work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, FutureArts Seattle, Boston Cyberarts, Chicago Gamespace, the Architecture + Design Museum in Los Angeles, Beall Center for Art + Technology, and the festivals including Slamdance, DA Z, Sona and HKWalls (upcoming).
Cyrus Peñarroyo
University of Michigan, Assistant Professor
EXTENTS, Partner
Cyrus Peñarroyo is a Filipino-American designer and educator whose work examines the material, spatial, and social dimensions of urban life continually transformed by the internet’s pervasiveness. He is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and a partner in the design practice EXTENTS, with McLain Clutter. Peñarroyo was awarded the Architectural League Prize, two ACSA Faculty Design Awards, and residency fellowships at Akademie Schloss Solitude and Art Omi, among other honors. Peñarroyo received a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an M.Arch from Princeton University.
Ife Vanable
Yale University, Assistant Professor
I/van/able, Director
Ife Salema Vanable is an architect, historian, and theorist who directs i/van/able, a Bronx, NY-founded, Bristol, CT-based (but always Bronx-flavored) architectural workshop and think tank that produces theoretical, speculative, and physical interventions that defy prevailing notions of type, taste, and form. This work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), recognized by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), and exhibited at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Ife holds professional and post-professional degrees in architecture from Cornell and Princeton Universities and has studied at the Architectural Association in London and the University College of Lands and Architectural Studies (now Ardhi University) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Ife was the inaugural KPF Visiting Scholar (2021), as well as a Presidential Visiting Fellow (2022) at Yale SoA. Ife is also a PhD candidate in architectural history and theory at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP). Her scholarly work asks questions of and seeks to unearth complex and seemingly banal relationships between the design of architecture, law, and public policy, the performance of domesticity and respectability, and the politics, aesthetics, and materiality of the making of home.
What is SUPERJury
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. Students selected to participate in the review are recognized with honors and cash prizes. It’s a very significant event for the School of Architecture & Urban Planning.
Thank you to our host The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), to the SUPERjury Committee Members—faculty Aaron Tobey, Samantha Schuermann, and Lindsey Krug and students Travis Eliab Musoke, Cody Kremer, and Jeremi Regi Lukos.
Please contact Karl Wallick, Department of Architecture.
