News and Opportunities

As department news and opportunities become available, they will be posted here. Check back frequently for updates.

Jim Shields Receives AIA Award

Associate Professor Jim Shields (with HGA Architects) has received a 2008 AIA Wisconsin Honor Award for the design of Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  The award recognized overall design excellence for completed buildings.  Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin is a waterfront museum complex with a focus on technology and fresh water resources.  Shields won the commission in a limited competition, in part because his design was seen to visually enhance Santiago Calatrava’s nearby Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The 120,000 square foot facility, which opened in late 2006, incorporates several sustainable features including the use of cold Lake Michigan waters as an alternative energy source to provide air conditioning loads for the building and one of the area’s most extensive green roofs covers the 200 car parking structure and all support services.

Photo credit: Rob Doctor

Greg Thomson Heads UWM Team at the Solar Decathlon.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced that UWM will be one of 20 universities selected from an international competition to compete in the 2009 Solar Decathlon.  SARUP Assistant Professor Greg Thomson, with Assistant Professor Chris Cornelius (Architecture), Assistant Professor Yaoyu Li (Mechanical Engineering), and Assistant Professor Abdolhosein Nasiri (Electrical Engineering) submitted the winning proposal and will head an interdisciplinary team that will design and build an 800 square foot house powered entirely by solar energy.

For complete details about the competition see the DOE site at:

http://www.doe.gov/news/5888.htm

Summer Camp 2008
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Grace La Wins National Award

Congratulations to Associate Professor Grace La on receiving a 2007-2008 ACSA Faculty Design Award for her project Great Lakes Future, permanent exhibit, Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin. Professor La’s project, which was designed in collaboration with her partner, James Dallman (La Dallman Architects), was selected in a rigorous national competition held by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. She will receive the award in a ceremony at the national annual meeting of the ACSA to be held this March in Houston.

GRADUATE Open House - Fall 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
 

If you are planning to apply to graduate school, we invite you to explore our programs in architecture and urban planning at our Graduate Open House. You must RSVP to attend.

Professor Mark Keane Receives Teaching Award

Professor Mark Keane has been awarded the UWM Alumni Association Award for Teaching Excellence. The award is given to an outstanding member of the UWM faculty or teaching academic  staff in recognition of distinguished career or civic contributions. The $3,000 award will be presented to Professor Keane at the UWM Alumni Association Recognition Reception.

SARUP students sweep 2007 PCI Architectural Student Design Competition

Department of Architecture Exhibition Series

The Marcus Prize Winner -2007

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SARUP Students Win National Awards

Matt Jarosz’s Competition Studio made an impressive showing recently in several national student competitions. Josh Mory and Jeff Davis took 1st place in the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s 2006 Student Architecture Design Competition. Spancrete added $1250 to PCI’s award of $3750 bringing the winning grand total to $5,000. Brian Schmidt won the top prize in the AIAS/Kawneer 2006 Student Design Competition and was awarded $2500. Katherine Christman received a $500 Honorable Mention in the same competition. In the MCA 2006 Student Design Competition Alex Chou and Jared Peterson were awarded an Honorable Mention and $500. The AIAS/Vinyl Institute Boston Park Design Competition gave Justin Wagner an Honorable Mention with a $500 prize. Jared Peterson received $50 and a Merit award in this competition.

Under Harvey Rabinowitz’s direction, SARUP fielded a team in the Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. Included were Master of Architecture students: Mike Hacker, Adam Voltz, Adam Luckhardt , and Larry Kilmer a joint M.Arch./M.U.P. Adam Cibik, in the Master of Business Administration program at UWM also participated. This was a challenging, ten day competition during which students had to research and design a solution for a site in Los Angeles. The SARUP team received an Honorable Mention, placing it in the top ten of more than 100 entries.

SARUP Students Go Green

Several graduate students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture presented their “green” plans for renovations to UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology building...

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(Link to Badger Herald article - posted February 8, 2007)

Annual MEDAL Architecture Program Event

Architect wannabe? If you’re a high school student who loves design and building ...

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Historic Preservation in a High Tech Country: Japan - Summer 2007
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Rapid Prototyping Lab - Policies and Procedures

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