Seven people from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee were among the 88 winners in the first round of the Foxconn “Smart Cities-Smart Futures” competition, which attracted 325 entries from higher education institutions across Wisconsin. Kyle Talbott, UWM associate professor of... View full entry »
MILWAUKEE _ Faculty in the School of Architecture & Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have elected Mo Zell to serve as chair of the school’s internationally recognized department of architecture. Zell, the school’s associate dean, becomes the first woman to chair the... View full entry »
Assoc. Prof. Chris Cornelius (studio;Indigenous) is one of ten architects invited to participate in the inaugural J. Irwin Miller and Xenia S. Miller Prize Competition, which will coincide with the inaugural 2016 symposium for Exhibit Columbus, “Foundations and Futures,” which will be... View full entry »
Brian Johnsen and Sebastian Schmaling are the latest Fitzhugh Scott Chairs in Design Excellence at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning.They will conduct a studio in the Fall of 2016. Both are founding partners of Johnsen Schmaling Architects... View full entry »
By Greg Walz-ChojnackiThe University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has earned the highest rating for a research institution from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, the gold standard for assessment.The “highest research activity” rating was given to only 115 of... View full entry »
The School of Architecture and Urban Planning's Carolyn Esswein, Director of Community Design Solutions, and Tim McCollow, HOME GR/OWN Program Manager City of Milwaukee, pitched their Partners for Places project as a finalist at the SXSW Eco conference in Austin on October 6th. Their project... View full entry »
Nikole Bouchard, Milo Bonacci, and Julien Leyssene were one of eight international design teams whose competition entries were showcased at Sukkahville 2015, the 5th annual competition conducted by the Kehilla Residential Programme in Toronto. They were one of 81 submissions that were asked to... View full entry »
Assistant Prof Kyle Reynolds and Jeff Mikolajewski, who together form Is-Office, recently received a 2015 Burnham Prize Award for the project Empty Kingdoms. Inspired by the title of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial (The State of the Art of Architecture) this year’s Burnham... View full entry »
Professors in Practice Brian Johnsen and Sebastian Schmaling’s Topo House has received a 2015 American Architecture Award.The American Architectural Awards program, organized by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and The European Centre for Architecture and Art, is considered one... View full entry »
Joshua Prince-Ramus of the internationally acclaimed architecture firm REX (http://www.rex-ny.com/) has been awarded the sixth Marcus Prize, an architectural prize offered worldwide to recognize architects ‘on a trajectory to greatness.’ This $100,000 award, supported by the... View full entry »
The team of Dan Causier and Matt Moulis have received the First Place Benn-Johnck Award, presented by AIA Chicago, for their project "Restraining Order: An Urban Capuchin Monastery". The project was guided by Professors-in-Practice Brian Johnsen and Sebastian Schmaling.For details about the award... View full entry »
UW Milwaukee Department of Architecture will offer a section of Arch 100 as a Limited Open Online Course (LOOC) this Fall 2015. LOOCs provide a tuition-free open online class while retaining the sense of community of a small course. Architectural Making I (100-203)was opened for the LOOC students... View full entry »
The School of Architecture and Urban Planning's (SARUP) Urban Edge 2015 exhibit has been included on the list of events scheduled to mark Le Corbusier's 50th Death Anniversary in Chandigarh, India.In January 2015, grant recipients from the Urban Edge Studio traveled to India, directed by Associate... View full entry »
Assistant Professor Nikole Bouchard has been accepted to be a MacDowell Fellow at The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire this summer. “The MacDowell Colony is the nation’s leading artist colony. The Colony offers creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring... View full entry »
Assistant Professor Kyle Reynolds has received an ACSA Faculty Design Award for “Empty Pavilion”, in collaboration with McLain Clutter (University of Michigan).For complete information, please seehttps://www.acsa-arch.org/programs-events/awards/archives/2015-award-winners... View full entry »
Architecture Ph.D. candidate Amin Mojtahedi, and his partner, Tahereh Hosseini, an electrical engineering Ph.D. candidate, are among the winners of the UWM Student Startup Challenge, as co-founders of AIM: Architectural Information Modeling. “AIM is an evaluation and simulation tool... View full entry »
A team of students from UW Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning (Efrain Cano, Ryan Guetschow, Joe Stefanich and team leader Jacob G.Jordan) along with Scott Gibbel, Master of Business Administration, UW Madison, are finalists in the 13th annual Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hines... View full entry »
Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, principals of MOS Architects [http://www.mos-office.net], are this year’s Fitzhugh Scott Chairs in Design Excellence, and will visit the UW Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning during the course of the Spring semester in their role as... View full entry »
Professors in Practice, Brian Johnsen and Sebastian Schmaling, of Johnsen Schmaling Architects (johnsenschmaling.com) have been recently featured in Architectural Digest and Fast Company. Architectural Digest just selected Johnsen Schmaling Architects for their “Rising Stars” feature... View full entry »
The UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning’s (UWM SARUP) Mobile Design Box and TRETOW are excited to announce the debut exhibition in a brand new pop-up gallery series that will transform a vacant storefront at Milwaukee’s The North End development into a hotspot forshowcasing... View full entry »
Assistant Professor Nikole Bouchard won the 1st Place Award for the Baltic Thermal Pool Park 2014 International Design Competition, held in Liepāja, Latvia, as well as Honorable Mention awards in the Mojdeh Baratloo Urban Urge 2014 competition (Brooklyn, NY) and the One Prize 2014 design... View full entry »
The UWM Alumni Association will present Spancrete with the Corporate Partner Award, which recognizes corporations or non-profit organizations which have a significant impact on the campus and/or on the lives of alumni and students by assisting in the advancement, growth and/or development of UWM... View full entry »
Assistant Professor Whitney Moon joins the Department of Architecture. Her research interests reside in 20th and 21st century art and architecture, with an emphasis on theatricality, performance, and ephemeral works. She previously taught at the University of San Diego and California Polytechnic... View full entry »
The School of Architecture and Urban Planning’s BLC Field School is now a member of a consortium of three upper level art, architecture, dance and design studios that explore how multidisciplinary design practice can engage professionals, academics and local cultures and... View full entry »
Associate Professor Jim Shields, FAIA has received a 2014 Honor Award for design excellence from AIA Wisconsin for the design of the new Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend, Wisconsin. Shields worked with a team at HGA Architects and Engineers on the building, including UWM Architecture alumni... View full entry »
