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Bridging the Gap Between Architecture and Healthcare with Dr. Andrew Ibrahim and the University of Michigan's Health and Design Fellowship

2020-04-02T10:00:00-04:00

Fellowships offer individuals the opportunity to dive into specialized areas of practice where topics and ideas can be explored and fostered within the context of the university setting. Like most architectural fellowships, many fellowships engage in work that oscillates between teaching, theory, pedagogical questioning, research, and design prototyping. However the University of Michigan offers a unique fellowship opportunity that submerses a fellow into medicine and healthcare design.

Through a partnership between the University of Michigan's Department of Surgery and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, a Health and Design Fellowship works to encourage, as program director Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc. explains, a "merging of networks [...] to create an opportunity for individuals to have a foot in both doors - architecture and healthcare." Architecture and planning haven't done a good job interfacing with healthcare and healthcare policy. However, alongside our t...

EXTENTS on the Importance of Being Earnest, Contemporary Urbanism, and the Digital World

2019-08-21T12:00:00-04:00

How do you re-image a city? How would you re-tell this narrative? The Ann Arbor-based duo Cyrus Peñarroyo and McLain Clutter use their passions in digital media, urbanism, and visualization to help answer this very question. Heavily invested in reshaping and reworking architectural practice and academia, both are faculty at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, and also, co-founders of EXTENTS, their architectural practice. Keen on finding new ways to "see the city," the duo creates digital and spatial practices for experiencing and understanding contemporary urbanism.

According to Peñarroyo and Clutter, "if we're able to see the city differently, maybe we can get other people to see it differently, too."

For this week's Studio Snapshot, Archinect had a chance to connect with Peñarroyo and Clutter. Together, they share their goals for running a practice as well as the role academia plays in their work. They also share their values when co...

Fellow Fellows: Brittany Utting

2019-08-12T14:11:00-04:00

Fellow Fellows is a series that focuses on the increasingly important role fellowships play in architecture academia today. These prestigious academic positions can bring forth a fantastic blend of practice, research, and pedagogical cross-pollination, often within a tight time frame. They also, by definition, represent temporary, open-ended, and ultimately precarious employment for aspiring young designers and academics. Fellow Fellows aims to understand what these positions offer for both the fellows themselves and the discipline at large by presenting their work and experiences through an in-depth interview. Fellow Fellows is about bringing attention and inquiry to the otherwise maddening pace of academia, while also presenting a broad view of the exceptional and breakthrough work being done by people navigating the early parts of their careers.

This week, we talk to Brittany Utting, the 2017-2018 Willard A. Oberdick Fellow at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Archit...

Fellow Fellows: De Peter Yi

2019-05-10T12:23:00-04:00

Fellow Fellows is a series that focuses on the current eruption and trend of fellowships in academia today. These positions within the academic realm produce a fantastic blend of practice, research and design influence and traditionally within a tight time frame. Fellow Fellows sits down with these fellows and attempts to understand what these positions offer to both themselves and the discipline at large. Fellow Fellows is about bringing attention and inquiry to an otherwise maddening pace of refreshed academics while giving a broad view of the exceptional and breakthrough work being done in-between the newly minted graduate and the licensed associate.

This week we talk to De Peter Yi who is currently the 2018-2019 Walter B. Sanders Fellow at University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Fellow Fellows: Viola Ago

2018-03-30T09:00:00-04:00

Fellow Fellows is a series that focuses on the current eruption of fellowships in academia today. Within this realm, these positions produce a fantastic blend of practice, research, and design influence, traditionally done within a tight time-frame. Fellow Fellows sits down with these fellows and attempts to understand what these positions offer to both the participants and the discipline at large. It is about bringing attention and inquiry to the otherwise maddening pace of revolving academics while giving a broad view of the breakthrough work being done by those who exist in-between the newly minted graduate and the licensed associate.

This week, we are talking to Viola Ago. Viola was the William Muschenheim Fellow during the 2016-2017 academic year at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Deans List: Monica Ponce de Leon of University of Michigan's Taubman College

2015-02-12T13:12:00-05:00

The Deans List is an interview series with the leaders of architecture schools, worldwide. The series profiles the school’s programming, as defined by the head honcho – giving an invaluable perspective into the institution’s unique curriculum, faculty and academic environment.

For this issue, we spoke with Monica Ponce de Leon, the Dean at University of Michigan's Taubman College.