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PLY+ on Balancing Architectural Practice and Teaching

2021-03-17T09:00:00-04:00

For this week's Studio Snapshot, Archinect connected with Craig Borum and Jen Maigret, the two principals of Ann Arbor-based collaborative architecture practice PLY+. The team was recently recognized as leading new practitioners by The Architectural League of New York, receiving one of this year's coveted Emerging Voices Awards.

Borum and Maigret shared with us how their faculty positions at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning create dual demands of practice and teaching, how the team had to adapt to working remotely during the pandemic, and when it is time to say no to potential projects.

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...

This small Ann Arbor Studio shows us how to work as a T+E+A+M

2017-06-19T12:10:00-04:00

T+E+A+M is comprised of four professors based out of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning in Ann Arbor. All holding principal positions within the small practice, this structure is quite unusual for a firm of their size. As they currently complete their residency at the Ragdale Foundation, we catch up with the quartet to discuss how they manage creative production with so many principals.