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Taubman College announces Antje Steinmuller as new Architecture Chair

2024-03-08T11:25:00-05:00

The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning has announced Antje Steinmuller as the next chair of the college’s architecture program. Steinmuller is expected to begin her three-year appointment on July 15th and is described by the college as “the leader best poised to strengthen the research and practice, teaching and learning that make Michigan a leader in architectural education.”

Steinmuller is currently an associate professor at the California College of the Arts (CCA), where she has taught for the past 17 years. She currently chairs the Bachelor of Architecture program and co-directs the Urban Works Agency, CCA’s urbanism research lab, where her research explores the role of design at the intersection of citizen-led and city-regulated processes in the production of urban space.

Related on Archinect: University of Michigan researchers detail new 3D printed upcycled sawdust material for formwork. Image courtesy Tharanesh Varadharajan, Zachary Ke...

Get Lectured: University of Michigan, Spring '24

2024-02-16T14:11:00-05:00

The University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning has announced its Winter 2024 public speakers series as part of our Get Lectured rundown for the new academic term.

The first event in the school’s Building Culture series will take place today, February 16, with the launch of Charles Waldheim and Jeffrey Nesbit’s new title, Technical Lands: A Critical Primer. Japanese practitioner Jo Nagasaka will follow next on February 19, preceding a presentation from Kwong Von Glinow founders Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow on March 4. Carlos Bedoya of the Mexico City studio Productura follows their appearance on March 18.

Dan Adams and Marie Law Adams of the Massachusetts-based Landing Studio will be on campus on March 25 for a lecture, followed on April 1 by another on the early-20th century German architect and Bauhaus instructor Ludwig Hilberseimer from Rice University's Scott Coleman.

The term will also feature a symposium on Nigerian architecture on April 1...

University of Michigan researchers detail new 3D printed upcycled sawdust material for formwork

2023-08-22T13:09:00-04:00

A recyclable alternative material developed by researchers at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning’s Digital Architecture Research & Technology (DART) Laboratory is providing builders with a more sustainable way of applying concrete casts in the construction process in order to cut down on waste and the environmental impact of projects using the method.

The fully biodegradable BioMatters material is made from sawdust that’s collected and used via robotic 3D printing in the formwork of buildings, an essential element that currently constitutes 40% of all concrete-related construction expenses industry-wide, according to DART.

Image courtesy Tharanesh Varadharajan, Zachary Keller, Muhammad Dayyem Khan/DART Lab

"Other sawdust-based solutions are using other petroleum-based polymers — we use biopolymers which are completely decomposable," DART researcher Muhammad Dayyem Khan said, adding that the formwork, once the concrete has cured, can be full...

Strike at Taubman College and the University of Michigan continues as student workers and staff assistants demand fair wages

2023-04-26T17:52:00-04:00

A group of 40 striking graduate student instructors and staff assistants at the University of Michigan Taubman College have reportedly had their April wages taken from them in response to their participation in a campus-wide movement that has sought improved working conditions and better pay for workers.

The school’s retaliatory move was met with ire, with the strike now going on for nearly a month. Protestors have already been met with police violence and say the University’s latest tactic constitutes an escalation in the midst of bargaining efforts that are, for now, ostensibly stalled.

Solidarity! Here are striking international grads picketing at Taubman College right this moment. Their chants are streaming into the architecture studios. pic.twitter.com/DoPQoretgk
— Grad Employees' Org UMich #OnStrike (@geo3550) April 26, 2023

In an open letter to Taubman's Dean Jonathan Massey, supporters of the strike wrote, “Such retaliation is wrong. Taubman College’s leadership should come ...

University of Michigan’s Taubman College is searching for its next Architecture Program Chair

2023-03-29T14:27:00-04:00

Following last week’s look at an opening for an Engagement Coordinator at The New York Review of Architecture, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open position on Archinect Jobs for the Architecture Program Chair at the University of Michigan.

Based in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, the role calls for an individual to chair the school’s architecture program for a three-year renewable term beginning July 1st, 2024. Candidates for the position must hold or qualify for a tenure or practice track appointment in the architecture program at an associate or full professor level, and display a “record of distinction in teaching and in professional, scholarly, and/or creative achievement.”

Why the role interests us

The open position at Taubman College offers us the opportunity to explor...

Taubman College gifted $1.35 million for scholarship that supports future Masters of Urban and Regional Planning students

2022-11-03T08:30:00-04:00

The University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning has received $1.35 million from retired urban planner and Taubman alumni David Lepo '78. The gift adds to the David A. Lepo Urban Planning Scholarship Fund, which he established in January 2022.

The scholarship supports students with financial needs in the Master of Urban and Regional Planning program. It also places a special focus on students from Ohio, which is where Lepo is from.

“I've had a very fortunate life, and that includes the opportunity to attend Taubman College,” said Lepo. “Some people don't have as easy a way as I did. I was very fortunate. I was an out-of-state student and could still afford to go to Michigan. I want everybody to have that chance because there's no reason not to allow everybody to rise to their best.”

Lepo worked extensively throughout California, serving as the planning director for Newport Beach, California. He also worked for the cities of Los Alamitos, Signal Hill, ...

Chicago Architecture Biennial: A new pavilion by SOM & Taubman College makes a statement about SLT technology

2021-09-21T19:26:00-04:00

As part of their contribution to the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial, Skidmore Owings & Merrill has teamed up with the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning on the design of a robotically fabricated timber pavilion.

The project is the result of a year’s worth of research by Taubman Professors Tsz Yan Ng and Wes McGee and is meant as a showcase for the power of robotics to produce efficient and sustainable methods of design and construction.

Image: Kendall McCaugherty © Hall+Merrick Photographers

“Automated manufacturing technologies enable us to precisely and efficiently prefabricate a kit of parts which can be delivered to the construction site on demand, leveraging skilled labor where it is most effective in the process,” Ng and McGee said in a statement.

Image: Kendall McCaugherty © Hall+Merrick Photographers

The processors report that the Spatial Laminated Timber (SLT) they used reduces up to 46% of material use when compared to more trad...

Spatializing Digital Pedagogies grants fund innovative online and in-person learning strategies at Taubman College

2020-07-13T19:59:00-04:00

The University of Michigan Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning has announced the 11 winning grantees of the school's Spatializing Digital Pedagogies grant initiative. The awards represent an effort on the part of the school to "help develop a teaching framework for the fall 2020 semester that blends online and modified-residency education," according to a university website.

The 11 grantees were selected for funding by Anya Sirota, associate dean for academic initiatives and associate professor of architecture, and Jacob Comerci, academic innovation project manager. Leaders selected 11 projects to receive support.

Previously on Archinect: "Studio culture goes online at Taubman College." Image courtesy of Cyrus Peñarroyo / Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Regarding the winning proposals, Sirota and Comerci write, "Spatializing Digital Pedagogies emerged from the understanding that through first-hand experience, our faculty, students, and staff are uniq...

Studio culture goes online at Taubman College

2020-03-10T18:08:00-04:00

As the spread of the novel coronavirus prompts a cascade of event cancellations and school closures, the rest of the Spring 2020 semester hangs in the balance for many design students and educators.

Just this week, Columbia University, Princeton University, Harvard University, The Ohio State University, the University of Pennsylvania, and University of California, Berkeley and others have announced school closures to varying degrees as these institutions formulate plans for moving instruction out of the classroom and onto the internet for (at least) the remainder of the semester. At many universities, mid-reviews are just around the corner or have just taken place, leaving the remaining half-semester in limbo for students and professors, alike.

As educational institutions transition toward a yet-to-be-determined period of all-remote coursework, the deeply social culture of design studio is being challenged from multiple angles, as well.

Anyone who has been through architecture scho...

Get Lectured: University of Michigan, Winter '20

2020-01-15T16:00:00-05:00

It's a new year and a new school term, so that means it's time for Archinect's latest edition of Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning will kick off their Winter '20 lecture series with the MLK Symposium highlighting inclusive pedagogies. They will host lectures by Amanda Williams and Andres Hernandez, Lesley Lokko, Jeanne Gang, Frida Escobedo, Marina Tabassum, and Charisma Acey. Other symposia this term include “Utopia vs. The City” and “Emerging Urbanisms”. In late March, the “Practice Product Protocol” exhibition featuring the 2020 Architecture Fellows will open.

Check out previous posters on the Get Lectured Pinte...

Architect Kimberly Dowdell uses her hometown of Detroit as a catalyst for teaching equitable urban design practices

2019-08-14T17:00:00-04:00

In her lecture, entitled “Diverse City: How Equitable Design and Development will Shape Urban Futures,” Dowdell drew on her experiences growing up in Detroit and her work in real estate development.

Earlier this year, architect, Detroit native, and current National Organization of Minority Architects president Kimberly N. Dowdell presented a lecture discussing the importance of equity in design and development. With her multi-disciplinary background in real estate development, education, and architecture, Dowdell explains, "equity, if I boil it down to its most essential element, is making it right,"adding, "Cities can experience trauma, and when you make it right, they can become more resilient."

Thanks to coverage of the lecture by Danielle J. Kranchalk from The Harvard Crimson, we get a view into Dowdell's presentation at Harvard GSD, which showcased her strategy for revitalizing various Detroit neighborhoods.

Her passion and commitment for creating thriving cities are marked by an approach that prioritizes what can be done to think outside the box. As Dowdell poignantly explains, "both people and cities go through cycles of trauma, equity, and resilience." She continues t...

McLain Clutter announced as new Chair of Architecture at Taubman College

2019-06-26T12:47:00-04:00

McLain Clutter, currently an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, will be become the school's new Chair of Architecture in the fall. Clutter will be replacing Sharon Haar, who has been in the position since 2013.

View this post on Instagram EXTENTS partner McLain Clutter (@mclainclutter) has been appointed Chair of Architecture at Taubman College (@taubmancollege)
A post shared by E X T E N T S (@extents.us) on Jun 26, 2019 at 3:12am PDT

Clutter and Cyrus Peñarroyo, another faculty member at Taubman College, run the design practice EXTENTS, which focuses on the interrelations between architecture and media culture. Clutter is also the author of Imaginary Apparatus: New York City and its Mediated Representation, a book published in 2015 on the relationship between New York and its mediated image.

SRFC_PLAY, by EXTENTS. Photo by Salam Rida.

"Clutter received a Bachelor of Architecture from Syrac...

Get Lectured: University of Michigan, Winter '19

2019-01-17T16:18:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Spring 2019

It's time for Archinect's latest Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning's Winter '19 lecture series kicks off today with the “Institutionalizing Equity: Radically Restructuring Opportunity in Detroit” symposium. Upcoming speakers this month include Eyal Weizman, Mabel O. Wilson, and Amanda Williams + Andres L. Hernandez.

A few other events include the “Architecture Camp!” panel featuring Laurel Broughton and Andrés Jaque, and Carlo Ratti will give the keynote at the “Building Better Futures: Innovations in Equitable Development” conference. Then in March an...

Get Lectured: University of Michigan, Fall '18

2018-09-12T14:46:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2018

With a new school year upon us, it's time for Archinect's latest Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The Fall 2018 public event series at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning starts today with a lecture by Neri Oxman. Other speakers this semester include Laurel Consuelo Broughton + Andrés Jaque, Florian Idenburg, Ann Forsyth, Craig Dykers of Snøhetta, and more.

Check out previous posters on the Get Lectured Pinterest page!

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Get Lectured: University of Michigan, Winter '18

2018-02-05T13:16:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2018

Archinect's Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Check out the Winter 2018 event series at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Jan 1- Feb 11
Cloud/Bank Exhibition
Designed for Exhibit Columbus

Jan 10
Łukasz Stanek / The University of Manchester
“Cold War Baghdad: Architecture in the World Socialist System”

Jan 11
The Other Detroit Symposium Urban Planning
Martin Luther King Jr. Forum: The Implications of Uneven Development in Detroit

Jan 19
Mabel O. Wilson / Columbia GSAPP
Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture

Jan 25
Hito Steyerl, ...

Aggregating Architectures; A conversation with Taubman's new Dean Jonathan Massey

2017-09-14T19:10:00-04:00

This week we talk with Jonathan Massey, the new Dean at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. We talk about his approach to architectural education and his previous roles at Syracuse and the California College of the Arts, where he finished his deanship this year. We also discuss the world of architectural publishing as it relates to his work with Aggregate.

Jonathan Massey's inaugural lecture "Building Tomorrow" in the new wing

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U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning's new wing, design...

U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning opens a new wing designed by Preston Scott Cohen

2017-09-11T20:17:00-04:00

The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, at the University of Michigan, opened on September 8th with a new building designed by Preston Scott Cohen. The A. Alfred Taubman Wing will offer an additional 36,000 square feet of studio and common spaces for reviews, conferences and other events. The building is designed to facilitate encounters and conversation, and to transform the relationship between faculty and students.

Photo by Peter Smith

Read the full press release:

The A. Alfred Taubman Wing provides an additional 36,000 square feet to the existing 72,000 square foot facility project includes a renovation of the existing college facilities. Architecture and urban planning education increasingly calls on spaces for group work and spaces to design and build. The wing and renovations provide additional studio space per student and collaboration rooms, as well as 5,700 square foot commons space which will al...

Archinect LAX >< DET Mini Sessions; A Conversation with Sean Ahlquist, Detroit-Based Architect, Educator and Researcher

2017-06-01T16:46:00-04:00

This week we are releasing a series of conversations, or "Mini-Sessions", with architects and designers in LA and Detroit, in partnership with the Los Angeles Design Festival. The festival will be taking place in Downtown LA from June 8 to 11th. Today we're sharing my conversation with Sean Ahlquist, Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. I talk with him about architectural education and his work merging new technologies with innovative applications of architecture and material research in his Lab for Material Architectures.

If you’re able to attend the LA Design Festival, make sure to check out the live panel, titled LAX >< DET, discussing the connection between LA and Detroit, a collaboration with the Detroit Design Festival and the L.A. Forum for Architecture and Design. The event will be taking place on June 10th, from 2-4pm at ROW DTLA 777 Alameda Street, and will include Edwin Chan, Chris Den...

Jonathan Massey to serve as dean at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at U Michigan

2017-05-18T20:27:00-04:00

The University of Michigan Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning has announced that Jonathan Massey will assume the role of dean starting on August 1, following in the footsteps of Monica Ponce de Leon who left in 2015 to become the dean of Princeton. His deanship will run through 2022.

Massey previously served as dean of architecture and professor at California College of the Arts. Before that, he worked for several significant architecture firms including Frank O. Gehry and Associates (now known as Gehry Partners). From 1994-2001 he taught at Princeton, Barnard, Parsons and Pratt at various times.

Throughout his career, Massey has pioneered transdisciplinary architectural scholarship, perhaps most notably through the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, a group of scholars who investigate how buildings inform socioeconomic and political changes. He co-edits the online journal, the Aggregate Website.

Massey earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Princeton, a Master ...

Immersion in robotic design keeps ACADIA workshops true to 'Posthuman Frontiers' theme

2016-11-10T13:17:00-05:00

The ACADIA (The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture) conference is a yearly, highly anticipated event for many architecture practitioners, researchers, educators, and inventers around the world. It is a chance for architects to come together and reach into the work that they have been starting or contributing to over the last year. This year ACADIA was hosted at The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, chaired and organized by accomplished and celebrated faculty members from Taubman College. The theme for the ACADIA 2016 conference is “Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines”; an elusive title meant to question certain fundamental conventional methods in architecture.

The workshop series: immersive, full-service learning

Every year, the workshop series is an integral part of a successful ACADIA conference. This year, there was a total of seven workshops that spanned across three intensive days in intim...

ACADIA's 'Robotic Softness' workshop experiments with Xbox Kinect and robo-weaving

2016-11-08T20:07:00-05:00

The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) conference 2016, hosted by the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban planning at the University of Michigan, is a preeminent platform to discuss design philosophies and acknowledge new realms of work done by individuals or organizations among the architectural community. The Institute for Computational Design at the University of Stuttgart's contribution to the field of computational design and architecture has been immense, and the workshop gave us valuable insight into the technology and know-how being developed at the there.

Through the seven ACADIA’s workshops, we participated in “Robotic Softness: Behavioral Fabrication Process of Woven Structures,” led by Lauren Vasey, a Research Associate from the ICD and Giulio Brugnaro, a graduate of the ITECH Master’s Program at the University of Stuttgart who is currently also pursuing his PHD at The Bartlett School of Architecture. The three day workshop was structured...

Get Lectured: University of Michigan, Fall '16

2016-09-30T15:17:00-04:00

Gearing up for another eventful school year this fall? Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss. Mark those calendars!

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Check out a selection of upcoming lecture events this fall at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Be on the lookout for lectures from Neil Denari, ACADIA Conference Keynote Elizabeth Diller, panel discussions, and more.

Oct 4
The Case for Regional Transit: Catherine Ross, "What if Transit Works?"

Oct 4
Xavier Vendrell, "Professionals and/or Magicians revised version"

Oct 7
Practice Session No. 3 Lecture: Neil Denari, "The Same and the Different"

Oct 11
Lecture: Louis Becker / Henning Larsen Architect...

"Practice Sessions:" a way for students to practice practice

2016-02-04T12:25:00-05:00

This post is brought to you by Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

A practice session is different than the real thing, the big game, the final performance. All the pressures and impingements of the real thing are present—its rules, constraints, and mandate to perform—but it’s also just practice. It happens again and again, and the awareness of that repetition, of any one session being just another in an extensible chain that stretches backward and forward, grants certain permissions: risks can be taken, roles can be rehearsed and reassigned, embarrassments are quickly forgotten, inhibitions fall away. Over time, practice makes the difficult look easy and the accumulated glitches and idiosyncrasies of each session allow for unanticipated discoveries. Practice sessions are real, and then some.

Over the next five years, ten architectural practices will be invited to Taubman College to run a Practice Session. Each session centers on an immersive four-day design charet...

Get Lectured: University of Michigan, Fall '15

2015-11-10T14:06:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2015

Archinect's Get Lectured is ready for another school year. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

The next featured poster comes from the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Listed below are upcoming events. Unless otherwise noted, events start at 6 p.m. at the Art + Architecture Auditorium: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI.

Nov 13
Hilary Sample + Michael Meredith / MOS Architects
"Practice Sessions No. 1 Lecture"
Related: Workshop + Exhibition, Nov 13-20 at Taubman College Gallery
Panel Discussion with Sylvia Lavin

Nov 20
Conrad Kickert / The University of Cincinnati
"The Downtown That Never Was"

Dec 1
Mi...

A. Alfred Taubman, shopping mall pioneer & University of Michigan donor, dies at 91

2015-04-20T13:58:00-04:00

He donated millions to the University of Michigan’s health care center, medical school library and college of architecture and urban planning; to Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; and to Brown University’s public policy and American institutions program. He led a $75 million expansion of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and was a director of the Detroit Symphony and other cultural organizations.

Just last week, Taubman was still attending the groundbreaking of the new wing of the Art & Architecture building at University of Michigan's Taubman College Architecture and Urban Planning.

Robot gives a helping hand as Taubman College breaks ground on new school addition

2015-04-15T18:43:00-04:00

On April 15, 2015, University of Michigan's President Mark Schlissel and Taubman College Architecture and Urban Planning Dean Monica Ponce de Leon broke ground with donor, A. Alfred Taubman on the new wing of the Art & Architecture building. [...] The ceremonial shoveling of the ground was performed by Taubman College's Kuka robot, normally used for architectural digital fabrication research, painted maize and blue for the occasion.

Previously: University of Michigan revives plan for architecture school addition and doubles budget to $28M

Also, don't miss our recent Dean's List feature with Monica Ponce de Leon, the Dean at UM's Taubman College.

Get Lectured: University of Michigan, Winter '15

2015-02-16T13:52:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter-Spring 2015

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session! Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

The next featured poster comes from the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Below are upcoming lecture events only. Unless noted**, events start at 6 p.m. at the Art + Architecture Auditorium: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI. Free and open to the public.

Feb 17
Heather Roberge / Murmur: Architecture and Environments; UCLA

Feb 18
Mike Lydon / The Street Plans Collaborative

Feb 20
Achim Menges / University of Stuttgart

Feb 25
Mark Jarzombek / Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mar 13 **
Jeanne Gang / Studio Gang A...

U of M architecture dean encourages minority high school students to storm barriers in a field dominated by white males

2014-11-17T13:29:00-05:00

Monica Ponce de Leon, a leading American architect proud of being a Hispanic woman in a field long dominated by white men, wants to change the face of her profession. [...] agreed to conduct a class earlier that day for juniors from John Hay High School - the vast majority of whom were black. Ponce de Leon, dean of the Taubman College of Architecture and Planning [...], wanted to inspire the students to enter a field in which the vast majority of practitioners don't look like them.

Get Lectured: University of Michigan, Fall '14

2014-11-04T13:19:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2014

Say hello to another edition of Archinect's Get Lectured! As a refresher, we'll be featuring a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. If you're not doing so already, be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Our next poster comes from the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Below are current + upcoming events only. Unless otherwise noted, events start at 6 p.m. at the Art + Architecture Auditorium: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI. All events free and open to the public.

Nov. 7
Clement Blanchet / Clement Blanchet Architecture
"Primitive"

Nov. 11
Sonia Hirt / Virginia Tech
"Landscapes of Postmodernity: Changes in the Built Fabric of Central-East European Cities Since the End of Socialism"

Nov. 14
Teresa Gali-Iza...

University of Michigan revives plan for architecture school addition and doubles budget to $28M

2014-03-18T14:19:00-04:00

Five years after scrapping its original proposal for improvements to the Art and Architecture Building, University of Michigan is planning to add a $28 million addition to the 40-year-old structure. [...] Designs for a $13 million, 16,300-square-feet addition were originally approved in 2007, but scrapped two years later. At the time, officials blamed a tough economic climate and limited financial resources.