UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MILWAUKEE 2018 – 2019 School of Architecture + Urban Planning
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Karl Wallick, Associate Dean / Associate Professor Britani Bahr, MArch Candidate
Copy Editors Janet Tibbetts Sharadha Natraj
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Britani Bahr Karl Wallick Nikole Bouchard, Assistant Professor
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Pavilions in the Courtyard _ photo by Josh Alsum
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Final Critiques for Nikole Bouchard’s Studio: Tabula Scripta _ photo by Josh Alsum
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Architecture 310 Students with Models _ photo by Josh Alsum
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Interim Dean for SARUP: Nancy Frank
SARUP Celebrates 50 Years
DEAN’S MESSAGE Nancy Frank
50 HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARUP
What an amazing time for me to have the opportunity to serve as Interim Dean for SARUP! This year we celebrate 50 years from the school’s founding. We are planning a host of activities to celebrate Fifty Years of SARUP. Some will be intellectually challenging; others just silly and fun. The opening event for students will be the Friday T&B kickoff with BBQ, ice cream and games. Throughout the year, we’ll be offering special lectures, Pecha Kucha nights, gallery shows and other events that we brand with a big 5-0. The big bash—our 50th Anniversary gala in April—will be a three-day celebration, focusing on the future of our professions and looking back fondly at the past 50 years. As I write, I realize that I have been with SARUP for half of its lifetime. I joined the planning program in 1994, 25 years ago. In that time, faculty, staff and students have come and gone, with some departing all too soon. One constant has always been the steady leadership of dean Bob Greenstreet. Bob does not want the 50th Anniversary to be about his tenure, but I would be remiss not to recognize his outstanding leadership—and the giant shoes he has left to fill. SARUP has much to be grateful for in his 38 years of service to SARUP (29 of those as Dean). Happily, my role will be to fill those shoes only until the school finds a new permanent dean to lead SARUP into the second half of its first century. Until then, I look forward to working with the great team of faculty, staff and student leaders in SARUP, and meeting with as many of you as I can to hear your ideas for preparing the school for the next 50 years. Nancy Frank Interim Dean
1969 was a remarkable year for American art, culture and technology. Woodstock rocked. PBS took to the airwaves. Armstrong and Aldrin walked the moon. The School of Architecture & Urban Planning took root at a young public university in Milwaukee. Join the School of Architecture & Urban Planning at UW-Milwaukee as we celebrate a landmark anniversary. Our architecture program turns 50; Urban Planning turns 45. This year-long celebration kicks off this September and concludes with a gala weekend, April 16-18, 2020. You helped build the School of Architecture & Urban Planning into an institution that is innovating and reshaping southeastern Wisconsin. Please help us celebrate this legacy as we look toward SARUP’s next 50 years. NOTE: We’re working on a special project for SARUP’s 50th. Send us your e-business card or a photo of your card to Sharadha Natraj, snatraj@uwm.edu.
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CONTENTS Dean’s Message NEWS Student News SARUP News Other News LECTURES / EVENTS / EXHIBITIONS Event Spotlight Mobile Design Box Fall 2019 Lectures / Events / Exhibitions SARUP Snapshots Women In Design 50th Anniversary Snapshots
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AWARDS & HONORS Marcus Prize 10 SUPERjury 11 Student Awards & Honors 14-15 Faculty Awards & Honors 16-18 Scholarship Spotlight 19 WORK Student Work SURF Grants Community Design Solutions
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Ben Schenck, MArch
ARCH 891: Sense of Space. Thesis with K. Wallick
Tess Richard, BSAS
ARCH 310: Design Fundamentals 1 with K. Talbott
Daniel Fischer, MArch
ARCH 825: Comprehensive with J. Shields & K. Wallick
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Ethan Weseman, BSAS
ARCH 310: Design Fundamentals 1 with M. Mabee
JF.TW Jordan Felber & Tyler Weis, BSAS & MArch ARCH 650/850: Marcus Prize with K. Reynolds & J. Gang
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Michael Muchmore, MArch
ARCH 891: The New Urbanists Book of the Dead. Thesis with J. Benyamin
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Zachary Sutter, BSAS
ARCH 320: Design Fundamentals 2 with N. Straube
Emma Bittner, BSAS
ARCH 320: Design Fundamentals 2 with M. Messner
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Kim Workman, MArch
ARCH 825: Comprehensive with J. Shields & K. Wallick
MB.AD AM Marlee Barnes, Amanda DoBas & Alexis Meyer, BSAS ARCH 420: Architecture Design 2 with A. Timmer
Aisasadat Altaha Maki, BSAS
ARCH 320: Design Fundamentals 2 with M. Messner
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ARCH 410: Architecture Design 1 with S. Keogh
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MM.AK Miles Michlitsch & Andrew Kozy, BSAS ARCH 420: Architecture Design 2 with N. Straube
RS NB Rachel Schulz, BSAS
ARCH 650: Urban Design Studio with C. Esswein
ARCH 820: Architectural Design 2 with K. Talbott
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Jansen Van Grinsven, MArch
ARCH 825: Comprehensive with J. Shields & K. Wallick
Amanda Golemba, MArch
ARCH 850: Tabula Scripta with N. Bouchard
Liam Kolstad, BSAS
ARCH 320: Design Fundamentals 2 with G. B. Lopez
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Kate Greskoviak, MArch
ARCH 891: Withindustry. Thesis with C. Cornelius
Roe Draus, BSAS
ARCH 320: Design Fundamentals 2 with M. Thadhani
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Caroline Schlosser, BSAS
ARCH 825: Comprehensive with J. Shields & K. Wallick
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ARCH 650: Finding Home with J. Peot-Shields and A. Nemec
Taylor Lovick, BSAS
ARCH 320: Design Fundamentals 2 with M. Thadhani
TM.KW Tia Milkova & Kim Workman, MArch
ARCH 650/850: Marcus Prize with K. Reynolds & J. Gang
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STUDENT NEWS Externships, Activities & Events
Gabrielle Fishbaine & Britani Bahr present at VDTA_ photo by F. Arenoza
SARUP’S EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM Real World Experience in the Architectural Profession
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This experience was not one that I will soon forget. To see the excitement, and buzz around such a monumental project was inspiring, and I am thankful that JGMA was willing to bring me along for the ride.
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– Josh Alsum Winter Break 2019 JGMA
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Getting to work on a project like this really showed how they were able to continue the detail and design that was established in the cottage design at a larger scale because of their relationship with the client.
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– Kim Workman Spring Break 2019 HGA
This year we placed graduate and undergraduate planning and architecture students in 70 externships at 49 firms in and around Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago and Boston. Graduate students accounted for 25 externs—13 of whom were women. We encourage students to extern at more than one firm over their winter and spring breaks so they receive exposure to different office cultures.
The summary of student participation is as follows:
70 STUDENTS TOTAL UNDERGRADS : 45 25 : GRADS Freshmen : 00 12 : 1st year grads Sophomores : 02 08 : 2nd year grads Juniors : 30 05 : 3rd year grads Seniors : 13
EXTERNSHIP HOST FIRMS MILWAUKEE AG Architecture Christopher Kidd and Associates City of Milwaukee ECO: HOME GR/OWN Continuum Dan Beyer Architects Design Fugitives Engberg Anderson Eppstein Uhen Foundation Architecture Galbraith Carnahan Architects LLC Graef Groth Design Group HGA Johnsen Schmaling Kahler Slater Korb and Associates Kubala Washatko Mortenson Construction Neighborhood Improvement Development Corporation (Milwaukee Department of City Development) Outside Architecture Quorum Rinka Tredo Group Uihlein/Wilson – Ramlow/Stein Architects Vetter Denk Zimmerman Architectural Studios
WISCONSIN Somerville Architects | Engineers Architecture Design Consultants Groth Design Group
CHICAGO Brininstool & Lynch Cannon Gensler Goettsch Partners, Inc. HBRA Holabird + Root JGMA Krueck & Sexton Site Design Group Skidmore Owings & Merrill Studio Gang Valerio Dewalt Train Associates
MINNEAPOLIS HGA
OTHER NADAAA
MADISON Dimension IV Madison Design Group Flad Architects MSA Professional Services OPN Potter Lawson SEH
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Historic Ogimachi Village _ photo by K. Adams
Italy Archaeology Site _
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JAPAN Study Abroad
ITALY Study Abroad
The Japan 2019 Hidden Order: Historic Preservation in a High Tech City summer foreign study trip offered students a chance to see architecture, historic preservation and urban planning from a different perspective. Led by Senior Lecturer Matthew Jarosz, the four week trip introduces students to important architectural and urban artifacts in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto.
Excursions beneath the veil of Mount Vesuvius, led by William Krueger, focused on the principles of 3-D digital documentation. During three weeks this summer SARUP students completed nearly 1000 laser scans of five different projects. In addition to the Vesuvian Institute, partners included Cornell University, The Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Maryland and Southwestern University of Georgetown. Archaeological sites near Mount Vesuvius, including the ancient cities of Stabiae and Pompeii, were chosen to produce virtual reality environments, BIM models, and 2-D and 3-D imagery. Final presentations took place at the Vesuvian Institute, and the event was covered by local news media. Finally, students submitted proposals with William to document a UNESCO world heritage site in southern Italy and a few structures in Rome.
by Matthew Jarosz, Senior Lecturer
Organized as a mix of old and new, students undertake a hands-on study of landmark buildings and urban spaces while also exploring cultural themes around the conflicts of modernism and heritage. Excursions to Kobe, Nara, Yokohama, Nagoya, Himeji, Nikko, Kanazawa and Shirakawa follow similar themes. This foreign study trip offers students a unique experience in the principles of historic preservation as practiced in a non-European based environment. The loss of older and historic buildings in all countries has reduced our collective sense of identification with the past. The challenges faced in Japan (and Pacific-rim countries in general) offer us an entirely new and untapped source of information and collaboration. Lack of buildable land area, introduction of high-tech materials and construction methods, and diverging attitudes about the role of history and historic buildings, present us with preservation challenges of the highest order. Through the assistance of several Japanese universities, we will engage in a unique educational experience that will study architectural design and historic preservation both as public policy and as building construction. Partnerships with several Japanese universities allow for interactive encounters in the field and the classroom. As part of the trip, there is one week of field work to allow hands-on workshops in the service of documenting and restoring an endangered Japanese landmark.
by William Krueger, RP Lab + Wood Shop Director
Dotonbori District of Osaka _ photo by K. Adams
NETHERLANDS Study Abroad
by Mo Zell, Department Chair and Associate Professor
In Netherlands, Marc Roehrle, Mo Zell and Phil Troutman (George Washington University) led the study abroad trip. This is a course in the art of looking: How do our conceptual frameworks shape what we see in a painting, a photograph, a building, a museum, a street or an entire city? Amsterdam is unique in that every single square centimeter has been designed—dredged from the sea, drained, canalized, built and rebuilt over the centuries. It has been crafted and curated, like a work of art. Students acquired and adapted modes of looking at art, photography, architecture and urban design to interpret and re-interpret this city. Students received personalized tours of the Rijksmuseum, Rembrandt House, Van Gogh Museum, Tropenmuseum, bicycle infrastructure, Black Heritage canal, Red Light District, along with side trips to Utrecht and Rotterdam.
PARIS Study Abroad by Mark Keane, Professor
Professors Mark and Linda Keane ran their tenth Paris Study Abroad program this summer with students from the SARUP undergraduate and graduate programs and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The core group was based in Paris, three students per apartment, with apartments spread out across the City of Lights, with weekly day trips or overnights to the Loire Valley, St. Malo, Mont St. Michel, Beauvais, Vaux le Vicomte, Versailles, Pierrefonds and a four day program in London. Many students joined the faculty-led excursion to Athens, Greece, and the islands of Hydra, Poros, Aegina, Mykonos and Santorini. During independent study, students traveled to Holland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg and Denmark. These excursions are key to the summer program as
Rotterdam Housing _ photo by C. Kucera
the students leave twice to travel and come home to Paris, the greatest city in western civilization as it dominated four major periods in history—the Gothic, the Baroque, the Neo-Classical and the Modern. Quote from Marlee Barnes: “Being submersed in another country’s culture is an incomparable and (I think) important experience for an architect. Of course, you can learn about culture in a lecture hall, but to really understand it and have the ability to compare it to your own culture you have to live in it. I think experiencing, firsthand, the culture in France and Europe in general, was the most eye-opening part of my twomonth educational experience. Everything from the fashion on the streets, to the countless modes of transportation, to the meticulous upkeep of public gardens and parks allowed me to make critical comparisons of our culture to theirs.”
Paris Study Abroad Outdoor Classroom _ photo by R. Rufer
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SARUP NEWS Innovative and Relevant
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Bob Greenstreet _ photo by J. Alsum
BOB GREENSTREET: I believe our role as Steps Down As Dean
architectural educators is to train students to be the change agents for the 21st century—to address the serious problems of contemporary society—climate change, resiliency, migration, and urbanization amongst other global issues. Complex challenges such as these rely on working across disciplines and disrupting normative practices. We cannot train students to be the practitioners of today—instead we need to empower them with the skills to change the profession and make a new future.
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So thank you all. Our faculty, staff, students, alumni and supporters are the best—the very best—and I can’t wait for the next phase of development in our school.
SARUP BIDS FARWELL
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– Mo Zell Department of Architecture Chair
The Urban Planning Department builds upon strong student-faculty-community relationship to exercise farreaching influences in the Milwaukee region and beyond. Please visit us in person or explore our website to see how our department can help with your academic pursuits and professional achievements!
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– Lingqian (Ivy) Hu Department of Urban Planning Chair
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In May 2019 at Commencement I had the inestimable pleasure of dressing up like a reject from a Harry Potter movie and presenting well earned degrees to our latest batch of outstanding students. This, I think, was my 68th graduation ceremony. That’s a lot of dressing up. You know, it really is time to stop. And no, I haven’t been fired, contracted an exotic disease or won the lottery—it’s just that, after 34 years in academic administration, 29 of them as dean of this wonderful school, it’s time to give someone else a shot. With 50 solid years of performance behind us and a glowing future ahead, I really believe that it is time for a new generation of leaders to shape the next 50, and this is the perfect moment for change. Both departments have recently won full accreditation, the budget is balanced, enrollments are growing steadily and the Campaign, bringing much needed support for our students and
programs, has been wildly successful. It has been a privilege to be dean of this school and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it, but I’m looking forward to returning to teaching, research and service. My life in academic administration only permitted four full years of “real” work in the early days, and I can’t wait to inflict my unique style of teaching on new generations of unsuspecting students. I will still, of course, maintain and expand my research, community and professional work in city development, as well as the stuff the central administration has planned for me to do at the campus level—there’s no peace for the wicked.
Don Hanlon
Associate Professor Don Hanlon announced his retirement this past fall 2018. Don studied at Cornell and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and came to the University of WisconsinMilwaukee in 1987. Over his 30+ year career at UWM Don taught over 5000 students. His book “Compositions in Architecture” deploys a comparative method of study as a way for students to see similar topics and strategies across different periods of time and diverse cultures. His studios have tackled issues about co-housing, wellness centers, design/build and most recently refuge housing and community centers. He situates these projects in contested terrains across the world including Detroit, Turkey and Switzerland. He is an advocate of connecting architecture and urban design and often folds both into studio projects. He encourages students to travel the world and see and experience architecture and culture first hand. He has been awarded the UWM Alumni Award for Teaching Excellence and the AIA-UWM Student Chapter Educator Award. And perhaps his best accomplishment is that in that 30+ year career he has maintained a one-page resume.
Ray Isaacs
Associate Professor Ray Isaacs received his PhD, MArch and Master of Landscape from Berkeley. Ray has impacted thousands of students during his 18-year career at SARUP. He started at UWM in 2002. He connected architecture to landscape architecture locally and regionally, especially working with Madison’s landscape program. He set the foundations for the productive relationship we have with Madison that culminated in the joint symposium and exhibition of the work of the great modernist landscape architect Dan Kiley. Ray spent much of his non-teaching time working in Switzerland on planning strategies, urban design and open space design. He spearheaded much of the junior level core studio infusing landscape design and thinking into various public projects, often setting them in parks around Milwaukee. His links to professional practice in urban design and landscape inspired many students in elective studios as well. Our best wishes go to them both!
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NEW FACULTY: Welcome + Introductions Michael Jefferson (Innovation in Design Fellowship) A principal at Jefferson Lettieri Design Office (JE-LE) in New York, Michael Jefferson has taught at The Cooper Union, City College of New York, University of Michigan and Cornell University. Prior to JE-LE, Jefferson practiced design with Adjaye Associates, OMA, Studio SUMO and CODA. In 2019, Jefferson presented at the Association for Collegiate Schools of Architecture national conference, completed a residency at the MacDowell Colony, and exhibited the installation Framework in New York. As SARUP Innovation in Design Fellow, Jefferson will examine J.N.L. Durand’s Precis Des Lecons D’Architecture through the prism of machine learning and artificial intelligence. In pairing the two, the project tests the endurance of disciplinary knowledge through the application of procedures and techniques that agitate it. The resulting sympathies and frictions between formats chart how conventions within the field of architecture are displaced by contemporary design methods and yield new territories for investigation.
Michael Jefferson
José Ibarra (Urban Edge Fellowship) Architectural designer, researcher, and educator José Ibarra joins the School of Architecture & Urban Planning from the East Coast, where he attended and taught courses at both Princeton University (M.Arch II) and Cornell University (B.Arch). Ibarra has practiced architecture at CODA, Barkow Leibinger, fxCollaborative and Studio Eber, among other firms. His work also comprises editing and curation, most recently having co-curated AWP’s exhibition TOO FAST TOO SLOW, which featured his project “Uncertain Grounds: Rethinking Settlement in the Anthropocene.” Ibarra’s ongoing research interests include urban traumas and environmental uncertainty. As 2019–2020 Architecture Teaching Fellow, Ibarra will advance research on alternative design tactics by analyzing cases of urban trauma in order to offer inclusive architectural solutions. His courses will address both environmental and social problems through different temporal scales. “While spatial and urban disciplines have long centered around humans and their functions,” Ibarra says, “the issues they address transcend our species and threaten the very survival of a world in which life and architecture are no longer stable, hard, or even dependable. Architecture is now tasked with shifting gears towards fluidity, impermanence, and fluctuation.”
José Ibarra _ photo by J. Alsum
Trudy Watt (Assistant Professor) Since 2015, Trudy Watt has been the co-founding principal of Waxwood, an architecture and design research studio that cultivates equitable access to well-being through advancements in architecture and interdisciplinary collaboration. She seeks to expose traditionally cloistered design knowledge to a diverse community, building a foundation of public discourse and curious investigation to evoke a robust future for all. Broadly summarized, her primary work areas are health equity, architectural diplomacy and fantasy. In 2016, Trudy became the first resident architectural designer within a research unit (MEDstudio@JEFF, Sidney Kimmel Medical College) in Thomas Jefferson University’s nearly 200 year history. Soon thereafter, she became the first Fellow in Emergent Design & Creative Technology in Architecture & Medicine, working in collaboration with the MEDstudio@JEFF team. At SARUP Trudy is looking forward to learning more about Milwaukee and her new community of colleagues, students and neighbors. She is especially excited to combine architectural diplomacy with the future of aging in the built environment to investigate the influence of memory, power and the social determinants of health in architecture and urban design.
Trudy Watt _ photo by J. Alsum
IN MEMORY OF JOSEF STAFF + STAGG FACULTY NOTES It is with deep sadness that SARUP mourns the passing of Associate Professor Emeritus Josef Stagg on August 6, 2019. Joe retired in 2016 after many years in the Architecture Department where he taught graduate and undergraduate design studios, architectural technology and advanced research/programming.
Mary Frieske joined SARUP last year as our chief development officer. Working closely with the dean she helped push SARUP’s fundraising past the university targets and is now working closely to prepare for the 50th anniversary. As development officer, she also helps to bridge faculty and student research initiatives with the interests of alumni and friends of SARUP.
A longtime member of the Department of Architecture, Joe joined us from Louisiana, interviewing here in one of the worst snow storms of the decade. He was dressed for a southern summer, but was unfazed by the horizontal sweeps of snow that whistled past him and enthusiastically moved to Milwaukee later that year.
Angela McManaman also joined SARUP last year. She is our new integrated marketing and communications account executive for the school. Her area of expertise is marketing with the goal of improving student recruitment. Working closely with SARUP’s media team she helps to coordinate print, social media and other marketing tools to advance SARUP’s brand among potential students.
During his career with UWM, he taught throughout the curriculum, wherever he was needed, and was a member of the Faculty Senate for some years. Latterly, he was an important member of the PhD Committee as chair of the PhD program and was a staunch and valued adviser to a number of PhD students. His Skyscraper Studio produced some remarkable designs that enabled his students to let their imaginations soar, and Joe loved the outcome of their endeavors. Remembering Joe, Interim Dean Frank said, “I came to know Joe through his interest and involvement with the School for Urban Planning and Architecture (SUPAR), a charter high school founded by our faculty and alumni in Milwaukee. I knew him as a gentle and caring person, eager to make a difference in the aspirations of young people.” We convey our condolences to his family and friends in St. Louis.
Julie Reindl Gets Promoted to a New University Position
Julie Reindl has been promoted to a new university-level position as Project Manager for University Information Technology Services (UITS)—congratulations Julie! Before transferring to UITS, she was a computer manager for SARUP. Her technology background includes desktop and network support, IT security, vendor management, IT procurement, project administration, web design and adjunct instructor. She has a bachelor’s degree in business administration with majors in Information Systems Management and Human Resource Management. In addition, she obtained a Master of Science degree in Information Systems Management. In addition to helping with all things computer or internet related at SARUP, Kurt Meingast is the IT and Media Center manager. He started over 20 years ago at UWM as a business major working in SARUP’s labs as a work study student. A new item for the Computing Services is a $10,000 grant to setup a Virtual Reality Lab with 12 Oculus Rifts. Another new initiative will be adding full service plotting by AUP staff for those students complying with the new laptop policy. ”I have enjoyed my last 20 years working at SARUP, and I hope to have many more years here.”
In Memory of Josef Stagg
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A DAY IN THE LIFE AT SARUP
EVENT SPOTLIGHT Highlights from SARUP
Karl Wallick Assembles Wood Structure _ photo by J. Alsum
COURTYARD PAVILIONS During spring 2019, SARUP sponsored the creation of three new tiny pavilions to occupy the courtyard. Intended to herald SARUP’s 50th anniversary, projects were created by Professor Jim Wasley, Assistant Professor Alex Timmer, and a collaborative structure was made by Associate Professors Kyle Reynolds and Karl Wallick. They were added to an already existing installation made by Associate Professor Mo Zell and Adjunct Instructor Marc Roehrle, as well as the Mies Zip Pavilion from the ACSA 2018 Conference. The courtyard is sparking all kinds of constructed dialogue.
Jim Wasley _ photo by J. Alsum
Alex Timmer’s Sun Study _ photo by J. Alsum
FRESHMAN BIKE DAY On September 12, 2018, SARUP freshmen explored Milwaukee on bicycles with Professor Mark Keane. The grand tour included: Williamson’s Beurs House on Stowell/Newberry, Olmsted’s Newberry Boulevard, Olmsted’s Lake Park, Lake Michigan, Northpoint Lighthouse, Wright’s Bogk House, the Milwaukee River, Milwaukee River Central Park, the Urban Ecology Center, the Shorewood Zero Net Energy Home and the Benjamin Church House/Estabrook Park.
Freshman on Bike Tour _ photo by J. Alsum
MASONRY DAY 2018 A group of young masons arrived early to work with three student teams throughout the day in the Commons. The masons and the students worked together to build mockup exterior wall panels with challenging brick coursings and jointing that were part of an earlier Public Market studio project. The three student teams were part of a juried competition in which 24 teams competed. For the last six years, the Department of Architecture has been engaged in an ongoing public-private partnership with the Masonry Industry of Wisconsin. Associate Professor Jim Shields, FAIA, recently described the partnership and the ideas behind the Masonry Studio in Masonry Design Magazine. http://www.masonrydesignmagazine.com/the-masonrystudio-at-uw-milwaukee-architecture/ Up-Close Detail _ photo by J. Alsum
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Masonry Day _ photo by J. Alsum
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Arch 103 Students Drawing in the Commons _ photo by J. Alsum
The Appian Way _ photo by J. Alsum
THE APPIAN WAY Plan, Section, Elevation Each year mid-semester the entire class of Arch 103 students draws one drawing. The content rotates through Plan, Section and Elevation. Each student selects a sourced image in the classical language from five primary periods of history—Greek, Roman, Renaissance, Baroque and Neo-Classical. Assembling in the Marcus Commons, 120-160 students gather around both sides of a 180’, 3’ wide sheet of white paper. They begin to transfer the image using diagramming, sketching, then renderings skills to create one of three images—a plan of the city, a sectional cut through a city or an elevation of the Appian Way. Using one brand new Sharpie pen, students are not allowed to leave until they have used all the ink from the pen, insuring full value for all the imagery. Elevation Drawing _ photo by J. Alsum
The Construction of Mies Zip Pavilion _ photo by J. Alsum
PLAY WITH THE RULES
ACSA Fall Conference _ photo by J. Alsum
ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE FALL CONFERENCE
Curated by Associate Professor Jasmine Benyamin, Assistant Professor Nikole Bouchard, Assistant Professor Whitney Moon, Associate Professor Kyle Reynolds, and Department of Architecture Chair and Associate Professor Mo Zell
SARUP proposed the theme “Play with the Rules” for the 2018 ACSA Fall conference. What are the rules that encircle the production of architecture? Both within and outside academia, architecture is continually confronted with a myriad of constraints: budget, site, program, codes, schedule, structure, clients, accreditation, etc. PLAY with the Rules asked “if the discipline of architecture can be understood as a bridge between theory and praxis, can architects re-think both rules and play?” in light of an exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum entitled “Serious Play: Postwar Design in America,” which opened in September 2018. In addition to paper sessions, this conference included a Portmanteau Design Competition and Exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a Pavilion Design Competition and Exhibition at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, and a built Pavilion in the UWM SARUP Courtyard thanks to a $30,000 NEA Grant received in collaboration with UWM’s Peck School of the Arts. The “PLAY with the Rules” Interloper was Dora Epstein Jones (UCBerkeley) and Disruptors were Anne Rieselbach (The Architectural League of NY), Erik Herrmann (Ohio State), Julia McMorrough (University of Michigan), Antonio Torres (University of Illinois-Chicago), Jose Arnaud-Bello (Lupe Toys), David Benjamin (Columbia University), Ash Lettow (UWM and Workshop Architects) and Tamar Zinguer (The Cooper Union). ACSA Fall Conference _ photo by J. Alsum
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2019 MARCUS PRIZE Tatiana Bilbao
Tatiana Bilbao _ photo by Ana Lorenzana
PAST MARCUS PRIZE RECIPIENTS Jeanne Gang
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Joshua Prince-Ramus
2015
Sou Fujimoto
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Diébédo Francis Kéré
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Alejandro Aravena
2010
Frank Barkow
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Winy Maas
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Mexico City-based architect Tatiana Bilbao is winner of the 2019 Marcus Prize, a coveted achievement in international architecture that includes a $100,000 award and a supported design studio for students at SARUP. Bilbao is founder of Tatiana Bilbao Estudio in Mexico City. She established the firm in 2004 as an architectural practice and urban think tank. Supported by the Marcus Corporation Foundation and administered by the School of Architecture & Urban Planning at UWM, the 2019 Marcus Prize attracted a pool of nominees from 14 countries and five continents. “Selecting one recipient was extremely difficult, but Tatiana Bilbao’s work has something for everyone,” said Marcus Prize juror Matt Messner, former midwest editor of the Architect’s Newspaper. “Along with complex social and cultural considerations, her work is formally and materially rich. She is an organizer, instigator and thought leader in her native Mexico, as well as around the world through her teaching and practice.” “The Marcus Prize is a part of our ongoing commitment to support the growth and development of Milwaukee,” said Steve Marcus, CEO of the Marcus Corporation and a director of the Marcus Corporation Foundation, adding that excellence in design has a large impact on the reputation of the city. Messner was joined by fellow Marcus Prize jurors Cheryl McAfee, CEO of McAfee3 Architects and former president of the National Organization of Minority Architects; Gordon Beckman, partner and design director at John Portman Associates; David Marcus, chairman of Marcus Corporation Foundation; Mo Zell, chair of the Department of Architecture; and Bob Greenstreet, former SARUP dean.
Marcus Prize Winner Tatiana Bilbao _ photo by Ana Lorenzana
Bilbao will lead a sponsored studio at the school in spring 2020. She is the eighth Marcus Prize awardee, joining a roster of influential international architects. Her immediate Marcus Prize predecessor is Jeanne Gang, a MacArthur Fellow recently named to the 2019 Time 100 influencers list.
The Marcus Prize honors architects for their outstanding work to date—as well as their promise of greatness in the future. The $100,000 prize provides $50,000 to the winner and a further $50,000 to lead a design studio in collaboration with faculty in the School of Architecture & Urban Planning. In addition to the award itself, the Marcus Corporation Foundation provides financial support to host the selection jury and to bring the awardees to Milwaukee for the studio. Bilbao was born in 1972 in Mexico City into a family of architects. She studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana, earning a bachelor’s degree in architecture and urbanism in 1996. In 1998, she won honorable mention for her career and also appreciation for the best thesis of the year. From 1998-99, she was an urban projects advisor for the Urban Housing and Development Department of Mexico City. She founded Tatiana Bilbao Estudio in 2004, initiating projects in China, Europe and Mexico. The first project built by her studio was the exhibition pavilion in Jinhua Architecture Park in China, led and coordinated by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who selected a group of young architects from around the world to design and develop a large park organized by a network of pavilions and located in the shore of the Yiwu River, close to Shanghai. Bilbao designed an exhibition pavilion that was completed in 2007. Her work is part of the Centre Pompidou, the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Also in 2007, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio received a Design Vanguard “top 10 emerging firm” award from Architectural Record. The Architectural League of New York named Bilbao a 2010 Emerging Voice. Additional honors include: 2011 and 2013 CEMEX Building Award; 2012 Kunstpreis Berlin—a career award from the Akademie der Kunste, one of Europe’s oldest cultural institutions; two silver medals from the Mexican Biennale of Architecture; the 2014 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture from the LOCUS Foundation, Cité de l´Architecture of Paris and the patronage of UNESCO; 2016 Graham Foundation grant in support of the research “Twelve Archaeologies of Mexico City’s Housing at a Crossroads”; and the 2017 ArchitzierA+Awards Impact Award honors. Bilbao has lectured at the Royal Academy of London, the Museum of Modern Art, Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities. Teaching engagements include: 2015 Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professorship at Yale School of Architecture; 2016 Cullinan Visiting Professor at Rice School of Architecture; 2016 and 2018 Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP; 2017 and 2018 Norman R. Foster Professorship of Architectural Design at Yale School of Architecture; and 2018 Associate Professor of Architecture at Harvard GSD.
Los Terrenos _ photo by Rory Gardiner ©
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Sunil Bald _ photo by J. Alsum
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Maya Przybylski _ photo by J. Alsum
TOP WINNERS 2019 SUPERjury Awards THESIS PRIZE Benjamin Schenck “Sense of Space” MArch Thesis
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DISTINCTION AWARD Caroline Schlosser Arch 825
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Jansen Van Grinsven Arch 825
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HONOR AWARD Shawn McDaniel Arch 410
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Randall Schoen Thesis: Low Tech Smart Facade
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Kate Greskoviak Thesis: Withindustry
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SUPERjury 2019 Friday, May 10
Nader Tehrani _ photo by J. Alsum
SUPERJury is a day-long review and celebration of the best undergraduate and graduate projects in the school. Projects are nominated for consideration by both students and faculty and are then reviewed by three critics from across the country. The goal of SUPERJury is to foster self-reflection and stimulate a conversation about the state of architecture within the school and its relationship to contemporary issues in practice. This year’s esteemed SUPERjury critics were Sunil Bald (Yale School of Architecture + Studio SUMO), Maya Przybylski (University of Waterloo + DATAlab ) and Nader Tehrani (The Cooper Union + NADAAA). This event is put on by SARUP’s chapter of the AIAS and is sponsored by Pella Windows and Doors of Wisconsin. A total of $10,000 in prizes was awarded thanks to Pella.
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MERIT AWARD Shaun Malcolm / Cole Hunt Arch 420
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Christina D’ Anza Arch 650
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Shawn Malcolm _ photo by J. Alsum
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Ben Schenck presents “Sense of Space” _ photo by J. Alsum
Cierra Puls _ photo by J. Alsum
Kate Greskoviak _ photo by J. Alsum
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LECTURES / EVENTS / EXHIBITIONS
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THE MOBILE DESIGN BOX
A Pop-up Gallery that Transforms Vacant Storefronts FALL 2018 EXHIBITIONS PLYWOOD TOYS Arch 420 Students Curated by Mo Zell & co-exhibited with Life Services SOAR disability artist program and artist Willis Davis October 19 - October 20
Location: 753 North 27th Street
MDB ACTIVITIES Exhibition & Event Overview
from tenant to landlord that optimizes short-term leases with low
In areas of the city that are in decline, the Mobile Design Box
exhibitors in the MDB have launched two creative businesses,
(MDB) enhances the quality of neighborhood space and urban
generated over $50,000 in direct fees and stimulated over
life through the activation of a vacant storefront into a commu-
$250,000 of economic development. The MDB plans to expand
nity space and creative entrepreneur start-up venue. The MDB
into additional neighborhoods in Milwaukee.
SPRING 2019 EXHIBITIONS IN SITU “SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL.” Curated by Brian Schermer co-exhibited with Community Artist Iris Acevedo January 18 - March 31 FINDING HOME Arch 650/850 Students Curated by Allyson Nemec & Joy Peot-Shields June 21 - September 30
overhead, minimal investment and maximized effort to engage local communities. Over the four years since its inception,
operates as host to a series of temporary users who, in turn, are host to more temporary uses. Given that the Milwaukee
Contact Mo Zell at zell@uwm.edu for more details.
Gallery Night cycle sets not only the timeline for temporary users but also uses art as the capital for exchange, the MDB incubates creative entrepreneurs looking for opportunities to start or expand their businesses. The MDB is not the gallery space itself; it is a localized restructuring of the flow of capital
Plywood Toys _ photo by J. Alsum
Design Solution for Milwaukee Vacant Lot
Evicted Exhibition _ photo by J. Alsum
“SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL” PLYWOOD TOYS
EVICTED
There are over 400 vacant lots in Milwaukee’s 15th Aldermanic District. At the suggestion of Alderman Russell W. Stamper, II, UWM’s “Small” architecture design studio, led by Associate Professor Brian Schermer, and Interpretive Design seminar, led by lecturer Nicholas Robinson, considered two prominent lots: Sherman Park Boulevard at Meinecke Avenue and 35th Street at West Center Street. With 40% of residents under the age of 18, the proposals for these sites emphasized small but transformative design solutions for recreation, urban agriculture, production, innovation and technology.
Following a successful run at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., the exhibition “Evicted” begins its national tour at the UWM SARUP Mobile Design Box in Milwaukee’s Near West Side. “Evicted” is an immersive exhibition that introduces visitors to the intimate, painful process of low-income renter eviction. Inspired by Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book about eviction in Milwaukee, the experience presents data developed by Desmond’s Eviction Lab and features original photography and audio examining reasons for and the fallout from eviction. In conjunction with “Evicted”, Adjunct Professors Allyson Nemec and Joy Peot-Shields presented the studio Finding Home — Architectural Solutions to America’s Homeless Crisis, an exploration of homelessness in America offering creative methods for temporary solutions from an architectural perspective.
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ARCH 420 students embarked on an ambitious semester trying to understand the relationship between kids, play and architecture. Using a limited vocabulary of simple shapes and a single material palette of 5/8” Baltic birch plywood, students teamed up to design a construction toy that is transformable for a child. Inspiration was drawn from Ann Tyng’s “Tyng Toy” and Ray and Charles Eames’ “The Toy.” The design and construction of a toy provided students with valuable lessons in how to consider spatial and material experiences through tectonics, how users interact with objects in their environment and how designs benefit from careful consideration and inclusion of specific human experiences.
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FALL 2019 LECTURES / EVENTS / EXHIBITIONS
LECTURES
EVENTS
09.20
09.06
“Loopty Loops”
WELCOME TEA & BIKKIES
SARUP 170 / 4:30PM
JENNIFER BONNER
MALL, Founder & Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master in Architecture II Program at Harvard University Graduate School of Design
09.27
SARUP Marcus Commons / 12:00PM
SARUP Marcus Commons / 12:00PM
SARUP 50th Anniversary Fall Welcome Event—BBQ / Ice Cream & Tea
09.11
SARUP Marcus Commons / 8:30AM
SARUP GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
09.01 SUPERjury 2019 Curator: Alex Timmer
10.18 50TH ANNIVERSARY ALUMNI Curator: Alex Timmer
CDS CHARETTE—BURLEIGH CORRIDOR
GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM MATT RINKA Partner, Rinka
Throughout the year Community Design Solutions (CDS) collaborates with community stakeholders to stimulate conversation and ideas for improving our city and neighborhoods.
10.18
09.27
“Between Pedagogy & Practice”
THE CAREER PATH LESS TRAVELED
06.21 – 09.30
10.05
“FINDING HOME”
SARUP Marcus Commons / 4:30PM
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Architectural education as it relates to the profession
10.22
SARUP 170 / 7:30PM “Racial Equity & Economic Justice in Urban Planning Practice & Community Building”
DR. JOHN POWELL
Professor of law, African American & ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley
160 S. 2nd St Milwaukee, WI
For more information go to uwm.edu/sarup/50th
Habitat Construction Site
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
SARUP AIAS & Alumni Build Day
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University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee SARUP
09.27
GRAD OPEN HOUSE
SARUP Marcus Commons / 12:00PM
For more information contact Department of Architecture Chair Mo Zell, zell@uwm.edu
GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM ROBERTA OLDENBURG
12.06 – 12.12
11.01
FINAL REVIEWS
Design Phase Manager, Mortenson Construction
SARUP 170 / 4:30PM “Local Position”
PETRA BACHMAIER + SEAN GALLERO Luftwerk, Artist
11.22
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee SARUP
Event from 1:30-5:20PM
12.13
SARUP Marcus Commons
THESIS DAY
Event starts at 9AM
MOBILE DESIGN BOX
Curators: Allyson Nemec & Joy Peot-Shield Sponsors: UWM SARUP; Wiegand Entrprises; Near West Side Partners; Quorum Architects, Hark Design Collaborative; Greater Milwaukee Foundation; The Zilber Family Foundation & Anonymous Donors Location: 753 North 27th, Milwaukee
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SARUP Marcus Commons / 12:00PM
GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM BRAD LYNCH
Principal/Founder, Brininstool + Lynch
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AWARDS & HONORS
STUDENT AWARDS & HONORS Making a Difference Students at the University of Wisconsin– Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning put their training into action facilitated through a number of top honors.
Solar Efficient Home Design by UWM Architecture & Engineering Team
SOLAR DECATHLON 2019 Design Competition
Congratulations to UWM students Maxwell Rodencal, Samantha Blackstad, Nick Smith, Chris Klawitter and Lucas Anderson and their faculty advisors, Professors Mark Keane and Michael Cheadle (UW-Madison Engineering) for making it to the next stage in the solar decathlon. The team was invited to present as a finalist at the 2019 Design Challenge Weekend in April at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo. They teamed with UW Madison Mechanical Engineering students to design low-income housing at a price point that homeowners can afford long-term. To learn more visit: https://www.wuwm.com/post/uwm-architecture-students-compete-solar-design-decathlon#stream/0
SCHOLARSHIPS 2019 / 2020 Academic Year Luke Diewald
Henry Adams Medal and Certificate MArch Program Top Student
Lucas Dedrick Richard Hunzinger Memorial MArch
Claire Hitchcock-Tilton Rinka/Van Buren MArch
Josie Willman
AICP Certificate MUP Program Top Student
Gabrielle Fishbaine Jack L. Fischer MArch
Gabrielle Fishbaine Rinka/Van Buren MArch
Kalle Kutschera AIA & WAF MArch
Hanna Nitzke James Mellowes Architecture Undergraduate BSAS
Dennis Curley Somerville Inc. MArch
Robert Moy AIA & WAF MArch
Jessica Van Dyck James Mellowes Architecture Undergraduate BSAS
Claire Hitchcock-Tilton T.M. Slater MArch
Robin King AIA & WAF MArch
Sean Dichoso Jeff & Diane Oertel BSAS
Cody Garcia Urban Planning Student Diversity MUP
Adam Kuhn Wisconsin Chapter, APA Endowment MUP
Hayley Schinkowsky John & Carolyn Peterson MUP
Elias Vareldzis Urban Planning Alumni MUP
Michael Lewis Wisconsin Chapter, APA Endowment MUP
Leah Redding John & Carolyn Peterson MUP
Leah Redding Urban Planning Alumni for Women MUP
Gabriella Bergeron Beth A. Partleton, ‘79 BSAS
Jessica Van Dyck Kent Keegan Memorial BSAS
Hayley Schinkowsky SARUP Urban Planning MUP
Luis Lopez Beth A. Partleton, ‘79 BSAS
Miguel Martinez Kubala Washatko Architects BSAS
Michael Franke SARUP Urban Planning MUP
Max Driftmier Beth A. Partleton, ‘79 BSAS
Bella Biwer Lillian & Willis Leenhouts Memorial BSAS
Jeremy Campbell UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student MArch
Taylor Romanyk Beth A. Partleton, ‘79 BSAS
Kelly Iacobazzi Moebius Recognition of Excellence MArch
Michael Franke UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student MArch
Hannah Gorrell Bob Greenstreet Honorary MArch
David Katz MSI General MArch
Kelly Iacobazzi UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student MArch
Caroline Schlosser Bray Architects MArch
Amanda Brown New Graduate Student MArch
Luis Reynoso UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student MArch
Jessica Pittner Charles W. Causier Memorial MUP
Bridget Greuel New Graduate Student MArch
Laura Wilk UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student MArch
Michelle Johnson Charles W. Causier Memorial MUP
Hannah Meyers New Graduate Student MArch
Seung Youp Lee UWM Distinguished Disseration Fellow MArch
Amanda Brown
Cherie Claussen Memorial MArch
Laura Wilk New Graduate Student MArch
Cassandra Broeren Ver Halen Inc/Pella Windows & Doors MArch
Tejaswi Pooja Garla Reddy
Cherie Claussen Memorial MArch
Lisa Sun New Graduate Student MArch
Emily LaLuzerne Weas Real Estate Development MArch
Lexie Peterson Christopher Kidd & Associates BSAS
Taylor Thede New Graduate Student MArch
Valerie Davis Welford Sanders Memorial MArch/MUP
Ryan Rufer Christopher Kidd & Associates BSAS
Elizabeth Sirkman New Undergraduate Student BSAS
Gabriella Bergeron Wisconsin Architects Foundation BSAS
Tess Richard Construction Specification Institute BSAS
Megan Schulte New Undergraduate Student BSAS
Hannah Gorrell Wisconsin Architects Foundation MArch
Adam Kuhn Design Council MUP
Sara Nelson New Undergraduate Student BSAS
Jason Lawler Wisconsin Architects Foundation MArch
Samantha Brusky Faculty Memorial BSAS
Steven Rieck New Undergraduate Student BSAS
Preston Pape Wisconsin Architects Foundation BSAS
Taylor Romanyk Felicity Brogden-Ollswang Memorial BSAS
Jason Lawler Philip Rubenstein MArch
Tjaden Sanders Wisconsin Architects Foundation BSAS
Tiana Ware Findorff Construction Company Minority BSAS
Robin King Plunkett Raysich Architects MArch
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AWARDS & HONORS
NOMAS National Organization of Minority Architecture Students By Teonna Cooksey, NOMAS President
During the 2018-2019 academic year, NOMAS provided several opportunities for students to organize and facilitate events that represent their vision of architecture. Throughout the year, we attended firm tours at Quorum Architects, Flad Architects and Eppstein Uhen Architects. We hosted a series of professional development workshops regarding undergraduate research, LinkedIn and graduate school. We facilitated a book drive to help the Trueskool organization create an architecture library for its youth, and we continued to work towards the creation of a pipeline to expose minority youth to architecture. Some of the ways we accomplished this was by bringing students from Milwaukee Public Schools to SARUP. NOMAS members funded a program with California architect Prescott
Reavis to facilitate a workshop with youth regarding architecture, community activism and redevelopment. In addition, we organized a campus-wide tour with Kingdom Prep Lutheran High School to expose them to SARUP and other departments on campus. The recruitment of aspiring minority architecture students is important to the organization, and doing so is acknowledging the work minority architects are doing. The NOMAS Executive board funded and facilitated our first NOMAS Next-Gen Symposium during the spring semester. This symposium aimed to highlight the work of minority architects from across the country. We were able to bring in architects from New York, Florida, Milwaukee and Chicago to enjoy a series of lectures, a panel discussion, break-out sessions, and an offsite gallery exhibition at the Mobile Design Box.
and compete in the annual NOMA conference which was held in Chicago. Due to the fact at I-NOMA (our parent chapter), is based in Illinois, we continuously traveled there throughout the year to attend social and professional events hosted by the organization or our fellow midwest schools. Our mission is to foster communication, cooperation, solidarity and fellowship among minority students of architecture, and we will continue to work towards achieving this goal.
Aside from our on-campus activities, NOMAS was invited to attend the Wrightwood 659 Academic Symposium entitled Ando and Le Corbusier: Masters of Architecture—with VIP access. We also funded eight NOMAS ambassadors to attend
AIAS American Institute of Architecture Students By Chris Klawitter, AIAS President
NOMAS Next-Gen Symposium with Dev Pena_ photo by J. Alsum
AIAS Sandcastle Competition_ photo by J. Alsum
In the past year, the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) continued its annual sandcastle competition for the 44th year in a row. Our mentoring program paired 20 architects with 30 students to give them exposure to the professional side of architecture. There were countless building tours and firm tours around the Milwaukee area. Our big events last year were a trip down to Chicago where we visited three international firms, our national conference in Seattle and our annual architecture ball that brought students, faculty and professionals together for our end of the year networking and celebration event. The event was at the Villa Terrace this past year. We also helped SARUP bring in three high profile people in the academic world of architecture for SuperJury, SARUP’s biggest event of the year. We are pleased to announce more exciting opportunities happening in the upcoming school year like the second-ever faculty versus student soccer game, the 45th annual sandcastle competition, more firm tours and building tours and an exciting new opportunity with Habitat for Humanity. We will also be taking part in an international conference coming to Milwaukee for educational spaces—this is a great place to make connections and network. We will be traveling to Toronto for our upcoming national conference, and there will be an exciting opportunity to get involved with the Chicago Biennial, Abacus and TrueSkool. Of course we will be hosting the architecture ball again and helping SARUP with SuperJury. Stay tuned for details. In the meantime check out and follow our Instagram @aiasatuwm to see what exciting things we have done and what exciting things are on the horizon.
AIAS Firm Tour_ photo by J. Alsum
NEMSCHOFF CHAIR COMPETITION
STUDENTS AWARDS Every year, SARUP participates in this award program which features competitors nominated from the best student projects at the Art Institute of Chicago, University Illinois Chicago, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Illinois Institute of Chicago and UWM. This year SARUP nominated Kate Greskoviak, Katlyn Posewitz, Tyler Weis and Jordan Felber, Kim Workman and Caroline Schlosser for this award.
In late 2018, Molly Morgan won the annual Arch 100 / Herman Miller / Nemschoff Chair Competition. Students from UW-Milwaukee, UW-Madison and 45 high schools across Wisconsin and Illinois competed over a four-week period to design a chair for a setting of their choice. Molly engaged the
Congratulations to Jessica Sherlock who received the Association of Licensed Architects (ALA) award.
design team at Nemschoff in Sheboygan, Wis., to build her chair at full scale, market ready. Herman Miller (Zeeland, Mich.), the
Teonna Cooksey recieved the ARCC / King Student Medal for Excellence in Architectural + Environmental Design Research. Congratulations Teonna!
parent company of Nemschoff, has expanded its support for Arch 100 by sponsoring a trip to the Merchandise Mart in Chicago with hosts from the Herman Miller showroom. Molly Nemschoff 2018 Morgan withChair her Nemschoff CompetitionChair Winner Design Molly_ photo Morgan by J. _Alsum photo by J. Alsum
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FACULTY AWARDS & NEWS Receiving Recognition
HARBOR VIEW PLAZA Congratulations to Carolyn Esswein, newly elected president of Harbor District, Inc., and SARUP professor of practice, on the opening of the district’s first park: Harbor View Plaza. Located along the water and next to the School of Freshwater Sciences at UWM, Harbor View visitors can pump water, climb a 40-foot observation tower, fish or get on the water using the park’s canoe/kayak launch—the first ADA accessible, free public kayak launch in the area. The joint team of Quorum Architects and Ayres Associates submitted their winning design for the park as part of a 2016 design contest. School of Architecture & Urban Planning faculty and alumni—including Esswein and Alyson Nemec, Quorum principal, SARUP alumna and past president of the UWM Alumni Association—were deeply involved in the Harbor District’s planning and park-building. Esswein has been part of the Harbor District, Inc., Board since 2015 and involved in studio projects for the harbor since 2012. Esswein says that her
goals as Harbor District president include “ensuring sustainable public spaces are part of future projects, including educational elements and providing public access to the waterfront.” Esswein added that job creation and economic development in the district also are top priorities of the board and its partner organizations.
Harbor View Ceremony Ribbon Cutting
IACP PRESIDENT
Faculty at the University of Wisconsin– Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning receive top accolades locally and nationally.
Professor Lingqian Ivy Hu was elected the president of the International Association for China Planning (IACP), an independent non-profit organization of scholars, students and practitioners interested in planning issues in China. She successfully organized the 13th IACP annual conference on June 15-16, 2019, in Chengdu, China. Hu gave a keynote speech at the Urban China Research Network Conference on June 21, 2019, in Nanjing, China. During the 2018-2019 academic year, she gave invited lectures at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Peking University, Nanjing University, Tongji University, East China Normal University, China University of Mining and Technology Jiangsu Normal University. She has a co-edited book which is in press with Springer titled “Human-Centered Urban Planning and Design in China.” Hu also received the UWM Research Foundation Senior Faculty Award. Lingqian (Ivy) Hu
APBP RESEARCH PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR Robert J. Schneider, associate professor, received the 2019 Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) Research Professional of the Year award. Schneider has worked to advance the active transportation field and the professional knowledge of others through research to improve knowledge of yielding behavior, the impact of roadway features on pedestrian crashes and using land use and transportation variables to estimate facility usage. APBP recognizes and honors his contributions advancing the state of practice in bicycle and Center Peace Unity Orchard Installation _ photo by A. Sen
SHERMAN PARK by Angela McManaman, UWM Research Report
On a rainy, windy afternoon in November, several UWM students huddled under umbrellas near a double lot of gardeny green space in Milwaukee’s Sherman Park neighborhood. Local residents joined them in dedicating decorative benches and planters, designed and built by the students. It marked a milestone in a partnership between the neighborhood and the students, brought together through the Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School. Arijit Sen, an associate professor in the School of Architecture & Urban Planning and in UWM’s Urban Studies Program, leads the BLC field school. Its goal: learn about the people, culture, heritage and history in some of Milwaukee’s oldest and often overlooked areas. Graduate students in architecture, history and other subjects immerse themselves in urban
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neighborhoods. They interview the people who live there and document architectural treasures, corner businesses and parks over a three-year period. “You can’t just waltz in with an idea and then leave,” Sen says. “You have to leave behind blood, sweat and tears.” Undergraduate students—some funded by the Office of Undergraduate Research—also help during fiveweek summer sessions by interviewing people, taking photos and conducting archival research about neighborhood sites. The grad students take these conversations and findings into the Citizen Architects Studio, where they incorporate feedback into crafting a thank-you gift to the community, such as those benches and planters. “Architects and architecture have this stereotype where you sit in your tower and design things for people down below,” says Jess Sherlock, who’s pursuing a master’s degree in architecture. “This studio breaks that stereotype, because you’re designing with the people who use what we leave
pedestrian research. behind. They might not use your design the way you intended, and that’s a good thing.” The field school’s inclusive approach welcomes a diverse cast of researchers. Sen coordinates with UWM’s Peck School of the Arts, UW-Madison and the Library of Congress. Historians, artists and architects participate as observers, researchers and interpreters. Results include the 2016 play titled “This is Washington Park. This is Milwaukee.” “What matters most is that we produce good citizens,” Sen says. “To sustain urban life, we need to have different ways to tell stories about each other. Everything we have done in the field school has come from the knowledge we’ve gained working with neighbors.”
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FACULTY AWARDS & NEWS
UNSUNG HERO AWARD
Congratulations to William Krueger for receiving the UWM Unsung Hero Award at the 2019 Alumni Employee Awards! William has been in charge of the woodshop at the school of Architecture and Urban Planning since 2012. While his description of his work is “instructing students in the use and safety of woodworking equipment,” he provides an endless variety of services to students, faculty and staff at the school that cannot be fully described. From a micro- to a macro-level, William has had an impact on every level of the school, UWM and on the profession of preservation and architecture. Chancellor Mone presented the award to Krueger during the March 2019 UWM Employee Awards lunch in recognition of the enormous amount and variety of effort he puts forward to help students, faculty and staff be successful in their initiatives. Krueger impacts virtually every student at key moments of their academic journey through SARUP. Plus, he’s the first to arrive at any event for setup and the last the leave. Congratulations!
Professor Robert Schneider Leads Bike Tour _ photo by J. Alsum
HAGGERTY MUSEUM
Associate Professor Chris Cornelius was featured in an exhibition of work by the 2018 Nohl Fellows at the Haggerty Museum of Art in June 2019. This exhibition was for the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship for Individual Artists 2018. The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists program annually awards unrestricted funds to local artists to support the creation of new work or the completion of work in progress. Now in its sixteenth cycle, the program makes a significant investment in the greater Milwaukee arts community, encouraging artists to live and make work here. The Fellowships also create—through the jurying process, catalogue, and exhibition at the Haggerty Museum of Art—an opportunity to promote local artistic production to a national audience.
Trickster by Chris Cornelius
GRANT WINNERS
Department of Urban Planning Associate Professor Robert Schneider is working on a three-year grant with the Wisconsin Bike Federation and Medical College of Wisconsin to evaluate implementation of the City of Milwaukee’s Complete Streets Policy, adopted in October 2018. He is helping to develop a framework and compile data to evaluate citywide transportation system changes resulting from the new policy. Measures to be collected on an annual basis include multimodal activity, safety and satisfaction with walking, bicycling, and taking transit in Milwaukee. Associate Professor Robert Schneider also received a one-year grant from the Medical College of Wisconsin Comprehensive Injury Center to evaluate the impacts of major street redesign projects on pedestrian, bicyclist and motorist injuries. He worked with a Master of Urban Planning student, Josie Willman, to collect data in Portland, Ore., Seattle and Washington, D.C., and examine if there were changes in injury patterns after the installation of modern streetcar systems. They gathered available data from three years before streetcar projects were initiated and three years after the streetcar projects were completed. Since the data were not complete enough to draw conclusions about changes in injury rates, Schneider is using the project to highlight the importance of combining injury data from police and EMS sources and suggest improvements to injury surveillance systems, particularly more extensive pedestrian and bicyclist count data. Professor Mark Keane received a grant for $25,000 to wrap up the Taliesin Historic American Building Survey; received the Herman Miller $5,000 annual grant to underwrite the Nemschoff Chair Student Design Competition; and will lead a field trip for all freshmen to Chicago this coming year.
Trestle Park on the River in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward
TRESTLE PARK
Associate Professor Jim Shields, FAIA, saw the completion of his design for “Trestle Park” on the river in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward. The park completed the last missing section of the Milwaukee River walk on the east side of the river, allowing pedestrians to walk the river’s edge from downtown all the way to the Lake Michigan Harbor. The new park is named for an old railway trestle that juts out into the river and once met up with an iron swing bridge that remains a “ruin” out in midstream. The historic railway trestle was stabilized and re-purposed as a new pedestrian deck protruding 100 feet out into the river to create a viewing platform from which the water, the swing bridge and other industrial ruins can be seen from a new and striking perspective. The linear shape of the new trestle deck was extended east towards Erie Street, slowly transforming the wooden deck
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into concrete paving as it nears the street. Historic railway traffic lights that had to be removed from the street were relamped and relocated onto the linear plaza, establishing a gateway into the park that recalled the history of the site. Two elevated Ipe deck walkways were installed parallel to the river which connected existing riverwalks to the new trestle deck. The longest of these two elevated walks passes over an extensive lower green landscape sloping down to the river. Research indicated four species of trees that had existed near this site before the time of European settlement, and these trees made up the primary plantings list for a small park which includes native grasses, gravel walks, benches and low, indirect bollard lighting. The project has just received a City of Milwaukee Mayor’s Design Award for the transformation of dilapidated railway infrastructure into a useful recreation amenity.
Professor James Wasley and Carrol Miller of Wayne State University have received a National Sciences Foundation Sustainable Urban Systems Conference Grant. Their proposal, “Linking Sustainable Urban Water Systems in the Great Lakes Basin,” brought together invited researchers, practitioners, government officials and others for a workshop on the opportunities in, and barriers to, linking green infrastructure with aquatic habitat restoration initiatives in the post-industrial harbors of the Great Lakes. The workshop was held in July 2019. The results are intended to seed the creation of a National Science Foundation funded Sustainable Urban Systems Research Network on the theme of water based linkages between urban systems.
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FACULTY AWARDS & NEWS
ACSA NEW FACULTY TEACHING AWARD
GREEN ROOFS + RAIN GARDENS by David Lewellen, UWM Research Report
SARUP is home to MORE of America’s best architecture pro-
Professor James Wasley’s architectural work focuses not on
fessors. Nikole Bouchard, assistant professor of architecture,
designing buildings, but on how structures interface with the
just won the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
natural world. “I want to reintegrate natural processes into
(ACSA) New Faculty Teaching Award. She’s the fourth SARUP
cities,” says Wasley, co-director of the Institute for Ecological
professor to achieve this honor. The ACSA and AIAS jointly
Design in the School of Architecture & Urban Planning. Doing
sponsor this award to recognize demonstrated excellence in
so, he says, brings nature’s proven psychological benefits to
teaching performance during the formative years of an archi-
urban residents who may not see much of it. Methods could be
tectural teaching career.
as basic as creating green roofs or rain gardens. Jim Wasley Designs a Fountain That Runs on Rainwater
CUBA Study Abroad 2020
Prado, Vedado and suburban revolutionary housing successes;
Since 2013, the Urban Planning Department has been sponsoring
in the air! Evenings are free to explore the city, enjoy the world
a Study Abroad class in Havana, Cuba, led by Adjunct Professor Michael Martin. This trip is packed with tours and lectures from some of the most highly regarded urban professionals and professors in Havana (everything is delivered in English). Tours and lectures include: walking tour of the UNESCO Old Havana historic preservation site by the Office of the City Historian; lectures
in-country side trip to Pinar del Rio and Vinales. Cuba is a very special place that is rapidly changing, and there is an electricity famous music and soak up the Caribbean atmosphere after an action-packed day. The dates of the upcoming trip are January 6-15, 2020, The class is Urban Planning (U/G 497 or 797), but anyone is able to go. The program includes: 3 credits, all transportation and lodging costs, most of meals and is extremely reasonably priced. Don’t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity!
by professors from the University of Havana Urban Planning school on the history of urban planning in Havana; multiple visits to Havana’s world famous Urban Gardens; walking tours of the
ISA Lecture from Universo _ photo by M. Martin
Streets of Cuba _ photo by M. Martin
MORE FACULTY AWARDS + HONORS Associate Professor Kyle Talbott presented at the 2019 International Conference of the Association of Children’s Museums on May 8-11 in Denver. Titled “Fearless: Interactivity,” Kyle presented the lecture in collaboration with Vince Kadlubek of Meow Wolf. Urban Planning Chair Ivy Hu recently spoke to real-estate journalists about Toronto’s skyscraper boom. “For a large city like Toronto, it is important to have a mix of housing of different densities, sizes, and costs,” she explained. Read the full article to hear more of what she has to say about sky-high real estate. For more information visit: https://www.point2homes.com/news/ canada-real-estate/
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Assistant Professor Whitney Moon delivered two lectures titled “Why Pneumatics?” at HGA Architects on June 7 and also at the School of Architecture at Taliesin in Spring Green on June 17. She is also a Digital Humanities fellow for the upcoming academic year. We are pleased to announce Associate Professor Chris Cornelius has received the 2018 Nohl Fellowship for established artists. The Nohl Fellowship gives two established artists $20,000 and three emerging artists $10,000, funds often used to create new work or to complete existing projects. Assistant Professor Nikole Bouchard had a drawing included in the Drawing for the Design Imaginary Exhibition at the 107th Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, BLACK BOX: Articulating Architecture’s Core in the Post-Digital Era.
Plaza de Revolution _ photo by M. Martin
Once again, urban planning is at the forefront of local and global initiatives that aim to build economically prosperous, technologically smart, environmentally sustainable and socially just cities. With its beautiful natural environment, vibrant local communities and legendary industrial assets, southeast Wisconsin is a perfect laboratory that aspires and tests new planning ideas. The Urban Planning Department builds upon strong student-faculty-community relationship to exercise far-reaching influences in the Milwaukee region and beyond. Please visit us in person or explore our website to see how our department can help with your academic pursuits and professional achievements! Congratulations to Filip Tejchman for being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!
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SCHOLARSHIP SPOTLIGHT
SCHOLARSHIP SPOTLIGHT
Highlighted 2019-2020 Scholarships
Bella Biwer: 2019 Leenhouts Scholar
LEENHOUTS SCHOLAR Introducing Bella Biwer The Leenhouts Scholarship is the legacy of Lillian and Willis Leenhouts, FAIA, who practiced architecture in Milwaukee from 1945 to 1990. Lillian was a co-founder of SARUP, the first licensed female architect in Wisconsin, and served as the first woman on the Wisconsin Architectural Licensing Board. Lillian’s strength of character and commitment to architecture serve as inspiration for a $5,000 annual scholarship offered at the school. It was initiated in 1990 with contributions from professional associates and friends of Lillian and Willis Leenhouts and has supported many students, including this year’s scholar Bella Biwer. Bella Biwer is a senior at UW-Milwaukee and plans to graduate with Honors in 2020 with a Bachelors of Science in Architectural Studies and a Minor in Structural Engineering. She has worked
with Dr. Arijit Sen since the Summer of 2016, and has performed extensive research in the Sherman Park, Washington Park and Thurston Woods neighborhoods of Milwaukee. Bella’s research includes “The Architecture of Home in Washington Park and Thurston Woods”; “The Architecture of Place: Amaranth Bakery and Café,” which is published in UWM’s Digital Commons and for which she was awarded the Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence in spring 2017; “Physical and Social Boundaries in Residential Architecture, Washington Park and Thurston Woods”; and “A Comparative Analysis of Safety in the Built Environment, Sherman Park,” which she presented at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research at University of Central Oklahoma in spring 2018. Bella was also awarded the Vernacular Architecture Forum Ambassador’s Award in spring 2018 and the Senior Excellence in Research Award in spring 2019. Her current work considers the discontinuity between how grassroots organizers and scholars talk and think about the problem of safety in the urban environment. To address this issue, Bella and Dr. Sen have conducted multiple community-led
Jane Jacobs Walks on the north side of Milwaukee. The result is “Countermapping Sherman Park,” an interactive map of Sherman Park that counters cartographical norms. In 2020, this work will be displayed at the Humanities Action Lab’s Initiative on Climate and Environmental Justice at Rutgers UniversityNewark. During the 2019-2020 school year, Bella will continue her research with Dr. Sen on safety in the urban environment and will be serving as Secretary and Co-Media Director of UWM’s National Organization of Minority Architecture Students chapter. She is currently employed as an architecture intern at Quorum Architects in Milwaukee.
BRAY ARCHITECTS SCHOLARSHIP
Beth Partleton
DIANE ‘80 + JEFFREY ‘76, ‘78 OERTEL SCHOLARSHIP Diane Trout-Oertel (MArch 1980) and Jeffrey Oertel (BSAS 1976, MArch 1978) are active alumni, long-time donors, and proud to support the next generation of young professionals at UWM’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning providing scholarships for students in their first year as an undergraduate at UWM who are motivated to excel academically. Their wish is that through this gift, deserving students are put on the road to success.
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BETH A. PARTLETON ‘79 SCHOLARSHIP
Established by Beth A. Partleton (MArch 1979), this scholarship is in support of UWM’s “Made in Milwaukee, Shaping the World” campaign to honor her relationship to UWM. Beth credits SARUP with providing the launch to a successful and satisfying career. When she was nearing the end of her graduate work at UWM, Dean Anthony Catanese received a call from Miller Brewing Company looking for a candidate who had both an interior design and an architecture degree. The dean said he could think of only one person with those qualifications and recommended Beth for the job. From the start of her career at Miller in 1977 (now MillerCoors) Beth undertook company-wide projects primarily designing offices and employee spaces. She later served
Established in 2018-19, the Bray Architects Scholarship represents Bray Architects’ commitment to the School of Architecture and Urban Planning and education as a whole. This 10-week paid summer internship focuses on research relating to the intersection of architecture and educational environments that enhance teaching and learning. Successful 21st century educational design is achieved through careful consideration and thoughtful implementation of flexible, engaging environments which support educational pedagogy and tap into the potential of every type of learner. The scholarship is open to students pursuing a Master of Architecture degree with an undergraduate degree in architecture/architectural studies, or completion of at least one year of graduate school in architecture. Recipients also receive a $4,000 scholarship to support educational pursuits during the academic year. as a project manager focused on design and construction of breweries, moved into facilities management and planning, and later focused on manufacturing processes and efficiencies, then project management and finally Capital Project and Risk Management. She retired from MillerCoors in 2008. Partleton received her BS in Interior Design from UW-Madison in 1972 and her Master in Architecture from UW-Milwaukee in 1979. Beth thinks the small school and sense of community she experienced at UWM played a strong role in her development. “I got to know my classmates well and many of us are still close today.” One of the reasons Beth created the scholarship is to help others have the experience she had. “I hope that all students receiving the scholarship—especially women—feel empowered and supported.”
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OTHER NEWS
RESOURCE CENTER GIFTS & DONATIONS The Resource Center continually updates its collection to reflect
ALUMNI UPDATES & CLASS NOTES
Class Notes are a way to share what is going on in your life
new developments in the field in response to the needs of
with your SARUP classmates. Here are some common class
students and faculty. If you are interested in donating a book to
notes submissions: promotion, birth announcement, wedding
the collection, the Resource Center has a wish list at Amazon
announcement, publication (e.g., of an article, paper, book),
http://tinyurl.com/zgeq6jg.
feature or listing in a publication, membership of a committee or organization, retirement notice, honor recipient (e.g., grant,
Please contact Sharadha Natraj at snatraj@uwm.edu
medal), relocation (new job), completion of a degree.
with questions. To submit information, please contact Mary M. Frieseke, Director of Development. friesekm@uwm.edu / (414) 229.2573
Marcus Prize 2018 with Jeanne Gang _ photo by J. Felber
SUMMER CAMP SARUP’s Architecture Summer Camp Academy is one of UWM’s most popular summer programs for high school students. Students work in a studio setting at the school and explore a variety of architectural issues through a series of design projects. The program is structured so students can produce the beginnings of an architecture program application portfolio. Additional activities include field trips, office visits and an architectural boat tour. For more info contact Undergraduate Advisor: Tammy Taylor / ttaylor@uwm.edu / (414) 229.4015
Summer Camp 2019_ photo by C. Every
Model Making at Summer Camp_ photo by C. Every
TALIESIN Eight SARUP students moved out to Taliesin, the home and studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, in summer 2019 to continue the Historic American Building Survey drawings we started back in 1994. Here is an image of the home and studio, the detail area they are working on, and the highly detailed drawings that they are creating to gift to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. These drawings are of such high quality standard, they will last 400-500 years for our country’s record of architectural heritage.
Detailed Drawings _ photo by M. Keane
The Studio at Taliesin_ photo by M. Keane
SPONSORED STUDIOS
DESIGN COUNCIL
MARCUS PRIZE 2018 STUDIO
Design Council members are the school’s closest friends, serving
with Jeanne Gang & Kyle Reynolds
as liaisons to the design profession and the construction industry,
MARCUS PRIZE 2020 STUDIO
and providing a valued network for the school and each other.
with Tatiana Bilbao & Marc Roehrle
Design Council support not only allows us to bring in premier
WISCONSIN MASONRY PARTNERS STUDIO
speakers for our exclusive audience, it also helps to fund Design
with Jim Shields
Council Scholarships for students. Design Council member-
CHIPSTONE FOUNDATION
ship requires a minimum $1,000 annual donation to the school.
with Mo Zell
URBAN EDGE
If you are interested in joining the Design Council contact:
with José Ibarra
Mary M. Frieseke, Director of Development.
SPANCRETE
with Alex Timmer
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friesekm@uwm.edu / (414) 229.2573 Taliesin 2019_ photo by M. Keane
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AWARDS & HONORS
DESIGNING + BUILDING Jim Wasley, Ryan Kin + Lintaro Kajiwara Shawn Malcom, Ryan Kin and Lintaro Kajiwara were awarded a SURF grant titled Designing and Building a Commercial Rooftop Access Cladding System. They worked with Professor Jim Wasley on building a full-scale prototype to test different enclosure systems.
Shawn Malcolm Builds Full-scale Prototype _ photo by J. Alsum
WHAT’S SURF? Students Working with Faculty
NEXT.CC PROJECT Mark Keane + Kelsey Robinson
The SURF grant, Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows, is a university grant awarded to student researchers to participate on faculty research projects. Faculty in the Department of Architecture have been very successful in obtaining SURF grants. This program is designed to foster faculty-student research collaborations, and the UWM Office of Undergraduate Research is particularly eager to fund work through which students have the opportunity to engage in thoughtful and progressively sophisticated work central to the overall research program of the principal investigator. During the last nine years, 93 undergraduate architecture students have garnered over $185,000 in SURF funding. Many faculty have participated in this funding and research opportunity but of special note is Associate Professor Arijit Sen who has collaborated on 36 of these projects.
Kelsey Robinson was awarded a 2018-19 SURF grant to work with Professor Mark Keane. Kelsey produced graphics in support of the NEXT project. NEXT.cc is an eco web that develops ethical imagination and environmental stewardship. NEXT.cc introduces what design is, what design does, and why design is important. It offers activities across nine scales—nano, pattern, object, space, architecture, neighborhood, urban, region and world. NEXT.cc’s journeys introduce activities online, in the classroom, in the community and globally. NEXT.cc Logo
EXHIBITION SPACES Mo Zell, Jeni Berrun + Steven Tolle
2018-2019 SURF AWARDS
Associate Professor Arijit Sen + Maysam Abdeljaber, BSAS Associate Professor Mo Zell + Janelle Berrun, BSAS Associate Professor Arijit Sen + Bella Biwer, BSAS Associate Professor Arijit Sen + Destiny Brady, BSAS Professor Sebastian Schmaling + Jordan Felber, BSAS Associate Professor Mo Zell + Jordan Felber, BSAS Associate Professor Arijit Sen + Armand Gamboa, BSAS Associate Professor Arijit Sen + Lena Jensen, BSAS Associate Professor Mo Zell + David Katz, BSAS Professor James Wasley + Lintaro Kajiwara, BSAS
Exhibition Space for (un)Making the Museum by Jeni Berrun
Jeni Berrun and Steven Tolle, students in Mo Zell’s (un)making the museum studio, were awarded 2019 SURF grants. Over the fall semester they worked with teams on the design and construction of an exhibition space for a single object—a chair—from the collection at the Chipstone Foundation in Fox Point, Wisc. Steven’s group designed an exhibition for the Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer, and Jeni Berrun’s group designed an exhibition for the Rock Sofa by Tanya Aguiniga. This innovative research and design/build studio examines how a material culture exhibit for a museum can raise trans-disciplinary questions around history, buildings, objects and people. Following the studio, Jeni and Steven crafted critical essays and then submitted them for publication.
Professor James Wasley + Shawn Malcolm, BSAS Associate Professor Filip Tjechman + Walter Moran, BSAS Associate Professor Arijit Sen + Preston Pape, BSAS Associate Professor Brian Schermer + Mark Richter, BSAS Professor Mark Keane + Kelsey Robinson, BSAS Assistant Professor Alex Timmer + Max Rodencal, BSAS Associate Professor Mo Zell + Steven Tolle, BSAS
$28,522 Awarded in 2018-2019 2018-2019 NEWSLETTER
3D Printed Clay Structures by David Katz
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CDS WORK
COMMUNITY DESIGN SOLUTIONS 2018-2019 Current Work
What is Community Design Solutions? Community Design Solutions (CDS) is a funded design center at SARUP that assists communities, agencies, civic groups and campuses throughout Wisconsin. CDS provides preliminary design and planning services to under-served communities and agencies. Students from SARUP work with Director Carolyn Esswein, clients and faculty to develop concepts that promote positive change, stimulate funding opportunities and serve as a catalyst for continued investment.
Latino Veterans Memorial
CDS FEATURED PROJECTS It was a busy year for CDS with projects for Granville Connection, Port Washington Legion Hall, West Allis City Hall and other local groups. A new home and program for the Mounted Police Patrol, a previous CDS project, is moving towards construction.
CDS contact information Carolyn Esswein, CDS Director AICP, CNU-A CEsswein@uwm.edu (414) 229.6165 www.uwm.edu/community-design-solutions/
Proposed Library Redevelopment
Proposed Gas Station Redevelopment
CDS DESIGN STAFF Carolyn Esswein
Director
Jack Grover
Project Manager
Amanda Golemba
Project Manager
Rachel Schulz
Project Manager
Lucas Dedrick
Design Assistant
Gabrielle Fishbaine
Design Assistant
Kim Albrecht
Design Assistant
Jordan Felber
Design Assistant
Elise Osweiler
Design Assistant
David Katz
Design Assistant
Granville Marketplace Redevelopment, Event Space
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LECTURES / EVENTS / EXHIBITIONS
CDS CHARETTES Community Design Solutions charettes are an interactive process of engaging property owners, developers and residents to determine redevelopment strategies for vacant or underutilized corridor sites. Local architects and CDS staff envision proposed uses and public spaces as new amenities for the neighborhoods. Their 11th Design Development Charette focused on the Uptown Crossing along North Avenue on the west side of Milwaukee. Proposed ideas included enhanced streetscaping and imagery throughout the district, business incubator, restaurant, multitenant business center, neighborhood grocery, local retail, and housing. Architects included: Quorum, HGA, SmithGroup, Galbraith Carnahan, in Studio and Engberg Anderson.
Uptown Crossing Charette _ photo by J. Alsum
WID PECHA KUCHA FALL 2018 SPEAKERS: WOMEN AT WORK Marjorie Rucker, Business Council Nirmal Raja, Artist Margo Komplin, Erdman Erica Chappelear, Kahler Slater Jena Sher, Jena Sher Graphic Design Kat Schleicher, Photographer Kate Edwards, Quorum Architects Kathy Osowski, Brothers Interiors Joelle Worm, UWM Peck School of the Arts Sponsors: Workshop Architects Groth Design Group Duet Resource Group J.H. Findorff & Son
WID
WOMEN IN DESIGN
Mo Zell (Architecture) and Ali Kopyt (SARUP alumna) founded Women in Design (WID) Milwaukee five years ago. Today, their thriving 500-member organization is a newlyannounced American Institute of Architects (AIA) Diversity Recognition Program honoree. WID Milwaukee focuses on connecting, empowering and advocating for women’s opportunities, leadership and success.
SPRING 2019 SPEAKERS: CREATIVITY & CAREERS
Kate Bartlett, Riverworks Siara Berry, Design Fugitives Barbara Drake, BBD Style Michelle Wagner Ebben, Michael Best & Friedrich Chris Grota, Northwestern Mutual Linda Keane, NEXT.cc, SAIC Zorana Kostovic, Zimmerman Architectural Studios Marnie Noël, Noël Real Estate Advisors Kat Ramierz, AdBidtise Robin Reese, North Avenue/Fond du Lac Marketplace
Sponsors: Annette Jacobson, founder of Women Rocking the World Presented by: WID and WCREW
WID Speed Mentoring at SARUP _ photo by J. Alsum
International Women’s Day 2019 _ photo by J. Alsum
SARUP women celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) _ photo by J. Alsum
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SARUP CELEBRATES 50 YEARS
Bill Page
Habitat _ photo by Alan Magayne-Roshak
Kent Keegan
Bill + Susan Huxhold at SARUP Bowling Night
Mark Keane Inspiring His Students
David Kahler, FAIA + Bob Greenstreet
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Students in the Marcus Commons
Mid-70s Faculty + Uri Cohen
Arijit Sen + Harry Van Oudenallen
30th Anniversary Cookout
Students with Caren Connolly
Welford Sanders at a Round Table Discussion
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SARUP CELEBRATES 50 YEARS
SARUP in the 70’s
Bob Greenstreet + Chuck Riesterer
Urban Planning Retreat
Bonnie Celine at the Beaux Arts Ball
Mary Bates
Faculty + Student Camping Trip
David Glasser
Sebastian Schmaling + Brian Johnsen
Kirk Harris + Bill Huxhold
Gil Snyder
Larry Witzling
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NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE
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MILWAUKEE, WI PERMIT NO. 864
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MILWAUKEE 2018 – 2019 School of Architecture + Urban Planning