SARUP's 2021 - 2022 newsletter

DEAN’S MESSAGE Mo Zell

I’m thrilled to begin the Fall semester working in partnership with a new leadership team that includes Department of Architecture chair Kyle Reynolds, new Department of Urban Planning chair Bob Schneider, and Associate Dean Karl Wallick.

In this issue of the newsletter, you will see new faculty and staff joining across SARUP, new degree programs being launched, changes to our existing spaces, an upcoming lecture by Marcus Prize recipient Ensamble Studio, and a new design institute. The administrative re-alignment, planned for 2023, into a new College of the Arts and Architecture provides SARUP an opportunity to lead conversations about the impact of the built environment on our communities.

With a Design Matters attitude, we made a few small renovations to the building, including a reconfiguration of the main office suite to highlight the student experience at SARUP. We are welcoming over 650 new and returning students into these new SARUP spaces. With the evolution of our new academic programs, we are evaluating our work and processes through an equity lens with the goal of recruiting more minority students to SARUP.

We are happy to announce the launch of the Design + Construction Institute (DCI), which included the summer design/build camp for high school kids. With DCI in place and a focus on hands-on research experiences and rigorous practice-based academic programs, we will continue to strengthen our highly sought-after students. SARUP graduates continue to get snapped up even before graduation.

We look forward to sharing more great things in the coming year at SARUP. Stop by to see the new spaces next time you are on campus.

Interim Dean

Mo Zell

Special thanks to Karl Wallick and recent M.Arch graduate Alexis Meyer for building this newsletter.

Interim Dean for SARUP: Mo Zell

STUDENT NEWS

Externships, Activities & Events

SARUP’S EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM

Real World Experience in the Profession

What a relief to be able to place students in person at offices again! This year we placed graduate and undergraduate urban planning and architecture students in 65 externships at 55 firms in and around Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago and New York City. Graduate students accounted for 25 externs, 12 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. This year, Associate Dean Karl Wallick will be resuming administration of the externship program. Keep an eye and an ear out for communication about new guidelines, opportunities and due dates. Also, thank you to students, staff, and externship hosts for being creative and flexible in keeping this program running through the pandemic!

The summary of student participation is as follows: 65 STUDENTS TOTAL UNDERGRADS : 40 25 : GRADS

Sophomores : 03 11 : 1st year grads

Juniors : 24 09 : 2nd year grads

Seniors : 13 05 : 3rd year grads

EXTERNSHIP HOST FIRMS

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Winter Break 2022

Deep River Partners

MILWAUKEE

AG Architecture

Barrientos Design & Consulting, Inc.

Building Service, Inc.

Cadence Consulting

Christopher Kidd and Associates, LLC

Continuum Architects and Planners

Dan Beyer Architects

Deep River Partners

Design Fugitives

Engberg Anderson Architects

EUA (Eppstein Uhen Architects, Inc.)

FGM Architects

Foundation Architects, LLC

Galbraith Carnahan Architects

GROTH Design Group

HGA

HNTB Corporation

ISG

Johnsen Schmaling

Kahler Slater Architects

Korb and Associates

Lakeside Development Company

Mortenson

Neighborhood Improvement Development Corporation

Quorum Architects, Inc.

Ramlow Stein

Tredo Group Architecture

Vetter Architects

GGA

Workshop Architects

Zimmerman Architectural Studios

MADISON

Dimension IV Madison, LLC

Iconica

MSA Professional Services, Inc.

WISCONSIN

Berners Schober, Assoc. Inc.

MSI

Potter Lawson, Inc.

TKWA

CHICAGO

JGMA

Brininstool+Lynch

FGM Architects

Goettsch Partners

GREC Architects

Holabird & Root

Lamar Johnson Collaborative

Saavedra Group Architects

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP

Studio Gang

Valerio Dewalt Train

MINNEAPOLIS

BWBR

OTHER

Deborah Berke Partners

Leese & Associates

GGA

Break Form Design

HDR, Inc.

“ I honestly could not have expected more from Deep River Partners. We learned about software, participated in a design charrette and visited three jobsites. The experience was incredible! ”

Carley Farrell

“ My few days experience at GGA gave me resources and direction towards my path in this field. It was a very memorable and knowledgeable experience. ”

– Sahara KC

Winter Break 2022

NOMAS’ HONORABLE MENTION

NOMAS students Danya Almoghrabi (BSAS ’21), Maysam Abdeljaber (BSAS ‘21), Moctezuma Lopez (BSAS ‘25) and Natalie Kuehl (BSAS ‘22) won honorable mention in the Barbara G. Laurie Student Design Competition with their project “NOMA Nest.” The NOMA Nest aims to support Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities by providing flexible spaces for affordable housing, businesses and family support resources. The NOMA Nest invites the once displaced community of the Brewster-Douglas projects back to Detroit by celebrating NOMA’s mission to support “love for all people around the world.” The project team worked with associate professor Nikole Bouchard.

RESEARCH IN THE ROTUNDA

Undergraduate research Jessica Van Dyck (BSAS ’22) and Isabella Cosentino (BSAS ’23) were able to voice the urgency in the ideas that the Phase III Design research team practices at the UW system-wide Research in the Rotunda. Under the advisement of assistant professor Trudy Watt, the students shared their project “Movement Towards Compassion in Architecture” with legislators, state leaders, UW alumni, and other supporters as they advocate for the continued support of research at UWM.

STUDENTS WORK WITH BELOIT

In the fall of 2021 the Rural Futures Studio, under the direction of Associate Professor Kyle Talbott , collaborated with the Town of Beloit in Rock County, Wisconsin, to develop a 30-year vision study for a new town center. The town center will give this conventional suburb a main street and a town square, which can strengthen its place identity. In July 2021, the town board voted to adopt the vision study as its official master plan. They are excited to move forward with the implementation of infrastructure for the main street.

MADAME ARCHITECT NEXTGENS

Danya Almoghrabi (BSAS ’22) and Alexis Meyer (M.Arch ’22) were both highlighted in Madame Architect’s NextGen Series. Founder and editor Julia Gamolina, as a Now What?! speaker, spoke with Danya as she reflected on her architecture journey and discussed her future career goals and creating spaces to thrive. Alexis shared her passion for mental health in architecture, her career goals and what is most important to her in the field of design. Both Danya and Alexis are excellent role models in the SARUP community and for future generations of female architects.

JACK DANGERMOND FELLOW

Urban Planning alumna Miranda McCall (MUP ‘22) was selected as a Dengermond Fellow at the National Audubon Society and Environmental Systems Research Institute. This opportunity gives Miranda a chance to work for the Audobon Society with the guidance, support and mentoring from Jack Dengermond and Environmental Systems Research Institute staff. Miranda has an interest in environmental efforts that make the world more sustainable and livable for all species.

NOMA Nest _ image by NOMAS

NOMA Nest _ image by NOMAS

Dengermond Fellow Miranda McCall

NextGen Alexis Meyer _ photo by A. Platz

NextGen Danya Almoghrabi

Model of Downtown Beloit _ photo by K. Talbott

Isabella Cosentino & Jessica Van Dyck_ photo by T. Watt

SARUP NEWS

Innovative and Relevant

FAMILIAR FACES NEW ROLES

You may already know that Professor Zell has assumed Interim Dean duties with the retirement of Associate Professor Nancy Frank. There are lots of new faces around the building including Professor Schneider taking over as Chair of the Urban Planning Department and Associate Professor Wallick reprising his role as Associate Dean. These shifts are in anticipation of SARUP moving into the Peck School of the Arts.

What is going on with the School of Architecture and Urban Planning? Rumors about the demise of SARUP have been greatly exaggerated. As part of the university’s 2030 reorganization, SARUP will be joining the Peck School of the Arts in a new College of Arts and Architecture! Details are still being worked out for this exciting new partnership that will enhance SARUP’s continuing commitment to our fundamental mission of teaching students how to create beautiful, inclusive, sustainable places and spaces.

NEW DEGREES

There are two new degrees being offered at SARUP. The Masters in Urban Design (MUD) is a one-year program launched a couple of years ago. Graduates of the program will have knowledge and skills to create sustainable, equitable and prosperous urban spaces for present and future generations in rapidly changing urban environments. They will have the skills for preparing design guidelines for public agencies; designing urban neighborhoods and public spaces; planning infrastructure such as streets, pedestrian and bicycle networks and public transit facilities; and addressing environmental concerns through ecological design.

Scheduled to be offered in the Fall of 2023, the BARCH (Bachelors of Architecture) is a five-year accredited undergraduate degree. Currently, to get an accredited degree (that is recognized nationally for professional licensure), UWM architecture students must earn a four year undergraduate degree followed by another two years of graduate school. With the BARCH, students can graduate in five-years instead of six. Current SARUP BSAS students will be able to streamline directly into this program, and SARUP alumni who already graduated with a BSAS degree can earn a BARCH with just one additional year of studies. Special thanks go to students Isabella Cosentino, Noel Flores Delgado, Max Hunt, Liam Kolstad, Roe Draus, Taylor Lovick and Courtney Hoffeller for their efforts in developing this exciting new program.

SARUP BIDS FARWELL

Dr. Nancy Frank retired this summer after serving UWM as well as other professional and community organizations for 40 years. She was Interim Dean of SARUP for the last three years, helping to coordinate multiple initiatives, including furthering SARUP’s strong commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion by raising additional funds to support students identifying as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). Dr. Frank previously served in other leadership roles within SARUP, including as Chair of the Department of Urban Planning from 1998 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2018. In addition to warmly welcoming many students to the Master of Urban Planning program, she taught the core Planning Theory and Practice and Applied Planning Workshop courses and offered electives on water resources planning, sustainability and smart growth. Always caring deeply for students, Dr. Frank connected hundreds of students with professionals through her client-based projects, support for internships, and personal introductions. We appreciate Dr. Frank’s decades of leadership in SARUP and the Department of Urban Planning.

After working at UWM for twelve years, Dr. Lingqian (Ivy) Hu moved to the University of Florida this summer. Between 2018 and 2022, Dr. Hu served as the Chair of the UWM Department of Urban Planning, overseeing steady growth in enrollments and guiding the department through unprecedented changes produced by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a faculty member, Dr. Hu taught courses on data analysis methods, urban development theory, GIS and transportation, and transportation and land use planning. While at UWM she published more than 35 peer-reviewed papers and advised more than a dozen students on masters and doctoral theses. Dr. Hu is an international expert in transportation and land use planning, and she was awarded a prestigious $1 million National Science Foundation grant to study the development and impacts of a new, on-demand micro-transit service in the Milwaukee region.

Professor Mark Keane announced that he is retiring after teaching more than thirty years at SARUP. Perhaps most famous for his on-the-fly perspective sketching technique on the streets of Paris where he has been leading study abroad trips for decades, Professor Keane has left an indelible stamp at SARUP. While lately he has been leading successful student entries for the Solar Decathlon , he is also familiar to generations of SARUP students from teaching the Making Architecture freshman courses, leading the production of Historic American Building Survey drawings for Taliesin East, and his elective courses on watercolor and sketching. While he is turning off the overhead projector at SARUP for the last time, he will be keeping busy with his nonprofit, NEXT, by lecturing and creating online architecture course content for K-12 budding architects

Trudy Watt departed for UW Madison after teaching core design studios, elective seminars and making an impact with the Living Well Initiative that sought to create a transdisciplinary ecosystem of academic researchers, community members and industry leaders who leverage emerging technology, compassionate collaboration and healthy learning to envision wellness futures.

Matt Mabee left SARUP to officially become a Badger this year. Committed to a culture of making, Matt worked with faculty, staff, and SARUP administration to transform the digital fabrication capabilities of the school from a chronically broken down 3D printer in a dusty corner of the shop to a full-fledged rapid prototyping showcase with three laser printers, a dozen 3D plastic printers and three CNC machines.

Sharadha Natraj shared 20 years at SARUP in several roles from Associate Special Librarian to Executive Assistant to the Dean. She can still be found around UWM over at Chapman Hall where she is working in her new position as Administrative Assistant to the Vice Chancellor.

Mo Zell _ photo by E. Hennessey

Karl Wallick _ photo by J. Alsum

Robert Schneider

Mark Keane Drawing in Paris _ photo by A. Rexrode

Nancy Frank

NEW FACULTY: Welcome + Introductions

Lindsey Krug (Assistant Professor)

Lindsey Krug is a designer and researcher based between Chicago and Milwaukee, where she is an Assistant Professor at the UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Through the lens of the architectural user as a body in space, her work focuses on how design solidifies and reinforces bodily taboos, hierarchies, and inequities into built form and seeks alternative futures for architectural inhabitants. Born and raised in the Midwest, she is particularly interested in how these issues map onto midwestern contexts and geographies.

Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy (Assistant Professor)

Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy studies architecture as a material and signifying practice that spatializes both colonial/patriarchal forces and resistance strategies. Tania’s research focuses on the ways in which different categories of identity intersect, are negotiated in, and transform space. Thematically, her work spans historical examples of ephemeral and practiced architectures, race and gender in spaces of conflict, and landscapes of Indigenous resistance. Prior to joining UWM, Tania was the 2021-2022 Emerging Scholar Fellow at the Gerald Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. in Architecture from McGill University as well as a B.Arch. from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She has taught architectural history, theory, design, and research methods at the University of Houston, the University of British Columbia, Louisiana State University, and Université Laval.

Maura

Lucking (Assistant Professor)

Maura Lucking is an architectural historian and educator. She is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, where her dissertation provides a settler colonial spatial history of the Land Grant college movement. In it she studies the relationship between government policy, land use, campus planning, and craft, design, and architectural pedagogy at schools after the U.S. Civil War, considering the role of design practices in Black and Native dispossession as well as the construction of new racial identities and hierarchies. Another research interest is in sociotechnical and media histories of architectural representation and paperwork, including mechanical drawing and blueprinting, architectural photography, and mortgage and loan documents. She holds an M.A. in Art History, Criticism, and Theory from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.A. in History, Fine Art, and Art History from Boston College. Currently, she is the cochair of the Race & Architectural History research group of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Remus Macovei (Architectural Activism Fellow)

Radu Remus Macovei (Remus) is an architectural designer and urban planner who is the 2022-2023 Architectural Activism Fellow. He works across design, theory and history to investigate how material cultures and social phenomena enable subversive architectural practices. His main design and research interests include civic space and institutional architecture, social and cultural phenomena and wood materially today.

Prior to joining SARUP, Remus worked as an Architectural Designer at Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York City on projects ranging from public space design in Madrid, Spain, to the adaptive reuse of a mixed use office building in Paris, France. He has also recently consulted the United Nations Human Settlements Organization in Nairobi on inclusive and sustainable urban regeneration. He often wears two hats as both an architectural designer and urban planner.

Remus has previously worked for various international architecture and urban design entities, including Herzog & de Meuron, Aires Mateus Architects, Dogma (, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Hosoya Schaefer Architects and NYC’s Department of City Planning.

Lesley Ross (Assistant to the Dean)

Lesley Ross is the new Assistant to the Dean so look for her in the main office. Lesley graduated from the University of Wisconsin Superior with her Bachelors in Art Therapy. She is passionate about many things, among them is foraging medicinal and edible herbs for her apothecary and making tea, topicals and natural bath products with her harvested goods. Lesley also fills her time with plants, painting, hiking, camping and spending time outdoors. She lives with her partner, Durga the Akita, and a block of sharp cheddar cheese disguised as an orange tabby named Chester.

Yaidi Cancel Martinez, PhD (Visiting Assistant Professor) Yaidi has extensive work and research experience on social and health inequities related to housing quality, instability and discrimination in Wisconsin. She also contributes to local research on housing affordability, income inequality and access to employment. She is interested in expanding research at the intersection of urban planning, housing policy and public health.

Before her current position in the Department of Urban Planning, Yaidi worked as an Adjunct Faculty at SARUP and as an Associate Scientist at UWM’s Center of Economic Development where she led the research on the state of economic well-being and health of Wisconsin veterans and contributed to other projects examining inequities in the Milwaukee metro area.

Atticus Jaramillo, PhD (Visiting Assistant Professor)

Atticus (Attie) Jaramillo is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning. He specializes in housing and community development planning, with a focus on affordable housing, zoning and applied research methods. His twopronged research focuses on the community impacts of zoning decisions and how affordable housing programs shape the health and financial outcomes of low-income families. Through his work, Attie aims to clarify how urban planners and policymakers can advance social equity through housing and community development planning.

Prior to joining SARUP, Attie worked as a research associate with the Center for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for five years. At CURS, Attie assisted with a national evaluation of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Jobs Plus employment initiative, a five-year evaluation of the Charlotte Housing Authority’s Moving to Work program, and a data linkage project that joined HUD administrative data with survey and biomarker data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health.

Nick Rummler (RP Lab Manager)

Nick Rummler is the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Manager at SARUP. He manages the RP Lab, teaches relevant courses in material studies, and helps with initiatives that enhance the experience and access of the school and labs. Prior to SARUP, Nick was the Senior Instructional Lab Specialist at the University of Illinois at Chicago for nine years working across the School of Architecture and the School of Design. Nick brings an interdisciplinary approach to his lab management, teaching, and collaborations—with particular interests in experiential learning and working simultaneously across digital and analog tools. His own practice also blends architecture with contemporary art and industrial design, and he’s looking forward to bringing this sensibility to his work at SARUP.

Nick grew up in the Milwaukee area and is excited to return after twelve years in Chicago as an instructor, fabricator, sculptor, and tinkerer. Nick has a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He lives west of the river with his wife, toddler, and terrier mutt.

Samantha Schuermann (Architectural Activism Fellow)

Sam Schuermann is a designer, maker, and educator whose work explores the aesthetics, objects, conventions and material implications of domesticity. She holds a Master of Architecture from Rice University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati, where she has taught studios in the School of Architecture and Interior Design. Prior to coming to UWM, Sam practiced as an architectural designer at LEVER Architecture in Portland, Oregon. She has also served as a volunteer instructor for Your Street Your Voice, a program for high school students in Portland that positions design as a tool for social and environmental justice. While at Rice University, Sam was a research assistant, graduate assistant, and co-Editor-in-Chief of PLAT Journal. Her work has been published in PLAT 7.5, exhibited at the Oslo Architecture Triennale, and she has served on numerous academic juries.

Tania Gutiérrez Monroy

Yaidi Cancel Martinez

Samatha Schuermann

Maura Lucking

Remus Macovei

Lindsey Krug

Attie Jaramillo

Nick Rummler

Lesley Ross

EVENT SPOTLIGHT

Highlights from SARUP

FELLOW-SHEEP & CATTLE-LYSTS

The Fellows Panel Discussion brought together the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 UW–Milwaukee SARUP Fellows. Innovation in Design Fellow Sarah Aziz, Architectural Activism Fellow Debbie Chen, and Advancing Contemporary Theories Fellow Lindsey Krug shared and reflected upon the pedagogical, design and research work completed during their time at SARUP. The event attracted a large number of students and featured a scavenger hunt, breakout sessions, a reading of the SARUP-wide poll and farm animals.

PORTFOLIO REVIEWS

Women In Design Student group invited guest design professionals from TWKA, Kahler Slater, Groth Design Group, HGA and SARUP faculty to review student portfolios throughout the school year. Students shared their working portfolios to gain perspective from professionals on how to make their work stand out from others and how to present themselves through design and interviews. Thank you to the professionals for spending their time investing in SARUP students.

BOWED LINES EXHIBIT

Using every single piece of wood and every fastener from their courtyard stacked wood installation, Department Chair Kyle Reynolds and Associate Professor Karl Wallick worked with Eric Nofsinger (MArch ‘22) to take over the entire SARUP gallery in a disorienting spatial assembly that questions conventional attitudes of materials and tectonics. This project examines the relationship between representation and project, proposing the possibility of a new category of linetypes: “bad lines.” Typically pushed aside in architectural practice, these lines carry untapped potential. In this proposal, a weathered pavilion, is repurposed for a new installation. The translation of the materials generates a loose minimalist pavilion and the twisted, bowed, and crooked lumber approximates the bad line.

Bowed Lines _ photo by A. Platz

Fellow-Sheep & Cattle-Lysts_ photo by A. Platz

Sheep Visit SARUP _ photo by A. Platz

Lindsey Krug & Sarah Aziz_ photo by A. Platz

WIDS Portfolio Review Day _ photo by A. Platz

NOW WHAT?!

Now What?! Advocacy, Activism & Alliances in American Architecture since 1968 is a traveling exhibition that links the design community to larger social and political movements of the late 20th century, placing design practice in the foreground and engaging viewers in critical conversations around history, progress and the built environment. After appearing in cities across North America and abroad, Now What?! was on display to support discussions of the highlights from the history of activism and the process of writing a collective history of the discipline.

“People who make design their profession often have a calling towards social justice, which has been expressed in many activist efforts. However, until now there hasn’t been a comprehensive study of these progressive movements,” said Lori Brown , president and founder of ArchiteXX. She is a co-curator of the exhibit.

“Particularly, in light of the activism we’ve seen in the last two years, it’s important to commemorate this half-century of advocacy and let today’s viewers learn about the often forgotten narratives of activist designers who have come before them,” Brown said.

The civil rights, LGBTQ and women’s movements impacted every facet of U.S. society, including architecture and design. “Now What?!” tells the largely unknown history of how architects and designers have responded to the major social movements of the late 20th century until today. The exhibition offered an in-depth look at diversity and activism in the design professions since 1968 while crafting a space for public debate and dialogue.

ICONICA PICNIC

Kicking off the start of the school year, ICONICA hosted students for the tradition of Tea & Bikkies. Iconica brought their food truck ACE to the SARUP courtyard and handed out subs, chips and cookies. Students played yard games and sat in the courtyard to enjoy the start of the new semester.

DRAWDOWN: ENTER TO PLAY

Visiting Activism Fellow Debbie Chen exhibited her research in the

Jim Shields Gallery. She created a carbonbased game modeling the entanglements of carbon drawdown, public utilities and infrastructural partnerships. The interactive exhibition and collaborative game is designed to simulate the joys of negotiation and collective action required to work through climate strategy and resource management in the built environment.

Now What?! Guest Speaker Kimberly Dowdell

Now What?! Guest Speaker Jennifer Newsom

Now What?! Exhbit _ photo by A. Platz

Now What?! Guest Speaker Julia Gamolina _ photo by A. Platz

Drawdown in Action _ photo by A. Platz

Drawdown Enter to Play_ photo by D. Chen

Iconica Picnic _ photo by A. Platz

SARUP HGA

Her elective studio Drawdown 2040 focused on similar themes.

2021 MARCUS PRIZE Ensamble Studio

PAST MARCUS PRIZE RECIPIENTS

Ensamble Studio with offices in Madrid and Boston, is the winner of the 2021 Marcus Prize, a renowned achievement in international architecture that includes a $100,000 award and a supported design studio for students in the school. Architects Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa lead Ensamble Studio, which was founded in 2000 and focuses on embedding research and experimentation in every project.

Through the vision and support of the Marcus Corporation Foundation, the school accepts biennial nominations for the Marcus Prize Ensamble Studio was selected from a pool of accomplished nominees from 19 countries and five continents.

“ Ensamble’s name, processes and practice reflect the extraordinary times we’re living in,” said Lesley Lokko, 2021 Marcus Prize juror. “The combination of an outstanding firm and an outstanding prize bodes well for the future of all our built environment professions, not just architecture.”

García-Abril and Mesa will lead a sponsored studio for students at the school in Fall 2022 with Assistant Professor Lindsey Krug “Our vision of architectural practice is one where enthusiasm meets perseverance, imagination meets rigor and leadership meets teamwork,” said García-Abril and Mesa. “This is what we offer to our collaborators, clients and students through our own example.”

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. 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.

“We at the Marcus Corporation Foundation are proud to support the important work of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning through the Marcus Prize,” said David Marcus, chairman of the Marcus Corporation Foundation. “The opportunity to identify and bring in so many talented architects over the years to work with the students has been truly unique. The impact of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

School of Architecture & Urban Planning’s students on the architectural landscape in our city and region has been remarkable.”

The esteemed 2021 Marcus Prize jury included 2019 Marcus Prize recipient Tatiana Bilbao, founder of Mexico City-based Tatiana Bilbao Estudio. Bilbao was joined by David Brown, artistic director of the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial, Lesley Lokko, founder and director of the African Futures Institute and David Marcus, chairman of the Marcus Corporation Foundation. Interim Dean Mo Zell and Associate Professor Whitney Moon also served as jurors.

Ensamble Studio is a cross-functional team founded in 2000 and led by architects Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa. Balancing imagination and reality, art and science, their work innovates typologies, technologies and methodologies to address issues as diverse as the construction of the landscape or the prefabrication of the house. From their early works— SGAE Headquarters, Hemeroscopium House or The Truffle in Spain to—their most recent—Ensamble Fabrica in Madrid and Ca’n Terra in Menorca, Spain—every project makes space for experimentation aiming to advance their field.

Currently, through their startup WoHo, the duo is invested in increasing the quality of architecture while making it more affordable by integrating offsite technologies. Their new research and fabrication facility in Madrid, Ensamble Fabrica, has been built to support this endeavor. García-Abril and Mesa are committed to sharing ideas and cultivating synergies between professional and academic worlds through teaching, lecturing and researching. Mesa is the Ventulett Chair in Architectural Design at Georgia Tech, and García-Abril is a professor at MIT, where in 2012 they co-founded the POPlab—Prototypes of Prefabrication Laboratory.

Ensamble _ photo by James Florio ©

Marcus Prize Winner Antón García-Abril & Débora Mesa _ photo by James Florio ©

Ca’n Terra_ photo by Iwan Baan ©

Antón García-Abril & Débora Mesa Visit SARUP_ photo by Lindsey Krug

TOP WINNERS

Sponsored Prizes

SUPERjury 2022 Student Awards

This year, AIAS students Anna Wand, Drew Tillman, along with other AIAS members, worked with Assistant Professor Alex Timmer to transform the Jim Shields Gallery of Architecture and Urbanism sponsored by HGA into a vibrant salonstyle exhibition of student work. 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 critics were Bob Somol (UIC), Jenny Wu (SCI_Arc + Columbia GSAPP) and Ersela Kripa (Texas Tech + Agency). This event is put on by SARUP’s chapter of the AIAS and is sponsored by Zimmerman Architectural Studios, Inc. and WC Consulting Inc

AIAS SUPERJURY HELPERS

MDB THE MOBILE DESIGN BOX A

Pop-up Gallery

that Transforms Vacant Storefronts

Location:

MDB ACTIVITIES Exhibition & Event Overview

In areas of the city that are in decline, the Mobile Design Box (MDB) enhances the quality of neighborhood space and urban life through the activation of a vacant storefront into a community space and creative entrepreneur start-up venue. The MDB operates as host to a series of temporary users who, in turn, are host to more temporary uses. Given that the Milwaukee 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 from tenant to landlord that optimizes short-term leases with low overhead, minimal investment and maximized effort to engage local communities. Over the four years since its inception, exhibitors in the MDB have launched two creative businesses, generated over $50,000 in direct fees and stimulated over $250,000 of economic development. The MDB expanded into the Historic Mitchell Street neighborhood hosting exhibits at 1001 W. Historic Mitchell Street.

PRIVATE TO COMMONS + FEEDBACK LOOP

The 2021 Marcus Prize Studio, led by Tatiana Bilbao and Assistant Professor Alex Timmer, developed a modular wall system and mobile kits to support the exhibit “Feedback Loop.” The student work was installed at the newly relocated Mobile Design Box at 1001 Historic Mitchell Street as part of Gallery Night MKE! The work had previously been displayed at 615 Mitchell before being relocated and remixed in the new Mobile Design Box location.

MOBILE FURNITURE

Every week for 10 weeks, the Ignite Grant Research team, M.Arch students Abby Platz, Eric Nofsinger, Carly Farrell and Michael Major, generated a new iteration of mobile, modular, versatile furniture as they pressed towards the project’s mission of serving the community on and around Historic Mitchell Street. Under guidance from Assistant Professor Alex Timmer, Professor Mo Zell and Associate Professor Arijit Sen, the team analyzed each iteration to push the concepts further in the next design. Community members provided weekly feedback for project development in the MDB space.

DOLLAR GENTLE CYCLE

SARUP’s 2020-2021 Fitzhugh Scott Fellows Sarah Aziz and Lindsey Krug polled workers from every Dollar General store in Wisconsin and consolidated donation lists from community support groups on Mitchell Street and around Milwaukee to glean insights into the type of dollar store items that facilitate civic life in the city. They thoughtfully curated Dollar Gentle Cycle as a faux Dollar General storefront that showcased the bulk items purchased and replicated from Dollar General as a reflection on how institutions push resources back into the communities they purport to serve.

Mobile Furniture __ photo by A. Platz

LECTURES EVENTS

02.25

SARUP Gallery / 3:30PM

“Now What?! Advocacy, Activism & Alliances in American Architecture since 1968”

SARAH RAFSON + ROBERTA WASHINGTON AND LORI BROWN + ANDREA J. MERRETT

Co-Curators of the traveling Now What?! Exhibition

Sponsored by Wisconsin Preservation Fund Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren

03.04

SARUP Gallery / 3:30PM

“Leading By Design”

KIMBERLY DOWDELL

Principal, HOK

Sponsored by UWM SARUP NOMAS, Wisco NOMA, Smith Group

03.18

SARUP Gallery / 3:30PM

“Towards Madame Architect”

JULIA GAMOLINA

Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Madame Architect & Associate Principal & Business Development Director, Ennead Architects

Sponsored by UWM SARUP WIDs & Women In Design Milwaukee

04.01

SARUP Gallery / 3:30PM

“Making (it) Work”

JENNIFER NEWSOM

Co-Founder, Dream The Combine, Assistant Professor Cornell University AAP

Sponsored by SAMPLE Journal.

04.29

SARUP Gallery / 3:30PM

“Fellow-sheep & Cattle-lysts”

SARAH AZIZ, DEBBIE CHEN, & LINDSEY KRUG

2020-21 and 2021-22 Fellows

Sponsored by Fitzhugh Scott

02.25

SARUP Marcus Commons / 12:00PM

GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM AMBER MACCRACKEN

Designer, Kahler Slater

03.18

SARUP Marcus Commons / 12:00PM

GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM

RICHIE HANDS

Senior Associate, Lamar Johnson Collaborative

04.01

Virtual

INTERVIEW DAY

The school hosts this event every spring. Architecture firms throughout the country are invited to interview our recent graduates and current students for summer and permanent positions.

04.29

SARUP Marcus Commons / 12:00PM

GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM

JOHN VAN ROOY

John Van Rooy Architecture

05.04 – 05.11

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee SARUP

FINAL REVIEWS

Event from 1:30-5:20PM

05.12

SARUP Marcus Commons & Student Lounge

THESIS DAY

Event at 10AM

05.13

SARUP Gallery

SUPERJURY Event at 9AM

SARUP GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

02.04

NOW WHAT?!

Curators: Lori Brown, Andrea J. Merrett, Sarah Rafson, and Roberta Washington

05.13

SUPERJURY 2022 EXHIBIT

Curator: AIAS and Alex Timmer

FUTURE EVENTS

Keep an eye out for the upcoming Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 Events poster!

LECTURES / EVENTS / EXHIBITIONS

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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 DECATHLON 2022 Design Competition

Students in Professor Mark Keane’s Zero Net Energy studio traveled to Colorado in April to compete in the U.S. Solar Decathlon Competition where they won second place in the division of New Housing. The studio, a collaboration with UW-Madison’s engineering program, designed the Egg Harbor home to be a modular, factory-built home built to the highest energy efficiency standards that respond to climate change. Congratulations on your achievement!

SCHOLARSHIPS 2021 / 2022 Academic Year

Sam Janssen Henry Adams Medal and Certificate MArch

Zachary Rode AICP Certificate MUP

Amanda Chooraman AIA & WAF MArch

Shavonte Grant AIA & WAF MArch

Patrick Finucane AIA & WAF MArch

Sam Janssen Alpha Rho Chi Medal MUP

Louis Glotfelty Wisconsin Chapter, APA Endowment MUP

Zachary Hochevar Wisconsin Chapter, APA Endowment MUP

Abigail Heyrot Beth A. Partleton, ‘79 BSAS

Rachel Bergelin Beth A. Partleton, ‘79 MArch

Max Driftmier Beth A. Partleton, ‘79 BSAS

Taylor Romanyk Beth A. Partleton, ‘79 BSAS

Alek Jenig Bob Greenstreet Honorary MArch

Bennett Westling Bray Architects MArch

Michael Yeboah Charles W. Causier Memorial MUP

Steve Rasmussen Cherie Claussen Memorial MArch

Adam Xiong Cherie Claussen Memorial MArch

Ian Luecht Christopher Kidd & Associates BSAS

Alec Bartz Construction Specification Institute BSAS

Gabriela Ramos Figueroa DEI BSAS

Michael Major Design Council MArch

Shavante Grant Engberg Anderson BSAS

Chris Dobbie EUA Diversity BSAS

Natalie Kuehl Faculty Memorial BSAS

Sam Bensemann Felicity Brogden-Ollswang Memorial BSAS

Marina Fabela Findorff Construction Company Minority BSAS

Eamon Bridges George L.N. Meyer, Jr. Memorial MArch

Miguel Castro Richard Hunzinger Memorial MArch

Jessica Van Dyck James Mellowes Architecture Undergraduate BSAS

Dean MacKenzie James Mellowes Architecture Undergraduate BSAS

Kyle Abts Jeff & Diane Oertel BSAS

LoriAnne Flaherty Jeff & Lynn Eckstein BSAS

Shane O’Neil John & Carolyn Peterson MArch

Morgan Shapiro John & Carolyn Peterson MArch

Sarah Lunow Kent Keegan Memorial BSAS

Isabel Castro Kubala Washatko Architects BSAS

Erin Seaverson Legacy Architecture HPI MUP

Kelly Iacobazzi Lillian & Willis Leenhouts Memorial BSAS

Chava Baum Moebius Recognition of Excellence MArch

John O’Malley MSI General MArch

Maddison Zeni Pella Windows & Doors of WI BSAS

Vageesha Chauhan Philip Rubenstein Scholarship MArch

Andrew Rexrode RINKA Van Buren MArch

Lisa Sun RINKA Van Buren MArch/MUP

Margaret Ziegler Somerville Architects & Engineers MArch

David Serna-Herrera SE WI Regional Planning Commission MUP

Natalie Kuehl

T.M. Slater BSAS

Lucas Ranker Urban Planning Alumni MUP

Amber Wycklendt Urban Planning Alumni MUP

Louis Glotfelty Urban Planning Foundation MUP

Christian Boulanger Urban Planning Foundation MUP

Ifedayo Kehinde UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student PHD

Maia Koehnlein UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student MArch Bennett Westling UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student MArch

Leila Saboori UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student PhD

Nasim Shareghiboroujeni UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student PhD Mania Taher UWM Distinguished Disseration Fellow PhD

Anya Vanecek UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student MArch Chelsea Wait UWM Chancellor’s Graduate Student PhD

Hongyan Yang UWM Distinguished Disseration Fellow PhD

Kaci Crowley UWM Distinguished Disseration Fellow PhD

Louis Glotfelty UWM Distinguished Disseration Fellow PhD

Abigail Platz Ver Halen Inc/Pella Windows & Doors MArch

Sarah Sunna Weas Real Estate Development MArch

Khari Bell Welford Sanders Memorial MUP

Javon Scott Welford Sanders Memorial MUP

Carly Farrell Wisconsin Architects Foundation MArch

Bridget Greuel Wisconsin Architects Foundation MArch

Rocio Rivas Osorio Wisconsin Architects Foundation BSAS

Sara Sunna Wisconsin Architects Foundation BSAS

Benton Troehler Wisconsin Architects Foundation BSAS

Solar Efficient Home Design by UWM Architecture & Engineering Team

NOMAS National Organization of Minority Architecture Students

By Isabella Cosentino, NOMAS Co-President

NOMAS this last spring was full of events such as firm tours and professional development workshops. NOMAS toured various firms all around Milwaukee and Chicago such as Plunkett Raysich Architects, CannonDesign, Skidmore Owens & Merrill and many more. Students walked away with professionally reviewed resumes, new LinkedIn profiles and feedback for their final studio deliverables.

We are happy to provide students from all different backgrounds with the tools they need to become successful in their postgrad careers while they feel represented in a group of other minorities. Our mission is to champion diversity in the field of architecture.

WIDS Women In Design Students

By Alexis Meyer, WIDS Leader & Founder

As a link between students and professionals, WIDS continued to connect students and professionals in engaging in meaningful ways over the 2021-22 school year. Through our mentoring events, AXP discussions and firm tours, our members connected and networked with individuals from Groth Design Group, Kahler Slater, and TKWA. We visited design firms Continuum, Cannon Design, Skidmore Owens & Merrill, SNHA, and several others. Our annual speed mentoring event co-hosted by WID, AIA Wisconsin and Wisco NOMA was a success at connecting over 100 students and professionals around the state of Wisconsin. Sarah Lunow will be taking over the leadership role of WIDS this fall.

We are excited to continue empowering women in the design field and look forward to making meaningful connections.

AIAS American Institute of Architecture Students

By Anna Wand, AIAS President 2021-22 and Drew Tillman, AIAS 2022-23 AIAS provided many opportunities for SARUP students throughout the 2021-2022 academic year. This year we focused on offering networking and career development opportunities for students to connect within and outside of the SARUP community. We hosted events such as a T-Shirt Design Night, Pumpkin Carving, and our Annual Sandcastle Competition to bring students together through fun activities. Networking was another great opportunity we offered students by running two mentorship programs—MentArch and ArCulture—and through various firm tours hosted for us by local Milwaukee firms. We finished the year with SUPERjury, an end-of-the-year event celebrating all SARUP student work.

SAMPLE JOURNAL

By Jacob Rohan, Co-Senior Editor

Sample Journal is a team of ten to twelve student designers from various places within our school. Each year we curate a collection of student work that addresses a specific concept or mission decided by that year’s members. Last year, Sample Issue D highlighted work happening outside the hierarchical academic setting, allowing students to re-introduce themselves by their strengths in forms of painting, photography, collage, and much more. You can follow our journey this upcoming year on our Instagram (@samplejournal) and check the link in our bio for digital copies of past editions!

NOMAS hosts Longfellow Elementary Students _ photo by A. Platz

SAMPLE Release _ photo by A. Platz WIDS & NOMAS Chicago Firm Tours_ photo by S. Lunow

NOMAS Visits Groth Design Firm _ photo by NOMAS

AIAS Make A Difference Day _ photo by A. Tillman

AIAS Annual Sandcastle Competition _ photo by A. Tillman

Molly Morgan with her Nemschoff Chair Design _ photo by J. Alsum

WIDS Visits Continuum _ photo by A. Platz

SAMPLE Editors _ photo by A. Platz

FA

FACULTY AWARDS & NEWS

Receiving Recognition

SARUP GALLERY DEDICATION

Associate Professor Jim Shields is being honored by HGA’s Milwaukee office where he has worked for over 30 years. Thanks to HGA’s support and expertise in gallery design, SARUP’s gallery received improved lighting, layouts and equipment. For a limited time, the gallery will also celebrate Jim Shields’ impact with the honorary title of “Jim Shields Gallery of Architecture and Urbanism sponsored by HGA.”

“Jim has taught students who now work and lead in many of our region’s most influential firms,” said Interim Dean Mo Zell. “His impact is far-reaching. We’re immensely appreciative to HGA for honoring Jim through this special gallery title and grateful for HGA’s ongoing support of this valuable resource for our students and the community.”

ACSA AWARDS

Associate Professor Nikole Bouchard and 2019–20 Urban Edge Fellow José Ibarra are both recipients of a 2022 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Education Award! Nikole received a Diversity Achievement Honorable Mention Award that celebrates faculty who have had a positive influence on diversity within architecture education. José received a New Faculty Teaching Award that recognizes demonstrated excellence and innovation in teaching performance.

Mono-Poly-Dollar was selected as a winner of the 2022 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society by ACSA! The winning proposal was developed by 2020-2021 fellows Lindsey Krug and Sarah Aziz. Mono-Poly-Dollar seminar used Dollar General Corp, to examine the country’s environmental, economic, and racial fault lines, and highlight this understudied vernacular typology as a weapon of discourse and agent of climate activism.

ACCESSIBILITY RESEARCH CENTER EXCELLENCE AWARD

Adjunct Professor Royce Earnest has been nominated for an Accessibility Resource Center (ARC) Excellence award for his exemplary services to ARC students. Royce ensures all students succeed by using universal design principles within his courses and exercises sensitivity and professionalism with a diverse student population. Professor Earnest teaches across the curriculum including design studios, history courses, and architectural theory.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

The Center for Health Design is honoring emeritus faculty Uriel Cohen, PhD and Gerald Weisman, PhD, founders and co-directors of the Institute on Aging & Environment at SARUP, with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Both Uriel and Jerry have had a dramatic impact on the fields of design and design research of health-supportive environments for older adults, particularly those suffering from cognitive impairments. Under their direction, the Institute fostered generations of designers and researchers who have made major advances in this work.

Mono-Poly-Dollar Exhibit _ photo by A. Platz

José Ibarra _ photo by J. Alsum

Jerry Weisman and Uriel Cohen

Nikole Bouchard _ photo by UWM

Royce Earnest

Jim Shields _ photo by HGA Milwaukee

$5.2 MILLION FOR FLEX RIDE MILWAUKEE

Professor Robert Schneider, Visiting Assistnat Professor Yaidi Cancel Martinez , and Professor Ivy Hu’s project FlexRide Milwaukee has received an award of approximately $4.2 million through the Wisconsin Workforce Innovation Grant Program Partnering with MobiliSE, the expansion of the program will include positioning childcare centers as “mobility hubs” to provide a safe, convenient and welcoming spot for working parents. The award demonstrates the significant impact of communityorientated UWM research. FlexRide, funded by a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), is a technologydriven approach to closing the transportation gap and getting Milwaukee residents to jobs at some of Menomonee Falls’ and Butler’s largest employers.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Adjunct Faculty Christopher T. Wood has been named the Pfister Hotel’s Artist in Residence for 2022-2023. By applying unique processes he has developed over time, Wood creates drawings consisting of powdered graphite and exquisite shading that form distinct creations. He plans to draw a new piece each day that will eventually become a set of drawings, each serving as an extension of the other.

During his residency, Wood plans to transform one side of the Artist Studio into a viewable working space so guests can witness his process firsthand. The other side of the studio will be a display and reception area allowing guests to see Wood’s daily drawings and to learn their story. The studio will also include the opportunity for visitors to answer a prompt, share an experience or submit an image to contribute to Wood’s process.

KAHLER SLATER DESIGN STUDIO

SARUP is partnering with Kahler Slater and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture to form The Kahler Slater Studio, a new academic graduate studio offered to students at both universities. The Studio will begin courses in Fall 2022 with Kahler Slater staff serving as adjunct professors.

The collective brings the three entities together to increase the collaboration between academia and practice. Students from the universities will work in partnership with Kahler Slater’s design team in their Chicago and Milwaukee offices. The immersive experience was designed to support UWM and UIUC’s enrollment growth in their architecture programs as well as build upon the longstanding relationship both universities have with Kahler Slater.

The syllabus is structured to offer hands-on, interdisciplinary opportunities for students to work on projects focusing on corporate, hospitality, residential, healthcare, cultural, sports, recreation, and higher education. Students in the 2022 Fall semester will begin with a project located in Chicago, following with a 2023 project based in Milwaukee.

“The UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning is proud to cultivate a collaborative environment for students in partnership with Kahler Slater and the Illinois School of Architecture. Through this studio, students will explore the significant architectural challenges of our times, led by subject matter experts at Kahler Slater,” said Interim Dean Mo Zell

AICP COLLEGE OF FELLOWS

Carolyn Esswein has achieved the planning profession’s highest honor—being named to the prestigious College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). Esswein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Director of Community Design Solutions in the school.

Esswein’s admission to the College of Fellows recognizes her substantial efforts that have resulted in significant and transformational improvements to the field of planning and the communities she serves. Esswein is one of 53 inductees into this year’s College of Fellows; inductions occur biennially. Wisconsin has had only three Fellows inducted since the College of Fellows was inaugurated in 1999.

Esswein’s passion for inclusive and innovative planning has transformed neighborhoods and cities throughout Wisconsin. A creative change-maker, Esswein’s career involves teaching, professional practice, and community service, all intertwined together. She managed Milwaukee’s first Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan, planned the first suburban city center in the region, facilitated a process to convert central city vacant parcels into 20 parks, has taught hundreds of students as future leaders, facilitated 400+ student projects, and recently co-developed a Master of Urban Design program.

Christopher T. Wood _

photo by Kahler Slater

Ivy Hu Speaks at the Ribbon Cutting for FlexRide _ photo by E. Hennessey

Kahler Slater SARUP Alums with Interim Dean Mo Zell _ photo by Kahler Slater

Caroyln Esswein

DESIGN + CONSTRUCTION INSTITUTE

In recognition of current collaborations and partnerships with the construction industry, SARUP is establishing the Design + Construction Institute (DCI). We envision the Institute as a respected academic authority on contemporary issues in construction and sustainable practices and their influence on design and the built environment. DCI will serve as a resource for new curriculum initiatives, pipeline pathway development, workforce training, public symposia, continuing education offerings, and public exposure of student work.

BUILDINGSLANDSCAPESCULTURES FIELD SCHOOL

Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School, led by Associate Professor Arijit Sen, is a five-week summer course that documents people, places, and histories in some of Milwaukee’s most undeserved neighborhoods. Wisconsin Humanities will be adapting this model to launch Community Powered, a project that builds resilience around Wisconsin communities.

SUMMER YOUTH BUILD PROGRAM

The Design + Construction Institute launched the summer 2022 teen and college design/build program—the NAF Future Ready Scholars Program—in partnership with NAF, UWM College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Milwaukee Public Schools (and Foundation), MATC, All Hands Boatworks, Journey House and Metcalf Park Community Group. The four-week program radically transforms the relationship between SARUP and high school students in Milwaukee Public Schools by bringing high school and college students together to design and build an eco-friendly community shade structure on a city lot on Wright Street. The program’s high school engineering cohort completed a remote solar power station that was installed on the shade pavilion.

Gilbane interns joined the MPS high school students for one day to help install the bays of the shade structure at Metcalf Park community garden. Campers also visited EUA, LaLune Collection, and a JLA multifamily project. Speakers from Habitat for Humanity and Mortenson Construction joined as well.

MASS TIMBER

Assistant Professor Alex Timmer was interviewed by Wisconsin Public Radio about the latest construction trend—wood skyscrapers. Collaborating with Rivion WoodWorks and the Forest Products Laboratory are working to collect life cycle data for the new mass timber building Ascent. By analyzing Ascent’s embodied carbon and energy, the team will be able to understand the building’s total environmental impact, how much energy is required, and the amount of carbon produced during construction.

DISTINGUISHED DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP

PhD candidate Mania Taher has received the Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship awarded by the UWM Graduate School. Mania’s research investigates the cultural landscapes of new immigrants with queries of displacement, gender, and race. Congratulations Mania on this well-deserved honor!

Completed Pavilion at Metcalf Park _ photo by I. Hanley

MPS Students work on a Pavilion _ photo by I. Hanley

Mania Taher

Alex Timmer _ photo by A. Platz

Buildings-Landscape-Culture Field School Conversation _ photo by S. Berry

SCHOLARSHIP SPOTLIGHT

MELLOWES MASTERS RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

As part of a $1 million gift received by UW-Milwaukee from architecture alumnus James Mellowes and his wife Maureen, SARUP has received funding to support masters research assistants for three years.

Together with expert faculty, paid graduate students will develop proficiency in researching and communicating advanced topics in architecture. This research will have broad implications for the field of architecture while reinforcing SARUP’s reputation as a leading research institution.

Faculty-led research topics for 2022-2023 include:

Fouzia Emon, working with Professor Jim Wasley, will research and map waterfront cities of the Great Lakes Basin to address water-related climate resilience.

Duncan McGlachlin, working with Assistant Professor Alex Timmer, will research thermally active concrete structures through form and performance.

Bennett Westling will work with Associate Professor Nikole Bouchard on waste-related research and design work for a second book titled Atlas of AFTERLIVES. This follows her first book WASTE MATTERS: Adaptive Reuse for Productive Landscapes (Routledge, 2021).

EPPSTEIN UHEN SCHOLARSHIP

Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) has committed $25,000 in scholarships over the course of five years to selected students at SARUP.

Scholarship recipients are students pursuing a degree in architecture and are selected by SARUP’s dean based on personal initiatives, academic performance and need. The scholarship of $5,000 per year will be offered for five consecutive years. EUA intends to also offer the scholarship recipient an internship for the summer following the award of the scholarship. The aim of the scholarship is to support an entry point into the school, ease financial pressures and promote student diversity within our profession.

ENGBERG ANDERSON SCHOLARSHIP

As part of Engberg Anderson Architects’ ongoing support of SARUP, EA presented a new Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship to M.Arch student Shavonte Grant. Together the firm and additional partner-scholarship donations provide an annual scholarship of $7,000. Grant recently presented her work and research to EA leadership. Her career objective as an architect is to create socially sustaining spaces to achieve healthier and more equitable cities.

“Engberg Anderson was pleased to begin this new scholarship focused on improving equity within our profession,” said Bill Robison, Partner. “Targeting the funds for students from

Milwaukee and the surrounding counties gives us a chance to lift up talented students who share the same home and understand the needs of this community. Shavonte was a perfect first recipient for us as she explores the transition from public art to architecture. Her focus on projects that impact the community fits so well with the work we seek and do in the cities we call home. We look forward to helping her grow as a professional through a summer internship and remaining involved with her work as she continues in the graduate program at SARUP in the coming year.”

SARUP is grateful for dedicated partners like Engberg Anderson, who are essential catalysts in equipping students who will plan, make, and build for the future.

James and Maureen Mellowes

EUA Scholarship Recipient Chris Dobbie _ photo by EUA

EA Scholarship Recipient Shavonte Grant _ photo by Engberg Anderson

ALUMNI NEWS

Andre Brumfield (BSAS ‘93) has been named Designer of the Moment by New City Design

Gabriel Yeager (BSAS ‘18) has joined the International Downtown Association’s Top Issues Council as the Downtown Environment Specialist. The Top Issues Council Program highlights emerging trends in the place management industry and brings together member-practitioners working directly in these fields to share trends and case studies.

Terry Oden (M.Arch ‘96) received the AIA Photography Merit Award for his photo of the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. Terry shared how working with Paul Olsen in the SARUP print/copy room sparked his interest in various lighting tactics and how they affect the outcome of a photograph.

Maggie Calkins (PhD ‘96) received the Center for Health Design’s Changemaker Award in honor of her dedication to improving the quality of life for elderly people in all types of residential and care settings. She collaborated with the Institute on Aging and Environment’s founders Gerald Weisman and Uriel Cohen on groundbreaking research and projects.

Brian Johnsen (M.Arch ‘97) and Sebastian Schmaling (M.Arch ‘96) released a monograph “Johnsen Schmaling On Rigor” based on their critically acclaimed work and their Milwaukee-based studio. Thirteen residential and commercial projects located in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles showcase “an original voice that articulates a thoughtful, deliberately quiet, and precisely detailed architecture.”

Nicholas Robinson (M.Arch ‘12) has been appointment to the Wisconsin Historic Preservation Commission. The commission provides oversight the design on exterior historic buildings and determines what buildings are historic or not.

Adam Goss (BSAS ‘05) with alums RedMike (BSAS ‘05) and Ryan Clark (BSAS ‘05) co-founders of Spirit of Space, shared recently in Chicago Architect magazine how they specialize in unscripted storytelling in their short films.

AIA has elevated alums Larry Schnuck, (M.Arch ‘86) and Craig Brandt, (M.Arch ‘93) to the College of Fellows.

Scott Kraehnke (M.Arch ‘01) has been named co-lead designer of the EmeraldRockets lot in the Sandbox metaverse. Scott will lead a design team from around the world to design a 3D educational campus in the virtual world of Sandbox.

Jack Grover (M.Arch ‘19) along with his team from Jenny Peysin Architecture traveled to the Poland-Ukrainian border to volunteer with Russians for Ukraine, a grassroots organization. The team talked to Julia Gamolina, Assoc. AIA of Madame Architect about their experience and why it is important for architects to be involved in these initiatives.

Teonna Cooksey (BSAS ‘19) talked with Julia Gamolina, Assoc. AIA for an interview for Madame Architect highlighting Teonna’s thoughts on Changing Atmospheres and Creating Opportunities.

ALUMNI UPDATES & CLASS NOTES

Class Notes are a way to share what is going on in your life with your SARUP classmates. Here are some common class notes submissions: promotion, birth announcement, wedding announcement, publication (e.g., of an article, paper, book), feature or listing in a publication, membership of a committee or organization, retirement notice, honor recipient (e.g., grant, medal), relocation (new job), completion of a degree.

To submit information, please contact Mary M. Frieseke, Director of Development. friesekm@uwm.edu / (414) 229.2573

NEW LINKEDIN PAGE

As we continue to make/plan/build at SARUP, we created a new LinkedIn page so we can share exciting news, student work and events with SARUP alums around the world and connect with our community.

Please invite your colleagues to follow our page to stay connected with fellow SARUP alums and keep informed about news and events at the school.

Follow us: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uwmsarup/

VULNERABILITY STUDIO

With over 100 people in attendance including elected officials and community leaders, students in assistant professor Trudy Watt’s Vulnerability studio shared their vision of the future of the Central DOOR in Milwaukee. In collaboration with Adam Procell, Shannon Ross , and Micheal Carriere , the studio focused on a collective campus that consolidates existing re-entry services, integrates holistic access to communities, and provides wraparound support including housing and clinical components for people reintegrating after incarceration in Milwaukee.

Lauren Bauman (BSAS ‘22) Sharing Her Project _ photo by A. Platz

Students at Mont Saint Michel _ photo by A. Rexrode

Students in Paris

MUP students at Planning & a Pint _ photo by L. Gladding

AIA Alumni Event in Chiago _ photo by S. Keller

Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows

WHAT’S SURF? Students Working with Faculty

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.

2021-2022 SURF STUDENTS

Isabella Cosentino

Jacob Rohan

Devan Whitehead

Sofia Lopez

Ian Luecht

Tannis Thompson-Catlett

Larry Brown

Anastasia Wand

Natalie Kuehl

Hytham Jaraba

Jessica Dray

Liam Farin

BUILDINGSLANDSCAPESCULTURES FIELD SCHOOL

Arijit Sen, Liam Farin + Tannis Thompson-Catlett

The project aims to examine how urban gardens contribute to equitable food access in Milwaukee’s marginalized and undeserved communities. In summer 2022 the Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures field school project examined, documented, and evaluated the success of the Cherry Street Community Gardens. BloomMKE’s Cherry Street Garden is a community-owned growing space located on 1437 N 23rd St in Milwaukee’s Midtown neighborhood. Every summer the BloomMKE team collects produce from the garden and distributes “food boxes” to community residents and elders who live in a nearby senior living facility.

CORPUS COMUNIS

Lindsey Krug, Even Johnson, Nathan Magee + Jacob Rohan

“ Corpus Comunis” looks at the relationship between law and architecture. The notion of precedent —prominent in both disciplines— is explored through the analysis of lineages of landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings and editions of international architectural design manuals.

One pairing the research focuses on is the 1965 ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut and the 1970 publishing of the 1st English Edition of Ernst Neufert’s Architects’ Data and what these two events mean for legal and spatial expressions of privacy. Nearly sixty years after the authoring of these two documents, the scope and definition of privacy are still urgently debated in American society, culture, and law. The overlaying of extra-disciplinary texts onto architectural references and precedents puts designers into the arena of participation in shaping the future of these fundamental ideals.

CONSTRUCTING EQUITABLE TERRAIN

Tanner Farnham

Jessica Dray

Marina Fabela

Madison Sabel

Andres Velazquez

Megan Schulte

Andrea Juarez

Anastasia Wand

Dylan Groshek

Nathan Magee

Franziska Burkard

Cameron Hansen

Drew Running Maysam Abdeljaber

Luis Fernandez

Andres Velazquez

Sarah Lunow

Annabelle Fritz

Alana Dunne

$54,107 Awarded in 2021-2022

Chelsea Wait, Marina Fabela, Jacob Rohan, Alicia Kandall, Andrea Mendoza, Megan Schulte, + Andrea Garcia-Rangel

The “Constructing Equitable Terrain” summer SURF grant recipients Marina Fabela, Alicia Kandall, Andrea Mendoza, Andrea GarciaRangel, Jacob Rohan, and Megan Schulte worked with adjunct professor Chelsea Wait to create resources, events and procedures that foster diversity, equity, belonging, and inclusion at SARUP. Want to know how to incorporate social justice into your project, site analysis, term paper, or syllabus? Look for their website unveiling this fall! For phase two, their project is being renamed: DEBI (design, equity, belonging, and inclusion) goes to Design School.

FLEXRIDE: CONNECTING RESIDENTS WITH SUBURBAN JOBS

Dr. Yaidi Cancel Martinez + Elijah Hart

Elijah Hart (BSAS ‘23) was at the Bronzeville Cultural Arts Festival where he talked with residents and project partners about FlexRide Milwaukee —a new on-demand microtransit service that aims to connect Milwaukee residents with jobs in suburban areas in Menominee Falls and Butler in Waukesha County. Elijah studied how FlexRide Milwaukee is connecting city of Milwaukee residents to suburban jobs and examines the access to jobs through equity lenses. Pictured, from left to right: Montre J. Moore (SEWRPC), Elijah Hart, and Dave Steele (MobiliSE).

DEBI Resource by Chelea Wait’s SURF students _ image by C. Wait

DEBI Resource by Chelea Wait’s SURF students _ image by C. Wait

Elijah Hart (BSAS ‘23) at the Bronzeville Cultural Arts Festival

Cherry Street Community Garden _ photo by A. Sen

CDS

COMMUNITY DESIGN SOLUTIONS

2021-22 Current Work

CDS FEATURED PROJECTS

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.

CDS contact information

Carolyn Esswein, CDS Director AICP, CNU-A CEsswein@uwm.edu

(414) 229.6165 www.uwm.edu/community-design-solutions/

CDS DESIGN STAFF

Carolyn Esswein Director

Elise Oswiler M.Arch ‘22

Kelly Iacobazzi M.Arch ‘22

Erin Seaverson MUD ‘22

Tess Richard M.Arch ‘23

Roe Draus M.Arch ‘23

Burke Adams M.Arch ‘21

Lubar Student Lounge Render _ image by CDS

CDS assisted students at El Puente High School _ photo by CDS Implemented Tutoring space _ photo by CDS Outdoor Classroom Idea for a Schoolyard Re-Development _ image by CDS

CDS CHARETTES PAVE THE WAY

A January groundbreaking ceremony signaled the start of UWM’s new chemistry building along Kenwood Avenue. A 2017 CDS building programming and design study for the chemistry facility assisted the faculty in gaining UWM and Regent approval for the building. The current plans and design were developed by Kahler Slater and CannonDesign. The new four-story, 163,400 square foot building will serve as the gateway to UWM’s STEM quadrant.

WID RAPID SPEED PRESENTATIONS

FALL 2021: BELONGING

Debbie Chen, SARUP

Angy K. Singh, PhD, K. Singh & Associates, Inc.

Trina Sandschafer, AIA, LEED AP, Kahler Slater

Nicole Hauch, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design

Tessa Begay, Quorum Architects

Crystal Waldoch, Derse

Liz Callin, AICP, Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission

SPRING 2022: TROUBLEMAKER

Alexis Meyer, HGA, WID, (M.Arch ‘22)

Cara Ogburn, MKE Film

Courtney MacDonald, Forward Space

Danya Almoghrabi, NOMAS & Kahler Slater, (BSAS, ‘2021)

Jessica Gebhardt, TKWA, (M.Arch ‘11)

Kelly Beck, Lerdahl & DIRTT

Lindsey Krug, UWM SARUP

Lisa Kennedy, Executive Director, AIA WI, (M.Arch ‘84)

Tracie Parent, Kahler Slater

Sponsors:

Forward Space

Kahler Slater

WID

Interim Dean Mo Zell and Ali Kopyt (M.Arch/MUP ‘08) founded Women in Design-Milwaukee seven years ago. Today, their thriving 600-member organization is an American Institute of Architects (AIA) Diversity Recognition Program honoree that focuses on connecting, empowering and advocating for women’s leadership and success.

WOMEN IN DESIGN

In 2020 WID launched the Women In Design Student group (WIDS) which was led by Alexis Meyer (M.Arch ‘22) Alexis grew student memberships through hosting networking, mentoring, and professional development events throughout the school year. Going into its third year this fall, senior Sarah Lunow (BSAS ‘23) will be leading the group.

WID & WIDS Co-Hosted Julia Gamolina for the Now What?! Lecture Series _ photo by A. Platz

Virtual Speed Mentoring _ photo by A. Meyer

WID Troublemaker Presentations _ photo by T. Gupta

CDS Original Rendering: Kenwood Blvd. Exterior View _ image by CDS

Original Rendering: North Facade and Campus Connection _ image by CDS