ARCHITECTURE +URBAN PLANNING

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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!

NOMAS’ HONORABLE MENTION

Jack Dangermond Fellow

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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MILWAUKEE

Winter Break 2022

Deep River Partners

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

WISCONSIN

Berners Schober, Assoc. Inc.

MSI

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

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.

– Sahara KC

Winter Break 2022

GGA

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

Workshop Architects

Zimmerman Architectural Studios

MADISON

Dimension IV Madison, LLC

Iconica

MSA Professional Services, Inc.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 SARUP HGA 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.

Her elective studio Drawdown 2040 focused on similar themes.

2021 MARCUS PRIZE Ensamble Studio

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.

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