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.

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.

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.

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

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 Anastasia Wand

Natalie Kuehl

Hytham Jaraba

Jessica Dray

Liam Farin

Dylan Groshek

Nathan Magee

Franziska Burkard

Cameron Hansen

Drew Running Maysam Abdeljaber

Luis Fernandez

Andres Velazquez

Sarah Lunow

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.

Annabelle Fritz

Alana Dunne

$54,107 Awarded in 2021-2022

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).

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

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

Women In Design

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.

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.