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.

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.

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.