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OPPOSITE (ABOVE): The annual Student Show, which is held in Taubman College’s studio space — the largest continuous space of any U.S. architecture school.
OPPOSITE (BELOW): Thesis reviews.
ABOVE: “Robot Garden” for the U-M Robotics Building, designed by SPAN (Associate Professor Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger) with Alexandra Carlson (Michigan Robotics).
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Taubman College is a place where we ask, “What if?” We experi ment, look for alternatives, and explore how architecture can inspire, improve, and involve our world and society. Our faculty are celebrated practitioners and dedicated teachers who embrace progressive design as a vehicle for engagement and change. Our students bring diverse perspectives that will broaden your experi ence inside and outside the classroom. And the across-the-board excellence of the University of Michigan means that whatever your interests, you will learn from and with the best. From the moment you join Taubman College, you also will be part of one of the world’s largest, most diverse, and most passionate alumni communities. In corporations, nonprofits, and top firms around the world, “Go Blue” is a unifying statement of pride and recognition of excellence that will expand your network and open doors for a lifetime. Taubman College gives you the freedom to find who you are as a person and practitioner in a community that challenges and sup ports each other. You will leave Taubman College prepared for a career that was built at Michigan and made for anywhere and everywhere you want to go.
TO GET AN EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATION IN ARCHITECTURE, you must be part of a community of great minds who design in boundary-breaking, risk-taking ways. As part of the University of Michigan, Taubman College offers you an unmatched breadth of opportunity to become a leader who designs and creates better built environments for the greater good.
You might get lost before you find yourself in the Architecture Program at Taubman College. Here, we will challenge you to be empowered by the experimental and the unknown. With degrees at both graduate and undergraduate levels, our program is committed to the idea that architecture is a cultural product that always negotiates a complex plurality of voices and ideas, as well as myriad social, political, and aesthetic concerns. Through the intellectual diversity of our internationally recognized faculty, and through the progressive spirit within our studios, we seek to model that plurality.
At a time when the conventionalized practice of architecture is increasingly confronted by changing social, technological, and environmental contexts, we prepare students for their future careers by cultivating a dynamic educational environment where we challenge assumptions, debate ideas, and forge emergent design methods. We will prepare you for the ever-changing professional contexts of the future by exposing you to change. Taubman architecture graduates enter the profession charged with design tools and techniques, an understanding of architecture’s histories and potential futures, and an aptitude for critical thinking that makes them agents of progress for a better, more just, and beautiful world.”
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After spending his first two years at Lake Flato focused on traditional architecture projects, Garrison has been developing and expanding the firm’s urban design and planning efforts over the last four years. His projects include the Holdsworth Center, where he is pictured — a leadership training academy for Texas public school administrators. He led the planning of the project, from rezoning the site to working with the client on the 44-acre campus plan that has 15 buildings and various types of outdoor gathering spaces along Lake Austin. He also led the master planning process for Montgomery Park in Portland, Oregon, a mixed-use urban redevelopment project centered around creating an “Outdoor Trailhead District” that links residents to Forest Park and an array of shops, restaurants, and outdoor-focused amenities.
In my practice, I bounce between urban design and architecture, which is the beauty of having a dual degree.”
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My spring travel studio in Iceland and Scandinavia opened my eyes to urban design. I had known from a young age that I wanted to be an architect, but studying abroad helped me understand how cities around the world work. We were challenged to look at streets and open spaces, not just buildings, and to see how buildings engage the public realm.
— JUSTIN GARRISON, M.ARCH/M.U.D. ’13 Project architect and senior urban designer, Lake Flato (Austin, Texas) “
OPPOSITE (RIGHT): Sir David Adjaye discusses his design of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History during a public conversation with Dean Jonathan Massey in Ann Arbor.
LEFT AND OPPOSITE (ABOVE): Recent travel destinations for Taubman College studios include Morocco and China.
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ABOVE: Through the Transnational Ecologies of the Rio Grande studio, Professor Kathy Velikov took M.Arch and M.U.D. students to the U.S.Mexico border to understand critical water issues affecting some 2.7 million people.
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+ 7 Global Access TAUBMAN COLLEGE DUAL DEGREES M.Arch + M.S. M.Arch + M.U.D. M.Arch + M.U.R.P. CERTIFICATEPROGRAMS Healthy Cities Real Estate Development Urban Informatics 35 Electives per semester, on average, explore topics ranging from Race, Space, and Architecture to Architecture of Eating #1 Public research university in the U.S. — National Science Foundation 97 University of Michigan graduate programs have top-10 rankings #1 U.S. Public University — QS World University Rankings (2019-2020) 640,000 University of Michigan alumni
YOU WILL NOT JUST BE A STUDENT AT TAUBMAN COLLEGE . You’ll be part of one of the world’s best research universities, which attracts top student and faculty minds from all over the world. Wherever you go, you will be surrounded by excellence. When great minds come together, you can understand deeper and think bigger. Your study of architecture can be your own — aligned with the reasons why you want to be an architect — because our faculty conduct research in many areas. They are excited to help you explore your ideas and interests, and their broad research lens results in cross-campus collaborations that enhance your education. In recent years, Taubman College faculty led conferences and symposia concerning future cities, equitable development, and life in the digital age. Furthermore, they partnered with the College of Engineering, School of Information, and Medical School, among others, on research at the intersection of architecture and many diverse disciplines.
WhenMichigan.youleave Taubman College, Michigan’s global reach means you are part of an alumni network without equal. Michigan alumni are well-positioned, well-connected leaders who love the university and want to help you succeed. And they are engaged in the life of the college through speaking events, Career Fair, Spring Break externships, and more.
Being part of a globally recognized university opens the world to you. The pres tige of the University of Michigan brings U.S. presidents, Supreme Court justices, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and other luminaries on the international stage to our campus. Two of the biggest names in architecture — Sir David Adjaye and MASS Design Group — recently taught studios at Taubman College. That’s the power of a renowned institution like
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My thesis adviser, Craig Borum, had a patience and enthusiasm that put everyone at ease. He helped me see my strengths and bring them out, and our studio’s trip to Barcelona was a highlight of my studies. Geoffrey Thün shook me from the ground in many ways; he spoke about landscape at a philosophical level that made me rethink how we associate our relationship with the space around us.”
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— ROBIN CHHABRA, B.S. ’08, M.ARCH ’13 Founder and CEO, Dextrus (Mumbai) “ Between his undergraduate and graduate studies, Chhabra practiced at a firm in Singapore; after his M.Arch, he spent three years as a senior architect with Serie Architects in Mumbai, where he worked on a variety of projects, including religious institu tions, residential and hotel complexes, and interiors. In 2018, he launched Dextrus, a 560-seat co-working enterprise with two locations in Mumbai’s prime business districts. In the complex and expensive world of commercial real estate in Mumbai, Dextrus brings design thinking to redefine the conventional rental market offerings, making flexible, customdesigned space more viable for many organizations: small, early-stage companies, as well as multina tional corporations who need a long-term home base in India. By customizing space within Dextrus, Chhabra and his team are able to help clients save on costs without sacrificing their needs while enjoying a designed and quality workspace.
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ARCHITECTURE IS A CONSTANTLY EVOLVING DISCIPLINE , and by attending Taubman College, you will build the confidence and skills to evolve your practice for ever-changing contexts.
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Taubman College faculty members have won the Architectural League Prize for outstanding designers “who are in their first decade of practice, including 2019 winner Cyrus Peñarroyo, 2018 winner Anya Sirota, and 2017 winner El Hadi Jazairy Lossy/Lossless” by EXTENTS, a design collaborative led by faculty McLain Clutter and Cyrus Peñarroyo. Peñarroyo received the 2019 Architectural League Prize. “
BELOW: “Social Equilibria –OrchidsPlayscape,” an installation created by Associate Professor Sean Ahlquist for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2021.
That’s because you will gain a conceptual, aesthetical, technical disposition to push the profession forward — to be thinking about what could be different, what could be better, and why it matters. One reason is that your Taubman College community includes students from all over the world who bring widely differing opinions, inspirations, and experiences to the table. Our architecture community — M.Arch, M.S., and urban design students — works side by side in our studio, so every day you’ll experience the teamwork and exchange of ideas that will help make you successful in your career.
At Taubman College, you will learn from the best. Our faculty don’t just win awards, they win many different types of awards — meaning you will learn different disciplines, styles, and philosophies of architecture from teachers who are at the top of their game.
In addition, our faculty excel at teaching the critical thinking skills that employers value. By helping you define problems and find answers, they are teaching you to be a resilient, confi dent, self-directed learner. But at the same time, you are not left on your own. Time and again, students say that our facul ty’s engagement with and commitment to the students is one of their favorite things about Taubman College. We think design education is a process of discovery in which faculty are engaged “guides” who work through ideas and strategies alongside students in studio.
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Bebry Kenter helps to create public-facing experiences at one of the world’s most famous museums. She was part of a team who worked for nearly two years on “Making The Met, 1870 – 2020,” an anniversary exhibition with more than 250 objects organized around 10 seminal moments in the museum’s history. She uses modeling software to configure spaces based on an exhibition’s narrative, the artwork, and the display requirements — including exposure to air, lighting, and optimal display heights. She works with art conservators builders, lighting designers, and security, among many others.
— LAUREN BEBRY KENTER, M.ARCH ’12, M.S. ’13 Exhibition designer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) “
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I’ve always enjoyed being hands on, so the M.S. program’s focus on making while also being at the forefront of technology was exciting. Through my studios and assistantships with Catie Newell and Anya Sirota, I figured out what I loved. And working on an exhibition at the end of my spring travel studio in France, a display of our studio’s work at a local gallery, solidified that I wanted to keep doing exhibitions because it was so much fun and had such an impact on our community.”
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Our faculty are active researchers who are diverse thinkers in archi tectural methods and practice. At the same time, you will learn from innovative early career architects who are fellows at the college, as well as Ph.D. students who are reimagining architectural theory and practice in their research. Grounded in our tradi tion as one of the country’s first architecture programs, this infu sion of emerging talent and embrace of experimentation ensure our approach to architec ture education is always evolving. From wood and metal shops to industrial knitting machines and robotic fabrication and research, our technology will help your ideas become reality. Take advan tage of our Digital Fabrication Lab (FABLab), as well as university resources just across the street that include the Motion Capture Lab and Immersive Virtual Envi ronment, the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Lab, and the Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSystems. We incorporate technology into the curriculum as a teaching tool to prepare you for your professional careers and supplement classwork with soft ware tutorials and workshops throughout the year.
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Within weeks of moving online in March 2020, Taubman College’s academic innovation team created a platform called CMOK that replicated the studio environment for final reviews. The team’s subsequent work with digital scenographies has reimag ined what is possible for online events — including design studios, internal and external lectures, and the 2021 Grenoble Biennale. These vibrant, immersive experiences allow speakers to inhabit carefully calibrated digital scenographies that are engaging and interactive for the audience.
Practice Sessions
Part of a University of Michigan initiative that funds experimental teaching methods, Practice Sessions are immersive, four-day design charettes that culminate in a juried review and exhibition. Your job during the Practice Session is to work in an experimental mode, where everything is subject to the pressures of practice on design.
The Egalitarian Metropolis Michigan-Mellon fellows at Taubman College and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts are pursuing independent research projects at the intersection of architecture, urban ism, and the humanities, emphasizing how egalitarianism shapes metropoli tan regions. A.W. Mellon Foundation grants fund the work. Digital Scenographies
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Taubman College’s fabrication lab, known as the FABLab, houses six industrial robots that allow students to work at a wide range of scales.
XR Taubman College faculty, especially those working in computational design and materials systems innovation, are helping students explore the possibilities of neural networks, digital formwork, and robotic manufacturing. Four faculty have received grants to incorporate VR, XR, and AR into their classes, including virtual visits to buildings and construction sites and an app that allows students to interact with 3D models as they create designs.
OUR DESIRE REIMAGINE THE FUTURE drives our experimental culture. And we believe that the only way to really experiment is to create that which we imagine. We will give you a solid foundation in architec tural theory. But you also will put that theory into practice, while stretching its limits and exploring its alternatives.
ACADIA Each year, Taubman College students and faculty attend the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architec ture (ACADIA) conference to network and present their research, including “Activating Curvature,” a project led by Professors Catie Newell and Wes McGee with Misri Patel, M.S. ’19. ACADIA is an international network of digital design researchers and professionals; Professor Kathy Velikov currently serves as its president. Architecture Student Research Grant Explore your ideas further through a grant competition for all Taubman College students. Your challenge is to develop projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture and discover new forms and methods of working, making, and representing.
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What is amazing and beautiful about the University of Michigan is that it is its own ecosystem. With such a breadth of faculty and students, you can always find someone with aligned interests. There is a collaborative spirit among students at Michigan. That’s important because your work does not sit singularly; there is someone out there doing the thing that you’re doing and that’s better for you and for the discipline because that means your work will find ways to collaborate and it will evolve.”
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— JACQUELINE SHAW, M.ARCH ’11 Founder, Studio Euonym and assistant professor, Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, Rhode Island) “ Shaw is an architectural designer who also knew from an early age that she wanted to teach. Prior to her full-time faculty position, she practiced in New York City. Her thesis project at Taubman College, “go(slow)gas up,” studied the dismantling of everyday practices through site-specific installations and the individual experience of architectural details. Years after graduation, she revisited her thesis, incorporating the knowledge she’s learned in practice to explore her interests in construction and value within details. Studio Euonym’s current research investigates constructs of value in the context of historical objects, forms, and systems of evaluation for design archives. Most recently, the work has considered ways in which acts of historic preservation could exist as re-evaluative rather than additive processes.
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Clastic Order / Post Rock T+E+A+M, a collaboration led by four Taubman College faculty, is exploring how fragments of buildings (brick, concrete, glass, pipes, and fittings) can be melted with post-industrial plastic waste to create a new building material.
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Detroit Square Architecture professors Anya Sirota and John Marshall and urban and regional planning professor Harley Etienne are part of the team that won an international competition in 2019 to design a new plaza connecting the area surrounding the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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As just one example, one of our studios focuses on housing in Detroit and leverages longstanding relationships with the city’s planning and development department to gain in-depth context surrounding issues like affordability and accessibility. But while our relationships in Detroit give you tactical experience, you won’t only be working and studying there. Our studios travel the United States and the world, and the lessons and skills you’ll learn in Detroit will help you no matter where you go. Students in recent studios have explored post-industrial sites in Pittsburgh and the Ruhr region of Germany, construction sites in Paris, and housing sites in China, giving you a global perspective on the issues.
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Professors Maria Arquero de Alarcón and Ana Paula Pimentel Walker led a joint architecture and urban planning course that worked with the Anchieta Occupation in Brazil. Students surveyed the community to prioritize needs and developed a multi-pronged plan that included design of a new cultural hub.
Professors Geoff Thün and Kathy Velikov and Professor Anya Sirota built installations for “Fertile Ground: Inspiring Dialogue About Food Access,” a citywide exhibition in Jackson, Mississippi, that received a $1 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies. Travis Crabtree, M.U.D. ’16, and Salam Rida, B.S. ’11, M.Arch ’17, led the effort to secure the grant, including collaborating with their former professors.
Launched in summer 2020, the U-M Public Design Corps connects architecture and urban planning students with socially focused nonprofit organizations in southeast Michigan to tackle pressing economic, environmental, social, and spatial challenges. Putting their design tools, analytical skills, and imaginations into action, the students create both onsite and virtual solutions. Their work includes designing outdoor activity areas, virtual arts and culture spaces, food distribution venues, and community outreach platforms.
AS AN ARCHITECT, YOU CAN HELP TO MAKE A BETTER WORLD. From the skylines of cities to the interiors of homes to the accessibility and functionality of offices, you will affect our relationship with our built environment. At Taubman College, people are at the center of everything we teach and learn because we are grounded in the University of Michigan’s mission to promote the public good and are commit ted to improving life in the state of Michigan and beyond. We are thinking about how architecture can help solve complex challenges facing humankind, as well as how architecture can make life easier, more beautiful, and more engaging for a family, a neighborhood, or a community. As a Taubman College student, your proximity to Detroit will give you immersive opportunities to explore how to create more inclusive and equitable communities.
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— Charlene Hobbs, M.Arch ’21 “
ENERGIZING . There’s never a shortage of driving energy. A diverse range of studios on the same playing field provides a lively environment for a multitude of thoughts, ideas, and projects. It is a safe space to be courageous and to reassemble architec ture’s responsibilities while experimenting with new forms of fabrication.”
As a dual-degree student, I have worked in the design space and the intensely academic space. Each brings a unique perspective and knowledge through policy, programming, process, building, and design. At Taubman College, I have the ability to access these interrelated fields.”
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FRIENDLY. I have made incredible friendships working alongside my peers, which improves the quality of studio life and my own work immensely. The professors always know how to talk through personal design processes and push boundaries at every step, spurring interesting design solutions that continue to become even more rich and well-considered.”
— Benjamin Alexander, M.Arch ’21
EXPERIMENTAL . The studios are explorative, because of both the faculty and the students. While the faculty continually set up prompts that push the extents of design within the built environment, the students’ proposals and solutions equally test new waters in which architecture can manifest. This leaves one with a studio culture that is robust, engaging, and informative.”
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NURTURING . The studio culture is incredibly personable, mixing various approaches, identities, and experiences into a warm environment that welcomes experimentation and exploration. Whether my perspective and aspirations were rooted in practice or theory, the surround ing faculty, students, facilities, and staff excitedly accommodated my passions and interests in an effort to allow me to become the version of myself that I’m pushing for.”
EMPOWERING . Students have the agency to challenge the status quo and redefine what traditional architectural pedagogy may look and feel like. The faculty at Taubman go out of their way to support and encourage students to rethink the future of equitable architectural education. Being a student at Taubman has meant using my voice to uplift others, collaborate, co-create and foster an accepting, inclusive design community with and for all.”
— Marco Nieto, M.Arch ’20, M.U.D. ’21
UNCAGED . Taubman faculty don’t believe in teaching within a box. They don’t use restrictive teaching methods that give you a specific style or standard to copy. Rather their goal is to guide students’ interests and push their potential. No idea is too far out; you simply have to lay out the plan for execution. A classmate told me, ‘Taubman doesn’t teach students just enough to get a job. Their style of teaching prepares students to become leaders in design and produce new architectural discourse.’ I couldn’t agree more.”
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AS A TAUBMAN COLLEGE STUDENT, YOU CAN BE … YOU. No one else has your exact expe rience, ideas, and goals, and that’s exactly the way we like it. Our job is to help you unlock your potential and find your passion. Along the way, our diversity of thought and opportunities will help you think differently and broaden your interests. In our studios, you will build a unique camaraderie with your peers, built around dialogue, support, and critique. Together you will advance knowledge and bring out the best in each other. Our faculty are passionately committed to architectural education across the curriculum — guiding students along their paths and forming ongoing mentoring relationships.
— Gwen Gell, M.U.D./M.U.R.P. ’20
— Tejashrii Shankar Raman, M.Arch ’21
EXPLORATIVE . My studio experiences have resulted in lasting friendships, a space to explore and shape my voice, and time to invest in projects and ideas I would not otherwise have the ability to do.
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THE TAUBMAN COLLEGE M.ARCH is a three-year, studio-intensive profes sional degree that is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). The course of study is open to applicants with a bachelor’s degree in any discipline. Those with a pre-professional degree in architecture be eligible for admission with advanced standing. education com bines coursework in design, history and theory, cation, computation, technology, and sustainability. The education culminates in a design thesis. Taking a plurality of forms matches program’s breadth, the thesis might challenge students define execute own design-research agenda, mastery participate collective projects expand domain knowledge
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in architecture. RECEN T COLLEGETAUBMANELECTIVES Advanced Lighting Architect as Planner/Developer Building Ecology Building Systems + Energy ComputerConservationApplications in ET Concrete Structures EnvironmentalDigitalDetailingFabricationDesign Simulation Frame GenerativeStructuresDesign Computing History of Building Technology Network RenaissanceCity SocioculturalHistoryIssues in Planning and Architecture Learn more: taubmancollege.umich.edu OPPOSITE: “Equitable Landscapes” by Torri Smith, M.Arch ’21, for her thesis studio. Winner of the Burton L. Kampner Outstanding Thesis Award. RIGHT: Master of Architecture thesis reviews in the Taubman College Commons. Any Semester ElectiveElective Fall 2 314 Structures I 412 Architectural Design 413 History of Architecture 417 Construction Winter 3 324 Structures II 422 Architectural Design 425 Environmental Systems Arch History Elective Fall 4 515 Sustainable Systems 516 Representation 552 Architectural Design 583 Professional Practice Winter 5 537 Fabrications 562 Architectural Design 572 Arch Theory & Criticism Elective Fall 6 527 Integrative Systems 660 Thesis Seminar 672 Architectural Design ElectiveElective Winter 7 662 Thesis ElectiveElectiveElective Summer 1 402 Architectural Design 416 Design Foundations Entry Point for Students with Advanced Standing
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Adrian DiCorato, “Paper Houses” Drawing inspiration from the accordion-like surface of a folded sheet of paper, the project focuses on the concept of distortion of planar surfaces via folding and stepping in which there exists no delineation between wall and floor.
MASTER ARCHITECTUREOF Danrui Xiang, “Light and Color” Based on primary geometries, this project started with a series of formal studies that led to a design proposal for graduate housing, while exploring possibilities of domesticity.
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Xuetong Zhai, “Rock ‘n’ Fun” “Rock ‘n’ Fun” is a stone market in Detroit, where the visitors can pick colorful stones, attend stone workshops, and enjoy sceneries, including an amusement rock park created by stacking and bundling the rocks with plastic wrap. The bubble rooms and plants in the space add a fun atmosphere and serve as different functional rooms, as well. SITUATIONS
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Zach Keller, “Soft Factory” “Soft Factory” is an outward-facing soft manufacturing and recycling space designed using a temporary, kit-of-parts approach. It blurs the line between consumer and employee as the public is invited in to become active participants in the design and manufacturing of eco-friendly and affordable furnishings. The main goal is to increase transparency in the manufacturing process and engage the public to participate in production and design.
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Emanuel Papageorgiou and Ellis Wills-Begley, “The Sustainable Co-Operative Food Network”
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This project re-activates city-owned vacant land in the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago by creating a new system of sustainable food and energy production. By renovating the historic Sears Administration Building into a community owned and operated food hub, it will strengthen the existing network of urban gardens and create new employment and housing opportunities, collective wealth within the commu nity, and a future-focused cooperative business model
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This project is split into three different stages, including buried, excavated, and distributed values that live among three coexisting sites. The Pig Machine travels from the Lithium Land to the Food Nation, then disseminates knowledge gained to the Urban City with the dream of reconstructing human connections and re-discovering a variety of hidden values.
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Fernando Rosas and Madison Wong, “The Symbiotics Project”
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Kady Cramer and Marco Nieto, “Extractive Exchange: Re-staging the Morenci Copper Mine as an E-Waste Facility” Extractive Exchange” proposes an architecture that engages the scale of humankind’s present consumptive behaviors and the resulting consequences by staging new methods of extraction and disassembly within the lifecycle of e-waste set against and within the constructed landscape of the Morenci Copper Mine in Arizona.
Exploring the possibilities of creating a new world where biology, intelligent machines, and systems can begin to co-exist and co-evolve as the landscape gets hybridized with responsive technologies allows the diegetic prototype to better process and respond to the variables and multi-scale inputs from their environment. Ultimately, this project speculates on what AI technology and bio composite 3D printing can offer for future practice. It raises questions about sustainability, alternative building methods, social and political implications, and where the architectural profession could start heading as global warming continues.
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This project aims to evoke the traditional intimacy and sensitivity of Japanese culture within a contemporary dwelling concept. The new mixed-use architecture combines a neighborhood center with residences to introduce a new type of urban fabric, horizontally and vertically interweaving different relationships between public and private space. Twelve wells of shadow are generated under the logic of the structural grid and the scale of the dwelling. As spatial voids, these wells establish various scales of intimacy and character among the mixing neighborhood.
Anhong Li, Baekgi Min, and Lucas Rigney, “In Praise of Shadows”
By reintroducing “Missing Middle” housing to Detroit’s Island View neighborhood, the project engages the existing housing condition while proposing a new shared form of domesticity. House necessities such as kitchens, bathrooms, laundry facilities, and vertical circulation are programmed within the wall. Like the single family house, each unit has its own designated entrance on the ground floor, eliminating the need for shared corridors. Paradoxically, the shared aspects are done so subliminally through the architecture, such as the wet-walls and the mechanical systems.
Victor Mardikian, Jay Schairbaum, and Jamie Wiberg, “In [Medias] Res”
Liyah George, “Manufacturing Commons”
Located in Idaho’s Silver Valley, “Common Ground” synthesizes biotic and abiotic materials of data centers and ecosystems in order to recast architecture’s agency within ever-changing environments. The project co-opts underexplored EDGE data center technology that brings users in close proximity to cloud computing resources and cached content. The project’s distributed infrastructure creates public sites of material exchange along the trail network that redescribe ecologies and foster new intimacies with data.
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This project proposes a model for recycling solid and construction waste and reclaiming economic value for Detroit’s Poletown East neighborhood. It proposes a model of discrete architecture using materials like recycled plastic, salvaged wood, and rubble through easy assembly and disassembly. Building on the waste ecology of Detroit, the architecture encourages small-scale manufacturing using fab lab/digital commons in neighborhood centers, allowing the community to share knowledge on the methods of construction and also experiment with new materials.
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Led by Assistant Professor Mania Aghaei Meibodi, M.S. students created complex concrete columns using PLA and robotically printed formwork.
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THE MASTER OF SCIENCE in Architecture Design and Research (M.S.) is a 3-term, post-professional degree con centrating in Digital and Material Technologies. Our program is particularly appropriate if you have a B.Arch or M.Arch degree (or an equivalent degree in a related field). You also can pursue the M.S. and the M.Arch as a dual-degree student. Through the M.S. program, you’ll invest in the technologies, materials, and production logics that are most drastically shaping and challenging our built world and its respective industries. In 2019, the program won the Innovative Academic Program Award of Excellence from the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA). We will immerse you in research in advanced fabrication tech niques, digital design, and mate rial systems. You’ll explore the relationship between digital and material design and output so you can pursue architectural innovation within a context where design, composition, and modes of production for scales from wearables to buildings have radi cally changed due to an increas ing sophistication and pervasive ness of computationally driven design and fabrication technolo gies. As a result, you’ll be ready to pursue research and entrepre neurial practices, a career in the academy, or to expand your architectural practice.
Learn more: taubmancollege.umich.edu ARCH 739: M.S. CAPSTONE In the 2020 capstone course, M.S. students constructed a robotically manufactured pavilion through a collaboration led by Assistant Professor Arash Adel and ERNE AG Holzbau at their production facilities in Switzerland. Photograph by ERNE AG Holzbau/Daniel Nikles.
MASTER OF SCIENCE Summer 700 MS Practicum 714 MS Proseminar Fall 701 Theories in Digital and Material Technologies 702 Robotic Engagement 703 Virtual Engagement 707 Material Engagement 708 Systems Engagement Elective or Cognate Winter 739 MS Capstone Elective or Cognate Elective or Cognate
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In 2019, Sir David Adjaye, one of the most celebrated architects of his generation, co-taught Advanced Prototyping with Associate Professor Catie Newell. M.S. students created working prototypes dedicated to the creation of silence.
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space.Welcome33 M.U.D. Learn more: taubmancollege.umich.edu MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN Fall 1 712 Studio I* 713 History of Urban Form 714 OpenRepresentationorDirectedElective** Winter 722 Studio II* 715 Theories and Methods of Urban Design 716 Urban Economics, Finance, and City Making Open or Directed Elective** Fall 2 732 Studio III*/ Thesis 717 The City and Urban Design: History, Movements, Policies and Outcomes Open or Directed Elective** Open or Directed Elective** *At least one studio to have international focus **Directed Electives (minimum one from each category): 1) Ecology, Landscape, Sustainability, 2) Policy, Law, Institutions Work from the Fall 2019 M.U.D. Studio “Delirious Climate”by Yixin Miao, M.U.D. ’18, Yufan Hao, M.U.D. ’18, and Ruokun Zhang, M.U.D. ’18.
Floor as a Reconciler This project by Yu-Cheng Li proposes an artificial island around Liancourt Rocks, a disputed territory between South Korea and Japan. The new island is a potential means to recon cile the dispute since both countries would occupy the newly created land and cooperatively extract methane from it. The project entails and unveils the disturbing fact that problematic resource exploitation is, controver sially, the path of reconciliation.
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THE MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN (M.U.D.) is a threesemester degree that will teach how to conceptualize and shape the complex global pro cesses of urban transformation. address a diverse range of urban design thought and experi mentation within the context of national and international set tings. International and national travel is an important part of the experiential learning initiatives in M.U.D. studios. Recent travel ranges from Chicago and New York to the Netherlands and India. the theme “Detroit and the World,” will see how the Great Lakes region is a breeding ground for urban design experimentation and the advancement of global comparative studies in urbanism. approach urbanism through multiple scales of inquiry with studio projects prompting both analytical and speculative design work related to regional infra structure and territory, urban public-private develop urban governance, land scape processes, civic
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