Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Exhibition-on-View, "Persistent Pasts: The Bicentennial Campus as Archive" (May 24, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40171 40171-8684978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Combining historical research and analysis from the students in Sarah Rovang’s “The Curated Campus” graduate seminar and the design output of Steven Mankouche’s “What If” Options Studio, Persistent Pasts reflects on the University of Michigan’s campus as a repository of memory. As UM celebrates its Bicentennial year, this exhibition asks how past traditions, tensions, and technologies have left material or cultural traces on campus space today. By laying bare rarely examined aspects of the historical university alongside radical designs for an unrealized present, Persistent Pasts asks us to question entrenched conceptions of what UM should and could be, architecturally and institutionally. This exhibition is supported in part by a Bicentennial Activity Grant, co-authored by Claire Zimmerman and Sarah Rovang.

This exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery through May 19. The college gallery is open Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm.

There will be an presentation and panel on Friday, April 7 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by a reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:17:09 -0400 2017-05-24T09:00:00-04:00 2017-05-24T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Persistent Pasts
Exhibition-on-View, "Persistent Pasts: The Bicentennial Campus as Archive" (May 25, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40171 40171-8684979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 25, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Combining historical research and analysis from the students in Sarah Rovang’s “The Curated Campus” graduate seminar and the design output of Steven Mankouche’s “What If” Options Studio, Persistent Pasts reflects on the University of Michigan’s campus as a repository of memory. As UM celebrates its Bicentennial year, this exhibition asks how past traditions, tensions, and technologies have left material or cultural traces on campus space today. By laying bare rarely examined aspects of the historical university alongside radical designs for an unrealized present, Persistent Pasts asks us to question entrenched conceptions of what UM should and could be, architecturally and institutionally. This exhibition is supported in part by a Bicentennial Activity Grant, co-authored by Claire Zimmerman and Sarah Rovang.

This exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery through May 19. The college gallery is open Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm.

There will be an presentation and panel on Friday, April 7 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by a reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:17:09 -0400 2017-05-25T09:00:00-04:00 2017-05-25T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Persistent Pasts
Exhibition-on-View, "Persistent Pasts: The Bicentennial Campus as Archive" (May 26, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40171 40171-8684980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 26, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Combining historical research and analysis from the students in Sarah Rovang’s “The Curated Campus” graduate seminar and the design output of Steven Mankouche’s “What If” Options Studio, Persistent Pasts reflects on the University of Michigan’s campus as a repository of memory. As UM celebrates its Bicentennial year, this exhibition asks how past traditions, tensions, and technologies have left material or cultural traces on campus space today. By laying bare rarely examined aspects of the historical university alongside radical designs for an unrealized present, Persistent Pasts asks us to question entrenched conceptions of what UM should and could be, architecturally and institutionally. This exhibition is supported in part by a Bicentennial Activity Grant, co-authored by Claire Zimmerman and Sarah Rovang.

This exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery through May 19. The college gallery is open Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm.

There will be an presentation and panel on Friday, April 7 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by a reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:17:09 -0400 2017-05-26T09:00:00-04:00 2017-05-26T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Persistent Pasts
Exhibition-on-View, "Persistent Pasts: The Bicentennial Campus as Archive" (May 27, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/40171 40171-8684981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 27, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Combining historical research and analysis from the students in Sarah Rovang’s “The Curated Campus” graduate seminar and the design output of Steven Mankouche’s “What If” Options Studio, Persistent Pasts reflects on the University of Michigan’s campus as a repository of memory. As UM celebrates its Bicentennial year, this exhibition asks how past traditions, tensions, and technologies have left material or cultural traces on campus space today. By laying bare rarely examined aspects of the historical university alongside radical designs for an unrealized present, Persistent Pasts asks us to question entrenched conceptions of what UM should and could be, architecturally and institutionally. This exhibition is supported in part by a Bicentennial Activity Grant, co-authored by Claire Zimmerman and Sarah Rovang.

This exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery through May 19. The college gallery is open Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm.

There will be an presentation and panel on Friday, April 7 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by a reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:17:09 -0400 2017-05-27T09:00:00-04:00 2017-05-27T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Persistent Pasts
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 7, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 7, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-07T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-07T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 8, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-08T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Grand Opening of the A. Alfred Taubman Wing of the Art & Architecture Building (September 8, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43615 43615-9821486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2017 11:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Incoming Taubman College Dean Jonathan Massey invites you to join us as we celebrate the opening of the A. Alfred Taubman Wing of the Art and Architecture Building in the University of Michigan's Bicentennial year. The program includes remarks by U-M President Mark Schlissel and former Dean Monica Ponce de Leon, a performance by the University of Michigan Marching Band, and a building open house with refreshments.

The Taubman College building expansion and renovation began in 2009 and is the result of many years of faculty, student, and staff planning. The building addition provides an additional 36,000 square feet to our existing 72,000 square foot facility, and the project includes a renovation of the current building. The building addition was funded by a major gift from the late A. Alfred Taubman, as well as a generous gift from the late King C. Stutzman, additional funds from the U-M Offices of the President, Provost, and Chief Financial Officer, and the support of alumni and friends.
The A. Alfred Taubman Wing of Taubman College will provide:
5,700 square foot double-height commons
8 capstone and group study rooms
2,400 square foot state-of-the-art classroom
5,500 square foot of additional studio space
New and renovated faculty offices
All-College lounges overlooking the commons on the second and third floors
Reading Room and Meeting Rooms

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Other Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:00:10 -0400 2017-09-08T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-08T12:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Other Event Poster
Fall 2017 Kickoff Lecture: Dean Jonathan Massey, "Building Tomorrow" (September 8, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43616 43616-9821487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Dean Jonathan Massey kicks off the Taubman College 2017 Fall Lecture Series, welcoming back the Taubman College community and introducing a vision for the college in its next era: Building Tomorrow. 
Architect and historian Jonathan Massey is dean and professor at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. In his previous position as dean of architecture at California College of Arts, his primary responsibility was for the vision, leadership, and administration of the CCA Architecture Division, which includes three accredited programs in architecture and interior design. At Syracuse University, he was the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence, where he chaired the Bachelor of Architecture program and the University Senate.
Massey holds undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Princeton University as well as a Master of Architecture degree from UCLA. His professional training includes practice experience at Dagmar Richter Studio, Brantner Design Associates, and Gehry Partners along with teaching experience at Barnard College, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and Woodbury University. In addition, he was a co-founder of the Transdisciplinary Media Studio and the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, which focus on the ways that history and practice of architecture and urbanism are understood and taught. His ongoing research explores how architecture mediates power by forming civil society, shaping social relationships, and regulating consumption. In Crystal and Arabesque: Claude Bragdon, Ornament, and Modern Architecture (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009) he reconstructed the techniques through which American modernist architects engaged new media, audiences and problems of mass society. His work on topics ranging from ornament and organicism to risk management and sustainable design has appeared in many journals and essay collections, including Aggregate's essay collection Governing by Design: Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the 20th Century (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:18:12 -0400 2017-09-08T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-08T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Lecture Poster
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 9, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 9, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-09T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 10, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 10, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-10T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 11, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 11, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-11T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 12, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-12T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 13, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-13T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 14, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-14T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 15, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-15T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 16, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-16T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 17, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-17T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 18, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-18T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Film Screening: Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa (September 18, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43681 43681-9829838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

58 minutes, 2008, directed by Arun Khopkar 
This film explores the life and work of Charles Correa (1930-2015), one of the world’s most creative and influential architects. Using extended interviews with the architect and live footage, it takes us on an informed tour of some of Correa’s most renowned and successful buildings both in his native India and abroad. Such structures underline his humane, well-rooted approach to building design and express his ideas of the strong relationships between architecture, nature, culture, and the spiritual.

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Film Screening Wed, 06 Sep 2017 11:28:36 -0400 2017-09-18T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Film Screening Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION Reception: A Place in the Shade:  Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 18, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43707 43707-9832693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 1 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

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Exhibition Wed, 06 Sep 2017 15:49:29 -0400 2017-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Charles Correa
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 19, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-19T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 20, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 21, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-21T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Exhibition on view: A Place in the Shade: Selected Projects by Charles Correa (September 22, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43445 43445-9762924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view September 7 - 22
Charles Correa (1930-2015) is arguably the most influential architect to have worked in modern India. Born in India and educated in the U.S., Correa earned a B. Arch. at the University of Michigan in 1953 and went on to receive his M.Arch. at MIT.
Over a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Correa’s architecture, urban design, planning, and writings inspired generations, adapting the international language of modernism to the Indian context.. This exhibition, organized by Nondita Correa Mehrotra, the director of the Charles Correa Foundation, explores the breadth of his built work, through highlighting thirteen selected projects. Professor Craig Borum designed the exhibition. The exhibition accompanies the inaugural Charles Correa International Lecture, an annual lecture by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism. The lecture will promote cultural understanding through design practice and discourse.

Related Events: Monday, September 18
Film Screening, Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa
12:00pm, Art + Architecture Building Auditorium 

Exhibition Reception
5:00pm, Taubman College Gallery

Charles Correa International Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
6:00pm, Walgreen Drama Center STAMPS Auditorium

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Exhibition Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:29:11 -0400 2017-09-22T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Lecture: Sharon Egretta Sutton, "When Ivory Towers Were Black: Lessons in Re-imagining Universities and Communities" (September 26, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44696 44696-9966109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA discusses her most recent book, When Ivory Towers were Black: A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities. She shares how she and an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students got a free Ivy League education during the late 1960s and early1970s, when the Black Power Movement was at its zenith.
Sutton felt compelled to write the book by the persistent whiteness of schools in today’s universities in fields like architecture and landscape architecture. She had grown weary of the panacea for increasing cultural diversity that practically everyone touts, which is creating a “pipeline” into the university that exposes children to career possibilities at an early age.
Because she and many of her colleagues had been doing precisely that for almost half a century without changing the status quo, Sutton had come to view the pipeline theory as a ruse that diverted attention from the here and now to an ever elusive future. Increasingly intrigued by the memory of her experience as a student at Columbia University’s School of Architecture, she set out to unravel what was likely the nation’s boldest effort to recruit and retain ethnic minority architecture students.
Over a ten-year period, Sutton discovered that Columbia’s success was due to revolutionary students re-imagining a curriculum that just happened to align with the ethnic minority recruits’ commitment to improve living conditions in disenfranchised communities. Instead of creating a pipeline that would produce diversity in a far-off future, revolutionaries in the School of Architecture re-imagined a pipe that attracted and supported a diverse student body in the here and now.
In her lecture, Sutton describes the institutional context of this student-led transformation and tells how quickly it unraveled as white lash against black progress grew, just as is occurring today. After revealing both the immediate and long-term outcomes of what she refers to as Columbia’s  “arc of insurgency,” Sutton ends by issuing a call to Michigan students to re-imagine a pipe for their own institution.
Dr. Sutton is an activist educator and scholar who promotes inclusivity in the cultural makeup of the city-making professions and in the populations they serve, and also advocates the use of participatory planning and design strategies in low-income and minority communities. Her scholarship explores America's continuing struggle for spatial and educational equity, and documents young people’s leadership role in advancing that struggle.
Dr. Sutton holds five academic degrees—in music, architecture, philosophy, and psychology—and has studied in independent graphic art studios internationally. A registered architect, she was the first African American woman to become a full professor of architecture  in an accredited degree program and the second African American woman elevated to fellowship in the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
In addition to receiving the AIA Whitney M. Young Jr. Award and the Medal of Honor from both the AIA New York and AIA Seattle chapters, Dr. Sutton is distinguished professor of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and an inductee into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame. Formerly,  she was a Kellogg National Fellow, a Danforth Fellow, and president of the National Architectural Accrediting Board. She is currently is professor emerita of architecture, urban design, and social work at the University of Washington and professor at large in New York City.
Generously co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:12:30 -0400 2017-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Exhibition on view: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (September 27, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44848 44848-9992090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The project asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
There will be a public reception to celebrate the opening of this exhibition on Thursday, October 5 at 5:00pm in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:17:16 -0400 2017-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Exhibition on view: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (September 28, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44848 44848-9992091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The project asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
There will be a public reception to celebrate the opening of this exhibition on Thursday, October 5 at 5:00pm in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:17:16 -0400 2017-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Exhibition on view: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (September 29, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44848 44848-9992092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The project asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
There will be a public reception to celebrate the opening of this exhibition on Thursday, October 5 at 5:00pm in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:17:16 -0400 2017-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
Exhibition on view: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (September 30, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44848 44848-9992093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The project asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?
By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.
Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.
There will be a public reception to celebrate the opening of this exhibition on Thursday, October 5 at 5:00pm in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:17:16 -0400 2017-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
LECTURE: DANA CUFF, " ACT LIKE AN ARCHITECT!" (October 10, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45252 45252-10138896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Dana Cuff is a professor of architecture at the UCLA where she is also Director of cityLAB, an award-winning think tank that explores design innovations in the emerging metropolis (www.cityLAB.aud.ucla.edu). Since receiving her Ph.D. in Architecture from Berkeley, Cuff has published and lectured widely about urban design, the architectural profession, affordable housing, and spatially embedded computing. She is author of several books, including The Provisional City about housing in Los Angeles, and Fast-Forward Urbanism. She heads a major program at UCLA called the Urban Humanities Initiative, funded by the Mellon Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 01 Oct 2017 10:30:22 -0400 2017-10-10T18:00:00-04:00 2017-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Dana Cuff
PRACTICE SESSION NO. 5 LECTURE: DÉBORA MESA AND ANTÓN GARCÍA-ABRIL (October 20, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45253 45253-10138897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril are Principals of Ensamble Studio, cross-functional team founded in 2000. Balancing education, research and practice, the office explores innovative approaches to architectural and urban spaces, and the technologies that build them. Among the studio’s most relevant completed works are Hemeroscopium House and Reader’s House in Madrid (Spain), Music Studies Center and SGAE Central Office in Santiago de Compostela (Spain), The Truffle in Costa da Morte (Spain), Telcel Theater in Mexico City and, more recently, Cyclopean House in Brookline (USA) and Structures of Landscape for Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana (USA). Their work is extensively published in both printed and digital media, exhibited world-wide -Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 and 2010, GA International Exhibitions 2016-2010 in Tokyo, MOMA NY 2015, MAK Vienna 2015, M.I.T. 2015, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/ Architecture 2013 in Shenzhen, etc.- and awarded with international prizes – 2016 NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards, Iakov Chernikhov Prize 2012, Rice Design Alliance Prize 2009 to emerging architects, Architectural Record Design Vanguard Prize 2005, among others. Beside their professional career, both principals keep a very active research and academic agenda: have been invited professors and lecturers at numerous universities and architecture forums, were curators of Spainlab -Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012- and founded that same year the POPlab (Prototypes of Prefabrication Research Laboratory) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), that they continue to direct.
This lecture is part of the PRACTICE SESSION No. 5 Workshop

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 01 Oct 2017 10:39:57 -0400 2017-10-20T18:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T19:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: PRACTICE SESSION #5 (October 23, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45254 45254-10138899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view October 23 -27
"Practice Sessions" is part of the University of Michigan's "Third Century Initiative," which funds experimental pedagogies in a bid to change how teaching and learning happen within the bounds of the institution. Over a five-year period, ten architectural practices will be invited to Taubman College to run a practice session. Each session centers on an immersive four-day design charette that culminates in a juried review and exhibition. These sessions are not workshops in the conventional sense. Invited practices are not selected to repeat a known and routinized working method in collaboration with students. Instead, invitees are called to work in an experimental mode, where everything is subject to the pressures of practice on design: the design of the session topic, the design of the work space where the session is held, the design of the way the session itself occupies the institution of Taubman College, and the design of the thing(s) produced by the practice session.
Practice Session #5 Opening lecture is on Friday, October 20, featuring Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril;
The workshop runs from October 21-22.

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Exhibition Sun, 01 Oct 2017 10:58:37 -0400 2017-10-23T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: PRACTICE SESSION #5 (October 24, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45254 45254-10138900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view October 23 -27
"Practice Sessions" is part of the University of Michigan's "Third Century Initiative," which funds experimental pedagogies in a bid to change how teaching and learning happen within the bounds of the institution. Over a five-year period, ten architectural practices will be invited to Taubman College to run a practice session. Each session centers on an immersive four-day design charette that culminates in a juried review and exhibition. These sessions are not workshops in the conventional sense. Invited practices are not selected to repeat a known and routinized working method in collaboration with students. Instead, invitees are called to work in an experimental mode, where everything is subject to the pressures of practice on design: the design of the session topic, the design of the work space where the session is held, the design of the way the session itself occupies the institution of Taubman College, and the design of the thing(s) produced by the practice session.
Practice Session #5 Opening lecture is on Friday, October 20, featuring Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril;
The workshop runs from October 21-22.

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Exhibition Sun, 01 Oct 2017 10:58:37 -0400 2017-10-24T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: PRACTICE SESSION #5 (October 25, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45254 45254-10138901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view October 23 -27
"Practice Sessions" is part of the University of Michigan's "Third Century Initiative," which funds experimental pedagogies in a bid to change how teaching and learning happen within the bounds of the institution. Over a five-year period, ten architectural practices will be invited to Taubman College to run a practice session. Each session centers on an immersive four-day design charette that culminates in a juried review and exhibition. These sessions are not workshops in the conventional sense. Invited practices are not selected to repeat a known and routinized working method in collaboration with students. Instead, invitees are called to work in an experimental mode, where everything is subject to the pressures of practice on design: the design of the session topic, the design of the work space where the session is held, the design of the way the session itself occupies the institution of Taubman College, and the design of the thing(s) produced by the practice session.
Practice Session #5 Opening lecture is on Friday, October 20, featuring Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril;
The workshop runs from October 21-22.

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Exhibition Sun, 01 Oct 2017 10:58:37 -0400 2017-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: PRACTICE SESSION #5 (October 26, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45254 45254-10138902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view October 23 -27
"Practice Sessions" is part of the University of Michigan's "Third Century Initiative," which funds experimental pedagogies in a bid to change how teaching and learning happen within the bounds of the institution. Over a five-year period, ten architectural practices will be invited to Taubman College to run a practice session. Each session centers on an immersive four-day design charette that culminates in a juried review and exhibition. These sessions are not workshops in the conventional sense. Invited practices are not selected to repeat a known and routinized working method in collaboration with students. Instead, invitees are called to work in an experimental mode, where everything is subject to the pressures of practice on design: the design of the session topic, the design of the work space where the session is held, the design of the way the session itself occupies the institution of Taubman College, and the design of the thing(s) produced by the practice session.
Practice Session #5 Opening lecture is on Friday, October 20, featuring Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril;
The workshop runs from October 21-22.

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Exhibition Sun, 01 Oct 2017 10:58:37 -0400 2017-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: PRACTICE SESSION #5 (October 27, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45254 45254-10138903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view October 23 -27
"Practice Sessions" is part of the University of Michigan's "Third Century Initiative," which funds experimental pedagogies in a bid to change how teaching and learning happen within the bounds of the institution. Over a five-year period, ten architectural practices will be invited to Taubman College to run a practice session. Each session centers on an immersive four-day design charette that culminates in a juried review and exhibition. These sessions are not workshops in the conventional sense. Invited practices are not selected to repeat a known and routinized working method in collaboration with students. Instead, invitees are called to work in an experimental mode, where everything is subject to the pressures of practice on design: the design of the session topic, the design of the work space where the session is held, the design of the way the session itself occupies the institution of Taubman College, and the design of the thing(s) produced by the practice session.
Practice Session #5 Opening lecture is on Friday, October 20, featuring Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril;
The workshop runs from October 21-22.

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Exhibition Sun, 01 Oct 2017 10:58:37 -0400 2017-10-27T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
SOJOURNER TRUTH FELLOWSHIP LECTURE: FAYE NELSON, “COURAGE AND COMMITMENT; THE SPIRIT OF SOJOURNER TRUTH IN THE RESTORATION OF DETROIT’S RIVERFRONT” (November 1, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46339 46339-10464013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Faye Nelson, DTE Energy vice president and board chair and president of the DTE Energy Foundation, who led the historic renovation of Detroit’s riverfront, will discuss how Sojourner Truth’s characteristics of courage and commitment were main drivers in the transformation of Detroit’s riverfront.
This lecture will give you a sneak peek into the development of the Detroit riverfront, highlight some of the considerable challenges and incredible opportunities that existed in the early 2000s when the project was launched and share how, through one of the most successful public-private partnerships in the history of the region, and through the courage and commitment of many, a community jewel was brought back to life, serving as a major contributor towards the revitalization of the city of Detroit.
Faye Nelson is vice president of DTE Energy, (NYSE: DTE) and board chair & president of the DTE Energy Foundation, the philanthropic arm of DTE. DTE Energy is a Detroit -based diversified energy company involved in the development and management of energy -related businesses and services nationwide. Its operating units include an electric utility serving 2.2 million customers in Southeastern Michigan and a natural gas utility serving 1.2 million customers in Michigan.
A lawyer by training, Nelson has had the privilege of working in the community on a variety of transformational projects including the redevelopment of the Detroit riverfront and, in her current role, leading the Foundation’s strategy and investments in communities throughout the State in such areas as education/jobs, economic development, arts and culture and the development and sustainability of neighborhoods.
Nelson formerly served as president and CEO of the non -profit Detroit RiverFront Conservancy, the organization charged with leading the transformation of the Detroit riverfront. Under Nelson’s leadership, the Conservancy represented one of the most successful public -private partnerships that included foundations, corporations, the public sector and the community at large in support of the revitalization and sustainability of the riverfront. During Nelson’s tenure, over 31/2 miles of public space was developed, generating over $1 billion of public and private investment. Prior to joining the Conservancy, she served as vice president, Governmental Affairs for Wayne State University, where she led the development of the Wayne State University Research and Technology Park, now known as “Tech Town.”
Nelson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Mercy College of Detroit and a law degree from the University Of Detroit School of Law.
Nelson served as a director for Compuware Corporation, an enterprise software company, from 2002 to 2014. She currently serves as a board member of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Henry Ford Health System and Health Network, Midtown Detroit, Inc., the M -1 RAIL and the Sphinx organization. She is a member of the Executive Leadership Council, the State Bar of Michigan, Life Member of the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference, International Women’s Forum -Michigan, Detroit Athletic Club and the Economic Club of Detroit.
Nelson is the recipient of numerous awards including being recognized by Crain’s Detroit in its 2016 list of 100 Most Influential Women in Michigan. Other recognition includes the Detroit RiverFront Conservancy’s “Shimmer” Award, the Damon J. Keith 24th Annual Soul and Spirit Humanitarian Award, “the Grio’s” 100 African American History Makers presented by NBC News, the Milliken Distinguished Service Award from the Michigan Environmental Council, the Detroit Public Television Visionary Award, and the Michigan Chronicle’s Women of Excellence award.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:06:06 -0400 2017-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T19:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Taubman College Parents & Family Weekend (November 3, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46269 46269-10421271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Dean of Students Office

Come see the University of Michigan's world-class architecture facilities and meet architecture faculty, staff, and students at Taubman College. This event is a great opportunity to receive a student-led tour of the nation's largest single space studio and Taubman digital fabrication lab (FABlab) as well as to meet the people your architecture student spends the most time with. This event is encouraged for parents and family of architecture students but is open to all.

RSVP at the link provided

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Reception / Open House Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:30:30 -0400 2017-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T18:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building Dean of Students Office Reception / Open House Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-09T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
DEI Town Hall meeting (November 9, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46451 46451-10489787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We are excited to introduce Taubman College’s new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Specialist, Joana Dos Santos. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to learn about what the college has been working on and what you can do to make Taubman College a more diverse, equitable and inclusive place.

RSVP: Food will be provided. Help us plan for the event by RSVPing (we want to make sure we have enough food for everyone! You are still welcome to come if you don’t get a chance to RSVP). Also let us know if you need any accommodations or anything else you would like us to know. http://taubmancollege.umich.edu/deitownhall

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Rally / Mass Meeting Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:58:38 -0400 2017-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Rally / Mass Meeting Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-10T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-11T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
WORKSHOP: ARDUINO AND FIREFLY (November 11, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46670 46670-10581008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 11, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Instructor: Mary O'Malley
THIS IS A TWO DAY WORKSHOP FROM 9:00AM-5:00PM ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
This two-day intensive, hands-on workshop will introduce students to the basics of programming with Arduino - an electronic prototyping platform that enables the creation of interactive objects - and how to use the Firefly plugin for Grasshopper to translate live sensor-based and data-streaming information into responsive behaviors. All electronic components necessary will be provided. Students should have laptops installed with current Rhinoceros software and the Grasshopper plug-in, as well as a current version of Processing. Previous experience with Grasshopper and Processing is desirable but not required.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Nov 2017 12:02:12 -0500 2017-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Workshop / Seminar Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 12, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 12, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-12T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
WORKSHOP: ARDUINO AND FIREFLY (November 12, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46670 46670-10581009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 12, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Instructor: Mary O'Malley
THIS IS A TWO DAY WORKSHOP FROM 9:00AM-5:00PM ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
This two-day intensive, hands-on workshop will introduce students to the basics of programming with Arduino - an electronic prototyping platform that enables the creation of interactive objects - and how to use the Firefly plugin for Grasshopper to translate live sensor-based and data-streaming information into responsive behaviors. All electronic components necessary will be provided. Students should have laptops installed with current Rhinoceros software and the Grasshopper plug-in, as well as a current version of Processing. Previous experience with Grasshopper and Processing is desirable but not required.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Nov 2017 12:02:12 -0500 2017-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Workshop / Seminar Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 13, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-13T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
DEI Town Hall meeting (November 13, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46451 46451-10489788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We are excited to introduce Taubman College’s new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Specialist, Joana Dos Santos. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to learn about what the college has been working on and what you can do to make Taubman College a more diverse, equitable and inclusive place.

RSVP: Food will be provided. Help us plan for the event by RSVPing (we want to make sure we have enough food for everyone! You are still welcome to come if you don’t get a chance to RSVP). Also let us know if you need any accommodations or anything else you would like us to know. http://taubmancollege.umich.edu/deitownhall

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Rally / Mass Meeting Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:58:38 -0400 2017-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 2017-11-13T19:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Rally / Mass Meeting Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 14, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-14T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
JOHN DINKELOO MEMORIAL LECTURE: KUNLÉ ADEYEMI (November 14, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46666 46666-10578200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

NLÉ is led by Kunlé Adeyemi, an architect, designer and ‘urbanist’ with a track record of conceiving and completing high profile, high quality projects internationally. His recent work includes ‘Makoko Floating School’, an innovative, prototype, floating structure located on the lagoon heart of Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos. This acclaimed project is part of an extensive research project – ‘African Water Cities’. NLÉ is currently developing a number of urban, research and architectural projects in Africa; one of which is Chicoco Radio Media Center; the amphibious building in Delta city of Port Harcourt in Nigeria.
Born and raised in Nigeria, Adeyemi studied architecture at the University of Lagos where he began his early practice, before joining the world renowned Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in 2002. At OMA, working closely with founder Rem Koolhaas for nearly a decade, he led the design, development and execution of numerous projects in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Among these projects were the award winning Samsung Museum of Art, the Seoul National University Museum, NM Rothschild Bank in London, Shenzhen Stock Exchange tower in China, Prada Transformer in South Korea, Qatar National Library, Qatar Foundation Headquarters and the 4th Mainland Bridge and master plan in Lagos. Adeyemi was responsible for critical stages in design and realization of these projects. This involved leading OMA’s design team, coordinating a diverse global network of stakeholders and experts collaborators, including Arup for Engineering and Davis Langdon (AECOM) on cost matters.
This memorial lecture was established to recognize John Dinkeloo's extraordinary contributions to architecture, to honor his distinguished professional work, and to pay tribute to this highly respected alumnus of the Architecture Program at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:32:26 -0500 2017-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T19:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Lecture Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 15, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-15T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-16T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-17T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
BECOMING DIGITAL: WORKSHOP 03 WITH VIVIAN LEE AND JAMES MACGILLIVRAY OF LAMAS (November 17, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46671 46671-10581010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Becoming Digital is a year-long project that considers the deep changes underway in architecture and visual culture caused by the increasing ubiquity and naturalization of digital technology. The project includes a seminar course, three weekend workshops, a conference, an exhibition, and a series of public conversations.
Workshop 03: Vivian Lee and James Macgillivray of LAMAS
November 17 - 20, 2017
LAMAS is an international architectural practice. Among other things the studio looks at ornament, optical illusions, and lazy forms. They have experimented on these topics through academic research, in temporary installations, and on permanent buildings. The office is equally invested in advancing conceptual discourse and the performance of architecture in practice.
Friday, November 17, 2017 at 12pm in the A. Alfred Taubman Wing Commons: Public conversation with LAMAS
Monday, November 20, 2017 at 12pm in the A. Alfred Taubman Wing Commons: Concluding workshop conversation

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Nov 2017 12:04:02 -0500 2017-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Workshop / Seminar Art and Architecture Building
LECTURE: ANANYA ROY, "THE CITY IN THE AGE OF TRUMPISM: FROM SANCTUARY TO ABOLITION" (November 17, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46667 46667-10578201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Geography and inaugural Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin. She holds The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy. Previously she was on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ananya’s research and scholarship has a determined focus on poverty and inequality and lies in four domains: how the urban poor in cities from Kolkata to Chicago face and fight eviction, foreclosure, and displacement; how global financialization, working in varied realms from microfinance to real-estate speculation, creates new markets in debt and risk; how the efforts to manage and govern the problem of poverty reveal the contradictions and limits of liberal democracy; how new programs of welfare and human development are being demanded and made in the global South. Ananya is the author of several books including Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development (Routledge, 2010), which received the Paul Davidoff book award from ACSP. Her most recent book is Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World (UC Press, 2016). During the last year, Ananya’s public scholarship has challenged white supremacy and white power. From the short video, 3 Truths About Trumpism, to the organization of a nationwide day of Teach.Organize.Resist, her work mobilizes the power of knowledge to “divest from whiteness.”

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:41:02 -0500 2017-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Lecture Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-18T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
BECOMING DIGITAL: WORKSHOP 03 WITH VIVIAN LEE AND JAMES MACGILLIVRAY OF LAMAS (November 18, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46671 46671-10581011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 18, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Becoming Digital is a year-long project that considers the deep changes underway in architecture and visual culture caused by the increasing ubiquity and naturalization of digital technology. The project includes a seminar course, three weekend workshops, a conference, an exhibition, and a series of public conversations.
Workshop 03: Vivian Lee and James Macgillivray of LAMAS
November 17 - 20, 2017
LAMAS is an international architectural practice. Among other things the studio looks at ornament, optical illusions, and lazy forms. They have experimented on these topics through academic research, in temporary installations, and on permanent buildings. The office is equally invested in advancing conceptual discourse and the performance of architecture in practice.
Friday, November 17, 2017 at 12pm in the A. Alfred Taubman Wing Commons: Public conversation with LAMAS
Monday, November 20, 2017 at 12pm in the A. Alfred Taubman Wing Commons: Concluding workshop conversation

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Nov 2017 12:04:02 -0500 2017-11-18T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Workshop / Seminar Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-19T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
BECOMING DIGITAL: WORKSHOP 03 WITH VIVIAN LEE AND JAMES MACGILLIVRAY OF LAMAS (November 19, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46671 46671-10581012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 19, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Becoming Digital is a year-long project that considers the deep changes underway in architecture and visual culture caused by the increasing ubiquity and naturalization of digital technology. The project includes a seminar course, three weekend workshops, a conference, an exhibition, and a series of public conversations.
Workshop 03: Vivian Lee and James Macgillivray of LAMAS
November 17 - 20, 2017
LAMAS is an international architectural practice. Among other things the studio looks at ornament, optical illusions, and lazy forms. They have experimented on these topics through academic research, in temporary installations, and on permanent buildings. The office is equally invested in advancing conceptual discourse and the performance of architecture in practice.
Friday, November 17, 2017 at 12pm in the A. Alfred Taubman Wing Commons: Public conversation with LAMAS
Monday, November 20, 2017 at 12pm in the A. Alfred Taubman Wing Commons: Concluding workshop conversation

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Nov 2017 12:04:02 -0500 2017-11-19T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Workshop / Seminar Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
BECOMING DIGITAL: WORKSHOP 03 WITH VIVIAN LEE AND JAMES MACGILLIVRAY OF LAMAS (November 20, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46671 46671-10581013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2017 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Becoming Digital is a year-long project that considers the deep changes underway in architecture and visual culture caused by the increasing ubiquity and naturalization of digital technology. The project includes a seminar course, three weekend workshops, a conference, an exhibition, and a series of public conversations.
Workshop 03: Vivian Lee and James Macgillivray of LAMAS
November 17 - 20, 2017
LAMAS is an international architectural practice. Among other things the studio looks at ornament, optical illusions, and lazy forms. They have experimented on these topics through academic research, in temporary installations, and on permanent buildings. The office is equally invested in advancing conceptual discourse and the performance of architecture in practice.
Friday, November 17, 2017 at 12pm in the A. Alfred Taubman Wing Commons: Public conversation with LAMAS
Monday, November 20, 2017 at 12pm in the A. Alfred Taubman Wing Commons: Concluding workshop conversation

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Nov 2017 12:04:02 -0500 2017-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Workshop / Seminar Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-21T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-22T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-23T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-24T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-25T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-25T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-26T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-27T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
HONORING DR. CRAIG WILKINS: 2017 COOPER HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN AWARD WINNER (November 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46668 46668-10578202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Dean Jonathan Massey invites you to join us on celebrating Dr. Craig L. Wilkins, architecture faculty member at U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, in honor of his prestigious 2017 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. Dr. Wilkins was recognized for his work in the Design Mind award category. Dr. Wilkins will lecture briefly on his work, followed by refreshments.
Please click here to RSVP for the event and lunch
The National Design Awards were conceived by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum to honor lasting achievement in American design. The awards are bestowed in recognition of excellence, innovation, and enhancement of the quality of life. Dr. Wilkins is the first U-M Taubman College faculty member to receive this honor since the award's founding in 2000.
Wilkins is an architect, academic, and author recognized as one of the country’s leading scholars on African Americans in architecture. He is the former director of the U-M Detroit Community Design Center, as well as a senior lecturer in architecture at U-M Taubman College. Both his creative practice and pedagogy are informed by the long, rich, yet relatively untold stories of people of color in both the physical and symbolic construction of America. At multiple levels across diverse platforms, his award-winning books, chapters, essays, and design interventions recover and present the rich social, cultural, political, historical, and aesthetic contributions of oft-ignored people and practitioners of color for professional and public engagement.

More about the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award:
First launched at the White House in 2000 as an official project of the White House Millennium Council, the annual Awards program celebrates design as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world, and seeks to increase national awareness of the impact of design through education initiatives.
The National Design Awards is one of the few programs of its kind structured to continue to benefit the nation long after the National Design Awards Gala. A suite of educational programs is offered in conjunction with the Awards during National Design Week, an initiative launched in 2006 that aims to draw national attention to the ways in which design enriches everyday life. During National Design Week, the Museum hosts a series of education programs based on the vision and work of the honorees, and helps promote design events held across the country. Click here for more about the awards and to view other winners.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:00:53 -0500 2017-11-27T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T13:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-28T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: ARCHITECTURE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS (November 29, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46669 46669-10578223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 8:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

On View November 9, 2017 - November 29, 2017 in the Taubman College Gallery
Each year, the graduating architecture students fund a gift to the college in honor of their class. The Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG) tradition, initiated by the Class of 2013, provides a unique opportunity for students to support outstanding research by their peers. ASRG 2017 calls for projects that push the boundaries and possibilities of the discipline of architecture. Students are encouraged to explore landscapes, cities, and urban contexts and to engage with the cultural and political forces of architecture. Four winning projects will be exhibited:
"Flat Diorama" by Jihye Julie Choe with Faculty Advisors Dawn Gilpin and Ana Morcillo Pallares
"Architectural Elements" by Naree Byun (M.Arch) and Sam Zou (M.Arch) with faculty advisor Viola Ago
"Specific Spaces" by Cassandra Orit Rota (UG Arch) with faculty advisor Hans Tursack
​"Knot" by Laura Devine (M.Arch), Scott Deisher (M.Arch), and Ali AlYousefi (M.Arch) with faculty advisor John McMorrough
More information about the projects can be found on the Architecture Student Research Grants page.
Exhibition presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 8 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium (Room 2104), followed by an opening reception in the college gallery.

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Exhibition Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:59:06 -0500 2017-11-29T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: 2016 BOOTH FELLOW MEGAN PETERS (M.ARCH. '16), "THE IMAGE OF HAVANA" (January 1, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47943 47943-11151992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 1, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

2016 Booth Fellowship recipient Megan Peters (M.Arch. '16) explores through images the dichotomy between Havana, Cuba's dual identities.

City #1: The Aesthetic Image
Classic cars, crumbling architecture, fat cigars, dark rum, and despotic leaders. These are the images that Havana evokes to an outsider. Analyzing the effects of the external gaze, aesthetics, distance, and the role of photography, these images reveal a city that has become more real in its fantastical image than in its reality.

City #2: The Embodied Image
The images found within Havana tell complex stories of patriotism, propaganda, self-expression, and cultural identity. They are powerful in ways that either command their audience into deference or empower the questioning of the status quo. Try as a government might to muffle and censor free speech, Cuban-authored images persist and find a way to prevail using calculated and clever means; revealing a city that is actively pursuing an identity of its own creation.

Peters will present on her research funded by the Booth Fellowship on December 6 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium. An exhibition opening reception will immediately follow in the college gallery.

Exhibition on View December 6 - January 5 in the college gallery.

For more information on Peters’ proposal, previous winners and eligibility for application, please visit the George G. Booth Traveling Fellowship page.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:33:19 -0500 2018-01-01T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-01T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: 2016 BOOTH FELLOW MEGAN PETERS (M.ARCH. '16), "THE IMAGE OF HAVANA" (January 2, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47943 47943-11151993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

2016 Booth Fellowship recipient Megan Peters (M.Arch. '16) explores through images the dichotomy between Havana, Cuba's dual identities.

City #1: The Aesthetic Image
Classic cars, crumbling architecture, fat cigars, dark rum, and despotic leaders. These are the images that Havana evokes to an outsider. Analyzing the effects of the external gaze, aesthetics, distance, and the role of photography, these images reveal a city that has become more real in its fantastical image than in its reality.

City #2: The Embodied Image
The images found within Havana tell complex stories of patriotism, propaganda, self-expression, and cultural identity. They are powerful in ways that either command their audience into deference or empower the questioning of the status quo. Try as a government might to muffle and censor free speech, Cuban-authored images persist and find a way to prevail using calculated and clever means; revealing a city that is actively pursuing an identity of its own creation.

Peters will present on her research funded by the Booth Fellowship on December 6 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium. An exhibition opening reception will immediately follow in the college gallery.

Exhibition on View December 6 - January 5 in the college gallery.

For more information on Peters’ proposal, previous winners and eligibility for application, please visit the George G. Booth Traveling Fellowship page.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:33:19 -0500 2018-01-02T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-02T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: 2016 BOOTH FELLOW MEGAN PETERS (M.ARCH. '16), "THE IMAGE OF HAVANA" (January 3, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47943 47943-11151994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 3, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

2016 Booth Fellowship recipient Megan Peters (M.Arch. '16) explores through images the dichotomy between Havana, Cuba's dual identities.

City #1: The Aesthetic Image
Classic cars, crumbling architecture, fat cigars, dark rum, and despotic leaders. These are the images that Havana evokes to an outsider. Analyzing the effects of the external gaze, aesthetics, distance, and the role of photography, these images reveal a city that has become more real in its fantastical image than in its reality.

City #2: The Embodied Image
The images found within Havana tell complex stories of patriotism, propaganda, self-expression, and cultural identity. They are powerful in ways that either command their audience into deference or empower the questioning of the status quo. Try as a government might to muffle and censor free speech, Cuban-authored images persist and find a way to prevail using calculated and clever means; revealing a city that is actively pursuing an identity of its own creation.

Peters will present on her research funded by the Booth Fellowship on December 6 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium. An exhibition opening reception will immediately follow in the college gallery.

Exhibition on View December 6 - January 5 in the college gallery.

For more information on Peters’ proposal, previous winners and eligibility for application, please visit the George G. Booth Traveling Fellowship page.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:33:19 -0500 2018-01-03T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-03T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: 2016 BOOTH FELLOW MEGAN PETERS (M.ARCH. '16), "THE IMAGE OF HAVANA" (January 4, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47943 47943-11151995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 4, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

2016 Booth Fellowship recipient Megan Peters (M.Arch. '16) explores through images the dichotomy between Havana, Cuba's dual identities.

City #1: The Aesthetic Image
Classic cars, crumbling architecture, fat cigars, dark rum, and despotic leaders. These are the images that Havana evokes to an outsider. Analyzing the effects of the external gaze, aesthetics, distance, and the role of photography, these images reveal a city that has become more real in its fantastical image than in its reality.

City #2: The Embodied Image
The images found within Havana tell complex stories of patriotism, propaganda, self-expression, and cultural identity. They are powerful in ways that either command their audience into deference or empower the questioning of the status quo. Try as a government might to muffle and censor free speech, Cuban-authored images persist and find a way to prevail using calculated and clever means; revealing a city that is actively pursuing an identity of its own creation.

Peters will present on her research funded by the Booth Fellowship on December 6 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium. An exhibition opening reception will immediately follow in the college gallery.

Exhibition on View December 6 - January 5 in the college gallery.

For more information on Peters’ proposal, previous winners and eligibility for application, please visit the George G. Booth Traveling Fellowship page.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:33:19 -0500 2018-01-04T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-04T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: 2016 BOOTH FELLOW MEGAN PETERS (M.ARCH. '16), "THE IMAGE OF HAVANA" (January 5, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47943 47943-11151996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 5, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

2016 Booth Fellowship recipient Megan Peters (M.Arch. '16) explores through images the dichotomy between Havana, Cuba's dual identities.

City #1: The Aesthetic Image
Classic cars, crumbling architecture, fat cigars, dark rum, and despotic leaders. These are the images that Havana evokes to an outsider. Analyzing the effects of the external gaze, aesthetics, distance, and the role of photography, these images reveal a city that has become more real in its fantastical image than in its reality.

City #2: The Embodied Image
The images found within Havana tell complex stories of patriotism, propaganda, self-expression, and cultural identity. They are powerful in ways that either command their audience into deference or empower the questioning of the status quo. Try as a government might to muffle and censor free speech, Cuban-authored images persist and find a way to prevail using calculated and clever means; revealing a city that is actively pursuing an identity of its own creation.

Peters will present on her research funded by the Booth Fellowship on December 6 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium. An exhibition opening reception will immediately follow in the college gallery.

Exhibition on View December 6 - January 5 in the college gallery.

For more information on Peters’ proposal, previous winners and eligibility for application, please visit the George G. Booth Traveling Fellowship page.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:33:19 -0500 2018-01-05T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-05T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
LECTURE: ŁUKASZ STANEK, "COLD WAR BAGHDAD: ARCHITECTURE IN THE WORLD SOCIALIST SYSTEM" (January 10, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47947 47947-11152026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Łukasz Stanek is Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Architecture Research Centre, University of Manchester. Stanek authored Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and edited the first publication in any language of Lefebvre’s book about architecture, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). Stanek’s second field of research is the architecture of socialist countries during the Cold War in a global perspective, and he recently edited the book Team 10 East. Revisionist Architecture in Real Existing Modernism (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw/ Chicago University Press, 2014). His current project focuses on the mobility of architectural knowledge between European socialist countries, Africa and the Middle East after the Second World War. His papers on this topic include “Miastoprojekt Goes Abroad: The Transfer of Architectural Labour from Socialist Poland to Iraq (1958–1989)”; Mobilities of Architecture in the Global Cold War”; and “Architects from Socialist Countries in Ghana (1957–67): Modern Architecture and Mondialisation”, as well as the exhibition catalogue Postmodernism Is Almost All Right. Polish Architecture After Socialist Globalization (2012). He taught at the ETH Zurich and Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and received fellowships from the Jan van Eyck Academie, Canadian Center for Architecture, Institut d’Urbanisme de Paris, and the Center for Advanced Studies in Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., where he was the 2011-2013 A. W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:29:26 -0500 2018-01-10T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T20:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. SYMPOSIUM, "THE OTHER DETROIT” (January 11, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48484 48484-11241174@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In his speech The Other America, Martin Luther King Jr. laments that “every city in our country has this kind of dualism, this schizophrenia, split at so many parts, and so every city ends up being two cities rather than one.” In some ways, the trajectory of contemporary development in Detroit is indeed creating this tale of two cities to which King alluded. Detroit’s transformative downtown revitalization has brought an influx of economic activity which has generated much excitement about the city’s future. Yet, Detroit’s “comeback” has largely been confined to 7.2 miles square miles surrounding the downtown Woodward corridor.

This raises the question of whether “The Other Detroit,” the remaining 131 square miles comprising the city’s largely black neighborhoods, will begin to share in the benefits of Detroit’s growth. In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, this panel will discuss the implications of disparate development patterns in Detroit, exploring structural and community-based strategies for redirecting investment in favor of the city’s most disadvantaged, longstanding residents.

Panelists:
Sonya Mays, President and CEO of Develop Detroit
Kim Sherobbi, Community Practitioner, James & Grace Lee Boggs Center
Sarida Scott Montgomery: Executive Director of Community Development Advocates of Detroit (CDAD)
Monique Becker, Development Associate, The Platform

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:47:58 -0500 2018-01-11T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T20:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T13:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 13, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-13T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-13T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 14, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 14, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-14T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-14T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 15, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-15T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 16, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-16T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 17, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-17T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 18, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-18T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-19T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. LECTURE: MABEL O. WILSON, "NOTES ON A VIRGINIA STATEHOUSE: ARCHITECTURE AND RACE IN JEFFERSON'S AMERICA" (January 19, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48499 48499-11243789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Mabel O. Wilson is a Professor of Architecture, a co-director of Global Africa Lab (GAL) and the Associate Director at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. She’s currently writing Building Race and Nation a book about how slavery influenced early American civic architecture. She has authored Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016) and Negro Building: African Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (2012). She is a member of the design team for the Memorial to Enslaved African American Laborers at the University of Virginia. She was recently one of twelve curators contributing to MoMA’s current exhibition “Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Architecture.” She’s a founding member of Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?) a collective that advocates for fair labor practices on building sites worldwide and whose work was most recently shown in a solo show at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:40:29 -0500 2018-01-19T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T19:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 20, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 20, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-20T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 21, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 21, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-21T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 22, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-22T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Search The College The College Degrees & Certificates News & Events News Events Lecture Series Conferences & Symposia Exhibitions Past Events University of Michigan Bicentennial Admissions Faculty & Research Students Facilities & Resources Architecture Ur (January 22, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48500 48500-11243790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The college has been presented with another opportunity to increase the intellectual diversity of its academic offerings and research activities with the possible recruitment of Dr. Upali Nanda.

Dr. Nanda is the director of research for HKS, a global architectural firm, where she is responsible for spearheading and implementing research projects globally. She also serves as the executive director for the non-profit Center for Advanced Design Research and Education. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and main stream media. Dr. Nanda received the European Healthcare Design Research Award and two Environmental Design Research Association Certificate of Research Excellence awards. In 2015, Dr. Nanda was recognized as one of the top 10 most influential people in healthcare design by the Healthcare Design Magazine. Her research interests include design and health, healthcare architecture, sensory design, point of decision design, architecture & neuroscience, evidence-based design, workplace well-being, and living labs.

Please mark your calendars and plan to join us for a presentation of Dr. Nanda's work.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:52:56 -0500 2018-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Art and Architecture Building
NOMAS DESIGN REALITIES LECTURE AND PANEL: MICHAEL FORD, "HIP HOP ARCHITECTURE" (January 22, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48713 48713-11294870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The National Organization of Minority Architecture Students bring Michael Ford for their Design Realities lecture and panel. The event is co-hosted by the National Association of Minority Architects Detroit chapter.

Michael Ford is a designer, born and raised in the city of Detroit. Ford received his Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM), where he completed his graduate thesis titled “Hip Hop Inspired Architecture and Design.” He has worked as a designer at Hamilton Anderson Associates located in Detroit and as an adjunct professor at his alma matter. Ford has also worked as a designer at Flad Architects located in Madison, Wisc.

Ford has spent the past decade working to blur the lines between professional practice and academia. He is dedicated to stimulating cross disciplinary discourse between practitioners and residents on the sociological and cultural implications of architecture and urban planning on its inhabitants. More specifically, Ford has unveiled the subconscious roles of historical architectural figures such as LeCorbusier in envisioning the built environments which necessitated the birth of hip hop culture.

Following Michael Fords lecture, there will be a panel discussion, Designed Realities: The Real World Impact of Design Intentions. Panelists include Taubman College faculty members Kimberly Dowdell, Emmanuel Pratt, June Manning Thomas, and moderator Marc Norman.

Ford’s Hip Hop Architecture research has been published in a variety of places including FastCo Design, Blavity, The Fader, CityLab and Vibe Magazine. In addition to this, Ford is the co-founder of the Urban Arts Collective, which houses the Hip Hop Architecture Camp, which has taken place in various cities across the United States. He has spoken as a keynote speaker for the 2017 AIA National Convention, for SXSW 2016 and 2017, TEDx Madison TED Talk, and has lectured at several universities including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Detroit-Mercy, UPenn, and Carnegie Mellon University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:19:10 -0500 2018-01-22T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T19:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 23, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-23T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 24, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-24T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
UNDERGRADUATE EVENT - DINE AND DESIGN (January 24, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48717 48717-11297634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Design is an integral part of our lives. The ability to see and imagine the world through drawing is a prerequisite to fields like architecture, art, product design, interior design, and engineering.

On Wednesday, January 24, interested, prospective students are invited to join current architecture students for a “Dine & Design” event, including fun, introductory design exercises to inspire your creativity. Dinner provided. Design experience not required.

RSVP here
http://umich.force.com/form?formid=217987

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:11:08 -0500 2018-01-24T18:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T19:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Social / Informal Gathering Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 25, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-25T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 26, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-26T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
WALLENBERG STUDIO LECTURE: MONICA CHADHA (January 29, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48721 48721-11297637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Monica Chadha is a LEED certified, licensed architect who has been practicing for over 20 years. She is the Founder and Principal of Civic Projects, and brings a diverse background in social engagement and quality design to her work.

At both Studio Gang Architects and Ross Barney Architects, Ms. Chadha was responsible for the design and team leadership of several award-wining buildings including the Champaign Public Library and the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Civil Engineering Building.

Ms. Chadha has been an Adjunct Professor - engaging students in social impact design practices - in the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology since 2007. In 2011, she served as the Founding Director of Impact Detroit, a partnership with the Detroit Collaborative Design Center (University of Detroit, Mercy) that provides comprehensive design, environmental, social and economic development services to communities in Detroit. Monica is also Strategic Consultant for Archeworks a Chicago-based design school, research lab and think-tank.

Ms. Chadha received her Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Bachelor of Environmental Studies in Architecture from the University of Waterloo, Canada. The Design Futures Council recognized her as an Emerging Leader in 2010 and in 2013 she was included in the inaugural Public Interest Design 100 list of leaders. She currently serves on the Chicago Metropolitan Planning Council’s Placemaking and is co-chair of the Sensible Growth Committees.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:29:31 -0500 2018-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-29T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Champaign Public Library
WEWORK: WORKPLACE AS SERVICE (January 30, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48487 48487-11241176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Co-Organized with Ross School of Business. This event is free and open to the public.

By combining the physical and digital infrastructures for co-working with innovative methods for designing community, WeWork has pioneered a new business sector: workplace as a service. Through WeLive, the company is extending its business model to co-living as well. Learn more at this reception, lecture, and panel featuring WeWork's Liz Burow and Josh Emig with faculty from the Ross School of Business and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

5:00pm Networking Reception
In the A. Alfred Taubman Wing Commons

6:00pm Lecture
Liz Burow, VP, Director of Workplace Strategy, WeWork
Josh Emig, Head of Research and Development, WeWork

6:40pm Panel Discussion
Peter A. Bacevice, Director of Research, HLW; Research Associate, Ross School of Business
Liz Burow, VP, Director of Workplace Strategy, WeWork
Josh Emig, Head of Research and Development, WeWork
Jonathan Massey, Dean and Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Gretchen Spreitzer, Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration; Faculty Director, Center for Positive Organizations; Professor of Management and Organizations, Ross School of Business

Liz Burow is the Director of Workplace Strategy at WeWork, where she focuses on bringing research insights into design to better align space, culture and brand, empowering people to have great workplace experiences. Prior to WeWork, Burow has worked with a number of fortune 100 companies spanning across tech, finance, media and creative sectors, helping sculpt visionary workplace strategies and change management programs. Burow received her Master of Architecture at MIT and was an Adjunct Professor at Parsons from 2008-2012. She is an expert facilitator and educator and has lead numerous workshops and seminars on space + service design, design research and design thinking and write and speaks often on the topic of the future of work.

As Head of Product Research at WeWork, Josh Emig is pursuing a mission to develop systems that integrate people, space, and technology for the betterment of WeWork members and communities.

Gretchen Spreitzer is the Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan (RSB). Her research focuses on employee empowerment and leadership development, particularly within a context of organizational change and decline. Her most recent research is examining how organizations can enable thriving which is part of a new movement in the field of organizational behavior, known as Positive Organizational Scholarship (www.bus.umich.edu/positive). Based on extensive field research, she has authored many articles on contemporary issues in organizational behavior in leading journals such at the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. She is the co-author of seven books including: How to Be a Positive Leader (2014) with Jane Dutton; The Best Teacher in You (2014) with Bob Quinn, Kate Heynoski and Michael Thomas; The Oxford Handbooks of Positive Organizational Scholarship (2012) with Kim Cameron; The Leader's Change Handbook: An Essential Guide to Setting Direction and Taking Action (1999) with Jay Conger and Edward Lawler; The Future of Leadership: Speaking to the Next Generation (2001) with Warren Bennis and Thomas Cummings; and A Company of Leaders: Five Disciplines for Unleashing the Power in Your Workforce (2001) with Robert Quinn. Spreitzer has previously directed the Center for Positive Organizations and the Ross Leadership Initiative. She teaches electives on Leading Organizational Change for MBAs and BBAs, and the Multidisciplinary Action Project (MAP) Program. Prior to her doctoral education, Spreitzer worked with the management consulting group at Price Waterhouse's Government Services Office and with Partners for Livable Places, a not-for-profit urban planning firm in Washington, D.C. She has a Bachelor of Science in Systems Analysis from Miami University (in Ohio) and completed her doctoral work at the Michigan Business School.

Peter Bacevice is the Director of Research for HLW in New York and a researcher with the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. His mission is to use research and design practice to positively impact the workplace experience in a responsible, equitable, and innovative way. He holds a PhD in Education from the University of Michigan and is actively involved in multiple long-term academic and professional research projects on the study of flexible work practices. Bacevice has published in a variety of academic and general publications including the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and TIME.com.

Architect and historian Jonathan Massey is dean and professor at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. In his previous position as dean of architecture at California College of Arts, his primary responsibility was for the vision, leadership, and administration of the CCA Architecture Division. Massey holds undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Princeton University as well as a Master of Architecture degree from UCLA. His professional training includes practice experience at Dagmar Richter Studio, Brantner Design Associates, and Gehry Partners along with teaching experience at Barnard College, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and Woodbury University. In addition, he was a co-founder of the Transdisciplinary Media Studio and the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, which focus on the ways that history and practice of architecture and urbanism are understood and taught. His ongoing research explores how architecture mediates power by forming civil society, shaping social relationships, and regulating consumption. In Crystal and Arabesque: Claude Bragdon, Ornament, and Modern Architecture (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009) he reconstructed the techniques through which American modernist architects engaged new media, audiences and problems of mass society. His work on topics ranging from ornament and organicism to risk management and sustainable design has appeared in many journals and essay collections, including Aggregate's essay collection Governing by Design: Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the 20th Century (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:58:55 -0500 2018-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
URP610 PUBLIC DISCUSSION: IMPORTANCE OF A COMMON VISION (January 31, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49074 49074-11372700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

With such negatives as a challenging economic environment, high percentages of unemployment, an inadequate public school system, and a steady reduction in city population as just some of the challenges that the City of Detroit faced in the early 2000s, this panel will address the importance of the transformation of the Detroit riverfront, the contribution that such an investment could provide the City as well as the broad based community, and the necessary common vision required in connection with this effort. The panel discussion will also include the varying perspectives (including politics, challenges, trepidation) held by the business community, the foundation community, the public sector and the Media associated with this project.

Facilitator:
John Gallagher, Business Reporter, Detroit Free Press; Author, Reimagining Detroit, Opportunities for Redefining an American City

Panel
Matt Cullen, Rock Ventures LLC, Principal, Chief Executive Officer
Laura Trudeau, former Managing Director, The Kresge Foundation Detroit Program
Malik Goodwin, former Vice President, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation (DEGC)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:49:53 -0500 2018-01-31T17:30:00-05:00 2018-01-31T19:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Art and Architecture Building
BECOMING DIGITAL CONFERENCE (February 2, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49077 49077-11375458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Architecture is always becoming digital. To become digital is to exist in a digital world. It is an ontological state that tacitly recognizes pervasive technology, computational logic, and digital aesthetics as the background condition to everyday life. To become digital is to be situated in a context where everything from screen to stone exists as data and matter, where habits of mind forged within the digital environment are constantly transferred to the analog world. For architecture, this has signaled a profound paradigm shift that is largely complete and yet conspicuously unaccounted. Digital technology entered architectural discourse in a wave of futurist prognostication, heady formalist trajectories, and overt avant-garde agendas. Positivist rationales and a fervent belief in the intrinsic merits of technological progress reigned among the varied proponents of early digital architecture, alongside an embrace of the capacities of computation to address cultural and organizational complexity. In these early years, the digital was foregrounded as both topic and technique. In contrast, contemporary architectural practice engages the digital as ubiquitous and foundational. Today the digital is ambient, environmental. It is a dull hum that emanates from every corner of our increasingly constructed world, constituting the material, conceptual, and experiential context of any architectural project.

Reflecting on the status of the digital in contemporary architecture demands renewed critical attention towards the ways architects work and the products of our labor. Today, our discipline’s waning fascination with digitally-enabled complexity and progress is being replaced with a sometimes blasé embrace of expedient digital tools from the Google image search to Rhino’s “Make 2D” command. Screenshot aesthetics and deadpan digital representations abound, delivering a glancing wink to those in the know, and constituting a new internal discourse for contemporary designers based on the expedient circulation of digital images. But as tendencies within our discipline assume the temporality of the meme, the facile nature with which they are adopted often belies the significance of their appearance. Today, digital technology doesn’t simply enable architects to represent the “real,” it is intricately intertwined with the real itself. Our methods of design are evermore connected on a computational level to our methods of dissemination, communication, and social networking, and indeed to those of our culture at large. This nascent condition presents new possibilities for architectural speculation, representation, and for our discipline’s potential impact in an increasingly digital world.

Becoming Digital is a yearlong project that seeks to unpack our contemporary digital moment. Over the course of the year, Taubman College faculty and students, along with invited guests, will design, debate, and reflect upon the current state of the digital in architecture. In the Fall semester, three architecture offices, all critically engaging digital technology through their practice, will lead workshops with students and engage in public conversations around the project’s theme. The Winter semester will include an exhibition of student work, a conference, and a series of presentations by Taubman College faculty. All events will attempt to grapple with computation as the pervasive context in which we live and work, and through that deeper understanding to reveal a capacity to influence ubiquitous digitality through design.

Conference Schedule
Thursday, January 25
5:10pm Lecture: Hito Steyerl
In partnership with the Penny Stamps Speaker Series
(Michigan Theatre, 603 E. Liberty Street)

Friday, February 2
6:00pm Keynote Lecture: Christiane Paul, New School

Saturday, February 3
9:30am - 5:30pm Conference
6:00pm Keynote Lecture: Mark Jarzombek, MIT

Conference Participants:
Ellie Abrons, University of Michigan Taubman College
Viola Ago, University of Michigan Taubman College
Laida Aguirre, University of Michigan Taubman College
Lucia Allais, Princeton University School of Architecture
Ashley Bigham, University of Michigan Taubman College
André Brock, University of Michigan Communication Studies
Sophia Brueckner, University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design
Esther Choi, Princeton University
Adam Fure, University of Michigan Taubman College
Erik Herrmann, University of Michigan Taubman College
Carolyn Kane, Ryerson University
Zeina Koreitem, Harvard GSD
John May, Harvard GSD
Malcolm McCullough, University of Michigan Taubman College
Meredith Miller, University of Michigan Taubman College
Thom Moran, University of Michigan Taubman College
Sarah Murray, University of Michigan Screen Arts and Culture
Cyrus Peñarroyo, University of Michigan Taubman College
Curtis Roth, The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture
Megan Sapnar Ankerson, University of Michigan Communication Studies
Hans Tursack, University of Michigan Taubman College
Claire Zimmerman, University of Michigan Taubman College

All events take place in the Art & Architecture Building A. Alfred Wing Commons, unless noted otherwise

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:11:45 -0500 2018-02-02T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T17:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Becoming Digital
IDENTITY WORKSHOP: SOCIAL IDENTITIES (February 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49558 49558-11476266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The “Identity Workshops” are designed for participants to interrogate their different identities and assumptions of themselves and others. Participants will leave with a better understanding of who they are and how their identities interact with the world.

Scheduled Workshops:
February 2: Social identities
February 16: Privilege Links
March 16: Conflict Management Styles
April 13: Core Values

RSVP here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMzBQXBuyc77UHtP20oybB05FrQz9o8szPR6kAq8OLwm8ovQ/viewform
Food will be provided. Help us plan for the event by RSVPing (we want to make sure we have enough food for everyone! You are still welcome to come if you don’t get a chance to RSVP). Also let us know if you need any accommodations or anything else you would like us to know. RSVP

Identity Workshops are a partnership of the Taubman College Office of DEI and CAPS.

For more information contact:
Joana Dos Santos, TC DEI Specialist, joanads@umich.edu or 734-647-9129
Nidaa Kazi, CAPS Post-Doctoral Fellow, nfkazi@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:41:26 -0500 2018-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T13:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Workshop / Seminar Art and Architecture Building
BECOMING DIGITAL CONFERENCE KEYNOTE: CHRISTIANE PAUL (February 2, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49080 49080-11375462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Christiane Paul has written extensively on new media arts, lectured internationally on art and technology and is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation's 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art. Her recent books are A Companion to Digital Art (Wiley Blackwell, 2016); Digital Art (Thames and Hudson, 3rd revised edition, 2015) Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (Intellect, 2011; Chinese edition, 2012), co-edited with Margot Lovejoy and Victoria Vesna; and New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (UC Press, 2008). As Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, she curated several exhibitions—including Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (2011), Profiling (2007), Data Dynamics (2001) and the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial—and is responsible for artport, the Whitney Museum’s website devoted to Internet art. Other recent curatorial work includes Little Sister (is watching you, too) (Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC, 2015); What Lies Beneath (Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, 2015); The Public Private (Kellen Gallery, The New School, Feb. 7 - April 17, 2013), Eduardo Kac: Biotopes, Lagoglyphs and Transgenic Works (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010); Biennale Quadrilaterale (Rijeka, Croatia, 2009-10); Feedforward - The Angel of History (co-curated with Steve Dietz; Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation, Gijon, Spain, Oct. 2009); and INDAF Digital Art Festival (Incheon, Korea, Aug. 2009). Dr. Paul has previously taught in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1999-2008); the Digital+Media Department of the Rhode Island School of Design (2005-08); the San Francisco Art Institute and the Center of New Media at the University of California at Berkeley (2008).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:26:03 -0500 2018-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T19:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Christiane Paul
BECOMING DIGITAL CONFERENCE (February 3, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/49077 49077-11375459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Architecture is always becoming digital. To become digital is to exist in a digital world. It is an ontological state that tacitly recognizes pervasive technology, computational logic, and digital aesthetics as the background condition to everyday life. To become digital is to be situated in a context where everything from screen to stone exists as data and matter, where habits of mind forged within the digital environment are constantly transferred to the analog world. For architecture, this has signaled a profound paradigm shift that is largely complete and yet conspicuously unaccounted. Digital technology entered architectural discourse in a wave of futurist prognostication, heady formalist trajectories, and overt avant-garde agendas. Positivist rationales and a fervent belief in the intrinsic merits of technological progress reigned among the varied proponents of early digital architecture, alongside an embrace of the capacities of computation to address cultural and organizational complexity. In these early years, the digital was foregrounded as both topic and technique. In contrast, contemporary architectural practice engages the digital as ubiquitous and foundational. Today the digital is ambient, environmental. It is a dull hum that emanates from every corner of our increasingly constructed world, constituting the material, conceptual, and experiential context of any architectural project.

Reflecting on the status of the digital in contemporary architecture demands renewed critical attention towards the ways architects work and the products of our labor. Today, our discipline’s waning fascination with digitally-enabled complexity and progress is being replaced with a sometimes blasé embrace of expedient digital tools from the Google image search to Rhino’s “Make 2D” command. Screenshot aesthetics and deadpan digital representations abound, delivering a glancing wink to those in the know, and constituting a new internal discourse for contemporary designers based on the expedient circulation of digital images. But as tendencies within our discipline assume the temporality of the meme, the facile nature with which they are adopted often belies the significance of their appearance. Today, digital technology doesn’t simply enable architects to represent the “real,” it is intricately intertwined with the real itself. Our methods of design are evermore connected on a computational level to our methods of dissemination, communication, and social networking, and indeed to those of our culture at large. This nascent condition presents new possibilities for architectural speculation, representation, and for our discipline’s potential impact in an increasingly digital world.

Becoming Digital is a yearlong project that seeks to unpack our contemporary digital moment. Over the course of the year, Taubman College faculty and students, along with invited guests, will design, debate, and reflect upon the current state of the digital in architecture. In the Fall semester, three architecture offices, all critically engaging digital technology through their practice, will lead workshops with students and engage in public conversations around the project’s theme. The Winter semester will include an exhibition of student work, a conference, and a series of presentations by Taubman College faculty. All events will attempt to grapple with computation as the pervasive context in which we live and work, and through that deeper understanding to reveal a capacity to influence ubiquitous digitality through design.

Conference Schedule
Thursday, January 25
5:10pm Lecture: Hito Steyerl
In partnership with the Penny Stamps Speaker Series
(Michigan Theatre, 603 E. Liberty Street)

Friday, February 2
6:00pm Keynote Lecture: Christiane Paul, New School

Saturday, February 3
9:30am - 5:30pm Conference
6:00pm Keynote Lecture: Mark Jarzombek, MIT

Conference Participants:
Ellie Abrons, University of Michigan Taubman College
Viola Ago, University of Michigan Taubman College
Laida Aguirre, University of Michigan Taubman College
Lucia Allais, Princeton University School of Architecture
Ashley Bigham, University of Michigan Taubman College
André Brock, University of Michigan Communication Studies
Sophia Brueckner, University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design
Esther Choi, Princeton University
Adam Fure, University of Michigan Taubman College
Erik Herrmann, University of Michigan Taubman College
Carolyn Kane, Ryerson University
Zeina Koreitem, Harvard GSD
John May, Harvard GSD
Malcolm McCullough, University of Michigan Taubman College
Meredith Miller, University of Michigan Taubman College
Thom Moran, University of Michigan Taubman College
Sarah Murray, University of Michigan Screen Arts and Culture
Cyrus Peñarroyo, University of Michigan Taubman College
Curtis Roth, The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture
Megan Sapnar Ankerson, University of Michigan Communication Studies
Hans Tursack, University of Michigan Taubman College
Claire Zimmerman, University of Michigan Taubman College

All events take place in the Art & Architecture Building A. Alfred Wing Commons, unless noted otherwise

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:11:45 -0500 2018-02-03T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-03T17:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Becoming Digital
BECOMING DIGITAL CONFERENCE KEYNOTE: MARK JARZOMBEK, "DIGITAL POST-ONTOLOGY" (February 3, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49081 49081-11375463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

This paper will try to navigate through the strange historical and theoretical landscape in which we currently live and which is often called The Digital Age. It explores the ambiguities of knowing what is meant by ontology in a world that has less and less to do with technology, still mythologized as essential aspect of the Digital, than with a new type of hallucinogenic environment – a slippery zone where mortals and corporate deities – environmentalized through clickbaits, ransomwares, hackers and data-patches - can speak to each other in zones of obsequious anxiety. On the one hand, it is a world where we are more human than human. On the other hand, we are all invested – globally - in our own inhumanity, the duality between human and inhuman now lost in the fog of the algorithmic heuristic.

Jarzombek is currently working on a book that interrogates the digital/global imaginaries that shape our lives. A chapter from that book has recently been published. Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).

Mark Jarzombek works on a wide range of topics – both historical and theoretical - from the 12th century to the modern era. He is one of the country’s leading advocates for global history and has published several books and articles on that topic, including the ground-breaking textbook entitled A Global History of Architecture (Wiley Press, 2006) with co-author Vikramaditya Prakash and with the noted illustrator Francis D.K. Ching. He is the sole author of Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective (Wiley Press, 2013), which is a sensitive synthesis of first society architecture through time and includes custom-made drawings, maps and photographs. The book builds on the latest research in archeological and anthropological knowledge while at the same time challenging some of their received perspectives.

Jarzombek’s ground-breaking work on global architecture history was highlighted by a 2.5 million dollar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that Jarzombek received with co-PI, Vikramaditya Prakash (University of Washington, Seattle), to create a new scholarly entity called Global Architecture History Teaching Collaborative (GAHTC). Promoting the development and exchange of teaching materials for architectural history education across the globe, the collaborative provides awards to members and their teams to develop new lecture material from global perspectives.

Through EdX, Jarzombek taught the first ever MOOC (mass open online course) on the history of architecture with thousands of participants, world-wid. It is based on the undergraduate course that he teaches 4.605: A Global History of Architecture.

Jarzombek's and Prakash's other joint venture is the Architecture (Un)certainty Lab [A(U)L], which is dedicated to challenging architecture's epistemological and design capacities and bring the conversation back into a world of immersive ambiguities. A(U)L is the pedagogical wing of O(U)R, [Office for (Un)certainty Research] the project-oriented studio that is also run by Jarzombek and Prakash.

Urban destruction in the modern era is another focus of Jarzombek's work. His Urban Heterology: Dresden and the Dialectics of Post-Traumatic History takes on the issue of how erasure and rebuilding in Dresden force us to rethink the conventions of urban history. The issue is also at the core of the book about Krzysztof Wodiczko, City of Refuge: A 9/11 Memorial, which Jarzombek edited with Mechtild Widrich. He is currently working on a book called Architecture Modernity Enlightenment that reassesses contemporary architecture from the perspective of Enlightenment philosophers. His most recent book is Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age .

He was a CASVA fellow (1985), Post-doctoral Resident Fellow at the J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Humanities and Art, Santa Monica, California (1986), a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (1993), at the Canadian Center for Architecture (2001) and at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (2005). He serves on the board of several journals and academic institutions including the SSRC and the Buell Foundation, and was a member of the 2011 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) "Excellence Initiative."

Jarzombek has organized several major international conferences on topics such as Holocaust Memorials, Architecture and Cultural Studies, and East European Architecture. He was the founding faculty editor of Thresholds, an annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the Department of Architecture. The content of which features leading scholars and practitioners from the fields of architecture, art, and cultural studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:28:55 -0500 2018-02-03T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-03T19:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Mark Jarzombek
BOOK EVENT: PROF. MARTIN MURRAY’S “THE URBANISM OF EXCEPTION” (CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2017) (February 6, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49559 49559-11476269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Join us in celebrating Prof. Martin Murray’s most recent book, “The Urbanism of Exception.” He will be speaking informally about the book, followed by Q&A, and there will be the opportunity to purchase signed copies of the book. Refreshments will be served.

The Urbanism of Exception: The Dynamics of Global City Building in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its origins in the grand Western experience of city-building. At the start of the twenty-first century, the familiar idea of the 'city' - or 'urbanism' as we know it - has experienced such profound mutations in both structure and form that the customary epistemological categories and prevailing conceptual frameworks that predominate in conventional urban theory are no longer capable of explaining the evolving patterns of city-making. Global urbanism has increasingly taken shape as vast, distended city-regions, where urbanizing landscapes are increasingly fragmented into discontinuous assemblages of enclosed enclaves characterized by global connectivity and concentrated wealth, on the one side, and distressed zones of neglect and impoverishment, on the other. These emergent patterns of what might be called enclave urbanism have gone hand-in-hand with the new modes of urban governance, where the crystallization of privatized regulatory regimes has effectively shielded wealthy enclaves from public oversight and interference.

Brief Bio: Professor Martin Murray began his academic career as sociologist with a strong foundation in urban geography. His current research engages the fields of urban studies and planning, global urbanism, cultural geography, distressed urbanism, development, historical sociology, and African studies. In addition to six books and three co-edited volumes, he has produced close to seventy journal articles and book chapters that focus on diverse geographical areas of the world at different historical periods. After his first book on French colonialism in Indochina (University of California Press), Professor Murray pursued a deep and abiding interest in the politics of South Africa. He has published two books from an eventual trilogy on Johannesburg: Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Aparthreid (Cornell University Press, 2008); City of Extremes: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg (Duke University Press, 22011); and Panic City: Crime, Private Security, and Extended Security Networks in Johannesburg (under review). He has also published Commemorating and Forgetting: Challenges for the New South Africa (University of Minnesota Press, 2013).

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Presentation Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:45:18 -0500 2018-02-06T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Presentation Martin Murray's Book
STALLED! KEYNOTE LECTURE: JOEL SANDERS, "FROM STUD TO STALLED!: ARCHITECTURE IN TRANSITION" (February 7, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49076 49076-11375457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Joel Sanders' work addresses identity, inclusivity, and social issues in architecture. Recently, his research has been focused on gender neutral bathrooms, a highly debated and relevant topic today. Stalled!, in collaboration with Susan Stryker, aims to create a relatively barrier free open precinct that encourages all embodied subjects to freely and safely engage with one another in public space. Joel believes that making these changes requires acknowledging the pivotal role that building codes play in shaping identity through design, as well as acknowledging that such codes are not neutral functional objectives but rather reflect and reproduce deep-seated cultural beliefs that shape the design of the spaces of our daily lives, including bathrooms.

In addition to running his studio based in New York City, Joel is a Professor of Architecture at Yale University. Prior to joining the Yale faculty, he was the Director of the Graduate Program in Architecture at Parsons School of Design and an Assistant Professor at Princeton University. Joel received both a B.A. and M.Arch from Columbia University.

The editor of Stud: Architectures of Masculinity (Princeton Architectural Press, 1996), he frequently writes about art and design, most recently in Pin-up, Art Forum and the Harvard Design Magazine. His monograph, Joel Sanders: Writings and Projects, was published by Monacelli Press in 2005. Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture, co-edited with Diana Balmori, was released by Monacelli Press in 2011.

An active member of the design community, he serves on committees and panels on behalf of the American Academy in Rome, MacDowell Colony, American Institute of Architects, Architectural League, and the GSA Peer Review. Joel is also a co-chair of Van Alen Institute's Program Leadership Council (www.vanalen.org).

In collaboration with the UM Initiative on Disability Studies (UMInDS), Stalled! Symposium continues Thursday, February 8.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:08:31 -0500 2018-02-07T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-07T19:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Joel Sanders
STALLED! SYMPOSIUM (February 7, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48488 48488-11243776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public.

Whenever disabled-queer-trans bodies move in on social space, they disrupt the regimes of fitness presiding over urban and institutional infrastructure.Disabled-queer-trans, or alterite bodies, challenge normative preconceptions held by equally normate bodies.

Stalled!, is a critical platform that collects key thought leaders to expand discourse in this space, and invites broad participation from the University of Michigan network of activists, facility personnel, students, academic staff, administrators, and faculty. Working from biological, disabled, historical, political, queer, racial, spatial, and transgender perspectives, Stalled! exposes the deep structure of discrimination proliferating throughout architecture and institutions. Stalled! co-locates inclusivity and radical alterity by promoting discussion around disability, gender-fluidity, and intersectionality.

Developed by architect and activist, Prof. Joel Sanders from Yale School of Architecture, in collaboration with Taubman College, Stalled! seeks several specific objectives: the design of more inclusive public spaces, enrolling supportive partners and allies from across the University, and educating various publics regarding the needs of social groups currently denied access to inclusive restrooms. Stalled! produces a conversation that expands upon the rhetoric of diversity, equity, and inclusion, to reanimate static infrastructure as sites to demonstrate more actionable alterity.

Stalled! questions the protocols around how urban space is organized, how buildings are designed, and how everything - from the glossy messaging of advertising, to the ubiquity of our digital identities - are overwhelmingly designed around monolithic forms of gender conformity, singular concepts of ability; and by extension, within a very limited understanding of difference. Trans-Queer-Crip bodies make legible the limitations of regulatory bodies, such as healthcare, the systemic discrimination of the legal apparatus, and complacency of education to equitably or imaginatively conceptualize alterity beyond a condition to be ameliorated, incarcerated, or accommodated.

Panel 1: Trans and Queer Theory
Speaker: Mel Chen, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies; Director, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture

Panel 2: Inclusive Space, Design, Infrastructure
Speaker: Jos Boys, University of Brighton, College of Art & Culture

Stalled! kicks off on Wednesday, February 7 at 6:00pm with a keynote lecture by Joel Sanders. Joel's work addresses identity, inclusivity,and social issues in architecture. Recently, his research has been focused on gender neutral bathrooms, a highly debated and relevant topic today. Stalled!, in collaboration with Susan Stryker, aims to create a relatively barrier free open precinct that encourages all embodied subjects to freely and safely engage with one another in public space. Joel believes that making these changes requires acknowledging the pivotal role that building codes play in shaping identity through design, as well as acknowledging that such codes are not neutral functional objectives but rather reflect and reproduce deep-seated cultural beliefs that shape the design of the spaces of our daily lives, including bathrooms.

In partnership with the UM Initiative on Disability Studies (UMInDS), The U-M Spectrum Center, and the U-M Women's Studies Department.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:51:26 -0500 2018-02-07T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Event Poster
STALLED! SYMPOSIUM (February 8, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48488 48488-11243777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Free and open to the public.

Whenever disabled-queer-trans bodies move in on social space, they disrupt the regimes of fitness presiding over urban and institutional infrastructure.Disabled-queer-trans, or alterite bodies, challenge normative preconceptions held by equally normate bodies.

Stalled!, is a critical platform that collects key thought leaders to expand discourse in this space, and invites broad participation from the University of Michigan network of activists, facility personnel, students, academic staff, administrators, and faculty. Working from biological, disabled, historical, political, queer, racial, spatial, and transgender perspectives, Stalled! exposes the deep structure of discrimination proliferating throughout architecture and institutions. Stalled! co-locates inclusivity and radical alterity by promoting discussion around disability, gender-fluidity, and intersectionality.

Developed by architect and activist, Prof. Joel Sanders from Yale School of Architecture, in collaboration with Taubman College, Stalled! seeks several specific objectives: the design of more inclusive public spaces, enrolling supportive partners and allies from across the University, and educating various publics regarding the needs of social groups currently denied access to inclusive restrooms. Stalled! produces a conversation that expands upon the rhetoric of diversity, equity, and inclusion, to reanimate static infrastructure as sites to demonstrate more actionable alterity.

Stalled! questions the protocols around how urban space is organized, how buildings are designed, and how everything - from the glossy messaging of advertising, to the ubiquity of our digital identities - are overwhelmingly designed around monolithic forms of gender conformity, singular concepts of ability; and by extension, within a very limited understanding of difference. Trans-Queer-Crip bodies make legible the limitations of regulatory bodies, such as healthcare, the systemic discrimination of the legal apparatus, and complacency of education to equitably or imaginatively conceptualize alterity beyond a condition to be ameliorated, incarcerated, or accommodated.

Panel 1: Trans and Queer Theory
Speaker: Mel Chen, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies; Director, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture

Panel 2: Inclusive Space, Design, Infrastructure
Speaker: Jos Boys, University of Brighton, College of Art & Culture

Stalled! kicks off on Wednesday, February 7 at 6:00pm with a keynote lecture by Joel Sanders. Joel's work addresses identity, inclusivity,and social issues in architecture. Recently, his research has been focused on gender neutral bathrooms, a highly debated and relevant topic today. Stalled!, in collaboration with Susan Stryker, aims to create a relatively barrier free open precinct that encourages all embodied subjects to freely and safely engage with one another in public space. Joel believes that making these changes requires acknowledging the pivotal role that building codes play in shaping identity through design, as well as acknowledging that such codes are not neutral functional objectives but rather reflect and reproduce deep-seated cultural beliefs that shape the design of the spaces of our daily lives, including bathrooms.

In partnership with the UM Initiative on Disability Studies (UMInDS), The U-M Spectrum Center, and the U-M Women's Studies Department.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:51:26 -0500 2018-02-08T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Event Poster
URBAN COOL, ADDRESSING HEAT, HEALTH AND HABITAT IN THE ANTHROPOCENE (February 13, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49410 49410-11453752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Doug Kelbaugh, Taubman College Emil Lorch Collegiate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning and 2016 Winner of the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, lectures on how cities combat climate change.

The illustrated talk will connect the dots on the role that the built environment plays in addressing the increasingly urgent problems of local and global warming. Urban Heat Islands and other forms of extreme heat such as heat waves kill more people than any type of natural disaster, as well as threaten the sustained livability and health of many cities. Luckily, the four design antidotes to heat islands simultaneously address climate change. And because heat islands are more immediately palpable than climate change, they can motivate humans to act more quickly and decisively against the unfolding, unprecedented and catastrophic climate challenge at both the local and global level.

Taubman College Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Natural Resourcese Larissa Larsen and Urban Planning alumna Missy Stults (Ph.D. 2016) will respond to the lecture in a panel, in this first ever collaboration between the Urban and Regional Planning Program and the Michigan Chapter of the Congress of the New Urbanism. Dr. Missy Stults is a climate adaptation expert who works with local, regional, and tribal communities to enhance resilience towards climate change and natural disasters, and Larissa Larsen is certified environmental planner and landscape architect who conducts research quantifying environmental injustices related to urban heat islands and climate change.

This event is a collaboration between Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning's Urban and Regional Planning Department, and the Michigan Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:52:19 -0500 2018-02-13T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-13T19:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
FUTUROPOLIS: CINEMA, COMICS AND THE TRANSMEDIATIC CONSTRUCTION OF THE FUTURE. (February 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49962 49962-11608304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Based on his eponymous PhD dissertation, architect and architectural scholar Luis Miguel Lus Arana will present 'Futuropolis,' a historical recount of the evolution of the image and concepts of the city of the future in mass media. The lecture will deal with the transmediatic construction of the imagery of the future, a process that takes place in a continuous, back and forth exchange between architecture and other disciplines.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:10:49 -0500 2018-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T13:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
IDENTITY WORKSHOP: PRIVILEGE LINKS (February 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49564 49564-11476276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The “Identity Workshops” are designed for participants to interrogate their different identities and assumptions of themselves and others. Participants will leave with a better understanding of who they are and how their identities interact with the world.

Scheduled Workshops:
February 2: Social identities
February 16: Privilege Links
March 16: Conflict Management Styles
April 13: Core Values

RSVP here
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMzBQXBuyc77UHtP20oybB05FrQz9o8szPR6kAq8OLwm8ovQ/viewform
Food will be provided. Help us plan for the event by RSVPing (we want to make sure we have enough food for everyone! You are still welcome to come if you don’t get a chance to RSVP). Also let us know if you need any accommodations or anything else you would like us to know. RSVP

Identity Workshops are a partnership of the Taubman College Office of DEI and CAPS.

For more information contact:
Joana Dos Santos, TC DEI Specialist, joanads@umich.edu or 734-647-9129
Nidaa Kazi, CAPS Post-Doctoral Fellow, nfkazi@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:54:04 -0500 2018-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T13:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Workshop / Seminar Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: PRACTICE SESSIONS NO. 6 (February 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50079 50079-11633559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view February 19 - 23

Practice Sessions is part of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative which funds experimental pedagogies in a bid to change how teaching and learning happen within the bounds of the institution. Each session centers on an immersive four-day design charette that culminates in a juried review and exhibition. Previous practitioners who have come to lead sessions are MOS, Sam Jacob, Neil Denari, Johnston Marklee, and Ensamble Studio.

Practice Session No. 6 will be led by Konstantinos Pantazis and Yorgos Pantazis of Point Supreme, an award-winning architecture practice based in Athens, Greece. The guest critics invited to discuss the work at its conclusion are Catherine Ingraham (Professor of Architecture, Pratt Institute / Visiting Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design) and Shumi Bose (Co-curator of the British Pavilion for the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture / Senior Lecturer, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design).

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Exhibition Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:41:33 -0500 2018-02-19T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: PRACTICE SESSIONS NO. 6 (February 20, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50079 50079-11633560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view February 19 - 23

Practice Sessions is part of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative which funds experimental pedagogies in a bid to change how teaching and learning happen within the bounds of the institution. Each session centers on an immersive four-day design charette that culminates in a juried review and exhibition. Previous practitioners who have come to lead sessions are MOS, Sam Jacob, Neil Denari, Johnston Marklee, and Ensamble Studio.

Practice Session No. 6 will be led by Konstantinos Pantazis and Yorgos Pantazis of Point Supreme, an award-winning architecture practice based in Athens, Greece. The guest critics invited to discuss the work at its conclusion are Catherine Ingraham (Professor of Architecture, Pratt Institute / Visiting Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design) and Shumi Bose (Co-curator of the British Pavilion for the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture / Senior Lecturer, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design).

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Exhibition Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:41:33 -0500 2018-02-20T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: PRACTICE SESSIONS NO. 6 (February 21, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50079 50079-11633561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view February 19 - 23

Practice Sessions is part of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative which funds experimental pedagogies in a bid to change how teaching and learning happen within the bounds of the institution. Each session centers on an immersive four-day design charette that culminates in a juried review and exhibition. Previous practitioners who have come to lead sessions are MOS, Sam Jacob, Neil Denari, Johnston Marklee, and Ensamble Studio.

Practice Session No. 6 will be led by Konstantinos Pantazis and Yorgos Pantazis of Point Supreme, an award-winning architecture practice based in Athens, Greece. The guest critics invited to discuss the work at its conclusion are Catherine Ingraham (Professor of Architecture, Pratt Institute / Visiting Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design) and Shumi Bose (Co-curator of the British Pavilion for the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture / Senior Lecturer, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design).

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Exhibition Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:41:33 -0500 2018-02-21T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: PRACTICE SESSIONS NO. 6 (February 22, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50079 50079-11633562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view February 19 - 23

Practice Sessions is part of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative which funds experimental pedagogies in a bid to change how teaching and learning happen within the bounds of the institution. Each session centers on an immersive four-day design charette that culminates in a juried review and exhibition. Previous practitioners who have come to lead sessions are MOS, Sam Jacob, Neil Denari, Johnston Marklee, and Ensamble Studio.

Practice Session No. 6 will be led by Konstantinos Pantazis and Yorgos Pantazis of Point Supreme, an award-winning architecture practice based in Athens, Greece. The guest critics invited to discuss the work at its conclusion are Catherine Ingraham (Professor of Architecture, Pratt Institute / Visiting Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design) and Shumi Bose (Co-curator of the British Pavilion for the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture / Senior Lecturer, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design).

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Exhibition Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:41:33 -0500 2018-02-22T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: PRACTICE SESSIONS NO. 6 (February 23, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50079 50079-11633563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on view February 19 - 23

Practice Sessions is part of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative which funds experimental pedagogies in a bid to change how teaching and learning happen within the bounds of the institution. Each session centers on an immersive four-day design charette that culminates in a juried review and exhibition. Previous practitioners who have come to lead sessions are MOS, Sam Jacob, Neil Denari, Johnston Marklee, and Ensamble Studio.

Practice Session No. 6 will be led by Konstantinos Pantazis and Yorgos Pantazis of Point Supreme, an award-winning architecture practice based in Athens, Greece. The guest critics invited to discuss the work at its conclusion are Catherine Ingraham (Professor of Architecture, Pratt Institute / Visiting Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design) and Shumi Bose (Co-curator of the British Pavilion for the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture / Senior Lecturer, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design).

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Exhibition Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:41:33 -0500 2018-02-23T09:00:00-05:00 2018-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION OPENING: "DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION" (March 6, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50240 50240-11690317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Panel discussion to open the exhibition, "Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation"

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

The 6pm presentation will be followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:31:46 -0500 2018-03-06T18:00:00-05:00 2018-03-06T19:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 7, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-07T09:00:00-05:00 2018-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 8, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 8, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-08T09:00:00-05:00 2018-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 9, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-09T09:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
P+ARG BIENNIAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE: "NETWORKS OF KNOWLEDGE AND POWER" (March 9, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50332 50332-11710226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The 4th biennial graduate conference of the Planning and Architecture Research Group (P+ARG) of University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning engages the fields of architecture and planning, as well as neighboring fields from the humanities and social sciences.

Knowledge in architecture and planning moves. It moves through networks of power and capital, through corporate establishments, governmental alliances, international organizations, transnational social movements, and media and technology. These networks of power deconstruct and restructure forms and relations of production—emergent and old. They also produce new social and material assemblages within which spatial knowledge is constantly re-visited and re-organized. The resulting socio-technical formations ultimately reconfigure both the products of, and knowledge within, the fields of architecture, planning, and affiliated disciplines.

How do we understand the networks of power and knowledge and the implicit human condition that sustains and transforms architecture and planning practices? At a juncture where our logic and systems of production are becoming digitized and automatized at an unprecedented pace, and when our understanding of the networks and technologies of information are increasingly inseparable from questions of hardware and software, of the accumulation and classification of electronic data, the human mediation of knowledge acquires a new significance. The global phenomenon of post-truth politics equally urges us to re-scrutinize the Foucauldian premise of “knowledge as power.”

In this highly networked era of the Anthropocene, we want to explore the interactions between people, ideas, institutions, infrastructures and material objects, especially as these pertain to architecture and planning knowledge, in order to reflect on issues including but not limited to: political economies, ecologies and geographies, poverty, inequality, warfare, mass re/dis-location of people, invasion and occupation of lands and territories.

Conference Keynote Friday, March 9: Kazys Varnelis, PhD, Director of the Urban Architecture Lab

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:58:21 -0500 2018-03-09T09:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 10, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 10, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-10T09:00:00-05:00 2018-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
P+ARG BIENNIAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE: "NETWORKS OF KNOWLEDGE AND POWER" (March 10, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50332 50332-11710227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 10, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The 4th biennial graduate conference of the Planning and Architecture Research Group (P+ARG) of University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning engages the fields of architecture and planning, as well as neighboring fields from the humanities and social sciences.

Knowledge in architecture and planning moves. It moves through networks of power and capital, through corporate establishments, governmental alliances, international organizations, transnational social movements, and media and technology. These networks of power deconstruct and restructure forms and relations of production—emergent and old. They also produce new social and material assemblages within which spatial knowledge is constantly re-visited and re-organized. The resulting socio-technical formations ultimately reconfigure both the products of, and knowledge within, the fields of architecture, planning, and affiliated disciplines.

How do we understand the networks of power and knowledge and the implicit human condition that sustains and transforms architecture and planning practices? At a juncture where our logic and systems of production are becoming digitized and automatized at an unprecedented pace, and when our understanding of the networks and technologies of information are increasingly inseparable from questions of hardware and software, of the accumulation and classification of electronic data, the human mediation of knowledge acquires a new significance. The global phenomenon of post-truth politics equally urges us to re-scrutinize the Foucauldian premise of “knowledge as power.”

In this highly networked era of the Anthropocene, we want to explore the interactions between people, ideas, institutions, infrastructures and material objects, especially as these pertain to architecture and planning knowledge, in order to reflect on issues including but not limited to: political economies, ecologies and geographies, poverty, inequality, warfare, mass re/dis-location of people, invasion and occupation of lands and territories.

Conference Keynote Friday, March 9: Kazys Varnelis, PhD, Director of the Urban Architecture Lab

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:58:21 -0500 2018-03-10T09:00:00-05:00 2018-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Conference / Symposium Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 11, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 11, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-11T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 12, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 12, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-12T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION PRESENTATIONS AND OPENING: RESEARCH THROUGH MAKING (March 13, 2018 6:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48489 48489-11243778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 6:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Since its inception in 2009, Research Through Making enables faculty to engage in architecture research or creative projects that are predicated on making. Seed funding is competitively awarded annually for up to five projects. Faculty collaborate with students to produce projects that ultimately lead to a public exhibition in the Liberty Annex Gallery. Through the years as the projects have evolved, the research has broadened and many have gone on to win national awards (P/A Awards, R+D Awards, ACSA Awards, AIA awards, etc.) and be published, presented and exhibited through out the world. Research Through Making is one of the most innovative architecture research programs in the country, and provides important funding that allows students to work with faculty on innovative research projects and bring that knowledge back to the classroom and into their futures as designers.

Presentations and opening March 13. Exhibition on view: March 14 - May 6

Projects:

Catenary Concrete Funicular Formwork
Jonathan Rule, Ana Morcillo Pallares
Elemental | Ornamental
Wes McGee, Asa Peller
Hard + Soft: Robotic Needle Felting for Nonwoven Textiles
Tsz Yan Ng, Wes McGee, Asa Peller
Image Matters
McLain Clutter, Cyrus Peñarroyo, Brian Love (Engineering)
Limb: Rethinking Heavy Timber Joinery through Analysis of Tree Crotches
Peter von Buelow, Steven Mankouche, Kasey Vliet
Grant submissions were anonymously evaluated by a distinguished jury from outside the college:

Adam Yarinsky, Principal, Architecture Research Office, New York
Joyce Hwang, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, New York; Director, Ants of the Prairie
Scott Marble, Professor and William H. Harrison Chair of the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology; Founding Partner, Marble Fairbanks
Presentations Tuesday, March 13 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium will be followed by opening reception at the Liberty Research Annex. Exhibition on view March 14 - May 6

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Exhibition Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:04:24 -0500 2018-03-13T06:00:00-04:00 2018-03-13T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 13, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-13T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION PRESENTATIONS AND OPENING: RESEARCH THROUGH MAKING (March 13, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50982 50982-11933446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Since its inception in 2009, Research Through Making enables faculty to engage in architecture research or creative projects that are predicated on making. Seed funding is competitively awarded annually for up to five projects. Faculty collaborate with students to produce projects that ultimately lead to a public exhibition in the Liberty Annex Gallery. Through the years as the projects have evolved, the research has broadened and many have gone on to win national awards (P/A Awards, R+D Awards, ACSA Awards, AIA awards, etc.) and be published, presented and exhibited through out the world. Research Through Making is one of the most innovative architecture research programs in the country, and provides important funding that allows students to work with faculty on innovative research projects and bring that knowledge back to the classroom and into their futures as designers.

Presentations and opening March 13. Exhibition on view: March 14 - May 6

Projects:

Catenary Concrete Funicular Formwork
Jonathan Rule, Ana Morcillo Pallares
Elemental | Ornamental
Wes McGee, Asa Peller
Hard + Soft: Robotic Needle Felting for Nonwoven Textiles
Tsz Yan Ng, Wes McGee, Asa Peller
Image Matters
McLain Clutter, Cyrus Peñarroyo
Limb: Rethinking Heavy Timber Joinery through Analysis of Tree Crotches
Peter von Buelow, Steven Mankouche, Kasey Vliet
Grant submissions were anonymously evaluated by a distinguished jury from outside the college:

Adam Yarinsky, Principal, Architecture Research Office, New York
Joyce Hwang, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, New York; Director, Ants of the Prairie
Scott Marble, Professor and William H. Harrison Chair of the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology; Founding Partner, Marble Fairbanks
Presentations Tuesday, March 13 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium will be followed by opening reception at the Liberty Research Annex. Exhibition on view March 14 - May 6

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:07:03 -0400 2018-03-13T18:00:00-04:00 2018-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion RTM
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 14, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-14T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 15, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
TAUBMAN COLLEGE CAREER AND NETWORKING FAIR 2018 (March 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50983 50983-11933447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Employers may attend the Career & Networking Fair or schedule an individual visit to meet, interview and/or discuss career options with students from our architecture, urban design and urban planning degree programs.

The 2018 Career & Networking Fair will be held Thursday, March 15, 2018, from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. There is no cost to attend.

Employers, please click here for more information and to register.

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Fair / Festival Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:17:26 -0400 2018-03-15T11:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T14:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Fair / Festival Career Fair
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 16, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-16T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 17, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 17, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-17T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 18, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 18, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-18T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-19T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 20, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 21, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-21T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
JASON REBLANDO, "NEW DEAL UTOPIAS: MODEL CITIES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION" (March 21, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50984 50984-11933448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Artist Jason Reblando will give a talk about his recent photography book New Deal Utopias, which explores three planned communities built by the U.S. government during the Great Depression. His photographs depict the built environments and landscapes of Greenbelt, Maryland; Greenhills, Ohio; and Greendale, Wisconsin, collectively known as "Greenbelt Towns," to evoke utopia both as an idea and a place in the American mind.

In the '30s, the program was critiqued as "socialistic" and "communistic" by industrial and corporate leaders, newspapers, and members of Congress hostile to New Deal policies, yet they made an indelible impression on urbanist ideas around the world. New Deal Utopias emphasizes that the Greenbelt Towns are an overlooked, but crucial part of the American landscape, as we continue to grapple with the shifting roles of housing, nature, and government in American life.

This public talk is in connection to Taubman College lecturer Sarah Rovang's Arch 603 course, "Fieldwork in American Modernism."

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:24:54 -0400 2018-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 22, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-22T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 23, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-23T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
LECTURE: JANETTE SADIK-KHAN (March 23, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48490 48490-11243779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

One of the leading voices on urban transportation policy, Janette Sadik-Khan is internationally respected for her transformative redesigns of New York City streets and rapid-implementation strategies that are being replicated today in cities around the world.

She was Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation from 2007–2013 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, leading one of the most sweeping revitalizations of the city’s streets in a half-century.

During her tenure, New York City added nearly 400 miles of bike lanes and the first parking-protected bike paths in North America. The department she led set in motion more than 60 plazas across the city, including the historic plazas that shut Broadway through Times Square, sparking economic recovery throughout the area. She worked with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to launch the city’s first six rapid bus lines and oversaw hundreds of intersection and street redesigns that contributed to the city’s record-low traffic fatalities. Sadik-Khan oversaw the 2013 launch of Citi Bike, the nation’s largest bike share system, which to date has been used more than 22 million times and is doubling in size to 12,000 bikes.

​She currently advises mayors of cities around the world as a principal at Bloomberg Associates, a philanthropic consultancy established by Michael Bloomberg to help cities around the world improve the quality of life of their citizens. She assists mayors and their teams in developing street redesigns in cities from Los Angeles to Mexico City to Rio and Athens.

​As chair of the National Association of Transportation Officials (NACTO), an organization of transportation commissioners and directors in 38 cities, she led the development and publication of NACTO’s Global and Urban Street Design Guides and the Urban Bikeway Design Guide. The new standards in these documents have been recognized by USDOT and adopted by 40 cities worldwide.

​Sadik-Khan was a Senior Vice President of Parsons Brinckerhoff, a leading international engineering firm. Previously, she worked in Washington, D.C., as a Deputy Administrator at the US Department of Transportation. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Occidental College, and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:07:41 -0500 2018-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 24, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-24T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 25, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-25T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 26, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-26T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 27, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-27T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
2018 RAOUL WALLENBERG LECTURE: MIMI ZEIGER AND ANN LUI (March 27, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48491 48491-11243780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Mimi Zeiger and Ann Lui will speak on their ongoing work as curators for the the United States pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, titled “Dimensions of Citizenship.” The exhibition at the U.S. pavilion will explore architecture’s impact on the meaning of citizenship from policy to immigration and the lived experience. Future Firm co-founder and School of the Art Institute of Chicago professor Ann Lui, and architecture critic Mimi Zeiger, are curating the exhibition along with University of Chicago architectural history professor Niall Atkinson.

Mimi Zeiger

Mimi Zeiger is a Los Angeles-based critic, editor, and curator. Her work is situated at the intersection architecture and media cultures. She has covered art, architecture, urbanism, and design for a number of publications including The New York Times, Domus, Architectural Review, and Architect, where she is a contributing editor. She is a regular opinion columnist for Dezeen and former West Coast Editor of The Architects Newspaper. Zeiger is the 2015 recipient of the Bradford Williams Medal for excellence in writing about landscape architecture. She has curated, contributed to, and collaborated on projects that have been shown at the Art Institute Chicago, 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, the New Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, pinkcomma gallery, and the AA School. She co-curated Now, There: Scenes from the Post-Geographic City, which received the Bronze Dragon award at the 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen. She teaches in the Media Design Practices MFA program at Art Center College of Design and is former co-president of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. She holds a Master of Architecture degree from SCI-Arc and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University.

Ann Lui

Ann Lui is a founding partner of Future Firm, a Chicago-based architecture and design research office. She is a registered architect in the state of Illinois. Her work focuses on the role of architecture as an infrastructure for discourse. She holds a B.Arch from Cornell University and a SMArchS from MIT's History, Theory and Criticism program, where her research focused on corporate architecture in the postwar period. Previously, Ann practiced at offices including SOM, Bureau Spectacular, and Morphosis Architects. She recently edited Public Space? Lost and Found (SA+P/MIT Press), a volume on the role of architects and artists in the civic realm with Gediminas Urbonas and Lucas Freeman. Ann was also Assistant Editor of OfficeUS Atlas (Lars Muller, 2015), and co-edited MIT's journal Thresholds (MIT SA+P, 2015).

The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg's. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul's honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:13:50 -0500 2018-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: DRAWING CODES: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION (March 28, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50241 50241-11690339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Exhibition on-view March 7 - 28

Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-four experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.

Each drawing engages with at least one of the below prompts that begin to expand the notion of code as it relates to architectural design and representation:

Code as generative constraint. Restrictive codes often govern what is permitted and what is prohibited. Examples of this include building codes, urban codes, zoning codes, accessibility codes, and energy codes. How can such constraints become generative, opening up opportunities for design and representation?
Code as language. A code can be understood as a set of rules, conventions, and traditions of syntax and grammar that structure the communication of information. The discipline of architecture similarly has its own language of typologies, taxonomies, and classifications. How can drawing engage with such architectural languages?
Code as cipher. Encoded or encrypted messages are intended to hide or conceal information. Likewise, architectural geometries, forms, spaces, and assemblies are embedded with invisible organizational, social, political, or economic logics that may not be immediately evident. How can drawing engage with these latent meanings and messages?
Code as script. A code can be understood as a script or a recipe: a set of instructions to be executed or performed by a computer, a robot, or (in the case of theater or film), an actor. Scripts often produce unexpected discrepancies between the intent of the code and how it is executed. How can drawing explore these open-ended processes that may not have a defined outcome?
The invited architects were asked to conform to a set of strict rules: consistent dimension, black & white medium, and limiting the drawing to orthographic projection. The intent is for this consistency to emphasize the wide range of approaches to questions of technology, design, and representation. Yet within this considerable diversity of medium, aesthetic sensibility, and content, several common qualities emerge. First is the unsure link between code and outcome: glitches, bugs, accidents, anomalies, but also loopholes, deviations, variances, and departures that open up new potentials for architectural design and representation. Second is a mature embrace of technology not as a fetishized end game, but as an instrument employed synthetically in concert with other architectural “tools of the trade.” And finally, these drawings demonstrate how conventions of architectural representation remain fertile territory for invention and speculation.

At the show's initial run at CCA in San Francisco, an adjacent gallery featured work by CCA Architecture students in Kinematic Code, a course taught by Clayton Muhleman that has been exploring procedural and robotic drawing techniques.

Panel discussion Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00pm in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by opening reception in the College Gallery. Exhibition on view March 7 - March 28.

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Exhibition Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:44:50 -0500 2018-03-28T09:00:00-04:00 2018-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Event Poster
NYEEMA HARRIS, "BIODIVERSITY IN URBAN SPACES: EXPLORING HOW CARNIVORES LIVE IN DETROIT" (March 28, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51368 51368-12086795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

These sessions are a response to requests from faculty and students to learn more about what’s going on in the field in an informal environment. We hope this can inspire emergent thoughts and connections that will inform our scholarship.

Lunch is included, please bring a drink.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:39:28 -0400 2018-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Art and Architecture Building
WALLENBERG STUDIO LECTURE: GABRIELLA GOMEZ-MONT, "THE EXPERIMENTALISTS: CITIES, POLITICAL IMAGINATION & SOCIAL CREATIVITY" (April 2, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51445 51445-12109575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 2, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Five years ago Gabriella Gómez-Mont had a tremendously provocative offer from the newly elected Mayor of Mexico City: to invent a new type of city department from scratch. Shape-shifting and experimental, specialising in the gaps and tensions between things; civics, politics and humanities in continuous conversation.

So what happened when a journalist / visual artist / documentary filmmaker is given free rein to convene a highly multidisciplinary team - artists, filmmakers, designers, writers, activists, historians and architects working hand in hand with political scientists, urban geographers, anthropologists, mathematicians, internationalists, urban planners, civic tech and AI experts - all bound together by their passion for a certain megalopolis? Experiencing the perils and possibilities of urban experiments and collaborative practices in a divided and gargantuan territory; tackling subjects such as governance, mobility, the right to the city and participatory infrastructures, reimagining social and urban realities from within.

Gabriella Gómez-Mont is the founder of Laboratorio para la Ciudad, the experimental arm / creative think tank of the Mexico City government, reporting to the Mayor. The Lab is a place to reflect about all things city and to explore other social scripts and urban futures for the largest megalopolis in the western hemisphere, working across diverse areas, such as urban creativity, mobility, governance, civic tech, public space, etc. In addition, the Lab searches to create links between civil society and government, constantly shifting shape to accommodate multidisciplinary collaborations, insisting on the importance of political and public imagination in the execution of its experiments.

Besides her fascination with all things city, Gabriella is also a journalist, visual artist, a director of documentary films, as well as a creative advisor to several cities, universities and companies. She has been awarded several international recognitions for her work in different fields, such as the first prize in both the Audi Urban Future Award and the Best Art Practice Award given by the Italian government, as well as the TED City 2.0 Prize, among others. In addition to being a Yale World Fellow, she is also a TED speaker, TED Senior Fellow, an MIT Director´s Fellow, an Institute for the Future Fellow, a World Cities Summit Young Leader and part of the international advisory committee for the Mayor of Seoul on Social Innovation. She was recently named one of the 100 most creative people by Fast Company magazine.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:34:53 -0400 2018-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 2018-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
LEARNING FROM DETROIT: A RIVERFRONT FOR ALL (April 2, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51447 51447-12109579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 2, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

This panel discussion will provide students with real-world experience and practical advice. Focusing on the Detroit Riverfront as well as neighborhoods throughout the city, this session will outline the planning and development approaches currently employed in the City of Detroit regeneration efforts. It will also address critical questions through applying landscape, architectural, historic preservation and zoning innovations to transform current conditions, while honoring and retaining a population that has consistently resisted displacement.

Panelists:

Kumar Kintala (Bedrock, Detroit)
Michael Poris (Mcintosh Poris Associates)
Moddie Turay (Moddie Turay, Real Estate)
Erin Kelly (City of Detroit Planning and Development Department)

Moderator: Maurice Cox (City of Detroit)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Mar 2018 11:14:26 -0400 2018-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 2018-04-02T19:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
EXHIBITION PRESENTATIONS AND OPENING: ARCHITECTURE FELLOWS, "ARCHITECTURES BY PROXY (April 3, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51580 51580-12170462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Presentations April 3, followed by an opening reception in the college gallery. Exhibition on view: April 4 - May 4

Installations presenting the research of the three current architecture fellows:

William Muschenheim Fellowship - Laida Aguirre
Laida Aguirre is an architectural designer and artist currently based in Los Angeles, CA. She holds a BA from Northeastern University and a Master of Architecture from California Polytechnic Pomona where she is currently Adjunct Faculty at the Department of Architecture. She is the recipient of the Chapman Technology Award, the Dangermond Scholarship and the Richard Neutra Award for Best Graduate Thesis for her project 'Catalog Tectonics’. Through research and exhibitions her work examines the disciplinary periphery of architecture and attempts to extract covert systems of authorship. Laida’s work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, San Sebastian, New York, Berlin, Oslo and Stockholm. She is co-founder of the design studio Cartouche with Ariana Rubcic.

Walter B. Sanders Fellow - Steven Lauritano
Steven Lauritano is a theorist and historian of architecture and the visual arts. He earned his doctorate from Yale University in December 2016 and is currently completing a book project on Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s conception of history, based on the Prussian designer’s experimental work with antique remains. Lauritano holds an MArch from Princeton University and has spent time in the office of Reiser + Umemoto. He is a former fellow of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität and a recipient of the Carter Manny Award for Research, granted by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. His writings have appeared in Perspecta, Pidgin Magazine, Circo and 306090 Books.

Willard A. Oberdick Fellow - Brittany Utting
Brittany Utting holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University where she received the Sonia Albert Schimberg Prize as outstanding graduating woman and was awarded teaching fellowships under Peter Eisenman and Emmanuel Petit. She received a Bachelor of Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, graduating as Presidential Scholar and a founding member of the Shape Computation Laboratory, receiving the Presidential Undergraduate Research Award for her work on informal housing typologies. Currently, Brittany is practicing at Thomas Phifer and Partners and is a project designer on the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland. Previously, Brittany worked at Log, Journal for Architecture and on the forthcoming book Alberti Analogous. Brittany's ongoing research considers the evolving image of the home, its competing mythologies and ideologies, as an index of a society’s habits of living and production as well as a measure of a culture’s collective desires.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:11:54 -0400 2018-04-03T18:00:00-04:00 2018-04-03T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
ROBERT J. SWANSON MEMORIAL LECTURE: GREGG PASQUARELLI (SHOP ARCHITECTS) (April 6, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48493 48493-11243783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 6, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Gregg Pasquarelli co-founded the architectural firm SHoP Architects with Christopher Sharples, Coren Sharples, Kimberly Holden, and William Sharples in 1997 and has lectured, exhibited, and been published internationally. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. Pasquarelli received a Bachelor of Science from the School of Business at Villanova University and a Master of Architecture from Columbia GSAPP.

SHoP's work includes the Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn; a two-mile esplanade and park along the East River Waterfront in New York; the Innovation Hub government complex in Botswana; the South Street Seaport redevelopment in New York; a new major league soccer stadium in New York; and projects for Google in Mountain View, California.

Pasquarelli has taught at Yale, Columbia, the University of Virginia, and the University of Florida. He has lectured globally and his work has been reviewed and published in periodicals such as Architect, Architectural Record, the New Yorker, Wallpaper, Metropolis, Wired, Fast Company, Surface, Dwell, A+U, and The New York Times, among others.

SHoP's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Pasquarelli serves on the Board of Directors for the Architectural League of New York and is a Young Leader’s Fellow of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.

HUDSON’S SITE DEVELOPMENT

In 2013, SHoP was selected after an invited competition to study the possibilities for using the former J.L. Hudson’s Department Store site in downtown Detroit as a catalyst for the ongoing revitalization of the city. Our clients at Rock Ventures recognized that the Hudson’s site must play a central role in their ongoing efforts to revitalize the city by returning residents, commerce, and cultural uses to the center of the city. Together with Detroit-based architects Hamilton Anderson Associates, we designed a building that offers a very broad range of uses. At its center is an enclosed community civic space that opens wide to welcome residents and visitors from surrounding streets. Around that center, retail, residential as well as food and culture will provide everyday services now lacking for the influx of residents that continue to relocate Downtown. Once complete, the building will be a powerful tool for encouraging growth and the renewal of civic pride—not only downtown but in the surrounding communities and the city and the region as a whole.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:24:25 -0500 2018-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 2018-04-06T19:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Event Poster