Antje Steinmuller, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, University of Michigan’s new chair of architecture is rethinking housing through identity and density. Prior to arriving in Ann Arbor, Steinmuller served as chair of undergraduate architecture at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, among other leadership posts, where her decades of work as an educator, designer, author, and researcher had noticeable impacts on California housing policy. Her current research focuses on innovative housing typologies and the role design can play in mitigating the U.S. housing crisis. Shortly after the beginning of fall term, METROPOLIS connected with Steinmuller to learn more about her current and future work in this regard, and how she was settling into her new role. https://lnkd.in/eE45GSYq
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In this article for the American Planning Association, Patty Folan encourages people to consider the local market and see whether zoning reform, phased development, or pop-ups can make implementing transit-oriented development a reality. Folan is a visiting associate professor of landscape architecture in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. Find out more about her seven ways to rethink transit-oriented development (TOD) in slow-growth areas: https://lnkd.in/gU5KtqXu
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New blog alert! In this blog post, one of our Program Coordinators, Violeta, offers an in-depth look into the world of urban design, drawing from her experience in taking an Urban Design Fundamentals course at the University of Waterloo. Read the blog here: https://lnkd.in/gSWMN--D
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Check out this interesting event on creating architecture and lighting that is safe for bird migration!
A building isn't sustainable until it's bird friendly. Migratory birds live in and pass through our urban areas, making them critical habitats. Join us for Bird-Friendly Building: Designing Safer Buildings for Birds, Apr. 18, 12–1:30pm, a webinar featuring the co-leads of the Yale Bird-Friendly Building Initiative and the co-authors of "Building Safer Cities for Birds." Learn more and register >> https://lnkd.in/gYHcMZCw Presenters: - Meredith Barges, Lights Out Connecticut - Viveca Morris, Yale Law School - Kristof Zyskowski, Yale Peabody Museum Tickets: $10 Member, $20 Non-member Sponsored by: Guardian Glass North America Newman Architects, PC #BuildGreenCT #BirdFriendlyDesign #ConnecticutSustainability #BuiltEnvironment #BirdFriendlyBuilding
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Chair @ Cook County Health | Pulmonary Medicine | Sleep Medicine | Critical Care Medicine
Chicago is the "City of the Century" for its legacy of innovation, resilience, and impact. Rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1871, it pioneered the modern skyscraper and set global standards in architecture. During the Industrial Revolution, Chicago became the country’s railroad center, driving the economy through manufacturing and trade. Culturally, the city shaped American music, introducing jazz and blues legends like Louis Armstrong. The 1893 World’s Fair showcased groundbreaking achievements, cementing Chicago as a leader in arts and industry. Social reformers like Jane Addams transformed the city, leading labor and civil rights movements that left a national imprint. Chicago’s constant reinvention—from revitalizing its waterfront to leading in tech and healthcare—reflects its resilience and ambition. Today, it stands as a symbol of progress, diversity, and innovation. #CityOfTheCentury #Chicago #Innovation #UrbanDevelopment #Architecture #Resilience #CulturalImpact #Leadership #Reinvention
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Olmsted Scholar Jorge Mayorga recently graduated with his MLA from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He aims to work with diverse disciplines to design landscape urban projects that enhance the resiliency of marginalized communities and cities throughout the world. As a co-founder and project leader of Human Scale, a design-build 501c3 not-for-profit organization, Jorge has committed his energies as a young landscape architect to designing and building functional and meaningful public spaces in Chicago neighborhoods such as Englewood, Austin, Pilsen, Little Village, and other historically disinvested communities. The completed outdoor community projects have helped improve the mental and physical wellness of veterans and neighbors, promote civic responsibility, highlight heritage and culture, and foster strong inter-generational relationships among the people Human Scale has worked with. Named for Frederick Law Olmsted, the LAF Olmsted Scholars Program is the premier leadership recognition program for landscape architecture students. Now in its 17th year, the program honors students who advance sustainable design and foster human and societal benefits through ideas, influence, communication, service, and leadership. #landscapearchitecture #landscapearchitecturestudents
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And may I say, what a fabulous building it is to work in. The sense of light and space is really significant, creating an excellent working environment.
We're honoured that Thames Christian School & Battersea Chapel has won a RIBA London Award for 2024. Our many thanks go to wonderful clients at Thames Christian School and Battersea Chapel as well as Taylor Wimpey plc and Wandsworth Borough Council, dedicated collaborators and a fantastic team that made it all possible! The project, sited next to Clapham Junction railway station, brings together the Battersea Chapel Baptist Church and the independent co-educational secondary Thames Christian School. The 6-storey, 5,175m2 building provides the church with a new community hall and sanctuary, and allows the school to expand to 400 pupils, of which nearly half are on the SEN register. The RIBA London jury said that "The architecture of the new building offers stability and permanence in a physical and psychological context that surely welcomes its assured, confident presence and robust materiality. It exudes a rare civic presence, a calm determination and resolve. Anchoring the energy of the neighbourhood, it is marked by finely composed plans and elevations which have resulted in a powerful, sensitively crafted new building." They concluded that "It is the antithesis of an architectural culture which is an extension of the entertainment industry. This is an architecture that explores civic character, exemplified by decorum, quietude and presence, achieved through skill, discipline and material."
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Science and Culture: How towns are adapting to fire as bigger burns loom. Ecologists, urban planners, and landscape architects are coming together to find solutions, including expanding traditional fuel break to make them part of a town’s landscape. In some places, these strategies are already gaining acceptance from local officials and homeowners—even if reluctantly. A PNAS Science and Culture: https://ow.ly/ge4k50UQhSv
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What are your hopes for the future of landscape architecture? Olmsted Scholar Kaylah Lue is an undergraduate landscape architecture student at Rutgers University. She plans to get her MLA through Rutgers' 4+1 BSLA/MLA program. Her mission is to create for and with others, fostering public spaces that comprehensively reflect the nuances that inform the site as well as the hopes of the community. Named for Frederick Law Olmsted, the LAF Olmsted Scholars Program is the premier leadership recognition program for landscape architecture students. Now in its 17th year, the program honors students who advance sustainable design and foster human and societal benefits through ideas, influence, communication, service, and leadership. #landscapearchitecture #landscapearchitecturestudents
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Join us on Monday, November 4 for Architecture and Activism: Axel Timm. The practice of our collective raumlaborberlin refers very much to Lefebvre´s quote “Space is a product of (social) interaction." Thus our approach to the city and towards architecture is not the built space or the building of space in particular but rather the conception, the perception – the inhabiting of it. Within our approach with a focus on public or semi public space - we work at the intersection of architecture, city planning, art and urban intervention. In our work we address the city and urban renewal as a process connected to preferably all users of those spaces. For more event information: https://myumi.ch/egqGn
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