PORTICO 2006/1

University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Table of Contents

From the Dean........................................................................................1

Developing Good Places: The Real Estate Program........................3

For Real: Michigan Takes On Development.......................................4

Real Estate Advisory Committee and Faculty...................................8

College Update.....................................................................................10

Faculty Update.....................................................................................12

Student Update....................................................................................18

Alumni Update......................................................................................23

Class Notes...........................................................................................24

Calendar of Events...................................................Inside back cover

ON THE COVER
The Value of Forgetting: This drawing was an assignment for Arch 509, Drawing with
Attitude, taught by Associate Professor Perry Kulper during Winter 2006 and involved
successive phases of marking, editing, and censoring as a form of creative production.
Using ink on mylar, laser-cut strathmore, and a cigar box, a pattern of 24 marks was
repeated 36 times. The pattern was intended to flickerto produce a sense of depth and
movement when layered in multiples. This method was used to explore an interest in
producing difference within a fixed and repetitive system.

Jeana DAgostino, M.Arch. (3G) Candidate, 2006

 From the Dean

You may have noticed that recent Porticos have focused on college cam-
paign themes. This issue features our fifth and last capital campaign theme:
Developing Good Places: the Real Estate Program. Im happy to say that the
college now offers a Real Estate Development Certificate Program for our
graduate students in urban planning, architecture, and urban design. Led by
Taubman College, it is a joint program that is also available to students in the
Ross School of Business, Law School, Ford School of Public Policy, and School
of Natural Resource and Environment.

This program has been a long time coming. Twenty years ago next October,
Peter Allen, who has volunteered countless days of his time to starting a

Photograph by Angela Cesare

UM real estate development program, convened the first annual UM/ULI
(Urban Land Institute) conference. Ever since then he and a number of other
permanent and adjunct faculty have been teaching real estate courses to
our students. Pressure from both the real estate development community
and students to start a formal program has been steadily building for years.
The colleges Urban + Regional Planning Program, led by Professor Margaret
Dewar, developed a curriculum with faculty from the other schools and
successfully won University approval to start a certificate program. A
director was needed, several international searches conducted, and finally
an outstanding candidate emerged and was recruited.

Chris Leinberger, a nationally-respected real estate consultant, developer,

and downtown turn-around expert, was appointed as a part-time professor
of practice last September. He splits his time with The Brookings Institution
in Washington, D.C., commuting weekly to Ann Arbor. Chris has aspirations
to make this the countrys go-to program for studying progressive real es-
tate development and to ultimately grow it into a masters degree program.

Students are genuinely excited about his appointment and about the
program. The initial enrollment quota of 25 students was quickly filled, with
the number eventually to double. Chris passion for walkable, mixed-use
urbanity resonates well with our urban planning and urban design faculty
and students. He also bolsters our commitment to Detroit and other Michigan
cities, which was the focus of last falls Portico. Indeed, he hopes to soon
play a major role in developing a strategic plan for downtown Detroit, where
reinvestment is dramatically increasing and showing promise of reaching
the tipping point so long hoped for in that great city.

Why did Taubman College take the lead in a real estate development
program at UM? First, we felt a great university should offer a program
in such an important subject. Second, there was a growing demand from
students. Third, there were many courses already taught across campus
that could be shaped into a more formal curriculum. And last, a school
of architecture and urban planning cannot afford to ignore real estate
development. Developers are like the princely patrons of the past. They call
many of the shots in the shaping of the built environment, which is not only
central to the colleges mission but also societys biggest asset and invest-
mentbigger than education, defense, or health care. Architects, planners,
and developers need to know how to work together to design and plan better


buildings and environments, especially the speculative housing, retail, and office developments that make up the
overwhelming bulk of our buildings. There is no doubt that they can learn from each other, starting in their student
years. As President Mary Sue Coleman recently proclaimed: collaborate or perish!

As we close out this series of Porticos, let me recapitulate our other four college themes:
Creating sustainable buildings and cities
Widening the international experience
Leveraging the information revolution
Redeveloping the American city: Detroit and beyond

These themes were developed with alumni, faculty, and student input at the beginning of The Michigan Difference
campaign. They attempt to embody our values and activate our efforts to make our school the best that it can be. We
have scored many, many successes within each theme, as we have tried to convey to you over the last two years.
Your advice and support has helped us realize many of these successes, as the college continues its quest to be an
international leader in all of the fields that it touches.

Beginning in September and throughout the 200607 academic year we will observe the centennial of the college.
(In September 1906, Emil Lorch founded the architecture program at UM with an enrollment of 11 students. To kick
this off, in lieu of the fall issue of Portico, you will receive a pictorial history of the college. We are also planning two
distinctly different centennial conferences, the first November 34, 2006, and the second January 46, 2007. The
November 2006 conference, Replay/Pause/Fast Forward: TCAUP@100, will highlight the College: who we are, what
we believe, what were doing, and why. The January 2007 event, Global Place: Practice, Politics, and the City, will
bring to our College outstanding scholars and practitioners from around the world.

Please save the date for Saturday, November 4, when we hope youll join us to celebrate our 100th birthday with a
gala dinner for alumni, friends, and faculty.

Douglas S. Kelbaugh, Dean

These are some of the

hardy staff who committed to
the UM Fitness Program.
Score: Women: 12, Men: 3

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 The Capital Campaign

Developing
good places:
The Real Estate Program
Today, there is rising and justifiable concern among professionals,
academics, and citizens about the declining quality of the built
environment, as well as deterioration of the natural environment. There is
also frustration at the inability of a single discipline or profession to deal
with these problems.

Accordingly, Taubman College has developed an exciting By taking extra coursesoften during an additional term
integrated program with the Schools of Business and Law. students from the urban planning, architecture, business, and
Although existing courses offered at UM deal with real estate, the law programs (plus a few other programs) can earn a Graduate
new Graduate Certificate Program in Real Estate Development Certificate in Real Estate Development in addition to their
is the only formal, coherent program of study devoted to the graduate degrees.
planning, development, and management of the built environment.
Ultimately, we envision as many as three components: a new
This nationally competitive, interdisciplinary program in real interdisciplinary graduate degree program, research, and
estate takes advantage of Michigans rich array of resources lifelong learning.
and is devoted to the physical development of places and
communities that are livable, affordable, beautiful, and
sustainablerather than focusing primarily on finance and
capital markets, as most real estate programs do. CAMPAIGN TARGETS
Support with expendable gifts or endow the Directorship
The programwhich enrolled its first class in fall 2005enables and Professorship(s) in the Real Estate Program,
students in urban planning, architecture, business, law, public preferably with adjunct or joint appointments in the
policy, and natural resources and environment to begin to Schools of Business and Law
understand and appreciate the interplay of planning and design Support students in the Real Estate Program with endowed
with economics, politics, law, finance, and business. and annual scholarships
Establish an interdisciplinary research center at
the University.

This page is an excerpt from A Second Century

of Leadership: The Case for Taubman College of
Architecture + Urban Planning. Send an email to
[email protected] to request a copy.


photographs by Ken Arbogast-Wilson

REAL
FOR
Richard Bole

by Janice Harvey, Taubman College The focus of students and faculty at Taubman College is place-
making; a focus that extends across all scalesfrom the careful

design and elegant crafting of building details to the comprehensive

A few of the students enrolled in
planning of livable cities and sustainable regions. 1 Oftentimes, however,
the certificate program gathered the de facto place-makersthose on the ground making the office parks, residential
subdivisions, and shopping mallsare real estate developers. As Drew Deering, an
recently to talk about the places urban design student in the real estate certificate program says, the developers are
always the first ones in the door and know whats going on before the elected officials
they love and how the real es- know whats happening in their own towns. If we are truly about creating good places,
we must engage in pedagogy and conduct research and train practitioners who will
tate program is equipping them raise aspirations for real estate development as a profession.

with the skills to be better and This spring the first real estate cer- very specific skill sethow to read a lease,
tificates are being issued to students how to finance a project, how to develop a
more responsible developers. receiving graduate degrees in planning, pro forma, etc.
landscape architecture, civil engineering,
urban design, business, and law. The stu- The real estate certificate program evolved
dents come from a variety of professional from the realization that the huge absorption
backgrounds and academic interests of land, especially by residential develop-
housing and community development, ment, has reached crisis proportions. Larger
investment banking, architectural design and larger homes are being built on larger
and construction, journalism, and even lots and more miles of freeways are being
sales. They possess a combination of constructed, facilitating ever-longer daily
idealism and pragmatism. Interested in commutes. The by-products of this conven-
downtown revitalization, historic pres- tional development are the degradation of
ervation, and economic and community the natural environment and a cheapening of
development, they talk enthusiastically the built environment. Faculty in this college
about place-making and aspire to create and others across campus believe there are
great places. At the same time these ways to maintain and create places that are
students are working hard to obtain a less land intensive and contribute to an im-

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MICHIGAN Takes On
Development
proved quality of life for their inhabitants.
They recognize the University of Michigan
holdings, and real estate has become less
about houses and stores and increasingly
is uniquely positioned to equip future about capital and investment value.
professionals with the skills to improve the
quality of the built environment. A few of the students
enrolled in the
Most real estate developers dont learn certificate program
development per se. Many are architects gathered recently
adept at financing or business profes- to talk about the
sionals with vision and opportunity. And places they love and
few existing real estate degree programs how the real estate
at other universities teach real estate program is equipping
development. Many teach real estate them with the skills
managementhow to protect this capital to be better and
asset that represents a huge percentage more responsible
of corporate net worth and how to use real developers.
estate holdings to improve the bottom line
through accelerated depreciation time- Studying urban design has given Drew Drew Deering
lines. Many also teach real estate in terms Deering an appreciation of a wide range
of its investment value and how to make of places. He loves everything from
real estate profitable. Chris Leinberger, the small hamlet to New York City. He
director of the real estate certificate says his favorite places are small to mid
program, talks about the introduction, a scalee.g. a small town of 20,000, or a
half a century ago, of discounted cash transit stop, or a traditional neighborhood
flow, and how this concept enabled inves- center. Drew grew up in an Oklahoma
tors to evaluate real property in the same college town, with a mostly homogenous
way they could evaluate stock offerings. population, and graduated with a bachelor
As a result, many successful investors do of architecture. For the last four years,
not have emotional attachments to their he worked for HOK Sports, a firm with a


 name for reinventing the urban ballpark, the place-oriented curriculum here at
a typology credited with an ability to spur TCAUP was important and enlightening.
revitalization in downtown areas.
From the age of five, Alison Ettel traveled
Jenifer Huestis is a second-year plan- in Europe every year. Her family went once
ning student who grew up, she says, in or twice a year to visit extended family in
a run down neighborhood in Chicago. Germany and England. Growing up in very
But, she says, I dont think theres suburban Atlanta, she didnt realize that
anyplace I love more in this world the U.S. could have anything like the towns
than Chicago. Im sure it has to do she visited in Europe. After finishing school
with the personal connections I at Georgia Tech., she moved to Philadelphia
have there; but growing up, I didnt where she worked as a trader for six years.
know that Chicago was unique. I It was very French, very European and I
just thought every place was like was shocked. I lived in downtown Philly
this. I took for granted that you and I would walk to my work a block away.
could just walk places. She loves I would walk to the gym. I would walk to the
Chicago because of its unique mix of grocery store, walk to the cheese shops,
elementsthe drama of the skyline; restaurants, bars, and everywhere. She
the collection of discrete, intimate became interested in historic buildings,
neighborhoods; the beauty of the revitalizing downtown, and eventually
Lake Michigan shoreline and its real estate development. Looking for a
grand parksall of which Jenifer top flight business school that offered a
believes combine to create a fabric real estate concentration, she decided
that is not found anywhere else. on Michigan where she could pursue
dual MBA and MUP degrees and gain
Richard Bole, a dual degree student at the certification in real estate.
Jenifer Huestis Ross School of Business and in the School
of NaturaI Resources and Environment, The places you grew up in have special
tends to be attracted to depressed connections, so I would say my favorite
downtowns on their way back. Places like place is San Francisco, says Jessica
Pittsburgh and Cleveland, where you can de Wit. Its such a small city, really only
see young energy being injected into the maybe seven miles long but every neigh-
city but where you can still find a group borhood is very different. You can walk
of recent Guatemalan immigrants playing down one block every day and probably
games with old milk jugs, find an authentic notice something different. Whether its the
pierogi at a neighborhood place, and where fog rolling in changing the reflections on
theres an existing stock of glorious old beautiful, old buildings, or its the neighbor-
structures with potential for restoration, hood people walking, a throng of tourists,
along with a mix of new structures. or a parade or festival. For a small city, it
Richard thinks this is a combination unique has a big impact. Jessica volunteered
to the so-called Rust Belt. After working with environmental groups in the Bay Area
for two years as an investment banking while working in web development. She
analyst on Wall Street, Richard, a hard became increasingly interested in infill
core finance-directed individual, realized development in inner city neighborhoods as
soon after he arrived at UM, that he wanted one solution to suburban sprawl. Enrolling
to do real estate development as a career. in graduate school, she was attracted to
He had the financial background, but had the interdisciplinary academic environment
no idea about the other 90 percent that it that the University of Michigan strongly
takes to be a developer and so getting ac- encourages. She is studying in the urban
cess to the real estate program, especially planning program but has taken classes at

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the Ross School, the College of Engineering, modular, stand alone, car
and the School of Natural Resources and driven places but weve lost
Environment. the ability to create place.
Walkable places.
Kelly Lindland grew up and attended
school in northwest Missouri, majoring The students believe what
in marketing and management. She says they are learning will give
she finds great places everywhere I go. It them an advantage in real
might just be a tiny part of a city. Or a town estate development;
that I think is great. Its more about how enabling them to make money while
Kelly Lindland
connected I feel when Im there. How many doing good, as Alison says. They also
different things are going on? How many hope that the presence of this interdis-
choices are there? How do people feel in ciplinary program will infuse ideas about
that place? She enrolled in the graduate sustainable practices throughout the
urban and regional planning program with disciplines, even for students and faculty
an interest in developing places that better not directly involved in the certificate
express the individuals living and working program. They talk about classmates from The program is place-based,
in them. the business school who have worked
at big commercial real estate financing focusing on creating places and
As with other university real estate firms advocating the need to create more
programs, the curriculum of the TCAUP building stock that can be discounted in particular, places that are
program provides an understanding of the (because you never know whats going to
basics in terms of finance, law, planning, happen in the future). This conventional walkable with multiple transporta-
and other functional elements. Leinberger thinking leads to a build cheap and build
says the difference is the program is fast mentality. The concept of creating tion options. But at their base,
place-based, focusing on creating places special places is lost on most MBAs until
and in particular, places that are walkable they come into one of these classes. They theyre walkable.
with multiple transportation options. But come in wanting planners and architects
at their base, theyre walkable. To give to find a way to get it done in two weeks!
students some of the basics and teach says Richard.
them how to speak conventional develop-
menta language understood by real He says, Im pleasantly surprised by the
estate investors, contractors, and financial curricular focus here. I would expect that
institutionsthey learn how to make a youd go to a business school or an urban
strip retail center in Leinbergers finance planning school and learn to do the type
class. Progressive development (well- of development that dominates 95 percent
designed buildings, good urbanism, patient of the market. Here were carving out this
capital, and environmental stewardship) critical niche that hopefully will soon grow
is not as apparent or transparent as the to be 3040 percent of the market. Thats
conventional. Understanding both types will a pretty bold step. Were doing something
help progressive developers present their thats not big yet. Its there but just barely.
projects in terms banks can understand.
Leinberger works under the assumption 1. From the Colleges Campaign Case Statement,
Century: A Second Century of Leadership
that [progressive development] is going to
constitute the majority of the demand over
the next 2030 years. Not the vast majority
but the majority. He fears that we in real
estate have lost the knowledge, passion,
and patience for doing this type of develop-
ment. Weve learned very well how to do


Real Estate Advisory Robert Fishman
professor of architecture and urban planning

Committee and Faculty Robert Fishman teaches in the urban design,

architecture, and urban planning programs.
He received his Ph.D. and A.M. in history from
Peter Allen Harvard and his A.B. in history from Stanford
lecturer in urban planning University. He is a nationally recognized expert in
Peter Allen has 33 years of experience as an the areas of urban history and urban policy and planning. He has
Ann Arbor area real estate developer, consultant, authored several books regarded as seminal texts, on the history
and University of Michigan educator. Allen has of cities and urbanism including Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise
developed, brokered or leased major properties and Fall of Suburbia (1987) and Urban Utopias in the Twentieth
in the area, mostly commercial downtown Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier
rehabs. Additionally, Allen has chaired or (1977). His most recent work is on ex-urbs.
founded numerous local and regional conferences highlighting
public policy issues relating to development and the local quality Christopher B. Leinberger
of life. He founded the UM/ULI Real Estate Forum and served as director, graduate certificate in
its executive director for 10 years. real estate development
professor of practice in urban planning
Dennis R. Capozza Chris Leinberger is a land use strategist, devel-
professor of finance and real estate oper, and author helping to make progressive
dykema professor of business administration development profitable. He is a visiting fellow
Dennis Capozzas research activity is currently focused on real at The Brookings Institution in Washington,
estate and consumer finance. Recently published research D.C., focusing on research and practices that help to transform
includes articles on real investment, capital intensity and interest traditional and suburban downtowns and other places to provide
rates; income taxes and housing prices; the dynamic structure of walkable urbanity. Leinberger has written award-winning
housing markets; and debt, agency, and management contracts articles for publications such as the Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street
in REITs. Journal, and Urban Land magazine, among others. He has been
profiled by national broadcast and print media such as CNN
Lan Deng and the Today Show, among others. Leinberger is a graduate of
assistant professor of urban planning Swarthmore College and Harvard Business School.
Lan Dengs teaching and research interests are
in the areas of housing economics and policy, Jonathan Levine
urban economics, real estate development and chair and associate professor of
finance, and local public finance. Her current urban + regional planning
research includes: the economic efficiency Jonathan Levine teaches courses in transporta-
and neighborhood outcome of various federal tion policy and planning, public economics
low-income housing programs, the supply dynamics of multifamily in urban planning, and quantitative planning
housing production, the relationships between macro-economic methods, in addition to several doctoral semi-
growth, regional investment, and neighborhood change. She nars. Levines published work has significantly
currently teaches: real estate and urban development, housing influenced the field of transportation policy. His research focuses
systems, and fiscal planning and management. Professor Deng on the relationships between transportation systems and land
holds a Ph.D. in city and regional planning (2004) from University use in metropolitan regions, factors that drive the development of
of California, Berkeley, an M.S. (1999), and B.S. (1996) in such systems, and the efficiency of public transit. He is the author
geography from Beijing University. of Zoned Out: Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation
and Metropolitan Land Use.

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 Lynda J. Oswald
professor of business law 20th ANNUAL UM/ULI REAL ESTATE FORUM
Lynda Oswalds research focuses on intel- PLANNED FOR DETROIT
lectual and real property law issues, including
environmental liability issues and land use law. The 20th Annual University of Michigan/Urban Land
She is a research fellow of the William Davidson Institute Real Estate Forum will take place on Thursday,
Institute. She has served as the Louis and October 26, and Friday, October 27. For the first time ever,
Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Law the annual forum program is a nationally sponsored ULI
and Business and as a contributing editor to the Real Estate Law event and is expected to attract participants and attendees
Journal. She is currently the editor of the Michigan Real Property from throughout the country. Nationally-renowned veteran
Review. She has taught at the University of Florida Law School, real estate developer Albert B Ratner, co-chairman of
the University of Michigan Law School, China University of the board of Forest City Enterprises, Inc., will deliver the
Political Science and Law in Beijing, and Lviv State University keynote address on Friday.
in Ukraine. Professor Oswald has received numerous awards
for her research, including the Hoeber Memorial Award and The forum format has been revamped this year and
the Holmes-Cardozo Award for Research Excellence from the promises a tightly-focused, project-based agenda that will
American Business Law Journal. appeal to real estate developers, as well as the brokerage
community, public sector officials, and other real estate
Kit Krankel McCullough professionals.
lecturer in urban design
Kit McCullough holds a master of architecture in urban design Detroit will again be the focal point of the forum, but with
from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a a new twist. With its theme, The Next American Dream:
bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Texas Creating Walkable Urbanity, the forum will examine the
at Austin. She has 20 years professional experience and has regeneration of downtown Detroit. Plans calls for dynamic
worked for Urban Design Associates in Pittsburgh, at the Harvard workshops coupled with interactive roundtable discussion
University Planning Group in Cambridge, Mass., the Boston groups led by local and national leaders. Also new this
Redevelopment Authority; and for Andres Duany & Elizabeth year, a walking tour will replace the usual bus tour. Both
Plater-Zyberk in Miami, Florida. She has worked on urban design Days, Thursday and Friday, will take place in Detroit at the
and planning projects across the country, including new town Cobo Conference and Exhibition Center.
master plans in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, revitalization
plans for Warren, Michigan; Norfolk, Virginia; and Austin, Texas. Be sure to save the date, and visit www.umuliforum.com to
She teaches in both the Master of Urban Design Program and the register or for more information.
Real Estate Development Program.

David Thacher
associate professor of public policy and urban planning
David Thacher received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and a masters of urban planning from
Taubman College. His work examines how empirical research can
help us think more clearly about values in public policyboth
in general and in the specific areas of housing policy, criminal
justice, and public management.


College Update

BOOTSTRAPPING

Front row, left to right:

Dan Rutzick, David Epstein,
Bootstrapping is the twelfth release in Raju Mann; Back row, left to right:
the Michigan Architecture Papers series. Liz Delgado, Yoohyung Joo, Cheryl
This book features the work of New York Raleigh, Sarah Moon, Erin Rhodes,
City architects and Fall 2004 Max Fisher Professor Dewar.
Visiting Professors Scott Marble and Karen
Fairbanks, B.S.81. The book was edited UM Planners Visit Madrid to Learn More about Mega-Regions
and designed by 200304 Muschenheim
Fellow Luke Bulman and includes essays Eight urban planning students and Professor Margaret Dewar traveled to Madrid,
by Columbia University Professors Michael Spain in March to participate in an intensive workshop on regional planning in the
Bell and Reinhold Martin. The MAP series United States and the European Union. Students heard from leading European planners
is published by TCAUP and internationally
distributed by DAP. A book signing and and received extensive feedback on plans they are preparing on mega-regions
reception are scheduled for Tuesday, May in the United States.
9, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at The Storefront
for Art and Architecture in New York (see
calendar). Luke Bulman, Karen Fairbanks, Teams of students and faculty from the University of Pennsylvania and the University
and Scott Marble will be in attendance of Texas at Austin also participated. The Michigan students are developing a plan for
along with Architecture Program Chair the Great Lakes mega-region, the large area from Pittsburgh through Milwaukee that
Tom Buresh and TCAUP staff member
Mary Anne Drew. includes more than 15 percent of the nations population.

Visit http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/ The students are working in association with a nationwide network of regional planners
publications/ to read more about
Bootstrapping or to order your own copy. and scholars who are trying to increase attention to this scale of planning through a
project called America 2050. Many issues of environmental management, infrastruc-
ture investment, social equity, and economic competitiveness need to be addressed at a
regional scale. The Regional Plan Association of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut
and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy are leading this national effort.

Map Library North Geographic Information Systems development (GIS) received a

needed boost in FY 2006. The spatial analysis lab opened this fall with limited staffing to
assist pre-qualified students in GIS applications and analysis. The college continues to
work on fully integrating this technology into the curriculum. TCAUP is partnering with the
Map Library and Numeric Spatial Data Services to create Map Library North. This project
will extend the spatial data delivery capability of Numeric Spatial Data Services to provide
spatially referenced data campus-wide, and will establish the Taubman College Spatial
Analysis Laboratory as the North Campus center for this service. The project is funded with
a grant from the UM Office of the Vice President for Research.

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 making and situates itselfsomewhat
uncomfortablyin the stairwell of a
formerly prosperous financial institution,
now inhabited by a child care center.
Investment does not always take the
same familiar form, and in the wake of the
renovations occurring along Woodward
Avenue, this project seeks a meaningful
dialogue with the delicate state of the
world around us.The assembly team
included architecture students:

Josh Bard Lauren Nakles

Sara Biederman Angela Peckham
Mike Burton Tom Pokaratsiri
Jay Carmello Zubin Rao
Nina Cherian Todd Rutledge
AIA Detroit recruited firms and local archi- Project (www.aiami.com.), Lecturer in Erin Crowe Luis Felipe Paris
tecture schools to create and install tem- ArchitectureChristian Unverzagt worked Michael Ezban Partrick Senatore
porary displays along Detroits Woodward with over thirty graduate, undergraduate, Morri Freeman Andy Smith
Avenue to enliven storefront windows and pre-architecture students to string Anjuli Jain-Figueroa Austin Srdjak
in preparation for Super Bowl XL and up 7,300 pieces of monolament (fishing David Karle Brian Taddonio
related activities. Each of the 20 window line), creating curtains to hang in a corner Yeo-Yong Kim Note Tangsuphoom
displays featured an original design that storefront. Over 63,000 feet or nearly 12 Jae-Seung Lee David Taylor
made a positive statement about Detroit miles of line was used, enough to extend Erin McWain Chan Thou
while showcasing the talents of Detroits from Hart Plaza on the Detroit River to the Derek Molenaar Jana Vander Goot
architectural community. For Architects Detroit Zoo (in Royal Oak). The project Sammy Muhlfelder Jessica Whang
Envisioning Detroit: the AIA Detroit was described by Unverzagt as an act of Kristen Murphy Toshi Yoshimoto
Woodward Avenue Storefront Windows optimism. It embodies the effort of its own Laura Murphy

LEARNINGandLOUNGING
Revitalization and renovation of TCAUPs spaces within
the Art & Architecture Building continued with the design
and construction of two lounges executed by Lecturer in
Architecture Keith VanDerSys and Assistant Professor Karen
MCloskey. They collaborated with students Leigh Stewart
and Mark Davis; and recent graduates Matt Saurman
M.Arch.05 and Neil Thelen M.Arch.05, now a lecturer in the
Architecture Program. The lounges offer places for reading,
relaxation, and quiet conversation.

11
Faculty Update

PLY's second prize entry in the

Robbins School Competition.

Associate Professor Sophia Psarra lectured at a recent Rackham PLY Architecture, whose principals are Associate Professor
interdisciplinary seminar which brought together students Craig Borum and Assistant Professor of Practice Karl Daubmann,
and faculty interested in network analysis from many different was named one of the winners of this years Young Architects
disciplines. Psarras lecture introduced Space Syntax theory and Competition sponsored by the Architectural League of New York.
method as a specific kind of network research and its application The recognition comes with an exhibit, lecture, and book of this
to buildings and urban environments in terms of use patterns and years winners published by Princeton Architectural Press.
cultural content. She also lectured at the Lemelson Center for
the Study of Invention and Innovation in the National Museum The firm received Honorable Mention (second prize) in the
of American History, Smithsonian Institution on the relationship Robbins School (Trenton, N.J.) Competition in October 2005.
between architecture and the design of exhibitions in terms of Their design was exhibited at the School Design Exhibit at Cornell
how visitors navigate, locate the collections, and access the University during FebruaryMarch 2006. The exhibition also
narrative message. Psarra recently completed the second phase included competition design entries for the Robbins School by
of consultancy on the exhibition design for the Great Museum John Ronan, B.S.85, Morphosis, Peter Eisenman, Preston Scott
of Egypt in Cairo, an on-going consultation project on a building Cohen (winners of the competition), CR Studio, Urban Office
being designed by Heneghan and Peng Architects, winners of Architecture, and Fox and Fowle.
the international competition for the museum. She had a chapter
published in S. McLeod (ed.) Reshaping Museum Space: archi- The Mies van der Rohe Plaza at Lafayette Park in Detroit,
tecture, design, exhibitions. She is also working with Professor designed by PLY in collaboration with Assistant Professor
Jean Wineman, and doctoral students Ipek Kaynar, Nicholas Karen MCloskey, was included In the December 2005 issue
Senske, and Ying Xu on the Museum of Modern Art in New of a+t, In Common II. a+t is a magazine of architecture and
York (MoMA) which addresses ways in which the new building technology.Building Practice was an exhibit with lectures by
articulates relationships between architecture, the collection, and three Detroit firms: studiozOne, Van Tine | Guthrie Studio, and PLY
the viewers. She continues to serve as external examiner for the at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign during winter term.
Advanced Architectural Studies master of science course at the
Bartlett Graduate School, University College London. OMI Japanese Restaurant in East Lansing won a State of
Michigan AIA Honor Award. The project team included Carl
Lorenz, M.Arch.01 and Jen Maigret, M.Arch.04 who is a
current member of the firm, and a lecturer in architecture at
TCAUP. Maigret was also a member of the project team for the
Robbins School and the Mies Plaza. PLYs award-winning design
for the Big 10 Burrito Restaurants was featured in the annual
INNOVATION issue of Architectural Record, (December 2005)
in an article titled Design Embraces the Machine Age by Alan
Joch and Deb Snoonian, PE.
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Associate Professor and Urban and Regional Planning Program Professor of Practice Harry Giles won a P/A award from
Chair Jonathan Levine has been invited to serve as a member Architecture magazine, which was published in the January 2006
of the Executive Committee for the Graham Environmental issue with Peter Lynch for their Cranbrook Festival Project. The
Sustainability Institute, a $10.5 million sustainability initiative project was intended to realize Saarinens vision for music and
created by the University of Michigan to advance its position dance at the art and design school he co-founded. It includes
as a global academic leader in a critical area of research and outdoor facilities for a new annual dance and music festival,
teaching. Current activity involves more than 300 UM faculty including a 2,300-square-foot canopied stage; a tech-support pa-
members, spread across seven schools, with extensive efforts vilion; seating, and canopied pavilions to accommodate corporate
in the College of Engineering, the School of Natural Resources sponsors. Since 1954, the P/A Awards program has recognized
and the Environment (SNRE), the School of Public Health, the innovative architecture at its conception and is considered by
Stephen M. Ross School of Business, and LSA. Also involved architects to be one of the worlds top honors for unbuilt projects.
are the A. Alfred Taubman School of Architecture and Urban
Planning and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Levine
spent winter break on a book tour for his book, Zoned Out.
Stops included the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning,
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg; Resources for the Future (http://www.
rff.org/rff/Events/index.cfm); Smart Growth Lecture Series
(Environmental Protection Agency, Smart Growth Network, and
National Building Museum). Washington D.C.; Urban Studies
and Planning Program, University of Maryland, College Park; and
Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. A second tour took Levine
to Oregon in April to present at the Department of Planning, Public
Policy, and Management, University of Oregon, Eugene and the
Transportation Seminar Series, Center for Transportation Studies,
Portland State University.
Giles award winning Cranbrook Festival project.
Assistant Professor of Architecture Gretchen Wilkins chaired
the Open Paper Sessions for the 94th Annual Meeting of ACSA Last summer and during the 200506 academic year, Associate
getting real. design ethos now in Salt Lake City, March 30April Professor Malcolm McCullough lectured internationally, mostly
2, 2006. Wilkins received a grant from the United States-Japan on the basis of his 2004 book Digital GroundArchitecture,
Foundation for research and travel. Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing, which had its
paperback release in fall 2005. Events have included the opening
During the fall and winter semesters, Sojourner Truth Visiting keynote for the new Nordes Design conference (www.nordes.
Professor Kelly Quinn delivered several lectures including org), held in Copenhagen; the closing keynote for the conference
Siedlungen for Washington D.C.s Families: The German Ubiquitous Content held at Keio University in Tokyo, two invited
Origins of Hilyard R. Robinsons Modern Housing Solutions at talks in the ongoing speaker series at Nokia headquarters in
Crossovers: African Americans and Germany, a symposium Helsinki; leading a two-day workshop in the Information Science
sponsored by Westflische Wilhelms-Universitt Mnster- program at Aarhus university in Denmark; a colloquium while
Englisches Seminar and German Historical Institute, Washington, visiting the Oslo School of Architecture; and participation in the
D.C. in Muenster, Germany; A good growing-up place: invitational retreat, Design Engaged held in Berlin.
Childrens Contributions to Community-Formation at Langston
Terrace Dwellings, Organization of American Historians/National Associate Professor of Architecture Shaun Jackson chaired the
Council on Public History, Washington, D.C.; and Hilyard R. 2005 Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) National
Robinsons Development as a Committed Architect, Society Conference, reAction: reThinking design for the Real World. This
for American City and Regional Planning History, Coral Gables, conference represents the largest annual coming together of
Florida. She was invited to give a plenary speech at the D.C. design leaders in North America. As conference chair Jackson
Historical Studies Conference, Washington, D.C. Her lecture was was responsible for creating the theme, selecting the presenters,
titled, Since the first stone was laid, Ive had my heart set on liv- and planning the entire event. The keynote speaker was William
ing in one: Hopeful Residents Applications for Langston Terrace McDonough who spoke about the transformation of human
Dwellings, 19351938. industry through ecologically intelligent design.

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WETSU received a Michigan AIA Honor Award for Everyday Roy Strickland received a $94,000 grant to develop a master plan
Wines in Ann Arbor. WETSU principals Associate Professor for TechTown, the only technology and research park in the city
Jason Young and Lecturer in Architecture Neal Robinson of Detroit. Concepts developed will assist TechTown and the
installed an exhibit of their work and presented a lecture titled Henry Ford Health System as they coordinate efforts to develop
Chicken and Fish at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. a new business, technology, and health services hub for Detroit
and the surrounding region. Strickland is leading an architecture
and planning studio in performing analysis of TechTown, a
12-block area between Wayne State University and Detroits
New Center area, conducting discussions with stakeholders,
and researching best practices for similar projects around the
country and around the world. Three to four master plan concepts
will be developed that will link these projects with potential
new developments in the area. Final plans for the project will be
released in October. Students working on the project are Young
Kyoo Ahn, Margaret Bailey, Robert Cameron, Austin Dingwall,
Kimberly Dresdner, David Gagnon, Han Oul Joo, Jae Seung Lee,
WETSUs
Everyday Yueh-Hung Lee, Emily Schemper, Yo-Shawn Shieh, Claire Vlach,
Wines Peter Winch, and Shao-Ning Yu

In Winter Term 2006, Kelly Quinn, Sojourner Truth Visiting Associate Professor of Architecture Jong-Jin Kim received
Professor, conducted a seminar, Gender Race + the Built a $30,000 research grant to develop Green Building Design
Environment. The class explored issues of identity and power Guidelines from Thorntree Commons Inc. Professor Kim is col-
through urban design and policy with an emphasis on the power laborating with developer David Bahle and Thorntree Commons,
of place. The Walking Project directors/artists Hilary Ramsden Inc. to construct a green residential community on the village
and Erika Block joined the class and asked students to observe, edge of Suttons Bay, Michigan. Both David Bahle and his wife
photograph, draw, write, videotape, share stories and create Jean are graduates of the University of Michigan and are very
personal maps of different neighborhoods. The Walking Project is pleased with this renewed connection with their alma mater. Its
a cultural exchange project collaboratively developed with U.S. the kind of collaborative arrangement in which all parties gain; as
and South Africa-based artists during a series of residencies in the developer, I am better equipped to transform my best inten-
Detroit and KwaZulu-Natal from 2003 through 2006. A principal tions into the development project, it provides a real world setting
goal of the tours was to highlight Detroits resilience, hope and for learning and training for our future architects, and it will have
promise amid narratives of deindustrialization, decline, and decay. direct benefit for those who may choose to live here. And as more
Quinn and the students hope to make walking tour narratives attention is focused on alternative thinking and how we shelter
available as podcasts that could be downloaded by residents ourselves, the less daunting it will seem to those who follow.
and visitors. The land that will comprise this new development has been in
the Bahle family for many years and the developer is committed
Assistant Professor of Architecture Amy Kulper presented a to preserving as much as possible the natural character of the
lecture titled Of Stylized Species and Specious Styles at the land. The College team will also be providing expertise to the
April 2006 Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting in developer in areas related to building location, orientation, and
Savannah, Georgia. massing. All homes to be built at Thorntree, will be required to
meet high standards in terms of energy efficiency with minimal
In March Associate Professor Architecture Perry Kulper installed environmental impact. Professor Kim hopes that Thorntree will
an exhibit of his work and presented a lecture titled Identity serve as a model for future residential communities around the
Theft at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. state and other regions of the country.

Assistant Professor Will Glover presented a lecture titled,

Ethnology, Engineering and Modern Architecture in India: What
happened when Ganga Ram went to London? at the University
Wisconsin, Madison in March.

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Acoustical Evaluation more Accessible
with New Software Modeling Options

by Michael Salameh, Ph.D., Lecturer in Architecture

A new high school was built before music

teachers realized the instrumental and choral
practice rooms in the music suite were too loud.
A few blocks away at the courthouse, the steady staccato of rain on the
Britton Recital Hall at the UM School of Music.
metal roof disrupted court proceedings. Model built by a graduate student to study the
room acoustics and produce auralization.
These are two
cases for

which I
was asked to provide

an
acoustical evaluation shortly
after the buildings gained

occupancy
. In

many cases like these, owners

or the design Types of Noise Modeling
team are

surprised by acoustic problems that could

have been identified and prevented in
Software
the early design development
stage.
Room Noise
Modeling, ray tracing, sound system,
Large projects with important acoustical requirements tend to involve acoustical consul- and auralization programs such as EASE
tants at early stages of the design process. Small projectswith smaller budgetsare allow rooms to be modeled based on
specular sound reflections. Auralization
less likely to involve a consultant. In such cases, architects and designers can employ and rendering, as well as limited sound
acoustical computer modeling and simulation programs as a more econmical alternative. diffusion capabilities are often included in
these programs.
Computer modeling programs simplify and streamline acoustical modeling tasks, allowing The author is developing a teaching
designer
s
to focus

more time on architectural and engineering issues. Architecture application, dubbed NoiseControl2D, that
students
can use this software to learn about and
apply acoustical

and noise consid-
models room noise by studying the impact
of factors such as room layout and sound
erations to their design
studio

projects
. As the interest among students has grown, the transmission loss due to partitions.
Building and

Environmental Technology (BET) laboratory has installed more modeling The program factors in noise levels,
packages and made them available for student use. reverberant and direct sound, NC, NCB,
STC, and composite STC.

There are four types of acoustical and noise control modeling and simulation programs Equipment Noise
that cover a wide spectrum of architectural acoustics. Two pioneering programs, HVAC system noise modeling packages
such as the Trane Acoustics Program
Acoustics2D and 3D, developed by Professor James Turner and Professor Emeritus combine equipment data and architectural
Norman Barnett, help students understand the effects of room geometry. However, these details to produce a noise evaluation. The
programs do not incorporate noise modeling, and are geared primarily to teaching. New programs often base their calculations on
the ASHRAE 1991 manual: Algorithm for
software packages address different aspects of noise modeling and are applicable to HVAC Acoustics.
commercial as well as classroom use. (see sidebar)
Environmental Noise
Community noise modeling programs
Architectural acoustics, like other areas in environmental technology, has benefited from such as CadnaA assist in the study and
advancements in computer technology. Modeling, ray tracing, and environmental evalua- evaluation of environmental noise in urban
tion that once took days to complete, can now be done in minutes. Auralization, available design and transportation conditions. These
programs often have diffraction capabilities
in most commercial software, has now become commonplace and is even more realistic. to simulate sound propagation around
Acoustical considerations can be included efficiently in the architectural design process barriers, buildings, and land terrains, and
and can have a significant impact on architectural and urban design projects. can perform calculations according to
specific national or international guides
and standards.

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TCAUP Faculty
Robert Adams Lan Deng Andrew Herscher
assistant professor of architecture assistant professor of urban planning assistant professor of architecture

Peter Allen Margaret Dewar Eric Hill

lecturer in urban planning professor of urban planning professor of practice in architecture

James Bassett Jonathan Disbrow Roger Hubeli

lecturer in architecture, lecturer in architecture lecturer in architecture
20052006 sanders fellow
Robert Fishman Shaun Jackson
Paola Zellner Bassett professor of architecture and associate professor of architecture
lecturer in architecture urban planning
Coleman Jordan
M. Craig Borum Boyd Fuller assistant professor of architecture
associate professor of architecture lecturer in urban planning
Jeffrey Kahan
David Brain Harry Giles lecturer in urban planning
lecturer in architecture, professor of practice in architecture
20052006 colin clipson fellow Douglas Kelbaugh
Dawn Gilpin dean and professor of architecture and
Tom Buresh lecturer in architecture urban planning
associate dean for academic affairs,
chair and professor of architecture Will Glover Michael Kennedy
assistant professor of architecture lecturer in architecture
Scott Campbell
coordinator, phd in urban + regional Lars Grbner Jong-Jin Kim
planning program, assistant professor lecturer in architecture associate professor of architecture
of urban planning
Joseph Grengs Amy Kulper
James Chaffers assistant professor of urban planning assistant professor of architecture
professor of architecture
Linda Groat Perry Kulper
John Comazzi professor of architecture associate professor of architecture
lecturer in architecture
Danelle Guthrie Fernando Lara
Caroline Constant lecturer in architecture assistant professor of architecture
professor of architecture
Elsie Harper-Anderson Julie Larsen
Nondita Correa-Mehrotra assistant professor of urban planning lecturer in architecture
lecturer in architecture
A. Melissa Harris Larissa Larsen
Karl Daubmann associate professor of architecture assistant professor of urban planning
assistant professor of practice
in architecture Jonas Hauptman Christopher Leinberger
lecturer in architecture professor of practice in urban planning,
director, graduate certificate in real estate
development

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Jonathan Levine Kelly Quinn James Turner
associate professor of urban planning, 20052006 sojourner truth lecturer professor of architecture
chair, urban + regional planning program in urban planning, lecturer in the center for
afroamerican and african studies Christian Unverzagt
Juliana Lieu lecturer in architecture
lecturer in architecture Wendy Rampson-Gage
lecturer in urban planning Keith VanDerSys
Jennifer Maigret lecturer in architecture
lecturer in architecture B. Neal Robinson
lecturer in architecture Peter von Blow
Steven Mankouche assistant professor of architecture
assistant professor of architecture Mireille Roddier
assistant professor of architecture Glenn Wilcox
Kit McCullough lecturer in architecture
lecturer in architecture Juan Manuel Rois
lecturer in architecture, Craig Wilkins
Malcolm McCullough 20052006 oberdick fellow director, um detroit community design
associate professor of architecture center, lecturer in architecture and urban
Michael Salameh planning
Karen MCloskey lecturer in architecture
assistant professor of architecture Gretchen Wilkins
Anatole Senkevitch assistant professor of architecture
Rahul Mehrotra associate professor of architecture
associate professor of architecture Jean Wineman
Gavin Shatkin associate dean for research,
Neil Meredith assistant professor of urban planning chair, doctoral program in architecture,
lecturer in architecture professor of architecture
Lydia Soo
Keith Mitnick associate professor of architecture Jason Young
assistant professor of architecture associate professor of architecture
Roy Strickland
Mojtaba Navvab director, master of urban design
associate professor of architecture degree program, associate
professor of architecture
Richard Norton
assistant professor of urban planning David Thacher
associate professor of urban planning
Peter Osler
associate professor of practice Neil Thelen
in architecture lecturer in architecture

A. Cynthia Pachikara Anca Trandafirescu
assistant professor of architecture lecturer in architecture,
20052006 muschenheim fellow
Sophia Psarra
associate professor of architecture

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Student Update

1.

2.

How did you

spend your

spring
break?
3. 4.

1. G Tects, New York City: Yo Shawn Shieh, 2G2 (far right)

2. Carrier Johnson, San Diego: Louisa Galassini, UG4
3. Eisenman Architects, New York City: Tom Haddock, UG2
4. Hester Street Collaborative, New York City: Kasey Vliet,
UG4 (right)

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 4240 Architecture, Denver, Colorado | The ADP Group, Sarasota, Florida | Alexander Gorlin Architects, New York, New York |
Allied Works Architecture, Portland, Oregon | Ann Arbor Architects Collaborative, Ann Arbor, Michigan | Ballinger , Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania | Baxt/Ingui Architects, PC, New York, New York | Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner, Venice, California | Brezavar &
Brezavar, New York, New York | Brininstool + Lynch , Architects, Chicago, Illinois | Cambridge Seven Associates, Cambridge,
Massachusetts | Carrier Johnson, San Diego, California | CO Architects, Los Angeles, California | Conant Architects PC, New
York, New York | Cook + Fox Architects, New York, New York | Cunningham + Quill Architects, Washington, DC | David Milling &
Associates/Architects, Ann Arbor, Michigan | Dean/Wolf Architects, New York, New York | Dow, Howell, Gilmore, Associates, Inc.,

Architecture Midland, Michigan | Downing Thorpe James, Boulder, Colorado | Eckert Wordell Architects,
Kalamazoo, Michigan | Eisenman Architects, New York, New York | Esherick Homsey Dodge
& Davis, San Francisco, California | Farr Associates, Chicago, Illinois | Fink & Platt, New York, New York | French Associates,
Rochester, Michigan | G Tects, New York, New York | Gensler, Chicago, Illinois | Ghafari Associates, Dearborn, Michigan | Gibbons,
Fortman & Weber, Chicago, Illinois | Gluckman Mayner Architects, New York, New York | Guenther5 Architects, New York, New
York | Hester Street Collaborative, New York, New York | HLW, New York, New York | Hobbs & Black , Ann Arbor, Michigan | HOK,
Chicago, Illinois | Integrated Architecture, Ann Arbor, Michigan | Integrated Architecture, Grand Rapids, Michigan | John Ronan
Architect, Chicago, Illinois | Keystone Design Group, Lansing, Michigan | Lake Flato Architects, San Antonio, Texas | LEFT, New
York, New York | Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis, New York, New York | Lord Aeck Sargent, Ann Arbor, Michigan | Luce et Studio, San
Diego , California | Lucien Lagrange and Associates, Chicago, Illinois | Luckenbach-Ziegelman, Ann Arbor, Michigan | Machado
& Silvetti, Boston , Massachusetts | Marble Fairbanks Architects, New York, New York | Marlene Imirzian & Associates, Phoenix,
Arizona | Meltzer/Mandl Architects, New York, New York | Miller Hull Partnership, Seattle, Washington | Mithun Partners, Seattle,
Washington | MK Think, San Francisco, California | Moshe Safdie, Somerville, Massachusetts | Murphy/Jahn, Chicago, Illinois |
Myefski Cook Architects, Inc., Glencoe, Illinois | Office dA, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts | Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects,
Seattle, Washington | Payette Associates, Boston, Massachusetts | Perkins & Will, San Francisco, California | Perkins & Will,
Chicago, Illinois | Perkins Eastman, New York, New York | Platt Byard Dovell White Architects, New York, New York | Public,
San Diego, California | Quinn Evans, Washington, D.C. | REDICO Management, Inc., Southfield, Michigan | RNL Design, Denver,
Colorado | Rockwell Group, New York, New York | Rogero & Buckman, Dayton, Ohio | Ronnette Riley Architect, New York, New
York | Ross Barney & Jankowski, Chicago, Illinois | Rossetti Associates, Southfield, Michigan | RTKL Associates, Chicago, Illinois
| RUR Architecture PC , New York, New York | Sasaki, Watertown, Massachusetts | SHoP Architects PC, New York, New York |
Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Chicago, Illinois | SmithGroup, Ann Arbor, Michigan | SmithGroup, Detroit, Michigan | Smith-Miller +
Hawkinson, Architects, New York, New York | SMNG-A, Chicago, Illinois | Spector Group, New York, New York | Stephen Yablon
Architect, New York, New York | The Stubbins Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts | Studio/Gang/Architects, Chicago,
Illinois | Suk Design Group, New York, New York | Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, New York, New York | Tate Snyder Kimsey,
Henderson, Nevada | Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates, Atlanta, Georgia | TMP Associates, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
| Tuck Hinton Architects, Nashville, Tennessee | Valerio Dewalt Train Associates, Inc., Chicago, Illinois | Van Tine Guthrie Studio,
Northville, Michigan | VOA Associates, Chicago, Illinois | Vollmer Associates, New York, New York | Walker/Warner Architects, San
Francisco, California | William M. Karr & Associates, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands | Zimmer Gunsul Frasca, Los Angeles, California

THANKS TO THE FIRMS WHO HOSTED OUR STUDENTS

The Congress for the New Urbanism, Chicago, Illinois | U-SNAP-BAC, Detroit, Michigan | Michigan Ability Partners, Ann Arbor,
Michigan | City of Park Ridge Department of Community Preservation and Development, Park Ridge, Illinois | New Orleans Downtown
Development District, New Orleans, Louisiana | Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone,
New York, NY | Union Square Partnership, New York, New York | Chicago Department Urban Planning
of Transportation, Chicago, Illinois | Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Miami, Florida | New York City Department of City Planning,
New York, New York | SERA, Portland, Oregon | Port of Seattle, Seattle, Washington | Prince Georges County Planning Department,
Upper Marlboro, Maryland

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Students from TCAUP and the Universidad Francisco Marroquin
in Guatemala are sponsoring a collaborative design project to be
constructed in the summer of 2006, in El Pueblito, a small com-
munity outside of Guatemala City. Students will design and build a
performance space, which is part of a larger proposal to provide
permanent facilities for Fundacin Contexto, an organization that
has been operating since 2002 to instill hope in the communi-
ties youth through training in the arts. Students from Michigan
and Francisco Marroquin believe that well-considered design
and conscientious work, encouraging the participation of the
larger community, will strengthen the current work of Fundacin
Contexto and encourage further interaction between the
fragmented communities of Guatemala City. To become involved
in this project, or to request more information, contact Jonas
Hauptman, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning,
University of Michigan [email protected], (734) 936-0243,
(215) 681-6747, or http://sitemaker.umich.edu/studiog.

Students
Josh Bard Janelle Moody
Todd Gattie Nicholas Quiring
Simon Gore Lizzie Rothwell
Daniel Jarcho Todd Rutledge
Steve Jelinek Theresa Scherwitz

Top: Todd Gattie with Guatemalan

children in El Pueblito.

Erin Putalik, a 3G student, was one of three winners, chosen from 54 portfolio submissions, for the inaugural Kohn
Pedersen Fox Travelling Fellowship. The annual fellowship, established by KPF, presents three $10,000 awards to
students who are in their penultimate year of study. Bill Pedersen commented of Erins portfolio, This students work
represents a refreshingly unpretentious exploration of a variety of fundamental architectural issues. The suburban
branch library was particularly appealing to this jury for its ingenious weaving of space and its integration with land-
scape. A short essay on peeling gives a window into the original thought processes of this talented individual. The
portfolio concludes with a series of unclassifiable constructions which further demonstrate the breadth of this
students sensibility. The jury was Paul Finch, editor of The Architectural Review, Kenneth Frampton (Ware Professor
of Architecture at Columbia University), Joseph Giovannini (critic), and KPF design partners William Pedersen and
William Louie.

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 Kadriye Fusun Erkul, a student in the Doctoral Program in Architecture,
has received a Barbour Scholarship for 2006/07. These scholarships are RAISING NEW ORLEANS
offered through the Rackham School of Graduate Studies and provide
a stipend of $15,200, tuition, and health insurance for the academic
year. The Barbour Scholarship program was established in 1914 at
the University of Michigan to train young women from Eastern coun-
triesthe region extending from Turkey on the west to Japan and the
Philippines on the eastin modern science, medicine, mathematics and
other specialties critical to the development of their native lands.

Carlton Basmajian has won the Rackham dissertation award. This is one
of Rackhams most prestigious awards, and will provide him with three
semesters of support for his dissertation research.

Each year the MLK Spirit Awards celebration honors North Campus
students whose leadership and service has exemplified the spirit of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Among the recipients this year was Jazmin
Casas, a second-year MUP student. The award recognized, among other
things, Jazmins leadership in the Urban + Regional Planning Program
event last year commemorating Martin Luther King Day.

TCAUP junior, Alexis Coir is the 2006 student representative to the board
of directors of AIA Michigan.
One of the graduate option studios, titled Raising New
Architecture undergraduate student, Orleans traveled to New Orleans to observe the physical and
Kristin Hoogenboom has excelled psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina and Rita on the Gulf
in both athletics and academics Coast, specifically New Orleans. They met with community
organizations, activists, academics, architects, and other locals
while at Michigan. She has been a who share an interest in rebuilding New Orleans and identified
four-year starter on the Michigan potential sites and project proposals that will contribute to the
Wolverines varsity water polo team. reconstruction of New Orleans.
Photograph by Eric Bronson, Wolverine Photo

She has eclipsed the 50-steal and 50- Led by Eliel Saarinen Visiting Professor Michael Sorkin and
assist marks for her career already Assistant Professor Coleman Jordan, the studio adopted the
this season, while her 87 career Desire Line (from the Central Business District to the Lower
Ninth Ward) as the primary area of investigation. This corridor is
goals rank near the top in all-time the proposed location of a future streetcar implementation plan.
career goals at Michigan. The studio worked from the position that New Orleans must be
rebuilt to accommodate all of its citizens. Massive reconstruction
of the city is an opportunity not simply to restore neighborhoods
but to dramatically improve them. Pre-Katrina, neighborhoods
like the Lower Ninth were rich in social, cultural, and familial
Kristin Hoogenboom networks, but many were also in a state of dire neglect, victims of
poverty, discrimination, and disinvestments. The studio devised
strategies for simultaneously preserving the life and character
of these places and of elevating their physical quality, economic
viability, and social harmony.

Students
Greg Cheng Jenna Gibson Andrew Smith
Jim Dimercurio Jeff Hoag Chanpreya Thou
Kevin Erickson Jonathon Imler Danielle Tillman
Brian Foster Moon Joo Lee Victor Tvedten
Osnat Gafni You Ling Lim Toshio Yoshimoto

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Undergraduate Alumni Awards Jordon Gearhart Graduate Option Studios 2G3/3G6
infOmosis
Jurors Keith VanDerSys Studio (Buoyant Form) Merit Awards
Marlene Imirzian, AIA, B.S.80, M.Arch.;83 Sung Ryong (Joseph) Kim
Malik R. Goodwin, B.S.97, M.Arch/ Travis Williams Ethiopian Training Center
M.U.P.02 Influential Experience Jim Chaffers Studio
Wesley R. Janz, AIA, Ph.D.95 Jim Bassett Studio Earth Observatory
Donald J. Vitek, B.S.87 Charles Garcia
Thomas E. Lollini, FAIA, B.S.72, M.Arch.75 Graduate Alumni Awards Backbay Forum & Mumbai Metropolitan
Caroline Constant Institute (MuMI)
Jurors Rahul Mehrotra Studio
UG1 Michael L. Quinn, FAIA, B.S.69, M.Arch.74
Regina Myer, A.B.(LSAR)82, M.U.P.84, Alex Chu and Leigh Stewart
Studio Award Benjamin Baxt, B.Arch.67 Vertical City
Roger Hubeli Studio Craig A. Hamilton, B.S.75, M.Arch.77 Robert Mangurian and
Comic Gallery Mary-Ann Ray Studio
3G2
Honor Award Megan Conner
James Sobczak Honor Award The Refuge Archipelago
Comic Gallery Ryan DePersia Alan Berger and Juan Rois Studio
Roger Hubeli Studio Craig Borum Studio
Leonard B. Willeke
Merit Awards Perimeter Projects 2G1/3G4 Portfolio Competition
Yuliya Mazur
Comic Gallery Honor Award Jurors
Roger Hubeli Studio Jae Seung Lee Lewis M. Bill Dickens, B.Arch. 64
Look in Lock: Soo Locks John W. Myefski, AIA, B.S.784, M.Arch.86
Lisa Feldman Negotiation Center Randall S. Derifield, M.U.P.77
Comic Gallery Christian Unverzagt Studio Phillip E. Lundwall, FAIA, B.Arch. 63,
Julie Larsen Studio M.Arch.64
Merit Awards Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, B.S.91
Whitney Cooper Nicholas Quiring Rahul Mehrotra
Gallery for Architectural Knowledge Reconsidering the Tower of History Perry Kulper
Fernando Lara Studio of Sault Ste. Marie
Christian Unverzagt Studio Winner
UG3 $7,500 Award
Kyu Hwan Jhin Mike Styczynski
Honor Award Class Blender
Jacob Dugopolski Mireille Roddier Studio Winner
Layering Commodity $7,500 Award
Keith Mitnick Studio Warhol Michael Mitchell Sang Sik Kim
CinePARK
Merit Awards Glenn Wilcox Studio Cineplex: Rethinking Honorable Mention
Emily Lehman the Urban Cinema Kasey Vliet
Permeable Banding
Anca Trandafirescu Studio Cinamatheque Erin Putalik
Relay Point
Malcolm McCullough Studio Aqua

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 Alumni Update

Vote for Marshall Purnell, B.S.72, M.Arch.73 Guenther Elevated to FAIA

Dear Michigan Grads who are AIA members: Robin Guenther,

Marshall and I were friends on campus in the old A&D building, and we M.Arch.78, principal and
have crossed paths many times over the course of our careers. Recently, owner of the Guenther 5
as the latest New England representative to the AIA National Board, I Architects in New York
have come to better appreciate and understand Marshalls work on the City, has been elevated to
board to improve the organization and the profession. I am an enthusiastic the College of Fellows in
supporter of his election campaign for first vice president/president-elect the American Institute of
of AIA, and our chapter in Boston has stepped in to be one of his spon- Architects, based on her
sors. Please read his campaign statement below and encourage your significant contribution to
colleagues to elect Marshall at the AIA National Convention in June. the profession of architec-
ture and society.
Marshall is a principal of Devrouax & Purnell in Washington, D.C. He is
currently serving as a Mid-Atlantic Regional Director on the AIA Board, As the founding principal
where he is a member of the Advocacy Committee and the Diversity of Guenther 5, a practice
Committee. He recently served as president, vice president, and treasurer known for designing sustainable, healing, healthcare
of AIA/DC. In addition he was president of the University of Michigan spaces, Robin has influenced some of the largest hospitals
College of Architecture + Urban Planning Alumni Society Board of in New York City, including Beth Israel Medical Center, New
Governors when I was on the board, and then a member of the executive York Presbyterian Hospital, and Mt. Sinai Medical Center.
committee of the University of Michigan Alumni Association for six years. The firm has won many awards and received critical praise
Besides my deep respect for him, I admit Id also like to keep the Michigan for its consistently high design standards while furthering
tradition alive with yet another Wolverine alum in AIA national office. an agenda of social and environmental responsibility. Robin
is an active committee member of the Center for Health
Design/Environmental Studies Council, the American
Society of Healthcare Engineering (ASHE)/Green Building
Peter Kuttner FAIA, B.S.73, M.Arch.74, is president of Task Force, the AIA 2005 Guidelines for Healthcare
Cambridge Seven Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Construction and the Advisory Council on Sustainability
for the NYC Department of Buildings; she is also on the
steering committee for the recently published Green Guide
From the campaign statement of for Healthcare.
Marshall E. Purnell FAIA, B.S.72, M.Arch.73
Are we living up to our potential? We have the potential as a profession In 2005, Robin became the first architect to receive the
to bring the leadership of our cities together and draft an action plan for Changemaker Award from the Center for Health Design,
sustainable, healthy, and livable communitiesand not just green
an organization whose mission is to transform healthcare
buildings; to respond in innovative ways to house people, governments,
and institutions in times of need; and we have the potential to work at settings into healing environments that improve medical
all component levels to answer the question outcomes. The center serves a network of over 25,000
once and for all: Why should join AIA?
professionals worldwide, focusing on research, education,
We have the potential to deliver our environmental standards, and technical assistance. The
services in new, efficient, and exciting Changemaker Award is given annually to a person or
ways that benefit us as well as our clients.
organization that has demonstrated exceptional ability to
We have the potential to recognize the
value of membership at all levels and provoke change in the way hospitals and healthcare
seek an inclusive strategy for everyones spaces are designed.
participation; to develop additional
streams of revenue to be shared among
all components; to inspire architects to
run for public office and to seek public
appointments throughout this land; and we
have the potential to change the face of this
profession to better reflect the makeup of the Join us in Los Angeles to celebrate Robins
communities we serve. accomplishments. See the calandar (inside
back cover) for details.

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Class Notes

1940s 1950s

Leslie H. Kenyon Charles M. Correa

B.A.A.49 B.Arch.53, H.S.C.D.80
has practiced architecture in the Central was awarded the Padma Vibhushan,
Illinois/Peoria area continuously since Indias second highest civilian honor, by
1951 and is president of Kenyon and the president of India. His firm, Charles
Associates Architects, Inc. In the past 55 Correa Associates, was lead designer
years of offering professional architectural for the recently completed Brain and
services in the state of Illinois, projects Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT, the
executed by the firm have included new largest neuroscience research center
construction of schools, additions, re- in the world. The complex will advance
modeling of existing school buildings, and MITs efforts to address one of the great
restoration and renovation of historical scientific challenges of the 21st century:
buildings. Clients include local, state, and the understanding of the human brain and
federal governments, industrial and com- mind. The project was a collaboration Hawleys Tigers in the Sand
mercial enterprises, financial institutions, with the Boston firm of Goody Clancy and
religious societies, and school districts. Associates, who was responsible for the Leslie D. Tincknell, FAIA
Leslie has received many awards for his design of the laboratories and research B.Arch.58
vast knowledge of historic architecture spaces. The Brain and Cognitive Sciences was recently tapped to assist with
and design work. The most recent award Complex is situated across from the new renovations and an addition to one of
was the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, in his first professional projects, Kempton
Lifetime Commitment Award, presented an area of the MIT campus that is fast Elementary School in Saginaw, Michigan.
by the Landmarks Preservation Council of becoming a meeting ground for multidis- Kempton School was recognized with
Illinois in 2004. ciplinary innovation and collaboration an AIA Michigan Honor Award in 2001
in biotech and the life sciences. Apart for its timeless quality. Les also won a
from various projects in India, Correa is number of regional awards for the project
currently designing the new Jamatkhana after its completion in 1961. Les worked
in Toronto for the Aga Khan. with a fellow alumnus on the renovation
project, Daniel LaPan, B.S.80, M.Arch.82,
Donald Hawley executive director of facility services for
B.Arch.54 the Saginaw School District.
recently published his first novel. Tigers in
the Sand is a romantic action-adventure
story combining the rare mystique of
World War IIs North African campaign
and its strange but often apolitical and
sometimes chivalrous sense of mutual
respect between bitter enemies. It is a
story of a confrontation between the val-
ues of a time gone by and this new era of
politically expeditious spinning, of political
correctness, and of spiritual bankruptcy.

MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex Tincknell and Kempton Elementary School

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1960s Stay in Touch
Class Notes is a regular feature in Portico.
Gordon M. Buitendorp, AIA Please take a few minutes to tell us about
B.Arch.63 the latest news in your life. Your friends and
was awarded the 2005 Lifetime classmates will be pleased to hear about you!
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Department. In addition to his contribu- David Metzger, FAIA, FCSI electronic file of yourself or your
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has been active in the community as a was recently elevated to fellowship of
rotarian, West Michigan Christian School the Construction Specifications Institute.
Board Member, choir member at Second David has more than 35 years of profes-
Christian Reformed Church in Grand sional experience. He is vice president banks Education for All program which is
Haven, and board member of the Holland of Heller & Metzger, an independent financing construction of school buildings
Economic Development Corporation. consulting firm in Washington, D.C., and throughout the developing world. This note
Gordon started GMB Architects-Engineers has written specifications for more than dispels the myth that the cost of acces-
in 1968 which evolved into a full-service, 200 projects across the country, including sibility is prohibitive, provides strategies to
70 associate, nationally published firm. the National World War II Memorial in control costs and demonstrates how the
Gordons practice has benefited many Washington, and renovations of the Dana universal design of schools can benefit
individuals while advancing the key Building and Hill Auditorium on the UM all members of the community. He also
tenants of the profession. campus. He is currently working on the recently received an award from the SUNY
new UM Ross School of Business. He was Research Foundation for receiving his
Arnold Mikon, FAIA chair of the AIA Masterspec Architectural first patent on the Universal Bathroom.
B.Arch.66 Review Committee for 2002 and 2003, and The Universal Bathroom is an innovative
has joined Tower Pinkster Titus Associates has served on this committee since 1992. suite of bathroom fixtures and accessories
(TPTA) as president and chief executive He was elevated to fellow in the American that allows the user or a household to
officer. The firm has offices in Kalamazoo Institute of Architects in 2001 and is one of adjust fixture positions to accommodate
and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Arnie came just 25 double fellows in the AIA and CSI. individual and household needs.
to the helm of the 50-year-old architecture
and engineering firm having served as Edward Steinfeld
CEO of Smith Group from 19922001, and M.Arch.69, D.Arch.72
most recently as managing principal for is the director of the Center for Inclusive
Yamasaki Associates. Design and Environmental Access (IDEA)
at the School of Architecture and Planning,
SUNY-Buffalo. The center was recently
awarded a five-year, $5 million competitive
grant by the U.S. Department of Education.
He recently authored Education for All:
The Cost of Accessibility, published by the
World Bank. This short Education Note is
being distributed worldwide as part of the

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 homes. For DAG, he is currently manag-
ing the NatureWalk Welcome Center in
Seagrove Beach and a new office building
in Destin for OSullivan Creel, LLP. Its a
nice change to be in such an exciting and
busy construction environment, says Kalt.
DAG Architects, a leading design firm in
Destin for 25 years, now employs over 36
talented individuals and is involved in a
wide range of projects from condominiums
and fire stations to educational facilities,
office buildings, and banks. Their design
for the Destin Library received a 2005
Honor Award for Excellence from the
Florida Chapter of the American Institute
of Architects.

Thomas R. Mathison, FAIA

B.S.73, M.Arch.75
earned the AIA Michigan Gold Medal
Kresge Foundation headquarters in April 2005. The award is presented in
recognition of notable contributions to AIA
1970s Michigan and for outstanding achieve-
ments in the profession. At AIA Michigan,
Joseph M. Valerio, FAIA he was among the original organizers of
B.Arch.70 the annual Educational Facilities Planning
is principal of Valerio Dewalt Train which Conference, now in its fourteenth year.
recently finished the new headquarters for In 1999, Tom founded the AIA Michigan
the Kresge Foundation in Troy, Michigan. Mentoring Network, linking architecture
The project is very unusual involving the students with practicing architects in men-
integration of a modern building with toring relationships at all four of Michigans
a historic farmstead on the National accredited colleges of architecture. The
Registry and using the latest sustainable first mentoring program of its kind in the
technologies. Much of the new 20,000 nation, the program has been duplicated
sq. ft. headquarters is below grade and Richard Kalt, AIA by a number of AIA components around
features a reflecting pond, cantilevered the country. Toms architectural work
floors, an open courtyard, and green roof Richard Kalt, AIA has focused on educational, health care,
areas nestled between an existing 1800s B.S.72, M.Arch.72 and governmental facility design, and he
stone farmhouse and red wooden gable has joined DAG Architects in Destin, has been involved with projects for Kent
roof barn. Florida as a senior project manager. Prior County, Michigan State University, Grand
to moving to Destin and joining DAG, Dick Rapids Community College, Kalamazoo
Norman Tyler, AICP had his own architectural practice for 20 Valley Community College, and Byron
B.Arch.70, D.Arch.87 years in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and Center, Otsego and Grand Rapids and
received a teaching excellence award Washington, D.C. Dick is a registered Kalamazoo schools. He has served in
in October 2005. This award honors architect in Michigan and several other many positions on the AIA Michigan Board
superior teaching achievement by Eastern states, and holds a NCARB certificate. of Directors and served as AIA Michigan
Michigan University faculty members. Dicks project experience spans more president in 1996 and AIA Michigan
Norm is professor and director of the than 30 years and includes many different regional director from 20022004.In 2003,
Urban and Regional Planning Program building types, including office buildings, he was elected as a vice president of AIA
at EMU. health care facilities, and single-family national.In his position with AIA National,

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he has championed emerging profession- She is now adjunct professor of envi-
als, diversity of the profession, and livable ronmental studies at Bowdoin College in
communities, as well as AIAs knowledge Brunswick, Maine.
agenda and advocacy initiatives, and
has been at the center of architecture Gloria J. Jeff, AICP
education policy mentoring initiatives and M.U.P.76
long-range planning for the organization. resigned as director of the Michigan
Department of Transportation, and has
Robert W. Daverman, AIA been named the general manager of the
B.S.75, M.Arch.77 Los Angeles Department of Transportation
received the Robert F. Hastings Award at (LADOT). LADOT handles traffic signals,
the 2005 AIA Michigan Honor Awards and lane striping, parking enforcement and
Recognition Program. The Hastings Award management, capital transportation
is given in recognition of distinguished ser- projects, city transit, and transportation
vice. Bob is a senior architect and project planning. While serving as the director
leader with Progressive AE in Grand of MDOT, Gloria instituted a number of
Rapids. He has over 31 years of profes- successful traffic reduction programs,
sional experience in the management of including Preserve First, where 90 percent
the architectural and engineering design of Michigans trunk line and interstate Jeffrey Hausman
process for buildings within educational, highways were repaired and improved to West.
governmental, commercial, corporate, and improve safety and traffic flow, and the
residential markets. Daverman origi- Vehicle Infrastructure Initiative, a vehicle Jeffrey Hausman
nated and organized the West Michigan technology system to improve safety and B.S.79, M.Arch.81
Regional Urban Design Charette, held in reduce road congestion. In 2005, with was recently elected president of the
Grand Rapids in 2005. The first of its kind Gloria at the helm, the MDOT improved Michigan Chapter of AIA. Jeffrey is
in the country, the charette was designed 27 miles of roadway streetscape, created Science & Technology studio leader and
to look concurrently at multi-jurisdictional 117 miles of pedestrian/bicyclist facilities, senior vice president of SmithGroup in Ann
areas within the tri-plex cities of Grand refurbished four roadside parks, and Arbor. He has over 20 years of experience
Rapids, Holland, and Muskegon. It created preserved three historic bridges. Gloria at SmithGroup and has led the develop-
a document and presentation tool for also managed the rehabilitation of 22 miles ment of projects as a principal, project
greater dialogue among the communities of track for the states rail system and manager, project architect and designer.
and for the direct pursuit of grants for oversaw the rehabilitation of 20 bridges. He has served at many levels with the AIA
regional urban and environmental/sustain- including vice president and treasurer
able design studies and development. David G. French of AIAMI.
B.S.77, M.Arch.79
Kristina Ford has been named chairman of French
Ph.D.76 Associates, Inc., Rochester, Michigan,
participated in a symposium in March 2006 from president.
at the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the
Study of American Architect at Columbia Keith R. Golan
University titled Regrounding New M.U.P.79
Orleans. The symposium outlined critical has been a land-use adviser in Park City,
issues and promoted debate concerning Utah and Key West, Florida. He developed
future development in New Orleans. 198 one, two, and three bedroom afford-
Subjects ranged from infrastructure repair able housing units in Key West and 58
and redesign, wetland ecology, economic units of luxury condominiums, also in Key
development, and environmental justice, to West. He and his wife, Donna, also have
urban planning and architecture. Kristina a real estate company called Golan Real
was the former executive director of the Estate to invest in properties in the Deer
New Orleans City Planning Commission. Valley and Park City areas of Utah and Key

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1980s Lee W. Waldrep, Ph.D.
B.S.84
Michael Keith Forgacs is the author of Becoming an Architect:
B.S.81, M.Arch.83, M.U.P.83 A Guide to Careers in Design, a new
has joined NSA Architects, Engineers, and book published in March 2006 by Wiley.
Planners as architectural design group Becoming an Architect is a highly
leader, responsible for the development visual career guide for those who are
and oversight of all architectural design considering, or embarking upon, a
aspects for the Farmington Hills firms proj- career in architecture. [http://www.wiley.
ects. He joined NSA from Partners Design com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-
Group in Ann Arbor; a firm he established 0471709549.html]. Also, in fall 2005, Lee
with his wife, Cheryl Forgacs, M.Arch.83. was awarded Outstanding Academic
He previously worked as an architect for Advisor by the Parents Association of the
Trinity Design and other Michigan firms. University of Maryland.
Waldreps Becoming an Architect
Stephen Smith Markku R. Allison, AIA,
M.Arch.82 B.S.85, M.Arch.88 Washington, D.C. Previously he was a
a principal with TMP Associates, has been was honored by the AIA Grand Valley senior design architect at Integrated
appointed to the executive committee for (Michigan) Chapter with the 2005 Architecture in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
the Michigan Chapter of AIA. He served Presidents Award. Markku first became
as the president of the Detroit Chapter active in the AIA while a partner at John Ronan
in 2003, and will serve as AIA Michigan Schemata, Inc. in Grand Rapids. He served B.S.85
secretary in 2006. the Grand Valley Chapter in numerous won a Chicago AIA Citation of Merit for
volunteer roles, including president-elect, distinguished building for his Northbrook,
Stephen Verderber 1999 and president in 2000. Markku was Illinois home, House on the Edge of the
D.Arch.83 the recipient of the 2002 Michigan AIA Forest. The award was presented at
Tulane professor, recently authored Young Architect of the Year. He recently the chapters annual design excellence
Compassion in Architecture: Evidence- accepted a position with the Knowledge awards event in October.
Based Design for Health in Louisiana, Community at the national office of
which analyzes architectural components the American Institute of Architects in Robert Stempien, AIA
necessary to creating a community public B.S.85, M.Arch.87
health facility. The perfect guide to those is now director of business development
studying architecture and public health, for the public education group at Barton
the book utilizes numerous illustra- Mallow Company in Southfield, Michigan.
tions, diagrams, and charts to support
Verderbers information that took more Kenneth Herbart
than a decade to research. B.S.86, M.Arch.88
has been elected to senior associate at
Laurie E. Suess Albert Kahn Associates in Detroit.
M.U.P.84
is a planning manager and has been Chris Purdy, AIA, NCARB
with Manatee County (Florida) since 1989. B.S.86
Manatee County is a fast-growing county has been promoted to principal for
at the south end of Tampa Bay. She Midwest Operations for SmithGroup. Chris
writes that it has been a challenge is a project manager for SmithGroup at its
keeping up with development but a very Detroit office with 17 years of experience
interesting one. in designing educational facilities. Since
joining the firm in 2001, projects for his
learning sector clients have included
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and new construction. He has particular corporate interiors projects. He is involved Laurence J. Whiteside
expertise in the special needs associ- in the Chicago Chapter of USGBC. John M.U.P.92
ated with projects that involve existing and his partner, Elliot, recently completed recently received his professional
buildings or campuses, which hes proven renovating a 100-year-old house on the credential through Project Management
with his recent work at Western Michigan northwest side of Chicago. It took eight Institute (PMI) as a project management
University, including the Richmond Center years. They recently enjoyed 15 minutes professional. PMIs PMP certification is
for Visual Arts, the College of Health of fame when the Chicago Tribune wrote the preeminent professional credential
and Human Services building and the an article about the project in September for individuals associated with project
renovation to Kohrman Hall at WMUs 2005. It was the cover story in their Home management. Currently, he is a transporta-
Kalamazoo campus. In addition to his and Garden Sunday Section. Next project tion planner specialist with the Michigan
work at WMU, Chris has been an active is renovating an old house in southwest Department of Transportation. He has
project manager for SmithGroup projects Michigan near Buchanan for weekend statewide responsibility for the develop-
at Central Michigan University, University getaways. It is good to have some roots ment of annual average daily traffic and
of Detroit Mercy, and Saginaw Valley State planted in Michigan again, John writes. commercial annual average daily traffic
University. As project architect, Chris volumes for all state-owned roadways.
played an active part in designing the Jacqueline Royer He considers himself a Flint native (where
Agricultural Hall at Michigan State. B.S.88, M.Arch.02 he grew up), but currently lives in Grand
manager of health care at Albert Kahn Blanc, Michigan.
Barbara Vukits Associates in Detroit, has been elected to
B.S.86, M.Arch.88 senior associate. Catherine Gibson Broh
has joined TMP Associates in Bloomfield B.S.93
Hills, Michigan. is an associate with MGA Partners
1990s Architects, Philadelphia. In her nine
John F. Hopkins, AIA, LEED, AP years with MGA, she has led many of the
B.S.87 Jennifer Durham firms performing arts and sustainable
has been in Chicago since graduating from B.S.91, M.Arch.93 design projects including the Theatre
UM and has been with HOK for nine years has been promoted to senior associate and Drama Center at Indiana University,
as a senior designer working primarily on at Gunn Levine Architects, Detroit, from Bloomington, Indiana; campus facilities
associate. master plan for The Shipley School, Bryn
Mawr, Pennsylvania; and the new School
Yelena Lembersky of Music and Performing Arts Center for
B.S.91 West Chester, Pennsylvania. She also leads
is employed by Einhorn Yaffee Prescott recruiting and staffing efforts for MGA. In
in Boston, Three of the projects on which 2003 she was awarded the AIA Community
she worked, the United Science Center Design Collaboratives Volunteer of the
at Swarthmore, the Widener Memorial Year Award and in 2005 she was the first
Library at Harvard, and the National architect to be honored by the Forum of
Association of Realtors Headquarters in Executive Women with the Forum Award
D.C., received awards from the Boston for her professional and community service
Society of Architects. accomplishments and future leadership
potential. She is currently volunteering
John Waldrop with members of her firm on the concep-
M.Arch.91 tual design of a community center for
has been promoted to associate from AchieveAbility in West Philadelphia.
architect at French Associates, Inc.,
Rochester, Michigan.

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Frank Joseph (Maleski) Fraga Randall Whinnery, III Scott Heywood
B.S.93 B.S.94, M.Arch.99 B.S.96, M.Arch.98
is a project architect at the DeMattia was a member of the design team for the has been elected to senior associate at
Group design/build firm in Plymouth, University Pavilion at the University of Albert Kahn Associates in Detroit.
Michigan and has worked there for the Cincinnati that won a design award from
past five years. The five years prior he was the Boston Society of Architects. Randy is Lori Treboldi, RA
working as a mechanical design engineer a designer at Leers Weinzapfel Associates B.S.96, M.Arch.98
at U of Ms office of Facilities Planning in Boston. is now superintendent in the commercial
and Design. Currently he is working on group of DeMaria Building Company in
the renovation and conversion of the 1917 Robert E. Cohon, CCIM, AICP Detroit.
Willys Overland Jeep service building M.U.P.95
(located near Wayne State University) into has been with Agree Realty Corporation Joongsub Kim, AIA, AICP
a 75 unit loft development. based in Farmington Hills, Michigan for the M.S.97, Ph.D.01
past year. They are a publicly traded retail was promoted to associate professor
REIT on the New York Stock Exchange. He with tenure at Lawrence Technological
serves as the corporate asset manager. He University in January 2006. He received
loves the position and it keeps him quite The 2006 Accent on Architecture
busy. It truly affords him the opportunity to Community Grants Award and The
be involved with all development projects Award of Merit for Best Practice in K-12
and existing portfolio at some level. He is Architectural Education, both sponsored
primarily responsible for the operational by the American Architectural Foundation,
management and leasing of our com- Washington D.C. These awards are based
munity shopping centers throughout the on his past and ongoing educational
Midwest. programs and research projects focused
on urban design at the Detroit Studio
Megan L. Gibb, AICP Community Outreach Program which he
M.U.P.96 directs. In addition, the Detroit Studio will
left her position as director of planning partner with the American Architectural
and development for the city of Ypsilanti Foundation in Joons proposed program
and moved across the country to work at called Kids Cams: Children design-
the Portland Development Commission ing their neighborhood through their
in Portland, Oregon with Larry Brown, own lenses and will participate in a
M.U.P.75 who is the development manager national symposium on K-12 architectural
James F. Horman, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP for the city of Portland. She will be working education. He also received the First
on development projects in the South Prize + Publication Award: International
James F. Horman, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP Waterfront district. Architectural Education Competition
M.Arch. 93 [alternative ways of teaching and learn-
has joined Design Plus, Inc. in Grand Andrew Hetletvedt ing methods for architectural design],
Rapids as architectural designer and B.S.96 sponsored by Open House International,
director of business development. has joined DSA Architects in Berkley, UK, an international peer review journal
James has extensive experience Michigan as a project architect. Previously focused on the built environment.
with a wide range of clients including he was an intern architect at Albert Kahn
industrial, municipal, commercial, retail Associates in Detroit. Andre Zoldan
with automotive dealerships, non-profit, B.S.97, M.Arch.98
and new/renovated office buildings. He Steven Heuss has been elected to senior associate at
lends his creative talents and thoughtful B.S.97 Albert Kahn Associates in Detroit.
insight to assist clients in realizing their is working with the large volume architec-
vision, creating innovative and functional tural sales department of Skyline Windows,
solutions. LLC in New York City on projects throughout
the NYC area and the northeast.

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Salomon Frausto work at DVRPC she is just beginning a study Moira Zellner
B.S.98 to look at regional design excellence. M.U.P.00, Ph.D.05
is program coordinator for the Temple has accepted a position as assistant
Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of Navin Pathangay professor in the Urban Planning and Policy
American Architecture Graduate School of M.Arch.99 Program at the University of Illinois-
Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, became licensed in March 2004. He Chicago. She is also an affiliated research-
Columbia University. He recently co-edited started PathangayArchitects in Phoenix er with the Institute of Environmental
a book titled Architourism: Authentic, in January 2005 and is currently working Science and Policy (IESP at UIC).
Escapist, Exotic, Spectacular. The book, on high end custom homes and many com-
which was reviewed in the February 2006 mercial jobs as well. Previously he had Tonino Vicari
issue of Urban Land, is a collection of worked at DWL Architects and Planners in B.S.99, M.Arch.01, M.S.03
essays examining the theory that architec- Phoenix. Navin is also an associate faculty has accepted a position at Kraemer
ture shapes the tourist experience and, at member at the School of Architecture Design Group in Detroit, Michigan.
times, is designed specifically for tourists. and Landscape Architecture at Arizona
State University where he teaches second Elise Bates Russell
Henry Okeke year studios. He finds it very rewarding to M.Arch.00
M.U.P.99 work with studentsshaping minds and works as assistant director of Camp
was promoted to associate at Hobbs + learning from students as well. Westminster, an 81-year-old summer camp
Black Associates in Ann Arbor. for children and adults on crystal clear
Higgins Lake in northern Michigan. Elise
Kristen Schleick 2000s is responsible for publicity, design, and
M.Arch.99, M.U.P.99 programming. She is also raising two future
is now urban planner and project architect Steven Herzberg leaders: Anna is 4 and her sister Elizabeth
at Hobbs + Black Associates in Ann Arbor. B.S.00 is almost 1 years old. Her husband Rick
has been working as a junior architect at will received a M.A. in education with
Karin Morris Daniel Frankfurt, Engineers & Architects secondary certification this spring.
M.U.P.99 since graduating with an M.Arch. from
received a 200506 Knight Fellowship in Columbia University in 2003. He has been Paul F. Urbiel
Community Building from the University working on the Fulton Street Transit Center B.S.00, M.U.P.04
of Miami School of Architecture. The Complex which will connect to Caltrava joined Gensler in Detroit. Previously
mid-career fellowship brings together 12 PATH terminal at the World Trade Center. he worked at the Downtown Detroit
individuals from diverse fields to examine The project involves connecting nine Partnership.
the state of the art in placemaking. Fellows subway lines together with a new transit
remain in their jobs and travel five times hub (Grimshaw architects) and designing Zachary Branigan, AICP
over the year to attend intensive workshops two connected buildings. M.U.P.01
and study tours, while also pursuing recently accepted a position within walking
independent research projects. Karin is a distance from his home in Ann Arbor with
senior regional planner at the Delaware Carlisle Wortman Associates as a com-
Valley Regional Planning Commission, the munity planner.
metropolitan planning organization for
Greater Philadelphia (along with fellow Mara Braspenninx
alums Jienki Synn, M.U.P.95 and Zoe B.S.01
Neaderland, M.U.P.98). Her research works for SmithGroup as a preservation
project is The New Philadelphia specialist and was recently elected
Rowhouse: Towards A Better Urban preservation director of the Kempf House
Design, advocating for better urban Museum in Ann Arbor. Mara was elected
design of infill rowhomes in the city. Its an for the volunteer position by the museums
opportunity to focus in on the building and board of directors and will oversee all
more of the nitty gritty of urban design and architectural work at the Museum, includ-
how good design happens. As part of her Mara Braspenninx ing ongoing efforts to improve

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accessibility and functionality while retain- Damian Petrescu
ing the historic character of the 153-year- M.Arch. 03
old home. She looks forward to working and
with the rest of the board to preserve this Sarah Hollis
unique piece of Ann Arbor history. M.U.P.03
were married on December 31, 2005 in
Christopher Dobosz A sample of Brayaks designs Louisville, Kentucky. They are now living in
B.S.01 Los Angeles, California. Damian is a design
is employed at William Rawn Associates form finishes of wood, steel, laminate, associate for the Office of Mobile Design.
in Boston. He was a member of the design and fabric. His work has been shown in They look forward to seeing everyone at
team for 62 Center for Theatre & Dance galleries and featured in Clear magazine. the Michigan reception at SmithGroup
at Williams College. The project received during the AIA convention in June.
an award from the Boston Society of Marie Law
Architects in 2005. B.S.02 Amanda Spicuzzi
graduated with her M.Arch. degree from M. Arch.03
Michelle Mack MIT in January. She is beginning work on is an adjunct professor at the University
B.S.01, M.Arch.03 a project with her former thesis advisor, of Virginia teaching undergraduate
is working at SSOE, a large AE firm, Ann Pendleton-Julian, on a new womens architecture studios and working for the
headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, with 13 university, the Asian University for Women, Charlottesville firm, VMDO. In 2007, she
offices worldwide. She is part of a growing in Chittagong, Bangladesh. She will soon will wed Hunter G. Hicks in Detroit.
architectural department for Automotive be traveling to Bangladesh and India for
and Industrial facilities. The projects range work on the project. Ross Wienert
from automotive manufacturing plants to B.S.03
chemical plants. She didnt imagine being Junghyun Paul Bae is currently working for Corgan Associates
involved in this type of architecture, but M.Arch.03 in Dallas, Texas. He is also working to start
every time she is in a plant she is amazed is working for Steinberg Architects in a community design center in Dallas. His
at all the processes and organization San Jose, California. He would like to email address is [email protected].
happening in one space. She feels lucky to stay in touch with other alumni who
be working in a teaching atmosphere and currently live in California. His email is John Beeson
will begin her ARE exams in February 2006. [email protected]. M. Arch 04, M.Eng.04
She misses the academic atmosphere of is now working at SmithGroup in Ann
design, although she says having friends Daniel Lanning Arbor. He and his wife Tracy are enjoying
in school helps keep me on my toes. B.S.03 their son, Charles Roland Beeson. Charlie
is the maintenance director at the Best was born August 12, 2005.
Ren Akre Western Grandvillage Inn in Grandville,
M.U.P.02 Michigan. He purchased a distressed
recently gave birth to her third child, a house which he is fixing up room by room
boy named Caelen Blanchard Akre. He is in hopes of eventually starting a home
welcomed by big sisters Hailey and Karina. renovation business.

Ryan Brayak Deepika Padam

B.S.02 M.Arch.03
started his own companya concrete is working for Tate Snyder Kimsey
design studiotwo years ago. He Architects in Las Vegas, Nevada.
specializes in designing and building
new and innovative furniture, objects,
sculptures, countertops, and thin concrete
wall panels. In addition, he does extensive
product development to produce concrete John Beeson
less than one inch thick and to test new

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Peter E. Paulos, Jr., M.Arch.02

sits on the National Advisory Board for Ascend Alliance and through this organization he and his wife Summer, have participated
in numerous trips to Ethiopia working on various projects including design and construction of water gardens, construction of
school and medical buildings in different villages, and at the special request of the elders of the Kumodo village, design and
construction of a pedestrian bridge. The river in the valley below the village floods during the rainy season yet children going to
school must cross it. Along with the villagers, Pete and other family members who traveled to Ethiopia built a bridge 8 wide and
45 long bridge constructed from indigenous materials. They used concrete foundations with expansion bolts attached into rock
for uplift, and eight 45 long16 diameter eucalyptus logs, each weighing 1,200 pounds to span the distance. Pete recalls that it
took the entire community to lift one log. The bridge took three weeks to construct. The surface of the bridge was all concrete
over aluminum to protect the logs from the concrete, pitched downstream for water to run off. When the bridge was completed,
there was a ribbon cutting ceremony and community celebration where both the Ethiopian and village flags were raised. The
community was very grateful. They gave Pete and his family a sleeping blanket sewn by the community, a pot of honey, and
a goat. Since wealth is judged by the number of goats an individual owns, this was a very meaningful tribute to the value of
the bridge to the village. Since the bridge was built, there have been no incidents of a child or adult, or animal for that matter,
drowning while trying to cross this river. Until recently, Pete was a designer with Roger Ferris + Partners of Westport, Connecticut
and Bridgehampton, New York where he worked on a wide range of projects including a contemporary design for a country
club in Bridgehampton, the worlds largest trading floor for a financial company in Stamford, and a master plan for the town of
Southampton. Pete and his wife Summer are proud parents of six-month-old Sadie.

Demetria Collins Yma Doitteau accepted a position at CMA, a renowned

M.U.P.04 M.Arch.04 architecture and engineering firm also in
has left the NYC Department of City after graduation, she joined Andres San Juan, where she is looking forward
Planningto begin a new position in the of- Mignucci FAIA, a landscape and urbanism to developing her skills not only as an
fice of the Manhattan Borough President. firm in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. She architect but also as an engineer. In
She manages projects inseveralareas of designed public spaces for the Urbanism October, she passed the PE (professional
Manhattan including Ground Zero, Central Department of Puerto Rico and affordable engineering licensing exam) and is now a
Harlem, Chelsea and Washington Heights. housing for the Housing Department of licensed engineer, and is looking forward
Such a diverse workload allows Demetria Puerto Rico. Yma had the honor to be a to the ARE.
to enjoy a broad range of experience. guest critic at the architecture school
She works very closely with community of both the University of PR and the
groups, non-profits, and elected officials. Polytechnic University. Recently, she

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Sarah L. Goralewski tion administration for a consolidated
M.U.P.04 rental car facility. She is also engaged in
recently joined the city of El Cerrito, strategic planning for an environmental
California as an assistant planner. management system and an airport office
Previously she worked for Schoolhouse of fair practices. Alana serves as program
Services Consulting in Redwood City, director for the JDA Diversity Program,
California. through which the firm offers internships
and co-operative work experiences. She
Jason P. OMara will begin a masters program this winter
B.S.04 at Lawrence Technological University in
participated in the Nomads and construction management engineering.
Nanomaterials graduate option studio
(see Portico 2005/1)during winter Beth Zorza
semester 2005 with Visiting Professors B.S.04
Sheila Kennedy and Frano Violich. The is the new associate representative to AIA
studio used HBLED and photo-voltaic Michigan. She will serve a two-year term
technology imbedded in textiles to create and also represent Michigan as regional
a collection of portable light prototypes associate at the national level.
for the semi-nomadic Huichol tribe of Jason OMara introduces portable light to a young
Mexico. His studio work led to a summer Wolverine at NextFest June 2005 Nora Beck
job with Kennedy Violich Architects in M.U.P.05
Boston, Mass. He was offered a full-time Danielle M. Stingley joined the staff of CNU in December 2005
position and decided to take a year off M.U.P.04 to lend executive support to John Norquist
from graduate school to accept it. He has is working as a research evaluator at the and assistance to CNUs planning, policy,
also been working as a teaching assistant University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She and design initiatives. While completing
at the Harvard GSD this term. In October, studies educational initiatives within the her graduate degree in urban planning at
he returned with Sheila Kennedy and Milwaukee Public School District and Michigan, she focused on environmental
the GSD students to Mexico with a new leads professional development courses planning techniques and developed a
group of portable light prototypes. This for teachers involved in program imple- brownfield redevelopment strategy for
iteration focused on the mid-scale, mentation. In early March, she and Dennis Flint, Michigan. Nora received her B.S.
meaning that all prototypes functioned as Cuyuch tied the knot in Mexico. She and in zoology at the University of Wisconsin
individual light sources and can aggregate her son, Israel, will be moving to New York in 2001. Between her undergraduate and
to provide communal light. Jason has had in June with Dennis. They are excited graduate studies, she followed her grow-
the opportunity to collaborate with MOTO, about the move and whatever lies ahead! ing interest in the relationship between
a product development firm, and Maggie urbanism and environmental science and
Orth of International Fashion Machines. He Alana G. White
has also aided in the development of the B.S.04
Clemson Architectural Center Charleston. is a project analyst with Jacobsen Daniels
Associates (JDA), an aviation planning and
Joshua Skarf implementation consulting firm. Alana has
B.S.04 been engaged in various aviation projects
made aliya, moving to Israel in September at airports nationwide providing technical
2004 to work for Moshe Safdie and support for airport master plans and
Associates. He is currently working on two airport layout plans. She has coordinated
projects with that firm: Modiin Town Center public outreach programs where her
in the planned town of Modiin, and the expertise has been used to update and
Mamilla commercial development outside create informational brochures, design
the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. and produce newsletters, and website
planning. Currently, Alana is working on
facility commissioning and construc- Alana White

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moved to Portland, Oregon, to observe Joshua Long
and experience the regions planning M.U.P.05
policies first hand. Serving as a watershed interned at Washtenaw County (Michigan)
stewardship coordinator for the city of upon graduating in May. In September
Portland through the Americorps program, Josh was hired as an associate planner by
she developed an interest in urban water Washtenaw County.
resource management that she explored in
planning school and continues to pursue. William Marquez
After hours she is an avid reader, knitter, M.Arch.05
and urban explorer. was presented an opportunity to create
an installation for the Annual Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation event in Indianapolis
after graduation. Teaming with a local Marquezs Cystic Fibrosis installation
architectural signage fabricator, Will
utilized his CNC milling capabilities to Konstantina Soureli
create an interpretation of the disease M.U.D.05
that was displayed at the Marriott Hotel is in Washington, D.C. doing a Fulbright/
in Downtown Indianapolis. The event was Fannie Mae research fellowship at the
successful and the work that went into this National Low Income Housing Coalition,
piece has opened many other opportuni- a low income housing organization. She
ties in fabrication. Will works for a2so4 in is responsible for three research projects
Indianapolis, Indiana, and would like to say and is currently working on domestic
Chung and Wirtzs remodeling project. hello to the graduate class of 05! migration patterns of low income people
across the country.
Do Young Chung Vidhya Mohankumar
B.S.05 M.U.D.05 Greg Wells
and is working in Dublin, Ireland at Brady M.U.P.05
Katie Wirtz Shipman Martin as an urban designer. Its heads the development division of
B.S.05 a 40-year-old firm with offices in Dublin, Strategy Planning Associates in
have been remodeling a 95-year-old house Cork, and Limerick. There is a core group Schaumberg, Illinois. He completes
at Bussa RD Rapid City, Michigan. It was a of architects, environmental consultants, development strategy, fiscal impact, and
very good opportunity that challenged the and planners. Vidhya is the only urban economic development studies in addition
pair and provided them with a vivid educa- designer in the office. to expert testimony and direct consulting
tion of hands-on construction experience. responsibilities.
In September 2006, Do Young will begin his Matt Saurman
master of architecture degree at Harvard M.Arch.05 Jennifer Zgobis
GSD with one year of advanced standing. has recently landed in Bozeman, Montana M.U.P.05
to fill a position as project manager for accepted a position at the Cook County
Emily Fischer design/build at Intrinsik Architecture. (Chicago) Assessors Office where she
M.Arch.05 Intrinsik is a broad practice that focuses in is working on affordable housing issues
Emilys article Figures of Speech architecture, urban planning, and fabrica- from the property assessment perspective.
(concerning ideas of decoration in tion. Matt writes The work is great and A major responsibility of her position
architecture) will be published in Volume Montana is so beautiful its ludicrous. The lies in designing valuation procedures
10 of the architecture journal, 306090. She skiing is better than at Mt. Brighton. for affordably-priced owner-occupied
currently works for L.E.FT in New York City. housing. Jennifer writes that her legal and
real estate classes have gone a long way
as she works to gain certification as a
property appraiser.

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Deaths George G. Booth Traveling Fellowship in the Medal and Cross of Liberty. He began his
Architecture, allowing him to travel extensively studies at the Helsinki University of Technology
Lloyd Wilson Worden, B.S.Arch.18, in Europe where he made the acquaintance before studying architecture at UM. After
May 1, 1969, Dunnellon, Florida. of the architect LeCorbusier. He joined A. B. graduation, he worked at the University of
McCullough to form the firm of McCullough and Michigans architects office and subsequently
Philip N. Coman, B.Arch.63, Bickel Architects, and later Bickel established for Ford Motor Company as a dealer facilities
June 2, 2002, Hugo, Colorado. Design Environmental Architects. He sub- architect. In 1956 he formed a partnership
sequently joined with James Gibson to form with William Davis, AIA and in 1959 formed
Peter Alan Loiko, B.S.72, M.Arch.74, Bickel-Gibson Architects. Kainlauri, MacMullan and Millman Architects
December 16, 2003, Lakewood, Colorado. Engineer and Planners Inc. In 1975 he was
Margaret Culver Ogden, B.DES.37, appointed to the architecture faculty of Iowa
George J. Bery, B.S.Arch.A.38, December 15, 2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan State University of Science and Technology
March 8, 2004, Sterling Heights, Michigan. Margaret graduated from Ann Arbor High where he oversaw continuing education in
School in 1929 and she attended the College architecture.
Donald Saul Rotwein, B.Arch.52, of Architecture at the University of Michigan
May 9, 2005, Elberon, New Jersey. and except for a single incomplete would have Joseph Leo Schroeder, B.Arch.53, January
graduated with the Class of 1935. She received 22, 2006, Indianapolis, Indiana. He retired from
Robert L. Burckhalter, 43, her B.S. degree from UM in 1998. After college James & Assoc. in Indianapolis as an architect
June 17, 2005, Grosse Pointe, Michigan. she worked in interior design at the Detroit Free and engineer active in the design of many
Press and the J. L. Hudson Company in Detroit. churches, fire stations and schools throughout
Richard C. Donkervoet, FAIA, B.Arch.52, Indiana. He also worked for Carlos Pedrazza
November 22, 2005, Cockeysville, Maryland. Edward M. Tsoi, B.S.Arch.A.E.39, M.S.Arch.39, Architects. Joe served in the US Army during
Richard was a Baltimore architect who led a December 17, 2005, Metairie, Louisiana. WWII. His passion was following the trail of the
nationally hailed conversion of the old Mount Pony Express visiting the monuments that he
Royal Station into a college library and art Peter Else, B.Arch.58, January 7, 2006, designed for the Pony Express Stations, his last
gallery. The surviving founding partner of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. A Detroit native, trip being in July of 2005.
Cochran, Stephenson & Donkervoet, he Peter attended Marquette University in
defined architecture as a people- oriented, Wisconsin and graduated with bachelors Phillip A. Guy, B.Arch.67, January 31, 2006,
problem-solving profession. degrees in English and philosophy. He later Blue Hill, Maine.
graduated from the University of Michigan with
Oliver S. DeLancey, Jr., B.Arch.A.50, a degree in architecture. In 1966 he estab- Charles H. MacMahon, Jr., FAIA, B.Arch.A.42,
November 26, 2005, Ann Arbor, Michigan. lished his own architectural firm, Peter Else February 10, 2006, Orange City, Florida.
Sam was an architect for Lane, Riebe, Architects and Associates, in Birmingham.
Weiland in Ann Arbor, and later for Blount Kathleen A. Bergum, B.S.78, M.Arch.81,
Engineering in Detroit. He served in the Army Deane Murray Truesdell, B.Arch.56, January February 17, 2006, Bainbridge Island,
Air Corps during WWII, and volunteered at 8, 2006, Elk Rapids, Michigan. Deane set up a Washington. Kathleen and her husband
the Yankee Air Force Museum. His wife of practice in Flint and was the architect of many Kenneth W. Hartz were killed in a vehicle
59 years, Mary Anna, died in January of this projects there. In 1985, Deane retired to Elk collision near Cle Elum, in Eastern Washington.
year. He is survived by two daughters, Jane Rapids and became involved in many local Both were architects Their children, 12-year-
DeLancey of Ann Arbor, Dr. Julia DeLancey projects. At the time of his death, his newest old son Kyle and 16-year-old daughter Kirsten
of Kirksville, Missouri; and a son, Dr. John project, the Elk Rapids Harbor Pavilion, had suffered serious injuries in the crash.
(Barbara) DeLancey of Ann Arbor. broken ground.
Lawrence K. Kersten, M.C.P.48, B.Arch.57,
John H. Bickel, Jr., FAIA, B.Arch.A.48, Harold A. Nelson, B.Arch.58, January 9, 2006, March 13, 2006, Whitmore Lake, Michigan.
December 12, 2005, Louisville, Kentucky. Chicago, Illinois. As a professor of sociology at Eastern
He served in the Pacific during World War Michigan University for over 30 years, he
II with the 340th Engineer Construction Eino O. Kainlauri, FAIA, B.Arch.A.50, researched and authored four texts on mar-
Battalion of the US Army Corps of Engineers. M.Arch.59, Ph.D.75, January 10, 2006, Ames, riage, family, and love. He also worked in the
He retired from the Corps with the grade Iowa. Eino served in the Finnish Armed Forces community as a marriage and family counselor
of Colonel. Following his return to studies from 193940 and again from 194144 and throughout his career.
after World War II, he was awarded the was discharged as a lieutenant and received
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