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Please join us this coming Monday, 10/12 at 4:00pm for our first lecture of the year!

Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich @tbr0603 and Seth Denizen @sethdenizen will be talking about their book, Thinking through Soil, which recently received the 2026 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize.

The event will be held in Rapson Hall Room 100 and is free and open to the public. by @umnarch

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The College of Design is pleased to present our annual lecture series! Over the course of the 2026-2027 academic year, we will host the following guest speakers and events:

10/12: Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich & Seth Denizen - "Thinking through Soil"
11/02: Yasmin Vobis - "The Abstract and the Real"
11/09: Jeffrey Day - "House-ing"
02/15: "Sitting Still" documentary featuring Laurie Olin's work, with panel led by Tom Fisher
04/12: Joyce Hwang - "In Consideration of Neighbors"

All events will be at 4:00pm and held in Rapson Hall, Room 100. Events are free and open to the public. Please join us! by @umnarch

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13 days ago

Friday, October 9 from 9am–12pm

The College of Design @umndesign invites you to an interdisciplinary event at the intersection of architecture and design, reproductive justice, and public health. The in-person program explores the current state (and challenges) of design for reproductive care environments in Minnesota and beyond, and features speaker presentations followed by a moderated panel and roundtable discussions.

All are welcome, including students, designers, researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and advocates interested in safe, equitable, and accessible care in their communities.

🆓 This event is free and open to the public.
🍽 Coffee and lunch are provided.
🎟 Register at z.umn.edu/designing-post-roe

Featuring:
⭐ Lori Brown, FAIA - Distinguished Professor, Syracuse University School of Architecture
⭐ Candice Davis - Conceptual and Interdisciplinary Artist
⭐ Asha Hassan, PhD MPH – Director of the Collective for Reproductive Health Research & Justice and Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School
⭐ Tammi Kromenaker - Clinic Director, Red River Women’s Clinic (Moorhead, Minnesota)
⭐ Terri Howard - VP of Equity, HGA (facilitator)

Event graphic designed by Teri Kwant taken in Rapson Hall by @umnarch

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A selection of final drawings from my undergraduate third-year studio: "Low-Rise High-Density Collective Housing" at the University of Minnesota, School of Architecture @umnarch taught with Sam Naylor @sam__naylor and Molly Dalsin @mollydalsin. Congrats to the students! #lowrisehighdensity #housingstudio #collectivehousing @umndesign taken in Minneapolis, Minnesota by @umnarch

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5 months ago

University of Minnesota, College of Design’s School of Architecture GD3 Studio.

Travel Week New York City Fall 2025.

@umnarch @umndesign

Thanks to @wxystudio, @newtowncreek, @benjamincadena, @futuregreenstudio, and @gowanuscanalconservancy for taking the time to speak with our students! taken in Brooklyn, New York by @umnarch

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a year ago

Opening Wednesday June 25 (originally June 21), "Imagining Future Cities: Global and Minnesota Visions, Past and Present" examines the enduring pursuit of the Future City, both globally and in Minnesota. The concept of future cities as a means to create more habitable, just, and sustainable places for people to live, work, and play has captivated visionaries across place and time. This collection of illustrations, diagrams, and architectural drawings features groundbreaking case studies that reimagine the form and function of future cities. Curated by McKnight Land-Grant Professor and founding partner of vari architects, Dingliang Yang, along with a team of University of Minnesota School of Architecture and Design faculty, researchers, and students.⁠
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Admission is free, as always. Learn more at the link in bio. ⁠
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#UMNProud #architecture #futurecity #worldexpo #OwámniyomniOkhódayapi taken in Weisman Art Museum by @umnarch

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We are pleased to welcome Felipe Correa to the School of Architecture and ALI this semester as a Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor. In addition to a public lecture, he will be teaching the Case Studies of Cities, a course that is shared by students in the Masters of Architecture, Masters of Landscape Architecture and in the Humphrey School of Public Policy’s Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP).

Felipe Correa is a founder and managing Partner of Somatic Collaborative. Through Somatic Collaborative, Correa has directed a wide range of applied research and design projects in the Americas, Asia and Europe. Correa’s work focuses on the design and transformation of cities and urban areas. From the conceptualization of urban regeneration projects to the planning of new city extensions, Correa’s work sits at the intersection of design, policy, and economic development.

He is the author of multiple books including “Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America (2016), “Mexico City: Between Geometry and Geography “(2015) and “A Line in the Andes” (2014) which won first prize at the Pan American Architecture Biennale. His most recent book, “Sao Paulo: A Graphic Biography” a bilingual edition that traces the history of the city’s urban form was released in 2018. His forthcoming book focuses on the Amazon River Basin and the evolution of urban form. His work, research, and writings have been published in journals, including Architectural Design, Architectural Record, Harvard Design Magazine Topos and Volume.

Correa is currently the Director of the Urban Prosperity Institute in New York City. He was the Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor at the University of Virginia (UVA), where he served as chair of the Department of Architecture. Prior to joining UVA, Correa was Associate Professor and Director of the Urban Design Degree Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). taken in Rapson Hall by @umnarch

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2 years ago

We are excited to welcome Seçil Binboğa as a new Tenure Track Assistant Professor this fall in ALI and the School of Architecture.

Seçil Binboğa is an architectural historian who has also served as the Cass Gilbert Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Design. She has taught the lecture courses Modern and Contemporary Global Architecture History and Environment and Society, and seminars on the environmental histories of the Global South, and the visual culture of the Cold War. She has also taught a range of relevant courses in Houston and at the University of Michigan. In this role she will teach students across ALI in shared history courses and will teach architectural history across our graduate and undergraduate programs in the School of Architecture.

Seçil earned her Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Architecture from the University of Michigan’s College of Architecture and Urban Planning and received her professional education (B.Arch and M.Arch degrees) from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey. She studies the transnational histories of infrastructure design and resource extraction, focusing on the architectures of American imperialism in the modern Middle East, particularly in Cold War Turkey. She received 1 of 6 National Carter Manny Awards given by the Graham Foundation in 21/22 across the US and was also an Emerging Scholar Fellow at the University of Houston.

She is currently working on her book project, “Architectures of Cold War Turkey: The Land, the River, and the Sea.” Research for this work has received support from the Social Science Research Council (International Dissertation Research Fellowship) and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (The Carter Manny Award: A Citation of Special Recognition in Writing).

Please join us in welcoming Seçil to our department and our college. taken in Rapson Hall by @umnarch

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2 years ago

OFF/CUT: Catalyst 2025

This year’s Catalyst was conceived of and led by Malini Srivastava and Chango Cummings along with visiting faculty Mohamad Ismail from the University of Virginia and Emily Baker from the University of Arkansas. This focused on using digital tools including holographic projections and parametric computations to reuse imperfect wood off-cuts. These tools enable off-cuts to be used in the design and assembly of lightweight structures, a typology that typically relies on perfect and predictably dimensioned materials.

The one week event tested the idea that complex geometries with imperfect waste materials can be developed in early stages of design. Reversing typical workflows, they started the week with material inventory and understanding, then proceeded to a closely connected design development and full-scale build, test process. Students and faculty used various softwares (Karamba3D, Grasshopper, Rhino, Photoshop etc) and Augmented Reality (AR) equipment (hololens headsets).

Our alumni who designed and built an Art Shanty project from waste wood (Mady Gulon, Jakob Mahla, Marshall King and Derek Ronding) joined to share their experiences in working with secondary lumber with the students. Wood off-cuts were provided by two non-profits, Better Futures and Keys 4/4 Kids. At the end of the event the structures were disassembled
and materials returned. taken in Rapson Hall by @umnarch

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2 years ago

We’re #UMNproud of Assistant Professor of Architecture Dingliang Yang who has been named a recipient of the 2025-2027 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, marking the first time a UMN architecture faculty member has received this prestigious award since its establishment in 1987!

Read more on our blog linked in our stories 🔗

Dr. Yang was awarded for his research and creative practice on urban design, which has distinguished him nationally and internationally. His work centers on two primary objectives: decoding the forms of cities and innovating new urban forms. taken in UMN College of Design by @umnarch

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2 years ago

“Beyond Market Forces: A Community Approach to Social Housing” is a Masters Final Project by GD3 student, Kaitlin Furbush with advisor, Dingliang Yang.
 The project addresses “the existential crisis of homelessness and housing insecurity and pursues an exploration of housing first initiatives as a proposed solution to the housing crisis.
The project interrogated local housing conditions, regulatory frameworks, funding models, and socio-economic dynamics. and uses social housing as a proposed model to address the housing crisis..”t taken in Rapson Hall by @umnarch

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As it is Masters Final Project time again- we are sharing a few memorable projects from last season -
“Darkness Visible: Spaciality, Meaning-Making, and Sublimity in The Dark” is a Masters final project by Phillip Timmons with advisor Benjamin Smith.

“Much has been said and written about the role and value of light in architecture: spaces are well or poorly lit, light “activates” spaces, daylighting shapes orientation and form, we readily discuss light’s temperature, texture, and softness. Considerably less is said about the dark, which is often either an afterthought or an unintended consequence of construction – something that only exists because walls and roofs are insufficiently translucent and, if any number of glass-walled modernist houses are to be believed, should be avoided at all costs.

This project, in order to make a more tangible argument for these virtues, proposes a massive subterranean structure: a sequence of dark spaces composing a small pilgrimage built into the side of an open-pit iron mine in northern Minnesota. These images explore the aspects, effects, and consequences of darkness in architecture, and how to capture and convey those effects where standard architectural drawings, like plans and sections, which often portray spaces as perfectly flat-lit, fail.” taken in Rapson Hall by @umnarch

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