As a University of Detroit Mercy architecture student, Graig Donnelly thought his future held a lifetime of designing houses and buildings. Today, as TechTown Detroit’s chief strategy officer, Wayne State University’s assistant vice president for Economic Development and one of Crain’s Detroit Business’ 40 Under 40, Donnelly said he had …
The Detroit Mercy School of Architecture will host the prestigious student-oriented Design Futures Student Leadership Forum on the McNichols Campus May 21-25. This sixth annual event brings together student leaders from across the country to discuss and explore public interest design — known as PID — both as it is …
Dear School of Architecture Community: I am very pleased and honored to share with you some wonderful and important news in the life of the Detroit Mercy School of Architecture. As most of you know, after many years of running a wonderful study abroad program in Volterra, Italy, we were …
The Volterra Reality Capture Workshop run by University of Detroit Mercy professors won the 2017 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Innovation People’s Choice Award. The Reality Capture Workshop (located in the city of Volterra, Italy) is a long-term collaborative project to create a complete digital documentation of a historical city …
Regular readers of this blog may remember Rebecca “Bucky” Willis ’12 from this story. Now, Willis is the subject of an article by Model D – Detroit, which calls itself Detroit’s Online Magazine. The article focuses on Willis’ nonprofit Bleeding Heart Design (b.h.d.), and the work she is doing in …
As a student in the School of Architecture, Craig Wilkins ’85 and one of his fellow students thought that by now they’d be retired and living on a beach somewhere. He’s not. Instead, he is teaching at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, …
Some of architecture’s most provocative thinkers and practitioners will share their views of the field today and tomorrow as part of the School of Architecture’s annual fall lecture series. For more than 20 years the School has brought these design leaders to campus, forging relationships with innovative firms and introducing …
The School of Architecture hosted the nationally renowned Hip Hop Architecture Camp last month on the McNichols Campus. This one-week camp introduces under represented youth ages 10-17 to architecture, urban planning, creative place making and economic development through the lens of hip hop culture. It’s based on creativity, collaboration, communication …
In January, the American Institute of Architects named the School of Architecture’s Detroit Collaborative Design Center the 2017 Whitney M. Young Jr. Award winner. Named for the civil rights leader, the honor is given to an architect or architectural organization that “embodies social responsibility and actively addresses a relevant issue, such …
As part of its 60th anniversary, the American Institute of Architecture Students named Lauren Myrand ’12 one of the organization’s 60 Legacy Alumni. Myrand, who was vice president of the local AIAS while an Architecture student at Detroit Mercy, said the position made her rethink her career plans. “I started …
