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Picturing Milwaukee: Washington Park Neighborhood, Jared Schmitz, Arijit Sen Jan 2015

Picturing Milwaukee: Washington Park Neighborhood, Jared Schmitz, Arijit Sen

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The Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures collaborative project at UW Milwaukee and Madison introduces an interdisciplinary research track concentrating on the examination of the physical, cultural, and social aspects of our built environment. The program serves students enrolled in the UW Milwaukee and Madison campuses respectively. It involves faculty members on both campuses with diverse research and teaching interests, including urban and architectural history, cultural landscapes, urban and rural vernacular architecture, public history, and environmental history. The 2015 Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures field school examines a complex urban edge where a bucolic Olmstedian park meets the residential neighborhood of Martin Drive and a 19th Century industrial corridor …


Leveraging The Arena: Transforming Downtown With Development And Public Spaces, Carolyn Esswein, James Piwoni Jan 2015

Leveraging The Arena: Transforming Downtown With Development And Public Spaces, Carolyn Esswein, James Piwoni

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The work included in this book was produced in the spring of 2015 by graduate and undergraduate architecture and joint architecture and urban planning students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee enrolled in Urban Design Community Redevelopment, a design studio organized and instructed by Carolyn Esswein, AICP, CNU-A and Jim Piwoni, RA.


Restraining Order: An Urban Monastery For Capuchin Friars, Brian Johnsen, Sebastian Schmaling Jan 2015

Restraining Order: An Urban Monastery For Capuchin Friars, Brian Johnsen, Sebastian Schmaling

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The work included in this book was produced in the fall of 2014 by graduate architecture students at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee enrolled in ARCH 815 - Studies in Architectural Technology and Theory: “Restraining Order: An Urban Monastery for Capuchin Friars,” a design studio organized and instructed by Sebastian Schmaling and Brian Johnsen, Visiting Professors in Practice.


Picturing Milwaukee: Washington Park Neighborhood, 2014, Jared Schmitz, Arijit Sen Jan 2014

Picturing Milwaukee: Washington Park Neighborhood, 2014, Jared Schmitz, Arijit Sen

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The summer 2014 Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures field school spent five weeks measuring homes and businesses, conducting oral histories with new and long-term residents and producing documentaries based on their fieldwork. It's the first of a three-year program exploring the neighborhood of Washington Park


Picturing Milwaukee: Historic Water Tower Neighborhood, Maia Stack, Arijit Sen Jan 2013

Picturing Milwaukee: Historic Water Tower Neighborhood, Maia Stack, Arijit Sen

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The summer 2013 Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures field school examined practices of historic preservation, stewardship and ecological conservation by exploring, documenting and examining historic buildings and cultural landscapes in the Historic Water Tower Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.


Building Bridges, Blurring Boundaries: The Milwaukee School In Environment-Behavior Studies, Sherry Ahrentzen, Carole Després, Brian Schermer Oct 2012

Building Bridges, Blurring Boundaries: The Milwaukee School In Environment-Behavior Studies, Sherry Ahrentzen, Carole Després, Brian Schermer

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Along with the 40th anniversary of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the 30th anniversary of our Ph.D. Program in Architecture represents another important benchmark in educational excellence. As one of the pioneering PhD programs in architecture dedicated to understanding the relationship between people and place, its influence has been considerable. Its 51 (and counting) graduates teach in architectural design and allied fields at major institutes and practice throughout the world. Their intellectual contributions, and those of the faculty, continue to shape Environment-Behavior Studies and the discipline of architecture as a whole. This book, …


Built Work With Hga Architects, James W. Shields, Sebastian Schmaling, Robert Greenstreet Jan 2012

Built Work With Hga Architects, James W. Shields, Sebastian Schmaling, Robert Greenstreet

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In some schools, faculty, who have to meet the academic requirement of the institution to achieve tenure and promotion, can be effectively supplemented with highly skilled local practitioners who are dealing on a daily basis with design and construction issues. In some happy instances, there are individuals who can straddle the two worlds and bring a balanced view of design excellence. Such an individual is Jim Shields. His classes and studios are models of clarity and insight and are highly sought by his students. His undisputed role as one of the most talented architects in the Midwest, as evidenced by …


Project: Picturing Milwaukee: Thurston Woods Pilot Study, Cynthia Anderson, Nathan Waddell, Chelsea Wait, Arijit Sen Jan 2012

Project: Picturing Milwaukee: Thurston Woods Pilot Study, Cynthia Anderson, Nathan Waddell, Chelsea Wait, Arijit Sen

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In the summer of 2012, students, scholars and affiliates of Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures, worked with residents and community organizations from the Thurston Woods neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in order to explore, document and examine historic buildings and cultural landscapes of this area.