The SARUP Graduate Info Session is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the possibilities and potential of a graduate degree with us, tour our facilities and student studio spaces firsthand, as well as meet with faculty, staff, and current students.Â
Learn how food markets and food hubs provide economic and overall health benefits. Hear how managers are integrating activities to boost personal health while attracting customers. National research will illustrate the continuum of markets that exist, and how the food system is evolving with new/hybrid forms that do not always fit into simple zoning and planning categories. Examples of how to integrate and support markets in municipal zoning and planning can make integration in your community easier and more accepted.
Explore career opportunities within the architecture and urban planning disciplines at our annual Career & Networking event. Engage with professionals from multiple firms from the Midwest and beyond to discuss internship possibilities and postgraduate positions.
French 2D will lecture about seeing and making together, negotiating authorship through collaborative processes that challenge traditional architectural narratives and approaching practice, research, and teaching through a situated frame. They will discuss housing, civic installations and textiles, all understood as both a process and a product of collective work, policy change, formal legibility and playfulness.
The Milwaukee Priority One Transportation Initiative is a bold, collaborative effort to improve regional mobility, connect workers to jobs, and ensure equitable access to opportunity across Milwaukee. This initiative prioritizes innovative transit solutions—such as on-demand workforce services, improved public transit connections, and first/last mile strategies—to address the region’s most pressing transportation challenges.Â
The 2024-2026 Fitzhugh Scott Faculty Fellow, Iris Xiaoxue Ma, will be taking over and transforming part of the Jim Shields Gallery into a ceramic studio/workshop space during the Spring 2026 semester. Iris will use the gallery as a production space for her Fellowship show and a material resource center for all School of Architecture & Urban Planning students.
Local events play a powerful role in strengthening city economies, generating activity from day trips to overnight stays. This Innovative Cities Lecture highlights how two Wisconsin communities attract visitors, host more than 80 events annually, and measure both economic and community impact.
Nocturnal Medicine operates on the cultural soul. Founded in 2021 by Larissa Belcic and Michelle Farang Shofet, the trans-disciplinary collective has roots in landscape architecture, visual art, performance, and nightlife.
As data center development expands across Wisconsin and the Midwest, communities are increasingly being approached by developers seeking land, electricity, and water. While these projects can bring significant investment, they also raise complex questions related to zoning, infrastructure capacity, public finance, and environmental impacts. This Innovative Cities Lecture equips planners and local officials with the foundational knowledge needed before a data center proposal arrives
Leah Wulfman is a Carrier Bag architect, educator, game designer, digital puppeteer, and occasional writer. Trained as an architect, Wulfman assembles hybrid virtual and physical spaces in order to prototype new relationships to technology and nature, as well as challenge normative ideologies so often reinforced by technology and architecture.
Maura Lucking is a historian of architectural modernism and the nineteenth century U.S. Her research studies design as the intersection of connected histories of race, craft, land, and labor. Jodi Melamed is professor of English and Race, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies at Marquette University. For spring semester 2024 she served as the Norman Freehling Professor at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan.
Communities of every size are facing mounting housing shortages—from overall supply constraints to the lack of affordable options. This Innovative Cities Lecture explores practical strategies for expanding housing availability through the experiences of a mid-sized Wisconsin city (La Crosse) and a small Minnesota community (Wabasha).
ULTRAMODERNE is an award-winning architecture and design firm located in Berkeley, CA. Led by co—principals Aaron Forrest and Yasmin Vobis, the office creates buildings and public spaces that are at once modern, playful, and generous.
Join the Center for Equity Practice & Planning Justice (CEPPJ) for an open house and symposium exploring how community land trusts and other emerging strategies can expand access to affordable, equitable housing.
An exhibition showcasing Iris Xiaoxue Ma's teaching and research work from 2025-2026 supported by 51ÁÔÆæ SARUP’s Fitzhugh Scott Faculty Fellowship.
This workshop is a hands-on introduction to sequential narrative and story-making with students. At a time where bounding boxes are being drawn around faces, bodies, and buildings to extract data for AI training, how might the meta-structure of framing in comics and the graphic arts help us (literally) reframe the built environment around us? What can the format of sequential narrative lend us in troubling times?
As extreme rain events become more frequent, communities are rethinking how stormwater moves across urban landscapes. This session explores the use of overland flow paths—subtle, landscape-based features within neighborhoods and public rights-of-way that temporarily store, slow, and convey stormwater without relying on expensive tunnels or lift stations.
SUPERjury is a day-long review and celebration of the most provocative undergraduate and graduate projects in the school. With projects nominated for consideration by both students and faculty, the goal of SUPERjury is to foster self-reflection and stimulate a conversation about the state of architecture within the school and how our work relates to contemporary issues in practice and the world.
The UW-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning offers an opportunity for high school students to experience architecture education through our architecture summer camp, which we have proudly offered for over two decades.