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  Leveraging the Arena: Transforming Downtown with Development and Public Spaces

  Carolyn Esswein and James Piwoni

  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.

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  Restraining Order: An Urban Monastery for Capuchin Friars

  Brian Johnsen and Sebastian Schmaling

  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.

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  Picturing Milwaukee: Washington Park Neighborhood

  Jared Schmitz and Arijit Sen

  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 housing Harley Davidson Motor Company and Miller Brewery intersects a once vibrant Vliet Street.

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  Picturing Milwaukee: Washington Park Neighborhood, 2014

  Jared Schmitz and Arijit Sen

  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

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  Picturing Milwaukee: Historic Water Tower Neighborhood

  Maia Stack and Arijit Sen

  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.

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  Building Bridges, Blurring Boundaries: The Milwaukee School in Environment-Behavior Studies

  Sherry Ahrentzen, Carole Després, and Brian Schermer

  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, a tribute to the many excellent students who have shared the Milwaukee experience, is a testament to their collective input for the design of settings for health care, education, the workplace, older people, and communities, and their insights about the role well-designed environments contribute to the quality of people’s lives.

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  Project: Picturing Milwaukee: Thurston Woods Pilot Study

  Cynthia Anderson, Nathan Waddell, Chelsea Wait, and Arijit Sen

  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.

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  Built Work with HGA Architects

  James W. Shields, Sebastian Schmaling, and Robert Greenstreet

  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 the rich array of work in this monograph, brings huge value to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning.