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Prof. Dietmar Straub, Prof. Anna Thurmayr, Dr. Cara Brown and team received full funding from the Indigenous Initiatives Fund 2023 for the Shared Path project in collaboration with Lake Manitoba First Nation.
Anna Thurmayr and Dietmar Straub design courtyard behind Armes Lecture building on UM campus (Nov 2023)
Alan Tate and Marcella Eaton published Design Landscapes: 37 Key Projects (Sept 2023)
Dr. Lisa Landrum published Theatres of Architectural Imagination, co-edited with Sam Ridgway.
Prof. Brenda Brown edits publication titled "Landscape Fascinations and Provocations"
Dr. Lisa Landrum contributes to findings report and vision: toward an architecture policy for Canada (April 2023)
Dr. Lisa Landrum exhibits Unstacking the Deck celebrating early women architecture graduates and diversity in design (March 8, 2023)
Landscape Australia features design work and philosophies of Prof. Dietmar Straub and Prof. Anna Thurmayr (Nov. 7, 2022)
PhD student Hooman Hematian publishes study on public space and mental health in the Journal of Transport and Health (Dec 2022).
PhD candidate Honoure Black presents on Sites of Resurgence at the Past+Future virtual conference (Dec. 1-3, 2022).
Prof. Dietmar Straub publishes “The Snow Academy” in Fall 2022 edition of Landscapes Paysages (vol 24, no. 3)
Prof. Brenda Brown publishes “Blinking” in Fall 2022 edition of Landscapes Paysages, vol. 23, no. 3 (Oct. 21, 2022)
Research of Faculty of Architecture professors advanced through the UM Undergraduate Research Award program (Sept. 2, 2022)
Dr. Mercedes Garcia-Holguera and Prof. Shawn Bailey and team receive New Frontiers Research Funding for biomaterials research toward resilient architecture in northern Canada (Aug. 16, 2022)
Dr. Sarah Cooper and City Planning students call for ‘just recovery' (March 4, 2022)
Prof. Kamni Gill presents “Sylvan City: A New Forest Urbanism” at KULeuven’s International Conference on Urban Forests, Forest Urbanisms & Global Warming (June 27, 2022)
Dr. Lisa Landrum publishes “Winging it (with Alberti): Learning from Distance” in the book Remote Practices: Architecture at a Distance (June 1, 2022)
Dr. Lisa Landrum with researchers and students from coast to coast launch the SSHRC-supported CAFÉ Capital: Towards Equity in Architecture (May 10, 2022)
Profs. Shawn Bailey and Lancelot Coar with PhD student Honoure Black publish “Decolonizing the Design Process with Five Indigenous Land-Based Paradigms” in Canadian Architect (May 1, 2022)
Dr. Lisa Landrum launches Unstacking the Deck: A Game of Change, a double deck of playing cards celebrating early women architects in Manitoba (April 28, 2022)
Dr. Rae St. Clair Bridgman publishes Good Night Good Night Victoria Beach by MiddleGate Books (April 27, 2022)
Profs. Shawn Bailey and Lancelot Coar join Architects Against Housing Alienation to represent Canada at the 2023 Venice Biennale of Architecture (April 26, 2022)
Prof. Kurt Esperson-Peters and collaborators publishe an 8-part webinar series as part of the SSHRC-supported Mindful Modernism(s) project (Feb. 5, 2022)
Dr. Lisa Landrum and national working group launch Rise for Architecture (April 25, 2022)
Dr. Orly Linovski presents with panel on sustainable and equitable transportation (April 5, 2022)
Dr. Mercedes Garcia-Holguera receives funding from the New Frontiers in Research Fund (April 4, 2022)
Prof. Kamni Gill presents “Sylvan City: A New Forest Urbanism” at the University of Minnesota’s Arboreal Inquiries Symposium: Recent Explorations in Forests + Design (March 31, 2022)
Dr. Sarah Cooper publishes “Becoming landlords: the changing interests of non-profit and co-operative housing providers in Manitoba, Canada” in Housing Studies journal (March 30, 2022)

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Dr. Susan Close launches new research website on Photography and the Built Environment. posted September 5, 2019
Dr. Lisa Landrum earns SSHRC Connection Grant ($50,000) for Canadian Architecture Forums on Education (CAFÉ): Toward an Architecture Policy for Canada. posted August 30, 2019
Professors Dietmar Straub and Anna Thurmayr receive 2019 Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Jury’s Award of Excellence and a National Award for Rooted in Clay – WY Garden. posted March 22, 2019
Prof. Brenda Brown opens solo exhibition: Minding the Ground; Hearing the Wind: Chaco Canyon at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, supported by a University of Manitoba Creative Works grant. posted March 14, 2019

2018

Prof. Lancelot Coar and multiple co-investigators earn 2018 CMHC President’s Medal for Housing Research Excellence for “Sekuwe (My House), Dene First Nations’ Perspectives on Healthy Homes.” posted November 13, 2018
Faculty of Architecture undergraduate students, Yang Peng and Océane Perham, earn prizes for Research Posters. posted November 13, 2018
Dr. Mohamad Araji earns NSERC Discovery Grant ($100,000 over 5 years), for the research project, Symbiosis Optimization of Double-Skin Façades in Cold Climates. posted August 2, 2018
Dr. Marcella Eaton, in collaboration with six other Canadian academics, earned a Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation grant in the amount $5,500. posted August 2. 2018
Prof. Lancelot Coar, with a co-investigator in the Department of Civil Engineer, earned a University of Manitoba Collaborative Research Program grant valued at $25,000 for two years. posted August 2, 2018
Prof. Brenda Brown earned a University of Manitoba Creative Works grant in the amount of $2,500 toward realizing an exhibition at Chaco Culture National Historical Park. posted August 2, 2018
ED Architecture students Jessica Piper and Violet Jiang will present “The design and testing of post-tensioned bending active spatial assemblies”. posted May 15, 2018
Brenda Brown, Dietmar Straub and Anna Thurmayr presented research papers at the conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. posted May 2, 2018
Dr. Lisa Landrum published an essay “Poetic Imagination and the Architecture of Poe,” in the book Reading Architecture: Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience. posted May 2, 2018
Jason Surkan, graduate student in the Department of Architecture, presented his Design Thesis at the Biennial International Indigenous Design Forum. posted March 28, 2018
Prof. Brenda Brown published three essays in a new book Landscape Observatory: The Work of Terence Harkness. posted March 28, 2018
Dr. Lisa Landrum and Ted Landrum’s Body Politic Masque exhibition featured in UM Research News. posted January 10, 2018

2017

Richard Perron and student researchers launch Canadian Urban Strategies a database supporting the community rejuvenation (Oct. 2017).
Dr. Susan Close will present a paper titled “Gabor Szilasi’s Photographs of St. Catherine Street, Montreal, Canada” at the International Conference on the Image. posted October 10, 2017
Dr. Orly Linovski published an article in the Journal of the American Planning Association, titled “Pro Bono Practices and Government Agencies”. posted October 10, 2017
Dr. Lisa Landrum presented a paper in the Poetics of Roman Architecture sessions at the Society of Architectural Historians conference. posted September 19, 2017
Ph.D. student Courtney Thompson participated in the International Indigenous Architecture and Design Symposium. posted September 18, 2017
Sessional instructor Ted Landrum has published a book: Midway Radicals & Archi-Poems. posted September 17, 2017
Dr. Janice Berry has co-authored a book: Planning for Coexistence? Recognizing Indigenous Rights Through Land-use Planning in Canada and Australia. posted September 15, 2017

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