MOBILE DESIGN BOX - Key Persons
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- Master of Architecture Student
Abigail Platz is a Master of Architecture Student at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning enrolled in the three year program for students with diverse undergraduate studies. Abigail holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and uses her background to produce beautiful visualizations of her architectural work. Her passion for creating beauty through space and her mission to produce ecologically responsible structure shines throughout her work. Abigail's drive to to learn more about how architecture can encourage change in a community led to her interest in working on the Mobile Design Box Retrofit Project.
Nominated for Super Jury 2021 for her work on a fall design build site intervention project, Abigail's focus on minimal material waste and a design which works in harmony with its natural environment continues to be a theme throughout her work. Through her contributions to the Mobile Design Box Retrofit Project, Abigail hopes not only to explore this notion further, but to further understand the community as a driving factor for the architecture within its bounds.
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- Member of the COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD
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- Principal Investigator & Professor
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- Architect, Urban Historian & Professor
Job Titles:
- Master of Architecture Student
Carly Farrell is a Master of Architecture Student at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning enrolled in the three year program for students with diverse undergraduate studies. Carly holds a Bachelor of Arts in History with Museum Techniques and Anthropology and uses her unique background to bring fresh perspectives to her work. Her passion for both historic preservation and historic adaptive reuse in Architecture drive her studies at UWM, and additionally, led to her interest in working on the Mobile Design Box Retrofit Project.
Job Titles:
- Master of Architecture Student
Michael Major is a Master of Architecture Student at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning enrolled in the three year program for students with diverse undergraduate studies. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Geography and uses his background to help form context in the spaces he studies and creates. His focus on creating structures and spaces which interact with the community they inhabit as part of a larger system shines throughout his work. Michael's drive to to learn more about how architecture can encourage change in a community led to his interest in working on the Mobile Design Box Retrofit Project.
Nominated for Super Jury 2021 for his work on a fall design build site intervention project, Michael's focus on the divisions within a space and subsequently transcending them through his unique approach to design continues to be a theme in his work. Through his contributions to the Mobile Design Box Retrofit Project, Michael hopes not only to explore this notion further, but to further understand the community as a driving factor for the architecture within its bounds.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Department of Architecture
- Chairman of the Department of Architecture at UW - Milwaukee
Mo Zell is the Chair of the Department of Architecture at UW-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning and principal of the design firm, bauenstudio. Mo is a designer, a licensed architect, and an educator interested in engaged practice and installation as a form of critical inquiry. She engages communities outside the boundaries of her department, school, discipline and campus in hands-on, full scale ‘making ', such as that found in installations, as an effective vehicle for implementing change. For Mo, engaged practice is a form of collaboration where team members, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary, are sought out to enhance the outcomes of a project. These collaborations build opportunities for engaging a broader audience and more holistic thinking about architecture.
At the core of her engaged practice is a series of partnerships. Partnerships comprise professional design partners, students and faculty in the academy including interdisciplinary colleagues, and communities. One longstanding partnership is with my design partner and adjunct professor Marc Roehrle, with whom she operates a two-person design and research firm, bauenstudio. Their work manifests in the form of speculative design work and built work at the domestic scale. The work of bauenstudio has been recognized with several design awards including a Boston Society of Architecture Honor Award, a Boston Society of Landscape Architecture Merit Award, and an ACSA Faculty Design Award. Her design work has also been exhibited at the Haggerty Museum of Art.
She also partners with faculty and students to expand expertise, engagement opportunities, and production levels. Her partnerships with communities, institutions, and organizations allows her to improve public engagement through programmed cultural events. Partnerships with the Milwaukee Art Museum, area Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) including Near West Side Partners, architecture professionals, art organizations like the Chipstone Foundation, and area developers impact students, professionals and communities across Milwaukee.
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- Member of the COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD
- Executive Director of BID 4
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- Member of the COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD
- Executive Director of Clarke Square Neighborhood Inc