Architecture Faculty

UDM’s architecture faculty are not just your professors—they’re your coaches and mentors in a challenging, exciting program that will teach you everything from history and theory to urban environments, sustainable architecture and international trends.

Amy Green Deines
Associate Professor, Architecture

“Cities all over the country are in desperate need of a redefinition of what architecture is.”
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Stephen J. LaGrassa
Professor of Architecture

“You will have a better understanding of what architecture encompasses — not just the pure creativity, but also the technical demands.”
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John Charles Mueller
Professor, Architecture

“Manual sketch is a good skill to have when you can’t rely on computers. And students share the opinion it’s an art worth preserving.”
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Joe Odoerfer
Professor of Architecture

“You will come away with knowledge of someone else's experience as your beginning point, so you will enter the profession with 30 years of experience.”
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Daniel Pitera
Associate Professor, Architecture; Director, Detroit Collaborative Design Center

“Your position as a student is more than just gaining information. You’re part of a process of making better architecture, and making better urban cities.”
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Noah Resnick
Assistant Professor, Architecture

“At UDM, we strive to prepare not just great designers and great thinkers but great professionals.”
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Gilbert Sunghera, S.J.
Assistant Professor, Architecture

“You'll think about things you may never have thought of before about sacred architecture and public space.”
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William S. Wittig
Associate Professor, Architecture; Co-Director, MCD Program

“You’re going to learn what it means to design a green building.”
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