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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Julie Ju-Youn Kim
Associate Professor, Architecture; Director, Graduate Program in Architecture

“I can’t draw for you or think for you, but I can help by opening your eyes and expanding your visual vocabulary.”
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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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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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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, Master of Community Development Program

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