Approximately 70 posters were presented at the Second Annual UDM Faculty and Student Research Symposium and Poster Fair, April 15. Awards were presented to the best poster from each college/school. The posters were judged on the basis of scholarship and presentation. The School of Architecture award was presented to Assistant Professor of Architecture Allegra Pitera for "(R)evolutionary Communication: Digital Stories of Detroit."

UDM Professor of Architecture Anthony Martinico, currently a Fulbright scholar teaching at Warsaw University of Technology in Poland, gave the presentation, "Detroit and the problems of de-industrialization," at the Institute of Urban Planning at Cracow University of Technology (CUT), Dec. 6.

Dan Pitera, executive director of the School of Architecture's Detroit Collaborative Design Center, co-edited the book, Activist Architecture, with alumnus Craig Wilkins '85, currently of the University of Michigan Design Center. The book, which focuses on design centers, is to be published by Princeton Architecture Press.

Faculty publications (books, chapters, articles and conference proceedings) written during the past year were recognized at UDM's annual Celebration of Authors, March 10. The following Architecture faculty members were recognized:

School of Architecture Dean Steve Vogel wrote the chapter, "Detroit [Re]Turns to Nature," for the book, Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Design, part of the series, "Integrative Studies in Water Management and Land Development."

Professor of Architecture Will Wittig wrote the article, "Sketching with Stones," for publication in In Form: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Material Culture.