School of Architecture & Planning

What appears to be a jazzed up metallic trailer on wheels holds the power to innovate, design and create ideas of tomorrow – and it will soon be rolling through communities across New Mexico.  The Mobile Makers Lab Express will allow capabilities of...

Future Lobos and local teachers are discovering the environments around them using design and architecture. The Design Education workshop, hosted by the UNM School of Architecture and Planning (SA&P), is wrapping up its summer session by inviting...

A UNM Regents’ Professor will be spending a year at Stanford, furthering her research on lost memories of refugees and the politics of commemoration. Eleni Bastéa, UNM Regents’ Professor of Architecture, won a prestigious External Faculty Fellowship at...

A UNM School of Architecture and Planning (SA&P) student’s assessment of work environments and public spaces led him to be listed among an elite group of 2019 CRIT Scholars. The award is given annually by the prestigious American Institute of...

New Mexico is home to 23 Indian tribes, including 19 Pueblos, three Apache tribes and the Navajo Nation. These sovereign nations bring rich history, culture and traditions to our state, along with unique perspectives to students wishing to study...

Leadership changes are coming to the UNM School of Architecture and Planning (SA&P). Long-term Dean Geraldine Forbes Isais recently announced she will be stepping down and returning to the faculty. Mark Childs, SA&P professor and associate dean of...

A lecturer at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning (SA&P) is now the subject of a fine arts exhibition. More than four dozen self-portraits by Efthimios Maniatis, SA&P lecturer, are on exhibit through the end of April in the UNM Fine Arts and...

University of New Mexico students are working to bring dignity back to homeless people in Albuquerque.  “Going to the bathroom is something everyone does,” – Michaele Pride, UNM SA&P professor To those who have a consistent place to hang their hat,...

There was standing room only in the Garcia Honda Auditorium at UNM’s School of Architecture and Planning for the annual Jeff Harnar Awards presentation and lecture, sponsored by the Thornburg Foundation. Jurors chose the New Mexico Highlands University...

The idea started on a beach in Mexico. A dozen school-age children were scattered along the sand, darting between the waves and collecting seashells in the tails of their shirts. But only certain shells made the cut, and those that didn’t meet a child’s...