College of Architecture & Urban Planning

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College of Architecture & Urban Planning

List of Professors

Name	Years at Michigan	Position
Velma McEwen	2013 - 2017	Assistant Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Andrew Holder	2012 - 2015	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Suzanne Lanyl Charles	2011 - 2013	Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
Rania Ghosn	2011 - 2014	Assistant Professor of Architecture
James Macgillivray	2011 - 2014	Assistant Professor of Architecture
David Bieri	2010 - 2015	Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning
Joseph G. Rosa	2010 - 2016	Professor of Architecture Director University of Michigan Museum of Art
Rosalyne Shieh	2009 - 2014	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Jennifer Maigret	2008 - 2009	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Monica Ponce de Leon	2008 - 2016	Professor and Dean of Architecture Eliel Saarinen Collegiate Professor of Architecture
Kathy Velikov	2007 - 2009	Assistant Professor of Architecture
June Manning Thomas	2007 - 2020	Professor of Urban & Regional Planning
Amy C. Kulper	2006 - 2017	Associate Professor of Architecture
Sophia Psarra	2005 - 2011	Associate Professor of Architecture
Christopher Brown Leinberger	2005 - 2012	Clinical Professor of Practice
Lara L. Fernando	2004 - 2008	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Fernando Luiz Lara	2004 - 2009	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Steven Y. Mankouche	2003 - 2009	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Rahul Jitendra Mehrotra	2003 - 2007	Associate Professor of Architecture
Elsie L. Harper-Anderson	2003 - 2008	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Peter Osler	2002 - 2009	Associate Professor of Architecture
Caroline Constant	2001 - 2014	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning Emil Lorch Collegiate Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Tom J. Buresh	2001 - 2010	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning Emil Lorch Collegiate Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Sussan Babaie	2001 - 2008	Assistant Professor of Architecture Assistant Professor of History of Art
Gavin Michael Shatkin	2001 - 2012	Associate Professor of Urban Planning
Roy Strickland	2001 - 2021	Professor of Architecture
Coleman Austin Jordan	2000 - 2004	Assistant Professor of Architecture Assistant Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies
Gretchen Lee Wilkins	2000 - 2008	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Jean D. Wineman	2000 - 2017	Professor of Architecture
Robert L. Fishman	2000 - 2022	Professor of Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning.
Karl Daubmann	1999 - 2016	Professor of Architecture and Art and Design
Edward Dimendberg	1998 - 2004	Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Associate Professor of Film and Video Studies Associate Professor of Architecture
J. Yolande Daniels	1998 - 2001	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Douglas Stewart Kelbaugh	1998 - 2020	Professor and Dean
Aseem Inam	1997 - 2005	Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
Lisa M. Iwamoto	1996 - 2002	Assistant Professor of Architecture Practice
Ali Mahmoud Malkawi	1995 - 2002	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Robert A. Levit	1995 - 2002	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Brian Carter	1994 - 2002	Professor of Architecture
Annette W. Lecuyer	1994 - 2003	Associate Professor of Architecture Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Architecture
William Shaun Jackson	1994 - 2013	Professor of Architecture Professor of Art & Design Professor of Operations & Management Science
Lydia M. Soo	1994 - 2017	Associate Professor of Architecture
Jason Young	1993 - 2014	Associate Professor of Architecture
Eric J. Hill	1993 - 2017	Clinical Professor of Practice in Architecture
David Moisseiff Scobey	1989 - 2006	Associate Profesor of Architecture
Alan W. Steiss	1988 - 1999	Professor of Urban Planning
Margaret E. Dewar	1988 - 2017	Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
Robert Beckley	1987 - 2002	Professor of Architecture Dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Anatole Senkevitch Jr	1986 - 2011	Associate Professor of Architecture
Barry N. Checkoway	1983 - 2021	Professor of Social Work, Urban and Regional Planning
Kurt Brandle	1981 - 1997	Professor of Architecture
Hemalata Dandekar	1980 - 2002	Professor of Urban Planning
James C. Snyder	1980 - 2004	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Emmanuel-George Vakalo	1979 - 2000	Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning
Panos Papalambros	1979 - 2022	Professor o Mechanical Engineering Professor of Integrative Systems and Design Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Mitchell J. Rycus	1977 - 2000	Professor of Urban Planning
James Alfred Turner	1976 - 2009	Professor of Architecture
Jerold D. Lax	1974 - 2002	Associate Professor of Urban Planning
James Alvin Chaffers	1973 - 2008	Professor of Architecture
Kan Chen	1971 - 1995	Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor of Urban, Technological, and Environmental Planning Research Scientist, UMTRI
Allan G. Feldt	1971 - 1994	Professor of Urban Planning
Keith A. Brown	1969 - 1998	Associate Professor of Architecture
Robert W. Marans	1968 - 2004	Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning Research Professor in the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Christopher Z. Wzacny	1968 - 1989	Associate Professor of Architecture
Norman H. Barnett	1967 - 1993	Professor of Architecture
J. Sterling Crandall	1967 - 1997	Professor of Urban Planning
Richard D. Duke	1967 - 1998	Professor of Urban Planning
Katharine P. Warner	1967 - 2002	Associate Professor of Urban Planning
Leon A. Pastalan	1966 - 1998	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Jacques C. Brownson	1965 - 1968	Professor of Architecture Chair of Architecture
William D. Drake	1964 - 2003	Professor of Resource Policy and Conservation, Urban, Technological, and Environmental Planning
Donald B. Kersten	1964 - 1994	Professor of Art
Reginald F. Malcolmson	1964 - 1983	Professor of Architecture Dean of Architecture and Design
Kingsbury Marzolf	1963 - 2000	Professor of Architecture
Mignonette Yin Cheng	1963 - 1996	Professor of Art
Gerhard Olving	1963 - 1998	Professor of Architecture
Henry S. Kowalewski	1962 - 2000	Professor of Architecture
Daniel H. Carson	1961 - 1968	Assistant Professor of Psychology Associate Research Psychologist in the Institute of Science and Technology Assistant Professor of Psychology in Architecture
Harold J. Borkin	1961 - 2003	Professor of Architecture
Robert M. Darvas	1961 - 1996	Professor of Architecture
Gunnar G. Birkerts	1960 - 1990	Thomas S. Monaghan Architect-in-Residence Professor Emeritus
Carl D. Johnson	1960 - 1989	Professor of Landscape Architecture
John H. Stephenson	1959 - 1994	Catherine B. Heller Professor of Art Dean of the Art School
John Nystuen	1959 - 2000	Professor of Urban Geography & Planning Chair Department of Geography 1979-1982
Harold W. Himes	1958 - 1983	Professor of Architecture
Stephen C. A. Paraskevopoulos	1958 - 1976	Professor of Architecture
Serenus Glen Paulsen	1958 - 1965 1975 - 1985 1990 - 2006	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Richard Hall Jennings	1958 - 1963	Associate Professor of Art Assistant Professor of Naval Science & Tactics 1945-46
Arthur Peter Op perman	1958 - 1977	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
William A. Lewis	1957 - 1986	Professor of Art Associate Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Philip N. Youtz	1957 - 1965	Professor of Architecture Dean of Architecture & Design
Charles W. Cares Jr.	1956 - 1986	Professor of Landscape Architecture Chair Landscape Architecture 1969-1978 Director of Arboretum 1968-1986
Kiyoshi Mano	1956 - 1961	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Joseph J. Wehrer	1956 - 1989	Professor of Architecture
William Werner	1956 - 1998	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
John F. Dawson	1956 - 1963	Assistant Professor of Architecture & Design
Thomas J. Larkin	1953 - 1985	Professor of Art
Joseph T. A. Lee	1952 - 1984	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Jack Arthur  Garbutt	1952 - 1959	Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting
Robert C. Metcalf	1950 - 1991	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning Dean of College of Architecture & Urban Planning
Leonard K. Eaton	1950 - 1989	Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning Professor History of Art
Arnold Benjamin Handler	1950 - 1981	Professor of Planning
William Muschenheim	1950 - 1973	Professor of Architecture
Francesco Della Sala	1950	Associate Professor of Architecture
Alan A. Marra	1949 - 1974	Professor of Architecture
Thomas Fulton McClure	1949 - 1983	Professor of Art
Charles William Pearlman	1949 - 1959	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Kirk Newman	1949	Assistant Professor of Ceramics 2954
Dean H. Wilson	1948 - 1969 1974 - 1975	Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering Adjunct Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
Theodore Larson	1948 - 1973	Professor of Architecture
Willard August Oberdick	1948 - 1982	Professor of Architecture Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture
Edward Victor Olencki	1948 - 1987	Professor of Architecture
Frank Cassara	1947 - 1983	Professor of Art
David Henry Reider	1947 - 1982	Professor of Art
Richard H. Wilt	1947 - 1981	Professor of Art
Joseph Francis Albano	1947 - 1971	Professor of Architecture
Herbert Wilson Johe	1947 - 1984	Professor of Architecture Assistant Dean of Architecture
Walter Benjamin Sanders	1947 - 1972	Professor of Architecture Chairman of the Department of Architecture
Chet Harmon LaMore	1947 - 1974	Professor of Art
Glenn Gunnette Mastin	1947 - 1977	Professor of Architecture
Carl E. Guldberg	1946 - 1950	Instructor in Drawing and Painting
Roger Benton Hollenbeck	1946 - 1948	Instructor in Architecture & Design
Gerome Kamrowski	1946 - 1984	Professor of Art
Karl Kasten	1946 - 1947	Instructor of Architecture & Design
John Worthington Hyde	1945 - 1972	Professor of Planning
Carlos F. Lopez	1945 - 1953	Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting
James Donald Prendergast	1944 - 1974	Professor of Art
Thomas Samuel Haile	1942 - 1943	Instructor in Architecture & Design
Aare Kotivalo Lahti	1941 - 1974	Professor of Art
Richard Adolph Lippold	1941	Instructor of Architecture & Design Instructor in Mechanism & Engineering Drawing
Grover Dee Cole	1940 - 1950	Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design
Ernest Karl Mundt	1940	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Mary Chase Perry Stratton	1940 - 1942	Lecturer in Ceramics
Frederic Howard Aldrich	1939 - 1943	Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting
Bertha VanZwaluwenburg Frayer	1939
Catherine Bortic Heller	1938 - 1965	Professor of Design
Emil Weddige	1937 - 1974	Professor of Art
Donald Burnette Gooch	1936 - 1974	Professor of Art
Thomas Sherdin Tanner	1936 - 1964	Associate Professor of Architecture
George Gould Ross	1934 - 1959	Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Roger Bailey	1932 - 1948	Professor of Architecture
Ralph Warner Hammett	1931 - 1966	Professor of Architecture
Beaver Edwards	1931 - 1940	Instructor in Modeling
Jean Hebrard	1931 - 1948	Professor of Architecture
George Bickford Brigham Jr.	1930 - 1960	Professor of Architecture
Harry Robinson Gamble	1930	Instructor in Architecture
T. Gerald Kronick	1930	Instructor in Architecture
Walter Winthrop J. Gores	1929 - 1959	Professor of Design
Ross Thomas Bittinger	1928 - 1940 1943 - 1949	Junior Instructor in Decorative Design Assistant Professor of Engineering Drawing
Charles Ronello Barnum	1926	Instructor in Architecture
Mary Olmsted Johnson	1926	Instructor in Architecture
Victor Slocum	1926	Instructor in Architecture (Sculptor)
Samuel Chamberlain	1925	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Walter Vancleve Marshall	1925 - 1960	Professor of Architecture Assistant Dean of the College of Architecture and Design
Francis Skillman Onderdonk	1925	Instructor in Architecture
Jean Paul Slusser	1925 - 1957	Professor of Drawing and Painting Director of Art Museum
Myron Butman Chapin	1924 - 1957	Associate Professor Emeritus
Carlton W. Angell	1923 - 1962	Instructor in Freehand Drawing & Modeling Artist in the University Museums
Raymond Mathews	1923 - 1942	Instructor in Architecture
Eliel Saarinen	1923	Visiting Professor of Architecture
Ernest Wilby	1923 - 1943	Professor of Architecture
Herbert Atherton Fowler	1921 - 1938	Assistant Professor of Decorative Design
Warren S. Holmes	1920	Assistant Professor of Architecture
James Blaine Newman	1920 - 1925	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Frederick C. O'Dell	1920 - 1961	Professor of Architecture
Ernest Harrison Barnes	1915 - 1943	Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting
Leon Alexander Makielski	1915 - 1928	Instructor of Drawing and Painting
Albert J. Rousseau	1915 - 1931	Professor of Architecture
George McDonald McConkey	1914 - 1955	Professor of Architecture
Harlow Olin Whittemore	1914 - 1957	Professor of Landscape Architecture Director of Arboretum 1934-1958
Sidney Fiske Kimball	1913 - 1919	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Wells Ira Bennett	1912 - 1958	Assistant Professor of Descriptive Geometry and Drawing Assistant Professor of Drawing Professor of Architecture
Beverly Robinson	1912 - 1915	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Louis Holmes Boynton	1912 - 1924	Professor of Architecture
Percy Ash	1910 - 1912	Professor of Architecture
William Caldwell Titcomb	1907 - 1913 1925 - 1932	Professor or Architecture
Emil Lorch	1906 - 1940	Professor of Architecture Dean of Architecture
William LeBaron Jenney	1876	Professor of Architecture & Design

College of Architecture & Urban Planning

List of Professors

Velma McEwen

Andrew Holder

Suzanne Lanyl Charles

Rania Ghosn

James Macgillivray

David Bieri

Joseph G. Rosa

Rosalyne Shieh

Jennifer Maigret

Monica Ponce de Leon

Kathy Velikov

June Manning Thomas

Amy C. Kulper

Sophia Psarra

Christopher Brown Leinberger

Lara L. Fernando

Fernando Luiz Lara

Steven Y. Mankouche

Rahul Jitendra Mehrotra

Elsie L. Harper-Anderson

Peter Osler

Caroline Constant

Tom J. Buresh

Sussan Babaie

Gavin Michael Shatkin

Roy Strickland

Coleman Austin Jordan

Gretchen Lee Wilkins

Jean D. Wineman

Robert L. Fishman

Karl Daubmann

Edward Dimendberg

J. Yolande Daniels

Douglas Stewart Kelbaugh

Aseem Inam

Lisa M. Iwamoto

Ali Mahmoud Malkawi

Robert A. Levit

Brian Carter

Annette W. Lecuyer

William Shaun Jackson

Lydia M. Soo

Jason Young

Eric J. Hill

David Moisseiff Scobey

Alan W. Steiss

Margaret E. Dewar

Robert Beckley

Anatole Senkevitch Jr

Barry N. Checkoway

Kurt Brandle

Hemalata Dandekar

James C. Snyder

Emmanuel-George Vakalo

Panos Papalambros

Mitchell J. Rycus

James Alfred Turner

Jerold D. Lax

James Alvin Chaffers

Kan Chen

Allan G. Feldt

Keith A. Brown

Robert W. Marans

Christopher Z. Wzacny

Norman H. Barnett

J. Sterling Crandall

Richard D. Duke

Katharine P. Warner

Leon A. Pastalan

Jacques C. Brownson

William D. Drake

Donald B. Kersten

Reginald F. Malcolmson

Kingsbury Marzolf

Mignonette Yin Cheng

Gerhard Olving

Henry S. Kowalewski

Daniel H. Carson

Arthur Peter Op perman

Jack Arthur  Garbutt