Foundation: Summer Studio Instructors

ZAIN ABUSEIR   zaina@umich.edu

Zain Abuseir is a lecturer in Architecture at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Zain previously taught Visual Communications at the School of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan. She has also worked at RVTR and Atelier Mankouche in Ann Arbor, Michigan. While at RVTR, she has contributed to the NorthHouse Project, the Stratus Project, Conduit Urbanism and the Post-Carbon Highway Project. Her work has focused on graphic representation, book design and mapping. Zain earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture [2007] and a Master of Architecture [2009] both from the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. During her time at Michigan she was awarded the Willeke Portfolio Competition Honor Award and Raoul Wallenberg Certificate for her Bachelors of Science Thesis Project entitled “Coded Space” among others. She was a previous editor of the University of Michigan Dimensions Journal. Her graduate thesis project, a|rch|natomizing somalia, has been recognized nationally and internationally, and published along with other work in in Zawia, Ground Up, Atlantis, Dimensions, Water Index and others. ︎

ADAM FURE  (coordinator)  afure@umich.edu

Adam Fure is an architectural designer and an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He teaches in the areas of digital fabrication, material experimentation, and design. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Beijing Biennale, The New School in New York, the A+D Gallery in Los Angeles, the Architectural Association in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the Grand Rapids Museum of Art. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2014 Architectural League Prize and a residency fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. His essays have been published in Log, Project Journal, and Pidgin. Fure is a principal of the Ann Arbor-based studio T+E+A+M and a co-founder of the Possible Mediums Project. From 2010 to 2015, he led the design practice SIFT Studio.Fure received his Bachelor of Science in architecture from the University of Michigan and a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he graduated with distinction and was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi Medal. ︎

EDUARDO MEDIERO  mediero@umich.edu

Eduardo Mediero is a lecturer in architecture and was the 2019-2020 Fishman Fellow at the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Mediero is a licensed architect and founder of HANGHAR , an architecture practice based in Madrid that works on the confluence between architectural precedents and financial organizational models. The practice develops projects from furniture, interior design, housing and urbanism. Mediero holds a Masters in Architecture with Honors from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and a Masters in Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he was the recipient of the 2018 KPF Traveling Fellowship. His work has been exhibited at the XIV Biennial of Spanish Architecture and Urbanism, the 16th and 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, the Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid and the ETSAM. Mediero is also the recipient of the Real Colegio Complutense Fellowship and the Arthur Lehman Fund. ︎

Form: Fall Studio Instructors

ADAM FURE  (coordinator)  afure@umich.edu

Adam Fure is an architectural designer and an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He teaches in the areas of digital fabrication, material experimentation, and design. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Beijing Biennale, The New School in New York, the A+D Gallery in Los Angeles, the Architectural Association in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the Grand Rapids Museum of Art. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2014 Architectural League Prize and a residency fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. His essays have been published in Log, Project Journal, and Pidgin. Fure is a principal of the Ann Arbor-based studio T+E+A+M and a co-founder of the Possible Mediums Project. From 2010 to 2015, he led the design practice SIFT Studio.Fure received his Bachelor of Science in architecture from the University of Michigan and a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he graduated with distinction and was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi Medal. ︎

YOJAIRO LOMELI   yolo@umich.edu

Yojairo Lomeli, an architectural designer, is a lecturer in architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Since joining the faculty as an intermittent lecturer in architecture in 2015, he has received the 2017 and 2018 Donna M. Salzer Award for Teaching Excellence, becoming the youngest member of Taubman College to receive the honor. Lomeli also has been nominated three times for U-M’s Golden Apple Award, the only student-nominated award that recognizes outstanding teaching. In addition, he was part of the teaching team that won the 2017 U-M Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize. Lomeli is a co-founder and partner of cc-bb, a practice with two engines, always in sport-mode, with one focused on design research, agility, and development of breadth, and the other rooted in design making, execution, and competence of advanced (as well as traditional) fabrication methods. Lomeli holds a Bachelor of Science in architecture and a Master of Architecture with high distinction from the University of Michigan. His graduate thesis, “The Yada Yada,” was recognized with top honors; it investigated the potential between hip-hop and architecture in the design of an institution for the continued production of these cultural affinities in the ever-changing landscape of Detroit. 

ADAM MILLER  adambmil@umich.edu

Adam Miller is a designer and teacher. Currently, he is the Muschenheim Fellow at University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. From 2019-2021 Adam was the two-time recipient of the Race & Gender in the Built Environment Fellowship at UT Austin’s School of Architecture. Adam is founder and director of Pneu-Stars, a collaborative design group that produces stage designs and installations since 2014, having design-built numerous large-scale installations for music festivals in Oakland, CA. Adam’s research investigates the relationship between taste, power, and identity through the lens of the queer body and queer architecture. His interests lie in renegotiating the legacies of Modern architecture and its taste culture to develop design that takes marginalized perspectives into account. Adam holds a M.Arch from UC Berkeley, and B.A.’s from Cornell University. Adam taught architecture studios and theory at UC Berkeley and UT Austin, and has been an invited critic at UC Berkeley, California College of the Arts, San Jose State U, UT Austin, Texas A&M University, University of Cincinnati, and other institutions. ︎

LEAH WULFMAN  lwulfman@umich.edu

Leah Wulfman is a Carrier Bag architect, educator, game designer, digital puppeteer, and occasional writer. Trained as an architect, Wulfman has been assembling hybrid virtual and physical spaces in order to prototype new relationships to technology and nature, as well as challenge normative ideologies so often reinforced by technology and architecture. In addition to mixed reality installations that play with and emphasize the physical, material basis of everything digital, they are presently working on a research series focusing on gamified environments, interactions and materials—traversing a variety of themes like ‘Deep Unlearning,’ Stone Soupercomputers, GamerGirl Bath Water, and our potential interactions with a Jacaranda Tree in full bloom witnessed through Google Earth. Wulfman holds a Bachelors of Architecture degree from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as a Masters of Arts in Liam Young's Fiction and Entertainment program at SCI-Arc. They have taught at numerous institutions in the United States, including SCI-Arc, ArtCenter's Media Design Practices Graduate Program, IDEAS Program at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, and The School of Architecture at Taliesin, where they have developed youth programming and mixed reality coursework. Wulfman's work experience can be likened to playing musical chairs, with collaborative projects presently underway with Studio Elana Schlenker as well as the LA-based artist Lauren Halsey. Their research and design work has been supported by numerous residencies and publications, and has been shown as part of various exhibitions and festivals, including Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, The FiDi Arsenale, Space Saloon Design and Build Festival, Open Engagement, VIA Festival for Electronic Art and Music, A Queer Query, and The Wrong Biennale for New Digital Art. Leah is now at the University of Michigan, where they are currently the Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the Taubman College School of Architecture. ︎

Situation: Winter Studio Instructors

MEREDITH MILLER  (coordinator)  mlmmlm@umich.edu

Meredith L. Miller is an architect and Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where she joined as an A. Alfred Taubman Fellow in 2009-2010. Her research and practice links architecture’s materiality to global resources, climate change, and post-natural ecologies. Her essays have been published in Journal of Architectural Education, Avery Review, MONU, Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, and Political Economy, Pidgin, Thresholds, and ARPA Journal. With Thom Moran, she is developing Post Rock, a composite building material made from waste plastics and aggregates. Meredith is a founding member of T+E+A+M, an award-winning architecture practice based in Ann Arbor. T+E+A+M’s design work has been featured at the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, A+D Museum Los Angeles, and the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. T+E+A+M’s projects have appeared in Metropolis, Log, Architectural Record, and Architect’s Newspaper. Miller received her M.Arch from Princeton University and a BS in architecture from the University of Virginia. ︎