Master of Urban Design CMU

11/11/2025

Race & Displacement in Pittsburgh, commemorating the 75th and 10th anniversaries of the Lower Hill and Penn Plaza mass displacements
Thu, Nov 13, 4:30-6p keynote address by Professor Edward Goetz
Fri, Nov 14, 9am-4pm panels & discussions
register at https://shorturl.at/PFEbh

11/11/2025

This Thursday:

10/20/2025

Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) Faculty Dialogues: Co-Designing Just and Regenerative Cities
This fall, the Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) hosts a series of faculty-led dialogues. Each session brings colleagues together around a shared theme, highlighting ongoing design-research at CM–A and opening space for genuine exchange, critical positioning, and mutual support. Collectively, these conversations chart pathways toward more just, resilient, and self-determined urban futures, while shaping the agenda for the School’s research platform on urbanism, participatory action, and community design.
SESSION 1: Community Engagement and Collective Action, featuring Stephanie Lee, Nida Rehman, and Tommy Yang
Monday, October 20, 2025
12:30-2pm EST
CFA214, College of Fine Arts Building

Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) Faculty Dialogues: Co-Designing Just and Regenerative Cities

SESSION 4: Ontological and Epistemological Shifts, featuring Stefan Gruber, Matthew Huber, and Tuliza Sindi (includes final celebrations)
Saturday, October 25, 2025
3-4:30pm EST
CFA214, College of Fine Arts Building

This fall, the Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) hosts a series of faculty-led dialogues. Each session brings colleagues together around a shared theme, highlighting ongoing design-research at CM–A and opening space for genuine exchange, critical positioning, and mutual support. Collectively, these conversations chart pathways toward more just, resilient, and self-determined urban futures, while shaping the agenda for the School’s research platform on urbanism, participatory action, and community design.

10/20/2025

Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) Faculty Dialogues: Co-Designing Just and Regenerative Cities
This fall, the Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) hosts a series of faculty-led dialogues. Each session brings colleagues together around a shared theme, highlighting ongoing design-research at CM–A and opening space for genuine exchange, critical positioning, and mutual support. Collectively, these conversations chart pathways toward more just, resilient, and self-determined urban futures, while shaping the agenda for the School’s research platform on urbanism, participatory action, and community design.
SESSION 1: Community Engagement and Collective Action, featuring Stephanie Lee, Nida Rehman, and Tommy Yang
Monday, October 20, 2025
12:30-2pm EST
CFA214, College of Fine Arts Building

Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) Faculty Dialogues: Co-Designing Just and Regenerative Cities

SESSION 3: Regeneration, Circularity and Repair, featuring Vicky Achnani, Dana Cupkova, and Joshua D. Lee
Friday, October 24, 2025
12:30-2pm EST
CFA214, College of Fine Arts Building

This fall, the Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) hosts a series of faculty-led dialogues. Each session brings colleagues together around a shared theme, highlighting ongoing design-research at CM–A and opening space for genuine exchange, critical positioning, and mutual support. Collectively, these conversations chart pathways toward more just, resilient, and self-determined urban futures, while shaping the agenda for the School’s research platform on urbanism, participatory action, and community design.

10/20/2025

Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) Faculty Dialogues: Co-Designing Just and Regenerative Cities
This fall, the Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) hosts a series of faculty-led dialogues. Each session brings colleagues together around a shared theme, highlighting ongoing design-research at CM–A and opening space for genuine exchange, critical positioning, and mutual support. Collectively, these conversations chart pathways toward more just, resilient, and self-determined urban futures, while shaping the agenda for the School’s research platform on urbanism, participatory action, and community design.
SESSION 1: Community Engagement and Collective Action, featuring Stephanie Lee, Nida Rehman, and Tommy Yang
Monday, October 20, 2025
12:30-2pm EST
CFA214, College of Fine Arts Building

Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) Faculty Dialogues: Co-Designing Just and Regenerative Cities

SESSION 2: Infrastructure and Just Transitions, featuring Sarosh Anklesaria, Christine Mondor, and Rich Nisa
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
12:30-2pm EST
CFA214, College of Fine Arts Building

This fall, the Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) hosts a series of faculty-led dialogues. Each session brings colleagues together around a shared theme, highlighting ongoing design-research at CM–A and opening space for genuine exchange, critical positioning, and mutual support. Collectively, these conversations chart pathways toward more just, resilient, and self-determined urban futures, while shaping the agenda for the School’s research platform on urbanism, participatory action, and community design.

10/20/2025

Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) Faculty Dialogues: Co-Designing Just and Regenerative Cities
This fall, the Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) hosts a series of faculty-led dialogues. Each session brings colleagues together around a shared theme, highlighting ongoing design-research at CM–A and opening space for genuine exchange, critical positioning, and mutual support. Collectively, these conversations chart pathways toward more just, resilient, and self-determined urban futures, while shaping the agenda for the School’s research platform on urbanism, participatory action, and community design.
SESSION 1: Community Engagement and Collective Action, featuring Stephanie Lee, Nida Rehman, and Tommy Yang
Monday, October 20, 2025
12:30-2pm EST
CFA214, College of Fine Arts Building

Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) Faculty Dialogues: Co-Designing Just and Regenerative Cities
This fall, the Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) hosts a series of faculty-led dialogues. Each session brings colleagues together around a shared theme, highlighting ongoing design-research at CM–A and opening space for genuine exchange, critical positioning, and mutual support. Collectively, these conversations chart pathways toward more just, resilient, and self-determined urban futures, while shaping the agenda for the School’s research platform on urbanism, participatory action, and community design.

SESSION 1: Community Engagement and Collective Action, featuring Stephanie Lee, Nida Rehman, and Tommy Yang
Monday, October 20, 2025
12:30-2pm EST
CFA214, College of Fine Arts Building

09/08/2025

This week we welcome Arturo Escobar to our School! Don't miss his Wednesday keynote kicking off the symposium on Hyper Normal.

“Revisiting our taken-for-granted ways of being human has become essential to deal with the planetary crises effectively. How have modern humans been normalized into making societies, economies, and cultures that have become so destructive? Relearning to be human otherwise demands from us a radical shift towards a pluriversal ethics of justice and care for all living beings. Only then will we be able to start on the path to re-inhabit the Earth more wisely.”

Venue: Kresge Theater, CFA
Time: 5:30-7:00pm
Catering is provided.

04/22/2025

In 1934, Albert Einstein delivered his famous lecture on the Theory of Special Relativity right here at Carnegie Institute of Technology—now CMU—in what we know today as Kresge Theatre.

As an architecture page, we’re fascinated not just by the figures who shaped history, but also by the spaces that held those moments. Kresge Theatre isn’t just a performance space—it’s a vessel of intellectual legacy, layered with stories that continue to inspire.

Architecture doesn’t just house history. It becomes history.

04/11/2025

This week the Remaking Cities Institute hosted Micheal Maltzan. Michael’s work spans a wide range of typologies—from cultural institutions and university buildings to housing and infrastructural landmarks—but all are grounded in a deep concern for the social dimension of architecture. His projects engage communities and their urban milieu, building relationships between the individual and the collective, between the private domain of the home and the public sphere of civic life.
This was the third in our series "Conversations on Domesticity and the City", co-granized with the Heinz Architecture Center which accompanies Tatiana Bilbao’s exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art. At our first event, Tatiana framed architecture as a primary form of care—care that shapes our individual well-being, our social relationships, and ultimately our planetary health. In our second event, Anna Puigjaner from MAIO emphasized that the production and reproduction of the built environment is a collective effort—one that requires us to consider buildings in relation to the urban scale.
All three practices demonstrate that outstanding design is not only compatible but in fact depends on affordability and a committment to inclusivity!
With Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Mellon Architecture

02/26/2025

Join us tomorrow for a talk by Anna Puigjaner of MAIO architects co-organized by the Remaking Cities Institute and the Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

We hope to see you on tomorrow for the William Finglass lecture by Anna Puigjaner on “Salon : From the kitchen to collective care”.

Don’t miss this, block your calendars from 5.30pm - 7.30pm and see you at the Carnegie Museum of Art!

02/11/2025

Lot's of great public space design coming to Pittsburgh!!!

01/14/2025

Kickstarting our lineup for the semester, we have Tatiana Bilbao in conversation with Raymund Ryan and our very own Stefan Gruber. The conversation highlights the overlays and distinctions between domesticity and the city.

When : Friday, 17th January
Where : Carnegie Museum of Art
Time : 3pm - 4.30pm
(RSVP required)

Let’s get the momentum going!