Foundation: Summer Studio Instructors

ADAM FURE  (coordinator)  afure@umich.edu

Adam Fure is an architectural designer and an associate 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. ︎

KEVIN BERNARD MOULTRIE DAYE  kbmd@umich.edu

Kevin Bernard Moultrie Daye designs, curates, fabricates and theorizes about spacetime and everything inside it. He is currently the inaugural Racial and Spatial Justice Fellow at Taubman College at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work focuses on using architectural tools and techniques to facilitate critical thought, community and action around issues of climate, class, race and place. Most recently he has been re-tooling the Beaux Arts's Analytique Rendu drawing method to create 4th dimensional models of Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood before, during and after its destruction through "slum clearance". As LACE's Emerging Curator of 2021, he co-curated the exhibition PARABLE 003 in Los Angeles, a meditation on Black rural futures inspired by Octavia Butler. He also designed and installed an immersive multimedia installation about eco-racism in the Hunter's Point neighborhood in San Francisco called, This Will Be The End of You, as part of the Experimental Space Research Lab (ESRL) for Gray Area in San Francisco.
While working as an architectural designer on the AIA HQ Renewal, he developed and coordinated a first-of-its-kind HBCU Internship program that directly embedded six students from HBCUs into the project, offering them high level real-world experience while offering invaluable insights into designing a post-COVID workplace of the future.He is a founding member of SPACE INDUSTRIES and OBSCURE MANUFACTURING. He has taught courses at University of Berkeley, California, The California College of the Arts and University of Michigan. In professional practice he has worked with Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis (EHDD) and HOOD Design. His work has appeared in WIRED, Domus, Failed Architecture, Architect Magazine and The Funambulist. He holds a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles. . 

Form: Fall Studio Instructors

ADAM FURE  (coordinator)  afure@umich.edu

Adam Fure is an architectural designer and an associate 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. ︎

JACOB COMERCI  comerci@umich.edu

Jacob Comerci is a designer, educator and Project Manager for Academic Initiatives at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He was the 2019-2020 William Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan, having previously received a Master of Architecture from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago. While at Princeton, Comerci was awarded the Howard Crosby Butler traveling fellowship where he studied building groups in Berlin as well as the Suzane Kolarik Underwood thesis prize for excellence in design. He has worked with the offices of Bureau Spectacular in Chicago and Los Angeles and with MOS Architects and LTL Architects in New York. His research and design work reconsiders models for collective life and work by way of the interior fit-out of existing real estate with furniture-scaled domestic equipment.  He is co-founder of Taubman Public Design Corps alongside Maria Arquero, Irene Hwang & Anya Sirota – a program connecting students in architecture, urban design, and planning with organizations to tackle pressing economic, environmental, social, and spatial challenges.

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. 

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. ︎