The School of Architecture (SOA), as part of a Catholic university in the Jesuit and Mercy traditions, exists to provide an excellent student-centered, accredited professional architectural education in an urban context. A UDM SOA education seeks to develop architects who are sensitive designers; technically competent; exhibit the highest ethical and professional standards; are socially responsible and culturally aware.
Vogel_head_shot_4 Stephen Vogel, FAIA
position Professor, Dean of the School of Architecture
office LO 118
phone 313-993-1532
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teaches

ARCH 1190:  Introduction to Architecture; ARCH 299:  American Architecture and Culture

 

Stephen Vogel, FAIA, has been Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Detroit Mercy since 1993. During that time he has focused the school's mission to be engaged in service to the urban community and to educate future architects committed to building sustainable communities. To that end he co-founded the Detroit Collaborative Design Center, a university-based center providing professional design services to non-profit civic and community organizations, and the International Center for Urban Ecology (iCUE) that advocates community participation in the re-ordering of post-industrial cities. Most recently the Design Center was co-curator for the Detroit portion of the international study of "Shrinking Cities" funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. For the Shrinking Cities publication, Mr. Vogel authored an essay on the "Self Organizing Systems" of Detroit neighborhoods. He also authored a chapter of the 2008 book Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Design entitled "Detroit [Re] Turns to Nature" which proposes a new form of sustainable community. He is currently writing a chapter for a book on design centers to be published by the Princeton Architectural Press in 2009. The School of Architecture was awarded the first National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Grand Prize for the Creative Integration of Practice in the Academy in 2002 for the work of the Design Center.  In 2009 it received an additional prize for the same award..

Dean Vogel is the past president of the American Institute of Architects Michigan and Detroit chapters. He and his professional partners have received over 50 awards for design excellence including an AIA National Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design for the Redevelopment of the Harmonie Park area of Detroit as well as an AIA National Honor Award for Architecture for the Detroit Opera House restoration. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has also cited the mixed income community Centennial Village in Atlanta, GA, master planned by Dean Vogel, as the premier model of a Hope VI project in the United States. He has lectured extensively nationally and internationally on the topics of urban design and urban redevelopment and on the phenomenon of shrinking cities. In 2004 he was awarded the AIA Michigan Gold Medal for his work.