College of Architecture & Urban Planning

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College of Architecture & Urban Planning

List of Professors

Name	Years at Michigan	Position
Albert J. Rousseau	1915 - 1931	Professor of Architecture
Aare Kotivalo Lahti	1941 - 1974	Professor of Art
Alan A. Marra	1949 - 1974	Professor of Architecture
Alan W. Steiss	1988 - 1999	Professor of Urban Planning
Allan G. Feldt	1971 - 1994	Professor of Urban Planning
Anatole Senkevitch Jr	1986	Associate Professor of Architecture
Arnold Benjamin Handler	1950 - 1981	Professor of Planning
Arthur Peter Op perman	1958 - 1977	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Aseem Ianm	1997 - 2005	Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
Beaver Edwards	1931 - 1940	Instructor in Modeling
Bertha VanZwaluwenburg Frayer	1939
Beverly Robinson	1912 - 1915	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Brian Carter	1994 - 2002	Professor of Architecture
Carl D. Johnson	1960 - 1989	Professor of Landscape Architecture
Carl E. Guldberg	1946 - 1950	Instructor in Drawing and Painting
Carlos F. Lopez	1945 - 1953	Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting
Carlton W. Angell	1923 - 1962	Instructor in Freehand Drawing & Modeling Artist in the University Museums
Catherine Bortic Heller	1938 - 1965	Professor of Design
Charles Ronello Barnum	1926	Instructor in Architecture
Charles W. Cares Jr.	1956 - 1986	Professor of Landscape Architecture Chair Landscape Architecture 1969-1978 Director of Arboretum 1968-1986
Charles William Pearlman	1949 - 1959	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Chet Harmon LaMore	1947 - 1974	Professor of Art
Christopher Z. Wzacny	1968 - 1989	Associate 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
David Henry Reider	1947 - 1982	Professor of Art
Dean H. Wilson	1948 - 1969 1974 - 1975	Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering Adjunct Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
Donald B. Kersten	1964 - 1994	Professor of Art
Donald Burnette Gooch	1936 - 1974	Professor of Art
Edward Dimendberg	1998 - 2004	Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Associate Professor of Film and Video Studies Associate Professor of Architecture
Edward Victor Olencki	1948 - 1987	Professor of Architecture
Eliel Saarinen	1923	Visiting Professor of Architecture
Emil Weddige	1937 - 1974	Professor of Art
Emile Lorch	1906 - 1940	Professor of Architecture Dean of Architecture
Ernest Harrison Barnes	1915 - 1943	Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting
Ernest Karl Mundt	1940	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Ernest Wilby	1923 - 1943	Professor of Architecture
Francesco Della Sala	1950	Associate Professor of Architecture
Francis Skillman Onderdonk	1925	Instructor in Architecture
Frank Cassara	1947 - 1983	Professor of Art
Frederic Howard Aldrich	1939 - 1943	Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting
Frederick C. O'Dell	1920 - 1961	Professor of Architecture
George Bickford Brigham Jr.	1930 - 1960	Professor of Architecture
George Gould Ross	1934 - 1959	Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
George McDonald McConkey	1914 - 1955	Professor of Architecture
Gerhard Olving	1963 - 1998	Professor of Architecture
Gerome Kamrowski	1946 - 1984	Professor of Art
Glenn Gunnette Mastin	1947 - 1977	Professor of Architecture
Grover Dee Cole	1940 - 1950	Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design
Gunnar G. Birkerts	1960 - 1990	Thomas S. Monaghan Architect-in-Residence Professor Emeritus
Harlow Olin Whittemore	1914 - 1957	Professor of Landscape Architecture Director of Arboretum 1934-1958
Harold J. Borkin	1961 - 2003	Professor of Architecture
Harold W. Himes	1958 - 1983	Professor of Architecture
Harry Robinson Gamble	1930	Instructor in Architecture
Hemalata Dandekar	1980 - 2002	Professor of Urban Planning
Henry S. Kowalewski	1962 - 2000	Professor of Architecture
Herbert Atherton Fowler	1921 - 1938	Assistant Professor of Decorative Design
Herbert Wilson Johe	1947 - 1984	Professor of Architecture Assistant Dean of Architecture
J. Sterling Crandall	1967 - 1997	Professor of Urban Planning
J. Yolande Daniels	1998 - 2001	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Jack Arthur  Garbutt	1952 - 1959	Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting
Jacques C. Brownson	1965 - 1968	Professor of Architecture Chair of Architecture
James Alfred Turner	1976 - 2006	Professor of Architecture
James Alvin Chaffers	1973	Professor of Architecture
James Blaine Newman	1920 - 1925	Assistant Professor of Architecture
James C. Snyder	1980 - 2004	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
James Donald Prendergast	1944 - 1974	Professor of Art
Jean Hebrard	1931 - 1948	Professor of Architecture
Jean Paul Slusser	1925 - 1957	Professor of Drawing and Painting Director of Art Museum
Jerold D. Lax	1974 - 2002	Associate Professor of Urban Planning
John F. Dawson	1956 - 1963	Assistant Professor of Architecture & Design
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
John Worthington Hyde	1945 - 1972	Professor of Planning
Jordan Coleman	2000 - 2004	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Joseph Francis Albano	1947 - 1971	Professor of Architecture
Joseph J. Wehrer	1956 - 1989	Professor of Architecture
Joseph T. A. Lee	1952 - 1984	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Kan Chen	1971 - 1995	Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor of Urban, Technological, and Environmental Planning Research Scientist, UMTRI
Karl Kasten	1946 - 1947	Instructor of Architecture & Design
Katharine P. Warner	1970 - 2002	Associate Professor of Urban Planning
Keith A. Brown	1969 - 1998	Associate Professor of Architecture
Kingsbury Marzolf	1963 - 2000	Professor of Architecture
Kirk Newman	1949	Assistant Professor of Ceramics 2954
Kiyoshi Mano	1956 - 1961	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Kurt Brandle	1981 - 1997	Professor of Architecture
Lara L. Fernando	2004 - 2008	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Leon A. Pastalan	1966 - 1998	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Leon Alexander Makielski	1915 - 1928	Instructor of Drawing and Painting
Leonard K. Eaton	1950 - 1989	Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning Professor History of Art
Louis Holmes Boynton	1912 - 1924	Professor of Architecture
Mary Chase Perry Stratton	1940 - 1942	Lecturer in Ceramics
Mary Olmsted Johnson	1926	Instructor in Architecture
Mignonette Yin Cheng	1963 - 1996	Professor of Art
Mitchell J. Rycus	1977 - 2000	Professor of Urban Planning
Myron Butman Chapin	1924 - 1957	Associate Professor Emeritus
Norman H. Barnett	1967 - 1993	Professor of Architecture
Percy Ash	1910 - 1912	Professor of Architecture
Peter Osler	2002 - 2009	Associate Professor of Architecture
Philip N. Youtz	1957 - 1965	Professor of Architecture Dean of Architecture & Design
Ralph Warner Hammett	1931 - 1966	Professor of Architecture
Raymond Mathews	1923 - 1942	Instructor in Architecture
Reginald F. Malcolmson	1964 - 1983	Professor of Architecture Dean of Architecture and Design
Richard Adolph Lippold	1941	Instructor of Architecture & Design Instructor in Mechanism & Engineering Drawing
Richard D. Duke	1967 - 1998	Professor of Urban Planning
Richard H. Wilt	1947 - 1981	Professor of Art
Richard Hall Jennings	1958 - 1963	Associate Professor of Art Assistant Professor of Naval Science & Tactics 1945-46
Robert Beckley	1987 - 2002	Professor of Architecture Dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Robert C. Metcalf	1950 - 1991	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning Dean of College of Architecture & Urban Planning
Robert M. Darvas	1961 - 1996	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
Roger Bailey	1932 - 1948	Professor of Architecture
Roger Benton Hollenbeck	1946 - 1948	Instructor in Architecture & Design
Ross Thomas Bittinger	1928 - 1940 1943 - 1949	Junior Instructor in Decorative Design Assistant Professor of Engineering Drawing
Samuel Chamberlain	1925	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Serenus Glen Paulsen	1958 - 1965 1975 - 1985 1990 - 2006	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning
Sidney Fiske Kimball	1913 - 1919	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Stephen C. A. Paraskevopoulos	1958 - 1976	Professor of Architecture
Steven Y. Mankouche	2003 - 2009	Assistant Professor of Architecture
T. Gerald Kronick	1930	Instructor in Architecture
Theodore Larson	1948 - 1973	Professor of Architecture
Thomas Fulton McClure	1949 - 1983	Professor of Art
Thomas J. Larkin	1953 - 1985	Professor of Art
Thomas Samuel Haile	1942 - 1943	Instructor in Architecture & Design
Thomas Sherdin Tanner	1936 - 1964	Associate Professor of Architecture
Victor Slocum	1926	Instructor in Architecture (Sculptor)
Walter Benjamin Sanders	1947 - 1972	Professor of Architecture Chairman of the Department of Architecture
Walter Vancleve Marshall	1925 - 1960	Professor of Architecture Assistant Dean of the College of Architecture and Design
Walter Winthrop J. Gores	1929 - 1959	Professor of Design
Warren S. Holmes	1920	Assistant Professor of Architecture
Wells Ira Bennett	1912 - 1958	Assistant Professor of Descriptive Geometry and Drawing Assistant Professor of Drawing Professor of Architecture
Willard August Oberdick	1948 - 1982	Professor of Architecture Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture
William A. Lewis	1957 - 1986	Professor of Art Associate Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning
William Caldwell Titcomb	1907 - 1913 1925 - 1932	Professor or Architecture
William D. Drake	1964 - 2003	Professor of Resource Policy and Conservation, Urban, Technological, and Environmental Planning
William LeBaron Jenney	1876	Professor of Architecture & Design
William Muschenheim	1950 - 1973	Professor of Architecture
William Werner	1956 - 1998	Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning

College of Architecture & Urban Planning

List of Professors

Albert J. Rousseau

Aare Kotivalo Lahti

Alan A. Marra

Alan W. Steiss

Allan G. Feldt

Anatole Senkevitch Jr

Arnold Benjamin Handler

Arthur Peter Op perman

Aseem Ianm

Beaver Edwards

Bertha VanZwaluwenburg Frayer

Beverly Robinson

Brian Carter

Carl D. Johnson

Carl E. Guldberg

Carlos F. Lopez

Carlton W. Angell

Catherine Bortic Heller

Charles Ronello Barnum

Charles W. Cares Jr.

Charles William Pearlman

Chet Harmon LaMore

Christopher Z. Wzacny

Daniel H. Carson

David Henry Reider

Dean H. Wilson

Donald B. Kersten

Donald Burnette Gooch

Edward Dimendberg

Edward Victor Olencki

Eliel Saarinen

Emil Weddige

Emile Lorch

Ernest Harrison Barnes

Ernest Karl Mundt

Ernest Wilby

Francesco Della Sala

Francis Skillman Onderdonk

Frank Cassara

Frederic Howard Aldrich

Frederick C. O'Dell

George Bickford Brigham Jr.

George Gould Ross

George McDonald McConkey

Gerhard Olving

Gerome Kamrowski

Glenn Gunnette Mastin

Grover Dee Cole

Gunnar G. Birkerts

Harlow Olin Whittemore

Harold J. Borkin

Harold W. Himes

Harry Robinson Gamble

Hemalata Dandekar

Henry S. Kowalewski

Herbert Atherton Fowler

Herbert Wilson Johe

J. Sterling Crandall

J. Yolande Daniels

Jack Arthur Garbutt

Jacques C. Brownson

James Alfred Turner

James Alvin Chaffers

James Blaine Newman

James C. Snyder

James Donald Prendergast

Jean Hebrard

Jean Paul Slusser

Jerold D. Lax

John F. Dawson

John H. Stephenson

John Nystuen

John Worthington Hyde

Jordan Coleman

Joseph Francis Albano

Joseph J. Wehrer

Joseph T. A. Lee

Kan Chen

Arthur Peter Op perman

Jack Arthur  Garbutt