Allied's award-winning university art museum.One of the finest university art museums in the United States : Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia &nb , the University of Michigan Museum of Art The University of Michigan Museum of Art, or UMMA, as it is known locally, resides in the Alumni Memorial Hall of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Built as a war memorial in 1909 for the university's fallen alumni from the Civil War, Alumni Memorial Hall (UMMA) has broken ground for its long-awaited new building, designed by Allied Works Architecture. Built on one of the last open sites on the historic Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as campus, the 53,000 s/f expansion, combined with the renovation of UMMA's existing facility in Alumni Memorial Hall, promises to transform the Museum into a new kind of institution for formal and informal learning. The design of the new building, to be known as The Stuart and Maxine Frankel and The Frankel Family Wing, already has been honored with a Project Award from the American Institute of Architects The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Organized in 1857, the Institute conducts various activities and programs to support the profession and enhance its public image, including periodically awarding the AIA New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Chapter, one of only four international projects given the award in 2004. According to Brad Cloepfil, principal of Allied Works Architecture, the key to the $35.4 million project is its respect for the openness of the Ann Arbor central campus. "The students' habitual route to and from campus runs through the site of the expansion. We did not want to drop a bulky, enclosed object onto that space--nor did we want to do anything that would upstage Alumni Memorial Hall, which holds so much meaning for the University community. "So we designed the extension to be as transparent as possible, with the entire ground floor left open to the public." |
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