The School of Architecture and Urban Planning introduced the biennial Urban Edge Award, funded by the Wisconsin Preservation Trust and the law firm of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, in 2006. Previous recipients of the award are Julie Bargmann (D.I.R.T Studio) and Elizabeth Diller (Diller, Scofidio + Renfro).
As award recipient, Dreiseitl, who is currently a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University, will be working with students at SARUP during the spring 2011 semester. The goal of the studio, taught with UWM Associate Professor James Wasley, will be to conceive ideas for the site of UWM’s “harbor campus” near Greenfield Avenue and Water Street. The site will blend academic research and industrial incubator spaces, marrying environmental sustainability and economic redevelopment, with ecologically restorative water management as the core concern.
Dreiseitl will also present a public lecture on Friday, Feb. 11, “Ecological Waterscapes for Cities of the Future.” The event begins at 4:30 p.m. in the Engelmann auditorium, 2033 E. Hartford Ave. on the UWM campus.