Faculty Partnerships
The faculty partnership model is built for educators who want academically rigorous applied work without sacrificing disciplinary seriousness or community accountability.
Roles
Faculty can enter as advisors who sharpen methods and review work, as sponsors who help define a project platform, or as course partners who integrate the cohort into semester-based teaching.
The model is intentionally flexible so it can work for architecture faculty and for allied disciplines that strengthen the project.
Academic Value
Faculty partnerships turn community projects into serious teaching and research opportunities.
The work can generate studio prompts, seminars, field documentation exercises, preservation case studies, fabrication prototypes, or planning analyses grounded in a live site.
Review
Faculty help define standards for evidence, representation, coordination, and critique.
That means site partners receive stronger work and students learn that professional credibility depends on process as much as presentation.
Audience
This page is for architecture faculty and adjacent educators who want public-facing, project-based collaboration.
It is especially relevant for faculty like William Krueger at UWM who are positioned to bridge practice, pedagogy, and community-rooted site work.
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About BEAM Architecture
Mission, model, and why a university-linked practice matters.
Current Pilot: Central UMC
Current pilot site testing documentation, planning, and phased implementation.
Student Cohorts
How student teams are formed, what they produce, and how they learn.
Project Types
Architecture, preservation, adaptive reuse, fabrication, access, and strategy.