The University of Michigan’s Art and Architecture Building, home of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Stamps School of Art & Design, has a distinguished lineage. Eliel Saarinen’s grandson, Robert Saarinen Swanson, designed the flat-roofed, low-slung brick courtyard complex in 1974 for a site on Ann Arbor’s leafy North Campus, for which Eero Saarinen had devised an early master plan in the 1950s.

The college recently added another landmark to this legacy with the September opening of the A. Alfred Taubman Wing, designed by Cambridge, Massachusetts–based firm Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. (PSC), in collaboration with Integrated Design Solutions (IDS) of Troy, Michigan, as architect of record. The project includes 36,000 square feet of new construction and 11,000 square feet of renovation, at a total cost of $28.5 million. Highlights of the new facility include a 5,700-square-foot double-height commons and a 5,500-square-foot studio.