The School for Urban Planning and Architecture (SUPAR) is a Milwaukee Public High School created in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
SUPAR brings high school students to proficiency and beyond by preparing them to pursue successful careers, and introducing them to the skills and professions involved in planning, designing, and transforming communities to create a better future.
Early Enrollment for Fall 2009 Begins
Visit SUPAR during our October 9 Open House
Meet our staff and students, 6 -8 pm
1712 S 32nd Street, lower level
Support SUPAR by making a financial contribution of any ammount.
What is Urban Planning?
The field of urban planning seeks to make communities better places in which to live and work.
Urban planning concerns itself with the health and quality of life in urban places. Urban planners need to work with the transportation system, the economy, the environment, urban design and physical facilities, and the culture and politics of a city to maintain quality of life. Urban planning is future-oriented. Planners look five, twenty, and even fifty years into the future to anticipate the future consequences of current trends and activities. Urban planning is about considering the consequences of present actions on the future quality of life in the city.
What is Architecture?
Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings and groups of buildings. While architecture, as a profession, focuses on the design of buildings, the process and tools of design that one learns as an architect can be used in a wide variety of design fields, including urban design, interior design, landscape design, furniture design, and graphic design. Increasingly, architects are focusing on the energy consumption of buildings and the carbon emissions from buildings. Architects focus on green building methods in order to create buildings that are healthy for their occupants and leave a small "footprint" on the environment--from water consumption to energy consumption to air emissions.
In the News
Milwaukee Competition Scouts Out Constuction Industry Talent
Watch the Fox 6 story about how SUPAR students are learning about construction.
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1712 S 32nd St. | Milwaukee, WI 53215 | 414.902.7566 |