About Us
After years of individual endeavors on each campus to promote its modernist architecture, UMass Dartmouth and UMass Amherst joined forces in 2019 to create UMassBRUT as a collaborative advocacy group of faculty members, staff, students, alumni, and interested parties dedicated to celebrating, preserving, and re-imagining our mid-century Brutalist public architecture. UMass Boston and UMass Lowell joined the effort in 2023.
Our mission is to raise awareness of the relevance and international significance of the Brutalist architectural heritage across the campuses of the UMass System. To achieve this goal, UMassBRUT sponsors public and scholarly activities and events that promote the importance of these architectural icons and highlight the critical need to preserve them now and for future generations.
UMassBRUT COMMITTEE
The UMassBRUT Executive Committee holds regular meetings, maintains a social media presence, hosts annual tours, and plans engaging events, exhibits and symposia. Most importantly, we continue to educate and raise appreciation for the architecture of the UMass landmark campuses in Amherst and Dartmouth, along with our sister campuses in Lowell and Boston.
Executive Committee
Rose Mary Botti-Salitsky, PhD, Interior Architecture and Design, Associate Professor, UMass Dartmouth
Allison Cywin, Librarian, UMass Dartmouth
Anna Dempsey, PhD, Art History, Professor, UMass Dartmouth
Carolyn Goldstein, Archivist and Public Historian, UMass Boston
Stephen Henderson-Cadigan, Campus Planner, UMass Lowell
Viera Levitt, Art Gallery Director, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Marla Miller, PhD, Public History, Professor, UMass Amherst
Stephanie McGoldrick, Interior Architecture and Design, Assistant Professor, UMass Dartmouth
Lincoln Nemetz-Carlson, PhD, Fulbright U.S. Scholar & UMass Amherst Alumnus
Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, Senior Campus Planner and Architect, UMass Amherst
Timothy Rohan, PhD, Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture, UMass Amherst
Shelby Schrank, Conservator, Building Conservation Associates, PhD Researcher, University of York, UMass Amherst Alumna
Kay Tierney, Student, Architecture, UMass Amherst
Colleen Tully, Designer, Opal Architecture, UMass Amherst Alumna
Margaret Vickery, History of Art and Architecture Lecturer, Undergrad Program Director, UMass Amherst
Stephanie R Walker, Dean of University Libraries, UMass Boston
Richard Yeager, Director of Planning & Facilities Information Systems, UMass Lowell
UMass Think Tank/ Past Contributors
Christina Bowen, Capital Projects Manager, UMass Dartmouth
Michelle Bowers, Art and Design, Associate Professor, UMass Dartmouth
Erica DeWitt, Adjunct Faculty, Architecture, UMass Amherst
Carl Fiocchi, Senior Lecturer, Building Construction Technology, UMass Amherst
Christopher Fruean, Director Professional Programs, UMass Amherst
Benjamin Jones, Director of Corporate Engagement & Institutional Partnerships, UMass Dartmouth
Lara Henderson, Art and Design, Lecturer, UMass Dartmouth
Dennis Swinford, Director, Campus Planning, UMass Boston
Eldra Dominique Walker, Assistant Professor, Architecture, UMass Amherst
Brian Whetstone, PhD, National Park Service Historic Architecture, Conservation, and Engineering Center, Lowell, MA, UMass Amherst Alumnus
