Maggie Winter

Assistant Professor of Research, Florida Center for Community Design + Research
School of Architecture & Community Design
Phone: (813) 974-4042
Email: winterm2@usf.edu

Maggie is a trained architect, urbanist, and educator. Since joining SACD as an Assistant Research Professor at the Florida Center for Community Design + Research, she has worked to integrate learning opportunities for students with professional project delivery and implementable research inquiries. Her teaching, in and out of the classroom, focuses on the development of problem-solving skills through design and critical thinking. In practice, research, and teaching, Maggie explores the ways in which design is a tool to advocate for equity in the built environment. Her extensive experience in community engagement and multi-disciplinary coordination helps bring diverse stakeholders toward a mutual understanding of complex systems and toward a tangible consensus of priorities. 

After focusing on development policy in Environmental Studies (Bachelor of Arts) from University of California at Santa Cruz, Maggie went on to earn a Master of Architecture from the University of Washington in Seattle and licensure in the State of Texas. While continuing to build expertise in the field, she completed the Master of Urban and Community Design degree at the University of South Florida. Her work spans public and private sectors in Texas, California, Utah, and Florida. Through thoughtful design, making, and planning - her work underscores the need and benefits of context- and community-specific place making models. 

Maggie's research interests include community-centered architecture and urbanism, design as a tool for communication, and mapping the way we shift from static to dynamic systems thinking about the occupation of space and resources.