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The Chicago Sukkah Design Festival, the public art and architecture festival founded by Assistant Professor Joseph Altshuler, is named the winner of the 2024 Roberta Feldman Architecture for Social Justice Award, administered by the AIA Chicago Foundation. The award recognizes excellence in built projects and design programs guided by the conviction that access to high quality architecture is not a privilege, it is a human right.
The AIA Chicago bestows this honor award to one project annually, celebrating the commitment of designers who work on behalf of the public good. The Chicago Sukkah Design Festival’s organizational framework and co-design process builds on the legacy of Roberta Feldman (Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Architecture), a trailblazer with a long career dedicated to democratic design and public-impact work. Altshuler serves as artistic director for the Festival’s first three editions (2022–2024), including the upcoming edition that opens to the public on Sunday, October 6.
Collaborators include fellow FAA faculty members Assistant Professor Nekita Thomas, exhibition and landscape design, and Assistant Professor Akima Brackeen, design/build contributor (2023) and community design support (2024).
