"Rationalizing Architecture Through Research"
April 9-10, 2026
The main aim of the symposium is to reflect on the role of research in architecture, with specific attention to issues of information and embodiment. Another aim is to gauge the potential for interdisciplinarity between two School of Architecture program areas: Health and Well Being and History, Theory, Preservation.
Thursday, April 9, 5pm, Temple Buell Hall, room 227
- Stuart Leslie (keynote): Johns Hopkins University Department of History of Science and Technology
Friday, April 10, 10-4, Seibel Center for Design
- Didem Ekici: UIUC School of Architecture
- Geoffrey Goldberg: University of Chicago Department of Art History
- Kathryn Holliday: UIUC School of Architecture and Department of Landscape Architecture
- Avigail Sachs: University of Tennessee School of Architecture
- David Theodore: McGill University Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
- Julie Zook: UIUC School of Architecture and Carle Illinois School of Medicine
- Co-chairs: Julie Zook (contact) and Kathryn Holliday
Co-chairs: Julie Zook (contact) and Kathryn Holliday
