Unless otherwise noted, all lectures are scheduled to begin at 5:30 PM in the Plym Auditorium.
03.30 | 2026 5:30PM / Plym Auditorium. Kimberly Dowdell VP of Strategic Partnerships at Amrize, Chicago
04.01 | 2026 12:15PM / Atrium Marci Uhlein Associate Director for Research and Associate Professor at ISoA Book talk
04.06 | 2026 5:30PM / Architecture 120 Ron Klemencic Chairman and CEO at Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Seattle Theiss Lecture
04.13 | 2025 5:30PM / Plym Auditorium Amin Taha Founder, Chairperson at Groupwork, London, UK Tutor, Royal College of Art, London
04.20 | 2026 5:30PM / Plym Auditorium Balazs Bognar Partner at Kengo Kuma & Associates, Tokyo, Japan
The ISoA lecture series invites reflection on the evolving role of designers as critical agents in shaping equitable, resilient, and culturally grounded futures. In the face of today’s social and environmental urgencies, this series explores how designers think, make, and act within and beyond the built environment. Contributing practitioners and educators working across architecture, landscape, and urbanism activate design as a tool for critique, transformation, and care. Together, these voices sketch a field in motion—one that is actively reshaping what it means to practice today.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures are scheduled to begin at 5:30 PM in the Plym Auditorium.
03.30 | 2026 5:30PM / Plym Auditorium. Kimberly Dowdell VP of Strategic Partnerships at Amrize, Chicago
04.01 | 2026 12:15PM / Atrium Marci Uhlein Associate Director for Research and Associate Professor at ISoA Book talk
04.06 | 2026 5:30PM / Architecture 120 Ron Klemencic Chairman and CEO at Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Seattle Theiss Lecture
04.13 | 2025 5:30PM / Plym Auditorium Amin Taha Founder, Chairperson at Groupwork, London, UK Tutor, Royal College of Art, London
04.20 | 2026 5:30PM / Plym Auditorium Balazs Bognar Partner at Kengo Kuma & Associates, Tokyo, Japan
The ISoA lecture series invites reflection on the evolving role of designers as critical agents in shaping equitable, resilient, and culturally grounded futures. In the face of today’s social and environmental urgencies, this series explores how designers think, make, and act within and beyond the built environment. Contributing practitioners and educators working across architecture, landscape, and urbanism activate design as a tool for critique, transformation, and care. Together, these voices sketch a field in motion—one that is actively reshaping what it means to practice today.
As we are enjoying our first day of spring break, here is a look back on our 2026 Spring Midterm Reviews.
Seeing all of the spectacular work students have done, ranging from beautiful drawings and models to digital fabrication prototyping, has been a great reward for the School of Architecture Community. Thank you to our faculty, students, and guest reviewers for another memorable midterm.
As we are enjoying our first day of spring break, here is a look back on our 2026 Spring Midterm Reviews.
Seeing all of the spectacular work students have done, ranging from beautiful drawings and models to digital fabrication prototyping, has been a great reward for the School of Architecture Community. Thank you to our faculty, students, and guest reviewers for another memorable midterm.
Congratulations to the Senior Studio Earl Prize Honorable Mentions, Alexander Hoffert and Tucker Viramontes, advised by Prof. Hugh Swiatek.
About the winning project, Ke Kai Dance Center: “Ke Kai Dance Center is a performance center where movement, structure, and community interweave, celebrating rhythm, cultural expression, flowing through choreography, architecture, and collective gathering.”
Congratulations to the Senior Studio Earl Prize Honorable Mentions, Alexander Hoffert and Tucker Viramontes, advised by Prof. Hugh Swiatek.
About the winning project, Ke Kai Dance Center: “Ke Kai Dance Center is a performance center where movement, structure, and community interweave, celebrating rhythm, cultural expression, flowing through choreography, architecture, and collective gathering.”
Congratulations to Professor Didem Ekici on her new book! Surface, Textile, and German Material Culture: Bodies, Interiors, and Architecture, 1830–1914 has been published by Bloomsbury in 2026.
Congratulations to Professor Didem Ekici on her new book! Surface, Textile, and German Material Culture: Bodies, Interiors, and Architecture, 1830–1914 has been published by Bloomsbury in 2026....
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Congratulations to the Junior Studio Earl Prize Honorable Mentions, Reese Bechtlofft and Leaheey Jamen, advised by Prof. Gideon Schwartzman.
About the winning project, The Film Cut: “The Film Cut serves as a bus transportation hub featuring a sunken cinema and media center designed to revitalize the Urbana community through media engagement.”
Congratulations to the Junior Studio Earl Prize Honorable Mentions, Reese Bechtlofft and Leaheey Jamen, advised by Prof. Gideon Schwartzman.
About the winning project, The Film Cut: “The Film Cut serves as a bus transportation hub featuring a sunken cinema and media center designed to revitalize the Urbana community through media engagement.”
Five Program Areas shape our curriculum, giving students the opportunity to think about architecture and design at different scales and through different media.
We have exchange programs with Munich and Switzerland.
Discover Architecture
Discover Architecture is a summer program on the University of Illinois campus. It is open to high school and pre-college students. The program is organized around the design studio and provides a studio-focused, design-intensive workshop over the course of a week.
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