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Chicago Sukkah Design Festival
AIA Chicago Foundation 2024 "Roberta Feldman Architecture for Social Justice" winner "The Chicago Sukkah Design Fesitval"
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).
Honorable Mention
Honorable Mention - AIA Chicago Award in Architecture 2023
“Stitching Networks: Transitioning ‘Scapes”
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“This project aims to find new public space and landscape models and structures for the city of Montcada i Reixac that link neighborhoods in the municipality and reinforce their morphological richness and their dynamic and connected condition to become a local and territorial articulation defined by a singular commitment in the city-nature relationship, capable of achieving optimal urban social and ecological cohesion. The projects aim to redesign spaces generated by mobility infrastructures–that used to disrupt continuities between fabrics and landscapes–as active connectors between neighborhoods, people, and its urban and natural landscapes. It also focuses on reconnecting landscape and urban fragments, promoting social cohesion and environmental qualities with human-centered tactics.” Read more about the project here.
Collaborators:
Bryan Cruz Lopez
Tasmia Kamal
Professor: Sara Bartumeus
