Congratulations to the Senior Earl Prize Third Place Winner, Mariah Saniel, Miracle Thomas, and Samantha Hess, as well as their professor David Isern.
About their winning project Healing Canopy: Located between the small villages of San Francisco and Payorote in the Nauta District, Healing Canopy enforces spiritual connection and health education. The design reflects the hybrid quality of care within the space: traditional methods of construction with western integrations. Through familiar architectural elements, local materials and textiles, Healing Canopy builds trust with the Peruvian community. It envisions a nee approach to one’s healing journey—honoring tradition and embracing modernity.
Congratulations to the Senior Earl Prize Third Place Winner, Mariah Saniel, Miracle Thomas, and Samantha Hess, as well as their professor David Isern.
About their winning project Healing Canopy: Located between the small villages of San Francisco and Payorote in the Nauta District, Healing Canopy enforces spiritual connection and health education. The design reflects the hybrid quality of care within the space: traditional methods of construction with western integrations. Through familiar architectural elements, local materials and textiles, Healing Canopy builds trust with the Peruvian community. It envisions a nee approach to one’s healing journey—honoring tradition and embracing modernity.
As a teacher, mentor, and gentle guide to generations of Illinois architects, Kaha gave more than thirty years of teaching and service to the Illinois School of Architecture, including two decades as Associate Director advising undergraduate students.
Bachelor of Architecture 1966 • Master of Architecture 1974, University of Illinois • 1996 AlA Excellence in Education Award • 1999 FAA Excellence in Teaching Award • 2000 Campus Award for Excellence in Advising Undergraduate Students • 2025 Illinois Medal in Architecture
As a teacher, mentor, and gentle guide to generations of Illinois architects, Kaha gave more than thirty years of teaching and service to the Illinois School of Architecture, including two decades as Associate Director advising undergraduate students.
Bachelor of Architecture 1966 • Master of Architecture 1974, University of Illinois • 1996 AlA Excellence in Education Award • 1999 FAA Excellence in Teaching Award • 2000 Campus Award for Excellence in Advising Undergraduate Students • 2025 Illinois Medal in Architecture
We are pleased to announce our next guest lecturer, Co-Founder & Co-Director of Floating Museum, Andrew Schachman. He will be speaking at 5:30PM on Monday, October 12, 2026, here in the Plym Auditorium (Room 134) of Temple Buell Hall.
Andrew Schachman designs environments, infrastructures, and installations. He co-founded and co-directs two nonprofits. Floating Museum uses site-responsive art and design to explore the relationships among art, community, architecture, and public institutions. Fieldwork Collaborative Projects turns civic spaces built for sport and recreation into platforms for culture and civic engagement. Floating Museum served as the artistic team for the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial, This is a Rehearsal.
As principal of Studio Andrew Schachman, he designed the Palais de Tokyo’s exhibition “Singing Stones” at the DuSable Museum of African American History. Trained as an architect, he worked for Doug Garofalo, Carol Ross Barney, Zaha Hadid, and Perkins + Will. His projects have received the AIA Distinguished Building Award and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design.
Food will be served in the Temple Buell Hall Atrium beginning at 5PM.
We are pleased to announce our next guest lecturer, Co-Founder & Co-Director of Floating Museum, Andrew Schachman. He will be speaking at 5:30PM on Monday, October 12, 2026, here in the Plym Auditorium (Room 134) of Temple Buell Hall.
Andrew Schachman designs environments, infrastructures, and installations. He co-founded and co-directs two nonprofits. Floating Museum uses site-responsive art and design to explore the relationships among art, community, architecture, and public institutions. Fieldwork Collaborative Projects turns civic spaces built for sport and recreation into platforms for culture and civic engagement. Floating Museum served as the artistic team for the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial, This is a Rehearsal.
As principal of Studio Andrew Schachman, he designed the Palais de Tokyo’s exhibition “Singing Stones” at the DuSable Museum of African American History. Trained as an architect, he worked for Doug Garofalo, Carol Ross Barney, Zaha Hadid, and Perkins + Will. His projects have received the AIA Distinguished Building Award and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design.
Food will be served in the Temple Buell Hall Atrium beginning at 5PM.
On Hispanic Heritage Month, we would like to recognize Prof. Patricia Saldaña-Natke, Founding Partner of UrbanWorks and recipient of the Illinois Architecture Medal as a distinguished alumna of the ISoA.
Pat’s extraordinary record of public service imbues the firm with a strong civic ethic and she has led the School’s efforts in ethical sourcing of materials through a strategic collaboration with Grace Farms.
A graduate of UIUC, Pat has served as Adjunct Professor at the IIT College of Architecture, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a Facilitator at Archeworks, and as a Masters in Architecture Thesis Advisor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a Teaching Assistant Professor at the Illinois School of Architecture and a member of the ISoA Alumni Advisory Board.
Among her professional accomplishments, Pat chaired the National AIA Diversity Committee for the American Institute of Architects. She was recently listed in in the “2014: 50 Chicago Designers” by New City, one of the five Emerging Designers by Crain’s Chicago in 2014, and in Crain’s 2020 and 2021 Notable Women in Construction. In 2018 Pat was elevated to the AIA’s College of Fellows in the Design Category. In 2022 she received the Arquitectos Society of Hispanic Architects Legacy Award.
On Hispanic Heritage Month, we would like to recognize Prof. Patricia Saldaña-Natke, Founding Partner of UrbanWorks and recipient of the Illinois Architecture Medal as a distinguished alumna of the ISoA.
Pat’s extraordinary record of public service imbues the firm with a strong civic ethic and she has led the School’s efforts in ethical sourcing of materials through a strategic collaboration with Grace Farms.
A graduate of UIUC, Pat has served as Adjunct Professor at the IIT College of Architecture, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a Facilitator at Archeworks, and as a Masters in Architecture Thesis Advisor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a Teaching Assistant Professor at the Illinois School of Architecture and a member of the ISoA Alumni Advisory Board.
Among her professional accomplishments, Pat chaired the National AIA Diversity Committee for the American Institute of Architects. She was recently listed in in the “2014: 50 Chicago Designers” by New City, one of the five Emerging Designers by Crain’s Chicago in 2014, and in Crain’s 2020 and 2021 Notable Women in Construction. In 2018 Pat was elevated to the AIA’s College of Fellows in the Design Category. In 2022 she received the Arquitectos Society of Hispanic Architects Legacy Award.
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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