Spring 2021 Courses

ARCH 571 (E3), David Chasco

The ARCHON studio is a graduate studio awarding the Archon Prize for a 1000 sq. ft. “Essential House.”

ARCH 571 (E2), Paul Hardin Kapp 

In this design studio, students will design a rehabilitation and an addition to the I.C. Fowler House in Bristol, Virginia. Built in 1867, this Greek Revival residence is a contributing resource to the Virginia Hill National Historic District. It has the potential of providing three income producing bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room, and an entertainment room. Another two bedrooms, a catering kitchen, a dining room, and an outdoor terrace will be placed in the proposed addition.

Students will learn the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Historic Preservation and Rehabilitation, traditional architecture, and light frame construction in this design studio.

ARCH 571 (E1), Tom Loew

Fall of 2020 marks the advent of the I-House Design/Build Initiative on the University of Illinois Architectural campus. The I-House Design-Build Initiative affords graduate students in the School of Architecture the opportunity of exploring design process as it directly relates to both the practice of custom design, as well as to the fabrication of the given I House studio project.

ARCH 572, Christina Bollo and Trina Sandschafer 

In this graduate studio students will design a multifamily housing building in the city of Chicago. The project will feature 100-200 units with amenity rich programming. The focus of the studio will be exploring the shift in housing amenities in response to health, wellness, economic, and social concerns. Studio projects will propose new directions for how amenities build community within multi-family buildings and their neighborhoods.

ARCH 573 (E1), Scott Murray 

The project for this studio is to design a Community Internet Center: a public facility that provides local community members of all ages with easy access to digital resources, including the internet and computer hardware and software, offering educational, economic, and recreational opportunities for the local community. The building will serve as information infrastructure, with a program including classrooms, meeting spaces, tutoring spaces, offices, study carrels, and informal Wi-Fi lounges and gathering spaces, both interior and exterior. Given the intensity of electricity usage in such a facility, projects will incorporate building-integrated photovoltaic systems to offset building operational energy and reduce the overall carbon footprint.

ARCH 573 (E2), Ralph Hammann 

ARCH 574 (E1), Sara Bartumeus Ferre 

This studio redesigns the relationship between Colloserola Natural Park and Llobregat River following the natural stream of La Salut through the town of Sant Feliu, Spain.

ARCH 574 (E2), Botond Bognar 

In the Tokyo Urban Studio, you will work on two sites across a main road next to the Station plaza in Shibuya, one of the busiest centers in this metropolis.

ARCH 574 (E3), Kevin Hinders

The Chicago Studio will be undertaking an urban design project and architecture projects located in Woodlawn, Ward 20, Chicago. Students will create an urban design proposal based upon the 2020 Consolidated Plan, produced by the Chicago Department of Planning, and then create teams to resolve specific sites and issues in the plan.

ARCH 574 (E4), Mark Raymond 

This project will investigate the idea of the analogue in architecture and how this idea might be understood to operate in both our individual and collective practice of architecture. The word analog (US) or analogue (En.) derives from the Greek word analōg meaning ‘proportionate’ or ‘in relation to’. Contemporary applications of the word reflect the idea of ‘something existing in relation to another’ or ‘the opposite of digital.’

ARCH 407, Heather Grossman 

This course considers the city of Rome from its foundation until today, using critical strategies for understanding urban environments as well as individual monuments.

ARCH 576, Aaron Brakke 

This graduate seminar examines the role of machines as tools for architectural design, drawing, and fabrication.

ARCH 576, Ralph Hammann

The course introduces sustainable concepts for building enclosure design in various climate regions.

ARCH 576, Carl Lewis and Lowell Miller

In this fabrication workshop, students will gain proficiency in the use of hand and power tools used in making fine furniture. They will gain a deeper understanding of material properties and will explore the implications of material choice in the design process.

ARCH 591HG, Heather Grossman

This new seminar explores ‘building identity’ – the relationships between the designed environment and personal and group identities. We will dissect theoretical and conceptual texts from multiple disciplines on the subject of identity, and examine architectural and design case studies from around the world to understand the roles of architecture in shaping identity within both distinct moments and across time.

ARCH 592, John Stallmeyer 

This seminar seeks to re-center the z-axis as critical to our understanding and occupation of urban space. Through case study analysis, students will investigate the Urban Zed in an effort to understand the spatial variability of urban public spaces and how the z-axis is integral to the experience of urban space.

ARCH 594, Rick Strand 

This course will focus on learning one energy simulation program and how to use it effectively to model building energy performance.

ARCH 596, Kathryn Anthony

How are architecture, architects, and designers portrayed in cinema? In what ways do built environments portrayed in cinema influence characters’ behaviors and reflect their personalities? Which architects and designers have made their careers in the film industry and how did they navigate their careers? This seminar addresses these issues and more.

ARCH 596, Lynne Dearborn 

The seminar will expand students’ knowledge of healthy housing, and research ethics and techniques. Students will be expected to actively engage in skill-building around human-subjects research in architecture, interviewing and guided case study development, and to apply these skills within a team-based case-study research project investigating cases in six states where policies encourage development of healthy affordable housing.