Alumni News

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At a ceremony last week, Architecture alumna Carol Ross Barney, FAIA was honored as a 2021 recipient of the Order of Lincoln, the state’s highest honor for professional achievement and public service. A native of Chicago, she is the founder and principal of Ross Barney Architects and a founding member and first president of Chicago Women of Architecture. Her work has earned her an international reputation in design of institutional and public buildings including the reconstructed Oklahoma City Federal Building, two of Chicago’s most heavily used transit stations at Fullerton and Belmont Avenues, and the Chicago River Walk project. In addition to Barney, this year’s Lincoln laureates include singer Mavis Staples and astronaut Captain Scott Altman. Barney is only the third architect to have received the honor, joining Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Buckminster Fuller. You can view the ceremony here.

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Awards program honors innovation and impact and recognizes the power of design to change the world.

BSAS and M.Arch alum Bill Tucker commits to a five-year pledge to support Erlanger House, designed by celebrated professor Jack Baker.

The Boston Arts Academy Foundation honored Illinois alum Scott Wilson for a Legacy of Achievement in the Visual Arts during the annual BAA Honors celebration on Saturday, May 1, 2021.

The University of Illinois School of Architecture has formed its first Alumni Advisory Board with ten inaugural members.

The School of Architecture honors prominent Black architects in the United States, including two graduates of our program: Beverly Greene and Walter T. Bailey.

A summary of recent awards for faculty and students from the ACSA, AIA, ARCC, and CWA.

The Board of Directors of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) announces annual awards in support of recognizing and advancing state-of-the-art research in architecture and related design fields.

Vitale accepted two awards for the Columbia College Chicago Student Center.

On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the Women’s Reunion + Symposium, we are pleased to release this video of the event and exhibit.

Congratulations to Neal Jones (M.Arch, MBA) on winning the 2020 AIA Western Mountain Region Silver Medal!  

Kahler Slater, an award-winning international architecture, interior design, environmental branding, and strategic advisory services firm, is opening a Chicago office and Trina Sandschafer, AIA, LEED AP (M.Arch '06) will be leading it.

It is our pleasure to congratulate our alumnae for being named to Crain’s 2020 Notable Women in Construction and Design.

Alumnus Vladimir Radutny (BSAS ’00, M.Arch ’02) has been featured in Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard 2020. Read the profile.

Connor Chelmecki (BSAS ’15, M.Arch ’17) has won the the 2020 David A. Green Memorial Award from SAGE.

The exhibition Revealing Presence: Women in Architecture at the University of Illinois, 1874-2019, part of the Women’s Reunion and Symposium recently held at the School of Architecture, has been called “an exhibition you shouldn’t miss” by the Architect’s Newspaper.

The Women’s Reunion and Symposium, organized by Marci Uihlein and Sara Bartumeus is featured in a story by the Illinois News Bureau.

Trina Sandschafer (’06), design principal at Booth Hansen, is profiled by the News-Gazette in a feature on prominent alumni for the 150th birthday of the University of Illinois.

The Illinois School of Architecture is saddened to hear of the passing of noted architect César Pelli, FAIA, class of 1954.