Detail and Fabrication

The School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Lowell Miller has been appointed its fabrication coordinator.

The school’s new robotic arm has been featured in a story by the Daily Illini.

Associate Professor Paul Kapp has been awarded the 2017 James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship through the Center for Advanced Study.

The school’s new robotic arm has been featured in a story by the Illinois News Bureau.

The Student Sustainability Committee, which allocates over $1.1 million each year to sustainable projects on campus, has recommended that the School of Architecture’s Root to Roof initiative receive $94,750 in funding, pending final administrative approval.

ROPE pavilion, a temporary winter shelter designed by Associate Professor Kevin Erickson and built alongside pavilions by Anish Kapoor, Frank Gehry, and others in Winnipeg, is featured in Philip Jodidio’s new book The New Pavilions published by Thames and Hudson.

5x5 Participatory Provocations opened on January 14, 2017, at Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, New York, and will be on view until March 12.

Two graduate students in Associate Professor Erik Hemingway’s ARCH 571 studio received honorable mentions in Laka Competition ’16: Architecture That Reacts.

Associate Professor and Associate Director for the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy Paul Kapp had his essay “Intangible Industrial Heritage” chosen as one of only eight essays for the US/ICOMOS Report.

A group of 11 students spent four days this fall measuring every inch of the Paul Schweikher House in Schaumburg, which architect Paul Schweikher built in 1937 as his home and studio.

This fall, graduate students in the School of Architecture's ARCH 518: Recording Historic Buildings seminar will prepare drawings and other historic documentation on the historic Paul Schweikher House in Schaumburg, Illinois, for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS).

Three of the four prizes in the 2016 Chicago Award in Architecture student competition were won by students of the Illinois School of Architecture.

It is our pleasure to announce a successful conclusion to this year’s faculty searches.

The 5x5 Participatory Provocations exhibit, co-curated by Kevin Erickson, is featured in an article in Architect’s Newspaper titled “Twenty Five Architects Tackle Five Current Issues with 25 Models in This Illinois Exhibition.” Read the article.