Faculty News

On May 12, 2016, the Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings (CCHRB) elected Abbas Aminmansour as its chair for a two-year term effective June 1, 2016.

Lee Waldrep, Administrator for Undergraduate Student Services, was interviewed on WCIA’s “News at Noon” on March 30 about the Illinois School of Architecture's summer program Discover Architecture.

In a News-Gazette article, Professor Jeffery Poss talks about Victor, the meditation hut he designed for Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope. Read the article.

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.

Professor David M. Chasco, FAIA was invited to lead a team of six Illinois School of Architecture graduate students—Angel Ng, Jienan Zhang, Christian Pepper, Katherine Stowell, William Smarzewski, and Yang Yu—in the first Volterra 2015 International Design Workshop, sponsored by the University of Detroit-Mercy (UDM) School of Architecture and hosted by the Volterra (Italy) Detroit Foundation in the Volterra International Residential College.