Faculty News

The Illinois School of Architecture lost more than a loyal alumnus and admired emeritus faculty member with the passing of A. Richard (Dick) Williams (1914-2016) on May 27, several months short of his 102nd birthday.

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.

Policies for Action (P4A) today announced $248,250 in grant funding for a research project on which Associate Professor Lynne Dearborn will serve as co-principal investigator, along with the principal investigator, Sherry Ahrentzen, PhD, professor at the University of Florida Shimberg Center for Housing Studies.

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.

The Olympic Tribute, first dedicated in 1991 and designed by Professor Jeffery Poss, FAIA, was recognized in a 25th anniversary ceremony at Dodd’s Park on Saturday October 1, 2016.

The Illinois School of Architecture’s Master of Architecture degree program is among DesignIntelligence Quarterly’s top 25 programs for 2016-2017.

The School of Architecture and the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seek nominations and applications for the position of Director and Professor.

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).

A graduate student design team led by Associate Professor Lynne M. Dearborn played a pivotal role in developing the City of Peoria’s entry in the Play Everywhere Challenge, a national design competition hosted by KABOOM!

Professor Kathryn Anthony is featured in an Illinois News Bureau story on universal podium design.

Professor Emeritus A. Richard “Dick” Williams, FAIA, passed away on the evening of May 27 in Tucson, Arizona, at age 101.

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

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.