Faculty News

Assistant Professor Akima Brackeen has been selected as a University Design Research Fellows for the 2024-25 cycle of Exhibit Columbus.

We are proud to recognize Assistant Professor Wei (Windy) Zhao's 2024 Environmental Design Research Associate Awards!

The Chicago Sukkah Design Festival is named the winner of the 2024 Roberta Feldman Architecture for Social Justice Award.

Dr. Yazmín Crespo Claudio has been invited to lecture at the University of Chicago School of Architecture.  The lecture is the first of the 2024 Fall Lecture Series at UIC/SoArch.

Six first-year architecture students recently returned from a trip to Shanghai,China where they represented the University of Illinois at the 2024 Tongji University International Construction Festival.

Discover Architecture 2024 Summer Program has ended.  Professor John Clark updates us on the weeks events!

Francisco Rodriguez-Suarez (University of Illinois), Florencia Rodriguez (UIC), and Reed Kroloff (IIT) meet in the first of a series of talks on architectural education in the 21st century, moderated by Prof. Joseph Altshuler. This first conversation took place at Temple Buell Hall in Champaign, and will be followed later this year by additional meetings on the UIC and IIT campuses.

188 writers, scholars, artists and scientists have been selected to receive a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship through a rigorous peer-review process from nearly 3,000 applicants. Of those chosen, two are Illinois faculty, including Alison Bell with evolution, ecology and behavior, and Architecture professor Paul Hardin Kapp. Kapp will use his Guggenheim Fellowship for his latest book project: “Popular Iconoclasm in the Public Square” will examine how iconoclasm, as both acts of protest and works of civic artistic engagement, can alter the ways that we perceive, appreciate and engage with our most historic and monumental public spaces. Read the full story in the Illinois News Bureau: Two Illinois professors awarded Guggenheim Fellowships.

Professor Altshuler publishes chapters in two new design books from Carnegie Mellon University Press and Routledge.

In a CNN article titled Why this year’s Super Bowl is all about the bathrooms, professor Kathryn Anthony is featured talking about "potty parity" and why stadiums need to be built and redesigned to create restroom experiences that are equitable. Read the full story by Nicole Goodkind on CNN.com.

Assistant Professor Joseph Altshuler's installation the Carousel for Companionship opened as part of the 2023 cycle of Exhibition Columbus entitled Public By Design.

Francisco J. Rodríguez-Suárez Receives Nathan Clifford Ricker Award for Architecture Education

Assistant Professor Joseph Altshuler's practice Could Be Design was named one of six winners of the 2023 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers.

Alumnus Ralph Johnson (BSAS ’71) established a new endowed professorship to support the school in attracting and retaining the most brilliant scholars in the field of architectural education.

The "Missing Middle" Infill Housing competition is part of the City of Chicago's Invest South/West Come Home Initiative.

The Spring 2023 Lectures Series theme is "Climate Fictions."

In the interview, Dr. Bognar discusses the relationship between architecture and globalism, the impact of the digital age on the built environment, and the importance of architecture as a reflection of our culture and values.

Assistant Professor Joseph Altshuler and his design partner Zack Morrison have been selected as University Design Research Fellows for the 2022-23 cycle of Exhibit Columbus entitled "Public by Design."