Faculty News

Essays by Tait Johnson and Scott Murray are in press and will be published this summer in Constructing Building Enclosures: Architectural History, Technology and Poetics in the Postwar Era, edited by Clifton Fordham (Routledge, 2020).

Assistant Professor Aaron Brakke will present “Transformation of Public Space with Displaced Citizens” at the 51st Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association.

Christina Bollo has received a grant from the AIA Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community (HCD KC) to investigate how architects measure the social and economic success of their projects.

Congratulations to Clinical Associate Professor Randy Deutsch on being named to the 2020 AIA College of Fellows!

Dr. Mir M. Ali, Ph.D., professional structural engineer and professor emeritus at the Illinois School of Architecture, has published The Bridge: Joining East-West Nations and Cultures While Treading Life’s Difficult Path. Learn more about the book.

Josep Maria de Llobet, a member of the Barcelona teaching team since 2016, has released Blank, a limited edition book published by Ediciones Posibles, an editorial initiative that he co-founded.

Randy Deutsch has been invited to deliver talks in Barcelona, Nashville, Los Angeles, Boston, and Chicago.

Associate Professors John C. Stallmeyer and Lynne Dearborn contributed a chapter to the recently published Routledge Handbook on Historic Landscapes in the Asia-Pacific, edited by Kapila D. Silva.

Professor David M. Chasco, FAIA was invited lead the 2019 Volterra International Design Workshop as moderator for the summer 2019 program.

Professor Emerita Joy Monice Malnar has two chapters included in The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture.

The School of Architecture is pleased to announce that monographs published in association with our Plym Distinguished Professorship, dating back to its initiation in the early 1980s, have been digitized and are available for view on our website.

Crossing the Skyline, an exhibition on architecture, literacy, and incarceration by Aneesha Dharwadker, is at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago through mid-December.

Professor Emeritus and former Interim Director Jeffery Poss is featured in the News-Gazette for his renovations of a local house designed by Jack Baker. Read the article.

The work Associate Professor Marci Uihlein is leading to preserve student architectural drawings is featured in a story from the Illinois News Bureau.

It is my pleasure to announce that Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Suárez, FAIA, will be joining us in January as the next director of the School of Architecture, pending approval by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.

Clinical Associate Professor Randy Deutsch will speak and deliver a mini workshop for the Bridge program on October 15 at the offices of Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture in Chicago.

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.

It is with a heavy heart that I inform you of the death of Chris Quinn.

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

Randy Deutsch has been invited to write forewords or chapters for books on managing the design process, professional practice and professionalism, portfolio design, and important emerging technologies.