Faculty News

Lynne Dearborn will serve as the 2020-2021 president for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

Benjamin Bross spoke with the Illinois News Bureau on ways that public space have changed in response to catastrophes and how they might change because of the pandemic. Read the interview.

Projects by Professor Mohamed Boubekri have been featured in several recent publications.

Lynne M. Dearborn has become the fourth female faculty member in the 150-year history of the University of Illinois’ School of Architecture to achieve the rank of Full Professor.

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Henry Plummer on receiving the 2020 Daylight Award for Lifetime Achievement!

Aaron Brakke’s project Zig Zag Park has been chosen as a finalist for the AZ Awards.

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.