Faculty News

Assistant Professor Yun Kyu Yi’s paper has been published in the journal Building and Environment.

Lecturer Tait Johnson explores an underlying process for how modern architectural materials spread during the twentieth century in a paper entitled “Enemies on the Same Side: Alcoa, Reynolds, and the Battle for Progress during WWII,” which he will present at the Construction History Society of America conference in May.

Professor Mohamed Boubekri is featured among an illustrious group of architects, engineers, and researchers from all over the world in an upcoming six-part documentary series on skyscrapers titled Building to the Sky, which is expected to be completed in 2019.

Marci S. Uihlein, P.E., Associate AIA, has been named the executive editor of the journal Technology | Architecture + Design (TAD) for volumes 3 and 4.

Associate Professor Scott Murray will be an invited speaker at the Facade Tectonics Forum on April 15 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

T.F. Tierney’s paper “Toronto’s Smart City: Everyday Life or Google Life?” has been published in Architecture_Media_Politics_Society.

On February 16, the student organizations H.O.U.S.E from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Arquitectos from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) hosted their first annual Lunch and Learn at UIC.

Clinical Associate Professor Randy Deutsch has been invited to give the keynote address at the 2019 Licensing Advisors Summit of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) in Minneapolis on August 1-3.

Assistant Professor Sudarshan Krishnan’s students in his class on transformable structures were featured on BTN’s “LiveBIG” in a segment called “How Illinois Is ‘transforming’ Architecture.” Read the article about the course.

In addition to giving invited talks and workshops in Milan and at the Università degli Studi di Brescia Italy in March 2019, Clinical Associate Professor Randy Deutsch will be lecturing three times at the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) to fifth-year and sixth-year students.

Randy Deutsch’s fourth book in the last eight years, Superusers: Design Technology Specialists and the Future of Practice, has been published by Routledge.

A gathering with School of Architecture faculty and special guest Gong Dong, Plym Distinguished Visiting Professor, was held at Erlanger House on January 29.

James (Jim) P. Warfield, 76, passed away Monday, January 14, 2019.

Alderwoman Susan Sadlowski Garza of Chicago’s 10th Ward met with graduate students and Professor Sara Bartumeus on January 18 during their field trip to South Works.

Clinical Associate Professor Randy Deutsch has been invited by President Robert C. Robbins and Dean Nancy Pollock-Ellwand of the University of Arizona to serve as an inaugural member of the University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA) Futures Council.

Teaching Assistant Professor Heather Grossman presented at The Middle Ages in the Modern World Biennial Conference in Rome, Italy, on November 23.

Randy Deutsch has been invited to give a presentation at a workshop on offsite construction with Katerra at the MADE Expo Trade Fair in Milan, Italy, in March 2019.

Carles Marcos Padrós, a lecturer in architectural design courses at the Barcelona Program since 2017, was awarded the 2018 Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

As part of his ongoing research on Le Corbusier’s work in the Americas, Alejandro Lapunzina recently published an essay entitled “Fructíferos Desencuentros: Notas sobre la obra Sudamericana de Le Corbusier” (Fructiferous Mismatches: Notes on Le Corbusier’s South American Work).

Yun Kyu Yi’s “QuVue Implementation for Decisions Related to High-Rise Residential Building Layouts” has been published in Building and Environment.