Faculty News

Clinical Associate Professor Randy Deutsch has been invited to speak at Design Futures Council events throughout Australia.

Related Midwest and the University of Illinois School of Architecture today announced their partnership on an innovative program that will offer Chicago teens an opportunity to immerse themselves in the architecture and building industries.

Professor Kathryn Anthony received the 2018-19 Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Assistant Professor Sudarshan Krishnan received the 2018-19 Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching.

The Illinois School of Architecture is excited to announce that Spring Harrison, Administrative Aide for the Director’s Office, has received the 2019 Chancellor’s Distinguished Staff Award.

Clinical Associate Professor Randy Deutsch has been invited to give a keynote address at the World Summit on the Digital Built Environment.

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.