Faculty News

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.

Associate Professor and Director of URL: Urban Research Lab T.F. Tierney has been invited to present a paper at the Architectural Humanities Research Association International Conference “Smartness: Between Discourse and Practice.”

Scott Murray has authored a chapter in the new book Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture, edited by Anat Geva and published this month by Routledge.

As part of his ongoing research on Le Corbusier’s work in the Americas, Alejandro Lapunzina was invited to deliver a public lecture at the auditorium of the Colegio de Arquitectos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires located in La Plata, Argentina.

The Illinois School of Architecture announces the competition for the 2018-2019 Francis J. Plym Traveling Fellowship in Architecture. The competition is open to graduates of the School of Architecture of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Illinois School of Architecture announces the competition for the 2018-2019 Clyde Lee and Cecilia Baker Traveling Fellowship. This fellowship is open to graduates who have received the Master of Architecture degree from the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Student work from Assistant Professor Sudarshan Krishnan’s ARCH 536 class is featured in the Daily Illini.

Associate Director for Graduate Studies Randy Deutsch has been invited to present a keynote presentation and be a panelist at the Fifth International Technical Symposium on the Applications of BIM Technology in Design, Construction, and Real Estate in Beijing, China.

Yun Kyu Yi’s QuVue has been trademarked by the U of I Board of Trustees. The tool is for architectural and engineering consulting services to evaluate sky view ratios.

The School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time tenured track faculty position, for the Gertrude Lempp Kerbis Endowed Chair, at the rank of Full Professor.

In 1963, as an undergraduate University of Illinois architecture student, James Warfield represented the Department of Anthropology in a Carnegie Foundation supported fieldwork program in Chiapas, Mexico.

Lecturer Tait Johnson recently presented a paper at the ACSA Fall Conference in Milwaukee entitled, “Regulation, Profit, and Power: The Transversal Relationships of Twentieth-Century Aluminum Cladding Production.”

Associate Professor Lynne Dearborn recently published a blog post with Sherry Ahrentzen, a professor at the Shimberg Center for Housing Studies at the University of Florica, on the affordable housing crisis and the quality of rentals.

The School of Architecture and the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks nominations and applications for the position of Director and Professor.

Root to Roof was born from seeing the emerald ash borer devastate the local community ash tree population.

Associate Director for Graduate Studies Randy Deutsch AIA, LEED AP, will speak at the “Practice: Outside In | Inside Out” symposium at Harvard University.

Following two summer design/build studios focused on the needs of the nonprofit organization Prosperity Gardens, phase one of the project got underway this month.

Kevin Erickson has been invited to be on the jury for the Van Alan Institute’s Flash Design Competition to improve the flow of pedestrian and vehicular traffic at the intersection of Delancey, Grand, and Essex Streets in New York City.