Faculty News

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.

Professor and Edgar A. Tafel Endowed Chair in Architecture Botond Bognar received the Honorary Gold Diploma in Architecture (Épitészmérnöki Diszoklevél) on May 24.

Kevin Erickson was invited to serve on the 2018 AIA Michigan Honor Awards jury.

Associate Professor Scott Murray is the author of an article titled “Architects and the Cultural Agency of Television: Frank Lloyd Wright on The Mike Wallace Interview” in the latest issue of the journal Thresholds (vol. 46).

T.F. Tierney will present a research paper on smart cities at the 2018 “New Instrumentalities” conference sponsored by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and El Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid.

Randy Deutsch has been invited by the American Institute of Architects to present “EP4EP: Emerging Professionals for Extended Play” as part of a series targeted to emerging professionals at the 2018 AI Conference on Architecture in New York City on June 23.

Assistant Professor Sudarshan Krishnan and his work on transformable structures are featured in an Illinois News Bureau story.

The Chicago Studio’s embedded model of architectural education is featured in Health Facilities Management. Read the article.

Assistant Teaching Professor Heather Grossman will present a paper at the 71st Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) in St. Paul, Minnesota, on April 19.

Randy Deutsch has been selected to participate in the inaugural Scholars in Professional Practice program of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

T.F. Tierney has launched “Making New History: The Chicago Biennial” in conjunction with her ARCH 576 architectural theory seminar students.

Associate Professor Scott Murray was invited to lecture at the College of Architecture and Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) on April 2, 2018.