Health and Wellbeing

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.

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.

Ph.D. candidate Thulasi Ram Khamma (supervised by Professor Mohamed Boubekri) was one of 12 winners nationwide of the International Building Performance Simulation Association Scholarship.

Lynne Dearborn and Ph.D. candidate AnnaMarie Bliss will have an article published in Technology | Architecture + Design.

Professor Mohamed Boubekri and Nastaran Shishegar, a Ph.D. student, received a grant from the Jim H. McClung Lighting Research Foundation to study the effect of tunable white lighting technology on older adults’ health and quality of life.

Lynne Dearborn has been elected second vice president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

Lynne Dearborn’s work on low-income housing funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was highlighted on the Urban Institute’s website. Read more about her project.

Kathryn Anthony is featured in “The Original: Kathryn Anthony Guides Architects to Think Big Picture” by Chicago’s Edward Keegan in Architect Magazine.

Associate Professor Lynne Dearborn’s spring 2015 Peoria studio was highlighted in the AIA Illinois Newsletter.

Mohamed Boubekri has published papers with doctoral students Jaewook Lee and Thulasi Ram Khamma in the Journal of Green Building and the Journal of Engineering and Architecture.

Alumnus Altaf Engineer and Professor Kathryn Anthony recently published Shedding New Light on Art Museum Additions: Front Stage and Back Stage Experiences.

William Worn has been selected by Healthcare Design Magazine for an HCD 10 award. Read more about his accomplishments.

Doctoral student Nastaran Shishegar and Professor Mohamed Boubekri published a paper in the journal Energy and Buildings titled “Quantifying Electrical Energy Savings in Offices through Installing Daylight Responsive Control Systems in Hot Climates.” Access the article.

Mohamed Boubekri (Co-P.I.) and Kristen Bub (P.I.) from the Department of Educational Psychology were awarded an NIH grant to study the role of daylight exposure in classroom environments on children and teachers’ health, educational functioning, and well-being.

Lynne Dearborn has contributed two chapters to Health and Well-Being for Interior Architecture, published by Taylor and Francis.

Professor Kathryn Anthony, our longest-serving female faculty member, has just completed her 33rd year at the Illinois School of Architecture and is the author of a new book, 10 years in the making, Defined by Design: The Surprising Power of Hidden Gender, Age, and Body Bias in Everyday Products and Places (Prometheus Books).

Jesse Han was awarded honorable mention in the Image of Research: Undergraduate Edition Competition for her research project titled “Analyzing Resources in Support of Public Interest Design,” which she has been working on with Associate Professor Lynne Dearborn this semester.

Thulasi Ram Khamma, a doctoral student working with Associate Professor Mohamed Boubekri, was awarded a national-level Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps (EDF CC) Fellowship for summer 2017.

In an article published in Arch Daily, Kathryn Anthony writes about the Americans with Disabilities Act and interviews Carl G. Lewis. Read the article.

Associate Professor Lynne Dearborn is featured in the latest American Institute of Architecture Students #Askanarchitect video.