Health and Wellbeing

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.

The NOMAS chapter affiliated with the Illinois School of Architecture was recognized as 2016 NOMAS Chapter of the Year at the National Association of Minority Architects conference in Los Angeles, October 13-16.

Policies for Action (P4A) today announced $248,250 in grant funding for a research project on which Associate Professor Lynne Dearborn will serve as co-principal investigator, along with the principal investigator, Sherry Ahrentzen, PhD, professor at the University of Florida Shimberg Center for Housing Studies.

Three of the four prizes in the 2016 Chicago Award in Architecture student competition were won by students of the Illinois School of Architecture.

A graduate student design team led by Associate Professor Lynne M. Dearborn played a pivotal role in developing the City of Peoria’s entry in the Play Everywhere Challenge, a national design competition hosted by KABOOM!

Professor Kathryn Anthony is featured in an Illinois News Bureau story on universal podium design.