Student News

We are proud to introduce a new video highlighting our Chicago / ABC Studio!

The School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is seeking two, full-time professionals to join the Graduate Advisor Team at either the Graduate Advisor or Senior Graduate Advisor level. Apply today!   Deadline is December 1st, 2024.

We are excited to announce the Barcelona Study Abroad 2025-2026 program!  For those interested in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Program Director Alejandro Lapunzina will host an Orientation for all prospective students & family on November 23rd, 2024 @ 10AM via Zoom! Click here for the Zoom Orientation link! Ready to apply for the program now? (Application Deadline December 2nd)

Graduate students click here!

Undergraduate students click here!

Design This Year's A3 Logo and Win $500! The Annual Architecture Awards (A3) is a School of Architecture event that recognizes students' achievements and awards scholarships and other recognition, and we need a design for this year's A3 Awards! All School of Architecture students are eligible to design and win. The deadline to submit your logo is Sunday, Nov. 10th at 11:59pm. Any submissions dated Nov. 11th will not be considered. To submit, email your name, PDF of design, phone number, and email address to Tony Maduzia at maduzia@illinois.edu with the following email subject: 2025 A3 Logo Contest - LastName, FirstName Submission Specifications:

• 8x8 artboard, graphic contained in a 7-1/4 diameter circle
• Include your A3 logo and text - "Annual Architecture Awards 2025". Maintain 1/4 margins.
• Do not include your name on the graphic. Submit it as a PDF file.
• Please direct all questions to Muntasir Hakim at mh89@illinois.edu 

*Limit of one design per person or team *Logo to be used on buttons, invitations, program cover, and web publicity for the event

Six first-year architecture students recently returned from a trip to Shanghai,China where they represented the University of Illinois at the 2024 Tongji University International Construction Festival.

Prizes were awarded for Junior, Senior, and Graduate studio work in Fall 2023.

Undergraduate and graduate students receive recognition in the Earl Prize and Graduate Design Excellence Awards for Fall 2022 and Spring 2023.

The Spring 2023 Lectures Series theme is "Climate Fictions."

Create a logo for A3, the school's Annual Architecture Awards.

The Fall 2022 lecture series is titled "Confronting Climate."

Such Reddy, founder of Reddymade, has published a book on her 2019 Plym Studio at the Illinois School of Architecture.

A collaboration between two universities and a design firm blends academia and practice in a newly formed graduate studio for architecture students.

Tasmia Kamal received Second Place in the 2021 Gertrude Lempp Kerbis Scholarship competition, hosted by Chicago Women in Architecture.

To learn more about the individual lectures, please visit the "Events" tab on our website.

The University of Illinois School of Architecture has formed its first Alumni Advisory Board with ten inaugural members.

A summary of recent awards for faculty and students from the ACSA, AIA, ARCC, and CWA.

Advised by Professor Marci Uihlein, students constructed a pavilion for the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures design competition in Barcelona.

Fall 2020 Earl Prize and Graduate Design Excellence Awards are announced by the Director.