Student News

John Harlan’s project from Erik Hemingway’s ARCH 571 Competition Studio in the spring 2018 semester was awarded one of the five honorable mentions in the Open Category of the 18th Annual Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Steel Competition.

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.

Simone Zanini’s project from Erik Hemingway’s ARCH 571 Competition Studio in the spring 2018 semester was selected as one of the top entries in the Archdux Competition.

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.

Yuan Liao and Yueshen Mei won third place in the 2018 Chicago Award in Architecture student competition.

The Illinois School of Architecture is pleased to announce the winners of the Earl Prize in Design (undergraduate) and the Graduate Awards for Design Excellence (graduate) for the spring 2018 semester.

On April 27 and 28 the City of Peoria Innovation Team will host an exhibition of design ideas for West Main Street developed by students at the Illinois School of Architecture during a spring studio course.

The Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation’s annual Real Estate Challenge took place on April 14 in Chicago, and the University of Illinois team of graduate students won first place.

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

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

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

The Illinois School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Dina Griffin, FAIA, NOMA, IIDA, will serve as the speaker at this year’s convocation ceremony on Sunday, May 13, 2018, at 9:30 a.m. in Foellinger Auditorium.

Graduate student Min Su Chung has placed ninth in the Thinking Hand International Competition.

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.

Global higher education analysis firm Quacquarelli Symonds has revealed its rankings of the world’s 200 top universities for the study of architecture/built environment for 2018.

The Illinois School of Architecture is pleased to announce the winners of the Earl Prize in Design (undergraduate) and the Graduate Awards for Design Excellence (graduate) for the fall 2017 semester.

The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) has established a $2,000/year AISC Scholarship for a top student in our undergraduate steel design course who continues to pursue our Graduate Structures concentration.

Visiting Lecturers Claire Gaspin and David Emmons collaborated with BSAS student Mingda Zhang on “Home, Again,” which was awarded second place in the 24H: Home Competition sponsored by Ideas Forward.

The Illinois School of Architecture’s Fall Lecture Series poster received fourth place in Archinect’s Get Lectured contest. Voters selected their favorite posters of the semester. Read more about Get Lectured and the other winning posters.

Graduate student Meghna Majethiya has been awarded the seventh annual Sean F. Mellon Memorial Scholarship by the Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) New York Council.