Student News

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.

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.

From among over 200 entries, students from the Illinois School of Architecture have won second and third place awards in the 2017 Steel Design Student Competition, a national awards program sponsored by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).

Jacob Eble’s Revitalizing the Rural was awarded an honorable mention in the 2017 Here + Now: A House for the 21st Century Residential Student Design Competition.

Lecturer David Emmons recently collaborated with former exchange student Claire Gaspin on a competition entry entitled “The Summit,” which was awarded a finalist mention in the Castle Resort Competition, sponsored by Young Architects Competitions.

The school’s new robotic arm has been featured in a story by the Daily Illini.

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.

The school’s new robotic arm has been featured in a story by the Illinois News Bureau.

The Student Sustainability Committee, which allocates over $1.1 million each year to sustainable projects on campus, has recommended that the School of Architecture’s Root to Roof initiative receive $94,750 in funding, pending final administrative approval.

Congratulations to graduate students Widya Ramadhani and Wan Wan Shao for winning the 2016-2017 Chicago Women in Architecture Scholarship 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 fall 2016 semester.

Two graduate students in Associate Professor Erik Hemingway’s ARCH 571 studio received honorable mentions in Laka Competition ’16: Architecture That Reacts.

Visiting Lecturer David Emmons recently collaborated with senior Yanhao Liu (BSAS ’17) on a competition entry entitled “The L.A.W.N.,” which was named a top 6 finalist in the Quad Competition for the Architectural Boston Expo.

Visiting Lecturer David Emmons recently collaborated with a former U of I exchange student, Claire Gaspin, on a competition entry titled “Babel: Settlement No. 1,” which was awarded an honorable mention in the 24H: Mars Competition sponsored by Ideas Forward.

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.

FAA students joined forces with majors from the College of Business to win the second CoreNet Global Academic Challenge, a competition focused on creative solutions to business problems.

A group of 11 students spent four days this fall measuring every inch of the Paul Schweikher House in Schaumburg, which architect Paul Schweikher built in 1937 as his home and studio.

The Illinois School of Architecture’s Master of Architecture degree program is among DesignIntelligence Quarterly’s top 25 programs for 2016-2017.