Student News

This fall, graduate students in the School of Architecture's ARCH 518: Recording Historic Buildings seminar will prepare drawings and other historic documentation on the historic Paul Schweikher House in Schaumburg, Illinois, for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS).

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!

University of Illinois students from a variety of disciplines including architecture have learned to collaborate as part of the Race to Zero competition. Read more about the 2016 contest entry.

Graduating students and their families gathered on Sunday, May 15, in Foellinger Auditorium for the Convocation Ceremony of the Illinois School of Architecture, the day after the university commencement ceremony.

A student team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is among the winners in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2016 Race to Zero Student Design Competition.

A team of six students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has won first place in the sixth annual Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation Real Estate Challenge.

As part of the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s 50th Birthday Bash on Saturday, April 16, 2016, Illinois School of Architecture students showcased work from their current investigations into city improvement projects around the CTA Red Line, including ideas for streetscaping, retail, and new mid-rise towers.

We are excited to announce the winner of the MakeSeries2 competition: The Fourth Wall, designed by Nevis Isaj, Matthew Schapen, and Nineveh Rasho.

The Illinois School of Architecture MakeSeries2 competition is excited to announce the three finalists for the spring 2016 competition.

Professor David M. Chasco, FAIA was invited to lead a team of six Illinois School of Architecture graduate students—Angel Ng, Jienan Zhang, Christian Pepper, Katherine Stowell, William Smarzewski, and Yang Yu—in the first Volterra 2015 International Design Workshop, sponsored by the University of Detroit-Mercy (UDM) School of Architecture and hosted by the Volterra (Italy) Detroit Foundation in the Volterra International Residential College.