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Undergraduate and graduate work from our five Program Areas, with a focus on studio design.
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Congratulations to the Category 2: Space and Wellness Graduate Studio Prize Honorable Mention, Subah Samaeen, advised by Prof. Didem Ekici.
About her winning project, Harbor’s Edge: From Working Waterfront to Living Pier:
“The project takes an urban approach that treats the pier into a civic landscape where commuting, leisure, and environmental restoration overlap.”
Congratulations again!
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Congratulations to the Category 1: Craft and Detail Graduate Studio Prize Honorable Mentions, Beatriz Mata, Aditi Panji, and Mohna Sharma, advised by Prof. Tom Leslie.
About their winning project, RISE 78:
“RISE 78 features a series of shifting, twisting levels that carve out outdoor terraces, “backyards in the sky.” These landscaped spaces bring light, air, and greenery into the vertical environment while fostering smaller neighborhoods throughout the building.”
Congratulations again!
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Congratulations to the Category 3: Context Graduate Studio Prize first-place winners, Hannah Bally and Morgan Zhang, advised by Prof. Sara Bartumeus.
About their winning project, Linking Landscape:
“This project reimagines the urban fabric by replacing asphalt with permeable, pedestrian-friendly promenades. It utilizes nature-based solutions—like bioswales and water storage—to combat drought, while transforming underutilized plots into productive urban farms that bridge Sant Andreu de la Barca’s historical roots with a sustainable future.”
Congratulations again!
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Congratulations to the Category 1: Craft & Detail Graduate Studio Prize first-place winners, Gwynne McGrady and Tyler Schottel, advised by Prof. Scott Murray.
About their winning project, The Overlook:
“Our rowing center integrates with its natural landscape, using gabled forms and corridors to guide movement and extending over Clinton Lake to immerse athletes in the environment.”
Congratulations again!
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Honored to share that Chicago Studio collaboration with @urbantheater by students Alexa Selvaggio and Elizabeth Tabisz, directed by Professor Bridget Benge @studioartempo , was featured in the @chicago_reader ’s most recent Performing Arts Feature:
“For their new building in Humboldt Park, UrbanTheater Company enlisted students in the Chicago Studio program at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s architecture school, under the direction of Bridget Benge, to create conceptual renderings.
UTC is partnering with architecture students Alexa Selvaggio and Elizabeth Tabisz on conceptual renderings as a first step. The two students worked with architecture professor Bridget Benge of Studio Artempo and the Chicago Studio, a program in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s architecture school. Vega estimates it will take three to five years to finish the new theater.”
Read more on the Chicago Reader website!
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Congratulations to the Category 2: Space & Wellness Graduate Studio Prize first-place winners, Macy Sharp, Jenna Lin, and Isaiah Pierce, advised by Prof. Pat Saldaña-Natke and Prof. Soumya Dasgupta.
About their winning project, Arise:
“Framed by the Chicago skyline, the Welcome Center establishes a threshold to urban density, embracing connectivity and exchange through landscape, material, and cultural encounter.”
Congratulations again!
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We are proud to congratulate Dr. Yazmín M Crespo Claudio as an ACSA 2026 Diversity Achievement Honorable Mention for her collaborative project with Omayra Rivera Crespo, PhD [UPRRP], and Irmaris Santiago Rodríguez, MArch [UPRC] on Counter-Narratives: Thirteen Years of Puerto Rican Decolonial Pedagogy.
“Counter-Narratives: Thirteen Years of a Decolonial Pedagogy proposes an architecture of relation; one that enacts care, inclusivity, and resistance, transforming education into a collective act of worldmaking.”
Read more on the ACSA website!
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We are proud to congratulate Professor Botond Bognar, who is currently an Emeritus Professor who held the Edgar A. Tafel Endowed Chair in Architecture, as an ACSA 2026 Distinguished Professor Winner!
From ACSA: “Botond Bognar has taught at the University of Illinois School of Architecture for forty-four years. He is a Professor and the Edgar Tafel Endowed Chair in Architecture, teaching graduate design studios and seminars on the history and theories of Japanese architecture in their cultural, social, political, and global contexts.”
Read more on the ACSA website!
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