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News  Nov 27th 2024Three Landscape Architecture Studio Projects Celebrated

College of Architecture community members were honored for projects they worked on during the 2024 Illinois American Society of Landscape Architects student awards program. — Full Story

News  Nov 27th 2024Architecture Students Chosen to Receive Coveted Diversity Scholarship

Alisha Gonzalez (B.ARCH. 4th Year) and Ivan Gonzalez-Vazquez (M.ARCH. 1st Year) are this year’s recipients of the AIA Chicago Foundation’s Diversity Scholarship.  — Full Story

Featured  Nov 15th 2024Assistant Professor Receives Patent for Climate-Adaptive Building System

Assistant Professor Youngjin Hwang and his team received a United States patent for a novel climate-adaptive, dynamic, opaque-building-envelope system called HydroSIP — Full Story

  Nov 11th 2024New Rowe Fellow Explores Architectural Influence of Marginalized Communities

Sydney Rose Maubert, a researcher of Afro-Indigenous communities in the southern United States and Caribbean, is the College of Architecture’s newest Jeanne and John Rowe Fellow.  — Full Story

Featured  Nov 7th 2024Associate Professor Receives Prestigious Fellowship

Every year, the Institute for Advanced Study welcomes more than 250 of the most promising postdoctoral researchers and distinguished scholars from around the world advance their research—and now Associate Professor Sean Keller is one.  — Full Story

Featured  Nov 5th 2024LAF Ignite Scholar Sees Landscape Architecture as the Key to Green Policy

Illinois Tech student Brendan Hall (MLA/M.Arch. 4th Year) was one of five students nationwide selected to join the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s newest Ignite cohort. — Full Story

Events  Oct 24th 2024 “What Goes into a Book?”—Graham Resource Center Exhibition

The exhibition surveys the process of book design and the relationships between content, agency, and design. — Full Story

Events  Oct 21st 2024Polis: Public Space in Spain During the Last Twenty Years

On Wednesday, October 23, we invite you to join us as we open an exhibit called “Polis,” which features the work of spanish architects who have been celebrated by the prestigious “european prize for urban public space.” — Full Story

Events  Oct 8th 2024Peter Schaudt Lecture: Antonella Contin, University of Politecnico di Milano

Sustainable urban growth models and other citywide projects are among the subjects that the renown Italian architect will speak on during a lecture at S. R. Crown Hall at 5 p.m. on October 25. — Full Story

Featured  Oct 1st 2024All in the Details: Fifth-Year Student Finishes Second in Preservation Competition

Not specifically out of the ordinary, a flyer on the wall of S. R. Crown Hall caught the eye of Thomas Lozanovski (B.ARCH. 5th Year). The piece of paper highlighted the results of a competition hosted by the National Park Service’s Heritage Documentation Programs, which was enough to push Lozanovski to learn more. — Full Story

News  Sep 11th 2024Architecture Programs Harness Sustainability and Earn International Designation

For the past year, the College of Architecture has worked to implement a new curriculum for its Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture programs that puts sustainability, carbon neutrality, and zero-energy design at the forefront of their pedagogy. This has earned the two programs a Zero Energy Design Designation (ZEDD) from the United States Department of Energy. — Full Story

News  Aug 22nd 2024Four Finalists Chosen for International Architectural Prize

Four distinct projects completed within the past two years by newly practicing architects in Central and South America have been selected as finalists in the 5th cycle of MCHAP.emerge.  — Full Story

News  Aug 20th 2024Architecture Faculty’s Pavilion Design Wins International Prize

College of Architecture Assistant Professor Dillon Pranger has won first place in this year’s Architizer 2024 A+Awards for a unique pop-up pavilion. — Full Story

Events  Aug 16th 2024Stephen Burks: Spirit Houses Exhibit and Lecture

Renowned industrial designer and Chicago native Stephen Burks will showcase his first independent work at S. R. Crown Hall on August 28 beginning at 5 p.m. — Full Story

Featured  Jun 7th 2024Two New Books Delve Into the World of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

College of Architecture Professor Michelangelo Sabatino showcases the writings and works of the famed modernist architect responsible for Mies Campus. — Full Story

News  Jun 4th 2024Chicago: The City of Architects

From Africa to Singapore, Joyce Tan Vela (B.ARCH ’04) lived across the world before finding her home in the architecture of Chicago. — Full Story

News  May 28th 2024David Hovey Sr., Maurice Cox Receive Honorary Doctor of Architecture

Cox, an esteemed architect and champion for cities, and Hovey, former faculty member and CEO of Optima Inc., are recognized for their innovation and dedication to architecture and city planning. — Full Story

News  May 15th 20242024 Spring Awards Celebration Winners

The 2024 Spring Awards event celebrates College of Architecture students after months of creative work and finished projects. — Full Story

Events  May 10th 2024Pritzker Architecture Prize presents 2024 Laureate Lecture and Panel

Community: The Architect as Catalyst for Change, brings Riken Yamamoto to S. R. Crown Hall to discuss his personal journey to socially-driven architecture at a lecture and panel discussion at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 16. — Full Story

Events  May 2nd 2024Experience the Future of 3D Printing at the College of Architecture

A semester of student work exploring 3D printing, CNC milling, and more is on display at Paul V. Galvin Library until May 12. — Full Story

News  May 2nd 2024Engineering as Architecture

For those interested in the design of new urban structures—particularly those that greatly increase density—is it better to focus one’s study on the principles of engineering, or architecture? One visiting fellow at Illinois Institute of Technology's College of Architecture asked during a recent student workshop: Why not both at once? — Full Story

Featured  May 2nd 2024A Place to Call Home

Juliana Cardozo Chamorro (M.L.A.+U ’24) spent a years searching for her future in architecture—then she came to Mies Campus. — Full Story

Events  Apr 25th 2024Exhibition of Bronzeville and Illinois Tech Campus in Galvin Tower

Explore the history of the Illinois Tech campus and the Bronzeville neighborhood in an exhibition displayed in Galvin Tower. — Full Story