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Five architecture projects from across the Americas are named finalists in the 2025 MCHAP at IIT College of Architecture.

February 10, 2025

Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2025 Finalists Annouced

Five architecture firms from across the continent have been named finalists for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, a coveted biennial award.

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A modern building at dusk, illuminated with warm orange and red lights. People gather on steps under a large overhang, engaging in conversation. The interior reveals silhouettes of more people through glass windows. A cyclist rides by on the left.

January 28, 2025

Student’s ‘Lamp on State Street’ Project Earns Top Architecture Award

A recent Illinois Tech College of Architecture graduate won top honors in the 2024 Chicago Award in Architecture for a project transforming vacant historic buildings.

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January 22, 2025

‘The Best Course in Housing in the Country’: Second-Year Studio Earns National Recognition

One of the best architecture studios on housing in the United States is now taught at Illinois Tech’s College of Architecture.

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January 13, 2025

Landscape Architecture Professor Nominated for Faculty Position at Chinese University

College of Architecture Professor Ron Henderson has been nominated as a distinguished visiting professor at Tsinghua University College of Architecture in Beijing.

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December 02, 2024

Three 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.

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December 02, 2024

Architecture 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.

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Upcoming Events

Learning From Trees

March 04, 2025

Learning from Trees: Conversation with Toru Mitani

Learn landscape architecture technologies that help trees thrive in cities at a talk on March 4 in the Lower Center Core of S. R. Crown Hall beginning at 5 p.m.

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An older man in a suit leans on a table with a scale model of a modernist building. He has a serious expression. The model features a minimalist design with glass and metal elements. The background is plain white.

March 19, 2025

Mies’ 139th Birthday Cocktail Party

Celebrate Mies van der Rohe‘s 139th birthday with the Mies Society! Join our co-hosts, Zurich Esposito and Alex Krikhaar, (ARCH ’91, MAS ’94) and the Mies Society for this annual event.

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The image shows two book covers: "Mies in His Own Words" on the left with a metallic background, and "Mies van der Rohe" on the right featuring a night view of a city seen through a window with building silhouettes.

March 27, 2025

Mies’ Birthday Celebration of Books

Join us as we honor two important books—Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time and Mies in His Own Words, Complete Writings, Speeches, and Interviews: 1922–1969.

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