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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

Featured  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

Featured  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

Featured  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

Featured  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

Featured  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

Featured  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

Featured  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

Featured  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

Featured  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

Featured  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

Featured  Apr 24th 2024Rethinking the High-Rise “Pro Forma”

This year—with the intensely integrated input of a globally renowned, Chicago-based architectural institution—one of Illinois Institute of Technology’s most unique graduate degree programs is tackling new, sustainable uses for high-rise buildings at a time when city leaders across the country are searching for new solutions to fill them. — Full Story

Featured  Apr 23rd 20242024 Open House “In/Print” Highlights Student Projects

Explore IIT College of Architecture’s 2024 Open House virtually or in-person at S. R. Crown Hall. — Full Story

Featured  Apr 23rd 2024From West Side to South Side

Jeanne and John Rowe Fellow Rogelio Cadena explores how Chicago's historic boulevard road system can spur development instead of separating a neighborhood. — Full Story

Featured  Apr 19th 2024Alumni Among Top Young Architects in the Country

Two outstanding Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture alumni are officially among the top up-and-coming architects in the country, joining a prestigious national group of honorees. — Full Story

Featured  Apr 15th 2024Building Beyond Sustainability

Many architects talk of incorporating sustainability in their projects. But what if there’s little left to sustain? That’s a question posed to 22 students by Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture’s 2024 Morgenstern Visiting Chairs, Iker Gil and Michel Rojkind, who have been teaching an advanced spring 2024 advanced architectural studio titled Beyond Sustainability: A New Era of Reciprocity. — Full Story

Featured  Apr 2nd 20242024 Spring Lecture Series: Michael Rojkind

The IIT College of Architecture is honored to welcome noted Mexico City-based architect Michel Rojkind for a lecture Wednesday afternoon at 1 p.m. in Lower Center Core. — Full Story

Featured  Mar 28th 20242024 Spring Lecture Series: Alfred Caldwell Lecture: Growing, Foraging, and Cultivating

Learn how landscape architecture can shape Chicago’s South Side at a panel discussion in S. R. Crown Hall on April 1 at 5 p.m. — Full Story

Featured  Mar 21st 2024Building Strength Together: NOMASiit Forges Tight Community Bond

The student arm of the National Organization of Minority Architects brings unique support and camaraderie outside the classroom. — Full Story

Featured  Mar 18th 20242024 Spring Lecture Series: Frank Barkow, Co-Founder of Barkow Leibinger

World-renowned architect and researcher Frank Barkow is hosting a lecture at S. R. Crown Hall on March 25 at 5 p.m. — Full Story

Featured  Mar 14th 2024Ronan to Lead Design of National Memorial Honoring Fallen Journalists

John Ronan Architects will craft the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation’s flagship project to be built in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. — Full Story