Kristin Jones

Office

3360 South State Street Chicago, IL 60616

Office Hours

By appointment

Phone 312.567.3230
Fax 312.567.5820
kjones24@iit.edu
https://www.studio-integra.com

Courses taught

ARCH 201 Architecture Studio III
ARCH 331 Visual Training I
ARCH 332 Visual Training II
ARCH 497 Special Problems
ARCH 691 Doctoral Research

Expertise

Professor Jones is a practicing architect and scholar. Her firm, Studio Integra, specializes in urban design and renovations/additions in historic neighborhoods. Her scholarly research focuses on marginalized voices in architecture, transformative architectural education, and topics related to Mies van der Rohe’s legacy at IIT College of Architecture, including visual training, regional planning and long span architecture.

Professor Jones is currently working on a book on Aesthetics in Architectural Education to be published by Routledge.

Education

Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology, 2016
B.Arch., High Honors, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1995

Teaching Experience

Adjunct Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, since 2006

Professional Experience

Founder, President, Studio Integra, Ltd., Chicago/Oak Park, IL, since 2003
Project Architect/Project Manager, OWP/P Architects, Inc., Chicago, IL, 2000-2003
Project Architect/Project Manager, De Stefano + Partners LLP, Chicago, IL, 1997-2000
Intern Architect, Holabird & Root LLP, Chicago, IL, 1995-1997

Licenses

Illinois, Virginia

Selected Publications, Exhibits, and Recent Research

“Silent Collaborators: On Authorship in Architecture.” Session co-chair with Zaida Garcia-Requejo, Society of Architectural Historians 76th Annual International Conference, (Montreal, April 12-16, 2023).
Arthur Takeuchi Memorial Exhibition. Exhibit co-curator with Mahjoub Elnimeiri, IIT College of Architecture, (Chicago, April 1-13, 2023).
“The City in the Landscape: Alfred Caldwell’s vision and experiment for an ecological city,” in Re-imagining Resilient Productive Landscapes: Perspectives from Planning History, Eds. Carla Brisotto and Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira (Springer International Publishing: Switzerland, 2022).
“James Speyer’s Masters Thesis: Studying Modern Domestic Architecture under Mies.” Co-authored with Zaida Garcia-Requejo, 17th Internationcal Docomomo Conference (Valencia, September 6-9, 2022).
“Mies’s Teaching Laboratory : From Convention Hall to McCormick Place.” Co-authored with Zaida Garcia-Requejo, Technology | Architecture + Design 6.2, 2022.
“The Scalability of Urban Agriculture: Chicago Case Studies.” ARCC-EAAE 2022 International Conference (Florida, March 2-5, 2022).
“Long Span Projects at IIT: Exploring the Architectural Research Question.” Exhibit co-curator with with Zaida Garcia-Requejo, Mies Birthday Party (Mies van der Rohe Socitey, Virtual, March 25, 2021).
“Hidden figures: Vera Jansone at Mies’s IIT” [Originally published in Spanish, “Figuras ocultas: Vera Jansone en el IIT de Mies”]. Co-author with Zaida Garcia-Requejo, VAD Veredes, Arquitectura y Divulgación 6 (2021).
“Bauhäusler and the Second chicago School of Architecture: Enduring Student Exercises.” Co-author with Zaida Garcia-Requejo, The Plan Journal 6 (2021): 219-241.
David Sharpe Memorial Exhibition. Exhibit co-curator with Mahjoub Elnimeiri, IIT College of Architecture, (Chicago, December 12, 2020 - August 2021).
“Mies’s Universal Space: IIT as a Laboratory of Ideas.” Co-author with Zaida Garcia-Requejo, Teaching-Learning-Research: Design and Environments (University of Manchester, Manchester, December 2-4, 2020).
“The Expanding Multiverse: Adapting to a new culture of learning.” Co-author with A. Mor-Avi and C. Emmons, Teaching-Learning-Research: Design and Environments. Routledge, AMPS, Parade International Conference, (University of Manchester / Manchester Metropolitan University, December 2-4 2020). Proceedings 22.1(12): 118-128, 2021.
“The City in the Landscape: Alfred Caldwell’s broader perspective on urban design.” Co-authored with Zaida Garcia-Requejo, EAAE-ARCC International Conference (Valencia, November 11-14, 2020).
“From Critical to Transformative Pedagogy in Architectural Education.” Practice of Teaching | Teaching of Practice: The Teacher’s Hunch. ACSA/EAAE Teacher’s Conference (Antwerp, June 28-29, 2019).
The Legendary Design(er) of the Frankfurt Kitchen: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Panel moderator. Chicago Women in Architecture with Docomomo and Goethe Institute, (Eggersmann showroom, Chicago, May 9, 2019).
Bauhaus Descendants: Stories from the Archives, Exhibit co-curator with Zaida Garcia-Requejo, Mies van der Rohe Society (Chicago, 28 March 2019)
Mies’ Pedagogy: Visual Training, Collages and Space Models, Exhibit co-curator with Arthur Takeuchi and San Utsunomiya, Mies van der Rohe Society (Chicago, March 22, 2018 ).
“Research in Architectural Education: Theory and Practice of Visual Training,” Enquiry: The ARCC Journal of Architectural Research 13 (1) (2016): 7-16.
Visual Training at Illinois Institute of Technology: Aesthetics in Architectural Education, Ph.D. dissertation, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2016.