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Six Finalists Announced for 2023 MCHAP Prize

February 13, 2023

The six finalists for the 2023 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) were announced at an event in Medellín, Colombia, on Saturday, February 11, 2023.

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Architecture Faculty’s Pavilion Design Wins International Prize

August 20, 2024

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.

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Four Finalists Chosen for International Architectural Prize

August 22, 2024

Four projects completed by newly practicing architects in Central and South America have been selected as finalists in the 5th cycle of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Practice.

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Pritzker Architecture Prize presents 2024 Laureate Lecture and Panel

May 16, 2024

Community: The Architect as Catalyst for Change, brings Riken Yamamoto to S. R. Crown Hall to discuss his personal journey to socially-driven architecture 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 16.

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Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Awarded to Ecuador Community Center

October 03, 2024

The Centro Comunitario Productivo Las Tejedoras (the Community Productivo Center Las Tejedoras) won the fifth cycle of the biennial Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Award for Emerging Practice.

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Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2025 Finalists Annouced

February 10, 2025

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

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Thaden School Project Receives Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize

May 09, 2025

A unique campus designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects, EskewDumezRipple, and Andropogon Associates has been named the winner of the fifth Americas Prize.

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2023 Fall Lecture Series: SANAA founders Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa

August 25, 2023

Pritzker Prize awardees Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, will speak about their acclaimed international work at Tokyo-based SANAA.

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Faculty & Staff Directory

Martin Felsen

Professor, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, M.Arch. Degree Program Director

Martin Felsen, FAIA, co-founded UrbanLab. He is a registered licensed architect in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Colorado, and New York. He was educated at Virginia Tech (B.Arch.), and Columbia University (M.S.-AAD). Martin is a Fellow of...

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Wiel Arets

Professor

Professor Arets is an internationally renowned architect and educator. He graduated from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands in 1983, and established his own office that same year, which later expanded throughout Europe...

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2024 Spring Awards Celebration Winners

May 15, 2024

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

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Film Premiere of ‘MCHAP The Americas: Cycle 4’

November 08, 2023

Two films highlighting the finalists of the 2021 and 2022 MCHAP events will premiere in S. R. Crown Hall at 5 p.m. on November 8.

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Mauricio Rocha: A Lot With Little

November 15, 2023

Mauricio Rocha, the renowned architect who received the 2023 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, will present his award-winning work at 5 p.m. on November 15.

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Rozana Montiel, 2023 Morgenstern Family Visiting Chair

April 05, 2023

IIT College of Architecture is excited to host Rozana Montiel, the 2023 Victor A. Morgenstern Family Visiting Chair in Architecture, for a 5 p.m. lecture on April 5 beginning at 5 p.m.

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‘A Student’s Teacher’: Longtime Professor Arthur S. Takeuchi Passes Away

March 07, 2023

Arthur S. Takeuchi (B.Arch. ’54, M.S.Arch. ’59), a pupil of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and an IIT College of Architecture professor for more than 50 years, passed away on October 28, 2022.

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Faculty Member Carol Ross Barney Wins Prestigious AIA Gold Medal

January 18, 2023

In 1960 Mies van der Rohe was honored with the AIA Gold Medal. It would take 62 years for another Chicago architect to earn the prize—IIT College of Architecture Adjunct Professor Carol Ross Barney.

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All in the Details: Fifth-Year Student Finishes Second in Preservation Competition

October 01, 2024

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).

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Faculty & Staff Directory

Colleen Humer

Associate Teaching Professor, First Year UG Studio Coordinator, International Studies Director

Colleen Humer is an Associate Teaching Professor in the College of Architecture. In 2006, she came to IIT from Toronto and has spent the last 17 years in the College teaching Studio, History and Study...

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Dirk Denison

Professor, MCHAP Director

Dirk Denison has been a professor for more than 30 years at the IIT College of Architecture and is the Director of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. He also runs his own award-winning firm...

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Jonathan Miller

Associate Teaching Professor

Jonathan Miller is an Associate Teaching Professor in the College of Architecture, where his classes on film, architecture, landscape and urbanism investigate the intersection of technology, mass media, and spatial experience. Jonathan Miller holds an...

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Maria Villalobos Hernandez

Associate Professor, M.LA+U Degree Program Director, Advanced M.LA+U Studio Coordinator

Maria A. Villalobos H., an Associate Professor at IIT and Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism, is a global professional. Fluent in five languages, she has gained her Master’s in Design Studies...

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Rogelio Cadena

Jeanne & John Rowe Fellow, Visiting Assistant Professor

Rogelio Cadena is a visiting assistant professor in the College of Architecture and co-founder of Resolver Studio. His work primarily focuses on the connection between architecture, community and urbanism.Having received a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.)...

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Ron Henderson

Professor, Second Year M.LA+U Studio Coordinator

Ron Henderson FASLA is Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism and Director of Research for the Alphawood Arboretum at Illinois Institute of Technology. His research and teaching is broad—the natural history of cities, spatial and...

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Ryan Roark

Assistant Professor, Second Year UG Studio Coordinator

Ryan Roark, Ph.D., AIA, is an architect, writer, biochemist, and assistant professor at the IIT College of Architecture, where her research focuses on radical adaptive reuse as a strategy for urban and ecological sustainability. She...

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Susan Conger-Austin

Professor of Practice, MCHAP International Programs Director

After working for many years as a Studio Head/Associate Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Chicago, Professor Susan Conger-Austin joined the College of Architecture faculty in 1993. She is a graduate of Stanford University...

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