Events Archive
Career
College of Architecture Career Day
March 29, 2012
Ceremonies
Investiture Ceremony for Donna V. Robertson FAIA
April 19, 2007
Auction of Architectural Drawings and Prints
April 02, 2009
Commencement Ceremonies in S.R. Crown Hall
May 16, 2009
Conferences
What Next? Projecting Futures for Architecture
Oct 16, 2009 - Oct 17, 2009
CTBUH (Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat) 2009 Conference
Oct 22, 2009 - Oct 23, 2009
Lectures
Thomas Oslund Lecture
Feb 07, 2007
Julia Czerniak Lecture
March 21, 2007
2007 Morgenstern Lecture
March 28, 2007
Tectonic Logic and Spatial Imagination: Synthesis of Western Reason & Eastern Sensibility
April 04, 2007
Charles Waldheim Lecture
April 18, 2007
Ross Wimer:
Innovation and Interpretation:New Directions SOM
April 02, 2008
Alex Krieger:
Re-Mapping the Urban Edge
April 07, 2008
Rocio Romero:
Retooling Modern Design
April 14, 2008
Thomas Vietzke and Jens Borstelmann:
"Nordpark: Continuity" and "Chanel Mobile Art: Digital Design to Fabrication"
Sept 10, 2008
Robert Somol:
"Whatever"
Sept 17, 2008
William F. Baker:
"Creating New Architecture: Studies in Structural Topology"
Oct 08, 2008
Peter Osler:
"Time's Way, Time's Wear, and the Poetics of Shears"
Oct 09, 2008
Werner Sobek:
"An Architecture for the 21st Century"
Oct 23, 2008
Peter Pran:
"Realizations"
Nov 12, 2008
Taryn Christoff and Martin Finio:
"No Ideas but in Things"
Nov 19, 2008
Lecture by Chris Reed of StoSS
Nov 21, 2008
David Bier:
The Green Area Ratio: An Urban Site Sustainability Metric
Dec 04, 2008
Lisa Rapoport:
"Processing"
Feb 25, 2009
Dietrich Neumann:
“Mystifying Mies: New Research on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe”
March 02, 2009
Harry Mallgrave:
“The Architect's Brain: Creativity and Design”
March 04, 2009
Sean Keller:
“Olympics - Munich '72”
March 11, 2009
Kerstin Puller and Mona Marshall:
"Formfinding," a Werner Sobek Lecture
March 26, 2009
Paul Endres:
“Dynamic Evolution: The Law of Fluidity, Growth and Space”
April 01, 2009
Tom Leader:
“Groundwork”
April 15, 2009
Kerstin Puller and Dr. Christine Lemaitre:
"Textile Architecture," a Werner Sobek Lecture
April 16, 2009
Ming Zhang:
"When Relevance Meets Intention"
April 22, 2009
Dr. Christine Lemaitre and Timo Schmidt:
"Innovations," a Werner Sobek Lecture
April 30, 2009
Rajnish Wattas:
CHANDIGARH
Greening Corbu's Concrete:
Trees as Elements of Urban Design
Aug 07, 2009
Raymond Wiggers:
Geology of the Prairie State and Chicago
Aug 26, 2009
Frank Flury:
Advanced Studio - Chapel Project
Sept 11, 2009
Harold B. Olin:
Are There Too Many People or Not Enough Resources?
Oct 07, 2009
Dr. Kristen Schaffer:
Finding Burnham in the Archives: Spiritual Revelations and the Plan of Chicago
Oct 08, 2009
Thomas Gray:
Projected Light: A Transformation of Spaces
Oct 09, 2009
German Samper Gnecco:
Popular Housing in Latin America: Reflections on Low-income Habitat
Oct 13, 2009
Dan Wood:
“Make No Medium-Sized Plans, Part I: Miniplans”
Oct 28, 2009
Jeanne Gang:
“MEP Systems: Material, Ecologic and Programmatic”
Nov 04, 2009
John Cunningham:
"An Introduction to Global Architecture Brigades: Student-Led Design/Build"
Nov 09, 2009
Laurie Hawkinson
“The Aesthetics of Crossing”
Nov 10, 2009
Dianne Harris:
"A Second Suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania"
Nov 11, 2009
Clare Lyster:
“Infrastructural Ecologies”
Nov 18, 2009
Rick Valicenti:
"Good Taste Hides a Reckless Process"
Feb 10, 2010
Michael Zaretsky:
"Design from the Ground Up"
Feb 19, 2010
Franz Schulze and Edward Windhorst:
"Mies Building Art: A Sneak Preview"
Feb 24, 2010
Chuck Hoberman:
"Environmental Transformation for Sustainable Performance"
Feb 25, 2010
Sarah Whiting:
"Super"
March 01, 2010
Susan K. Weiler:
"Great Thinkers Making Great Places"
March 01, 2010
David Hovey, Jr.
"The New Meccano Set: The Development of the DCHGlobal Building System"
March 22, 2010
Kengo Kuma:
"Recent Work"
March 23, 2010
John M. Genovese and David Piper:
"Buy Design: The Retail Attraction Factor"
March 25, 2010
Jeffrey Kipnis:
"Why Bother?"
March 31, 2010
Harry Mallgrave:
"New Hellerau: Architectural Theory and Design in the Age of Biology"
April 07, 2010
Edward Windhorst:
"High-Rise and Long-Span Research at IIT: The Legacy of Goldsmith and Sharpe"
April 12, 2010
Herbert Dreiseitl:
"Urban Waterscapes"
April 14, 2010
Juhani Pallasmaa:
"Twelve Themes in my Work: interplay of thought and form"
April 16, 2010
David Fisher:
"The Creator of Dynamic Architecture"
April 19, 2010
Jim Patchett/Conservation Design Forum:
"Design for Sustainable Systems"
April 21, 2010
Christian Blaser:
"Size Doesn't Matter"
May 03, 2010
Julio Cesar Perez Hernandez:
"Modern Architecture in Cuba"
May 24, 2010
Swiss Design Award Panel Discussion and Reception
Aug 30, 2010
Michael Van Valkenburgh:
"Recent Parks and Projects in the Public Realm"
Sept 29, 2010
Dana Buntrock:
"Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Tradition and Today"
Oct 18, 2010
Peter Wirtz
"Beyond the 'Formal' and 'Informal' or 'Naturalistic' in Public and Private Gardens"
Oct 19, 2010
Ian Bogle:
"STRATA SE1: Moving Towards a Self-Powered Environment"
Oct 20, 2010
Julie Snow:
"Design Performance"
Oct 25, 2010
Jiang Jun:
"Reading Urban China in Five Dimensions"
Oct 27, 2010
Adrian Smith:
"Towards the Zero-Energy City"
Nov 03, 2010
Curtis Moody:
"Challenges of an Architectural Firm"
Nov 10, 2010
Thomas L. Woltz:
"Stewardship and Design in the Urban and Agrarian Landscape"
Nov 22, 2010
Jonathan Solomon and Martin Felsen:
"Workshopping Chicago: A Conversation with Martin Felsen and Jonathan Solomon"
Feb 07, 2011
Sou Fujimoto:
"Primitive Future"
Feb 15, 2011
Michael Morris and Yoshiko Sato:
"Ground Control"
Feb 18, 2011
Ralph Johnson:
"Current Work"
Feb 23, 2011
Martin Hogue:
"Films that Work Like Drawings"
March 04, 2011
Elizabeth Mossop:
"Landscape Agency in Urban Revitalization"
March 30, 2011
Ralph Nelson:
"Sows' Ear Silk Purse"
April 01, 2011
Lecture by Ernie Wong
April 04, 2011
Robert Krawczyk:
"Spirals, Fractals, and Music: The Same Only Different"
April 06, 2011
Thomas Oslund:
"Current Work"
April 08, 2011
Christopher Lee:
"But I Don't Want to Share"
April 13, 2011
R. Thomas Hille:
"Modern Schools: Alternative Paradigms for Design"
April 13, 2011
Zhanna Yermakov:
"Chicago Shoreline Restoration"
April 15, 2011
Panel: "Urban Agriculture and the IIT Aesthetic"
April 18, 2011
Werner Sobek, Manfred Hegger, and Helmut Jahn:
"High-Rises for the Future: Sustainability, Architecture, and Engineering Perspectives"
Sept 16, 2011
Barbara Geiger:
"Low-Key Genius: The Life and Work of Landscape-Gardener O.C. Simonds"
Sept 21, 2011
Dan Rockhill:
"The Work of Rockhill + Associates and Studio 804"
Sept 28, 2011
Stanley Allen:
"Landform Building"
Oct 12, 2011
Carsten Krohn:
"The Unknown Mies"
Oct 19, 2011
Maya Lin:
"Design for a Living World: Lecture with Maya Lin"
Oct 24, 2011
Khaled Mansy:
"Design for Sustainability: Perception Vs. Reality"
Oct 26, 2011
Sheila Kennedy:
"Going SOFT: infrastructure/information/energy"
Nov 02, 2011
Chris Wilkinson:
"The Challenge of Materials"
Nov 04, 2011
Kenneth Frampton:
"World Megalopoli and the Japanese Experience"
Jan 12, 2012
Thomas Heatherwick:
"Current Work"
Jan 26, 2012
Will Bruder:
"Built/Unbuilt: The Architecture of willbruder+PARTNERS"
Jan 27, 2012
Ifeanyi Oganwu:
"New Work"
Feb 13, 2012
Doug Reed:
"Seeking the Particular: An Integrated Approach to Planting Design"
Feb 22, 2012
Merritt Bucholz:
"Bucholz McEvoy Architects: Recent Works"
Feb 27, 2012
Bernard Tschumi:
"Concept and Material"
April 09, 2012
Katherine Rinne:
"Plumbing Rome"
April 11, 2012
Open House
Open House 2007
May 11, 2007
2008 Graduate Programs Open House
Nov 21, 2008
Graduate Programs Open House, 2009
Nov 13, 2009
Open House 2010
May 07, 2010
Graduate Programs Open House, 2010
Nov 05, 2010
Open House—Annual Exhibition of Student Work
May 06, 2011
Graduate Visit Day 2011
Oct 07, 2011
Graduate Programs Open House, 2011
Nov 04, 2011
Graduate Visit Day 2012
April 06, 2012
Party/Celebration
Mies van der Rohe's 121st
April 04, 2007
Happy Birthday, Mies!
Riddle Mies This: Come celebrate the 124th birthday of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
March 25, 2010
Mies' 125th Birthday Celebration
March 28, 2011
AIA Convention Alumni Reception
May 12, 2011
Seminars
Jenny Sabin Seminar
Feb 08, 2007
TALK20 Fifteen Speakers
Feb 16, 2007
Steve Sanderson Seminar
Feb 20, 2007
Design- Simulate- Make: Everything New Under the Sun
Feb 25, 2007
Veronika Schmid Seminar
March 01, 2007
John Nastasi Lecture
March 06, 2007
Leyre Arsenio & David Mah
April 05, 2007
Ben Aranda & Chris Lasch
April 17, 2007
Building Energy Analysis Seminar 3
March 18, 2008
BIM Workshop & ArchiCad Training at IIT
Jan 07, 2010 - Jan 09, 2010
Building Energy Analysis Seminar 6 (BIM & Sustainability using eQUEST & ECOTECT)
March 11, 2010 - March 12, 2010
Divergent Perceptions/Convergent Realities Colloquium
April 17, 2010
BIM-based Energy & Building Performance Analysis: ECOTECT & Green Building Studio
Oct 11, 2010
"NCARB Outreach: Designing Your Future: Creating Value in Your Career"
Nov 15, 2010
North American Passive House Consultant Training Session Part I
Jan 03, 2012 - Jan 07, 2012
North American Passive House Consultant Training Session Part II
Feb 08, 2012 - Feb 11, 2012
Exhibits
"Panorama of Modern Brazilian Architecture: From the 1950s to the Present"
Sept 03, 2008 - Sept 30, 2008
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Oct 09, 2008 - Nov 07, 2008
Agadir, Morocco: Synthetic City
Aug 28, 2009 - Sept 04, 2009
Exhibit:
"Katsura: The Photographs of Ishimoto Yasuhiro"
Feb 18, 2010 - March 07, 2010
Exhibit:
Snohetta
May 20, 2010 - June 04, 2010
Swiss Design Award Exhibit Comes to IIT
Aug 31, 2010 - Sept 08, 2010
Struggling Cities: From Japanese Urban Projects in the 1960s
Jan 09, 2012 - Jan 31, 2012
Other Events
IntroARCH: Graduate Preparatory Course
Aug 02, 2010 - Aug 21, 2010
Chicago Architecture + Design College Day 2010 at IIT
Oct 16, 2010
CTBUH 9th Annual Best Tall Building Awards Symposium
Oct 21, 2010
Chicago Architecture + Design College Day 2011 at IIT
Oct 15, 2011
Memorial Service for Peter Beltemacchi
Oct 29, 2011
CTBUH 10th Annual Best Tall Building Awards Symposium
Nov 03, 2011
Celebration of the Reopening of the Villa Tugendhat: Mies Here and There
Jan 21, 2012
Admitted Graduate Student Weekend
April 13, 2012 - April 14, 2012