Institute of Design Returns to Its Campus Roots
In 1949 the Institute of Design (ID)—founded as the New Bauhaus—joined Illinois Institute of Technology and soon moved into Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s campus crown jewel, S. R. Crown Hall. Some 50...
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Students Win ASLA Award for Bronzeville Jazz Fence
Illinois Tech Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism (MLA+U) students Jamie Sun and Yu Si received an Honor Award in the Student Community Service category of the 2018 American Society of...
Architecture Students Win AIA Chicago Award for Project in Chile
The American Institute of Architects Chicago Chapter recognized students in the College of Architecture studio of Associate Professor Frank Flury with a 2018 AIA Small Project Honor Award. The project...
Chicago Artist Barbara Kasten Residency at Historic Crown Hall
Illinois Tech’s College of Architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Society, and Bortolami Gallery welcome Chicago-based artist Barbara Kasten for a month-long residency at S. R. Crown Hall, located on...
The Caldwell Farm: A Sense of Himself in Forty Acres
Thomas Dyja is a noted novelist and biographer. His survey of post-war Chicago, “The Third Coast,” was selected by the Chicago Public Library for the 2015-16 “One Book, One Chicago” initiative. Other...
Turning the Tables: Architecture Students Redesign Their Desks
TRANSCRIPT Dominique Sokan (ARCH 2nd Year): So each year in studio you get these plain desks with white tops and metal stands, and it doesn’t really fit every single individual. So this project was to...
Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House Has New Head
Architecture leadership veteran Scott Mehaffey, an adjunct professor at Illinois Tech’s College of Architecture, began his new role as executive director of the renowned Farnsworth House in Plano...
Chicago-Kent College of Law Launches First-of-Its Kind Design Center
From IP to new product development, design brings with it myriad implications that impact more than just designers. In February 2018 two professors at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Graeme Dinwoodie and...
New Book Explores Automatic Architecture
Sean Keller , associate dean of research and associate professor at Illinois Tech’s College of Architecture, published a new book, Automatic Architecture, Motivating Form After Modernism . Keller, who...