Noted Brazilian architect Gustavo Utrabo has been named IIT College of Architecture’s Victor A. Morgenstern Family Visiting Chair in Architecture for 2021–2022. Utrabo is one of the most exciting...
A grove of honey locust and hawthorn trees, planted by landscape architect and former faculty member Alfred Caldwell, ensconces Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s S. R. Crown Hall on the Illinois Institute of...
Every year for the past 10 years design publication Fast Company has highlighted projects and designs that have tremendous societal impact and solved problems through innovation. This year students...
As Hayden Regina (ARCH 5th Year) walks around UFarm—the student-run urban farm on Illinois Institute of Technology’s Mies Campus—he can’t help but rhapsodize about its productivity. During the month...
The Socially Responsible Modeling, Computation, and Design (SoReMo) initiative kicked off its forum series for the fall 2021 semester with a new focus that will allow students and student researchers...
Every year, the American Institute of Architects Chicago Chapter holds the Chicago Award in Architecture student competition, which recognizes the talent of architecture students from the greater...
When the state of Illinois announced its intent to sell Helmut Jahn’s 1985 James R. Thompson Center, the decision signaled peril for a building that has stirred passionate debate for years. Jahn’s...
With the goal of lifting up diverse voices in the architecture industry and creating a more inclusive field, both the Architects Foundation—the philanthropic arm of the American Institute of...
In March 2020 Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design and Fortune released the “Greatest Designs of Modern Times.” The rankings revisited the original 1959 list created by Jay Doblin...
The way that the COVID-19 pandemic upended our lives can clearly be seen in the public policies established to help quash its spread: mask mandates, shelter-in-place orders, and social-distancing...
