Professor George Dodds, PhD, has been re-appointed to another term (2018-23) as the University of Tennessee’s Alvin and Sally Beaman Professor in the College of Architecture and Design. There are 10-12 Beaman Professorships at the university at any given time. According to Interim Provost John Zomchick, the professorship recognizes “our very best teacher-scholars.” In May, 2018, Dodds presented the paper: “Re-architecting Practice: Duvall Decker’s Addition to Tougallo College,” (co-authored with Professor Jori Erdman, LSU) at the International ARCC Conference at Temple and Drexel Universities in Philadelphia.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) has been given the privilege of starting a New Online Graduate Program, IPAL (Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure).
IPAL is NCARB approved and SIUC is the only school in the State of Illinois that has this graduate architecture program.The new IPAL Master’s Program will begin its first semester in Fall 2018.
The online IPAL program is designed so that the very best students will be able
to finish their AXP hours, receive their Master’s Degree and Architectural Registration
If you know of anyone that qualifies for this program and is interested, please steer him or her towards SIUC. The IPAL program begins Fall 2018; we are looking nationwide for students.
Michelangelo Sabatino has been appointed as Rowe Family Dean of the College of Architecture. Sabatino is an architect, historian, and preservationist whose interdisciplinary research and teaching speaks to the intersection between design, culture, and technology in the built and natural environment. Sabatino earned a professional degree in architecture at the Universita’ Iuav di Venezia and a doctorate in art and architectural history at the University of Toronto. He pursued a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University and has received several other fellowships, the most recent from The Newberry Library in Chicago. Sabatino taught at Yale University and the University of Houston before his appointment to Illinois Tech as professor and director of the PhD Program in Architecture. Sabatino’s newest book, Canada-Modern Architectures in History (2016), was co-authored with Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe.
Todd Gannon Announced as Section Head of Architecture
The Knowlton School is pleased to announce that Professor Todd Gannon has been appointed the next Section Head of Architecture. Gannon comes to the Knowlton School fromthe Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) where he taught history, theory and design studio. Prior to his arrival at SCI-Arc in 2008, Gannon taught at Otis College of Art and Design and UCLA, where he also received his Ph.D.
“Todd is uniquely qualified to lead the Architecture Section forward,” according to Knowlton School Director Michael Cadwell. “He is an experienced practitioner and academic who is well acquainted with the school and a respected voice in the discipline.”
Professor Gannon will return to his academic roots, having received his architectural undergraduate (BSARCH ‘95) and graduate (MARCH ‘97) degrees at the Knowlton School. “I am thrilled to return to Columbus and to rejoin the Knowlton School as architecture section head. Ohio State is one of the premier public universities in the country and the Knowlton School has long played a leading role in advancing both the discipline and the practice of architecture worldwide,” said Gannon.
More recently at Knowlton, Gannon has juried the graduate architecture 2017 Exit Review Prize, lectured during the 2014 Baumer Lecture Series, and editedEt in Suburbia Ego: José Oubrerie’s Miller House, a book of essays on Knowlton School Professor Emeritus José Oubrerie’s most notable built work in the United States.
Gannon’s appointment follows the retirement of Professor Robert S. Livesey, who has served as section head for the past four years. “I look forward to building on the formidable achievements of my predecessor, Professor Robert Livesey,” Gannon added, “and to working with Knowlton School students, faculty and staff to develop innovative, equitable, and sustainable strategies to meet architecture’s twin responsibilities to organize the built environment and to advance the public imagination.”
Gannon’s scholarship focuses on the history and theory of late 20th-century and contemporary architecture. His published books include The Light Construction Reader (2002), Pendulum Plane/Oyler Wu Collaborative (2009), and monographs on the work of Thom Mayne, Bernard Tschumi, UN Studio, Steven Holl, Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman and Eric Owen Moss. Gannon’s book on the architecture critic and historian Reynar Banham is forthcoming as are publications on speculative architecture in Southern California.
Gannon has lectured at institutions across the United States, Europe and Asia, and is a frequent conference participant and jurist. He served on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, where he directed publication efforts from 2008-2010. His work has been recognized and supported by the Graham Foundation, the Getty Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Institute of Architects, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and UCLA.
Thérèse Tierney has published a new book, Intelligent Infrastructure: Zip Cars, Invisible Networks, and Urban Transformation (University of Virginia Press 2017). She has been asked to speak at the Workshop on Urban Mobility in the Era of Smart and Connected Communities, co-organized by the ChicagoDepartment of Innovation & Technology, Transportation, and the Array of Things (AoT). The workshop focuses on new opportunities to link growing data streams to the critical urban mobility challenges.
Kathryn Anthony has published a new book, Defined by Design: The Surprising Power of Hidden Gender, Age, and Body Bias in Everyday Products and Places (Prometheus Books 2017).
ROPE pavilion,a temporary winter shelter designed by Associate Professor Kevin Erickson and built alongside other pavilions by Anish Kapoor, Frank Gehry and others in Winnipeg, is featured in Philip Jodidio’s new book The New Pavilionspublished by Thames & Hudson. http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/the-new-pavilions-hardcover
Professor Joy Monice Malnar, AIA, retired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on January 15, 2017, after nearly two decades on the faculty of the School of Architecture. Upon retirement, she was awarded emeritus status by the university’s Board of Trustees. Malnar’s career exemplifies the value of situating an architecture school within an arts college at a research university. In her scholarship, her experience as a licensed architect was carefully integrated with other disciplines—some far beyond architectural studies—to fashion a specialization that inquires into the sensory experience of the built environment.
Associate Professor Erik Hemingway’s project mies[UPGRADE] in a Mies van der Rohe space in Chicago, was recently published in Blur: d3:dialog, international journal of architecture + design.
Professor David M. Chasco, FAIA was invited to lead a team of 4 Illinois School of Architecture graduate students – Meagan Radloff, Aarefa Kuresh Palgharwala, Kiel Fahnstrom and William Smarzewski – in the second Volterra, Italy 2016 International Design Workshop, sponsored by the University of Detroit-Mercy (UDM) School of Architecture and hosted by the Volterra- Detroit Foundation at the Volterra International Residential College. The Workshop was held from July 27 through August 6th, 2016.Participating university teams included the University of Detroit-Mercy led by Professor Wladek Fuches (President, Volterra-Detroit Foundation), Warsaw Technological University (Poland) led by Dean/Professor Jan Slyke, Ph.D. and Professor Gorgio Castellano of the University of Pisa.
Professor Chasco was invited to lead the 2016 Workshop and select an internationally accomplished Illinois School of Architecture alumnus as the Workshop Captain. Alumnus David Miller FAIA of the Miller Hull Partnership in Seattle was selected. David Miller provided overall design guidance as well as presenting two lectures: one on his lifetime of built design efforts including the expansion of the Pike Street Market in Seattle, and second lecture on his design philosophy and interpretation of the Gates of Volterra design approaches. Professor Fuchs presented the 3rd lecture on his findings of the design of the Volterra Roman Theatre.Professor Chasco presented the 4th lecture on a retrospective design career in both practice and the academy.The Workshop project titled “The Gates of Volterra” explored the contemporary re-interpretation of the role of the city gate in the historical urban context.
Four university integrated teams of students designed urban and architectural responses respecting and integrating new contemporary uses at each gate: Porta all’Arco, Porta Fiorentina, Porta Selci, and Porta San Francesco. The students’ design efforts were exhibited and presented to various Volterra townspeople and stakeholders.Professor Chasco has been invited by the University of Detroit-Mercy to participate in the Volterra 2017 Summer International Design Workshop as well as lead a graduate semester study abroad at the Volterra Center in the Fall of 2017.
Associate Professor Paul Kapp was recently appointed to the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture Graduate Program in Historic Preservation Board of Advisors.
Associate Professor and Associate Director for the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy Paul Kapp’s essay, “Intangible Industrial Heritage,” was chosen as one of only eight essays for the US/ICOMOS Report, With a World of Heritage So Rich, a report commemorating the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act. You can read his essay and the others on this website: http://www.usicomos.org/about/wwhsr/
Associate Professor Thérèse F. Tierney has been invited to present a Distinguished Faculty lecture by the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory at UIUC. The lecture is titled, “Networked Urbanism: Geographies of Information” October 24th, 2016.
Randy Deutsch, Clinical Associate Professor has written a third book, Convergences: The Redesign of Design (to be published by Architectural Design, early 2017, London.)
Invited to write a chapter featuring the work processes of KieranTimberlake, Kruek+Sexton, SOM, LMN, and POPULOUS in Richard Garber’s Workflows: Expanding Architecture’s Territory in the Design and Delivery of Buildings (to be published by Architectural Design, early 2017, London.)
He was invited to speak on BIM in a Time of Simultaneity, Superintegration and Convergence at the University of Southern California (USC) BIM Symposium.
He was also invited to speak at the following:
Big Data and the Built Environment workshop at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
Northwestern University’s School of Engineering on data-driven construction.
He presented 21st Century Skillsets: Assuring Architects and Emerging Professionals Stay Ahead at the 2016 AIA Convention in Philadelphia, PA.
Participated in the Design Futures Council Forum on Design Education in Philadelphia, PA.
Associate Director of Graduate Studies Spring 2016/Spring 2017.
Selected to lead the Chicago Studio Fall 2016, Chicago, Illinois.
Invited to serve as special advisor to NIBS buildingSMART Alliance.
Invited to serve as SME in BIM for the 100-year old BRE Research Group, London, England.
Led Harvard GSD executive education program for the fourth year.
Associate Professor Erik Hemingway‘s flat pack research and design work on a two Mies van der Rohe space upgrade projects in Chicago, were recently published in Blur: d3:dialog, International Journal of Architecture + Designavailable through Amazon.
Erik is engaged on another flat pack research and design work project in another Mies van der Rohe space upgrade in Chicago. This is related to and furthers the work he did for the 2009 Hong Kong/ Shenzhen Biennial due to be built and completed later this year.
Professor David M. Chasco, FAIAwas invited to lead a team of 4 Illinois School of Architecture graduate students – Meagan Radloff, Aarefa Kuresh Palgharwala, Kiel Fahnstrom and William Smarzewski – in the second Volterra, Italy 2016 International Design Workshop, sponsored by the University of Detroit-Mercy (UDM) School of Architecture and hosted by the Volterra- Detroit Foundation at the Volterra International Residential College.
The Workshop was held from July 27 through August 6th, 2016.Participating university teams included the University of Detroit-Mercy led by Professor Wladek Fuches (President, Volterra-Detroit Foundation), Warsaw Technological University (Poland) led by Dean/Professor Jan Slyke, Ph.D. and Professor Gorgio Castellano of the University of Pisa.
Professor Chasco was invited to lead the 2016 Workshop and select an internationally accomplished Illinois School of Architecture alumnus as the Workshop Captain. Alumnus David Miller FAIA of the Miller Hull Partnership in Seattle was selected. David Miller provided overall design guidance as well as presenting two lectures: one on his lifetime of built design efforts including the expansion of the Pike Street Market in Seattle, and second lecture on his design philosophy and interpretation of the Gates of Volterra design approaches.
Professor Fuchs presented the 3rd lecture on his findings of the design of the Volterra Roman Theatre.Professor Chasco presented the 4th lecture on a retrospective design career in both practice and the academy.The Workshop project titled “The Gates of Volterra” explored the contemporary re-interpretation of the role of the city gate in the historical urban context.Four university integrated teams of students designed urban and architectural responses respecting and integrating new contemporary uses at each gate: Porta all’Arco, Porta Fiorentina, Porta Selci, and Porta San Francesco. The students’ design efforts were exhibited and presented to various Volterra townspeople and stakeholders.
Professor Chasco has been invited by the University of Detroit-Mercy to participate in the Volterra 2017 Summer International Design Workshop as well as lead a graduate semester study abroad at the Volterra Center in the Fall of 2017.
As part of the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s 50th Birthday Bash on Saturday, April 16, 2016, University of Illinois School of Architecture students showcased work from their current investigations into city improvement projects around the CTA Red Line, including ideas for streetscaping, retail and new mid-rise towers.
Randy Deutsch – Associate Professor
Leading a Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Executive Education course for the third year, BIM: Lessons in Leadership, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. http://bit.ly/1YVWseC
Presenting “21st Century Skillsets: Assuring Architects and Emerging Professionals Stay Ahead,” at the AIA National Convention, Philadelphia, PA May 19, 2016 http://bit.ly/1SNsQyG
Invited to present “Big Data in the Construction Industry,” Executive Management for Design and Construction, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, June 15, 2016
Invited guest speaker, Strategic Workshop on Big Data in the Built Environment, Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, June 16-17, 2016
Serving as the BIM SME, BRE Research Group, London
New book published: Data Driven Design and Construction: 25 Strategies for Capturing, Analyzing and Applying Building Data (Wiley) http://bit.ly/1Oe2XDh
Book reviewed, Data Driven Design and Construction: 25 Strategies for Capturing, Analyzing and Applying Building Data, by Lachmi Khemlani, AECBytes, March 24, 2016http://bit.ly/1rCNIjx
Forthcoming book, Convergence: The Redesign of Design (AD, March 2017)
Photo Caption: Left to Right: MCHAP Director Dirk Denison, Jury Member Florencia Rodriguez, Jury President Stan Allen, MCHAP.emerge winner Wonne Ickx representing Productora, Jury Member Dean Wiel Arets.
MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 WINNER ANNOUNCED
Award for Emerging Architecture Goes to Pavilion on the Zocalo; Mexico City, Mexico by Productora
Chicago, Illinois – April 4, 2016 – Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture Dean Wiel Arets, Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) 2014/15 Jury President Stan Allen, MCHAP 2014/15 Juror Florencia Rodriguez, and MCHAP Director Dirk Denison announced the MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Winner, Pavilion on the Zocalo; Mexico City, Mexico; Productora, at the April 1, 2016 MCHAP.emerge Symposium and Award Dinner at S. R. Crown Hall, the home of IIT College of Architecture.
The authors of the winning project, represented at the MCHAP.emerge Symposium by Wonne Ickx, will be recognized with the MCHAP.emerge Award, the MCHAP Research Professorship in the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology for the 2016/17 academic year, and funding of up to $25,000 USD in support of research and a publication related to the theme of “Rethinking Metropolis.”
The MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Finalists were selected by the MCHAP 2014/15 Jury from among the 55 MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 NOMINATED WORKS of architecture in the Americas, realized between January 2014 and December 2015, which have been put forward by 95 nominators from throughout the Americas. Nominations were received in January and February and were included in the MCHAP 2014/15 Exhibition held at S. R. Crown Hall on March 4th and 5th at which time the jury held its first jury session.
The MCHAP 2014/15 Jury includes Jury President Stan Allen, architect and former Dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture (New York); Florencia Rodriguez, editorial director of Piedra, Papel y Tijera publishers (Buenos Aires); Ila Berman, Professor of Architecture, University of Waterloo (Waterloo); Jean Pierre Crousse of Barclay & Crousse (Lima), and Dean Wiel Arets (Chicago).
MCHAP is a biennial prize that acknowledges the best built works of architecture in the Americas. MCHAP.emerge is the corresponding biennial prize for the best built work from an emerging architecture practice. MCHAP was created by Dean Wiel Arets who, in his 2013 inaugural address, offered “Rethinking Metropolis” as a strategic device for the college, for research, for the development of knowledge and skills, for taking part in design exercises, for debate, and for making. Dean Arets outlined his plan for a revitalized curriculum in NOWNESS, a publication in which he announced MCHAP among other initiatives. MCHAP was officially launched in February 2014 at an event hosted by Phyllis Lambert at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and which featured Kenneth Frampton, President of the inaugural MCHAP Jury.
MCHAP Finalist Announcement in late June
The MCHAP Jury will announce the finalists for the MCHAP 2014/15 in late June after the jury tour of the finalist sites. The tour will include visits with members of the MCHAP Network of architects, academics, and schools and is part of a strategy to build a vibrant network that unites architects working in the Americas and opens the discourse with others around the world. The exact date of the finalist announcement is to be determined.
MCHAP Symposium and Winner Announcement on October 19, 2016
IIT ‘s College of Architecture will host a day-long symposium including sessions for students, faculty and the architects and clients of the finalists in dialogue about the nominated works and how they contribute to the college’s continuing conversation — Rethinking Metropolis. Later in the afternoon, the general public will be invited to a moderated discussion between the architects and jury about the context of contemporary practice. At the end of the day of activities the winner of the Americas Prize 2014/15 will be announced at the MCHAP Award Dinner. The author of the MCHAP winner will be recognized with the MCHAP Award, the MCHAP Chair at IIT College of Architecture for the following academic year, and funding of up to $50,000 USD, in support of research and a publication related to the theme of ‘Rethinking Metropolis.’
For more information about MCHAP and MCHAP.emerge, MCHAP.student, their purpose, process and timeline, visit http://www.mchap.org.
MIES CROWN HALL AMERICAS PRIZE ANNOUNCES MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 FINALISTS
Five to be Celebrated at April 1, 2016 MCHAP.emerge Symposium
Chicago, Illinois – March 18, 2016 – Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture Dean Wiel Arets and Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) Director Dirk Denison announced the MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Finalists. The finalists will be celebrated at the April 1, 2016 MCHAP.emerge Symposium and Award Dinner at which the MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 recipient will be announced.
Earlier in March, MCHAP announced the MCHAP 2014/15 Nominees and Jury. MCHAP also outlined the main events within the second cycle of the biennial prize including the MCHAP.emerge Symposium and the October 19, 2016 MCHAP Symposium.
MCHAP is a biennial prize that acknowledges the best built works of architecture in the Americas. MCHAP.emerge is the corresponding biennial prize for the best built work from an emerging architecture practice. MCHAP was created by Dean Wiel Arets who, in his 2013 inaugural address, offered “Rethinking Metropolis” as a strategic device for the college, for research, for the development of knowledge and skills, for taking part in design exercises, for debate, and for making. Dean Arets outlined his plan for a revitalized curriculum in NOWNESS, a publication in which he announced MCHAP among other initiatives. MCHAP was officially launched in February 2014 at an event hosted by Phyllis Lambert at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and which featured Kenneth Frampton, President of the inaugural MCHAP Jury.
The MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Finalists were selected by the MCHAP 2014/15 Jury, led by Jury President Stan Allen, from among the 55 MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 NOMINATED WORKS of architecture in the Americas, realized between January 2014 and December 2015, which have been put forward by 95 nominators from throughout the Americas. Nominations were received in January and February and were included in the MCHAP 2014/15 Exhibition held at S. R. Crown Hall on March 4th and 5th at which time the jury held its first jury session.
San Francisco Building; Asunción, Paraguay; Jose Cubilla & Asociados
The MCHAP 2014/15 Jury includes Jury President Stan Allen, architect and former Dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture (New York); Florencia Rodriguez, editorial director of Piedra, Papel y Tijera publishers (Buenos Aires); Ila Berman, Professor of Architecture, University of Waterloo (Waterloo); Jean Pierre Crousse of Barclay & Crousse (Lima), and Dean Wiel Arets (Chicago).
The MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Symposium and winner announcement will be held on April 1, 2016 at S. R. Crown Hall. In afternoon sessions the practices of the finalist projects will present their work and engage in substantive discussions with the jury, the IIT Architecture faculty and student body, as well as the larger MCHAP Network and Chicago architecture community. The MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 recipient will be announced at the evening award dinner. The authors of the winning project will be recognized with the MCHAP.emerge Award, the MCHAP Research Professorship in the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology for the following academic year, and funding of up to $25,000 USD in support of research and a publication related to the theme of “Rethinking Metropolis.”
MCHAP Finalist Announcement in late June
The MCHAP Jury will announce the finalists for the MCHAP 2014/15 in late June after the jury tour of the finalist sites. The tour will include visits with members of the MCHAP Network of architects, academics, and schools and is part of a strategy to build a vibrant network that unites architects working in the Americas and opens the discourse with others around the world. The exact date of the finalist announcement is to be determined.
MCHAP Symposium and Winner Announcement on October 19, 2016
IIT ‘s College of Architecture will host a day-long symposium including sessions for students, faculty and the architects and clients of the finalists in dialogue about the nominated works and how they contribute to the college’s continuing conversation — Rethinking Metropolis. Later in the afternoon, the general public will be invited to a moderated discussion between the architects and jury about the context of contemporary practice. At the end of the day of activities the winner of the Americas Prize 2014/15 will be announced at the MCHAP Award Dinner. The author of the MCHAP winner will be recognized with the MCHAP Award, the MCHAP Chair at IIT College of Architecture for the following academic year, and funding of up to $50,000 USD, in support of research and a publication related to the theme of ‘Rethinking Metropolis.’
For more information about MCHAP and MCHAP.emerge, MCHAP.student, their purpose, process and timeline, visit http://www.mchap.org.
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) is a biennial prize that acknowledges the best built works of architecture in the Americas. MCHAP was created by Dean Wiel Arets who, in his 2013 inaugural address, offered “Rethinking Metropolis” as a strategic device for the college, for research, for the development of knowledge and skills, for taking part in design exercises, for debate, and for making. Dean Arets outlined his plan for a revitalized curriculum in NOWNESS, a publication in which he announced MCHAP among other initiatives.
The first cycle of this award culminated in 2014 with the selection of seven finalists and then two winners, the Iberé Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil, designed by Alvaro Siza and the 1111 Lincoln Road the mixed use parking structure in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, designed by Herzog & de Meuron. Visit www.mchap.org.
About IIT Architecture Chicago
IIT Architecture Chicago welcomes students, faculty, and guests from around the globe who share our interest in “Rethinking the Metropolis.” We conduct research; we analyze existing phenomena; we learn from other disciplines. We question the roles of architecture, landscape, and urbanism in our changing world.
IIT Architecture’s curriculum is structured around our innovative “horizontal Cloud Studio” introduced by Dean Wiel Arets—a school-wide design and research laboratory in which students from all degree programs work together on topics related to the metropolis.
With a history of design excellence and technical expertise, an unmatched professional studio curriculum, and inspiring surroundings in S. R. Crown Hall designed by Mies van der Rohe, IIT Architecture is one of the schools most respected by architectural firms around the world. The College offers a five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree, four different Master’s degrees (M.Arch, M.L.A., M.L.A./M.Arch., MS.Arch.), and the only Ph.D. in Architecture offered in Chicago. Visit www.arch.iit.edu.
About Illinois Institute of Technology
Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting university with more than 7,300 students in engineering, sciences, architecture, psychology, design, humanities, business and law. IIT’s interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum is designed to advance knowledge through research and scholarship, to cultivate invention improving the human condition, and to prepare students from throughout the world for a life of professional achievement, service to society, and individual fulfillment. Visit www.iit.edu.
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