The Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture is pleased to announce an exciting new teaching and research opportunity: the Jeanne and John Rowe Fellows Program, generously funded by Jeanne and John Rowe.
Rowe Fellows will spend two years teaching in the college while they pursue a funded research project intended to advance the study of the built environment across a number of issues, ranging from architecture, urbanism, and landscape architecture, to structures, building systems, professional practice, and more.
At Illinois Tech, the Rowes have supported distinguished faculty, student success efforts, scholarships, and summer learning initiatives. They have also funded several endowed positions in the College of Architecture, including the dean, as well as an endowed chair in sustainable energy.
Applications for the inaugural fellowships are now open, with the selection process beginning in January 2022 for the following academic year. For those interested in applying for a Rowe Fellowship Program, please see the posting at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture website.
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.
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.
Professor Robert J. Krawczyk was an invited speaker at the International Society of The Arts, Mathematics and Architecture Conference, ISAMA 2012, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, June 18-21, 2012. Krawczyk’s speech was entitled “Exploring Digital Fabrication.”
Living Room Realty’s new exhibit, Objects in Space, will feature work by Studio Associate Professor Paul Pettigrew. The show, open June 22 – August 3, displays living spaces in a storefront gallery, and highlights locally sourced and produced furniture, textiles, and accessories. Pettigrew’s iCharnley, an iPod stereo system, will be included in the exhibit. The stereo was built into and around a single piece of quartersawn white oak fumigated in ammonium to match the patina of the Charnley House interior woodwork. The white oak came from Chicago’s urban forest via Horigan Urban Forest Products. For more information, visit: www.livingroomrealty.com
Chicago Architecture Foundation’s new exhibit premiering June 22nd features College of Architecture undergraduate and graduate studio work. Unseen City: Designs for a Future Chicago tackles the question, “What might this neighborhood and city become?” Designs include a 19th century boulevard transformed for the 21st, a horizontal deconstructed Willis Tower, an industrial district as creative hub, and a skyscraper that scrubs the air.
IIT exhibits:
Hi-Rise, Lo-Carb Studio Associate Professor Antony Wood, Spring 2012 undergraduate studio Collaboration with Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
The July/August 2012 issue of Chicago Architect magazine includes an article on Associate Professor Frank Flury’s recent undergraduate design/build studio project. IIT students adopted the local vernacular—the round barn—for their design of a visitor support facility at Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois. Read the article at: http://mydigimag.rrd.com/publication/?i=116280
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has named Adjunct Associate Professor Thomas Jacobs as a recipient of the 2012 Young Architect Award. The annual award recognizes young architects who demonstrate exceptional leadership and have made significant contributions to the profession. Along with his work at IIT College of Architecture, Jacobs is a principal at Krueck + Sexton Architects and is an active advocate for local community development and planning.
The exhibit runs January 20 – February 17, 2012, with an opening reception on January 20th. For more information, visit: www.floatingworld.com.
The exhibition is supported by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and the IIT College of Architecture.
ASCENT, a new solo exhibition by Adjunct Assistant Professor Homa Shojaie, opens on January 20th at the Chicago Artists’ Coalition. The exhibit is part of Shojaie’s 2011-2012 BOLT Residency, a program funded by the Chicago Artists’ Coalition to promote and evolve professional and artistic practices. The ASCENT exhibition will investigate the material space of canvas.
The exhibition runs January 20 – February 10, 2012. Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm
Celebration of the Reopening of the Villa Tugendhat: Mies Here and There January 21, 2012 9 am — Opening Remarks: Dean Donna Robertson
9:15 am — Mies There: Restoration of the Villa Tugendhat Iveta Cerna, Architect, Head of the Project Office at the Villa and Secretary of Tugendhat House International Committee and Ivo Hammer, University Professor (retired), restorer and conservator, and Chairman of Tugendhat House International Committee
10 am — Mies Here: Mies in the US and the Villa Tugendhat Dirk Lohan, Principal, Lohan Anderson
11 am — The Role of the Brno School of Architects on and in the Modern Movement in Architecture Professor Petr Pelcak, School of Architecture, Brno University of Technology
12 pm Panel Discussion
12:30 pm Exhibition of the Villa Tugendhat Graham Resource Center at the Lower Level, Crown Hall
Hosted By: IIT College of Architecture and the Mies van der Rohe Society
Sponsored By: The KMD Foundation and Chicago Sister Cities International
Coordinator: Judith W. Munson, JD, Executive Director, ICPHEP, Adj. Prof. John Marshall Law School
Symposium is free and open to the public. Call 312.567.3312 for information. MTCC Auditorium 3201 S. State Street Chicago, IL 60616 arch@iit.edu
Contemporary Follies, a new book by Keith Moskow and Robert Linn, lists Associate Professor Frank Flury‘s 2009 design/build studio project among its outstanding examples of contemporary design that address our place in nature.
The Field Chapel project was designed and executed by students in Flury’s advanced design/build studio for an ecumenical church cooperative in Boedigheim, Germany. Under Flury’s direction, the students developed “an interdenominational chapel, a space for people who are in a search for God – a place for quiet reflection, but also one that welcomes hikers and cyclists who appreciate a rest stop that has a sense of beauty.”
In a dramatic step forward for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s research department, steel giant ArcelorMittal has awarded the CTBUH a $300,000 grant to study the life cycle of structural systems in tall buildings. The two-year study, announced during the 9th World Congress dinner in Shanghai, will focus on different aspects of the long-term sustainability of different frameworks of towers more than 300 meters. “At the end we hope to have a tool to reassess the sustainability of tall buildings,” said Jean-Claude Gerardy, manager, commercial sections sales and marketing for ArcelorMittal.
Chicago Architectural Club‘s latest project, “2012 Chicago Prize Competition: Future Prentice” generated 81 new visionary proposals for Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital. The effort was led by CAC co-presidents Brian Strawn and IIT College of Architecture Adjunct Associate Professor Karla Sierralta, in collaboration with AIA Chicago and the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
The project asked for alternative solutions for one of Chicago’s most architecturally significant modern buildings, Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital, now slated for demolition by its owner, Northwestern University.
Work from the Future Prentice competition is featured in the exhibit “Reconsidering an Icon” currently on display at the Chicago Architecture Foundation until February. The work will also be featured in a forthcoming publication, “100 Ideas for Prentice.”
Seventeen student projects from the first-year IIT Architecture 114 Studio 2 class are currently on display on the grounds of the Farnworth House in Plano, Illinois. The final project was entitled “Shade,” and students worked in groups of two or three to design and construct projects consistent with that theme. The work was an academic exercise, but the materials used for the project—cedar and corrugated plastic—were selected knowing that the projects would be displayed outdoors. In early April the entire class of 100+ students visited the Farnsworth House to understand the site conditions and tour the house. The projects were then designed for specific sites, qualities of light, and views on the Farnsworth grounds. The seven IIT instructors involved in the project are Kathy Nagle, Paul Pettigrew, Jill Danly, Coleen Humer, Lukasz Kowalczyk, Alex Paradiso, and Amanda Williams, exhibited in cooperation with Farnsworth House Executive Director Whitney French. The projects will be on display at the Farnsworth House at least through the end of the summer.
IIT Architecture Dean Donna Robertson will serve as the Vice-President/President-Elect of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). She began her term as vice president on July 1, and will begin a one-year term as president in July 2012. Robertson joins ACSA with a long record of service in the profession. She served as an ACSA representative to the NAAB board of directors, including one year as president in 2003. While serving NAAB, Robertson chaired the 2003 Validation Conference, during which the organization revised its Conditions for Accreditation. The ACSA is a non-profit membership association founded in 1912 to advance the quality of architectural education. The ACSA has more than 250 member schools representing more than 5,000 faculty. The association maintains a variety of activities that influence, communicate, and record important issues. Such endeavors include scholarly meetings, workshops, publications, awards and competition programs, support for architectural research, policy development, and liaison with allied organizations.
Donna V. Robertson FAIA was the Keynote Lecturer for the Hunter Douglas’ Archiprix Tour 2011. The study trip is with 190 people from 22 countries. The majority of the audience members were architects of the better to best level in their respective countries. The event was held on Tuesday, 7 June 2011 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Chicago, IL
Adjunct Associate Professor, John DeSalvo, Wins AIA Chicago Small Projects Honor Award. John DeSalvo Design, won the top honor award at the AIA Chicago Small Projects Awards on June 10th for the Retreat House/Church Residence. The summer beach home in Michigan City, Indiana uses natural and local materials and features a metal exterior.
DeSalvo’s project was also featured in the June 2011 issue of Dwell Magazine.
Adjunct Professor Barbara Geiger’s book Low-Key Genius: The Life and Work of Landscape-Gardener O.C. Simonds [Paperback] is recently released and available at Amazon.com.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported on July 8 that President Obama has appointed IIT Adjunct Professor Terry Guen as a member of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Guen is president and principal of Terry Guen Design Associates, Inc. and teaches in the landscape architecture program.
Adjunct Professor Thomas Roszak designs New Welcome Gallery at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Completed in June 2011, the new Clark Family Welcome Gallery at Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL may now be added to the growing list of unique and interesting projects of Thomas Roszak Architecture, LLC. Through smart and collaborative design, Roszak led the team to meet project goals by creating a multifunctional space that provides a welcoming gathering area while also initiating an exciting pre-show experience necessary in optimizing the planetarium’s main event, the Sky Theater. http://thomasroszak.blogspot.com/2011/06/thomas-roszak-architecture-designs-new.html
Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor, Christopher D. Rockey of Rockey Structures, participates as a judge in the 2010-2011 ACSA/AISA Steel Design Student Competition for a Homeless Assistance Center. Criteria for the judging of submissions includes the creative use of structural steel in the design solution, successful response of the design to its surrounding context, and successful response to basic architectural concepts such as human activity needs, structural integrity, and coherence of architectural vocabulary.
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Marshall Brown is featured in the July Brooklyn Rail article chronicling the recent efforts of activists to steer the troubled Atlantic Yards redevelopment project in Brooklyn in a new, more community-focused direction, includes quotes from IIT Assistant Professor of Architecture Marshall Brown, who is a founding member of the UNITY group proposing an alternate development plan for the area. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/07/local/unity-a-desperate-plea-for-adult-supervision
IIT College of Architecture will host a North American Passive House Consultant Training session in early 2012. The course consists of two training sessions (January 3–7 and February 8-11) which teach the principles and tools of passive energy design and consulting. The course will train and enable the participant to put measurable and verifiable very low energy metric and holistic systems design into practice to design highly comfortable, very low energy buildings with exceptional indoor air quality at an affordable cost. Energy, design, engineering, construction and other related professionals will be provided with the skills necessary to design and consult on certifiable building projects that meet the Passive House Building Energy Standard for all climate zones of North America. After passing a final exam administered at the end of the sessions, participants earn the professional designation “Certified Passive House Consultant, NaCPHC”.
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