Alumni News

The Board of Directors of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) announces annual awards in support of recognizing and advancing state-of-the-art research in architecture and related design fields.

Vitale accepted two awards for the Columbia College Chicago Student Center.

On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the Women’s Reunion + Symposium, we are pleased to release this video of the event and exhibit.

Congratulations to Neal Jones (M.Arch, MBA) on winning the 2020 AIA Western Mountain Region Silver Medal!  

Kahler Slater, an award-winning international architecture, interior design, environmental branding, and strategic advisory services firm, is opening a Chicago office and Trina Sandschafer, AIA, LEED AP (M.Arch '06) will be leading it.

It is our pleasure to congratulate our alumnae for being named to Crain’s 2020 Notable Women in Construction and Design.

Alumnus Vladimir Radutny (BSAS ’00, M.Arch ’02) has been featured in Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard 2020. Read the profile.

Connor Chelmecki (BSAS ’15, M.Arch ’17) has won the the 2020 David A. Green Memorial Award from SAGE.

The exhibition Revealing Presence: Women in Architecture at the University of Illinois, 1874-2019, part of the Women’s Reunion and Symposium recently held at the School of Architecture, has been called “an exhibition you shouldn’t miss” by the Architect’s Newspaper.

The Women’s Reunion and Symposium, organized by Marci Uihlein and Sara Bartumeus is featured in a story by the Illinois News Bureau.

Trina Sandschafer (’06), design principal at Booth Hansen, is profiled by the News-Gazette in a feature on prominent alumni for the 150th birthday of the University of Illinois.

The Illinois School of Architecture is saddened to hear of the passing of noted architect César Pelli, FAIA, class of 1954.

Made Yudha (M.Arch ’19) has been selected to receive the 2019 Chicago Committee on High-Rise Buildings Scholarship. Learn more about this recognition.

Twenty-two Marines did not return home following a 2006 to 2007 deployment of  the 1^st Battalion, 24^th Marines (1/24) to AI Anbar Province, Iraq.  Twelve years later, a memorial in their honor has been completed and dedicated outside of Chesterfield Township, MI, near the Selfridge Air National Guard Base.

Alumna and former Structures student Michelle Ryland, who is a licensed architect and a licensed structural engineer, was selected to receive the Outstanding Young Engineer Award by the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois.

Related Midwest and the University of Illinois School of Architecture today announced their partnership on an innovative program that will offer Chicago teens an opportunity to immerse themselves in the architecture and building industries.

Alumnus Jordan Buckner uses fellowships at his business Tea Squares to help residents of Chicago’s South Side. Read the profile from the Gies College of Business.

Time magazine has named Jeanne Gang (BSAS ’86) among the 100 most influential people of 2019.

ArchDaily spotlights the work of alumna Carol Ross Barney, FAIA (B.Arch ’71), the recipient of the 2019 Illinois Medal from the School of Architecture.

Studio ORD, a team from Studio Gang founded and led by alumna Jeanne Gang, has won the international competition to design the first global alliance terminal in the United States at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. Read the City of Chicago press release.