Detail and Fabrication

Assistant Professor Akima Brackeen has been selected as a University Design Research Fellows for the 2024-25 cycle of Exhibit Columbus.

Professor Altshuler publishes chapters in two new design books from Carnegie Mellon University Press and Routledge.

Assistant Professor Joseph Altshuler's practice Could Be Design was named one of six winners of the 2023 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers.

Assistant Professor Joseph Altshuler and his design partner Zack Morrison have been selected as University Design Research Fellows for the 2022-23 cycle of Exhibit Columbus entitled "Public by Design."

Congratulations to Assistant Prof. Niloufar Emami on her selection as Scientific Chair for the 2022 Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD) Conference http://www.simaud.org/2022/!

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Niloufar Emami for her presentation, The Design and Fabrication of Variable Façade Panel Systems, at SIGrDi 2021 | Designing Possibilities Conference. https://www.sigradi.org/sigradi2021/#home

Joseph Altshuler's new book Creatures Are Stirring: A Guide to Architectural Companionship has been published by Applied Research & Design Publishing.

Joseph Altshuler’s practice Could Be Architecture was recognized as part of AIA Chicago's 2021 Design Excellence Awards. Their project "Mobile Art + Action Community Lab" was awarded with the inaugural Roberta Feldman Architecture for Social Justice Award honorable mention. The Mobile Art + Action Community Lab is a family of versatile exhibit display units that pop-up in public parking lots for cultural programming during COVID times. Various exhibit units are assembled from a fabricated kit-of-parts that includes interchangeable architectural “hats” that provide shade and identity, and “feet” that provide stability, pedestals for artwork, and bench seating. During 2020–21, the units went on tour throughout the Calumet Region including the cities of Gary, Hobart, Hammond, and Chesterton. Instagram: @couldbearchitecture

The "Vigilantism" issue of MAS Context is guest edited by Germane Barnes (BSAS '08) and Shawhin Roudbari.

Animate Architecture is a video series by Could Be Architecture (Joseph Altshuler + Zack Morrison) commissioned by the Chicago Architecture Biennial.