Detail and Fabrication

Aaron Brakke’s project Zig Zag Park has been chosen as a finalist for the AZ Awards.

Assistant Professor Aaron Brakke will present “Transformation of Public Space with Displaced Citizens” at the 51st Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association.

“Perpetual Motion” by Alexander Brosh, sponsored by Associate Professor Erik Hemingway, won an honorable mention in the 2018-2019 ACSA Steel Competition.

Assistant Professor Aaron Brakke has been awarded First Prize for the Best Public Space in the category of Gestion Integral (Integrated Development) at the Biennial of Public Space of Bogota.

The Illinois School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Suchi Reddy, Founding Principal of New York-based architecture and design practice Reddymade, has been appointed as the Plym Distinguished Visiting Professor in Architecture for the fall 2019 semester.

John Harlan’s project from Erik Hemingway’s ARCH 571 Competition Studio in the spring 2018 semester was awarded one of the five honorable mentions in the Open Category of the 18th Annual Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Steel Competition.

Simone Zanini’s project from Erik Hemingway’s ARCH 571 Competition Studio in the spring 2018 semester was selected as one of the top entries in the Archdux Competition.

Following two summer design/build studios focused on the needs of the nonprofit organization Prosperity Gardens, phase one of the project got underway this month.

Kevin Erickson has been invited to be on the jury for the Van Alan Institute’s Flash Design Competition to improve the flow of pedestrian and vehicular traffic at the intersection of Delancey, Grand, and Essex Streets in New York City.

Kevin Erickson was invited to serve on the 2018 AIA Michigan Honor Awards jury.

Associate Professor Paul Hardin Kapp has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Associate Professor Kevin Erickson’s exhibit 5x5 Participatory Provocations has been reviewed in Metropolis. Read the review.

Associate Professor Erik Hemingway’s project mies[UPGRADE] in a Mies van der Rohe space in Chicago was recently featured in Blur, a thematic volume of the international architecture and design journal d3:dialog.

Jacob Eble’s Revitalizing the Rural was awarded an honorable mention in the 2017 Here + Now: A House for the 21st Century Residential Student Design Competition.

Co-curated by Associate Professor Kevin Erickson, 5x5 Participatory Provocations opened July 11 at the Center for Architecture in New York City and will be on view until October 31, 2017.

Associate Professor Kevin Erickson has been invited to serve on the jury for the Quad Competition, hosted by What’s In and sponsored by Stantec’s R&D fund.

Associate Professor Kevin Erickson and his co-curators gave a lecture on their project 5x5 Participatory Provocations at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation on April 4.

Professor Emeritus James Warfield delivered the inaugural speech and joined eminent Chinese preservationist Ruan Yisan in cutting the ribbon to officially launch the first issue of China’s new and first English-language architecture journal, Built Heritage.

The School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Lowell Miller has been appointed its fabrication coordinator.