Faculty News

Doctoral student Nastaran Shishegar and Professor Mohamed Boubekri published a paper in the journal Energy and Buildings titled “Quantifying Electrical Energy Savings in Offices through Installing Daylight Responsive Control Systems in Hot Climates.” Access the article.

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

Mohamed Boubekri (Co-P.I.) and Kristen Bub (P.I.) from the Department of Educational Psychology were awarded an NIH grant to study the role of daylight exposure in classroom environments on children and teachers’ health, educational functioning, and well-being.

Lynne Dearborn has contributed two chapters to Health and Well-Being for Interior Architecture, published by Taylor and Francis.

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.

Clinical Associate Professor Randy Deutsch will speak at the AEC Tech Symposium and Hackathon 2017, which is being held in New York City October 19-22 and is hosted by CORE studio, Thornton Tomasetti’s firm-wide incubator of ideas.

T.F. Tierney has two September speaking engagements in California.

Randy Deutsch will deliver the keynote address at “Re-shaping the Construction Industry,” the international conference of the Italian Society of Science, Technology, and Engineering of Architecture, in Florence, Italy, in September 2017.

Architect Magazine featured Randy Deutsch’s latest book, Convergence, in an article titled “What Architects Should Know about ‘Convergence.’”

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.

Assistant Professor Yun Kyu Yi’s article “Universal Visible Sky Factor: A Method for Calculating the Three-Dimensional Visible Sky Ratio” will be published in the October 2017 issue of Building and Environment.

Professor Emerita Joy Malnar’s article “The 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial: The State of Sensory Design” was published in Sensory Arts and Design.

It is with sadness that we share news that William H. Erwin passed away at home on Sunday, June 4, 2017, at age 75.

Professor Kathryn Anthony, our longest-serving female faculty member, has just completed her 33rd year at the Illinois School of Architecture and is the author of a new book, 10 years in the making, Defined by Design: The Surprising Power of Hidden Gender, Age, and Body Bias in Everyday Products and Places (Prometheus Books).

Professor Emeritus Mir Ali and Helmut Jahn were interviewed for the latest issue of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Journal.

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.

Clinical Associate Professor Randy Deutsch has just published Convergence: The Redesign of Design with Wiley.

Lecturer David Emmons recently collaborated with former exchange student Claire Gaspin on a competition entry entitled “The Summit,” which was awarded a finalist mention in the Castle Resort Competition, sponsored by Young Architects Competitions.

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.