Faculty News

On February 16, the student organizations H.O.U.S.E from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Arquitectos from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) hosted their first annual Lunch and Learn at UIC.

Clinical Associate Professor Randy Deutsch has been invited to give the keynote address at the 2019 Licensing Advisors Summit of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) in Minneapolis on August 1-3.

Assistant Professor Sudarshan Krishnan’s students in his class on transformable structures were featured on BTN’s “LiveBIG” in a segment called “How Illinois Is ‘transforming’ Architecture.” Read the article about the course.

In addition to giving invited talks and workshops in Milan and at the Università degli Studi di Brescia Italy in March 2019, Clinical Associate Professor Randy Deutsch will be lecturing three times at the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) to fifth-year and sixth-year students.

Randy Deutsch’s fourth book in the last eight years, Superusers: Design Technology Specialists and the Future of Practice, has been published by Routledge.

A gathering with School of Architecture faculty and special guest Gong Dong, Plym Distinguished Visiting Professor, was held at Erlanger House on January 29.

James (Jim) P. Warfield, 76, passed away Monday, January 14, 2019.

Alderwoman Susan Sadlowski Garza of Chicago’s 10th Ward met with graduate students and Professor Sara Bartumeus on January 18 during their field trip to South Works.

Clinical Associate Professor Randy Deutsch has been invited by President Robert C. Robbins and Dean Nancy Pollock-Ellwand of the University of Arizona to serve as an inaugural member of the University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA) Futures Council.

Teaching Assistant Professor Heather Grossman presented at The Middle Ages in the Modern World Biennial Conference in Rome, Italy, on November 23.

Randy Deutsch has been invited to give a presentation at a workshop on offsite construction with Katerra at the MADE Expo Trade Fair in Milan, Italy, in March 2019.

Carles Marcos Padrós, a lecturer in architectural design courses at the Barcelona Program since 2017, was awarded the 2018 Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

As part of his ongoing research on Le Corbusier’s work in the Americas, Alejandro Lapunzina recently published an essay entitled “Fructíferos Desencuentros: Notas sobre la obra Sudamericana de Le Corbusier” (Fructiferous Mismatches: Notes on Le Corbusier’s South American Work).

Yun Kyu Yi’s “QuVue Implementation for Decisions Related to High-Rise Residential Building Layouts” has been published in Building and Environment.

Associate Professor and Director of URL: Urban Research Lab T.F. Tierney has been invited to present a paper at the Architectural Humanities Research Association International Conference “Smartness: Between Discourse and Practice.”

Scott Murray has authored a chapter in the new book Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture, edited by Anat Geva and published this month by Routledge.

As part of his ongoing research on Le Corbusier’s work in the Americas, Alejandro Lapunzina was invited to deliver a public lecture at the auditorium of the Colegio de Arquitectos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires located in La Plata, Argentina.

The Illinois School of Architecture announces the competition for the 2018-2019 Francis J. Plym Traveling Fellowship in Architecture. The competition is open to graduates of the School of Architecture of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Illinois School of Architecture announces the competition for the 2018-2019 Clyde Lee and Cecilia Baker Traveling Fellowship. This fellowship is open to graduates who have received the Master of Architecture degree from the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Student work from Assistant Professor Sudarshan Krishnan’s ARCH 536 class is featured in the Daily Illini.