Student News

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

Graduate students Aaron Deroux and Jacob Bartels were awarded second place and Shelby Orr and Caroline Bair were awarded honorable mention in the 2019 ACSA Built2Last International Student Concrete Design Competition. See the winning entries.

In the class Design and Construction Futures, architecture students created virtual reality (VR) models of the Afric-American Picture Gallery (1859)—an important but little known work of Black speculative fiction.

Cyrus Amani, Osiel Guzman, Himangshu Kedia, and Wei Che Chang have won third place in the ACSA Timber in the City Competition.

The Illinois School of Architecture is pleased to announce the winners of the Earl Prize in Design (undergraduate) and the Graduate Awards for Design Excellence (graduate) for the spring 2019 semester.

The School of Architecture has been selected as a Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019 partner site.

Yu-Lun Hsu and Ali Gholamabbas won second place in the 2019 Chicago Award in Architecture Student Competition for their entry Hybrid Network.

Watch this video highlighting the many accomplishments of our 2019 graduates.

The Illinois School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Trina Sandschafer (M.Arch ’06) will serve as the speaker at this year’s convocation ceremony on Sunday, May 12, 2019, at 9:30 a.m. in Foellinger Auditorium.

We are proud to announce that the March 2019 issue of the Ricker Report has been released.

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.

Graduate students Shelby Orr and Logan Whitley had their pavilion selected for exhibition at the 2019 International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Conference in Barcelona.

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.

We are proud to announce that the January/February 2019 issue of the Ricker Report has been released.

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.

Congratulations to senior Jonathan Chow, the winner of the 2019 A3 Logo Design Contest!

The Illinois School of Architecture is pleased to announce the winners of the Earl Prize in Design (undergraduate) and the Graduate Awards for Design Excellence (graduate) for the fall 2018 semester.

The winners of the fall 2018 Archon Prize are Alexander Brosh and Shannon Fitzgerald with a project titled hush. In second place are Felipe Flores Garzon, Marilia Gomes De Sa Ribeiro, and Conor Schafer for their project Live_Lab.

Srushti Nehete and Shannon Fitzgerald, two Master of Architecture students, were awarded second place in the 2018 Chicago Women in Architecture Scholarship competition.

We are proud to announce that the December 2018 issue of the Ricker Report has been released.