Architecture at UIC:
Authorizing Dubious Practices.
Architecture at UIC:
Authorizing Dubious Practices.
23 April UIC faculty were awarded two of six Architectural League Prizes for 2012 from the Architectural League in New York. As winners, Assistant Professor Sean Lally (WEATHERS/Sean Lally) and Clinical Assistant Professor Jimenez Lai (Bureau Spectacular) will lecture at the Architectural League in June and participate in an exhibition there this summer. For more information about the award, which is given to young architects who have been out of school for less than ten years, see the Architectural League website.
The School of Architecture is thrilled to announce the launch of a new summer program for high school students, the HiArch Pre-College Architecture Workshop. HiArch 2012 runs June 18–29. For details and to download a registration form, see the HiArch homepage.
Clinical Professor Andrew Zago's firm Zago Architecture led one of five teams exhibiting work in Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, which opened February 15 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The teams, which also include MOS, Visible Weather, Studio Gang, and WorkAC, were asked to envision new schemes for housing and transportation in American suburbs. For more information on the exhibition, visit the MoMA site.
The YArch Summer Architecture Program will take place July 9–August 3, 2012. For details and to download an application, visit the YArch homepage.
17 January Assistant Professors Clare Lyster and Judith De Jong were awarded the 2011–2012 ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award, Excellence in Housing Education Course or Activity for the submission Housing Urbanism: 5 Proposals for Chicago, which included student work from Arch 554: Housing Urbanism. Lyster and De Jong conducted the graduate studio with McLain Clutter in Spring 2008. The design work was supported by architectural technology faculty Professor Dan Wheeler and Clinical Assistant Professor Andy Moddrell.
