Judith K. De Jong

Assistant Professor

jdejong@uic.edu

MArch in Urban Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
BArch, The Pennsylvania State University

Judith K. De Jong teaches architectural design studios, as well as courses in urbanism and landscape. Her research and creative interests lie in an exploration of urbanism generally, and in the urbanism of the dispersed American city specifically. Her writing on these subjects has been published in Land Forum, Landscape Architecture Magazine, and The Journal of Architectural Education. She is a current recipient of a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts for her research on the "Flattening City", which investigates the ways in which American cities and their suburbs are becoming more similar. In particular, the project aims to locate and explore opportunities for innovative spatial and formal practices in the hybrid (sub)urban typologies that emerge from this "flattening", which are most evident in urbanizing suburbs and suburbanizing urban cores. De Jong has presented her research at conferences in the U.S., Mexico City, and Hong Kong, and contributed to the "Arsenal of Exclusion/Inclusion," part of the American exhibition at the 2009 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.

De Jong is a licensed architect who has practiced at firms in Pennsylvania, Houston, Boston and Chicago. Projects on which she has worked have ranged from single-family houses, to media facilities, to high-rise residential, to large scale urban design and planning projects in the U.S. and Korea, and have been awarded by the AIA, ASID, and ASLA. She is principal of Studio 2737 LLC, an architecture and urban design firm in Chicago.