Doug Garofalo

Professor

dougg@uic.edu

Douglas Garofalo, FAIA has established an internationally renowned practice in Chicago that produces architectural work through buildings, projects, research and teaching. This work has been widely recognized, most recently in a retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago. The firm has actively pursued architectural design to include forms of collaboration that cross both geographic boundaries and professional disciplines, extending conventional design practice by taking full advantage of the capacity of electronic media. The firm just completed new Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. Garofalo Architects was a collaborator on the award-winning Korean Presbyterian Church of New York, a project that gained international notoriety as the first building truly conceived and executed with digital media, and because it represents an alternative solution to adaptive reuse.

Garofalo served as Acting Director at UIC from 2001-2003. In 2001 He was featured in the "The New Vanguard" issue of Architectural Record, and had speculative work included in the "Folds, Blobs and Boxes" exhibit at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. He received a Master's degree from Yale University in 1987, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame in 1981.