Grant Gibson

Adjunct Assistant Professor

ggibso1@uic.edu

Grant Gibson sees architecture as an inclusive practice that encourages cross-pollination between disciplines, experiences, and desire. It is with this attitude that he has tried to contribute to the built environment.

Prior to architectural practice, Grant has worked at small family owned and large corporate farms evaluating production processes and in industrial facilities on the fabrication of furniture. These experiences have a direct relationship with the varying scales and types of projects undertaken by him at Garofalo Architects. Where Grant has worked on multiple urban planning studies, including Visionary Architecture Chicago: The "El" as an agricultural plateau in Chicago's downtown loop. He has also been able to investigate the public environment through the development and design of mass-produced exterior landscape furniture.

Gibson graduated with a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004. While at UIC his work was exhibited within the University, at the Chicago Architecture Foundation and the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2004 he was awarded the Schiff Fellowship award for a suburban/agriculture project "Re-mediating the American Dream". He was also one of four national finalists for the Skidmore Owings & Merrill Foundation Traveling Fellowship for Urban Planning. Grant has prior degrees from Purdue University in Architectural Engineering (1999) and Construction Engineering Technology (2001).