Iker Gil
Adjunct Assistant Professor
igilmi2@uic.edu
PhD Candidate, Escola Tecnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, Spain
Master of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago
Architect, Escola Tecnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, Spain
Iker Gil is an architect and the director of MAS Studio, a collaborative architecture and urban design firm. MAS Studio also develops its work in other fields such as research, exhibitions and publications. He is the editor in chief of the quarterly design journal MAS Context that addresses issues that affect the urban context. He was also the editor of the book Shanghai Transforming published by ACTAR in 2008. In addition, he was the curator of the exhibition Shanghai Transforming at the Chicago Architecture Foundation (2008), and the exhibition Synchronizing Geometry held at S.R. Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology (2006).
Prior to establishing MAS Studio, Iker worked at the Urban Design & Planning Department at SOM in Chicago leading projects in the US, China and Spain, Urbanlab and Carlos Ferrater Partnership.
