Elva Rubio

Associate Professor

erubio@uic.edu

MArch, Washington University in St. Louis

Elva Rubio's work has featured in the Art Institute of Chicago's Ten Visions exhibit and with the Mayor's Institute on City Design Future Visions. Named by Chicago Tribune Architecture Critic Blair Kamin as "One to Watch," her work showcased in the Art Institute's Women in Chicago Architecture exhibition.

Rubio serves on the Board of the Chicago Architecture Club, for which she is also a past president, chairman of the Burnham Prize, and co-founder of the Chicago Prize and Emerging Visions Competition.

Professionally, Rubio maintains her own design practice and is a principal and design director for the Chicago offices of Gensler. Under her direction, the firm has won commissions for the Center on Halsted, the Chicago Transit Authority and the Hyatt Regency. The latter project features in the Museum of Contemporary Art's Sustainable Architecture in Chicago: Works in Progress, a companion exhibit to the highly touted exhibit, Massive Change: The Future of Global Design.

Rubio's work for Pond Studios - a textile and carpet firm's new headquarters built in LaGrange, Georgia - won both Distinguished Building and Interior Architecture awards from the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1997.

She has complemented her professional practice throughout her career with teaching engagements at the School of the Art Institute, the Illinois Institute of Technology and now the University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently, she is an associate professor at the School of Architecture.