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Professor Robert J. Krawczyk was an invited speaker at the International Society of The Arts, Mathematics and Architecture Conference, ISAMA 2012, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, June 18-21, 2012. Krawczyk’s speech was entitled “Exploring Digital Fabrication.”

Living Room Realty’s new exhibit, Objects in Space, will feature work by Studio Associate Professor Paul Pettigrew. The show, open June 22 – August 3, displays living spaces in a storefront gallery, and highlights locally sourced and produced furniture, textiles, and accessories. Pettigrew’s iCharnley, an iPod stereo system, will be included in the exhibit. The stereo was built into and around a single piece of quartersawn white oak fumigated in ammonium to match the patina of the Charnley House interior woodwork. The white oak came from Chicago’s urban forest via Horigan Urban Forest Products.  For more information, visit: www.livingroomrealty.com

Chicago Architecture Foundation’s new exhibit premiering June 22nd features College of Architecture undergraduate and graduate studio work. Unseen City: Designs for a Future Chicago tackles the question, “What might this neighborhood and city become?” Designs include a 19th century boulevard transformed for the 21st, a horizontal deconstructed Willis Tower, an industrial district as creative hub, and a skyscraper that scrubs the air.

IIT exhibits: 

Hi-Rise, Lo-Carb
Studio Associate Professor Antony Wood, Spring 2012 undergraduate studio Collaboration with Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

Garfield Boulevard:  Completely Stripped Naked, Dirty, and Wet
Assistant Professor Marshall Brown, Fall 2011 graduate studio

For more information, visit the Chicago Architecture Foundation website: www.architecture.org

The July/August 2012 issue of Chicago Architect magazine includes an article on Associate Professor Frank Flury’s recent undergraduate design/build studio project. IIT students adopted the local vernacular—the round barn—for their design of a visitor support facility at Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois. Read the article at: http://mydigimag.rrd.com/publication/?i=116280

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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has named Adjunct Associate Professor Thomas Jacobs as a recipient of the 2012 Young Architect Award. The annual award recognizes young architects who demonstrate exceptional leadership and have made significant contributions to the profession. Along with his work at IIT College of Architecture, Jacobs is a principal at Krueck + Sexton Architects and is an active advocate for local community development and planning.


M.Arch. alum Charlotte Page and Studio Associate Professor Susan Conger-Austin have teamed up to produce the exhibition Unfolding Space | an architecture of moments, opening January 20th at the Floating World Gallery. The exhibition is a perceptual investigation of place which features work by artist Yozo Hamaguchi.

 

The exhibit runs January 20 – February 17, 2012, with an opening reception on January 20th. For more information, visit: www.floatingworld.com.

The exhibition is supported by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and the IIT College of Architecture.

 

ASCENT, a new solo exhibition by Adjunct Assistant Professor Homa Shojaie, opens on January 20th at the Chicago Artists’ Coalition. The exhibit is part of Shojaie’s 2011-2012 BOLT Residency, a program funded by the Chicago Artists’ Coalition to promote and evolve professional and artistic practices. The ASCENT exhibition will investigate the material space of canvas.

The exhibition runs January 20 – February 10, 2012.
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm

 

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Celebration of the Reopening of the Villa Tugendhat: Mies Here and There
January 21, 2012

9 am — Opening Remarks:
Dean Donna Robertson

9:15 am — Mies There: Restoration of the Villa Tugendhat
Iveta Cerna, Architect, Head of the Project Office at the Villa and Secretary of Tugendhat House International Committee and Ivo Hammer, University Professor (retired), restorer and conservator, and Chairman of Tugendhat House International Committee

10 am — Mies Here: Mies in the US and the Villa Tugendhat
Dirk Lohan, Principal, Lohan Anderson

11 am — The Role of the Brno School of Architects on and in the Modern Movement in Architecture
Professor Petr Pelcak, School of Architecture, Brno University of Technology

12 pm Panel Discussion

12:30 pm Exhibition of the Villa Tugendhat
Graham Resource Center at the Lower Level, Crown Hall

Hosted By: IIT College of Architecture and the Mies van der Rohe Society

Sponsored By: The KMD Foundation and Chicago Sister Cities International

Coordinator: Judith W. Munson, JD, Executive Director, ICPHEP, Adj. Prof. John Marshall Law School

Symposium is free and open to the public. Call 312.567.3312 for information.
MTCC Auditorium
3201 S. State Street
Chicago, IL 60616
arch@iit.edu

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Contemporary Follies, a new book by Keith Moskow and Robert Linn, lists Associate Professor Frank Flury‘s 2009 design/build studio project among its outstanding examples of contemporary design that address our place in nature.

The Field Chapel project was designed and executed by students in Flury’s advanced design/build studio for an ecumenical church cooperative in Boedigheim, Germany. Under Flury’s direction, the students developed “an interdenominational chapel, a space for people who are in a search for God – a place for quiet reflection, but also one that welcomes hikers and cyclists who appreciate a rest stop that has a sense of beauty.”

In a dramatic step forward for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s research department, steel giant ArcelorMittal has awarded the CTBUH a $300,000 grant to study the life cycle of structural systems in tall buildings. The two-year study, announced during the 9th World Congress dinner in Shanghai, will focus on different aspects of the long-term sustainability of different frameworks of towers more than 300 meters. “At the end we hope to have a tool to reassess the sustainability of tall buildings,” said Jean-Claude Gerardy, manager, commercial sections sales and marketing for ArcelorMittal.

Chicago Architectural Club‘s latest project, “2012 Chicago Prize Competition: Future Prentice” generated 81 new visionary proposals for Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital. The effort was led by CAC co-presidents Brian Strawn and IIT College of Architecture Adjunct Associate Professor Karla Sierralta, in collaboration with AIA Chicago and the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

The project asked for alternative solutions for one of Chicago’s most architecturally significant modern buildings, Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital, now slated for demolition by its owner, Northwestern University.

Competition jurors included Professor John Ronan and Studio Associate Professor Martin Felsen.  Recent IIT Architecture alums Noel Turgeon (M.Arch. ’12), Andres Lemus (B.Arch. ’12) and Stephanie Fumanelli (B.Arch. ’12) submitted entries along with Adjunct Professor Terry Surjan.

Chicago Architectural Club also invited ten young studios to submit commentaries and proposals for Prentice, including the studios of Studio Assistant Professor Mary Pat Mattson, Adjunct Associate Professor Martin Klaschen, and Studio Associate Professor Tim Brown.

Work from the Future Prentice competition is featured in the exhibit “Reconsidering an Icon” currently on display at the Chicago Architecture Foundation until February. The work will also be featured in a forthcoming publication, “100 Ideas for Prentice.” 

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Seventeen student projects from the first-year IIT Architecture 114 Studio 2 class are currently on display on the grounds of the Farnworth House in Plano, Illinois. The final project was entitled “Shade,” and students worked in groups of two or three to design and construct projects consistent with that theme. The work was an academic exercise, but the materials used for the project—cedar and corrugated plastic—were selected knowing that the projects would be displayed outdoors. In early April the entire class of 100+ students visited the Farnsworth House to understand the site conditions and tour the house. The projects were then designed for specific sites, qualities of light, and views on the Farnsworth grounds. The seven IIT instructors involved in the project are Kathy Nagle, Paul Pettigrew, Jill Danly, Coleen Humer, Lukasz Kowalczyk, Alex Paradiso, and Amanda Williams, exhibited in cooperation with Farnsworth House Executive Director Whitney French. The projects will be on display at the Farnsworth House at least through the end of the summer.

IIT Architecture Dean Donna Robertson will serve as the Vice-President/President-Elect of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). She began her term as vice president on July 1, and will begin a one-year term as president in July 2012. Robertson joins ACSA with a long record of service in the profession. She served as an ACSA representative to the NAAB board of directors, including one year as president in 2003. While serving NAAB, Robertson chaired the 2003 Validation Conference, during which the organization revised its Conditions for Accreditation. The ACSA is a non-profit membership association founded in 1912 to advance the quality of architectural education. The ACSA has more than 250 member schools representing more than 5,000 faculty. The association maintains a variety of activities that influence, communicate, and record important issues. Such endeavors include scholarly meetings, workshops, publications, awards and competition programs, support for architectural research, policy development, and liaison with allied organizations.

A July 15 Inside Higher Ed article looks at the gender makeup of university academic leadership, noting that at IIT women “lead three of the university’s schools — including engineering and architecture.” http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/07/15/at_university_of_richmond_women_hold_majority_of_academic_dean_jobs

Donna V. Robertson FAIA is featured in the May/June 2011 Issue of Chicago Architect Magazine.

http://ctbuh.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=8g942yWDZzg%3d&tabid=62&language=en-US

Donna V. Robertson FAIA was the Keynote Lecturer for the Hunter Douglas’ Archiprix Tour 2011. The study trip is with 190 people from 22 countries. The majority of the audience members were architects of the better to best level in their respective countries. The event was held on Tuesday, 7 June 2011 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Chicago, IL

Adjunct Associate Professor, John DeSalvo, Wins AIA Chicago Small Projects Honor Award. John DeSalvo Design, won the top honor award at the AIA Chicago Small Projects Awards on June 10th for the Retreat House/Church Residence. The summer beach home in Michigan City, Indiana uses natural and local materials and features a metal exterior.

DeSalvo’s project was also featured in the June 2011 issue of Dwell Magazine.

Read the column, “My House: Come Sail Away”.

Adjunct Professor Barbara Geiger’s book Low-Key Genius: The Life and Work of Landscape-Gardener O.C. Simonds [Paperback] is recently released and available at Amazon.com.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported on July 8 that President Obama has appointed IIT Adjunct Professor Terry Guen as a member of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Guen is president and principal of Terry Guen Design Associates, Inc. and teaches in the landscape architecture program.

Adjunct Professor Thomas Roszak designs New Welcome Gallery at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Completed in June 2011, the new Clark Family Welcome Gallery at Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL may now be added to the growing list of unique and interesting projects of Thomas Roszak Architecture, LLC.  Through smart and collaborative design, Roszak led the team to meet project goals by creating a multifunctional space that provides a welcoming gathering area while also initiating an exciting pre-show experience necessary in optimizing the planetarium’s main event, the Sky Theater. http://thomasroszak.blogspot.com/2011/06/thomas-roszak-architecture-designs-new.html

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor, Christopher D. Rockey of Rockey Structures, participates as a judge in the 2010-2011 ACSA/AISA Steel Design Student Competition for a Homeless Assistance Center. Criteria for the judging of submissions includes the creative use of structural steel in the design solution, successful response of the design to its surrounding context, and successful response to basic architectural concepts such as human activity needs, structural integrity, and coherence of architectural vocabulary.

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Marshall Brown is featured in the July Brooklyn Rail article chronicling the recent efforts of activists to steer the troubled Atlantic Yards redevelopment project in Brooklyn in a new, more community-focused direction, includes quotes from IIT Assistant Professor of Architecture Marshall Brown, who is a founding member of the UNITY group proposing an alternate development plan for the area. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/07/local/unity-a-desperate-plea-for-adult-supervision

Associate Professor John Ronan just won the Rudy Bruner award, see here: http://www.brunerfoundation.org/rba/index.php?page=News-2011Awarde

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IIT College of Architecture will host a North American Passive House Consultant Training session in early 2012. The course consists of two training sessions (January 3–7 and February 8-11) which teach the principles and tools of passive energy design and consulting. The course will train and enable the participant to put measurable and verifiable very low energy metric and holistic systems design into practice to design highly comfortable, very low energy buildings with exceptional indoor air quality at an affordable cost. Energy, design, engineering, construction and other related professionals will be provided with the skills necessary to design and consult on certifiable building projects that meet the Passive House Building Energy Standard for all climate zones of North America. After passing a final exam administered at the end of the sessions, participants earn the professional designation “Certified Passive House Consultant, NaCPHC”.

For registration information, please visit: www.passivehouse.us

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Assistant Professor Sean Keller has received a grant from the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program.  The Warhol Foundation program supports contemporary art writing that engages a broader audience and whose rigor strengthens critical art writing as a discipline. Sean Keller, along with co-author Christine Mehring, will use the funding for their forthcoming book, Munich ’72: Olympian Art and Architecture (Chicago), which examines the significance of the 1972 Munich Olympics on German postwar identity, international artistic exchanges, and computational methods of architectural design.
http://artswriters.org/index.php?action=grantee_detail&grantee_id=126&year=2011

Assistant Professor Marshall Brown will deliver the keynote address at the SUPERstructure symposium sponsored by the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. SUPERstructure: city/building/interior/object

will focus on interdisciplinary scholarship and practice in design, craft, and fine art as it pertains to the built environment:   SUPERstructure: city/building/interior/object, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, March 23-24, 2012, http://www.thedcca.org/ghsymposium

Associate Professor John Ronan’s firm, John Ronan Architects, received the 2012 AIA Institute Honor award for the Poetry Foundation. The Chicago home of Poetry Magazine and Poetry Foundation administration, the building features public performance space, a gallery, and library. The building is sheathed in perforated oxidized zinc, with layers of glass and wood. AIA likened the building’s subtle, unfolding design to a poem being “revealed line by line. http://www.aia.org/practicing/awards/2012/architecture/PoetryFoundation/index.htm

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Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, hosted at IIT College of Architecture, has announced the launch of The Skyscraper Center, a new web site that will be a top resource for information on tall buildings around the world. The Skyscraper Center contains a profile for every completed building taller than 200 meters globally, as well as thousands of other projects in various stages of development. The home page of The Skyscraper Center features a powerful world map tool which can generate important facts and tall building lists on any county in the world. Additionally, new features allow users to easily access updated news on projects and view the latest additions to the database.


 Explore the database at http://skyscrapercenter.com/

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Associate Professor John Ronan’s firm, John Ronan Architects, received the 2012 AIA Institute Honor award for the Poetry Foundation. The Chicago home of Poetry Magazine and Poetry Foundation administration, the building features public performance space, a gallery, and library. The building is sheathed in perforated oxidized zinc, with layers of glass and wood. AIA likened the building’s subtle, unfolding design to a poem being “revealed line by line.”
http://www.aia.org/practicing/awards/2012/architecture/PoetryFoundation/index.htm

Assistant Professor Sean Keller has received a grant from the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program.  The Warhol Foundation program supports contemporary art writing that engages a broader audience and whose rigor strengthens critical art writing as a discipline. Sean Keller, along with co-author Christine Mehring, will use the funding for their forthcoming book, Munich ’72: Olympian Art and Architecture (Chicago), which examines the significance of the 1972 Munich Olympics on German postwar identity, international artistic exchanges, and computational methods of architectural design.

http://bit.ly/ygKZx6
http://artswriters.org/home.html

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IIT College of Architecture faculty have been recognized in AIA Chicago’s 2011 Design Excellence Awards. At the October 28th event, five faculty members’ firms received awards.

The College of Architecture faculty honorees are listed below by award. For complete coverage of the 2011 awards, including photos of each winning design, visit AIA Chicago’s web site.

Distinguished Building Honor Award
Carol Ross Barney, Ross Barney Architects. James I Swenson Civil Engineering Building.

Distinguished Building Citation of Merit
John Ronan, John Ronan Architects. Gary Comer College Prep.
Carol Ross Barney, Ross Barney Architects. Fullerton and Belmont Stations Reconstruction.

Interior Architecture Citation of Merit
Andrew Metter, Epstein | Metter Studio. Serta International.

Regional & Urban Design Honor Award
Martin Felsen, UrbanLab. Farming the Chicago Stock Yards.

Regional & Urban Design Citation of Merit
Thomas Hoepf, Teng + Associates. Moraine Valley Community College Entrance Gateway + Quadrangle.

IIT College of Architecture’s Paris Program students recently conducted a collaborative workshop with IE University in Segovia, Spain. Segovian “esgrafiado,” a traditional facade surface technique, was used as a point of departure. Under the guidance of renowned Segovian artisan Julio Barbero Artesanos, the session began as an active seminar with students working in traditional techniques, tools, materials, and processes. A technical architect, Anna Marasuela, presented a contemporary perspective on variations in system performance and its inherent efficiency with respect to embodied energy and material reuse. 

After this initial training, students developed contemporary production ideas, speculating on material adaptations, the implications of altering production processes, and the effects on the system’s programmatic and communicative abilities.

View coverage in El Adelantado de Segovia newspaper

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