And we're done!

With final reviews wrapping up today another year of school has closed.  Much more on that soon.

After a long silence I will be starting a long series of post on projects from this semester, and perhaps a retrospective of the past three years.

Until then, everyone should stop by our Year End Show this Friday.  It is one of the best chances to get a sense of the school.

 Year End Show

Friday May 10

5:00-7:30pm

UIC AA Building

845 W. Harrison Street

UIC at it again with the Rome Prize! Congratulations to Thomas Kelley.  His work can be found here.  Here is a quick look at Thomas' recent undergrad students' works at UIC.   Exactly Wrong - Robert Becker This is the Second Rome Prize won by SOA@UIC Faculty in the last three...

Lecture April 16 6pm • 1100 A+A Michael Webb Professor, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union New York

I just wanted to give a shout out to all of the Accepted Grads that came (an didn't come) to the Open House this last weekend.  It was great to meet you all, and I hope every had an enlightening time.  I always enjoy the open houses as they help me reflect on why I go to UIC. For any of...

The UIC School of Architecture is proud to announce the three finalists in the inaugural search of the Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship for the 2013–2014 academic year. Named in honor of architect and educator Doug Garofalo (1958–2011), this newly established nine-month teaching...

MONDAY NIGHT Mirko Zardini Director and Chief Curator, Canadian Centre for Architecture Montreal Lecture March 11 6pm • 1100 A+A

In a recent article of betterymagazine.com our Interim Dean Robert Somol posses a question to an OSA architectural network workshop and students from the Manchester School of Architecture.  Somol asks, "How do we mobilize the risk of failure in a world that demands...

There has been a flurry of activity over at the FreshMeat website this year, and in the last week a handful of interesting articles have popped up. First is the Possible Mediums: Rapid Reactions. "This post will consist of our experience and interactions at Possible Mediums."  In the...

OHIO PEOPLE! Fresh Meat, UIC's Architecture Journal is coming your way! "Fresh Meat has been invited by One: Twelve, the Knowlton School of Architecture’s student journal, to join them in a panel—titled Little Architectures: Publishing, Prose, and Practice—that will prelude the...

Come One, Come All Friday, February 1 6-730pm

And we are back, and this is our last semester of Architecture school, ever. After a long semester of research into the form and techniques of Incusion, we start our journey into the application of those  technique to achieve "Novel Effects." What exactly those Effects are... I will let you...

I don't believe I ever posted this project. This was a competition entry for the ComEd Powerful Design Competition here in Chicago.  The brief was to design a new Lineworker training facility for ComEd, a power distribution company.   This was our Second Place entry. Team...

In true Studio Berlin fashion, this last summer's group has put together a short film on their escapades throughout Europe.  Enjoy!

As promised here is a look at the final product from Sam Jacob and Jimenez Lai's Repitition Studio. But First.  I wanted to thank everyone for reading this blog and making it one of the Top 12 blogs on Archinect.  Very Awesome.  Thank You.   For the mid-term I investigated the...

Only a few days left in the semester. Finals one Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.  Third Year Grad finals will be all day Wednesday.  Mine in the Afternoon. Stop by and take a look. Here is a peak at one of my drawings.

Here is the second of two posts about the design aspects of the election.  In our Designing Criticism class we have been discussing what the design of particular aspects of the campaign tell us about our electoral process and our democracy.   This first essay,was by Adrianne...

The first of two, this is an essay about the design of the election.  In our Designing Criticism class we have explored what the design of particular aspects of the campaign tell us about our electoral process and our democracy.   This first essay, by Adrianne...

This Saturday we had our ARCH566 Research Seminar Midterm.  We were joined by Jeff Kipnis, Jose R. Oubrerie, John McMorrough, Sam Jacob, Jimenez Lai, and Bob Somol.   The title of Arch566 is "Architecture considered in relation to art, customs, and legislation; in which...

Tonight Tonight

Asked for a single large image for our ARCH565 midterm with Sam Jacob and Jimenez Lai, this is the work of Adrianne Jørgensen.  This measured approximately 5'6" in diameter.        

This is my 100th post on Archinect.  I would like to thank everyone for reading/commenting/complaining/sharing over the past 2 years or so.  I have a bit more time left at UIC so let's see if we can hit 200.   In honor of 100 posts I have the pleasure of presenting my teams...

Of Bank Vaults and Prescription Drugs There is a place in Wicker Park, Chicago, where you can by condoms and pick up Prozac prescriptions in a room with a 30' stained glass and heavy timber ceiling. Wicker Park is the model of an 'ideal' urban neighborhood for the early 21st century American...

I try to keep up with posting on this blog, but even my best efforts only cover one point of view pertaining to UIC.  Thankfully there is FreshMeat.  This years crop of studio bloggers (kind of a micro school blog) cover almost every aspect of UIC grad and undergrad. The posts...

ARCH 565/Prof.Sam Jacob/Prof.Jimenez Lai/Process work sans any explanation.

So last semester a bunch of people got in a tizzy about this post. And then everyone was mesmerized by this post. Well, Daniel Starcher has recently updated his blog to include the final renderings from his Clumsy Form project.  Here they are.  Check out his blog for a few more...

Finishing up week three here at UIC. I would be happy to say that I am in the home stretch of my Three Year Masters, but in reality it looks like I am going to stick around for one more year to get my Masters of Art and Design Criticism on top of my M.Arch.  This is already starting to shape...

The Animate Grid

Houses of Camazotz

We are starting our second week of school at UIC.  I will have more on what has been happening soon, but first. The School of Architecture's Graduate Programs Open House will take place Friday, October 5, from 4:30 to 7:30pm. In addition to faculty presentations and an admissions information...

As part of the final presentation of work done for the AA/UIC Visiting school Doctoral Student Dipl.-Ing. Carin M. Schirmacher will be performing a short action in front of the Sears Tower tomorrow morning at 9am.   "Naming and Renaming buildings is especially here in Chicago a big...

Two more to go! The third in a four-part series of conversations on topics that are vital to the success of making ideas happen in the city. 6pm   Location: School of Architecture, Gallery 1100, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607. Free and open to the...

Here we go again. After last nights inspiring talk with Tigerman, the baton is passed to Felsen of UrbanLab. The second in a four-part series of conversations on topics that are vital to the success of making ideas happen in the city.   Location: School of Architecture, Gallery...