Tomorrow Night!  As part of the AA visiting school, over the next two weeks there will be a series of Conversations held, that will be open to the public.  The first promises to be interesting as the former director returns.  Stanley Tigerman will sit down with Robert Somol at UIC...

For those looking for something to do this August (looking at you unemployed masses)  the 2012 AA/UIC Global Workshop is still accepting applications for Campaigning Architecture.  I will let it speak for itself below. Check out its website here.   CAMPAIGNING...

With less then 24 hours to go on the Hefner/Beuys House Kickstarter, now is the time for all you awesome Archinerd to help out.  We are so so close to getting there.   Check it out. Get involved Get your awesome book Get your awesome Original Painting.   Over 100 people have...

In the flurry of final reviews in the last few weeks I was able to see some amazing work.  As the schools photographer I actually went to every single review, if only for a short time to document the work. One review that I was sure to spend and extended amount of time at was that of Jimenez...

There is a ton going on and there is a lot to post on here as the semester has just wrapped up. But first...   This Tuesday in Chicago you have a chance to come and hear Jimenez Lai talk about The Hefner/Beuys House at the Young Architects Forum.  The event will be at ... Rodan...

As featured here on Archinect (and about every other architecture website) the Hefner/Beuys House is a project by Jimenez Lai that is taking a little different approach to getting something built.     This project needs your help.  With only a short time to go there is still a lot...

Sights of Wonder and Amazment await all that attend.     Year End Show Friday, May 4 2012 5-7:30pm A+A Building Galleries 845 West Harrison   Seriously this is going to be an epic event showcasing the work of our school.  

I very much hope to see some of you at this.  It should be amazing.  (Ill be the one running around with a camera) From the SOA@UIC website... April 27th   (rsvp by April 24) The UIC School of Architecture presents the inaugural Garofalo Symposium, a conversation about Doug...

The Activate Competition is an annual design competition hosted by the Chicago Chapter of  Architecture for Humanity.  This year the Department of Urban Speculation put forth a team consisting of Saravana Vennelakanti, a 3rd year undergrad, and myself...

For this semester's elective I have been taking Andrew Zago's "Attack the Block" seminar co-taught by Sarah Blankenbaker.   From the class brief- "The goal of this course is twofold; to research the difference between the object (design) and architecture (form) and to produce new work that...

More from the Clumsy Form Studio.  The work of Daniel Starcher

Spring Break!  here come some posts   Back by heavy popular demand here is another post on  Paul Preissner's Clumsy Forms Studio.  If you remember from an older post... Clumsy Forms, comes out of Paul Preissner's research group.  Thier project assumes an Architecture...

In anticipation of Issue V of our schools journal Fresh Meat, www.freshmeatjournal.org has just been relaunched!  The relaunch includes new features, new stories and new contributors and will be the place to find updates that I don't cover here.  In particular...

This semester our second year class has been divided in two for our Theory ARCH586 course.  I am in the section lead by Clare Lyster, entitle Urbanism as Network:Design/Theory/Acgency.   from the class brief "The seminar analyzes a series of emerging networks to examine how they are...

Kaohsiung Cultural Center Campus by Christopher Savanelli & Ivan Ostapenko This project was from last years third year Directed Research Studio with Prof.Sean Lally.  Resently it has been getting some much deserved attention.   You may remember it from  the opening slide in RE...

Students of Kelly Bair's elective have started a blog to document their findings.  Check it here! "Slump examines the formal aesthetics and material sensibilities that result in the pairing of rudimentary form making methods (casting, carving, drape forming etc.) with the precision of...

Instead of thesis, UIC uses a system of directed research during one's final year of our M.Arch program.  The first semester of the final year includes a Research Seminar and the second semester, a studio that formalizes that research into an Architectural Project. An final example of this...

I truly hope that some Archinect readers were able to make it to the Michael Maltzon Lecture this past Monday.  Maltzon eloquently layed out convinsing arguments for his experience based formal practice and its ability to be socially conscious while stunningly beautiful.   Next on the...

From the begining of this blog my goal has been to highlight the work or my class and document the Graduate school experience at UIC.  I am going to take a quick brake from showing last semesters projects (there will be a handful more coming soon) to talk about the school a little bit. Last...

Dir.Somol at Taubman College

TAXIDERMY OF ARCHITECTURE [A CHICAGO MUSEUM]            Nayereh Pater-Rov          This project is a selection of architectural taxidermy. Interest lies in assigning program to a collection of plans and...

Mark Cunningham's Interior Urbanism project "Assemblage City" for ARCH553 with  Prof. Alexander Eisenschmidt    

Come one, Come All Not gunna lie, I'm kinda excited about this one. Lecture January 23 6pm • 1100 A+A   Michael Maltzan Principal, Michael Maltzan Architecture Los Angeles  

These are some of my final results from Spring 2011 semester studio with Penelope Dean and Andrew Moddrell. read more about it in these older posts.   Or check out my updated website for full imagery and more drawings! www.matthewmessner.com Parallax An exploration through iterative...

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood by Adrianne Jørgensen

I am finally awake after a three week nap following last semester which ended in early December.  I though that I would show at least a few images of my project as it ended up.  Read the earlier post on Interior City to get the low down on this project. Here. Interior Viewing Apparatus...

So as some may have noticed, I have neglected this blog a bit more then I would have preferred this semester.  In my defense this semester has been a non-stop production/review/sleepless string of interior urbanism,  Dubious Desires, sheer/moment diagrams and building...

  Ed Dimendberg Professor, University of California, Irvine Lecture November 11 6pm, 1100 A+A  

be there

Interior City is an investigation into interior shape, space, and form.  The project is manifested in a series of specialized spaces that agrigate through normative Typical Plan floor plates.  Those plates conversely are affected by those spaces. The initial interest...

OK...   So I have not been as active on here as last semester.  As professed by former students, this semester has been one of the most demanding of my collage career.   Here is what has been happening...   The classes... ARCH573 Structures ARCH563 Tech III w/ Andrew Moddrell...