This is from an email distributed by our Assistant Director, pertaining to new faculty candidate presentations and I quote... As part of the interview process, each candidate will give a public presentation to the School, and all students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend. The...

Frank Gossage experiencing the general feeling of exhaustion among the class. Our second review (of five this semester) was Monday. I am happy to report that for me at least, and i believe many others, this was a positive event. The discussion was very architectural and the critique was very to...

So here are a few promised images of what has been going on around here. The first few are from our first review and the others are from our last pinup on Monday. The first review (31DEC2011) was of little 4x4x1 PVC models and 4x4x1 boxes of acetate and paper. Now we are onto 8x8x2 foam and paper...

I hardly know what day it is. It is that time of the semester: long periods without blogging, long nights of no sleep, short weekends of no fun (well my house did have a party for Ol'Abe's birthday last Saterday), critiques that start you over, and the looming prospect of the midterm review. The...

They must have heard us grumbling... so here they are, the UIC spring lecture series. UIC School of Architecture Spring 2011 Lecture Series 2.21 Marcia Lausen Director, School of Art + Design, UIC, Chicago Founder, Studio/lab, Chicago 3.2 Iñaki Ábalos + Renata Sentkiewicz...

Very few things can stop the Chicago Machine. We do not experience major earthquakes, hurricanes, mudslides, and the city itself has not had a tornado in it since the 1800's. Perhaps the most major natural occurrence here is the frigid blizzard. During and after a major blizzard, even the most...

Today, 04FEB2011, is Portfolio Day at UIC. A few weeks ago I gave a few previews of the work and talked about the student voting process. At the reception tonight the student choice award will be presented along with Faculty and Alumni winners! I'll most likely be taking a few photos so watch for...

As many may or may have not noticed the central portion of the U.S. is getting battered by an intense snow storm. Here in Chicago the snow has really just started dumping about an 1" or 2" in the last 2 hours. Classes at UIC have been cancelled and the 'L' was packed with commuters heading home...

Nearly three weeks into the semester here at UIC, we are officially waist deep in studio. ARCH 552 is another studio based on the exploration of formal language though intensive modeling and diagrammatic drawing. Set Up in five stages we are quickly coming up on the end of the first stage, with a...

In an attempt to avoid too much repetition (despite architectures regular study of it) I will sometimes be posting links to our schools blog Fresh Meat. I have done it in the past and this post will do it again. The posts on Fresh Meat are always interesting, and, not always being written by me...

In anticipation of Portfolio Day here at UIC here is Eric Hoffman's portfolio. Portfolio Day involves and exposition of all of the student portfolios and a student choice vote for best work.Fall 2010 Studio Portfolio by Eric Hoffman | Make Your Own Book

For those interested in Architectural Photography, check out my recent post on our schools online publication Fresh Meat. The post explores a little bit of the history and the affect that Photography has had on the Architectural Design. I was prompted to write the post after some extensive...

The Semester Portfolio of Frank Gossage for ARCH551Control by Frank Gossage | Make Your Own Book

In continuing with showing work from the UIC M.Arch program, here is Paola Gomez's Semester Portfolio. Some of it may look familiar from an earlier post, but now you have a chance to read some of the text for an explanation.Paola Gomez by Paola Gomez | Make Your Own Book

Here is a an overview of our new UIC M.Arch grad tech class with Sean Lally. I am writing this live during the first class. I will be writing this in something of a bullet points as things are presented in the power point. The class is a discussion about physical Boundaries and the Materials used...

Class started today here in Chicago, and so starts my second semester at UIC. As per the schools structure this semester involves all of my class having all of our classes together. Here is the rundown. ARCH 532- Theory and History II Alexander Eisenschmidt ARCH 552- Design II (studio) Penelope...

Sean Lally's seminar Returning Home asked students to imagine a world with 'fewer walls but more boundaries.' Jake Gay tells us more about it and posts 5 essays for our perusing on the Fresh Meat blog. The short quips range from E.M.Forster Machine Stops type worlds to foggy desert celebrity...

This is the work of Paola Gomez, once again from ARCH551 with Paul Preissner and Laura Fehlberg.

Here is the house project from Brandon Biederman, a fellow first year grad at UIC. I really hope that the updates Archinect is planning including the ability to have larger images in the blog. These should all be bigger to appreciate.

Some more on Daniel Starcher's project. All the text is straight from his blog, section/plan. URBAN VISION The Ever Expanding Interior is a network of spaces that form continuous passageways through the city. Designed both as circulation and to contain program, it is evocative of Koolhaas&rsquo...

This is the work of Daniel Starcher, a second year M.Arch student.

I apologizes for the delay, Evgeniya is at home in Siberia right now so it took me a minute to get another image from her. I will try and get her to send me plans as well.

The work of Evgeniya Plotnikova

Tonight, presented by The Department of Urban Speculation, showing at ShowPOD in Pilson, Chicago, come see Six Endless Open Cities!The Department of Urban Speculation is an orginization closely linked with the School of Architecture at UIC that, among other things, focuses on re-imagining the...

Some of the boards from my final review for ARCH551. A house in which the transverse section only changes in scale as it moves through the house.

This is the Work of Katie LaCourt For all your theory maze navigation needs... Sorry about the size, it is a limitation of this blog.

The work of Adrianne Jørgensen. and for those that want to play along at home... Adrianne's experience as a graphic designer before coming to Architecture school seems to be paying off.

A few frames from my final for Robert Somol's Theory Class.Somol, Priesner,Lererner

I have a distinct feeling that this is going to be a large topic of discussion around the school blog for the next few weeks or so, but here it is... The semester is almost over. At UIC we have one week and one day until our final review for studio. Everyone reading this knows exactly what that...

Ahhh, a short week of school, or should I say a long weekend of work. With final reviews closer then the horizon, we find ourselves being thankful for a few solid days of work without the pesky distractions of school itself. This paradigm of architecture school is interesting. Only in Architecture...