The UIC School of Architecture Year End Show is next Friday, May 11. This is undoubtedly my favorite night of the school year! We will celebrate the best design work from both graduate and undergraduate levels from the 2017–2018 academic year. All galleries are open to the public at 5pm. A jury presentation will begin at 6pm in Gallery 3100, with the granting of student awards to follow.

The Year End Show celebrates both the department of Architecture and the department of Design, including Graphic Design and Industrial Design. The entire building will be open and full of work.

UIC Monday Evening Lecture: Stan AllenMonday, February 19, 5:30 pm Stan Allen is an architect, theorist, and former Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University, where he currently serves as the George Dutton ’27 Professor of Architecture. 845 W. Harrison St. Rm 1100 A+D... View full entry

UIC School of Architecture's programming for 2017–2018 continues with the first edition of the spring semester's Now + Then. Now + Then pairs a past UIC faculty member with current UIC faculty. On Monday hear from ex-UIC faculty member Ben Nicholson (now, associate professor at SAIC) with UIC's... View full entry

COMING ATTRACTIONS Starting this Friday, Dec. 1, the School of Architecture is adding a movie series to our regular programming. Continuing in the spring semester (and hopefully beyond!), we will be showing a movie on the third Friday of every month. The first film will be selected by the event... View full entry

"It is his job, no doubt, to discipline his temperament and avoid getting stuck at some immature stage, or in some perverse mood: but if he escapes from his early influences altogether, he will have killed his impulse to write."George Orwell "Why I Write" View full entry

In my theory course our research project is on an architectural typology that has been disrupted / effected by American capitalism. The typology I have chosen is Motels / Hotels, and my first instinct is to research the shift in lodging from traveling the American Highway to the bigger, badder... View full entry

Witold Rybczynski writes of visiting the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago:"The atmosphere was different from that in other public buildings. Unlike a museum, it had no price of admission, and the security guards were unobtrusive; the stacks were open, and the books were there to be... View full entry

Episode 14: Don’t Go to Architecture School to Design a 7-Eleven (with Michael Rock) Through Process is a podcast about how we become designers. Your co-hosts are Joshua Namdev Hardisty and Mitch Goldstein. Posted on 22 August 2014Mitch and Namdev are joined by designer, author and... View full entry

from Brain Pickings: Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. Cultivate that capacity for “negative capability.” We live in a culture where one of the greatest social disgraces is not having an opinion, so we often form our “opinions” based on superficial... View full entry

I'd like to re-post / share the open letter from the Yale University School of Architecture students as they respond to the AIA in support of Trump + administration. Original post via Architect here. On November 9, 2016, the American Institute of Architects resigned itself to a cowardly position... View full entry

Join us this evening for the second lecture of the Fall 2016 Lecture Series as Wiel Arets ventures north to UIC. Arets is the Principle of Wiel Arets Architects & Dean of IIT College of Architecture. Prior to the lecture I will be interviewing Wiel with fellow Fresh Meat Journal members for... View full entry

My current studio and Spring 2016 theory professor Penelope Dean has released a publication, Flat Out, that UIC will be hosting a Launch Party for. You can purchase a copy via website: http://www.flatoutmag.org/ View full entry

Jackie Koo will kick-off the Fall 2016 UIC School of Architecture Lecture Series this evening from 5:30pm–7:00pm at the School of Architecture, 1100.  View full entry

09.28.16 Wednesday Episode @ UIC School of Architecture View full entry

Good evening, Archinect— We are in to Week 6 of the Fall 2016 semester. To date, I have been through two studio reviews, one cold, and zero papers. Here is a brief re-cap of my unruly and unstoppable summer (see photos for proof!): May I began driving for Lyft! All in all—few sketchy stories... View full entry

FM VIII IS CONCERNED WITH THE MEANING OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY.The dinosaurs of capitalism have become the senescence of urbanism. If the modernist project of carte blanche is over, how do we engage the city’s filthy state without a clean slate? Contemporary architectural discourse has... View full entry

At the beginning of February, I was approached by two fellow studiomates to join their team in producing a submission on behalf of UIC for Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry's Brick by Brick exhibition. Our task at hand was to imagine the building to deal with challenges that face our... View full entry

As an imminent MAD Crit student at UIC, I have a desire to learn more about and experiment in writing (aka this blog!). I have never considered myself a "writer," as writing was simply an early education fundamental that I was better at than math. However, what I deem beautiful writing I first... View full entry

A sneak peak of what I am working on in Studio w/ instructor Stewart Hicks — Concrete form w/ gold costume. View full entry

What is Architecture? with Sarah DunnTuesday, February 9, 20162–3pm, 1100 A+DS View full entry

Portfolio Day Student VotingWednesday, January 202–3pm, 3100 Studio Gallery, A+DSStudents review and cast their vote for the 2016 Portfolio Day Student Choice Award. View full entry

Fall Graduate 1 Studio SynopsisGeometry has an ambiguous reputation, associated as much with idiocy as with cleverness. -The Projective Cast: Architecture and its Three Geometries (Introduction). Robin EvansFrom the syllabus: Historically, architecture has been heavily invested in the spatial... View full entry

As personal as it gets:My name is Jamie Evelyn Goldsborough and I am currently a first year graduate student pursuing a Dual Master of Architecture and Master of Arts in Design Criticism at University of Illinois at Chicago. I graduated from Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, Indiana... View full entry