Jan '16 - May '18
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... View full entry
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
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
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
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
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
A collection of perspectives, rememberings, and thoughts as a dual Master of Architecture + Master of Arts Design Criticism graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago.