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
"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
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
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
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
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.
