UIC has named Florencia Rodriguez as its new director

2022-06-16T12:26:00-04:00

The University of Illinois Chicago’s School of Architecture now officially has a new leader following Wednesday’s announcement that editor, writer, and academic Florencia Rodriguez has been named its next director.

Rodriguez will step into the role beginning in August. A statement from the school promised her tenure would encapsulate a desire to “promote the school’s pursuit to liberate and install new forms of collective association and material arrangement through all media of architectural design and research.”

A native Argentinian, Rodriguez comes to the position having lectured and taught theory courses at Boston Architectural College, Universidad del Litoral, and ITESM. Before moving to her post at Harvard GSD, she was a visiting professor at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella’s School of Architecture and Universidad de Palermo. She was a Loeb Fellow in 2013 and pursued her own degrees in architecture at the Universidad de Belgrano between 1993 and 2000.

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UIC has named Florencia Rodriguez as its new director