Its my understanding she was teaching classes on architectural theory and its relation to the automobile. I worked with someone who had a class of her's on that topic in the late 90's. I didnt know she did studios.

Dont go to college for architecture get out while you still can.

I recently met a former teacher of mine from UIC who no longer teaches there.

He told me anybody who knew anything about architecture left. He looked pretty down about it so the response I had formulated in my head never left my lips. What I was going to say to him was, it seemed like they had all but left when i was there. The best part of my education came from the community college I attended for two years prior to UIC. And that is a very hard thing for me to tell people.

I'd suggest and it is just my opinion, that you look a lot more deeply at UIC vs. IIT. If it comes down to finances and the number is doable, under $75,000 including the M.Arch, I'd go IIT.

On the fence,

Which community college did you attend?

I have heard the same thing. The new guy at UIC wants it to be a radical theory and art school.

OCC.

I actually went to UIC the 2nd year they had implemented the 4 year program as a transfer student. UIC didn't want any transfer students to be able to jump directly into 3rd year or 2nd year because they didn't want to jugle the studios. When I finally went to UIC I had already had about 75 credit hours. UIC believed you had to do freshman studio, then sophmore studio, so on and so forth. So, along with a couple other transfer students, around 30 of us, we petitioned the school during our first year to be able to take 2nd and 3rd year studios together the following year so we wouldn't end up having to spend an extra 4th year doing nothing but a studio class and got that pushed through. The school fought it pretty hard but finally realized the situation. Still it should have only taken 2 years and not the 3 I did to get their degree. It still haunts me to this day, had I known what it was going to turn into, I'd have gone somewhere else.

Who taught studio at OCC?

Honestly,

I don't remember anybodys name at OCC and I think I can remember about 2-3 names from UIC. And if I did remember their names, I would not post those on an internet forum. Sorry. But I did enjoy OCC and the classes more than UIC in general. There were a few good classes at UIC but overall the experience was better at OCC. UIC was more about choosing the right media and making pretty pictures nobody could ever possibly build. And while theory has its place it would have been nice to marry that up with teaching how something actually could be built. Schools don't tend to value that. JMHO. They tell you that you will learn it at your job and that school is the place to learn design. How many people here have been hired right out of school in a design position? None. You get hired out of school and get plopped into a cad station. But that is another rant for another day.