With over 30 years of experience as a leader and educator in architectural academia, the former dean of architecture at Tulane University School of Architecture will be joining Illinois Institute of Technology's College of Architecture. During his career, Kroloff has also stood as the director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum in Bloomflied Hills, Michigan as well as editor-in-chief of the design magazine Architecture.
Having played an influential role within the profession, the Times once called him "the man with the list at architecture’s party." As the principal at jones|kroloff, the firm has been a major design consultancy for public, government, and educational projects like Jose Vasconcelos National Library of Mexico and the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County.
"The university community is thrilled to welcome Reed and the unique voice and vision he will bring to Illinois Tech’s historic leadership in architecture," says Peter Kilpatrick, Illinois Tech’s provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. "I am confident that he is the right person to guide our College of Architecture to a new level of eminence nationally and internationally." Kroloff will begin his role as dean on August 1, 2019.
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What a second...are we being punked?
this doesn't seem believable to you?
Another white guy, leading a uni? I'm incredulous.
Did nobody else apply for the job? Kroloff's resume is quite thin when it comes to doing actual architecture.
Finally, IIT has its first Black Dean of Architecture
https://www.metropolismag.com/uncategorized/black-like-me/
That, is excruciating. Embarrassing. And should be the thing that shames him out of IIT.
I was wondering when someone was going to dig this up... I remember when he said it. Its pretty cringe-inducing now but meh, should be allowed to fade into the past. I think he had good intentions and sentiment expressed very poorly.
I’ve been black for four months, one week, and five days. I’m still not used to it, and that’s kind of a funny thing since I grew up Jewish in Waco, Texas. Believe me, you know what it means to be different when you grow up Jewish in Waco. But over the last four months I’ve learned that being black means more than just being different: it means being forgotten. It means being ignored. It means being in-sulted. It means being stripped of your dig-nity repeatedly. It means being the object of mistrust, ignorance, and fear. It means many, many unpleasant things.
But it means good things too. It means camaraderie for one. We don’t all know one another, of course, but we know what we share. Being black means having a more nuanced worldview and a keener understanding of human nature. It also means pride: we have been through something together and we’ve grown from it. That feels good.
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