Honored to share that Chicago Studio collaboration with @urbantheater by students Alexa Selvaggio and Elizabeth Tabisz, directed by Professor Bridget Benge @studioartempo , was featured in the @chicago_reader ’s most recent Performing Arts Feature:
“For their new building in Humboldt Park, UrbanTheater Company enlisted students in the Chicago Studio program at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s architecture school, under the direction of Bridget Benge, to create conceptual renderings.
UTC is partnering with architecture students Alexa Selvaggio and Elizabeth Tabisz on conceptual renderings as a first step. The two students worked with architecture professor Bridget Benge of Studio Artempo and the Chicago Studio, a program in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s architecture school. Vega estimates it will take three to five years to finish the new theater.”
Honored to share that Chicago Studio collaboration with @urbantheater by students Alexa Selvaggio and Elizabeth Tabisz, directed by Professor Bridget Benge @studioartempo , was featured in the @chicago_reader ’s most recent Performing Arts Feature:
“For their new building in Humboldt Park, UrbanTheater Company enlisted students in the Chicago Studio program at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s architecture school, under the direction of Bridget Benge, to create conceptual renderings.
UTC is partnering with architecture students Alexa Selvaggio and Elizabeth Tabisz on conceptual renderings as a first step. The two students worked with architecture professor Bridget Benge of Studio Artempo and the Chicago Studio, a program in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s architecture school. Vega estimates it will take three to five years to finish the new theater.”
Congratulations to the Category 2: Space & Wellness Graduate Studio Prize first-place winners, Macy Sharp, Jenna Lin, and Isaiah Pierce, advised by Prof. Pat Saldaña-Natke and Prof. Soumya Dasgupta.
About their winning project, Arise: “Framed by the Chicago skyline, the Welcome Center establishes a threshold to urban density, embracing connectivity and exchange through landscape, material, and cultural encounter.”
Congratulations to the Category 2: Space & Wellness Graduate Studio Prize first-place winners, Macy Sharp, Jenna Lin, and Isaiah Pierce, advised by Prof. Pat Saldaña-Natke and Prof. Soumya Dasgupta.
About their winning project, Arise: “Framed by the Chicago skyline, the Welcome Center establishes a threshold to urban density, embracing connectivity and exchange through landscape, material, and cultural encounter.”
We are proud to congratulate Dr. Yazmín M Crespo Claudio as an ACSA 2026 Diversity Achievement Honorable Mention for her collaborative project with Omayra Rivera Crespo, PhD [UPRRP], and Irmaris Santiago Rodríguez, MArch [UPRC] on Counter-Narratives: Thirteen Years of Puerto Rican Decolonial Pedagogy.
“Counter-Narratives: Thirteen Years of a Decolonial Pedagogy proposes an architecture of relation; one that enacts care, inclusivity, and resistance, transforming education into a collective act of worldmaking.” Read more on the ACSA website!
We are proud to congratulate Dr. Yazmín M Crespo Claudio as an ACSA 2026 Diversity Achievement Honorable Mention for her collaborative project with Omayra Rivera Crespo, PhD [UPRRP], and Irmaris Santiago Rodríguez, MArch [UPRC] on Counter-Narratives: Thirteen Years of Puerto Rican Decolonial Pedagogy.
“Counter-Narratives: Thirteen Years of a Decolonial Pedagogy proposes an architecture of relation; one that enacts care, inclusivity, and resistance, transforming education into a collective act of worldmaking.” Read more on the ACSA website!
We are proud to congratulate Professor Botond Bognar, who is currently an Emeritus Professor who held the Edgar A. Tafel Endowed Chair in Architecture, as an ACSA 2026 Distinguished Professor Winner!
From ACSA: “Botond Bognar has taught at the University of Illinois School of Architecture for forty-four years. He is a Professor and the Edgar Tafel Endowed Chair in Architecture, teaching graduate design studios and seminars on the history and theories of Japanese architecture in their cultural, social, political, and global contexts.” Read more on the ACSA website!
We are proud to congratulate Professor Botond Bognar, who is currently an Emeritus Professor who held the Edgar A. Tafel Endowed Chair in Architecture, as an ACSA 2026 Distinguished Professor Winner!
From ACSA: “Botond Bognar has taught at the University of Illinois School of Architecture for forty-four years. He is a Professor and the Edgar Tafel Endowed Chair in Architecture, teaching graduate design studios and seminars on the history and theories of Japanese architecture in their cultural, social, political, and global contexts.” Read more on the ACSA website!
As we reflect on a year of design, dialogue, and discovery, we wish our community a joyful holiday season. Thank you for continuing to imagine and build with us. Here’s to a creative and inspiring year ahead.
As we reflect on a year of design, dialogue, and discovery, we wish our community a joyful holiday season. Thank you for continuing to imagine and build with us. Here’s to a creative and inspiring year ahead.
On December 4, the Illinois School of Architecture hosted a beautiful investiture ceremony at Jack Baker’s Erlanger House honoring Professor Kathryn Holliday, who received the Randall Biallas Professorship medallion.
Professor Holliday is a renowned scholar and an invaluable member of our faculty, currently serving as Chair of the History, Theory & Preservation Program Area. We were honored to celebrate this milestone alongside Director Francisco Rodriguez-Suarez, FAIA, Tafel Chair Professor Sara Bartumeus, and Ralph Johnson Professor Tom Leslie, who were also recognized with their investitures earlier this semester.
Congratulations to Professor Holliday, and thank you to our colleagues, supporters, and friends who joined us in marking this important moment.
On December 4, the Illinois School of Architecture hosted a beautiful investiture ceremony at Jack Baker’s Erlanger House honoring Professor Kathryn Holliday, who received the Randall Biallas Professorship medallion.
Professor Holliday is a renowned scholar and an invaluable member of our faculty, currently serving as Chair of the History, Theory & Preservation Program Area. We were honored to celebrate this milestone alongside Director Francisco Rodriguez-Suarez, FAIA, Tafel Chair Professor Sara Bartumeus, and Ralph Johnson Professor Tom Leslie, who were also recognized with their investitures earlier this semester.
Congratulations to Professor Holliday, and thank you to our colleagues, supporters, and friends who joined us in marking this important moment.
Born in Chicago in 1909 to Portuguese immigrants, William Pereira graduated from the University of Illinois School of Architecture in 1931. He quickly rose to prominence, working at Holabird and Root on notable Art Deco projects and contributing to the master plan for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair.
Pereira went on to shape the American architectural landscape with iconic works such as San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Mid-Wilshire, and UC San Diego’s Geisel Library.
Born in Chicago in 1909 to Portuguese immigrants, William Pereira graduated from the University of Illinois School of Architecture in 1931. He quickly rose to prominence, working at Holabird and Root on notable Art Deco projects and contributing to the master plan for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair.
Pereira went on to shape the American architectural landscape with iconic works such as San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Mid-Wilshire, and UC San Diego’s Geisel Library.
Five Program Areas shape our curriculum, giving students the opportunity to think about architecture and design at different scales and through different media.
We have exchange programs with Munich and Switzerland.
Discover Architecture
Discover Architecture is a summer program on the University of Illinois campus. It is open to high school and pre-college students. The program is organized around the design studio and provides a studio-focused, design-intensive workshop over the course of a week.
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