Events

Events  Feb 16th 20242024 Spring Lecture Series: David Lewis, LTL Architects

Join renowned New York architect and professor David Lewis at S. R. Crown Hall on Wednesday, February 21, at 5 p.m. — Full Story

Events  Feb 13th 20242024 Spring Lecture Series: Linda Samuels, Washington University in St. Louis

Join a renowned professor of urban design and champion of using infrastructure to meet the needs of today. — Full Story

Events  Feb 6th 20242024 Spring Lecture Series: John Kriegshauser, “Chairs: 50 Years”

Explore 50 years of built history featuring furniture and models made by students at the College of Architecture. — Full Story

Events  Feb 1st 20242024 Spring Lecture Series: Johanna Hurme and Sasa Radulovic, Partners at 5468796 Architecture

Hear two leading Canadian-based architects speak on the creation of housing for the 'missing middle' class of homebuyers. — Full Story

Events  Jan 23rd 20242024 Spring Lecture Series: Exhibiting Architecture with Alison Fisher

Explore the groundbreaking projects of the graduate and landscape architecture programs with an exhibit leading with Alison Fisher of the Art Institute of Chicago. — Full Story

Events  Nov 3rd 2023Film Premiere of ‘MCHAP The Americas: Cycle 4’

Two films highlighting the finalists of the 2021 and 2022 MCHAP events will premiere in S. R. Crown Hall at 5 p.m. on November 8. — Full Story

Events  Oct 31st 2023Mauricio Rocha: A Lot With Little

Mauricio Rocha, the renowned architect who received the 2023 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, will present his award-winning work at 5 p.m. on November 15. — Full Story

Events  Oct 18th 2023Maurice Cox in Conversation

The former Chicago Department of Planning and Development Commissioner will be speaking at S. R. Crown Hall at 5 p.m. on October 26. — Full Story

Events  Oct 9th 2023Medieval Architecture With Jong Soung Kimm

The celebrated alumnus and Seoul-based architect will present his photographic essay of Norman and Gothic Architecture of the United Kingdom at 2:30 p.m. November 2. — Full Story

Events  Oct 4th 20232023 Fall Lecture Series: Andrew Todd and Marion Waller

The two architects will share their urbanist ideas in “French City-Building in Kinship With the Non-Human” at 5 p.m. on October 11. — Full Story

Events  Sep 20th 20232023 Fall Lecture Series: Marilyne Andersen, Laboratory of Integrated Performance in Design

Hear how architecture and engineering meet building performance through sunlight at 5 p.m. on October 4. — Full Story

Events  Sep 12th 20232023 Peter Schaudt Lecture in Landscape Architecture: Elizabeth Meyer, University of Virginia

Meyer will speak about the role of environment and sustainability in architecture at 5 p.m. on September 20 as part of the annual Peter Schaudt Lecture in Landscape Architecture. — Full Story

Events  Aug 31st 20232023 Fall Lecture Series: Karen Lutsky and Sean Burkholder

The two speakers will explore navigating the changing Great Lakes landscape at noon on September 11. — Full Story

Events  Aug 28th 20232023 Fall Lecture Series: Feda Wardak, French-Afghan artist, architect-builder

The independent artist and researcher will highlight how public policy abandonment affects communities at noon on September 6. — Full Story

Events  May 12th 20232023 Spring Awards Ceremony

We invite you to join us this Friday, May 12, 2023 at 4 p.m. for the 2023 CoA Spring Awards Ceremony. — Full Story

Events  Apr 25th 20232023 Open House “Context” Showcases Student Projects

IIT College of Architecture invites all to digitally experience a year’s worth of collective student work from the 2023 Open House, “Context,” through its website. — Full Story

Events  Mar 29th 2023POSTPONED: Sigrid Adriaenssens, 2023 Myron Goldsmith Visiting Fellow

POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE: Professor Adriaenssens is unable to join us this week and we will reschedule her lecture for a future date. Thank you so much for your support of the lecture program and of the Goldsmith Fellowship. — Full Story

Events  Mar 29th 2023Rozana Montiel, 2023 Morgenstern Family Visiting Chair

IIT College of Architecture is excited to host Rozana Montiel, the 2023 Victor A. Morgenstern Family Visiting Chair in Architecture, for a 5 p.m. lecture on April 5 beginning at 5 p.m. — Full Story

Events  Mar 22nd 20232023 Alfred Caldwell Lecture: The Intersection of Public Space, Art, and Social Justice

Join IIT College of Architecture’s Master of Landscape and Urbanism program on April 12, 2023, beginning at 5 p.m. for the annual Alfred Caldwell Lecture to explore the intersectionality of public space, art, and social justice. — Full Story

Events  Mar 7th 2023Arthur S. Takeuchi Honorary Lectures

Mahjoub Elnimeiri and Jong Soung Kimm, both longtime faculty members at IIT College of Architecture, will lead two honorary lectures about Arthur S. Takeuchi (B.ARCH ’54, M.S. ARCH ’59), a College of Architecture professor for more than 50 years.  — Full Story

Events  Nov 14th 2022Book Launch: Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago

Join the authors of Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago—written by longtime Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin and with photography by Lee Bey, a renowned architectural photographer, author, Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic, and IIT College of Architecture adjunct faculty member—for a book launch and discussion at S. R. Crown Hall on Monday, November 21, co-sponsored by American Institute of Architects Illinois. — Full Story

Events  Oct 27th 2022Panel Discussion: Women in Architecture

Join Pat Bosch, design director and principal at Perkins&Will, and Joan Soranno, design principal at HGA and fellow of the American Institute of Architects, in discussing women in the field of architecture. — Full Story

Events  Oct 14th 2022Lecture: Chris T. Cornelius, Founding Principal of studio:indigenous

IIT College of Architecture will welcome Chris T. Cornelius, founding principal of studio:indigenous and chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of New Mexico, as part of the fall lecture series at S. R. Crown Hall. — Full Story

Events  Oct 10th 2022Lecture and Book Launch: Nader Tehrani, Principal of NADAAA

IIT College of Architecture invites everyone to join Nader Tehrani, founding principal of NADAAA and dean of Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, in a lecture and book launch of My House Is Better Than Your House on Wednesday, October 12, at S. R. Crown Hall. — Full Story