The PhD Program's Spring 2016 Research in Progress speakers series has been announced. The series brings to IIT Architecture the latest research by faculty, PhD candidates, visiting scholars and scholars from throughout Chicago and around the world.
Each presentation takes place between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. in room 216 at 3410 S. State Street on the campus of IIT.
Jan 14
Internships Workshop
Jan 21
PhD Students Intending to Graduate this Year
"Results & Findings 01"
Visual Communication Workshop (3-5pm)
Travis Rothe
Senior Designer, IIT Architecture Chicago
Jan 28
David Wallace Haskins
Principal, DWH Studio
“Skycube: from Concept to Creation”
Feb 04
Marie Hicks
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, History of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
"Designing Gendered Technological Infrastructures: A Case Study of Early Computerization"
Feb 11
Antony Wood
RIBA PhD, Executive Director, CTBUH
Research Professor of Tall Buildings, Illinois Institute of Technology
Visiting Professor of Tall Buildings, Tongji University, Shanghai
"Tall Buildings: Towards Sustainable Vertical Urbanism"
Feb 18
Shiben Banerji
Assistant Professor, School of The Art Institute of Chicago
"Globality Before (Post) Modernism"
Feb 25
Blair Kamin
Architecture critic at Chicago Tribune
"Architecture Criticism: Dead or Alive?"
March 03
PhD Students Intending to Graduate this Year
"Results & Findings 02"
March 10
Robert Krawczyk
Professor, Associate Dean of University and Academic Affairs
IIT Architecture Chicago
"Explorations”
March 24
Brent Stephens
Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology
"The Open Source Building Science Sensors (OSBSS) project demonstrates how to build inexpensive building environmental and operational sensors for long-term studies of the indoor environment using open source hardware and software"
March 31
Erin Hazard
Illinois Institute of Technology
"The Attraction of the American Author’s House: Architecture, Guidebooks, and Display, 1853-1904"
April 07
Mahjoub Elnimeiri
Professor, IIT Architecture Chicago
“Engineering and Scientific Research Within Architecture”
April 14
Lluis Ortega
PHD Architect, Associate Professor, IIT Architecture Chicago
“Work in Progress”
April 21
Irene Sunwoo
Associate Curator, Chicago Architecture Biennial
"Décollage City"
April 28
Anijo Punnen Mathew
Associate Professor, IIT Institute of Design
“Interactive Urban Placemaking"
May 5
Ron Henderson
FASLA, Founding Principal and Director of Design, L+A Landscape Architecture
Professor, Director, Landscape Architecture Program, IIT Architecture Chicago
"THE GARDENS OF SUZHOU"