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Illinois Tech College of Architecture is now accepting applications for the Jeanne and John Rowe Fellowship. This two-year visiting faculty role supports early career design educators with funded research and studio teaching at S. R. Crown Hall. Apps. are due January 5, 2026.https://bit.ly/4j42M4y
Rowe Fellowship for Emerging Design Educators - Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
The Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture welcomes applications for its Jeanne and John Rowe Fellowship. The Rowe Fellowship supports early-career design educators with a two-year, ...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Illinois Tech College of Architecture is now accepting applications for the Jeanne and John Rowe Fellowship. This two-year visiting faculty role supports early career design educators with funded research and studio teaching at S. R. Crown Hall. Apps. are due January 5, 2026.https://bit.ly/4j42M4y
Jessica “Jaye” Fong (B.ARCH. ’12) brings design insight and cultural storytelling to her award-winning pop-up, Maa Maa Dei. Her desserts reflect heritage, healing, and innovation—anchoring her as a creative force in Chicago’s culinary community.
https://bit.ly/4pzjHOT
https://bit.ly/4pzjHOT
Creating Harmony with Cuisine
Growing up working as a hostess at her family’s restaurant, Jessica “Jaye” Fong (B.ARCH. ’12) was never allowed in the kitchen
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December 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Jessica “Jaye” Fong (B.ARCH. ’12) brings design insight and cultural storytelling to her award-winning pop-up, Maa Maa Dei. Her desserts reflect heritage, healing, and innovation—anchoring her as a creative force in Chicago’s culinary community.
https://bit.ly/4pzjHOT
https://bit.ly/4pzjHOT
Thanksgiving offers a moment to appreciate the imagination and thoughtful design that shape the environments we share. Warm wishes to our community as we gather, reflect, and look ahead to inspired possibilities.
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Thanksgiving offers a moment to appreciate the imagination and thoughtful design that shape the environments we share. Warm wishes to our community as we gather, reflect, and look ahead to inspired possibilities.
Illinois Tech’s You, Elevated. campaign is out in the world—on CTA buses, train stations, and across Chicago.
📸 Spot an ad on your commute? Snap a pic and tag us!
📸 Spot an ad on your commute? Snap a pic and tag us!
October 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Illinois Tech’s You, Elevated. campaign is out in the world—on CTA buses, train stations, and across Chicago.
📸 Spot an ad on your commute? Snap a pic and tag us!
📸 Spot an ad on your commute? Snap a pic and tag us!
Explore the visionary mind of Stanley Tigerman at our Dean’s Panel Lecture, Drawing on the Ineffable.
📅 Oct 27 | 🕔 5 p.m. | 📍 S. R. Crown Hall
https://arch.iit.edu/events/tigerman
📅 Oct 27 | 🕔 5 p.m. | 📍 S. R. Crown Hall
https://arch.iit.edu/events/tigerman
Deans’s Panel Lecture: Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable
Explore Stanley Tigerman’s imaginative architectural drawings and working methods at an upcoming Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture event.
arch.iit.edu
October 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Explore the visionary mind of Stanley Tigerman at our Dean’s Panel Lecture, Drawing on the Ineffable.
📅 Oct 27 | 🕔 5 p.m. | 📍 S. R. Crown Hall
https://arch.iit.edu/events/tigerman
📅 Oct 27 | 🕔 5 p.m. | 📍 S. R. Crown Hall
https://arch.iit.edu/events/tigerman
Buildings consume ~40% of global materials + generate 1/3 of U.S. waste. Illinois Tech’s Conscious Cladding project turns household plastics into 100% recycled panels—pioneering a sustainable, circular future for construction.
https://bit.ly/488Cniu
https://bit.ly/488Cniu
Conscious Cladding
The construction industry stands at a critical inflection point in addressing one of our nation's most pressing environmental challenges.
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October 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Buildings consume ~40% of global materials + generate 1/3 of U.S. waste. Illinois Tech’s Conscious Cladding project turns household plastics into 100% recycled panels—pioneering a sustainable, circular future for construction.
https://bit.ly/488Cniu
https://bit.ly/488Cniu
How do we shape the architects of tomorrow?
Illinois Tech Dean Reed Kroloff joined Chicago’s architecture school leaders in conversation with AIAChicago on the future of design education. https://bit.ly/4mHO3fL
Illinois Tech Dean Reed Kroloff joined Chicago’s architecture school leaders in conversation with AIAChicago on the future of design education. https://bit.ly/4mHO3fL
In Conversation with the Leaders of Chicago’s Architecture Schools - AIA Chicago
How Chicago’s architecture schools—and AIA Chicago—are shaping the next generation of design professionals AIA Chicago has long included a Student Director on its Board, with the position historically...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
How do we shape the architects of tomorrow?
Illinois Tech Dean Reed Kroloff joined Chicago’s architecture school leaders in conversation with AIAChicago on the future of design education. https://bit.ly/4mHO3fL
Illinois Tech Dean Reed Kroloff joined Chicago’s architecture school leaders in conversation with AIAChicago on the future of design education. https://bit.ly/4mHO3fL
Congrats to Illinois Tech’s Le Thuc Ny Phan (B.ARCH., M.HPB. 3rd Year)—winner of the 2025 AIAChicago Foundation Diversity Scholarship! Her work champions sustainability, compact living, & inclusive design. 9 of 14 past recipients have been IITArchitecture students
https://bit.ly/4nsDjTS
https://bit.ly/4nsDjTS
Providing a Fresh Perspective: CoA Student Receives Diversity Scholarship
A competitive scholarship that was created to attract and retain diverse talent to Chicago’s architectural community has been awarded to an Illinois Institute of Technology College of Ar
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September 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Congrats to Illinois Tech’s Le Thuc Ny Phan (B.ARCH., M.HPB. 3rd Year)—winner of the 2025 AIAChicago Foundation Diversity Scholarship! Her work champions sustainability, compact living, & inclusive design. 9 of 14 past recipients have been IITArchitecture students
https://bit.ly/4nsDjTS
https://bit.ly/4nsDjTS
Illinois Tech’s S. R. Crown Hall joins #OpenHouseChicago 2025 Oct 19.
📍 Bronzeville
👟 Sun 11 a.m. walking tour to Kaplan Institute
https://bit.ly/4gtVOEE
📍 Bronzeville
👟 Sun 11 a.m. walking tour to Kaplan Institute
https://bit.ly/4gtVOEE
September 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Illinois Tech’s S. R. Crown Hall joins #OpenHouseChicago 2025 Oct 19.
📍 Bronzeville
👟 Sun 11 a.m. walking tour to Kaplan Institute
https://bit.ly/4gtVOEE
📍 Bronzeville
👟 Sun 11 a.m. walking tour to Kaplan Institute
https://bit.ly/4gtVOEE
Big congratulations to Illinois Tech alumna and Adjunct Professor Annabell Ren (B.ARCH. ’14)! Her African Heritage Hut in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood is a finalist for the Roberta Feldman Architecture for Social Justice Award from AIA Chicago.
https://bit.ly/46FdERG
https://bit.ly/46FdERG
Adjunct Faculty Member and Alumna Named Finalist for AIA Social…
Adjunct Professor Annabell Ren’s newly co-founded Converge Architecture studio receives two honors in its first year after opening.
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September 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Big congratulations to Illinois Tech alumna and Adjunct Professor Annabell Ren (B.ARCH. ’14)! Her African Heritage Hut in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood is a finalist for the Roberta Feldman Architecture for Social Justice Award from AIA Chicago.
https://bit.ly/46FdERG
https://bit.ly/46FdERG
Peruvian architect Kevin Malca joins Illinois Tech as the 2025 Rowe Fellow. His work draws on indigenous practices such as ancestral water harvesting to show how ancestral knowledge can inspire ecological thinking in contemporary architecture.
https://bit.ly/4n4b1P4
https://bit.ly/4n4b1P4
Rowe Fellow to Explore Influence of Ancenstral Ecological Knowledge on Contemporary Architecture
When Peruvian architect Kevin Malca had the opportunity to learn from the Quispillacta indigenous community in Peru, he was fascinated by its water harvesting practices—specifically how
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September 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Peruvian architect Kevin Malca joins Illinois Tech as the 2025 Rowe Fellow. His work draws on indigenous practices such as ancestral water harvesting to show how ancestral knowledge can inspire ecological thinking in contemporary architecture.
https://bit.ly/4n4b1P4
https://bit.ly/4n4b1P4
Illinois Tech’s College of Architecture project “Change in Plot” is a finalist in the 2025 AIA Chicago Design Excellence Awards! Designed by Prof. Jennifer Park + 10 students, the interactive forms transformed Crown Hall & celebrated sustainable design.https://bit.ly/4n5dPf4
AIA Chicago Honors College of Architecture Open House Centerpiece
The centerpiece project for last spring’s College of Architecture Open House has been named a finalist in the American Institute of Architects Chicago’s 2025 Design Excellence Awards.&nb
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September 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Illinois Tech’s College of Architecture project “Change in Plot” is a finalist in the 2025 AIA Chicago Design Excellence Awards! Designed by Prof. Jennifer Park + 10 students, the interactive forms transformed Crown Hall & celebrated sustainable design.https://bit.ly/4n5dPf4
Associate Teaching Professor Alphonso Peluso expands the future of digital design with his Parametric Modeling with Grasshopper 3D eBook series—guiding readers from core concepts to advanced, experimental workflows.
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Parametric Modeling with Grasshopper 3D
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September 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Associate Teaching Professor Alphonso Peluso expands the future of digital design with his Parametric Modeling with Grasshopper 3D eBook series—guiding readers from core concepts to advanced, experimental workflows.
https://amzn.to/4oYcOql
https://amzn.to/4oYcOql
Abigail Clary (M.ARCH. ’97) designs health care spaces with one goal: to bring dignity and humanity to patients, families, and caregivers. She helped lead the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and is now working on the University of Chicago’s new cancer hospital in Hyde Park.
https://bit.ly/45AD42q
https://bit.ly/45AD42q
Pain, Passion, and Impact
Abigail Clary (M.ARCH. ’97) has spent decades designing every kind of health care space, attempting to make them more patient-friendly and efficient
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September 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Abigail Clary (M.ARCH. ’97) designs health care spaces with one goal: to bring dignity and humanity to patients, families, and caregivers. She helped lead the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and is now working on the University of Chicago’s new cancer hospital in Hyde Park.
https://bit.ly/45AD42q
https://bit.ly/45AD42q