Fall 2022 public programs

For fall 2022, the UIC School of Architecture relaunches a full slate of in-person public programming. This new era of the school is defined by the belief in the value of exchanging ideas and learning from each other—a belief reflected in the program and its formats.

Lecture series
5:30pm, 1100 Architecture + Design Studios

Pairing school faculty with guests from the global architecture community, the Fall 2022 lecture series brings together new and familiar voices to engage pressing questions. The series seeks to pull the school into broader conversations occurring in society today as well as integrate contemporary discourse and criticism into the school in fresh, playful ways. All events are free and open to the public.

September 19: Ana Rascovsky
Respondent: Ania Jaworska 

October 21: Go Hasegawa
Respondent: Jayne Kelley 

October 25: Camilo Restrepo
Respondent: Barbara Materia 

November 1: Uriel Fogué
Respondent: Zehra Ahmed 

November 3: Sean Canty
Respondent: Antonio Torres 

November 17: Charlotte von Moos
Respondent: Thomas Kelley 

Wednesday Episodes are We@UIC
Wednesdays at 1pm, 1100 Architecture + Design Studios

Twice a month we meet to share experiences and projects generated within and throughout the school community. These events aim to invoke an open-mic sensibility that supports conversations that are both intimate and productive. All are welcome.

August 31: Students chat with Florencia Rodriguez, the school’s new director, to kick off the academic year.

September 14: Paul Preissner talks about his book Kind of Boring: Canonical Work and Other Visible Things Meant to Be Viewed as Architecture.

September 28: Abigail Chang presents Reflections of a Room, a recent exhibition of her work that engages the ubiquity of reflective surfaces in contemporary life.

October 12: Clare Lyster discusses the book States of Entanglement, which calls attention to the physical and material implications of data.

October 26: The editors of the student-run publication Fresh Meat preview their issues in development.

November 9: Pablo Gerson shares his photographic work and explores relationships between landscape, elements, and images.

Other events
October 6: America Deserta? A Conversation
9:30am–6pm, 1100 Architecture + Design Studios

America Deserta? debates the notion of desert in its geopolitical, spatial, and aesthetic dimensions, exploring how it has permeated the architectural imagination and collective intelligence in the context of North America. 

Speakers
Ludovico Centis / Danika Cooper / Nathan Friedman / Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller / Richard Misrach / Alessandra Ponte / Traci Brynne Voyles 

Curated and organized by Francesco Marullo
Moderated by Penelope Dean and Walter Benn Michaels
With the support of the Humanities Innovation Grant from the UIC Institute for the Humanities, in collaboration with the School of Architecture.

November 1–5: A.H.A.H.! or Apocalypse Has Already Happened or Atlas of Architectures for the End of the World
Workshop directed by Uriel Fogué

The Madrid-based architect and theorist Uriel Fogué leads a week-long workshop for graduate students at the school, culminating in a conversation and public reception.  

November 5: TryArch weekend workshop
+ A.H.A.H.! or Apocalypse Has Already Happened or Atlas of Architectures for the End of the World final review

TryArch is a day-long intensive workshop that introduces participants to what it might mean to study architecture at a graduate level. Organized by school director Florencia Rodriguez and faculty member Antonio Torres, this year’s workshop will lead participants through drawing and model-making exercises that generate work for an application portfolio in an experimental and sociable atmosphere.

Contact us at arch@uic.edu. More information at arch.uic.edu.