Fall 2023 public programs

For fall 2023, the UIC School of Architecture hosts a vibrant public programming, defined by the belief in the value of learning from each other.

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

Pairing school faculty with guests from the global architecture community, the fall 2023 lecture series brings together diverse 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. Anyone who requires accessibility accommodations can contact us at arch@uic.edu.

September 20: Sol Camacho
Respondent: Judith De Jong 

September 28: Phu Hoang
Respondent: Robert Becker

October 12: Sam Jacob
Respondent: Kelly Bair

November 2: Kwong Von Glinow
Respondent: Spencer McNeil

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

Every month, on some Wednesdays, 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 intimate and productive conversations. All are welcome.

August 30: Chana Haouzi presents the work and design approach of Architecture for Public Benefit, a mission-driven practice committed to making good design accessible to all.

September 13: Liesl Olson talks about how the architectural energies of 1930s Chicago influenced the city's groundbreaking production of modern dance. This lecture explores the dynamic collaboration between Chicago dancer Ruth Page (1899-1981) and Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), whose meeting in Chicago in 1932 transformed their lives and art.

October 18: Jayne Kelley hosts an Open Archive Party, an introduction to a new center for research and publishing in the schools of architecture and design at UIC, via encounters with curious objects.

October 25: Student mixer!

November 1: Diana Ramirez-Jasso discusses architectural work that reflects changing attitudes to ideas about children and childhood in Enlightenment Europe.

Conference 
October 19–20: At Home with the Collective: A Summit on Communal Housing.

While housing could be described as one of the primary forms of architecture and one of today's most crucial tasks, spatial practices have been slow in rethinking established forms of living and the politics and economies surrounding it. Indeed, escaping the pervasive models of profit-based homeownership seems increasingly difficult when dominated by neoliberal market values. This summit, therefore, posits a radical shift from house to housing and from the single to the collective as a mechanism to shift attention and refocus housing as a community-building, solidarity-building, and city-building project.

Curated and organized by Alexander Eisenschmidt.

Speakers
Golnar Abbasi, Neeraj Bhatia, Arno Brandlhuber, David Brown, Penelope Dean, Sarah Dunn, Julie Dworkin, Zvi Efrat, Lahbib El Moumni, Cristina Gamboa Masdevall, Grant Gibson, Christopher Hawthorne, Andrew Herscher, Sandi Hilal, Lisa Yun Lee, Clare Lyster, Raul Raymondo, Florencia Rodriguez, Hilary Sample, Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco, Martino Tattara, Jaime Torres Carmona, Luis Felipe Vera Benitez, Meng Yan, among others.

With the support of the Vice Chancellor of Research; the Institute for the Humanities; the Great Cities Institute; the Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement; the Social Justice Initiative; the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts; and the School of Architecture at UIC. The summit is supported by AIA Chicago and CES approval is pending. External funding is provided through grants by the Driehaus Foundation and the Chicago Community Loan Fund.

Other events
November 4: TryArch weekend workshop. TryArch is a day-long intensive workshop that introduces participants to what it might mean to study architecture at a graduate level.

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