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The School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is now accepting applications for the 2025–26 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship. Named for the architect and educator Doug Garofalo (1958–2011), the nine-month fellowship provides emerging designers the opportunity to teach design studio and seminar courses and conduct independent research, culminating in a public lecture at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and an exhibition or public conversation at the school.
Now in its twelfth year, the Garofalo Fellowship has made an essential contribution to the school’s culture through the fellows’ design and pedagogical agendas. Past fellows include Molly Hunker (SPORTS), Pier Paolo Tamburelli (baukuh, San Rocco), Sarah Blankenbaker, Francesco Marullo, Fosco Lucarelli (Microcities, SOCKS), Anne Dessing (Studio Anne Dessing), Johannes Berry (SUGIBERRY), and Cédric Van Parys. The current fellow is Zehra Ahmed.
Operating from within Chicago’s only public research university, the UIC School of Architecture promotes architecture as a cultural practice of organizing information, of intelligently identifying and deploying patterns—conceptual, visual, structural, behavioral, and material—in the world. The school derives much of its energy and unique perspective from its award-winning, international faculty, forty percent of whom were born or educated abroad. The Garofalo Fellowship aims to allow an emerging architect to benefit, as Doug did, from the opportunity to teach and conduct research within this generative environment at an early stage of practice.
Applicants should submit the following materials to the Garofalo Fellowship search committee via the application form on the school’s website:
–Curriculum vitae
–Proposal describing the research to be conducted as a Garofalo Fellow (500–750 words)
–Teaching statement (500–750 words)
–Portfolio of selected work (no more than ten pages)
–Names and contact information of three references
Applicants must apply as individuals; no group applications will be accepted. The selected fellow will be expected to be in primary residence in Chicago from mid-August 2025 through mid-May 2026. The fellowship is the equivalent of a full-time faculty position.
The application deadline is February 14, 2025, 11:59pm CST.
Finalists will be asked to visit Chicago for an interview and public presentation in April 2025. All applicants will be notified of their status by the end of April 2025.
More information here.
