MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE

IIT ARCHITECTURE NOWNESS is our approach. One that IIT Architecture Chicago provides a attempts to reach a diverse audience; platform for questioning the architecture one that demonstrates architecture’s discipline at the dawn of a new age, multidisciplinary character; and one that encouraging childlike curiosities to be we hope reflects the depth, originality, explored, and, along the way, reshaping, and differences of our ideas, visions, and rewriting, and rethinking metropolises. perceptions. It is a tool to communicate dreams, presenting our goals to the IIT Architecture focuses on a future of metropolis of Chicago and to the world global urbanism, it remains true to its at large. Cross-disciplinary collaboration legacy as a place of rigorous thinking presents possibilities, encouraging and making. IIT is a place where how a innovation within our own discipline. thing is made matters— whether it be a door, a building, or a city. The IIT Mies We must hypothesize strategies that Campus is a world-famous ensemble of support the development of a new modernist architecture, planning, and environment, while surfing on the landscape design. IIT Architecture is advancements of other disciplines. These housed in ’s new strategies will challenge students masterful S. R. Crown Hall—a National and faculty, allowing for the discovery of Historic Landmark and one of the most multidisciplinary crossroads. “Rethinking significant buildings of the twentieth Metropolis” will be our strategic device. century. We will conduct research; we will analyze existing phenomena; we will learn from new trends. We have to find a new order. We will develop questions about the roles Excerpts from NOWNESS, of architecture and urbanism, and our IITAC Press/ research will speculate on the support Illinois Institute of Technology that new conditions will require. How College of Architecture, 2013 will we invent a new citytype, on a new Wiel Arets city-site, with a new idea of living- Rowe Family College of Architecture working-playing-shopping-relaxing- Dean Endowed Chair learning-communicating? Global urbanization, the proliferation of information technologies, and rapid advances in the human sci- ences are among the most visible trends of the first decades of the twenty-first century. Around the world, habitats continue to evolve into novel “post-city” formations, generating new paradoxes and redefining the role of the . As the skilled artificer of the built environment, the architect must come to terms with these new realities. IIT’s new Master of Science in Architecture program positions its investigations in the space opened up between emerging forms of urbanization and existing concepts of architecture, landscape, and cities. Our goal is to develop new and better models for shaping socially, culturally, and ecologically sustainable environments.

The discipline of architecture can no longer rely on received ideas, established typologies, or fash- ionable design methodologies. Today the challenge of education at all levels is to embrace our generational transformations, and to engage them in such a way as to create new knowledge. The new Master of Science program provides an intellectual climate in which to reflect upon the forces shaping the contem- porary world and their implications for architecture, landscape, and urbanism. With a dual commitment to research and reality, we are aware of the imposing nature of the problem at hand, as well as of the degree of understanding that is needed simply to measure or fathom its depth. Through design, the program seeks out and experiments with alternative models for constructing the built environment. Engaged with the real-life conditions represented by public authorities, cultural institutions, and private entities, the curriculum insists upon continuous exchange and debate.

Vedran Mimica Professor Director of Master of Science in Architecture Program IIT College of Architecture CHICAGO Chicago is a metropolis whose cultural wealth admits few rivals anywhere in the world. The vibrancy and variety of this global city, embodied by its people, history, and architecture, encompass the greatest heights of accomplishment and the bleakest depths of perdition. In the vast space between the glittering skyscrapers of prosperity and the hardscrabble streets of poverty there is no room for quitters in Chicago. The city by the lake is, and always has been, a “city on the make.” Ever since its humble beginnings as a nineteenth-century trading post situated on swampland where the Chicago River fed into Lake Michigan, Chicago has been a perennial destination for the most ambitious, cunning, and visionary individuals—all seeking to make their mark not only on the city, but on the nation and the world.

“There is There There” Since the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, one may paraphrase Stein’s Gertrude Stein wrote in Everybody’s famous quote and say that “there Autobiography (New York: Random is there there” in Chicago. John M. House, 1937) after living for decades Binckley will strike an imperial note in , and visiting Oakland, California, in 1873, describing the importance where she spent her childhood, “… of Chicago as emerging economic anyway what was the use of my hub of the Americas: “Chicago is not having come from Oakland it was Eastern, Chicago is not Western. not natural to have come from there Chicago is altogether sui generis….” yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no Chicago has many nicknames: there there.” So, out of context, the “City in a Garden” or “Urbs in Horto” quote “there is no there there” would as its Latin motto on the city seal; the become famous for its ambiguous “Second City” as the informal criticism of anonymity and blandness rivalry with in its sky- of suburban development, as well scraper building boom; “City of the as perhaps tasteless, boring, monoto- Big Shoulders” as in Carl Sandburg’s nous, and banal cultures of suburbia. 1914 poem, “My Kind of Town” One can wonder what she would say, popularized by Frank Sinatra accord- if she would have spent her childhood ing to the lyrics of the song “Chicago” in one of Chicago’s neighborhoods, by Fred Fisher; and “The City That and would be returning from Paris Works” according to former Mayor to the “Paris on the prairie,” as Daniel Richard J. Daley. All of this is signaling Burnham was dreaming what Chicago a powerful urban character develop- could become while drafting the ment in the “middle of nowhere” in Chicago Plan from 1909. only the last century and a half. The Master of Science in Architecture program at MASTER OF SCIENCE IN Illinois Tech is an intensive three-semester program is structured around two design-based research studios. ARCHITECTURE Varying research trajectories each semester is unified by the commitment to forge new models, visions, and principles that better fit with emerging technologies, new biological insights, and the changing nature of the metropolis. An individual thesis project is produced within the basis of the studio along with history/theory seminars and electives.

The program seeks to be order to achieve this, the resource for exploring issues of synthetic and interdisciplinary program must be global. crucial importance. in its approach by sharpening critical thinking through col- This global program is espe- Research trajectories will vary laborative and experimental cially well-situated within the each year, but the unifying working processes. ever-transforming metropolis thread will be the commitment of Chicago, a city that provides to forge new models, visions, More inclusive than traditional both the testing ground and and principles that better fit architectural design, yet more the variegated fabric for the with emerging technologies, form- oriented than conven- program’s initiatives. new socio-biological insights, tional urban planning, our and the changing nature of urban design-based research Working with governmental the metropolis. program requires the insights agencies and other public of other disciplines. Striving for interest constituencies as well The goal is to find the right experimental and exploratory as private constituencies, this balance between social and methods demands provocative program will achieve a high economic sustainability on one discourse, distrust of earlier degree of reality and immediacy hand, and, on the other, the approaches, and the creative uncommon within academia, creation of a living environment invention of new forms for while providing partnered in which the individual will housing vitality and life. In agencies with a valuable both prosper and thrive. MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE

BACHELOR OF Cloud Studios are structured as one- ARCHITECTURE FALL year design-based research platforms that serve as a core for the development COURSES STUDIOS ARCH545: cloud studio 6cr of thesis intention and the thesis design proposal. ELEMENT ARCH588: thesis prep 3cr Fall semster focuses on specific investi- ARCH497+:elective 3cr ELEMENT MASTER OF gations that are pertinent to the changing ELEMENTS MASTER OF LANDSCAPE forms of urbanization where the goal is

CORE total 12cr SINGLE to experiment and to test alternative ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE models to provoke new discourse, and SINGLE COURSES STUDIOS COURSES STUDIOS SPRING alternative critical agenda for contempo- rary physical environment. ARCH546: cloud studio 6cr HYBRID ELEMENT ECOLOGY ARCH497+:elective 3cr Spring semester places more emphasis HYBRID SINGLE SITE on formal solutions to respond to the BUILDINGS CORE CORE MASTER OF SCIENCE PHD ARCH497+:elective 3cr challenges formulated by the thesis INSTITUTIONAL HYBRID SYSTEM and research-design phase. ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE ARCH589: pre-thesis 3cr Selected electives complement the INSTITUTIONAL INSTITUTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE COURSES STUDIOS COURSES total 15cr studio with theoretical and historical urban and architectural knowledge. METROPOLIS METROPOLIS METROPOLIS METROPOLIS METROPOLIS ELECTIVES ELECTIVES ELECTIVES SUMMER The final semester of the program focuses CORE CORE CITIES METROPOLIS METROPOLIS METROPOLIS METROPOLIS METROPOLIS ARCH591: thesis 5cr on the written thesis part in relation to the project developed through design-based total 5cr research Cloud Studio as well as the ELECTIVES ELECTIVES THESIS CLOUD STUDIO pre-thesis and thesis seminars. TOTAL 32CR

The architecture degree programs at IIT stress design- architectural education. Because architecture is not merely research, analysis, and synthesis as the means to prepare vision but vision realized, the architect must possess real DISSERTATION students for an expanding disciplinary field in which re- expertise in means of construction, in building technology, in sourcefulness, critical thinking, and the ability to seize oppor- representation, and in the histories and theories of architec- tunity and new territories of intervention will be rewarded. ture itself. Amidst new patterns of urbanization and tech- Facing the future challenges of the profession and of the nological advance, and against the backdrop of a changing world at large, the essential capabilities of thought and profession, IIT is still a place where how a thing is made communication become not less but more essential to an matters—whether it be a door, a building, or a city. winter break

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CLOUD STUDIOS FALL : DESIGN CONCEPTION & DEVELOPMENT SPRING: DESIGN DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTION SUMMER: Thesis production ARCH 545 ARCH 546 ARCH 591 Cloud Studio V: Metropolis Cloud Studio VI: Metropolis Research & Thesis

The Cloud Studio focuses on investigating the complex forces The studio is a continuation of the ARCH 545 research-based Marking the transition between the academic that shape the built environment to propose new strategies for design studio. The studio production is oriented toward the and professional worlds, the thesis work is an urban development. The aim of the studio is to build a commen- development of projects in a variety of scales from large-scale opportunity for each student to define an tary and transformative agenda toward the future metropolis, and master plans, urban designs, and landscape designs, to new individual position with regard to a specific to drive urban and architectural design solutions with the most urban typologies and singular buildings, all of which can address aspect of architectural practice. It is intended advanced technologies and critical thought. Strong emphasis is a variety of the issues pertinent to the modern metropolis. Each that the thesis project look upon architectural put toward engagement with external parties and agencies, to studio will explore a variety of techniques including parametric and urban designs as formal and theoretical connect the academic environment with the professional design, digital fabrication, model making, and advanced elaborations of the design-based research practice, and to promote cross-disciplinary collaboration. geospatial software, and cultural theoretical discourses. Cloud Studio ARCH 546 as well as the collective outcome of socio-political forces analyzed during thesis research.

THESIS SEMINARS ARCH 588 ARCH 589 Thesis work leads toward the final acceptance Thesis Preparation Seminar Pre-Thesis Seminar of the presentation materials by the advisory committee. The text, reductions of the Thesis Preparation Seminars are conducted on thesis develop- Thesis development is parallel to and complementary with the drawings, and representations using various ment, with a thesis statement outlining an area of study or a design-based research Cloud Studio ARCH 546. The focus is on media are bound together in a hardcover problem that has consequences for contemporary architectural design-based research work understood both as an intellectual volume, which is deposited in the GRC and production at-large. Thesis development is parallel to and problem of exploring the relationship between design and theory the university’s library. complementary with the research-based design Cloud studio for knowledge production, and as a practical problem of the ARCH 545. The seminar will focus on developing a bibliography way that design research can effect architectural practice. as well as case studies of referential projects and built structures. The seminar is focused on the general development of thesis Students will also explore advanced research methods (specifi- work, specifically generating an overall thesis structure and cally tailored to the research interests of each student) and the opening chapters. By the end of the semester, a Thesis Advisory didactic nature of disciplinary architectural communication. Committee is assigned to each thesis student.

ARCH ELECTIVES electives electives Following page: students attend a Cloud Talk.

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE: CO-TERMINAL MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE: CO-TERMINAL

BACHELOR OF The B.Arch/M.S. co-terminal degree ARCHITECTURE FALL offers a combined B.Arch in archi- tecture and Master of Science COURSES STUDIOS ARCH419: cloud studio 6cr degree in architecture and urbanism

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5th year undegrad enables a devised focus on architec- ARCH420: cloud studio 6cr

DI NG S tural research, possibly leading to a E E L I R R U O HYBRID O SINGLE SITE ARCH589: pre-thesis 3cr Ph.D. in architecture. B C C MASTER OF SCIENCE PHD INSTITUTIONAL HYBRID SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE ARCH400+: elective 3cr Eligible students enrolled in the Bachelor of Architecture degree S S S ARCH497+: elective 3cr E INSTITUTIONAL E INSTITUTIONAL E INFRASTRUCTURE COURSES STUDIOS COURSES program can begin working toward V V V I I I T T T a second professional degree in their C C C total 15cr E E E L METROPOLIS L METROPOLIS L METROPOLIS METROPOLIS METROPOLIS fifth year. The co-terminal degree E E E S E E E R R

I enables undergraduate students to T O O I C C complete both degrees in six years C S S FALL E METROPOLIS METROPOLIS METROPOLIS E METROPOLIS METROPOLIS V V using undergraduate scholarships I I T T ARCH546: thesis 6cr C C and funding. Nine of the required E E L L E THESIS E THESIS ARCH400+: elective 3cr credits earned may be used to count toward both degrees. THESIS social science 3cr The B.Arch/M.S. can be completed 12cr total within two semesters of attaining the B.Arch degree.

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D humanities 3cr (BArch) degree. The curriculum provides the core body of rounded undergraduate education. knowledge required by the profession within a coordinated ARCH497+: elective 3cr four-year foundation studio sequence. Each of the four years The existing Master of Science is a 32-credit course of study is team-taught to horizontally integrate all courses within that allows students emerging from B.Arch and M.Arch programs ARCH497+: elective 3cr each year and vertically sequence learning experiences. The to earn a master’s degree with a research focus. The Master of professional core prepares students for the last year of ad- Science in Architecture program positions its investigations in the total 14cr vanced design studios focused on urban design that is more space opened up between emerging forms of urbanization and research-oriented and speculative in nature. In addition to the existing concepts of architecture, landscape, and cities. The goal TOTAL 169CR UG design studios, the curriculum of required and elective courses is to develop new and better models for shaping socially, 3233CR MS includes architectural history and theory, building technolo- culturally, and ecologically sustainable environments. Following page: Cloud Studio; City in the Sky: A Study in Lightness

HOUSING CHINESE DREAM(S)

The Chinese Dream is President Xi Jinping’s integrative and transformative vision for China, with the goals to achieve “a great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” The emerging Chinese middle class is eager to join the army of slaves with their impossible mortgages for their bedroom townhomes, in fulfillment of what the modern Chinese psychodynamics have collectively decided to be a necessity in pursuance of a good life. So, where are the capacities of the Chinese Dream for the individuals in these modern times?

This thesis explores the elements of providing quality living environments for this group of people who have been called upward-mobile, tech-savvy, and entrepreneurial. With the idea of owning a house becoming increasingly important to the Chinese middle class, architecture attempts to bridge gaps between the realities of the sub-par housing towers in gated peripheral areas and the dying traditions of collec- tivism. A super-hybrid of dwellings and designed “pro- grammatic infection” is bound to happen by studying the development of “dream-like” housing prototypes in history.

Evelyn Jingjie Wong EVELYN JINGJIE WONG, M.S. ARCH STUDENT Housing Chinese Dream(s) FALL 2016 Completed Fall 2016 CLOUD: DESIGN-BASED RESEARCH STUDIOS The Cloud Studio is a research-based design studio focused on investigating the complex forces that shape the built environment and proposing new strategies for urban development. The aim of the studio is to build a commentary and transformative agenda toward the future metropolis, and to drive urban and architectural design solutions with the most advanced technologies and critical thought. The studio production is oriented toward the development of new strategies and future urban models with the aim of advancing the knowledge of relationships between urban thinking and materiality, technology, energy, ecology, emerging media, and socio-political and cultural concerns. Strong emphasis is put toward engagement with external parties and agencies, to connect the academic environment with the professional practice and to promote cross-disciplinary collaboration. Students will be able to select from a variety of studio topics.

The (w)Ego city studio, IIT Architecture Chicago & The Why Factory, TU Delft Fall 2015 2015-16 Martin Felsen Martin Klaeshen CLOUD, DESIGN-BASED RESEARCH STUDIOS Sponge City Superblocks Interrogating Density they can enjoy the vegetation. These are interventions also ning, shading, and sheltered spaces for different users while the bufferrethinking spaces to include paving, seating, light ferent scenarios that For can held various activities. instance, that tual carpet coversMile and provides the Magnificent dif enjoyable experience to the street. This system creates a vir pavingactive that covers spaces urban and provides a more Avenue, of the Michigan part but it is a system of an inter values to the experience of going to the stores. will become even more common, we have to provide added Especially nowadays that online shopping is becoming and tinations than fully enjoying along this street. their journey Mile moreMagnificent as a pathway to their shopping des sheltered spaces is missing. We believe that users may see metropolitan system that contains seating, gathering, and Avenue’s has been faded. quality Currently urban unifying ture, fashion but also human interaction. However, Michigan These special features, not only embrace commerce, architec of the main treads, that by its’ features adds value to the city. life. terlacing materials which has also been woven with people’s becomes richer. of the city fabric Thus, as in streets perform tentials and enhancing their unique characteristics, the whole to the webs of a city.and knit identifying By this treads’ po fabric.urban Each street is an element that can weave, braid, THREADS OF THE CITY SPARKAWARD 2016 LOUIS VUITTON CHICAGO IIT ARCHITECTURE VIEWS OF THE DIFFERENT SCENE SITE ANALYSIS AND DEFINITION OF THE DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE AS STREET A FLOW OF OPPORTUNITIES Susan Conger-Austin IIT ARCHITECTURE Therefore, our proposal does not focus on a particular Within of Chicago, the fabric Mile is one the Magnificent Streets are threads that can create forms and shape the Paul Endres UNITY CHICAGO LIGHTING City in the Sky: Mark Nagis Pezo von Ellrichshausen TECHNOLOGY

PAVING Robert Bracken MCHAP.emerge 2014 VERTICALITY ACTIVITIES A Study in Lightness (SOM) Agata Siemionow SAFETY SUSTAINABILITY LOUIS VUITTON BUFFET Station Mutation Naive Intention 01/02: HIBRIDITY USERS SHADING Susannah Drake SPARK AWARD 2016 HORIZONTALITY Middle Ground Morgenstern Chair Spring 2016 Peter Land Suspended Ceiling DISTRICTS Justin Degroff

SUBURBIAN Universal Space THREADS OF THE CITY IIT Innovation Campus ------Zoka Zola taking into accounttaking how people will behave in the future. spaces and gathering atmosphere to the street, there are also street. Finally, are these interventions not only adding seating to shop Online while having an enjoyable experience in the purchases, the design of some of the pavilions allows users some people won’t event go to stores personally to make their of shopping these days, part to the extent that important very Mile.of MagnificentMoreover, as technology is becoming a interactive and architecture panels that explains the history to the street get to know bettercan have by the opportunity play with the paving under some of the pavilions, or tourists pers, residents, and workers. For instance, can literally kids vate season to the street involve in every tourists, kids, shop transparent,very translucent and light as if they were fabrics. street, the materials used to enclose the sheltered units are tion, for a better and the interaction between the pedestrians could grow and mutate according to its surrounding. addi In based on the location needs and are the units of a system that fabric. that city can make a richer way. Thus,Mile Magnificentwould become a stronger thread tion between these two dimensions in a more collaborative tween public and private realms to and tries create a connec interactive. Moreover, the system becomes the thresholds be the way we understood streets before and make them more to new times, new lifestyles and new needs that can change strongly related to adapt the street with technology and try Monika Thadhani Dorothea Schulz CURRENT CIRCULATION AND DYNAMIC INTERACTION In more In detail, these enclosures are- designed to acti Furthermore, can be modified these interventions Jennifer Park Chris Groesbeck New City Image of Sharing (VOA) Urban Paradox Monika Thadhani Lluís Ortega Chris Groesbeck

Streets are threads that can create forms and shape the strongly related with technology and try to adapt the street (VOA) urban fabric. Each street is an element that can weave, braid, to new times, new lifestyles and new needs that can change Interior Bestiary and knit to the webs of a city. By identifying this treads’ po- the way we understood streets before and make them more Felix Madrazo tentials and enhancing their unique characteristics, the whole interactive. Moreover, the system becomes the thresholds be fabric of the city becomes richer. Thus, streets perform as in - Reforesting the City - tween public and private realms and tries to create a connec- John Manaves terlacing materials which has also been woven with people’s tion between these two dimensions in a more collaborative life. way. Thus, Magnificent Mile would become a stronger thread Studio Abroad TU Delft Within the fabric of Chicago, the Magnificent Mile is one that can make a richer city fabric. Steven Brubaker of the main treads, that by its’ features adds value to the city. Furthermore, these interventions can be modified These special features, not only embrace commerce, architec

- based on the location needs and are the units of a system that - - - - ture, fashion but also human interaction. However, Michigan Susan Conger-Austin could grow and mutate according to its surrounding. In addi- WeGo City Avenue’s urban quality has been faded. Currently unifying tion, for a better interaction between the pedestrians and the Making Metropolis metropolitan system that contains seating, gathering, and street, the materials used to enclose the sheltered units are sheltered spaces is missing. We believe that users may see very transparent, translucent and light as if they were fabrics. Tailor Made Housing Setting the Stage Magnificent Mile more as a pathway to their shopping des- In more detail, these enclosures are designed to acti- PERSONAL INTERPRETATION OF MAGNIFICENT MILE tinations than fully enjoying their journey along this street. CIRCULATION AND DYNAMIC INTERACTION PROPOSED vate the street in every season to involve kids, tourists, shop- Especially nowadays that online shopping is becoming and pers, residents, and workers. For instance, kids can literally will become even more common, we have to provide added play with the paving under some of the pavilions, or tourists Pezo von Ellrichshausen values to the experience of going to the stores. can have the opportunity to get to know the street better by Therefore, our proposal does not focus on a particular interactive panels that explains the history and architecture MCHAP.emerge 2014 part of the Michigan Avenue, but it is a system of an inter- of Magnificent Mile. Moreover, as technology is becoming a Thomas Kearns active paving that covers urban spaces and provides a more very important part of shopping these days, to the extent that enjoyable experience to the street. This system creates a vir- some people won’t event go to stores personally to make their Agata Siemionow 2014/15 tual carpet that covers the Magnificent Mile and provides dif- purchases, the design of some of the pavilions allows users Somewhere, Somethings: ferent scenarios that can held various activities. For instance, to shop Online while having an enjoyable experience in the rethinking the buffer spaces to include paving, seating, light- street. Finally, these interventions are not only adding seating Naive Intention 03/04: ning, shading, and sheltered spaces for different users while spaces and gathering atmosphere to the street, there are also Marshall Brown The Space Problem they can enjoy the vegetation. These interventions are also taking into account how people will behave in the future. Successive Aggregate PERSONAL INTERPRETATION OF MAGNIFICENT MILE American Dreams: Super Capricious Field PAVING Blocks, Broad Acres and Ulf Hackauf HORIZONTALITY Winy Maas SAFETY ACTIVITIES SHADING Local Codes

DISTRICTS USERS Bryant Pitak TECHNOLOGY Susan Conger-Austin SUBURBIAN HIBRIDITY UNITY Studio Abroad TU Delft SUSTAINABILITY Dirk Denison VERTICALITY LIGHTING Paul Endres BUFFET Andrew Schachman Urban Farming Beyond ADDITIONALVALUES SPACE TOURBAN THE Jason Frantzen (Herzog & de Meuron) Chicago Winter Active Cliché THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE STREET AS A FLOW OF OPPORTUNITIES CURRENT CIRCULATION AND INTERACTION DYNAMIC CIRCULATION AND INTERACTION DYNAMIC PROPOSED Porous Boundaries ADDITIONAL VALUES TO THE URBAN SPACE Miami Mark Nagis Martin Felsen Robert Bracken (SOM) Water Enterprise Trade Dirk Denison Zone Re-Populating a Frontier Mobility Maria Del Olmo Threads of the City, 2016 Metropolis: Detroit Professor: Susan Conger-Austin Louis Vuitton Spark Award Winner

SITE ANALYSIS AND DEFINITION OF THE DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS

VIEWS OF THE DIFFERENT SCENE CLOUD TALKS 2014-16 Keller Easterling on Ideology On Extrastatecraft Emanuel Christ & Eric Mumford On Urbanism With Ph.D. Carlo Ratti Chris Gantenbei On the Sensable City On Practice Professor Of Architecture, Sam Fox School, Washington University In St. Louis Kiel Moe Victoria Easton On Our Model of Models CLOUD TALKS On Typology Igor Marjanovic On Pedagogy Winy Maas Thomas Leslie On Wegocity Tailor Made Housing Visiting and academics speak to students in IIT On Skyscrapers Hrvoje Niric Architecture Chicago’s innovative Cloud Studio that brings “Chicago Skyscrapers 1871-1934” On Heterotopia together students from undergraduate and graduate Founder, Njiric +Arhitekti programs to work alongside one another on projects Lee Gray on Movement Kristina Hill related to the city of Chicago metropolitan area. Judith Dejong On Cities Adapting to Flooding On Suburbanisms “New Suburbanisms” UIC Sarah Whiting on Chicago Elastic Grid Teddy Cruz On Tijuana-San Diego Border Pier Paolo Tambureli On Project Of A Historical Architecture Jose Castillo University Of Milan, San Rocco Magazine On Mexico City: Felix Madrazo Title: “Project Of A Historical Architecture” Narcissus in The Megalopolis On Supersudaca

Ed Dimenberg Fabrizio Gallanti Eduard Fuhr On Description Is Design On Berlin Wall On Downtown : “Berlin Wall Construction And Cognition Culture, Infrastructure, and the Search 1952-2014” For New Paradigms Vivian Manasc On Net Zero Urban Architecture in Extreme Christopher White Bobby Rush Climates On Energy On Politics David Salomon On Aesthetic Infrastructure Conor O’shea Patrik Schumacher On Landscape On Free Market Urban Order Geoff Goldberg On Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Or How to Philip Oldfield Ciro Najle Rebuild on Tall Buildings On The Singular Out of the Generic Mimi Hoang Miguel Robles-Duran Sebastian Adamo On Buildings And Almost Buildings On Activism and Affordable Housing On Buildings As Experience Enhancers Cloud Talk Lecturers: Winy Maas (L) and Sara Whiting (R) ARCH 435 | Brett Balogh ARCH 497-09 | Mahjoub Elnimeiri ARCH 500 | Michelangelo Sabatino Digital Fabrication Topics in Architecture: Global Modernism Structure: Architecture ARCH 438 | Alphonso Peluso of Chicago Skyscrapers ARCH 501 | Sean Keller Design Visualization 1871-1934 Contemporary Architecture

ARCH 445 | Scott A. Mehaffey ARCH 497-09 | Mahjoub Elnimeiri, ARCH 502-01 | Michelangelo Sabatino MASTER OF SCIENCE Prairie School and Natural- Arthur Takeuchi Chicago–Metropolis istic Landscape Design Topics in Architecture: Structure, Proportion ARCH 502-02 | Jonathan Miller IN ARCHITECTURE: Aestetics ARCH 454 | Donna V. Robertson White Cubes and Large ELECTIVES Contemporary Chicago Glasses: Architecture in the Architecture: Case Studies ARCH 497-10 | Antony D Wood, Peng Du Context of Art Elective courses will provide some of the most valuable learning Topics in Architecture: experiences to help students dig further into their research territories Talking TALL ARCH 456 | Sean Keller, Daniel Talesnik in the Master of Science program. ARCH 503-03 | Sean Keller, Wiel Arets Topics in Modernism Advanced Topics in The College of Architecture’s instructors, who come from various ac- ARCH 497-11 | Susan Conger-Austin ademic and professional backgrounds, are an asset to the Master of Topics in Architecture: History &Theory II: ARCH 481 | John J Ronan Science student’s thesis formulation. Equipped with vast arrays of knowl- Chicago’s Magnificent Mile Polemical Houses edge in the historical and theoretical fields of architecture, the instruc- Materiality in Architecture tors help to maximize a student’s readiness to use tomorrow’s most ARCH 508 | Alphonso Peluso ARCH 497-14 sophisticated design, analysis, and presentation tools. ARCH 470 | Jonathan Miller Learn more at arch.iit.edu/study. Tom Jacobs Design Communications III: Image City: Mediation of Good Design AND Good Digital Applications Space Business–The Fundamentals ARCH 551 & 552 | Matt Herman ARCH 473 | Jonathan Miller ARCH 497-17 | Farid Abdolhossein Pour, Design of Energy-Efficient Conflict and Time Matthew Herman Buildings I & II Performative Building

ARCH 497-04 | Lluis Ortega Enclosure ARCH 520 | Marshall Brown Topics in Architecture: Arch- Principles of Urban itecture Becomes Public ARCH 497-19 | Monika Thadhani, Christopher Groesbeck Planning and Design Architecture of Reaction ARCH 497-05 | Agata E Siemionow ARCH 570 | Peng Du, Antony Wood Contemporary Urbanism: Talking Tall I The Project for a City ARCH 497-20 | Keefer Dunn MCHAP Seminar THE CITY AS A DIGITAL PUBLIC SPACE: DATA-DRIVEN DESIGN AS A SOCIAL LINK

This research project explores the use of a high-speed rail This research project explores the use of a high-speed rail station as a hybrid space for virtual and physical communi- station as a hybrid space of virtual and physical communi- ties by providing an interface for users to interact with data ties by providing an interface for users to interact with data streamed in real-time. With today’s unparalleled increase in streamed in real-time. With use of data-driven design, new digital information, big data is continuously adapting and social links are formed and powered by technology as the developing our society with the support of emerging tech- city becomes a digital public space. nologies. This has led to the rise and growth of our virtual communities as communication is primarily done through social media networks. The demise of our physical commu- PEGAH SHABEHPOUR, M.S. ARCH nities has reduced social interaction within the built environ- COMPLETED FALL 2016 ment. Despite this forward thinking and the ability to translate big data into architectural solutions, our urban environments have yet to reflect this. Patterns of human interaction within our cities can be transformed by incorporating and visualizing big data within public infrastructure. As a result, the architec- tural design process is due for an update.

Pegah Shabehpour The City as a Digital Public Space: Data-Driven Design as a Social Link Completed Fall 2016

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    GLOBAL NETWORK Architecture today is practiced within a global MORGENSTERN VISITING CHAIR context. Ideas, images, techniques, and individuals Established by a gift from the Victor A. Morgenstern Family flow throughout the world more rapidly than ever Foundation, the Morgenstern Visiting Chair in Architecture is held annually by an architect of the highest caliber, with a substantial before. Increasingly, the clients of architecture are body of work that is widely and recently recognized in the field. also global: international companies and organizations The Morgenstern Chair teaches a design-based research studio in operate in many cities and are shaped by an intercon- the Cloud Studio program, delivers an honorary lecture, and nected global economy. participates in the academic life of IIT Architecture.

Recent Morgenstern Chairs: Vincent James, Minneapolis; Will We also have a core belief that IIT Architecture must Bruder, Phoenix; Sou Fujimoto, ; Paul Endres, Berkeley; Jinhee be a leading participant in the global network, and Park, Cambridge, Mass.; Juan Herreros, Madrid; , that all of us—faculty, students, staff, guests—should ; , ; Glenn Murcutt, Australia; be constantly pursuing exchanges that make connec- Christopher Cornubert, the ; Winy Maas, Rotterdam; tions abroad, publications, and exhibitions of our own. Susannah Drake, New York All of these must be active, two-way exchanges based in immersion, fieldwork, debate, and collaboration—not Right: MCHAP.emerge finalist Jon Lott (PARA Project) presents his work, LOUIS VUITTON SPARK AWARD Haffenden House, to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. (2016) the passive presentation of one person to another, The Louis Vuitton Spark Award, sponsored by Louis Vuitton and the Below: MCHAP roundtable with Alvaro Siza Vieira, Kenneth Frampton, but the productive struggle to create collective and City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Jorge Liernur, Sarah Whiting, and Michelangelo S Sabatino (2014) honors an outstanding student from the College of Architecture’s ongoing projects throughout the world. Following: MCHAP finalists discuss their projects and professions with students. undergraduate and graduate Cloud Studio program reflecting the college on Michigan Avenue in Chicago later in fall. IIT Architecture offers a public program of lectures, debates, symposia, and exhibitions that complements and amplifies its educational and research activities. COUNCIL ON TALL BUILDINGS AND URBAN HABITAT These events extend our conversations to a wider ANNUAL AWARDS audience and express the school’s central commit- The CTBUH Awards recognize individuals who have made extraor- ment to engage with the world beyond its walls. dinary contributions to the advancement of tall buildings and the urban environment. The CTBUH award winners are recognized and awards conferred at the CTBUH Annual Awards Ceremony & Dinner. Poster presentations of the winning projects are displayed MIES CROWN HALL NORTH AMERICA PRIZE during the symposium in IIT Hermann Hall’s Gallery Lounge. The Mies Crown Hall North America Prize is a reflection of the school’s embodiment of the legacy of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and its renewed position as an international center for the PUBLICATIONS presentation, debate, and promotion of excellence in American IIT Architecture will regularly publish collections of essays, conver- architecture. The principal objectives of the prize are to recognize sations, and projects by prominent architects, educators, scholars, and commend excellence in the field of architecture and to draw and theorists, as well as portfolios of diverse design research in attention to the important contribution of American professionals relation to both architecture and urban culture worldwide. These in the development of the discipline. The prize also promotes the collections will feature interviews, exhibitions, and other events. profession by supporting young architects as they launch their Both pedagogical exercises and archival tools, these publications careers. The prize seeks to celebrate the diversity of American will be produced internally by the collaborative effort of students, architectural expression, while promoting architecture’s role as faculty, and staff. They are also tools for archiving and exhibiting both a basis for the interchange of ideas as well as an arena for the studio research projects pursued at the school. the construction of a common American culture.

DEAN’S LECTURES Adrian Geuze Armand Mevis 2013-16 West 8, Rotterdam The Mies Society Lecture Bernard Khoury Craig Dykers Phyllis Lambert “Local Heroes” “Why (do we) Bother?” “Building ” Joshua Prince Ramus Jean Pierre Crousse Inaki Alday “An Agency Of An Architect” Barclay & Crousse DEAN’S LECTURE “Hyperreal Vectors” Iwan Baan Florencia Rodriguez Stan Allen The Louis Vuitton SPARK Award Lecture Piedra, Papel y Tijera Publishers in Buenos SERIES “Metropolitan Fields” Aires, Argentina Marcelo Ferraz Ben van Berkel Brasil Arquitetura Jacques Herzog “Managing the Void” The MCHAP Lecture Riken Yamamoto Herman Hertzberger “To Create Architecture is to Vittorio Lampugnani Each semester a series of lectures extend the “Why Architecture” Create the Future” Studio di Architettura, Milano College of Architecture’s conversations to a Winy Maas Erwin Olaf Mark Wigley Photographer And Filmmaker, wider audience and express the school’s central “What’s Next?” “New Babylon” commitment to engage with the world beyond its walls. All Dean’s Lectures are free and open Pezo von Ellrichausen Mels Crouwel “Naïve Intentions” Eisenman Architects, New York to the public and take place in Center Core at Benthem Crouwel Architects S. R. Crown Hall, the home of IIT College of Kees Christiaanse Steven Holl Sanaa, Tokyo Architecture, located at 3360 South State Street “Grand Projets: Creating Centralities” Steven Holl Architects The Som Architecture And Urban Planning in Chicago. Videos of lectures can be found at Lecture Rafael Vignoly Susannah Drake arch.iit.edu/life/lectures. “Designing 432 Park Avenue” “WPA 2.0: Beauty, Economics, Politics, Iñaki Abalos Ecology and Creation of 21st Century Public Abalos+Sentkiewicz As+ Infrastructure” Edward Uhlir Wonne Ickx & Carlos “Millennium Park @ 10: A Critique” Stefano Boeri Bedoya Ikeda Stefano Boeri Architetti Productora, Mexico City & Los Angeles Winy Maas The Morgenstern Chair Lecture The Morgenstern Chair Lecture William Baker Laurie Olin Jorge Francisco Liernur “Geometry – Structure - Architecture” The Peter Schaudt Lecture “Contemporary Metropolitan Challenges and New Architecture in Latin America” David Adjaye Adjaye Associates The Morgenstern Lecture Dean’s Lecture Series Lecturers: Jacques Herzog (L) and David Adjaye (R) ILLINOIS INSTITUTE IIT ARCHITECTURE COLOPHON OF TECHNOLOGY CHICAGO Concept and Editorial Committee Located in Chicago, the College of Architecture at Rowe Family College of Architecture Vedran Mimica Dean Endowed Chair Agata Siemionow Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is one of the largest Wiel Arets and most international architecture schools in the Editorial Assistance . With more than 100 students from 50 Director of the Master of Science Jorge Serra countries and 100-plus faculty members, the school in Architecture Program Evelyn Wong embodies the global metropolis in miniature. Our faculty Vedran Mimica Copy Editing and Proofreading are international prize-winning architects, scholars, Keefer Dunn and engineers. Beyond the college, the city of Chicago MASTER OF SCIENCE Marcia Faye provides the inspiration and the testing ground for our IN ARCHITECTURE AND explorations, as students learn directly from one of the CLOUD STUDIO FACULTY Graphic Design Travis Rothe world’s greatest metropolises. Carlos Bedoya, Visiting Morgenstern Chair Photo Credits Robert Bracken, Part-Time Professor Through education, research, and practice, IIT Architec- Mohammad Hossein Abbasi ture extends its Bauhaus lineage by its work on a full Marshall Brown, Associate Professor Aditya Avinashi range of contemporary issues, including sustainability, Iwan Baan Steven Brubaker, Adjunct Professor global urbanization, material and structural advances, Andrew Bruah design-build integration, digital modeling and fabrica- Susan Conger-Austin, Studio Professor Kejia Liu Yingu Pan tion, and design theory and criticism. As IIT Architec- Christophe Cornubert, Visiting Morgenstern Michael Wolf ture focuses on a future of global urbanism, it remains Chair true to its legacy as a place of meticulous thinking and Paul Endres, Assistant Professor making. IIT is a place where it matters how things are Publisher and Distributor made—whether it be a door, a building, or a city. IIT Martin Felsen, Assistant Professor IITAC Press/Illinois Institute of Technology Architecture is housed in Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s College of Architecture Chris Groesbeck, Part-Time Professor 3360 South State Street masterful S. R. Crown Hall—a National Historic Land- Peter Land, Professor Chicago, IL mark and one of the most significant buildings of the 60616-3793 twentieth century. The McCormick Tribune Campus Winy Maas, Visiting Morgenstern Chair 312.567.3320 arch.iit.edu Center (MTCC) was designed by ’s Office Lluís Ortega, Associate Professor of Metropolitan Architecture, one of the world’s most influential architecture firms. Mauricio Pezo, Visiting Associate Professor Andrew Schachman, Studio Associate Professor Agata Siemionow, Visiting Assistant Professor Monika Thadani, Part-Time Professor Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Visiting Associate Professor