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Professor of Architecture and MLA Director Ron Henderson mentioned in Forbes Magazine article on driverless cars. Henderson is on the Driverless City Project team named a finalist for the .

All New Cars To Have Significant Autonomous Vehicle Technology When 20 automakers announced this spring they would include Automated Emergency Braking Systems as standard equipment in all cars, they effectively standardized autonomous vehicle technology, an expert said in Chicago Monday.

NCARB: More Women Entered the Architectural Profession in 2015 The number of individuals working toward licensure also reached an all-time high last year, according to data from the council's forthcoming 2016 “By the Numbers” report.

Edgar Alvarado, an student instructor, measures the tallest gumdrop tower, constructed by High School students in our unique Experiment In Architecture summer program.

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The jury listen intently as Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA discusses MCHAP Finalist Grace Farms in New Canaan, Connecticut.

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The jury reviewing the site of Star Apartments with architect Michael Maltzan in Los Angeles, California.

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The MCHAP 2014/15 Jury on the rooftop of MCHAP Finalist, Tower 41, overlooking the skyline of Mexico City.

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The jury are seated in conversation here in the Pachacamac Museum in Lima, Peru.

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The jury are featured here standing in front of the UTEC campus in Lima, Peru.

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The jury survey the rooftop of Weekend House, an MCHAP 2014/15 Finalist, in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

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Last night, members of the jury announced the seven finalists for MCHAP 2014/2015 at in . Join us at in on October 19, 2016 for the MCHAP 2014/15 Symposium and for the announcement of the MCHAP 2014/15 winner.

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MCHAP 2014/15 Finalists announced from Museo Tamayo in Mexico City.

IIT College of Architecture Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture Dean Wiel Arets, Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) Director Dirk Denison and MCHAP 2014/15 Jury President Stan Allen announced the MCHAP 2014/15 Finalists at an event held in Museo Tamayo, Mexico City the evening of June 23rd.

The jury attended a reception on day two of their MCHAP 2014/2015 Jury tour in ahead of the June 23rd MCHAP 2014/15 Finalists announcement from Museo Tamayo in Mexico City.

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IIT College of Architecture Join us to hear the MCHAP 2014/15 Jury announce the MCHAP 2014/15 Finalists at 7:30 p.m. CDT on June 23rd from Museo Tamayo in Mexico City

The jury visits Lina Bo Bardi's in Sao Paulo on day one of the MCHAP 2014/15 Jury tour ahead of the June 23rd MCHAP 2014/15 Finalists announcement from Museo Tamayo in Mexico City.

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Marshall Brown featured in Chicago Reader announcement of fall Chicago Humanities Festival which runs from October 29th through November 12th.

Speed will be the theme of this year's fall Chicago Humanities Festival The fastest Humanities Fest yet!

American Pavilion at Venice Biennale, which features an installation by IIT Architecture faculty member Marshall Brown, profiled in Smithsonian Magazine.

Architects Reimagine Detroit A new exhibition in Venice showcases how 12 teams would reinvent four sites in Detroit badly in need of facelifts

Design/Build 2016 makes progress on community center in Antihuala, Chile.

IIT College of Architecture Students of IIT Architecture Chicago have been hard at work developing a community center as part of the 2016 Design/Build Studio in Antihuala, Chile. Currently three weeks into the studio, Professors Frank Flury, Colleen Humer, and students have made significant progress toward the construction of…

The jury begins a tour of MCHAP 2014/15 Finalists sites in Sao Paulo, Lima, Mexico City, Los Angeles, New Canaan and Toronto. Look for the announcement of the MCHAP 2014/15 Finalists from Museo Tamayo in Mexico City on June 23rd.

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Martin Felsen and other IIT Architecture Chicago faculty participate in exhibit on CAF's 50th Anniversary exhibit; article in Chicago Tribune.

Chicago architects offer 50 ideas for 50 wards at exhibition With roots that stretch back to 1966, when activists saved the Henry Hobson Richardson-designed Glessner House on Prairie Avenue, the Chicago Architecture Foundation is turning 50. But it's not looking back with sepia-tinted nostalgia. Instead, the foundation is out with a timely new exhibition that...

B.Arch. 2015 Grad Majed Abdulsamad shares his thanks and next step on the IIT Students Syrians for a Better Future Blog.

Long Journey Coming to a Start I have always thought that finishing my last architectural studio at Illinois Tech would be the end to my 6-year-long journey of studying architecture, a journey that I started in 2009 at the colle…

ABI shows continued increasing demand for design.

April ABI Marks Continued Increase of Positive Conditions in All Regions Although the year began with a decline, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) has shown three consecutive months of increasing demand for design...

IIT Architecture Board of Advisor Ralph Johnson's work featured in Architect Magazine.

Ralph Johnson: New Topographies This portfolio of recent work by the Chicago-based principal of Perkins+Will shows a new and directed interest in integrating his buildings with the landscape.

IIT College of Architecture Three faculty members from IIT Architecture Chicago -- Marshall Brown, Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Mauricio Pezo -- are participating at the Venice Biennale.

Pezo von Ellrichshausen mentioned in NYT Magazine piece on Alejandro Aravena.

Alejandro Aravena, the Architect Rebuilding a Country Good-looking, charming and a celebrity in his native Chile, the surprise winner of this year’s Pritzker cares more about solving social problems than exercising his artistic chops.

New journal on technology, architecture, and design.

TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN Journal TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN is a peer-­reviewed international journal dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in the field of building technology, with a particular focus on its translation, integration, and impact on architecture and design. TAD solicits, captures, and shares new knowled...

Marshall Brown's Ziggurat at The Arts Club of Chicago through July 23rd.

The Arts Club of Chicago - Marshall Brown : ZIGGURAT This is "The Arts Club of Chicago - Marshall Brown : ZIGGURAT" by ontherealfilm on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

A Classroom Without Borders I don’t know where to start. The story goes back to my first year of college in Syria. “Don’t you think Hatahet would be a designer?” said Professor Michalle Zayat (I think …