As a faculty member and researcher at the Institute of Design, Chris Rudd is dedicated to creating design tools and frameworks in pursuit of anti-racist outcomes. In Rudd’s view, these frameworks can...
An Illinois Institute of Technology student design team won the Retail Building Division of the United States Department of Energy Solar Decathlon® Design Challenge. The interdisciplinary team...
The American Institute of Architects has announced its award winners for 2021, and among them are Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture Associate Studio Professor Jennifer Park and...
Illinois Institute of Technology is pleased to announce the investiture of Rowe Family College of Architecture Dean Endowed Chair Reed Kroloff. Kroloff joined the university in 2019, but his...
For the roughly 50 million people worldwide living with dementia, daily life can become a struggle, characterized by confusion, forgetfulness, and difficulty completing everyday tasks. It takes a toll...
In 2013 the City of Chicago approved the closure of 49 public elementary schools, the largest school closure in United States history. Reports showed that the move was most detrimental to the students...
At the corner of 43rd Street and Prairie Avenue, right next to a Green Line “L” station, sits a long-vacant lot owned by the City of Chicago. It is one of the many vacant lots in the city’s...
In Japan, onigiri is everywhere. The rice balls, filled with meats and veggies, are consumed for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and have a history that goes back centuries. Onigiri, like sandwiches in...
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed how we think about the spaces in which we work, most of all signaling the death knell of the open office plan. Offices are complex places, filled with...
Carlos Teixeira (Ph.D. DSGN ’02), associate professor at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design, will be named the Charles L. Owen Professor in Design, in recognition of his impactful...
