University of Illinois School of Architecture

infobox University
name= University of Illinois School of Architecture


endowment= $6.674 millionDivision of Management Information, "2006-2007 Profile for Architecture": http://www.dmi.uiuc.edu/cp/Page.asp?Dept=1B1-KR-KR0-767]
director= David Chasco
head_label = Chairs
head = Paul Armstrong, "Design"
Abbas Aminmansour, "Structure"
John Garner, "History & Preservation"
established= 1867
type= Public Professional School
staff=
faculty= 59
students= 757b]
undergrad= 525c]
postgrad= 232d]
city= Champaign, Illinois
country= USA
free_label= Degrees
free= BS, M.Arch, and Ph.D
free_label= Admissions
free= M.Arch (38.13%)b]
website= [http://www.arch.uiuc.edu/ www.arch.uiuc.edu]

The University of Illinois School of Architecture is an academic unit with in the College of Fine & Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The school is also affiliated with the Building Research Coucil (BRC), located in Champaign, Illinois.The four teaching divisions in the School instill fundamental professional knowledge through courses in architectural history, building construction, structures, environmental technology and architectural design.

History

Founded in 1867 at the Illinois Industrial University (now the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), the School of Architecture was established under the Polytechnic Department under the proposal by Regent John Milton Gregory. Founded two years after the Architecture Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it is the second oldest architecture school in the United States. Nathan Clifford Ricker was the first student in the school and later became the first graduate with an architecture degree granted by an American institution.

The school is also known to be the first to award an architecture degree to a female in the United States. Mary L. Page, graduated in 1878, was the first woman to earn that honour.

Degrees & programs

Undergraduate

* Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies (B.S.A.S.) - four-year pre-professional degree
* Minor in Architectural Studies

Graduate

* Master of Architecture I/II with options in:
** Architectural Design & Research
** Structure
** History & Preservation
* Doctor of Philosophy - In either Architecture History and Preservation or Environmental Technology

International programs

*Copenhagen, Denmark (summer)
*Munich, Germany (summer)
*Rome, Italy (summer)
*Shanghai, People's Republic of China (summer) - in cooperation with Tongji University
*Versailles, France (academic year)- in cooperation with Ecole d’Architecture de Versailles

School traditions

*Architecture Award Banquet (A3)
*Annual Beaux-Arts Ball
*Critical Mass
*East St. Louis Action Research Project (ESLARP)

School facilities

*Architecture Building (Arch)
*Temple Hoyne Buell Hall (TBH)
*Architecture East Annex One (Annex)
*Ricker Library of Architecture and Art (Ricker)
*The Erlanger House
*Flagg Hall (Flagg)

Directors

*Nathan Clifford Ricker (1873-1910)
*Fredrick Mann (1910-1913)
*Loring Provin (1913-1948)
*Turpin Bannister (1948-1954)
*Alan Laing (1954-1961)
*Granville Keith(1961-1966)
*Jack Swing (1966-1973)
*Richard Travis (1973, 1980-1981)
*Day Ding (1973-1980)
*Alan Forrester (1981-1995, 1996-1998)
*Hub White (1995-1996)
*Michael Andrejasich (1999-2004)
*David Chasco (2004-present)

tudent organizations

*Alpha Rho Chi (APX) architecture fraternity
*American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) [http://www2.arch.uiuc.edu/organizations/aias/]
*Architecture Student Advisory Council (ASAC)
*Architecture, Regional & Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture Open House (ARUPLA)
*Ecological Design Consortium (EDC)
*The Gargoyle Architecture Honor Society
*National Organizaiton of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS)
*Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
*Society for Business and Management in Architecture (SBMA)
*Women in Architecture (WIA)

Plym Distinguished Visiting Professorship

*Dominique Perrault
*Gunnar Birkerts
*Thom Mayne
*Francis Halsband
*Kengo Kuma

Notable alumni

*Max Abramovitz, B.S. 1929, architect of the Avery Fisher Hall of Lincoln Center and Assembly Hall on the Illinois campus
*Clarence Blackall, B.S. 1877, architect for Wang Center in Boston
*Temple Hoyne Buell, B.S. 1916
*David Miller, M.Arch. 1972, funding principal of the Miller/Hull Partnership; Fellow of American Institute of Architect
*Henry Bacon, 1884, architect of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
*Carol Ross Barney, B.Arch. 1971, M.Arch. 1984, architect of the new Oklahoma City Federal Building
*Jeanne Gang, B.S. 1986, founder and principal of the Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang
*Ralph Johnson, B.Arch 1971, principle architect of the Perkins+Will
*César Pelli, M.Arch. 1954, architect of Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur
*Francis Plym, the inventor under the Alcoa
*Nathan Clifford Ricker, D.Arch. 1873, architecture educator

Notes

External links

* [http://www.arch.uiuc.edu// Official Website of the School of Architecture]
* [http://www.library.uiuc.edu/arx/// Ricker Library of Architecture and Art]
* [http://www2.arch.uiuc.edu/organizations/aias/// AIAS Illinois]
* [http://brc.arch.uiuc.edu/// Building Research Council]