University of Illinois School of Architecture

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University of Illinois School of Architecture
Official seal of the University of Illinois
Established: 1867
Type: Public Professional School
Endowment: $6.674 million[1]
Director: David Chasco
Chairs: Paul Armstrong, Design
Abbas Aminmansour, Structure
John Garner, History & Preservation
Faculty: 59
Students: 757[1]
Undergraduates: 525[1]
Postgraduates: 232[1]
Location: Champaign, Illinois, USA
Admissions: M.Arch (38.13%)[1]
Website: 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.


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[edit] History

Architecture Building, 2007
Architecture Building, 2007

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.

[edit] Degrees & programs

[edit] Undergraduate

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

[edit] Graduate

[edit] International programs

[edit] School traditions

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Student organizations

  • Alpha Rho Chi (APX) architecture fraternity
  • American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) [1]
  • 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)

[edit] Plym Distinguished Visiting Professorship

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Division of Management Information, "2006-2007 Profile for Architecture": http://www.dmi.uiuc.edu/cp/Page.asp?Dept=1B1-KR-KR0-767

[edit] External links