Commencement 2026: A Milestone Moment
On Saturday, May 16, 2026, Illinois Tech’s 2025–26 graduating class of 2,972 students will celebrate the next milestone on their life’s journey during the university’s 157th Commencement ceremony at...
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Creating Cultural Practice Through Architecture
Julian Stanfield (M.LA+U ’26) had the chance to travel to and evaluate numerous cities—their history, systemic policies, people, and energy—before joining the College of Architecture’s Master of...
Asking Questions for Social Impact
While working at a business consulting firm serving the health care and public service sectors straight out of her undergraduate degree program, Rhea Shah (MDes ’25) realized that when tackling her...
‘Diplomacy Through Architecture’: Architecture Students Take Part in Unique Trip to Japan
Every year for the last decade and a half, a prestigious international exchange program has chosen a single class of students to travel to Japan to explore the country’s practices and culture. For the...
Assistant Professor Earns Prestigious Architecture Award for Reusable Design
Resting on a small hill in Bethel, New York—the location of the infamous 1969 Woodstock festival—is the 2026 ACSA Faculty Design Award-winning project created by College of Architecture Assistant...
Expanding the Architect’s Purview
Il Hwan Kim (B.ARCH. ’17) sees the role of an architect as anything but cast in concrete. In fact, his frustration with those who think that architects should limit themselves to materials such as...
Rough Hand Sketch Earns College of Architecture Student an Inaugural Gensler Opportunity Scholarship
After submitting a simple sketch of a residential marketplace surrounding an abandoned train track in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, an Illinois Tech College of Architecture student was one of the...
‘An Educational Environment, Designing Educational Environments’
Catherine Wilmes has spent a lot of time thinking about classrooms. She began her career at Efficiency Lab for Architecture, a Brooklyn-based practice focused largely on schools, where conversations...
Landscape Architecture and Urbanism Studio Receives National Honor Award
Trees were at the center of a trip to Japan for a group of Illinois Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture students—a trip that also led to a national award for the students’ investigation...
Adjunct Faculty Member and Alumna Wins AIA Social Justice Award
Converge Architecture, co-founded by Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture Adjunct Professor Annabell Ren (B.ARCH. ’14), is celebrating this year with flourish: two 2025 American...