Politics of Ordinary Spaces implicates the political dimensions of the often-ignored, ordinary spaces of nation, economy, and body that make up much of the contemporary world. The exhibition, curated by Lindsey Krug and Adrienne Economos-Miller, brings together three artists—Jonas Becker, Melissa Dorn, and Pablo Lazala Ruiz—who are interpreting and revealing the content of these spaces hidden by convention and habit.
The SARUP Graduate Info Session is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the possibilities and potential of a graduate degree with us, tour our facilities and student studio spaces firsthand, as well as meet with faculty, staff, and current students.
Community land trusts (CLTs) are emerging as one of the most effective tools for creating permanently affordable homeownership while building long-term community wealth. This session provides an overview of the community land trust model, including how nonprofit organizations, municipalities, financial institutions, and for-profit developers can partner to expand affordable housing opportunities.
Founded by Ann Lui and Craig Reschke in 2015 and joined by principal Linda Chávez Baca in 2023, Future Firm works across spatial scales with a focus on arts and culture organizations, non-profits, and mission-driven businesses. Future Firm operates on the core belief that architecture and design is a key ingredient in the building of a more equitable and vibrant city, for everyone.
This talk will explore the role of curiosity, experimentation, and temporality through the work of two landscape architecture educators. It will use written, instructed, and built projects to make a case for a research and design practice that is more open to and inclusive of the spatial and temporal dynamics that make landscapes such delightful collaborators.
This exhibition presents an evolving investigation into technotonics: the relationships among architecture, sound, vibration, bodies, technology, and collective life. The project brings together architectural research on underground sonic communities, experimental work with sound and material sensing, and research into ambience, camp, and practice-based, auto-theoretical experiences drawn from my work within Chicago’s gay nightlife and entertainment industry.
We like to say that buildings tell stories. The goal is always to find a thread between what a building or a site has been and what it can become—adding something new and distinctly contemporary without erasing what came before. In practice, this means new architecture layered within old, and materials reused rather than discarded—finding value in what is already there. The lecture will highlight projects that try giving people a more complex relationship with history: not as something finished and separate, but as something alive that we actively engage with, reinterpret, and continue.
SUPERjury is a day-long review and celebration of the most provocative undergraduate and graduate projects in the school. With projects nominated for consideration by both students and faculty, the goal of SUPERjury is to foster self-reflection and stimulate a conversation about the state of architecture within the school and how our work relates to contemporary issues in practice and the world.