Established 1867 Academic staff 59 Phone +1 217-333-1330 Number of students 757 | Director Peter Leslie Mortensen Undergraduates 525 Founded 1867 Endowment 6.674 million USD | |
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Chairs Paul Armstrong, (Design)Mir Ali (Structures)Paul Kapp (interim) (History & Preservation)Michael McCulley (Practice & Technology) Address Institute of Aviation at Parkland College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign, IL 61820, USA Similar University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carle‑Illinois College of Medicine, UIUC College of Education, Harvard Graduate School of, University of Applied Arts Vienna Profiles | ||
The University of Illinois School of Architecture is an academic unit within the College of Fine & Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Contents
- History
- School traditions
- School facilities
- Directors
- Student organizations
- Plym Distinguished Visiting Professorship
- Notable alumni
- References
The school is also affiliated with the Building Research Council (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 1870 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 a few years after the Architecture Departments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell University, and after Architecture classes began at the University of Pennsylvania, it is the fourth 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.
Together with the Architecture Program at Cornell University, the school is also known to be one of 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.