University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture and the Arts
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The College of Architecture and the Arts is a school at the University of Illinois at Chicago
offering both undergraduate and graduate programs of study.
The college is noted for Chicago-based architectural education, being one of the few universities in Chicago to offer architectural and urban planning programs, often with a unique focus on the Chicago School (architecture)
. UIC's campus has original structures by Walter Netsch
, and the university's Urban Planning Program consistently ranks within the top ten in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. UIC's quality in fine arts has attracted several noted professors of the field to the university, including Stanley Tigerman
, Robert Bruegmann
and Hannah Higgins
.
University of Illinois at Chicago
The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop...
offering both undergraduate and graduate programs of study.
The college is noted for Chicago-based architectural education, being one of the few universities in Chicago to offer architectural and urban planning programs, often with a unique focus on the Chicago School (architecture)
Chicago school (architecture)
Chicago's architecture is famous throughout the world and one style is referred to as the Chicago School. The style is also known as Commercial style. In the history of architecture, the Chicago School was a school of architects active in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century...
. UIC's campus has original structures by Walter Netsch
Walter Netsch
Walter Netsch was an American architect based in Chicago. He was most closely associated with the brutalist style of architecture, as well as the firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. His signature aesthetic is known as Field Theory and is based on rotating squares into complex shapes...
, and the university's Urban Planning Program consistently ranks within the top ten in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. UIC's quality in fine arts has attracted several noted professors of the field to the university, including Stanley Tigerman
Stanley Tigerman
Stanley Tigerman is an American architect, theorist and designer. He studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Chicago Institute of Design, and Yale University. After serving several years in the United States Navy, he assumed the role of draftsman and designer in a series of offices...
, Robert Bruegmann
Robert Bruegmann
Robert Bruegmann is an historian of architecture, landscape and the built environment. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a specialist on the Chicago school , and best known for his research on the architectural firm of Holabird & Root...
and Hannah Higgins
Hannah Higgins
Hannah Higgins is an American writer and academic living in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of the Fluxus artists, Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles.-Biography:...
.
Departments
- University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Art History|Department of Art History
- City Design Center
- Gallery 400Gallery 400Gallery 400 is a not-for-profit arts exhibition space within the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago. It was founded in 1983 to exhibit and support art, design and architecture. Over its history Gallery 400 has presented many exhibitions, lectures, and...
- Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
- Department of Performing Arts
- School of Architecture
- School of Art and design