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The University of Illinois School of Architecture is an academic unit within the College of Fine & Applied Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The school is organized around six Program Areas - Building Performance, Detail + Fabrication, Health + Well-being, History + Theory + Preservation, Design of Tall Buildings, and Urbanism.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is an academic research institution that is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois System. Since its founding in 1867, it has resided and expanded between the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana in the State of Illinois. Some portions are in Urbana Township. [1]
The University of Illinois has a history in the training of urban and regional planners, dating back to 1913 when Charles Mulford Robinson was appointed Professor of Civic Design in the university's Landscape Architecture Division. At that time, only the University of Illinois and Harvard University offered courses in urban planning. In 1945 ...
The Business Instructional Facility (BIF) architecture has been described as "adding a sympathetic and fresh flavor to the campus's rich fabric of Georgian architecture while including sustainable features." [7] The geometry of BIF is defined by "three perimeter bar buildings" composed of native brick and natural stone forming a 'U' shape.
The Busey–Evans Residence Halls, historically known as the Women's Residence Hall and the West Residence Hall respectively, are historic dormitories at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) is the largest college of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The college was established in 1913 through the merger of the College of Literature and Arts and the College of Science. [5] The college offers seventy undergraduate majors, as well as master's and Ph.D. programs. [6]
The University of Illinois would go on to interview McKim, Mead, and White about consulting on the campus master plan, but ultimately, Charles A. Platt was hired instead. Platt chose the Georgian Revival style for the designs he created for the university, leading to a glut of Georgian Revival construction on the University of Illinois campus ...
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign was among the first institutions in the nation to offer an educational program in landscape architecture, with a degree program in place by 1907. [1] It is the only accredited program in the state of Illinois to offer all three landscape degree options, BLA, MLA and Ph.D.