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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 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 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.
Illinois became the first state to enact laws regulating the practice of architecture in 1897. In May 1919, during an American Institute of Architects (AIA) convention in Nashville, TN, 15 architects from 13 states came together to form an organization that would become NCARB. Emil Lorch from Ann Arbor, MI, was elected the organization's first ...
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Established as one of 37 public land-grant institutions established after the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act. The act was signed by Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1862. The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding ...
The auditorium has a camera atop it which captures live video of the Main Quad, which can be accessed on the Illinois website. Directly in front of the building, at the bottom of the stairs, there in a semi-circular forecourt area. Due to the architecture, when standing directly in the center, an echo can be heard by the speaker.