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"Rationalizing Architecture Through Research"

Friday, April 10, 2026

This one-day on-campus symposium will describe disciplinary and professional attempts to rationalize architecture through research. Our focus will be on architecture that is concerned with health, defined here to include both medical architecture and extra-medical spaces like workplaces and homes.  

The main aim of the symposium is to reflect on the role of research in architecture, with specific attention to issues of information and embodiment. Another aim is to gauge the potential for interdisciplinarity between two School of Architecture program areas: Health and Well Being and History, Theory, Preservation.

Presenters:

Bill Stuart (keynote): Johns Hopkins University Department of History of Science and Technology

Didem Ekici: UIUC School of Architecture

Geoffrey Goldberg: University of Chicago Department of Art History

Kathryn Holliday: UIUC School of Architecture and Department of Landscape Architecture

Christopher Lueg: UIUC iSchool

Avigail Sachs: University of Tennessee School of Architecture

David Theodore: McGill University Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture

Michael Twidale: UIUC iSchool

Julie Zook: UIUC School of Architecture and Carle Illinois School of Medicine

Co-chairs: Julie Zook (contact) and Kathryn Holliday

Further details forthcoming.