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Writer, journalist and night owl, now back in the Windy City. Keeping my St. Paul pic because it just feels right.
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Global Impact: Architecture Faculty Present Their Research Around the World

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By Tad Vezner
| iit.edu
A host of Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture faculty have been presenting research papers at international conferences over the past year. First, Assistant Professor Il Hwan Kim presented his project, “Inflatable Formwork: Self-Erecting Pneumatic Formwork for Vertical Concrete Elements,” at the 45th annual conference for the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture in November 2025.
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Architecture Student Receives Competitive AIA Chicago Diversity Scholarship

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By Tad Vezner
| iit.edu
Less than an hour after telling an American Institute of Architects scholarship committee what fuels his interest in the field, Cody Lopez (B.ARCH. 3rd Year) received a call. The committee head promptly informed him he had won a coveted award that empowers a select few diverse and talented architecture students throughout Chicago. “I was somewhat surprised and excited, and incredibly thankful,” says Lopez, who grew up in Chicago’s Belmont-Cragin neighborhood on the city’s Northwest Side.
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‘Every Feature Is Intentional’: Designing and Building Inside and Outside the Classroom

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By Tad Vezner
| iit.edu
There is a certain allure, Olisaemaka Nzeribe (ME ’26) says, to designing and building your own contraptions. “I like the idea of not needing to buy everything I own in the future,” says Nzeribe, who will graduate on May 16, 2026, with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. “The idea of understanding the way things work, being able to fix things, making things on your own.
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