The School of Architecture at UIC promotes architecture as a cultural practice of organizing information, of intelligently identifying and deploying patterns—conceptual, visual, structural, behavioral, and material—in the world. The program prepares its graduates to project all scales of these spatial and organizational patterns through the systematic development of an aesthetic attitude, a technical confidence, and a theoretical opportunism.
When deployed creatively, architecture and urban design are two of the most powerful tools available to remake the world as an artifact of our desires, ethics, and ideologies. Informed by a contemporary and historical understanding of its discipline and location, the School of Architecture ventures to liberate and install new forms of collective association and material arrangement through all media of architectural design and research. Consistent with this commitment, the School recognizes its primary mission to prepare graduates to think, negotiate, and collaborate through all genres of design; to direct diverse project teams; and to generate design artifacts and arguments with a contemporary cultural and disciplinary resonance.
Named in honor of the award-winning architect and educator Doug Garofalo (1958–2011), the Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship is an annual nine-month teaching fellowship that provides an emerging designer the opportunity to teach studio and seminar courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs and conduct independent design research. During its second semester, the fellowship includes a public lecture at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and an exhibition, which is typically held at the school. The Garofalo Fellowship has made an essential contribution to the school’s culture in the last decade. The Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship is made possible through the generous support of individual and corporate donations, as well as grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
Benefits
- The selected fellow will be expected to be in primary residence in Chicago from mid august 2023 through mid-May 2024.
- The fellow is the equivalent of a full-time faculty position and offers a salary.
Eligibilities
- Open to emerging designers from any location.
- The fellowship includes an obligation to studio instructions. A professional or graduate degree in the architecture is required.
- Applicants must apply as individuals, no group applications will be accepted.
Eligible Regions: Chicago.
Application Process
Applicants should prepare the following materials for submission via the web form:
- Curriculum vitae
- Proposal describing research to be conducted as a Garofalo Fellow, 500-700 words.
- Teaching statement, 500-700 words.
- Portfolio of selected work, no more than ten pages.
- Names and contact information of three references.
Application Deadline: February 1, 2023
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