award _ AIA/ACSA HOUSING DESIGN EDUCATION AWARD
“At Home with the Collective: A Seminar and Studio on the Future of Housing” received the 2025 AIA/ACSA Housing Design Education Award.
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teaching/exhibit _ REVIEW OF 1:1 UNIT MOCKUP
UIC Today features Collective Housing Studio and Exhibit, “Architecture Students Explore Big and Small Ideas for Housing,” July 29, 2024.
teaching/research _ ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF A UNIT
“One Day in the Life of a Unit,” performance and exhibit, Graduate Research Studio, UIC School of Architecture, May 2024.
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talk _ SPEAKING AT UIC’S SPARK TALKS
Speaking at the inaugural Spark Talks, convened by the UIC Chancellor, Nov. 17, 2023. Featured in UIC Today.
…conference _ GLOBAL SUMMIT ON COLLECTIVE HOUSING
“At Home with the Collective: A Summit on Communal Housing,” convened at UIC Architecture in Chicago, Thursday, October 19 – Friday, October 20, 2023. This 2-day summit gathered speakers from around the world, local stakeholders and activists, as well as city officials who have radically rethought established norms of living, models of homeownership, and the formal, programmatic, material, and legal parameters of housing. Our ambition was to generate new knowledge that can confront the current struggle for affordability and speak to the potential of collective housing as a productive challenge for architecture.
…teaching/research _ SPACES OF SOLIDARITY IN COLLECTIVE HOUSING
“Rehearsals in Solidarity of Collective Space,” a seminar and performance at UIC Architecture, Dec. 2022.
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research/conference _ INNOVATION AWARD
Innovation Grant from the Humanities Institute at UIC awarded for the research and conference “At Home with the Collective,” 2023.
…research _ MAS Context
Conversation and feature of seminar and studio work on Collective Housing now published in MAS Context. Read it here.
research _ LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
“Location, Location, Location: Identifying Sites for Housing in Chicago,” a research and teaching project, UIC Architecture, February 2022.
…research/teaching _ HOMEWORK: TRANSFORMABLE PLANS FOR ADOPTABLE LIVING
Homework: Transformable Plans for Adoptable Living, a seminar on work in the confines of home, 2021.
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research/teaching _ HOMEWORK: ELEMENTS OF TRANSFORMATION
Homework: Elements of Transformation, a catalog of transformable spaces that accommodate work in the confines of home, 2021.
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research _ Award for Creative Activity
The Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research at UIC awarded Eisenschmidt the Creative Activity Prize for the book project Felix Candela in Chicago, 2020.
research _ Distinguished Faculty Award
Eisenschmidt received the Distinguished Faculty Award for 2020-2022 from the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts at UIC.
exhibit _ CITY OF URBAN INVENTIONS
Drawing exhibited at Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism: Collective City, Seoul, Korea, September 7 – November 10, 2019.
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research _ AN INVENTORY OF ARCHITECTURAL FICTIONS OF THE CITY
An inventory of architectural fictions of the city …
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teaching _ LEARNING FROM MEXICO CITY STUDIO: IN SEARCH FOR AN ARCHITECTURAL URBANISM
Learning form Mexico City Studio: In Search for an Architectural Urbanism
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research _ IN THE FIELD: MEXICO CITY’S ARCHITECTURAL URBANISM
In the Field: Mexico City’s Architectural Urbanism
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research/teaching _ Teaching Recognition Award
Recipient of the 2018 UIC Teaching Recognition Award. Thanks to the faculty award committee, the Office of the Provost, and the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
archive _ MAPS FROM TENOCHTITLÁN TO MEXICO CITY
Collection of Maps from Tenochtitlán to Mexico City
…City of Architectural Fiction
Journal of Architectural Education (JAE 72:1) published the “City of Architectural Fiction” drawing (previously on view at Lisbon Triennale, 2016) as part of the Discursive Image series.
research/teaching _ Silver Circle Award
The College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts at UIC recognizes Eisenschmidt with the Silver Circle Award for teaching. Thanks to the graduating class of 2017 that selects the recipient.
research/teaching _ ACSA CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) recognizes Eisenschmidt with the ACSA Creative Achievement Award for his “teaching, design, and scholarship … that advances architectural education.”
exhibit _ LETTER TO LISBON
“Dear Mayor Fernando Medina,” at the Letters to the Mayor exhibition, Galeria dos Paços do Concelho, Lisbon, Portugal, October 10 – November 30, 2016 (org. Storefront for Art and Architecture and Lisbon Triennial of Architecture).
…VC News
VC Project featured in UIC News
exhibit _ “IN SEARCH FOR AN ARCHITECTURAL URBANISM” AT LISBON ARCHITECTURE TRIENNALE
In Search for an Architectural Urbanism, exhibited at The World in Our Eyes, part of the 4th Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon, Portugal, October 6, 2016 – January 15, 2017.
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research/teaching _ RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
University of Illinois at Chicago names Eisenschmidt the “Rising Star – Researcher of the Year 2015.” Ceremony: February 17, 3:30pm.
exhibit _ “COLLECTIVE CITY” AT THE BI-CITY BIENNALE OF URBANISM\ARCHITECTURE
Collective City exhibition at the 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Shenzhen, China, December 4, 2015 – March 1, 2016.
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research/teaching _ ARTICLE ON STUDIO
Archinect published review of recent studio of the Visionary Cities Project at UIC Architecture.
research/teaching _ SEARCH FOR AN ARCHITECTURAL URBANISM
Collective drawing of a “modernist” Campo … the project of architecture as that of the city. (image zoom)
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research/teaching _ CONVERSATIONS ON THE CITY
CONVERSATIONS ON THE CITY: This is an ongoing series of conversations on topics related to the contemporary city. The core of these dialogues lies in the pursuit of an architectural urbanism, in identifying different forms of engagements with the city, and in formulating the project of architecture as that of the city. Recordings of conversations include: Martin Felsen, Winy Maas, Stanley Tigerman, Bernard Tschumi (published in City Catalyst with AD), Andrew Zago, and Elia Zenghelis.
…exhibit _ VISIONARY CHICAGO PANORAMA
Panorama of a Visionary Chicago, produced first for the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice (2012) and redesigned and expanded for a display at the city of Chicago’s Cultural Center Expo 72 Gallery, measuring 160′ in length.
…research/exhibit _ VISIONARY CITY iPHONE APP
The Visionary Cities Project developed an iPhone app in collaboration with Cheng+Snyder (www.chengsnyder.com).
…research/teaching _ WISH YOU WERE HERE!
“Wish you were here!” This project explores spatial, organizational, and material ingenuities born out of the forces and pressures of the contemporary city.
research/teaching _ LOBBYING ARCHITECTURE
Lobbying Architecture, a global design workshop for the Architectural Association in London.
…exhibit _ “VISIONARY CHICAGO II” AT CAF
Visionary City: Chicago’s Urban and Architectural Dreams exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, June 21, 2012 – May, 2013.
research/teaching _ EXTRAPOLATED CITY
Extrapolated City exagerates isolated conditions of the existing city in order to create new forms of urbanism, where rivers runs through intersections, bridges start to cross between skyscrapers, lakes appear in the Loop, rooftops become lush gardens, buildings begin to set back, vertical parks grow tall, urban graphics are written into the shoreline, and individual monuments form historical archipelagos.
…research/teaching _ CATALOG OF VISIONARY URBANISMS
Catalog of Visionary Urbanism is an ongoing project that collects, compares, and catalogues every important urban vision, from historical treatise to contemporary popular culture.
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research/teaching _ REVIEW ON SEMINAR
Architect’s Newspaper and Chicago Plus review exhibition of Visionary Chicago and calling it “stimulating and provocative;” mounted at UIC’s Ramp Gallery, May – September, 2011.
…research/teaching _ ARCHITECTURAL VISIONS OF THE CITY
“Architectural Visions of Chicago” studies the vast amount of unbuilt, visionary architectural and urban project for the city.
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exhibit _ “VISIONARY CHICAGO I” AT UIC
Developed as part of the theory course “Architectural Visions of the City,” the exhibition recorded, compared, analyzed, and extrapolated Chicago’s architectural dreams and nightmares (UIC Architecture Ramp Gallery, April 28 – Sep 2, 2011).
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