exhibit _ BREAKTHROUGH: HOUSING FUTURES AT NPHM
BREAKTHROUGH: Housing Futures, National Public Housing Museum, Chicago, November 19, 2025 – April 19, 2026.
…THE HOUSING FUTURES INITIATIVE
exhibit _ REVIEW OF INHABIT/OUTHABIT
Review of Chicago Biennial and Inhabit/Outhabit, Zach Mortice for Bloomberg News, October 4, 2025: “its largest and most cohesive sub-exhibit, ‘Inhabit, Outhabit,’ a sizable show-within-a-show that could fill the Cultural Center on its own.”
exhibit _ INHABIT/OUTHABIT AT THE CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL
Inhabit/Outhabit at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, co-curated with Magdalena Tagliabue, Camilo Restrepo Ochoa, Igo Kommers Wender, and CAB Artistic Director Florencia Rodriguez, September 19, 2025 – February 28, 2026.
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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.
…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 _ AT HOME WITH THE COLLECTIVE (A TEASER)
Impressions from the collective housing summit. To view all recordings, visit UIC’s School of Architecture YouTube channel.
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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.
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talk _ FROM HOUSE TO HOUSING AND FROM OLD INFRASTRUCTURE TO SMART LIVING
“From House to Housing and from Old Infrastructure to Smart Living,” lecture and round table discussion at the Smart Cities Symposium, Casablanca, Morocco, June 8, 2023.
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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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design _ ONE ROOM HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
One Room House under construction, Potsdam, Germany, 2022-23.
research/conference _ INNOVATION AWARD
Innovation Grant from the Humanities Institute at UIC awarded for the research and conference “At Home with the Collective,” 2023.
…design _ LAKE SHORE HUT FEATURE
Lake Shore Hut featured in Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech, eds. K.Michael Hays and Andrew Holder (2022), 160.
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 _ Distinguished Faculty Award
Eisenschmidt received the Distinguished Faculty Award for 2020-2022 from the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts at UIC.