IIT COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE - Key Persons
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- Architect
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Expertise
Alejandro Saldaña Perales is an architect currently performing his PhD in Architecture at the CoA. He received his B.A. in Architecture (2011) with honours at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) in Monterrey, México. He earned his Master of Science in Architecture (2018) at the CoA with his thesis titled "The Latin American Export: Implementing Latin American urban strategies to redevelop and reconstruct Bronzeville. He is a Vinci Scholar and his PhD research deals with the politics of private parks in the Near South Side of Chicago. He worked in a number of firms in both México and the United States, as well as the privilege to be the founder of his own private firm back in Monterrey. He has taught social sciences at the Prepa Tec CEGL (High school), and directed the Fourth Year Architecture Studios at the Centro de Estudios Superiores de Diseño de Monterrey (CEDIM). His architectural work includes residential, commercial, and institutional facilities in México. Some of his work was performed in direct collaboration with the government of the State of Nuevo León for which he was awarded with the State Youth Award and the Monterrey Tech Architecture Award. Previous research projects led his work to be included in the Mexican Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Saldaña Perales was a guest architecture and urban critic at the State of Nuevo León radio station (102.1 FM) and hosted his own Architecture radio show at WIIT 88.9 FM, has collaborated with the Mies van der Rohe Society, the Chicago Architecture Center, the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) 2018, various other local institutions, and is a student member of the Society of Architectural Historians.
Education
Tecnologico de Monterrey (B.ARCH. '11)
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- Adjunct Professor
- Adjunct Professor Bachelor or Architecture YR 1 Co - Coordinator
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- Adjunct Professor
- Alexis Arias Adjunct Professor
- Professor
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- Owner
- Studio Associate Professor, Design Communication
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- Studio Assistant Professor Bachelor of Architecture YR3 Coordinator
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- Adjunct Professor
- Architect, Evanston, IL 1992 - Present
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- Adjunct Professor
- Antony Wood Research Professor of Tall Buildings, Executive Director of CTBUH Studio Professor
- Research Professor of Tall Buildings, Executive Director of CTBUH Studio Professor
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- Adjunct Professor
- Consulting
Brian Lee, FAIA, is a Consulting Design Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), one of the most influential architecture, urban design, and engineering practices in the world. His portfolio encompasses domestic and international projects at all scales, recognized by over 100 significant awards such as the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Urban Land Institute, American Library Association, the Chicago Athenaeum, MIPIM, and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Brian has lectured, taught, and participated in studio reviews or Dean's committees at Harvard, UC Berkeley, Stanford, California College of Arts, IIT, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Virginia Tech, and TU Delft; served on AIA, Athenaeum, Marcus Prize, and Spark juries; and has been published worldwide. His work was exhibited in the 2004 Venice and Beijing Biennales, featured at the 2008 World Architecture Festival in Barcelona, and the 2015 Chicago Biennial.
Education
University of California Berkeley (B.ARCH. '76)
Harvard University (M.ARCH. '78)
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- Adjunct Professor
- Adjunct Professor Assistant Materials Lab Manager
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- Adjunct Professor
- Camille Yu Adjunct Professor
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- Adjunct Professor
- Carol Ross Barney Adjunct Professor
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- Landscape Architect
- Chandra Goldsmith Landscape Architect
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- Chandra Goldsmith Landscape Architect
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- Landscape Architect
- Chandra Goldsmith Landscape Architect
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- Principal, President and CEO at Solomon Cordwell Buenz & Associates, Inc
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- Office and Finance Manager
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- Director
- Cierine Nicolas Director of Arup Chicago Office
Colleen M. Humer Senior Lecturer; Bachelor or Architecture YR 1 Co-Coordinator
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- Director of Academic Affairs
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- Director of Mies Society and College of Architecture External Relations
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- Managing Principal BKl Architecture LLC
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- Co - Chair of the College of Architecture Board of Advisors Managing Director - Cotter Consulting, Inc
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- Dirk Lohan Principal at Wight & Company
- Principal at Wight & Company
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- Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Director
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- President of the Landhart Corporation
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- Associate Dean of University and Academic Affairs Associate Professor
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- Director, Bachelor of Architecture Program Associate Professor
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- Senior Associate - Project Architect, Gensler
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- Adjunct Professor
- Antony Wood Research Professor of Tall Buildings, Executive Director of CTBUH Studio Professor
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- Studio Assistant Professor Bachelor of Architecture YR 2 Coordinator
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- Cierine Nicolas Director of Arup Chicago Office
- Kelly Murphy Adjunct Professor
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
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- John Peronto Senior Principal
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- Architect, Chicago, IL, 1989
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- Studio Associate Professor
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- Studio Associate Professor Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Academic Advising
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- Adjunct Professor
- Kelly Murphy Adjunct Professor
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- Dirk Lohan Principal at Wight & Company
- Susan King Adjunct Professor
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- Director of the Graham Resource Center and Architecture Librarian
- Director of the GRC and Architecture Librarian
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- Senior Vice President Global Design, Marriott International
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- Principal Anderson │ Miller Ltd
Leslie Johnson Senior Lecturer; Master of Architecture YR 1 coordinator
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- Director of Buildings and Operations
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- Co - Chair of the College of Architecture Board of Advisors Principal at Krueck Sexton Partners
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- Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
- Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
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- Adjunct Professor Materials Lab Manager
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
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- Principal at Blackline Group
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- Professor Director
- Professor Director of Ph.D. Program in Architecture Inaugural John Vinci Distinguished Research Fellow
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- Natke Part Time Professor
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- Studio Associate Professor
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- Chief Executive Officer, Clune Construction Company
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- Design Principal at Perkins Will
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- Dean & the Rowe Family College of Architecture Endowed Chair
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- Carol Ross Barney Adjunct Professor
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- Professor, Landscape Architecture and Urbanism Program
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
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- MCHAP Program Coordinator
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- Associate Professor Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives
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- Adjunct Professor
- Camille Yu Adjunct Professor
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- Architect, Chicago, IL. 1990 - 91
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- Assistant Dean, Director of International Affairs Studio Professor
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- Susan King Adjunct Professor
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- Studio Associate Professor, Master of Architecture YR2 Coordinator
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- John Peronto Senior Principal
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- Professor Director of M. S. Architecture
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- Alexis Arias Adjunct Professor
- Professor
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- Structural and Civil Engineering Partner at SOM
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- Adjunct Professor Assistant Manager Materials Lab
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- Adjunct Professor
- William Zbaran Adjunct Professor
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- Visiting Assistant Professor