March 27, 2026 12:46PM
UIC School of Architecture
2025-26 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship








The Edith Farnsworth House
14520 River Rd, Plano, IL 60545

Opening
April 19, 6 p.m.

Open House
April 20, 6 p.m.



Graham Foundation

Thursday, April 23, 6 p.m.


Architecture of Noise

The present is a battery. We preside over a time of noise—not signal and noise, not the noise of the past, but a gesamtkunstwerk of noise: every inch authored by someone. We must author and reauthor our contexts and sites. We must remake the present and summon its responsibilities and its terrors. A call for architecture to recalibrate itself: within crisis, within noise, within its history.

This exhibition, staged at the Edith Farnsworth House, presents a constellation of work produced from architecture's caustic limit. A film: a conversation between the present and a synthetic Chicago history. A survey of sites of speculative mass. An illuminated history of Chicago architecture. A new masterplan for the Farnsworth House itself.

February 25, 2026 2:43pm
We are walking through the farnsworth house in minature, but at full scale. Minature in terms of quality.

January 29, 2026 11:47pm
Untitled Farnsworth House Exhibition

The Farnsworth House is a Fountain

December 9, 2025
Masterplan Farnsworth Final Review

University of Illinois Chicago
4th Year Undergraduate Architecture


Students investigate the Edith Farnsworth House in the age of crisis. The question is: in the new epoch of Crisis, where things move slowly and out of sync with time and place, how does architecture approach Crisis, where does it find a site, what is context, once a problem is identified, how do you react?  The Edith Farnsworth House presents a case where students can look at a piece of land, ecology and architecture which is intertwined with forces much larger than its site. These projects ask us to look out of their peripheral vision at the horizon of Crisis and address issues tangentially. 
Students:
Elmir Asadov
Johnny Bleibel
Darice Costea
Pearl Egbuonu
Oliver Flores
Fazil Gurbanzade
Dillon Hamann
Bri Huerta
Niko Kaiteris
Ian Katamay
Yasmine Khalil
Helen Liu
Tolu Oluyede
Dunja Radisavljevic
Diane Romero

Invited Jurors:
Sarah Blankenbaker
Francesco Marullo
Robert Somol
Paul Preissner
Dan Wheeler
Andrew Zago
Barbara Materia
Jayne Kelley
Ania Jaworska
Scott Mehaffey
Mark Stone
Edward Peck

December 5, 2025
The Speculative Pause

I began my Garofalo proposal by understanding Collapse as the force animating the future of Chicago architecture. I was wrong. Something else: a plateau, a pause, a held breath, potential energy, a void. I was entranced by the notion of capturing flows of crisis and understanding its gravity as material for architecture. Despite being poisoned by glass fiberglass deterioration and mold induced by condensation issues in Mies’ glass towers, I see now there is an object of architecture produced by unfinished space rather than the decay of heroic projects. There are voids-objects in the city that are misunderstood as speculative-voids. The famous heroics of Chicago architecture have gone silent, not failed. Leftover potential has congealed into invisible architectural objects, superimposed by potential futures. But at this moment, between speculation and object, we position ourselves. 

Modernism understood that events are objects. A smooth symbiosis between potential actions and objects. But once the temporality changed, so did the object. The unperformed action also becomes an object, but not on a stage like modernism’s event space. Instead it's situated within the formless spaces of potential (plateau, pause, held breath, void…). 

November 17, 2025 12:56pm
100% Authorship 

Chicago Oral Histories

November 3, 2025 7:39pm

September 21, 2025 2:38pm
100% Authorship

We will make a dozen books. 500 Pages ea.

10/24
Carsten Goertz
Neo-Metabolism
Learning to Love the Standard Run, The Real Review 2025
Post-Collapse

The Open Archive
Books

10/31
Book Formats Due

Alain Resnais, Toute la Memoire du Monde
This Will Kill That, Victor Hugo
Umberto Eco, Essay
Vowels Showroom

11/07
Book Analysis Due

11/14
Book Reader Due

The Plateau of the Anti Author
Michael Cohen, Editor Architecture and Abstraction
Architecture and Abstraction, Chapter 6, Pier Vittorio Aureli
Precis of the Lectures on Architecture, Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand. Introduction, 77.

11/21
Book Content Due

12/05
Book Proof Due

October 24, 2025 10:00 am
Carsten Goertz

There is so much to figure out.
How to eat in the Crisis
Careful naming conventions 
Read more books, novels

October 19, 2025 (revised October 29, 2025)



Walter Netsch designed the UIC architecture building. A tombstone inscribed with Art and Architecture. But we must begin at the end: after the failures of utopian projects, the loss in faith, the complete transformation of critical practice into capital one, the materials of growth becoming the toxins of decay and deferred maintenance. I keep imagining we are at the end of architecture. It feels like we're at the end of many things. But in the discourse of apocalypse, we begin at the end. There is incredible abundance in the threads of decay, failure and collapse. What is the end? Being in Chicago is testing my faith. Only reinforcing the fact that architecture with legitimacy is the past. And now we serve as not the center of growth, but a mere piece of shrapnel spun off bigger accelerating forms. 

I had this realization. Rather than thinking of crisis as a matter of scale, it has shifted to a matter of density, or thinness, or absorbitive. That crisis is everywhere and it's just a product of how thickly, like smog, it settles in any given object.  Where are we situated in the discipline? This is a profound shift. I think Andres Jaque’s Transcalarity was fascinating once I understood it, as are the digital physical scale games of David Eskenazi. But somehow if Crisis is a mist rather than an object, the way we operate must transition from objects to mist as well. The quality of architects that rely on poetics is to release the thickness of density by acting like it doesn't exist. 

Restate the task: Architecture has lost its ability to analyze architecture. It has developed a set of alternatives to looking at it directly, rather than to reshape, digitize, circulate, and project… But ironically architecture or references themselves have become a shorthand. It looks very “Swiss,” “post-digital,” technooptimist…. I am not thinking clearly. Can illegibility be authored?

October 21, 2025
100% Authorship 
Test of Faith

October 3, 2025 
Guest Lecture David Eskenazi 

September 29, 2025 4:44pm
Masterplan Farnsworth Site Visit

September 26, 2025
100% Authorship Notes

What happened to Chicago heroism? Why did lineage of excellence taper off slowly? What changed financially? What changed aesthetically? Is the failure of the city a result of? This project is animating a ghost, but there is no interest in hallucinating.

How size works:
   Scale (19th century)
   The industrial revolution capitalized on miniaturized cities, networks, technology.

   Density (21st century)
   The massive shifts happening currently are not large or small, they are everywhere. Density of those elements (technology, crisis, inequality) are what matters.

Restate the task: we are trapped seeing incorrectly as mediums and formats are becoming stale or self-aware. The aim of this class is to look to analyze objects through authorship. Collapse the distance between object of analysis and viewer by seeing that distance as the plane of authorship.

The interview (the third memory): Restate the story from subjective lens
The reference: Use references as actual materials for design rather than suggestive
Surveyorship: Construct new surveil tools
Metonymy: Replace an idea with an object that represents it.

September 19, 2025 
Guest Lecture Luigi Alberto Cippini 

No pictorial theory
“Oliver twist syndrome” every time he’s about to change, he falls asleep
Velasquez the servent
Taylor Swift A+U
All Architecture is The Same

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