The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture has announced the MCHAP 2014/15 Finalists, recognizing the best built works of architecture in the Americas realized from January 2014 through December 2015. One Canadian entry is among the finalists.
MCHAP was created by Dean Wiel Arets who, in his 2013 inaugural address, offered ?Rethinking Metropolis? as a strategic device for the college, for research, for the development of knowledge and skills, for taking part in design exercises, for debate and for making. Dean Arets outlined his plan for a revitalized curriculum in NOWNESS, a publication in which he announced MCHAP among other initiatives. MCHAP was officially launched in February 2014 at an event hosted by Phyllis Lambert at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and which featured Kenneth Frampton, President of the inaugural MCHAP Jury. The MCHAP 2014/15 Jury includes Jury President Stan Allen, architect and former Dean of Princeton University?s School of Architecture (New York); Florencia Rodriguez, editorial director of Piedra, Papel y Tijera publishers (Buenos Aires); Ila Berman, Professor of Architecture, University of Waterloo (Toronto) / Dean, UVA School of Architecture (Charlottesville); Jean Pierre Crousse of Barclay & Crousse (Lima), and Dean Wiel Arets (Chicago).
The Jury reviewed the MCHAP 2014/15 NOMINATED WORKS and MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 NOMINATED WORKS of architecture in the Americas, realized between January 2014 and D...