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Somf 2022 topic shaping our world through air

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Somf 2022 international research and design forum booklet

Creating New Architecture Through Research: On Materiality

October 14, Stuttgart

Photograph by ftgrf. © IntCDC, University of Stuttgart/SOM Foundation, Chicago.

Somf 2021 research prize davis gursoy oghazian ghazvinian west pecchia proposal 01

Felecia Davis
Ali Ghazvinian
Benay Gürsoy
Farzaneh Oghazian
John Pecchia
Andre West

2021 Research Prize
MycoKnit: Cultivating Mycelium-based Composites on Knitted Textiles for Large-Scale Biodegradable Architectural Structures

Knitted Base Model. © Felecia Davis.

Somf 2021 research prize lokko dyson proposal 01

2021 Research Prize
Soil Sisters: An Intersectoral Material Design Framework for Soil Health

Anna Dyson
Mae-ling Lokko

Grounds for Return. © Selma Gurbuz.

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Summer Islam and Paloma Gormley. © Material Cultures.

Paloma Gormley
Summer Islam

2021 European Research Prize
Constructive Land

Somf 2022 structural engineering luis berg arboskin itke

2022 Structural Engineering Fellowship
An Ontological Study of Structures and Their Materiality

Luis Berg

ArboSkin, Stuttgart, 2013. © ITKE University of Stuttgart.

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March 17, 2023

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The Anatomy of Sprawl

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2000 Chicago Institute for Architecture & Urbanism (CIAU)
Brenda Case Scheer
University of Cincinnati

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Manhattan 1660 and 1997. The shaded areas are the original blocks of Lower Manhattan, transposed on 1 1997 map on the same area. The land area has increased dramatically in the intervening years, but the original street network remains largely intact. © Brenda Case Scheer.

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Residential neighborhoods with different patterns of houses, streets, and lots. © Brenda Case Scheer.

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The Right to Sewage: Digesting Mexico City in the Mezquital Valley

Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich and Seth Denizen will lecture on “The Right to Sewage: Digesting Mexico City in the Mezquital Valley,” recipient of the 2019 Research Prize. Their project asks what hydraulic, soil, ecosystem, social, and policy conditions can increase chances for success and what its prospects for socioecological sustainability are. Read

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Recent News

2023 Structural Engineering Fellowship Opens

The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the 2023 Structural Engineering Fellowship. The $20,000 fellowship will be awarded to a graduating student based in the United States who specializes in structural engineering to conduct independent travel and research that contributes to this year’s topic, “Shaping Our World Through Air.” The Structural Engineering Fellowship was created in 1998 to support research that has the potential to influence the practice and teaching of how structures can positively impact our built environment.


Society of Architectural Historians Honors SOM Foundation at the Charnley-Persky House 130th Anniversary Celebration

The Society of Architectural Historians is celebrating the stewardship of the Charnley-Persky House on Thursday, November 10 at the Arts Club of Chicago. The celebration marks 130 years since the building was completed and 50 years since it was designated as a Chicago Landmark. The SOM Foundation is among the honorees at the event, in recognition for the years the Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home served as its headquarters.


The Charnley House: From a Private Residence to Headquarters of the SOM Foundation

With 2022 marking the fiftieth anniversary of the designation of the Charnley House as a Chicago landmark, we look back at its transformation from a private residence to the headquarters of the SOM Foundation and Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism.



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