Charles F. Glore House by Frank Lloyd Wright
The School of Architecture, founded by Frank Lloyd Wright as the Taliesin Fellowship in 1932, is pleased to offer our Summer Immersion program for a second year. This year's program will be based in Chicago, and includes a weekend trip of architectural touris in Southern Wisconsin. This immersion program is open to adults of all ages who are interested in architecture and urbanism. A background in the field is not required.
Our Summer Immersion program will explore notions of collective space in architecture and urban design through historic and contemporary projects across rural and urban landscapes. Participants will engage in tours and private events at a number of significant Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in Chicago and Wisconsin, as well as many other important cultural and architectural sites in the region.
2021 Summer Immersion Project
At the heart of the Chicago program will be a short design project in collaboration with a local community organization. Students will engage design through a small public design proposal, informed by their tours and with input from local residents and community partners. Students will imagine how design can inform, augment, and engage neighborhood communities.
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Gideon Schwartzman is an Architectural Designer and educator. Born in Israel and raised in Chicago, Gideon received his Master of Architecture with distinction from the University of Michigan and his SMarchS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, Gideon received the institute wide Marvin E. Goody Award for his thesis Many Mini Model Homes and the Louis C. Rosenberg Travel Fellowship to study Hundertwasser in Western Europe.
Gideon currently serves as the coordinator for the first year Masters of Architecture program at the Illinois Institute of Technology and has been published in Dimensions, Plat, Pool, Fresh Meat, and Room 1000 with writings ranging from pop reference to the consequences of material abstraction. His work has also been exhibited at the Sao Paulo Biennale, the A+D museum in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary art in Detroit, and at the Durker design gallery at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Gideon has worked professionally for Johnston Marklee in Los Angeles, the Critical Broadcasting Lab at MIT, Howeler and Yoon in Boston, and Dirk Denison Architects in Chicago.
S. Lloyd Natof is a furniture designer who specializes in veneered furniture and casework, selecting and applying the wood veneer himself. His new studio for furniture design and woodworking is in Oak Park, Illinois and he is continuing his commissioned work for private collectors, architects and corporations. He teaches Compositional Design and assists in student shelters at TSOA, where he is a returning faculty member.
is the President of The School of Architecture, and is a teacher, practitioner, and researcherdedicated to experimental architecture. Established in2003 with Benjamin Aranda, his studio Aranda\Lasch approaches design througha deep investigation of structure and materials. Recognition includes the United States Artists Award, Young Architects Award, Design Vanguard Award, AD Innovators,and the Architectural League Emerging Voices Award.
is the Dean of The Schoolof Architecture and the founder of Present Forms, a design practice that explores the techniques and reciprocities of materials, media, and space. Present Forms is a member of design collective Office III, a 2017 finalist in the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program. Stephanie was named the 2023 recipient of the WOJR/Civitella Ranieri Architecture Prize.
Program Fee with Housing
$4,500
Program Fee without Housing
$3,000
Program Fee with Housing
$2,500
Program Fee without Housing
$1,750
Program Fee with Housing
$1,500
Program Fee without Housing
$1,000
Program Fees will be credited toward the M.Arch program should a participant decide to enroll. The Program Fee includes meals, studio space, and basic materials for design exercises.
**Not included: Airfare, local transportation, final project materials
**Participants in each program length will engage in design exercises around weekly chosen themes. Student Housing will be provided through the Illinois Institute of Technology.
All participants must provide proof of full vaccination at least two weeks prior to the start date of the program.
Sketchbook, preferred drawing tools, camera or camera phone, laptop or iPad, Rhino/Adobe software (optional for non-background participants), comfortable walking shoes.
Alongside your design studio, all Immersion students are encouraged to audit Summer M.Arch courses, including:
ARC 503 Experimental Studio
ARC 505 Special Topics
ARC 592 Compositional Design 1
Additionally, you will have the opportunity to engage in Community Life through dinners, events, and student activities.
Second Year Studio Model
wyoming Valley School by Frank Lloyd Wright
The program includes a weekend visit to significant Wright sites in Wisconsin and the “driftless” region of the state (a three-hour drive from Chicago) from July 22-24. This dramatic landscape fundamentally informed Wright’s work, including his theories on organic architecture and his early Chicago-based projects through which he defined his quest to establish a uniquely American architecture.While in Wisconsin, students will have access to the historic Wyoming Valley School as home base, which was built by Wright in 1956. Students will engage local community and culture through special events and a formal dinner.
During the Wisconsin trip, students will gain a special focus on Wright’s work, observing relationships between individual and collective spaces, architecture and landscape, and urban and suburban form. Students will explore these relationships through the lenses of scale and organization, program, materials, and environment, all of which inform the role of architecture within culture and society. The trip will be complemented by readings around Wright’s works and thought.
For more information on the Summer Immersion Program, please contact admissions@tsoa.edu
