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Architecture and Arts Oral History Project
This collection contains sound files and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with former Art and Architecture faculty members. The collection was created by Eileen Broido, working on a celebration of the history of the College in 2007. It also contains some biographical information compiled by Broido.
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Ast, Bruno and Rocah, Louis. Interview. March 13, 2006.
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Professors Bruno Ast and Louis Rocha reflect on their years teaching at the college of architecture. Topics include renowned architects who visited or taught, notable students, establishing college of architecture curriculum, its strengths, and state of the college at the time of interview.
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2006-03-13
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Architecture and Arts Oral History Project
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Ast, Bruno. Interview. August 17, 2006.
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Professor Bruno Ast interviewed by Hasassah Adler. Interview conducted in the Port Center, University of Illinois at Chicago. Ast recounts his early days as an architect, how he was recruited to teach at the university, the ways the college and the architecture program evolved and changed over time. He discusses relationships between faculty and the administration over the years.
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2006-08-17
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Architecture and Arts Oral History Project
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Boyer, Wayne. Interview. February 20, 2006.
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Wayne Boyer interview conducted by Eileen Broido. Boyer, a filmmaker, began teaching film, animation, and some photography shortly after the college moved into the new building. He speaks about the early years (teaching without a curriculum), the interdisciplinary character of the department, accomplishments of his students, challenges his department faced over the years, and the future of the program at the time of his retirement.
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2006-02-20
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Architecture and Arts Oral History Project
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Gelick, Michael. Interview. June 13, 2006.
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Michael Gelick shares his over 30 years’ experience as an educator at UIC and architect at his own firm. He discusses architecture and specifically the curriculum at UIC including faculty, administrators, and trends over the years.
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2006-06-13
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Architecture and Arts Oral History Project
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Haar, Sharon. Interview. April 3, 2006.
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Professor Sharon Haar discusses restructuring the curriculum at the college of architecture, design and the arts, women in higher education (architecture), and drawing more underrepresented groups to the field. Regarding UIC’s influence in Chicago, she compares Chicago to New York and schools of architecture in each location. Haar voices her desire for the future of materials donated to the university archives.
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2006-04-03
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Architecture and Arts Oral History Project
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Houlberg, Klindt. Interview. March 27, 2006.
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Professor Klindt Houlberg discusses the early days of the studio arts program through its current iteration (at time of interview). Topics include curriculum design, groups of artists active in the 60's and 70's, and how the school's focus on intellectual discourse over craft was initially due to lack of resources like materials and space. Interview concludes with discussion of studio arts program, its identity and impact in the arts world.
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2006-03-27
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Architecture and Arts Oral History Project
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Hurtig, Martin. Interview. March 3, 2006.
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In an extended interview, Professor Martin Hurting talks about the development of the art program at UIC including the move to the new campus from the Pier, switching from quarters to semesters, faculty who taught at the college, and student life. Hurting also discusses the gallery system and art scene in Chicago.
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2006-03-03
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Architecture and Arts Oral History Project
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Salomon, Larry. Interview. March 13, 2006.
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Professor Larry Salomon discusses his experience as a student in the University of Illinois art program at Navy Pier and later being among a group of former students invited back to teach. Salomon describes how faculty conceptualized the curriculum in the 60’s and how its changed into the program at the time of the interview.
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2006-03-13
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Architecture and Arts Oral History Project
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Sandin, Daniel. Interview. April 3, 2006.
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Professor Daniel Sandin, a video and computer graphics artist, joined UIC to bring computers to the art curriculum. Saladin shares his thoughts about art, computers, and virtual reality via several videos highlighting his work from the 70’s and 90’s like, the Photobooth installation, Spiral Five, and the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment. Other topic discussed include Sandin’s inventions, student experiences in the program at UIC, and the Chicago Circle Graphics Habitat (now the Electronic Visualization Laboratory) role in original Star Wars movie.
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2006-04-03
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Architecture and Arts Oral History Project
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Wilson, Charles. Interview. April 14, 2006.
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Artist Charles Wilson joined the college in 1972 and speaks about the school’s connection to the new Bauhaus at that time. Wilson also discusses artistic influences, his contribution to the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, and relationships with other faculty at the college.
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2006-04-14
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Architecture and Arts Oral History Project
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University of Illinois Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Collection Type
University Archives
Collection Location
Richard J. Daley Library
Subject--Name
College of Architecture, Design and the Arts--School of Architecture
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UIC History & Administration
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Ast, Bruno
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Tigerman, Stanley, 1930-2019
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Art Institute of Chicago. School
1
Bauhaus
1
Boyer, Wayne A.
1
Candela, Félix, 1910-1997
1
Gelick, Michael
1
Haar, Sharon
1
Houlberg, Klindt
1
Hurtig, Martin
1
Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.)
1
Kind, Phyllis
1
Netsch, Walter
1
New Bauhaus (Chicago, Ill.)
1
Rocah, Louis
1
Wilson, Charles
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Topic
5
Art--Study and teaching (Higher)
4
Architecture--Study and teaching (Higher)
3
College department heads
3
Deans (Education)
2
Architectural design--Study and teaching (Higher)
2
Art students
2
Art, American--Study and teaching
2
Graduate students
1
Animation (Cinematography)--Study and teaching (Higher)
1
Architects
1
Architects--Biography
1
Architects--Education
1
Architecture, Domestic
1
Art and computers
1
Art galleries, Commercial
1
Art--Collectors and collecting
1
Art--Study and teaching--Philosophy
1
College students
1
Computer animation--Study and teaching
1
Computer art--Study and teaching
1
Conceptual art
1
First-generation college students
1
High school students
1
Motion pictures--Study and teaching (Higher)
1
Nineteen sixties
1
Sculpture--Study and teaching
1
Shared virtual environments
1
Virtual reality
1
Virtual reality in art
1
Women in higher education
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