Assistant Professor
College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology
Ryan Roark
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Scientific Committee
Note: The Scientific Committee for the symposium is constantly updated with new members. Please visit the website regularly for updated list.
Edoarda Corradi Dell’Acqua
Lecturer
Armour College of Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
Edoarda Corradi Dell’Acqua is a lecturer in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology where she teaches courses in engineering graphics, architectural design, and high performance building design. She received a Master of Science in architectural engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology after completing a degree in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. Her work experience in Milan and Chicago includes office, commercial and residential building design with Box Studios and studio Bandello 6, and design integration with dbHMS. Edoarda is also Co-President of the Chicago Architectural Club, which promotes debates within contemporary theory and criticism in art and architecture. Her work McCormick Place Redux has been presented within the Use-Re-Use Adaptive Modernism Workshop at the 2014 Venice Biennale.
Peng Du
Assistant Professor
College of Architecture & Built Environment, Thomas Jefferson University
Dr. Du is currently an Assistant Professor and Director of both Master of Urban Design (MUD) – Future Cities Program and M.S. in Geospatial Technology for Geodesign at the College of Architecture and Built Environment in Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He has also served in several important roles at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), including Director & Board Member of the Asia Headquarters, and a Co-Chair of the Council’s Academic & Teaching Committee. Dr. Du’s research focuses on net-zero buildings and cities, computational urban design, urban energy modeling, and urban data analytics, incorporating interdisciplinary approaches. His research has received broad media coverage by venues such as Curbed, CityLab, and Smart Cities World. Dr. Du’s current research centers on using data-driven and simulation-based tools to examine the relationships between urban form and environmental and social performance parameters in the context of high-density cities, such as building energy-use intensity, daylight availability, outdoor thermal comfort, visual interest, green space, and solar energy potential. Dr. Du has published several books and numerous peer-reviewed articles, and he is currently co-editing a book titled Sustainable High-Rise Buildings: Design, Technology, and Innovation, expected to be published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in 2022. Prior to joining Thomas Jefferson University, Dr. Du taught at the Texas Tech University and Illinois Institute of Technology. In addition, he has taught studio modules and organized international workshops at Tongji University in Shanghai periodically. Dr. Du is a LEED-Accredited Professional and WELL-Accredited Professional. He holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from Illinois Institute of Technology, and an M.Arch from Tongji University.
Associate Professor
College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology
Martin Felsen
Martin Felsen is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and director of UrbanLab, an architecture and urban design firm based in Chicago. UrbanLab is involved in projects at all scales, ranging from large, urban infrastructural plans to residential, commercial, and recreational projects. Felsen’s professional work blends design and research to produce uniquely progressive, site-specific projects, resulting in a new aesthetic for environmentally resilient architecture, landscapes, and public space. His recent book, titled Bowling, speculates on ways to realign architecture and infrastructure with dwindling natural resources. He was awarded the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows Latrobe Prize, the History Channel’s “City of the Future” competition, and many design awards from the American Institute of Architects. Felsen’s work has been published and exhibited widely, including in the 2010 and 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale and the 2015 and 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Professor
College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology
Ron Henderson
Professor Henderson is an international leader in Landscape Architecture design, history, research, and education. His broad range of current research includes: The Driverless City Project, gardens and contemporary urbanism in China and Japan, arboriculture and horticulture practices, botanical drawing, and landscape-based urbanism. He is the author of The Gardens of Suzhou (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013) and numerous articles on landscape architecture and urbanism. His next publication, The Driverless City, focuses on the urban design implications of driverless and autonomous vehicles. Professor Henderson is invited to lecture frequently with recent talks at Harvard University, Tongji University, Beijing Forestry University, Oslo AHO, ETSAB Barcelona, Chiba University, Boston University, DESIGNxRI, US National Arboretum, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Graham Foundation, among others.
National Director of Urbanism Program
School of Architecture, Art and Design, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Karen Hinojosa
Dr. Karen Hinojosa Hinojosa is the National Director of the Urbanism Program at Monterrey Tech (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) in the School of Architecture, Art, and Design (Escuela de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño - EAAD). Dr. Hinojosa Hinojosa holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from Monterrey Tech (Mexico), a Master's degree in Architecture from the Universidad de Navarra (Spain), and a Doctoral degree in Architectural and Urban Affairs from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (Mexico). Her research focuses on Sustainable Urban Developments, Social Economies, and Participatory Processes in Architecture. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Sustainable Territorial Development (Desarrollo Territorial Sustentable) group, a research think-tank with a national and international scope. She has worked on and developed projects in Mexico and Spain. Additionally, she has served as the Urban Consulting leader at the C+Lab-North Region, specializing in community-oriented development strategies through academic infrastructure.
Assistant Professor
College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology
Youngjin Hwang
Youngjin Hwang is a designer, building scientist, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). His research focuses on environmental building design and technology, exploring the intersection of architectural design, thermodynamics, and building technology, with an emphasis on sustainability in the built environment. His expertise spans climate-adaptive building technologies, renewable building energy systems, and architectural design harnessing thermodynamics and renewable environmental forces. He holds a Ph.D. in Architectural Sciences from the Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and completed his Master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied environmental building design. Before joining IIT, He served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma. His work has been presented at renowned international and national peer-reviewed conferences and widely exhibited, including Tallinn Architecture Biennale, NYC Wanted Design, Seoul Architecture Festival, and KIA International Competition.
Jorge Pérez Jaramillo
Architect, Urbanist, Author
Jorge Pérez Jaramillo is an architect, planner, and author based in Medellín, Colombia. With a professional career spanning since 1987, he currently serves as an advisor to the Governor of Antioquia for Planning and Habitat. In March 2020, he joined the Scientific Committee for the Climate Emergency defined by the Governor, and he was selected as a Resident Fellow at the Bellagio Center in Italy by the Rockefeller Foundation in August 2019. Jorge Pérez Jaramillo is a member of the Advisory Panel Group of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and works as a senior consultant for the World Bank. His experience includes being a Visiting Fellow at King's College, Cambridge in 2017 and a guest professor at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) at UC Berkeley from 2017 to 2019. Previously, he served as Medellin's Chief Planner from 2012 to 2015 and coordinated the winning candidacy of the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize for Medellin in 2015. Throughout his career, he held positions such as Dean of the schools of architecture at UPB from 1993 to 2001 and USTA from 2018 to 2019 in Medellín, while also contributing as a professor at various universities. Jorge Pérez Jaramillo is the author of the book "Medellín, Urbanism and Society" (2019, Turner Editors Mexico-Madrid).
Assistant Professor
College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning, University of Cincinnati
Hyesun Jeong
Hyesun Jeong, PhD, Assoc. AIA is an assistant professor of urban design at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and a co-director of Orville Simpson Center for Urban Futures. Dr. Jeong’s interdisciplinary research studies the built and cultural environment of global cities. Topics of her research and design studio include arts and cultural placemaking, Main Street, sustainable transit, and ecological urbanism. Prior to joining UC, she previously worked at the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Chicago. She obtained PhD in Architecture degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She has practiced at various global design firms, including Goettsch Partners (Chicago), Dominique Perrault Architecture (Paris), and POSCO Architects and Consultants (Seoul). Her research has been published in top peer-reviewed journals, including Cities and Urban Affairs Review, and book chapters. Recently, her research-design project on green infrastructure received a national award from the American Institute of Architect’s Upjohn Grant Initiative program.
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Visiting Assistant Professor
College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology
Yohan Kim
Yohan Kim is a Visiting Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Master of Tall Buildings and Vertical Urbanism program in the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago. He is also Academic Coordinator at Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). Kim holds a Ph.D. in architecture and a Master of Architecture, both from IIT. His research centers on high-performance building façades, natural ventilation in tall office buildings, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling and analysis. His doctoral dissertation, entitled “The Feasibility of Double-Skin Façades (DSFs) to Provide Natural Ventilation in Tall Office Buildings,” investigates the impact of DSF configurations on indoor airflow behavior in tall office buildings and the integration of computational simulation into the design process. He was awarded the ARCC 2022 King Medal for Excellence in Architectural + Environmental Design Research. His areas of interest include sustainable tall buildings, performance-based façade design, double-skin façades, natural ventilation, parametric design studies, and CFD simulation.
Professor
School of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Dalhousie University
Christine Macy
Christine Macy is a Professor in the School of Architecture within the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Prof. Macy holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, and a Master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. Macy serves as a partner at Filum, a design practice specializing in lightweight structures and public space design. Her work revolves around the intersection of architecture and the city, with a focus on public space, the social role of architecture, waterfront development, memory spaces, critical reflections on architectural history and theory, and the culinary landscapes of Nova Scotia. She has authored over a dozen books, written numerous papers, and in 2006 received the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. Macy currently serves as an Executive Board member at Dalhousie University Press.
Professor
College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology
Vedran Mimica
Vedran Mimica is a Croatian-born Dutch architect and educator currently serving as Professor and Director of the Master of Science Program at IIT College of Architecture in Chicago. He graduated with honors as an architect-engineer from the University of Zagreb in 1979 and pursued his postgraduate education and research at the Technical University in Delft under the guidance of Herman Hertzberger. In 1991, Vedran Mimica joined the Berlage Institute Amsterdam, where he later became the Course Director in 1995. From 2007 until its closure in 2012, he served as the Institute's Director, overseeing educational and curriculum programs, as well as leading research initiatives. Throughout his distinguished career spanning over 30 years, Mimica has made significant contributions to various pedagogical, cultural, and intellectual realms. He has authored several books, including the notable publication "The Berlage Affair" released by Actar in 2018, and has written numerous articles. Additionally, Mimica has served as a juror in architectural competitions worldwide and acted as the head of the curatorial team for the 3rd International Architectural Biennale Rotterdam in 2007.
Ryan Roark
Assistant Professor
College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology
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