Wednesday, January 27, 7pm in the W.M. Keck Lecture Hall

Robert Somol: See What I’m Saying

Director, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago

Robert Somol has been the Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) since 2007. He is the editor of Autonomy and Ideology and has served on the editorial boards of Any and Log, as well as the soon-to-be-launched Flat Out. His writings have appeared in publications ranging from Assemblage to Wired, and will appear in his collection of essays, Nothing to Declare. For the 2015-16 academic year, Somol will be a Fellow at UIC’s Institute for the Humanities completing his book manuscript, This Will Cover That: Writing and Building from the Death of Corbusier to the End of Architecture, and serve as the Baumer Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Ohio State University.