Events

The Undeniably There resumes with the second in the trio of exhibitions—Thoughts to Form moves from concept to form, aiming at unveiling the inputs, missteps, iterations, and edits that make up the creative process.

Let’s see how the sausage is made. Thoughts to Form invites you to revisit a lost or unfinished work from your past and to share—and embrace—the journey of its redemption. This exhibition will celebrate the creative process by bridging the gap between the past and present, allowing the audience to witness the moment of transformation.

Participants:
Vincent Calabro, Penelope Dean, Grant Gibson, Andrew Jennings, Alexander Jones, Misiuna / McCarthy, Uthman Olowa, R.E. Somol, Cody Tyler Schueller, Studio Becker Xu, Juan Suarez, Andrew Zago.

The Undeniably There, a year-long, three-part exhibition series, is organized within and for the UIC School of Architecture by faculty Barbara Materia and Spencer McNeil. This series is envisioned as a platform for exchanging ideas while serving as an informal pedagogical tool—a platform for students to explore theoretical questions about architecture and participate in school-wide discussions on various disciplinary themes.

Rather than presenting finished objects, the three interconnected exhibitions—one held in fall 2025 and two coming in spring 2026—invite the school’s faculty and staff to inhabit the interval between concept and construction, where conjecture and rigor, delirium and method, work side by side until speculation acquires the density of fact. The series aims to disrupt conventional narratives of architectural production and reveal the many lives an idea can take on its way to becoming form. Additionally, it seeks to explore architecture as a language—an evolving system of signs, symbols, and associations through which ideas are generated, debated, and ultimately made tangible.

2.6—5:30 pm
3550 Octagon A+DS
845 W Harrison Street 
Chicago, Illinois 

Credits: Clockwise from top left: 1. My Sensitivity, Jill Magid, 2007. 2. “Yellow Red” Façade at Sint Joris Alley, Office Winhov, 2025. 3. Kinstugi, Marco Montalti – iStock. 4. Layout for double-page spread of Bauen in Frankreich, Sigfried Giedion, ca. 1927.