Donna V. Robertson, professor and dean of the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture, presents a lecture, Monday, March 23, at 5:15 p.m. in the George Pearl Hall auditorium. Robertson is the first Marjorie Mead Hooker Memorial Visiting Professor, a professorship established as an endowed faculty position in the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning as a gift established in honor of his late wife from Van Dorn Hooker and his children, John Hooker and Ann Clarke.
Photo: Donna Robertson
As the school’s first endowed professorship, Robertson has visited the studios of Kramer Woodard, associate professor, School of Architecture and Planning, where they worked on urban infill issues.
Robertson, also the John and Jeanne Rowe Endowed Chair, is an academic leader of national and international stature. During her tenure, she has led the College of Architecture to national prominence. Demonstrating a remarkable range and depth of contemporary professional practice and knowledge, Robertson has established a graduate program in Landscape Architecture, organized the design and construction of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, the State Street Village residence hall and the restoration of S.R. Crown Hall. She also brought the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an international initiative on new high-rise projects, to the IIT campus.
In 2006 Robertson was named an American Institute of Architects Fellow, in recognition of her significant contribution to architecture and society and achievements in the profession. She has been named as one of the top thirty most respected educators by Design Intelligence magazine for bridging the practice of architecture with higher education.
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