Andy Tinucci Andy Tinucci

Associate Teaching Professor Andy Tinucci’s passion for building architecture is as strong as his love for teaching it. From a family of builders, engineers and architects, Andy has trained in both the construction and architecture professions.

He received his BSAS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995 and his B.Arch. degree from the University of Arizona in 2001. In 1996 Andy joined Rick Joy Architects in Tucson, Arizona where he spent 6 years designing and building internationally published and award-winning architecture in the incredible landscapes of the desert southwest. In 2002, he joined David Woodhouse Architects and became partner of Woodhouse Tinucci Architects in 2014, where he still runs a nationally recognized architecture firm. Woodhouse Tinucci has been awarded national AIA awards for their beach restoration work at both Rosewood Park in Highland Park and Gillson Park in Wilmette as well as a COTE Top Ten Award for the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

Andy joined IIT in 2009 as an adjunct professor and became a full time Studio Assistant Professor in 2010. Since that time Andy has served as the director of the third year and fourth year design curriculum and is currently also responsible for the professional practice curriculum at the college. Most recently, in collaboration with the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, Kindon Mills, Andy has been re-writing the fourth-year studio design curriculum towards a more practice based pedagogy.