Colleen Humer Colleen Humer

Colleen Humer is an Associate Teaching Professor in the College of Architecture. In 2006, she came to IIT from Toronto and has spent the last 17 years in the College teaching Studio, History and Study Abroad.

Colleen directs the First Year Studio and the International Programs in the College. In addition, she teaches advanced history, advises students and feeds her students baked goods.

With degrees in Fine Arts, and in Architecture from the University of British Columbia, and a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Toronto where she is currently working on a Ph.D. examining the relationship between Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, Colleen’s interest in the design and history leads them to inform each other in her teaching.

Since 2015, Colleen has collaborated on eight, one-month long summer trips where students visit architecture through the ancient to current Pritzker Prize winners. Colleen also teaches history in the College, most recently Cubism and Architecture and Women in Modernism.

In the first-year studio, Colleen works hard to learn the names of all 100 students and further their knowledge of and interest in, architecture, through a series of hands on projects that culminates in full-scale pavilion displayed annually at Open House.