Associate Teaching Professor
Associate Teaching Professor, Jennifer Park has taught at the College of Architecture for over a decade during which she has served as the Director of Second Year Studios and Curator of IIT’s Open House exhibit. She is also the founding partner of ParkFowler Plus, an award-winning architecture firm whose diverse portfolio reflects their core value that good design should be shared with all.
Jennifer’s design explorations in both practice and academia query the relevance of pattern and memory with the social, political and economic structure of the time. Her work includes the new design for Columbia College Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the award-winning David Rubenstein Forum and BARDAVID at the University of Chicago.
Jennifer has a Bachelor of Architecture and Art History degree from Columbia University in New York and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. She is an active advocate for EDI in the profession and academia. Jennifer has served on the Executive Board of Directors for AIA Chicago, co-founded the AIA Chicago EDI Committee and has been recognized with the AIA National Young Architects Award, AIA Chicago Young Architect Award, Michigan Avenue Women of Influence and Curbed Young Guns Award.
Courses Taught
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ARCH 201
Architecture Studio III: House -
ARCH 202
Architecture Studio IV: Multiple -
ARCH 419
Architecture Studio IX: Advanced -
ARCH 420
Architecture Studio X: Advanced -
ARCH 492
Topics in Design/Build: Exploring Installations and Exhibitions -
ARCH 545
Architecture Studio V: Advanced -
ARCH 546
Architecture Studio VI: Advanced