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Spencer McNeil

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Spencer McNeil is a Chicago-based educator and registered architect whose work explores the interaction and abstraction of reference and context through recombinatory techniques of assemblage and collage. Prior to joining the University of Chicago, he taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Illinois Institute of Technology. He has worked in Chicago for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Norman Kelley, and BairBalliet. Spencer received a Master of Architecture from UIC, where he received the Alpha Rho Chi Medal of Merit, and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Knox College. His work has been published in Wallpaper*, AN Interior, and Dezeen, and conjunction with the writing of Sam Jacob, and exhibited at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Ongoing projects include collaborations with Norman Kelley.

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Mas observations 2025 northerly island at 100 phil enquist

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Northerly Island at 100

Collective reflection on Northerly Island as it turns 100