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MAS Context Fall Talks 2025

Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive

October 9, 2025 at 6PM

Jayne Kelley, director of the Architecture and Design Open Archive, discussed the history and goals of the new center for research and publication at UIC. The program took place at UIC School of Architecture (845 West Harrison Street, 3100 A+DS, Chicago, Illinois 60607).

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Jayne Kelley

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Models of the Chen Residence (left) and Camouflage Residence (right), Garofalo Architects. Courtesy of the Architecture and Design Open Archive.

Open to the public in 2024, the Architecture and Design Open Archive is a special collection, research room, and center for publishing based jointly in the schools of architecture and design at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). The Open Archive contextualizes and makes accessible materials in varying formats that embody disciplinary ways of thinking and making. It holds approximately three thousand books and periodicals, including rare titles, as well as notable collections of type specimens, models and prototypes, and faculty work, with a special focus on collaborations between faculty and students. It is also the repository of the professional archive of the award-winning architect Doug Garofalo. The Open Archive supports researchers within and outside of the university; its collection, programming, and publications also serve as immediate teaching resources for students and faculty.

During this event, Jayne Kelley, director of the Architecture and Design Open Archive, discussed the history and goals of the archive and highlighted items from the collection.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive, UIC School of Architecture, 2025. © Iker Gil.

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Jayne Kelley

Jayne Kelley is an editor and writer based in Chicago. She is director of the Architecture and Design Open Archive, a study and publication center based in the schools of architecture and design at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). She also teaches at the UIC School of Architecture. She is co-editor of American Framing (Park, 2023) and the Canadian Centre for Architecture series The Museum Is Not Enough (Lenz/CCA, 2025; Sternberg/CCA, 2019) and co-author of The Western Town (Hatje Cantz, 2013). Her writing has appeared in Area, Clog, the Journal of Architectural Education, MAS Context, NESS, OASE, and Flat Out, where she is a member of the editorial board. Through her freelance practice, she has copy edited dozens of manuscripts and has collaborated in various ways with the Architect’s Newspaper, the CCA, M+, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, and several architecture and design firms.

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