Judith De Jong
University of Illinois Chicago
Architect and urbanist, principal of De Jong Urban Projects, whose work investigates the relationships between architecture and the city, and the opportunities for design innovation in architectures and urbanisms of mass culture. Her book, New SubUrbanisms, is available from Routledge. De Jong’s interest in the future of the Netsch Campus at UIC, combined with her role as Associate Dean of CADA from 2014 to 2022, produced a pair of exhibitions at Gallery 400, co-curated by Lorelei Stewart, and led to the University’s 2019 international design competition for a Center for the Arts at UIC, won by OMA/KOO. In 2020, she won a national ACSA Creative Achievement Award for her Netsch Campus work.