IKER GIL
(Photograph by Andreas E.G. Larsson)
Iker Gil is an architect, urban designer, and director of MAS Studio. Some of the recent projects of the office include a documentation of the residents and units of Marina City with photographer Andreas E.G. Larsson that is being exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago this fall; a prototype for a single-family home in New Orleans; the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago façade identity; an urban proposal for the area surrounding Lambeau Field in Green Bay; and Cut. Join. Play., the first prize in the 2010 Architecture for Humanity Chicago Street furniture competition. The office also recently organized the competition “Network Reset: Rethinking the Chicago Emerald Necklace” with the Chicago Architectural Club.
Iker is also the director of the architecture series at the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago, the editor in chief of the quarterly design journal MAS Context and the editor of the book “Shanghai Transforming” (ACTAR, 2008). He also curated the exhibitions “Shanghai Transforming” at the Chicago Architecture Foundation and Virginia Tech, and “Synchronizing Geometry” held at S.R. Crown Hall (IIT).
In addition, he is an adjunct assistant professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he teaches design studio and architectural analysis courses. Since July of 2011, he is a board member of the Chicago Architectural Club.
Iker has received several grants and awards for his work, most recently the 2010 Emerging Visions Award from the Chicago Architectural Club, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation grant in support of MAS Context and was included in i4design Magazine‘s 5th annual Suite Sixteen that recognizes “the Midwest’s most innovative design pros who are pushing old boundaries, exploring new concepts and making a difference in design with the work that they do.”
PhD Candidate, Escola Tecnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB)
Master of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Architect, Escola Tecnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB)
Contact iker@mas-studio.com