ELLIOTT E. DUDNIK, PhD, AIA, CSI As founder and principal of Elliott Dudnik + Associates, Elliott Dudnik, has provided architectural and engineering services to private and public clients on projects ranging in size from multi-story apartment buildings to museums, libraries, municipal buildings and residential structures for more than forty years. Many of his projects have received professional recognition including six Evanston Preservation awards, two Wilmette Preservation awards, a Design Evanston award, and two International Illumination Design Awards, in addition to several AIA awards for projects he engaged in on prior to opening his own practice. He holds degrees in Architecture (BArch) and Structural Engineering (MS) from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a PhD in Planning form Northwestern University. Elliott Dudnik has also had a long and distinguished career as an architectural educator and researcher, most notably a member of the faculty of the School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago from 1967 through 2005, attaining the rank of Full Professor in 1980. While at UIC, he served as Associate and Acting Director of the School of the Architecture and as Director of Graduate Studies and now holds the title of Professor Emeritus. Dr. Dudnik is also Senior Lecturer in the Master of Architecture and Interior Architecture Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Over the course of his academic career he has taught nearly sixty different undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of architectural design, construction, computer-aided design and structural engineering. In 2001, he received a Teaching Recognition Program Award from the University of Illinois at Chicago Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. He was a Senior Fulbright-Hays Senior Scholar to Australia where he held visiting professorship positions and taught at both the Universities of Sydney and Newcastle. In addition, he has lectured at universities in Asia and Europe most notably at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University, the Moscow Architectural Institute, National University of Singapore, Japan’s Waseda University, Osaka University, and Kyoto Institute of Technology. In the United States, he has taught or lectured at Lehigh University, University of Southern California, Illinois Institute of Technology, Harper Community college and Loyola University of Chicago. Elliott Dudnik is the author of nearly fifty publications and is the recipient of more than thirty research grants and fellowships from such agencies as the National Endowment for the Arts, US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Australian Research Grant Committee, Illinois State Board of Higher Education and the American Institute of Steel Construction. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, Construction Specifications Institute, American Solar Energy Society and the International Solar Energy Society and has chaired or participated as a member of several local AIA committees, as a consultant to community groups, and as a member of the AISC Special Structures Subcommittee and the AIA Masterspec Review committee. In addition, he developed and directed the UIC Refresher Course for the Architect’s Licensing Examination from 1984 through 2004, directed the UIC School of Architecture Cooperative Work Study Program from 1997 through 2004 and has served as the ACSA representative on four NAAB Visiting Accreditation teams In addition to his many building projects, Elliott Dudnik has served as a consultant and expert witness for the City of Chicago Law Department on matters of building codes, construction and structure including several high-rise façade failures, and both the Epitome 2 Nightclub and the 713 Wrightwood Porch Collapse tragedies. He has served in a similar capacity for a growing number of private law firms in cases involving building failures or accidents and other construction or code-related matters. He also developed and taught a 16-week Professional Development and Building Inspector Training Course for the City of Chicago that has been offered to Building Department staff and administration on five separate occasions from 1999 through 2009 and has also prepared façade failures, truss inspection and porch construction seminars for the City of Chicago Building and Law Departments.
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