Stewart Hicks

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Stewart Hicks is an architectural design educator that leads design studios and lecture courses as an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and is the co-founder of the practice Design With Company.

There are people that help with these videos and without them, they could not happen. Allison Newmeyer, thank you very everything! Jimenez Lai, your input is crucial. Robert Becker, UIC. Thank you!

How Bombproof Buildings Work

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The Awkward Dining Trend is Coming Back

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The Problem With Futuristic Buildings

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Why You Don’t See Blueprints Anymore

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What Makes THIS the Safest House in Los Angeles?

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Inside the Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse

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The Perfectly Optimized Building for Late Capitalism

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How Severance Uses Architecture as Mind Control

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Why Every New Building Looks the Same

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Why Can’t American Cities Build 3-Flats Anymore?

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Falsifying History by Destroying Cities

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The Invention that Accidentally Made McMansions

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The Porch That Changed Every U.S. Election Since

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Inside the Station Nightclub Tragedy

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How Reality TV Houses Are Built to Break People

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How Architecture Makes Polling Better (or worse)

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How Upside-Down Models Revolutionized Architecture

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