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Over the years, I began to recognize that creativity is a gift and design is the superpower. The way I see it is that if I can think it, the idea can be brought to fruition. My over-arching idea is that everyone has their unique vision and everyone’s perception becomes their reality. Through this vision of redirecting the importance of societal equity within architectural education, we can fuel the designers of tomorrow with the necessary resources to assist and provide quality design that will allow people from marginalized communities to gain a positive relationship within their neighborhoods and their surrounding built environment. As a future architect, I view myself as a person who brings dreams to reality and mainly formulate my design ideation around the experiences I have lived these past 23 years. In the next 10 years post-graduation, I want to use my architectural knowledge to design temporary moments that convey how architecture is how we create temporary ‘worlds’ and leave the users inspired by the meaningful experiences that happened in the space. Not everyone has access to design a building, and if there were an alternate path for me, I believe it would be to focus on designing stages and fashion runways to demonstrate alternate paths for architecture students while they reach licensure status. The root to create this optimistic societal change begins with using architectural education as an opportunity to bring different socioeconomic groups together and address how equity can shape the built environment. Architecture should emphasize how humans inhabit and experience the built environment of everyday. Jerry Rodriguez, Print Lab Graduate Assistant M.ARCH Class of 2024

EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies (B.S.AS) Class of 2022 Graduation Speaker; Resilience & Creating Change

JERRY RODRIGUEZ RODRJER9@GMAIL.COM

Master of Architecture (M.ARCH) Expected Graduation: May 2024

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Illinois Promise Scholar, 2018-2022. Elwood E. Schwenk Award Recipient, 2021.

ABOUT ME

sTUDENT INVOLVEMENT

GRAPHIC DESIGNER FASHION DESIGNER

SECRETARY FOR HISPANIC ORG. OF URBAN STUDIES & ENV.

BILINGUAL: SPANISH AND ENGLISH

• Issued meetings and conducted general correspondence of the organization • Organized social events and advocated for cultural diversity within school

ARCHITECTURE AMBASSADOR CO-CHAIR • Contributed to the school·s recruitment campaign by issuing tours, sharing personal experience, and participating in interview panels.

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WORK EXPERIENCE

- REVIT - ADOBE SUITE - AUTOCAD - RHINO3D

ILLINOIS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

- VISUALIZATION - LASERCUTTING - 3D PRINTING - MODEL MAKING

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BIERSILO GRADUATE DESIGN STUDIO NOMINATION 2023

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• Enhanced my communication skills and how to professionally address situations • Developed leadership traits that allow me to manage a team and resolve conflicts

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• Collaborated with the School of Music to design & remodel a school bus to a mobile creative classroom

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• Gained lots of experience in how to maintain and troubleshoot print-plotting issues • Accepted responsibility and analyzed issues in order to solve problems that arose • Took initiative and demonstrated leadership by setting a good example for others to follow

SHIVE-HATTERY ARCHITECTURE + ENGINEERING BETTENDORF, IA 52722 — ARCHITECTURE INTERN “The Gateway” Building Renovation with SUMMER ¶2 · Wisconsin Latino Chamber of Commerce, Prepared CAD drawings and diagrams, Generated design development ideas Prepared design mock-ups and drawing sets [Scan code to see final design visualizations]

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The Gateway Community Center “The Wisconsin Latino Chamber of Commerce unveiled designs for its future business incubator called “The Gateway.” The 15,000 SF facility in Fitchburg, WI, will include classrooms, a commercial kitchen for training and food preparation, retail, and entrepreneurial spaces. Shive-Hattery Architectural Intern, Jerry Rodriguez, says, “I can’t express how much it means to be able to represent my culture and give back to the Hispanic community through design.” Rodriguez helped design the Tu Empresa business incubator where entrepreneurs will learn business skills and strategy in the state-of-the-art facility. The commercial kitchen, called Tu Cocina Food Hub, will serve as both a food preparation classroom and a resource for food businesses. The Gateway will also offer space for entrepreneurs to store equipment as they grow.” Excerpt from Shive-Hattery

ILLINOIS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FABRICATION SHOPS FABRICATION TECHNICIAN: 2018-2022 PRINT LAB GRADUATE ASSISTANT: 2022-2024

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JXX VI$ION Entrepreneur Start-Up I’ve always with the ambition to design clothing. It wasn’t until 2019 that I decided to pull the trigger to create my own personal clothing brand under the alias JXX that focused on the idea of having ‘20/20 VISION’ as we reached the new decade. I’ve noticed a trend of designers, OLNH 7LQNHU +DW¿HOG DQG 9LUJLO $EORK WR QDPH D few, who start off as architecture students then ODWHU RQ ¿QG WKHPVHOYHV EHLQJ WRWDO URFNVWDUV LQ the fashion world. It’s very inspiring to see how creative individuals can use various mediums and methods to express their ideas and how there’s correlations between different disciplines and have their own interpretation of historical references. I see creative expression as a medium that can translate to different mediums and create correlations between architecture and fashion using the architect’s critical thinking to analyze how clothing can be representative of the built environment that surrounds certain demographic groups or how certain regions dress differently due to the climatic conditions of their VXUURXQGLQJ HQYLURQPHQW , DVSLUH WR ¿QG WKH unspoken architecture within clothing design.

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