SAIC Names Architect and Artist Wellington Reiter Its 4th President

Barry MacLean, Chairman of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has announced the appointment of Wellington Reiter as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's fourth President.

Mr. Reiter, who joins the School of the Art Institute on August 25, 2008, is an internationally recognized architect, artist, and urban designer, and currently holds the position of Dean of the College of Design at Arizona State University.

In addition to his academic role, Reiter was instrumental in shaping a new university campus in the heart of downtown Phoenix that unites progressive academic, architectural and public art agendas.

Previous to this appointment at ASU, Mr. Reiter was a member of the faculty in the Department of Architecture at MIT from 1990 to 2003 and the Professional Advisor to the Career Discovery Program at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

Trained at Tulane University's School of Architecture (1981), North London Polytechnic, and Harvard's Graduate School of Design (1986), he began his teaching career at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Through his professional and academic roles, Mr. Reiter has received numerous awards including multiple AIA Honor Awards for Urban Design, the Kepes Prize for interdisciplinary design from MIT, and four awards from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.