ERIC R. MULTHAUF LUNCHTIME
LECTURES
COST Free and open to the
public
LOCATION The Lecture Hall
Gallery, 224 South Michigan Avenue
RSVP
None required (Please arrive early; seating is limited)
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November 11
The Wacker Manual
Jean Linsner, Vice President
of Youth Education, Chicago Architecture Foundation
Wacker’s Manual
of the Plan of Chicago: Municipal Economy,
written in 1911, taught the city’s eighth
grade students about the 1909 Plan of Chicago.
Jean Linsner shares highlights from this text
book, and offers a glimpse at how today’s
students and teachers take up the challenges
set forth in the Manual. |
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Aerial
view of Grant Park
Photo: Lawrence Okrent |
November 18
The Evolution of Grant
Park, from 1837 to the Present Day (with a
nod to Daniel Burnham)
Lawrence
Okrent, President, Okrent Associates
This presentation
includes numerous rarely-seen maps, plans,
and photographs of Grant Park, tracking its
transformation from an area filled with squatters'
homes to the beautiful park it is today—thanks
in large part to the vision of Burnham and
others. A number of the images are from Okrent's
own portfolio of aerial photos. |
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January 13
Blueprint for
Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public
Housing
D.
Bradford Hunt, Associate Dean and Associate
Professor of Social Science, Roosevelt University
What went wrong with public housing in Chicago?
To answer this complicated question, Hunt
traces public housing’s history in Chicago
from its New Deal roots through current mayor
Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation.
In the process, he chronicles the Chicago
Housing Authority’s own transformation
from the city’s most progressive government
agency to its largest slumlord.
A book signing will follow in the Chicago
Architecture Foundation Shop. |
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Northwest
incinerator
photo: Robert Bruegmann |
January 27
Great Chicago Planning
Disasters
Robert
Bruegmann, PhD, Professor of Art History,
Architecture and Urban Planning, University
of Illinois at Chicago
Most urban planning works pretty much as intended,
however, in some cases it misses the target
or even backfires. In this lecture, Bruegmann
looks at some of these Chicagoland planning
"mistakes" including the Crosstown
Freeway, South Side urban renewal, the State
Street mall, the Zion nuclear power plant,
and the Northwest municipal waste incinerator. |
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Oakland
Cottages
Photo: Vincent Michael |
February 17
Community Activism and
the Rise of Historic Districts
Vincent L. Michael, PhD,
John H. Bryan Chair of Historic Preservation,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Michael's study of the history of historic
districts in Chicago, New York, and throughout
the U.S. offers new insights into historic
preservation. In this lecture, Michael illustrates
how community activists transformed preservation
from an antiquarian, art historical concern
into a planning tool used by neighborhoods
to craft a sort of democracy of the built
environment. |
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