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12:15–1pm
COST
Free and open to the public
LOCATION
Lecture Hall Gallery, 224 South Michigan Avenue
RSVP
None required (Please arrive early; seating is limited).
Guests are welcome to bring a bag lunch.
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The
University of Chicago won a 2008 Patron of the Year
award for its South Campus Chiller Plant, designed
by Murphy/Jahn.
Photo: Doug Snower |
February 3
2009 Patron of the Year Awards:
An Overview of Those Who Brought Great Architecture to
Chicago
Unique among architecture awards, the Chicago Architecture
Foundation’s Patron of the Year awards honor business
and civic leaders who, by commissioning and financing
buildings, significantly contribute to Chicago’s
built environment. Hear jury members and winners of the
2009 awards discuss the relationship between clients and
designers as they partner to create exciting, new architecture
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February 10
The Skyscraper and the Modern City: Chicago and New York
Gail Fenske, professor of architecture,
School of Architecture, Art & Historic Preservation,
Roger Williams University; Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, assistant
professor, Parsons The New School for Design
Merwood-Salisbury and Fenske discuss their new books,
Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper
and the Modern City and The Skyscraper and the City: The
Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York.
The authors use iconic early skyscrapers as lenses through
which to view the distinctive cultures of Chicago and
New York at the turn of the twentieth century.
A book signing will follow
in the Chicago Architecture Foundation Shop.
Presented in partnership with
the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine
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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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Saint
Boniface Catholic Church
Photo: Andy Marfia |
February 24
The 2010 Chicago 7 Most Endangered…
Jonathan
Fine, Executive Director, Preservation Chicago
Each year in January, Preservation Chicago announces its
list of most endangered buildings—the “Chicago
7”—in an effort to raise public awareness
of the threats facing some of our city’s most at-risk
architectural treasures. The list may include single buildings,
unique neighborhoods, or even theme nominations such as
last year’s entry, the “old-fashioned wooden
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For Better or For Worse: Architects
in Love
Tuesday, February 2, 6-7:15pm
COST
$5 CAF members; $10 non-members (includes love-themed
refreshments)
LOCATION
Lecture Hall Gallery, 224 South Michigan Avenue
RSVP
Register at the event.
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Does love spark creativity? Does
romance make great architecture? Get ready for
Valentine’s Day at the Chicago Architecture
Foundation with a tour deep into the heart of
design partnership. Three prominent Chicago architectural
couples reveal the joys and sorrows of working
under Cupid’s wing.
Moderated by AIA Chicago’s
Executive Director,
Zurich Esposito
PARTICIPANTS:
Stanley Tigerman and
Margaret McCurry of
Tigerman McCurry Architects
Martin Felsen and Sarah
Dunn of UrbanLab
Joe Valerio of Valerio
Dewalt Train Associates and Linda
Searl of Searl Lamaster Howe Architects
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Chicago
Skyline
Photo: Anne Evans |
SOLD OUT
Chicago Lakefront Bus Tour
Saturday, February 6, 9am–12:30pm
TOUR LEADERS
Michael Chrzastowski,
Ph.D., Senior Coastal Geologist, Illinois State Geological
Survey
Eleanor Roemer,
Friends of the Parks
COST
$40 CAF members; $45 non-members (price includes a full-color
illustrated guidebook)
LOCATION
Meet in the Chicago Architecture Foundation CitySpace
Gallery on the first floor of the Santa Fe Building,
224 S. Michigan Avenue. Please arrive 20 minutes before
departure; the bus departs promptly at 9am.
RSVP
This tour is SOLD OUT. If you would like to be added
to the waitlist, please contact Laia Smith at 312.922.3432
x 224.
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The 1909 publication of the Plan
of Chicago provided a vision for the development of
the Chicago lakefront as a shore devoted to public access,
recreation, and aesthetics. What this tour will investigate
is how the present lakeshore and its construction history
compares with what Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett
proposed, and what aspects of their vision were either
practical or impractical based on coastal geology, coastal
processes, and coastal engineering.
The tour will traverse the lakeshore from the Indiana
state line northward to Montrose Harbor, but address
lakefront issues northward to the Evanston city line.
It will also consider the future of the last four miles
of lakefront that do not have public access. |
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Exploring Chicago’s History
A lecture by Dominic A. Pacyga
Thursday, February 11, 6–7:15pm
A book signing will follow
in the Chicago Architecture Foundation Shop.
COST
$5 CAF members; $10 non-members
LOCATION
Lecture Hall Gallery, 224 South Michigan Avenue
RSVP
Register online or call Whitney
Moeller, Manager of Public Programs at
312.922.3432 x 271
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Pacyga discusses the history and character
of Chicago in this illustrated lecture based on his
new book, Chicago: A Biography,
which traces the city’s storied past, from the
explorations of Joliet and Marquette in 1673 to the
new wave of urban pioneers today.
Born and raised in Back of the Yards on Chicago’s
southwest side, Pacyga spent his college years working
at the Union Stock Yards. Chicago,
therefore, gives voice not only to the city’s
great industrialists, reformers, and politicians, but
also to the city’s steelyard workers and kill
floor operators. And their stories come alive through
an extensive selection of evocative illustrations culled
from major institutional archives, local historical
societies, and the author’s personal collection.
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Pacyga teaches American
history at Columbia College/Chicago. |
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| BEHIND-THE-SCENES
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Frank
Lloyd Wright (American, 1867–1959)
Linden Glass Company (1882–1934)
“Tree
of Life” Window
1904
Chicago, Illinois
Made for the Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York
Glass in brass-coated, copper plated zinc cames, mounted
in wood frame
The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of the Antiquarian
Society through the Mrs. Philip K. Wrigley Fund, 1972.297
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Curator’s Tour: Apostles of
Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago
Friday, January 29, 12:15-1pm
COST Free*; open to CAF members
in good standing
*If you are not a current member of the Art Institute, you
will need to purchase admission to the museum at the front
desk
LOCATION Tour
begins outside the entrance to the exhibition, Regenstein
Hall, the Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Avenue
RSVP Call
Whitney Moeller, Manager of Public Programs at 312.922.3432
x271
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Tour is limited to 20 participants; you must be a CAF member
to participate in this tour; one ticket per individual membership,
two tickets per household membership
Sarah Kelly, Henry and Gilda Buchbinder
Associate Curator of American Art, leads a tour of Apostles
of Beauty, which presents designs by the Arts and Crafts movement’s
most notable practitioners, from William Morris and Charles
Robert Ashbee to Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright. This
is the first Arts and Crafts exhibition mounted at the museum
in more than 30 years, and features rarely-seen objects drawn
exclusively from local private and institutional lenders.
Don’t miss the chance to see this exciting exhibition
before it closes at the end of January.
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