past events

september 2007

august 2007

july 2007

june 2007

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Saturday, September 15
10:00am - 3:00pm

Location
Great Lakes Naval Base, North Chicago

Tour Description
The Great Lake Naval Museum Association will have an open house from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. to show the general public Building #42, the Hostess House, designed my noted modernist architect Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and its plan to restore this significant building as its new museum.

The U.S. Navy is working closely with the Great Lakes Naval Museum Association to transfer Building 42 to the Naval Museum Association, which will then embark on a $12 million multi-phase plan to restore the Hostess House to its WWII grandeur. The Museum Association's goal is to have the building restored in time for the 100th Anniversary of the Great Lakes Naval Station in 2011. This event will be free to the general public.

Metra Directions
Take the Union Pacific North Line to the Great Lakes Station. Walk to the north (approximately 2 blks) to the front gate entrance.

Driving Directions
• From I-94 (Tri-State Tollway) or From Route 41 via I-94 (the Edens)
• Exit Buckley Rd (Rt 137), travel East about 3 miles until it ends
• Stay in right lane as road curves to Sheridan Road – turn right (north)
• Follow signs to the Main Gate / Visitor’s Center, Bldg 6130,
  (just 100 feet past the Main Gate) and park in the parking lot to the left
• Proceed to the long brown building (Bldg 42, 610 Farragut Ave, Great Lakes, IL 60088).

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Sunday, September 16
3:00pm - 6:00pm

Location
Unity Temple, 875 Lake Street, Oak Park

Tour Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple, one of the most important and influential buildings of the 20th century. Learn more at www.utrf.org.

Sunday, September 16
1:00pm, 2:00pm, 3:00pm (1 hour tours)

Location
1112 Willow Road, Winnetka

Visit this landmark building that is listed on the docomomo international sites register. Learn more at docomomo.com.

Tour Description
On Sunday, September 16, docents will lead tours of Crow Island School in Winnetka. Designed by Eliel and Eero Saarinen with Perkins, Wheeler & Will, the elementary school opened in 1940 and has been in continuous use ever since. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990 for its architectural significance and influence on subsequent school design. The free tours are scheduled for 1:00, 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. Meet in the school foyer at 1112 Willow Rd. Next door in Crow Island Woods is the c1837 Schmidt-Burnham Log House where continuous tours will be offered from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. that day. There is a suggested donation for Log House tours. Sponsored by the Winnetka Historical Society: information at 847/446-0001 or www.winnetkahistory.org.

Thursday, August 23
5:30pm
All are welcome to attend

Location
The new AIA Chicago offices at:
35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 250
(in the historic Jewelers Building)

Thursday, July 19
5:30pm
All are welcome to attend

Location
The new AIA Chicago offices at:
35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 250
(in the historic Jewelers Building)

June 21-23

Location
Illinois Institute of Technology campus (designed by Mies van der Rohe)
3201 South State Street, Chicago

Event Description
This three day event will consist of a one day symposium; a day of tours; and a day devoted to meetings of the ISC20C and the ISCARSAH including separate meetings of numerous preservation groups and agencies that plan to attend.  For a description of ISCARSAH see below. This event presents an occasion for two International Scientific Committees, both founded by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), to collaborate; and provide an opportunity for interested North American experts to participate in this collaboration. ISC20C was founded at the ICOMOS General Assembly in Xi’an China in 2005.  ISCARSAH was founded at the General Assembly in Sofa Bulgaria in 1996.  Each Committee is comprised of representative members internationally with established expertise who are recognized architects, engineers, historians, and scientists.

Organized By
ICOMOS International Scientific Committees on 20th Century Heritage (ISC20C) and Analysis and Restoration of Architectural Heritage (ISCARSAH)

Co-partner Organizations
United States Committee of ICOMOS
Association for Preservation Technology (APT)
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)

Sponsor Organizations
Art Institute Historic Preservation Curriculum, Chicago, Illinois
DOCOMOMO International and DOCOMOMO US
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
Landmarks Illinois
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Unity Temple Restoration Foundation

For information, and to register, please check the website:
http://icomos-isc20c.org/_wsn/page3.html
http://icomos-isc20c.org/_wsn/page4.html

June 16 - July 29 (closed June 23 and July 4)
Monday - Sunday, 10:00am-3:00pm

Fee
$5.00 for non-members
Free for all Mies Society and Elmhurst Art Museum members

Location
IIT, S.R. Crown Hall
3360 South State Street, Chicago

Description
This study explores the similarities between West and East that we find concealed in their architecture. It reveals striking parallels between Mies van der Rohe’s conceptions and Eastern philosophy. Documents unpublished as yet point out constructive analogies between the works of this pioneer of Western architecture and traditional building art of the East. Without suggesting any direct interdependence, the comparison brings to light the deep correlations of an architectural rationality that knows no boundaries, enabling us to witness a fascinating face-to-face of West and East.
-Werner Blaser

Sponsored by the Mies Society

For information, and to register, please check the website:
http://mies.iit.edu/upcoming_events/

June 14-16

Location
Hyde Park/Kenwood, Chicago
University of Chicago – Conference Headquarters

Description
Tours will feature the 1893 World's Fair site, Gothic Revival campus buildings, and seminal examples of Early Modernism by architects Pond & Pond, Barry Byrne and Frank Lloyd Wright.

For attendees interested in the preservation of Mid-Century Modern architecture, a special "Recent Past" track has been included as part of the program.

Please see the conference schedule at:
http://landmarks.org/events_conference.htm

"Recent Past" highlights include:

Mid-Century Modern Architects Panel
Thursday, June 14
6:00-7:30pm
Museum of Science and Industry
57th St. and Lake Shore Drive
Hyde Park, Chicago

"Experience the Era – Firsthand:" A Discussion with Local Architecture Icons who will discuss their prolific careers, via an open dialogue, and offer the audience an unparalleled opportunity to visit the era firsthand through personal accounts, anecdotes and experiences.  Discussion will include the academic forces influencing design interests, economic and cultural divides, emerging technologies, Chicago’s “incubator” firms (and the work and personnel they produced) and the life-long partnerships and friendships developed alongside professional competitions.  Participants will also give their thoughts on the preservation community now embracing the need to protect the Mid-Century architecture they produced.
 
Moderator: Joseph Rosa, Curator of Architecture, Art Institute of Chicago

Cocktail Reception
7:30-9:00pm
Enjoy drink and hors d'oeuvres in the last surviving major structure from the 1893 World's Columbia Exposition.

Rolf Achilles is dedicating this tour to his good friend, George Danforth – noted architect, educator, and former Dean of the College of Architecture at IIT – who died peacefully in his sleep the night of Tuesday, June 5.

Saturday, June 9
2:00pm - 4:30pm

2.5 AIA CE Learning Units

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

Limit of 20 attendees
Please reserve by email:
minglingondearborn@docomomo-chicagomidwest.org

Fee
$20.00 for non-members
Free for current members and new members who sign up at the event

Departure Location
Meet at 2:00pm at the Federal Plaza: Dearborn between Adams and Jackson

Tour Description
Why are some of Chicago’s greatest modern architectural icons landmarked while others aren’t?  Tour Dearborn Street in Chicago’s Loop with local preservationist and art historian Rolf Achilles to learn more about what it takes to landmark buildings of the modern movement, many of which helped win Chicago’s place in architectural history books.  The tour will begin in Mies’s famed Federal Plaza on Dearborn and end at Goldberg’s beloved “corncob” Marina City.  The tour will also take in important modern outdoor sculptures that add to the city’s urban environment, including Calder’s Flamingo and Picasso’s unnamed masterpiece in front of Daley Center.

Sites Featured on Tour

• Federal Center: Dearborn between Adams and Jackson, 1964-1974, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • including Alexander Calder sculpture, Flamingo, 1973
  • look over at Metropolitan Correctional Center:  Van Buren between Clark and Federal, 1975, Harry Weese & Associates
  • Inland Steel:  30 W. Monroe, 1958, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
• First National Bank Building: Madison between Dearborn and Clark, 1969, Perkins & Will
  • including Marc Chagall mosaic wall, Four Seasons, 1974
• Chicago Loop Synagogue: 16 S. Clark Street, 1958
  • including stained glass window by Abraham Rattner, 1960
• Brunswick Building: 69 W. Washington, 1965, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
  • including Joan Miro sculpture, Miro’s Chicago, 1981
• Daley Center: 50 W. Washington, 1965, C. F. Murphy Associates
  • including Pablo Picasso sculpture, Unnamed, 1967
• Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist: 55 E Wacker Drive, 1968, Harry Weese & Associates
• IBM Building: 333 N. Wabash, 1971, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• Marina City: the River between Dearborn and State, 1959, Bertrand Goldberg

Tour Leader Bio
Rolf Achilles, President-Elect Landmarks Illinois and Adjunct Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Chicago architectural and art historian Rolf Achilles is a preservation advisor for the Reid House in Chicago, Unity Temple in Oak Park, the Haus Hohen Pappeln in Weimar, Germany, and the Richard H. Driehaus Collection in Chicago.  He teaches historic preservation and decorative arts at the Art Institute, is the curator of the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows at Navy Pier, and is a member of the Chicago Public Art Commission.  Rolf also curated and administered the IIT Centennial Exhibition of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Architect as Educator.