Architecture
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Do This Arts Architecture Visual Art UIUC students try to create a better coastal city
Posted by Elly Fishman on 05.10.12 at 02:38 PM
Monday, April 30, 2012
Arts Education Architecture How do you create an arts hub?
Posted by Elly Fishman on 04.30.12 at 07:04 AM
As a University of Chicago graduate, my first feeling was jealousy. Why wasn’t the Logan Center there a few years ago when I could’ve taken advantage? And how can I sneak into one of the digital editing suites? Considering the center’s final price totaled $114 million, there’s a lot to envy.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Piety Arts Suburbia Week Architecture Baha'i, how you doing?
Posted by Tal Rosenberg on 04.23.12 at 06:57 AM
- Purpy Pupple/Wikimedia Commons
- Yes, this is in the suburbs.
When Henderson wrote his article in 1987, the temple was undergoing rehabilitation and restoration. Whether that process was postponed or not is still unclear, but as the Sun-Times reported this weekend, a $20 million restoration process, which writer Neil Steinberg says took ten years, was just completed. Having visited the site many times in the last decade, the construction was obtrusive and seemingly inexorable—it’s nice to hear that it’s finally over.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Books Arts Architecture Visual Art Living for the city: arty stuff to do this weekend
Posted by Elly Fishman on 04.13.12 at 06:41 AM
“Survival Techniques” brings together 15 artists whose work addresses places stricken by political conflict. Though the artists work in communities around the world, their pieces identify commonalities between humans in survival mode. Subject matter ranges from Indian migrants to human trafficking in France. “Survival Techniques” is curated by Davide Quadrio.
Fri 4/13, 10 AM- 5 PM, Museum of Contemporary Photography, 600 S. Michigan.
Escape Group: Performances and Responses
Escape Group is a collaborative residency between Anthony Romero, Jillian Soto, and a rotation of participating artists at Threewalls gallery. Over the past few months, Escape Group has been installing a “structural environment” that follows an Oblique Function building design, a method based on a series of diagonal planes. Escape Group has invited artists Sara Black and Cassandra Troyan and dancer Adam Rose to respond to the space through performance.
Fri 4/13, 6:30-8:30 PM, Threewalls gallery, 119 N. Peoria #2C.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Shots Fired Architecture Film Form fails function
Posted by Ben Sachs on 04.10.12 at 02:47 PM
Monday, March 19, 2012
Architecture Film Neighborhood theaters vs. neighborhood movies
Posted by Ben Sachs on 03.19.12 at 01:53 PM
It’s been a good week for civic pride at the movies. On Friday, Kevin Warwick reported on the reopening of the Logan Theatre, whose owners maintain a proudly neighborhood-centric outlook; and since I wrote about the potential sale of the historic Portage Theater last Monday, there’s been an outpouring of calls to rescue the building. A week from tonight, Mon 3/26 at 7 PM, there will be a public meeting at the theater about the Save the Portage project. For those who can’t attend but want to get involved, the Portage’s website lists some things you can do to help, like writing to the Zoning Board of Appeals.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Things I Love Architecture Film Yes, Logan Theatre is still reopening tomorrow
Posted by Kevin Warwick on 03.16.12 at 04:30 PM
- Andrea Bauer
- Old-school, with new neon
Monday, March 12, 2012
Architecture Film News Is the Portage Theater in danger?
Posted by Ben Sachs on 03.12.12 at 11:40 AM
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Transit Architecture Media Think of it as a 52-story storefront
Posted by Michael Miner on 02.16.12 at 12:41 PM
But the trains don’t and the map is. The station is so much bigger and brighter and cleaner than it used to be that it’s replaced foreboding with excitement in the hearts of visitors stepping out into Chicago there. And the map adds to that excitement—it’s a handsome guide to the neighborhood’s architectural wonders that explains where to find them and why they’re worth going out of your way to see.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Architecture Lit & Lectures Books Tigerman talks
Posted by Deanna Isaacs on 02.15.12 at 02:40 PM
- Michael Boyd
- Stanley Tigerman
Famous for outrageous designs and a mouth to match ("take your tenure and shove it up your ass," he told UIC the first time he walked out on a professorship there), he's Chicago architectural history at its liveliest (here's our recent profile). The Graham Foundation is also hosting a retrospective exhibit of Tigerman's work, notable for the absence of any photographs of his actual buildings. The lecture is free, but click here for information and to reserve a seat. The Graham Foundation is at 4 West Burton Place.
