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GALLERY TALKS
Fridays and Saturdays at 12:30pm
FREE No reservations necessary.
MEET in
the Santa Fe Building atrium, 224 South Michigan Avenue
CAF volunteers will lead 20-minute gallery
talks that introduce visitors to the ideas and themes behind
the exhibition, Chicago Model
City. Learn how a region as vast
and complex as Chicago takes shape as a result of various
planning efforts, both big and small.
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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.
AIA/CES/HSW/SD
3.5
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
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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
AIA/CES
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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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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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