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Sunday, September 23, 2018

Bobbing for Mies - Robert Venturi at IIT

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I n the fall of 2005, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Robert Venturi came to modernist shrine Crown Hall to out Mies van der Rohe as a clo...

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Friday, February 21, 2014

A Triumphant Exhibition creates Time Machine to a Vanquished Architecture: Tim Samuelson's Mecca Flat Blues, at the Chicago Cultural Center

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click images for larger view (recommended) Friday, February 21, The Chicago Cultural Center, 78 East Washington, will be hosting an op...

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Sunday, December 29, 2013

The Year in Chicago Architecture: Our Twelve Most Popular Stories for 2013

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2013 draws to a close. Michael Bolton goes into the deep freeze for another year (thankfully), right next to Walt Disney and Ted Williams...

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

The redesign of the interior of Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall: Glass Boxes within the Ultimate Glass Box

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click images for larger view The new academic year has brought some interesting changes to the interior configurations of Mies van der R...

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