Show Notes
Intro/Outro: The Night Chicago Died, by Paper Lace
Postmodernism – is it still alive and well?
Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
1980 Venice Architecture Biennale
Change in Chicago really began with opening of Millennium Park in 2004
Ideas are convergent rather than divergent these days…
Mayoral/Architectural Era Overlay:
Daley 1: Mies van der Rohe and Modernism
Daley 2: Millennium Park
Emmanuel: Riverwalk and boathouses
Big Tech Moves In: Google buys the Thompson Center – will it become more public?
Comparable to Pompidou Center or Lloyd’s of London as a kind of “Hi-Tech” building.
The criticism of Thompson Center’s poor conditioning has clouded Jahn’s other achievements, including the United Terminal at O’Hare and the Citicorp Center (now Accenture Tower)/Ogilvie Transportation Center.
State Street Village at Illinois Institute of Technology
Harold Washington Library – the last great Postmodern building in Chicago, looks like an “open book,” but once you’re inside…
The 1990s were a dead zone of malaise for architecture. The Museum of Contemporary Art by Josef Paul Kleihues gently nudged it out of that slumber. And then, Bilbao Guggenheim blared the klaxon.
Stanley Tigerman – Library for the Blind, 1978
University of Chicago Campus
Booth School of Business – Rafael Vinoly
Logan Center – Tod Williams Billie Tsien
Rubenstein Forum – Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Obama Presidential Center – Tod Williams Billie Tsien
“There is more architectural diversity in a typical residential Chicago block than in all five boroughs of New York City.” – Vladimir Belogolovsky
Landon Bone Baker – socially conscious affordable housing projects
Respect for context did get a revival boost from PoMo.
Is there a Chicago School of Architecture today? If there is, it is defined by respect for materials, and pushing boundaries to make buildings work well.
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