Architecture

Spend a special evening exploring the making of Chicago Home + Garden magazine's new book of beautiful area homes while inside a spectacular Ukrainian Village home featured in the book. Hear Chicago Spaces author and CH+G editor Jan Parr talk with home owners Karen and Bob Coscarelli about what makes Chicago interiors special. The architects and developers who collaborated with the Coscarellis will also be on hand to talk about this beautiful modern home. Bob is a noted photographer who specializes in interiors; many of his photos are included in the book. His personal and professional passion for architecture and design is evident in his work and his home.

The evening includes your own copy of this gorgeous hardcover book and a reception following the discussion. Learn more about the book at chicagohomemag.com/chicagospaces

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UNO Charter School,three levels of floor-to-ceiling windows bring in light for the 600 k-8 students enrolled in this open-enrollment public school that focuses both on education and athletics. The 63,000 sq. ft., facility houses classrooms, administrative offices, indoor exercise and training facilities, a full-service kitchen and multi-purpose area. An outdoor amphitheater, available for both school and community use, features lectures and outdoor movies against the backdrop of the Chicago skyline. UNO’s mission is to fulfill the promise of public education by proving that all children can achieve academic success, regardless of their income level or ethnicity. UNO Charter School opened in September 2011 and is currently pursuing LEED Silver Certification and is Chicago Architecture Foundation’s 2011 Patron of the Year Award Winner. The UNO project team included JGMA as design architect, Ghafari Associates as design builder, Primera Engineers and landscape architect Terry Guen Design Associates. Reservations are required in advance as space is limited.

The Tugendhat House, located in Brno, Czech Republic, is the last major home built by Mies van der Rohe in Europe before moving to the United States. Built in 1930 and situated on a sloping grade, the house was designed as a large and luxurious villa for Grete and Fritz Tugendhat. The house has been largely not accessible to the public throughout its history, but in 2005, plans were made by the Czech Republic to restore this structure. This lecture will feature architects Iveta Cerná, Head of Villa Tugendhat, Secretary of THICOM Tugendhat House International Committee, and Ivo Hammer, Conservator/Restorer and Chairman of THICOM Tugendhat House International Committee for an illustrated talk about the restoration project.

Along with an ever-growing public awareness for contemporary art comes an increased interest in architecture and design. As a result more and more young American designers’ careers are being launched not in showrooms, but in galleries, with collectors commissioning interiors and furnishings that finally matches the adventurous spirit of their art collections. This blurring of hierarchies has created a sophisticated new breed of practitioner who effortlessly navigates the worlds of art, architecture, and furniture design. The Minneapolis-based designer Matt Olson of RO/LU and the New York architect Rafael de Cárdenas will be discussing this trend together with the Rauschenberg Foundation’s Executive Director Christy MacLear, and collector Adam Lindemann. The panel will be moderated by Felix Burrichter, founder and editor of PIN–UP Magazine.

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Bertrand Goldberg: Reflections examines the sources of and influences on Goldberg’s vision by looking at his personal collection of art and artifacts, his friendships with artists and intellectuals, his personal photographs, and his designs for furniture, jewelry, and functional fabrications, to provide an understanding of the man behind the public image. Unlike many architects, Goldberg did not keep a sketchbook, preferring to solve problems directly. The Arts Club’s exhibition is a rare glimpse into the “studio” of one of the most innovative architects of the 20th century.

Overview: From the rise of the modern house to the evolving language of tall and supertall buildings in projects by Harry Weese and Adrian Smith, this rotation points to sustained periods of development as well as moments of radical innovation in modern and contemporary architecture and design. Many of the featured designers, including Ineke Hans and Ron Gilad, have focused on creative optimizations or subversions of traditional objects, while others, such as information designer Aaron Koblin, work on the frontier of new media systems that are shaping the way we see, think, and communicate.

Craig Dykers is co-founder and principal of Snøhetta, an integrated architecture, landscape, and interior design practice based in Oslo and New York. In recent years, the firm has won numerous international competitions for important American projects including an expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the redesign of Times Square, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the site of the World Trade Center. The firm’s many awards include the 2009 European Mies van der Rohe Prize and Global Award for Sustainable Architecture for their Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, and the 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Library of Alexandria in Egypt.

Yolande Daniels is a founding design principal of Studio SUMO, a cross-disciplinary architecture studio based in New York. Studio SUMO has been the recipient of numerous awards and was recently featured in the Architectural League of NY Emerging Voices series and the Design Vanguard issue of Architectural Record for projects including the Mizuta Museum of Art in Sakado, Japan (2011) and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn (2006). Daniels received architecture degrees from the City College of New York and Columbia University, where she is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She was a recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome and a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellowship from the Whitney American Museum of Art.

Judith Russi Kirshner has been Dean of the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 1997 where she also served as Director of the School of Art and Design. Kirshner previously served as Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago from l976 to l980, at The Terra Museum of American Art from l985 to l987 and in the Art History Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Critic and curator, Kirshner lectures frequently on contemporary art and is a member of the Cultural Affairs Advisory Board of the City of Chicago as well as an advisory board member of numerous national and Chicago cultural organizations. She has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts since 1980.

The event is free, but requires registration using this link: http://eepurl.com/hy1EE

Build On: Inspiration and Knowledge for Making Entrepreneurial Ideas Happen, will answer
these questions and more. The event will begin with an announcement of the
Un-Competition Project winners. First, within the framework of the Un-Comp winners, the
panel will discuss strategies for making these design solutions reality. Then the the
discussion will broaden to include topics solicited from the audience - marketing your work,
getting it built, and establishing a design firm.

Come to engage the panelists or simply to listen and learn.