CCSAH Rooftops Tour, Wednesday, September 16

CCSAH Building Tops Five Tour

When: Wednesday, Sept.16th, 2:30-5:00 pm
Where: Meet at 100 W. Monroe lobby, 2:15 p.m.

What: This fall's Tops of Buildings tour, created by Tom and Gail, starts at Hyatt Centric The Loop Chicago at 100 W. Monroe Street, viewing the 23rd floor rooftop hotel lounge and its murals from 2:30 to 3:00 p.m. The hotel is in a striking 1927 Art Deco building by Frank D. Chase, also architect of the 1936 Campana Cosmetics building in Batavia IL (on our 2014 bus tour). The original landowner, farmer Willard Jones, insisted that a cow path on his farm, mandated in an 1844 ordinance (and still extant next to the front entrance of the hotel) remain a part of the site plan at the land sale in the 1890s.
     From 3:00 to 4:00 pm, we'll be across the street at the internationally active firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP, at 111 W. Monroe, Suite 2300, for a look at some of their projects (including Kingdom Tower, Jeddah, which will be the world’s tallest at 3,280 feet) and also their rooftop space in the 1957 SOM-designed Harris Bank East building.
     We’ll finish with a tour of the 12th floor of the Sullivan Center from 4:15 to 5:00 pm. This is the School of the Art Institute's Dept. of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects at 33 South State (shown in photo), in the 1904 Schlesinger & Mayer (later Carson, Pirie, Scott, and now Target) department store by famed architect Louis Sullivan (and an award-winning restoration from top cornice to bottom by architect Gunny Harboe in 2006). Note: this tour is likely to sell out! Cost: $5.00/CCSAH members; $10.00 for guests. RSVP: Judy Freeman, jrfree3500@aol.com.

August 5, 6:30 p.m., Roosevelt University, Design Evolution: Art Deco at the Century of Progress International Exposition

 

















Wednesday, August 5, 2015 -- 6:30 p.m.
Roosevelt University, Angell Reading Room, Murray-Green Library, 10th floor
430 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago 60605
$15 Members / $20 Non-members
Register Online

Dear CADS Members and Friends,

 

We are pleased to announce the next speaker in our Leading Scholar Series.

 

On August 5th, Lisa Schrenk will give a talk examining the role of the Century of Progress International Exposition in relation to the development of Art Deco in Chicago. Her focus will be on the fair's main architecture and sculptural programs.

 

Lisa has had an outstanding academic career. She is Associate Professor of Architectural History at the University of Arizona. She received a B.A. from Macalester College with degrees in studio art and geography, a master’s degree in Architectural History from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin. 

 

Her book Building a Century of Progress: The Architecture of Chicago’s 1933-34 World’s Fair (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) was named to Choice Review’s 2008 List of Outstanding Academic Titles. In 2008 she was awarded a We the People grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her research on the Oak Park studio of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, which she began while serving as Education Director for the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation.

Dr. Schrenk is a leading authority on the architecture of international expositions and the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright. She was a consultant and gave the opening lecture for the recent exhibit Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s at the National Building Museum.