Q. Where are Chicago’s Architectural Historians? A. They’re in Paris.

Q.  Where are Chicago’s Architectural Historians?  A. They’re in Paris.

William Le Baron Jenney (1832-1907)

From the École Centrale of Paris to the Skyscrapers of Chicago

Mercredi 19 décembre, Maison des Centraliens 8, rue Jean Goujon, Paris, 8e  arr.

9h :         Pierre VAREILLE, président de l’Association des Centraliens, Mot d’accueil
L’urbaniste paysagiste

Présidence : Antoine PICON, École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées et Harvard University

9h20 :    Julia S. BACHRACH, Chicago Park District

Re-creating Nature Jenney and Chicago’s West Parks

9h40 :    Isabelle GOURNAY, University of Maryland

Engineer, Architect and Citizen : Jenney in Riverside, Chicago's Iconic Model Suburb

10h :      Christopher VERNON, University of Western Australia

Jenney, Landscape Gardener

10h20 : Discussion et pause

11h10 : Mary WOOLEVER, The Art Institute of Chicago
Research Resources Documenting the Rise of  the Chicago Skyscraper

11h30 : Nathaniel PARKS, The Art Institute of Chicago

The William Le Baron Jenney Archives at the Art Institute of  Chicago

Le constructeur architecte

Présidence : Jean CASTEX, ENSA Versailles

14h :      Gerald R. LARSON, University of Cincinnati

Reassessing the Legend of Jenney’s Home Insurance Building

14h20 : Sara E. WERMIEL, Independent Scholar

The Emergence of Sructural Hollow Tile in the US : Antecedents, Chicago and Jenney’s
Projects

14h40 : Thomas LESLIE, Iowa State University

Technical Aspects of Jenney’s Skyscrapers, 1880-1900 : An Evolutionary Process

15h :      Discussion et pause

15h 40 : Michael FUS, Chicago Park District
Soaring to New Heights : Jenney’s Manipulation of  Materials

16h :      Robert BRUEGMANN, University of Illinois, Chicago

Jenney, Founder of  the Chicago School ?

16h 20 : Discussion

16h30 : Marianne ARNOLFO, Djuna PATIN et Ali TMART, École Centrale de Paris
Les innovations de Jenney : décryptage à partir de la modélisation d’immeubles de Chicago

16h50 : Jean-François BELHOSTE, EPHE, Conclusion

17h :      Cocktail

Lundi 17 décembre, auditorium de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’Art

6, rue des Petits-Champs, Paris, 2e  arr.

9h15 :    Antoinette LE NORMAND-ROMAIN, directrice de l’INHA, Mot d’accueil

9h30 :    Karen BOWIE, ENSA Paris - La Villette, et Jean-François BELHOSTE, EPHE

Présentation du colloque
Les formations d’ingénieur et d’architecte
Présidence : Isabelle GOURNAY, University of Maryland

9h50 :    David VAN ZANTEN, Northwestern University

A Figure Everywhere yet Nowhere : What Question to Ask ?

10h10 : Bruno BELHOSTE, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne Former des ingénieurs en France et aux États-Unis avant 1860 : une relation transatlantique

10h30 : Marie-Laure CROSNIER LECONTE, INHA

Parcours d’un contemporain : Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895) et l’École des Beaux-Arts

10h50 : Discussion et pause (salle Aby Warburg) 11h30 : Anne RICHARD-BAZIRE, École du Louvre

La formation de l’architecte Jean-Louis Pascal (1837-1920) :de l’atelier de Jacques Émile Gilbert à l’agence de l’Opéra

11h50 : Discussion

Présidence : Robert BRUEGMANN, University of Illinois, Chicago 14h30 : Jean-Marie BARBICHE, École Centrale de Paris et Jean-Louis BORDES, Centrale-Histoire

Les archives de l'École Centrale et leur mise en valeur

14h50 : Valérie NÈGRE, ENSA Paris - La Villette

Le cours de « Constructions civiles, Travaux publics et Architecture » de l’École Centrale dans les années 1850

15h10 : Discussion et pause

16h :      Jean-François BELHOSTE, EPHE

L’École Centrale au début des années 1850 : son enseignement, ses élèves

16h20 : Jean-François BELHOSTE et Philippe DENIZET, École Centrale de Paris Boston, Paris, Chicago : l’histoire extraordinaire d’un Centralien américain (film)

16h30 : Discussion

16h50 : Jean-François BELHOSTE, EPHE, Conclusion

Mardi 18 décembre, matin, auditorium de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’Art

6, rue des Petits-Champs, Paris, 2e  arr.

9h15 :    Accueil des participants

Les transfor mations de Paris dans les années 1 850
Présidence : David VAN ZANTEN, Northwestern University

9h30 :    Isabelle PARIZET, EPHE   Un américain à Paris

9h50 :    Jean-Pierre LE DANTEC, ENSA Paris - La Villette

L’École française de paysagisme à l’époque d’Alphand

10h10 : Sophie CUEILLE, Patrimoines et Inventaire Île-de-France

Le Vésinet modèle français d’urbanisme paysager ?

10h30 : Discussion et pause (salle Aby Warburg) 11h20 : Karen BOWIE

Paris et la « nouvelle science ferroviaire » (1845-1855)

11h50 : Discussion

Mardi 18 décembre, après-midi, musée d’Orsay

5, quai Anatole France, Paris, 7e  arr.

Inscription indispensable : www.centraliens.net/docs/baron_jenney.php

La construction métallique au X IX e siècle : ingénieurs et architectes

14h30 - 18h : Ateliers
sous la direction d’Alice THOMINE-BERRADA, musée d’Orsay

14h30 et 16h : Visite de l’exposition « Victor Baltard, le fer et le pinceau », par Florie ALARD et Ruth FIORI, musée d’Orsay

14h30 et 16h : Les archives de Gustave Eiffel, par Alice THOMINE-BERRADA 14h30 et 16h : La construction de la gare d’Orsay par Victor Laloux, par Isabelle LOUTREL, DRAC Champagne-Ardenne

14h30 et 16h : Sur les traces du Centralien Eugène Bertrand de Fontviollant, constructeur de la gare d’Orsay, par Jean-François BELHOSTE

14h30 et 16h : Visite de l’exposition « Architectures et ornements métalliques », par Caroline MATHIEU, musée d’Orsay

 

“The White City” by June Finfer at Glessner House 9/28 at Glessner House

                                          “The White City” by June Finfer at Glessner House

When: Friday, September 28, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.

Where: Glessner House Coach House, 1800 S. Prairie St.

Cost: $25.00 per person / $22.00 for CCSAH members.

Prepaid Reservations - Make check payable to SAH Chicago,

1365 N. Astor Street, Chicago, IL. 60610 by Sept. 21st.

An original new musical with book by the noted author June Finfer of Lost and Found Productions, with score by Elizabeth Doyle, entitled “The White City”.

 

When Chicago wins the right to host the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Jackson Park, the architect chosen to design and build it in record time, Daniel Burnham, finds ambition is not enough: he must enlist the support of all, even those who oppose him.   

 

In the three-year period of construction of the mile square fairground, a vast canvas of characters vie with fate, death and love to achieve the impossible, “making no little plans”. The musical explores the politics and passions behind a unique national event, in many ways the first and last event of its kind!  

 

June Finfer is an award-winning writer, and a producer of documentaries.  Her film about the architecture of Mies van der Rohe has been broadcast on A&E and PBS and won a first prize at the American Film Festival. In her previous play, “The Glass House,” she wrote of the relationship between architect Mies and his client, Dr. Edith Farnsworth.

More info: www.glessnerhouse.org  

Questions? Contact Judy Freeman: jrfree3500@aol.com /T:773-929-0329.

ON THE ROAD WITH SAH: GREAT LAKES NAVAL STATION, ADLER AND DANGLER HOUSES AUGUST 4TH



Great Lakes Naval Station Administration Building, 1911, Jarvis Hunt

On the Road with Society of Architectural Historians Chicago Chapter:
Tour of Great Lakes Naval Station, Lake Forest Cemetery, 2 Adler/Dangler houses
Saturday, August 4, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.

Download and Print Reservation Form (Click Here).

Join SAH for a bus tour of the historic 1911 Great Lakes buildings including Brick Row, the Naval Museum and Administration Building by architect Jarvis Hunt, guided by John Sheppard, Public Affairs officer.  plus the Ralph Poole Estate in Lake Bluff by David Adler and Henry Dangler, an exterior tour of the Dewey mansion in North Chicago, with visits to the Lake Forest Cemetery and the Fort Sheridan campus.

Lunch: at The Grille on Laurel, Lake Forest, IL.

Wiki retrieved 7/3/2012 (kb):  Naval Station Great Lakes is the home of the United States Navy's only boot camp, located near the city of North Chicago, Illinois, in Lake County. Important tenant commands include the Recruit Training Command, Training Support Center and Navy Recruiting District Chicago. Naval Station Great Lakes is the second largest military installation in Illinois and the largest training station in the Navy. The base has 1,153 buildings situated on 1,628 acres  and has 50 miles of roadway to provide access to the base's facilities. 

The original 39 buildings built between 1905 and 1911 were designed by Jarvis Hunt.

The base is like a small city, with its own fire department, Naval Security Force, and public works department.

One of the landmarks of the area is Building 1, also known as the clocktower building. Completed in 1911, the building is made of red brick, and has a tower that stands 300 feet over the third floor of the building. The large parade ground in front of the administration building is named Ross Field.

Cost: $85 for members, $95 non-members.

RSVP by July 18th by email to: jrfree3500@aol.com, or please call Judy Freeman at (773)929-0329.

Space is limited please reply early.

No photography allowed at Great Lakes Naval Station.

Pickup point:  Board tour bus at Adams and Michigan near the “Au Bon Pain” restaurant at 7:45 a.m. for 8:00 a.m. departure. See note below for Old Orchard special pickup. We should be back in Chicago by 8:00 p.m. Please join us!

Alternative North Shore pickup (at Old Orchard shopping center parking lot near Citibank at 9933 Lawler Avenue, Skokie, IL).

PURE DECO: The Powhatan Ballroom, Sat. July 28th

SUPPORT THE CHICAGO ART DECO SURVEY –

Attend PURE DECO III at the Powhatan Apartments Ballroom
Saturday, July 28^th, 2012 5:30 - 9:00 pm

SUPPORT THE CHICAGO ART DECO SURVEY –

Attend PURE DECO III at the Powhatan Apartments Ballroom
Saturday, July 28^th, 2012 5:30 - 9:00 pm

The first phase of the Chicago Art Deco Project – a comprehensive survey of 712 art deco buildings, sites and monuments - is substantially complete establishing an outstanding regional archive for inter-war period design. The project has already supported significant preservation progress.

A masterpiece of residential art deco design, the Powhatan’s striking polychrome terra cotta exterior encloses 22 floors of luxury.  Designed in 1928 by Robert DeGolyer with lavish interiors by Charles Morgan, this lovingly preserved jewel box is located at 4950 South Chicago Beach Drive in Hyde Park. The Powhatan is situated with spectacular views of the loop and the lake.  The ballroom features terraces and monumental windows.

Read a fantastic, full color article on the building by Teri Edelstein and Neil Harris by clicking here.

Use of the 22^nd floor Powhatan Ballroom is usually restricted to co-op owners, only.  Through special permission of the building’s board we will have access to the buildings most beautiful common features.

PURE Deco will include drinks (champagne, wine, beer, soft drinks) and heavy hors d’oeuvres, live music by modern crooner Justin Hayford, a spectacular silent auction, projections of photographs and rare archival film footage.  Catering by AEL - Chef Andrew Lawrence.  Period dress is encouraged. 

Guests are limited to just 90 persons, so reserve early!

The Chicago Art Deco Society is an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit organization.  All but $15 of the ticket price is tax deductible.   Respond by July 18th by calling 708-358-1394 or e-mail chicagoartdeco@gmail.com for more information or to make reservations.

Reserved attendees will receive confirmation and logistics.

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YES!  I will support the work of the Chicago Art Deco Survey:

Reservation(s) for the PURE Deco event at the member price of $110 or $120 for non-members.

$200 - $499 Contributors at this level will receive one ticket to the PURE Deco event, acknowledgement in CADS Magazine and in signage at the PURE Deco event.

$500+   Contributors at this level receive acknowledgement in the book, “Art Deco Chicago”, in CADS Magazine, as well as in signage at the Powhatan event plus 2 tickets and a copy of the FULL Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine Digital Archive – over 65 issues scanned as PDF’s for your tablet or home computer.