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October 9th, 2004, 07:49 PM
Chicago Architecture: Ten Visions
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November 26, 2004–April 3, 2005
Overview: Throughout history, Chicago architects have played an active and far-reaching role in bringing innovation to the city’s built environment. They are often the pioneers who debate and propose new ideas for tackling pressing needs of the city. Chicago Architecture: Ten Visions celebrates this role by asking ten architects to define an issue important for the future of the city and create a “spatial commentary” on that theme. The 10 professionals—Jeanne Gang, Douglas Garofalo, Ralph Johnson, Ronald Krueck, Margaret McCurry, Eva Maddox, Katerina Reudi, Elva Rubio, Joe Valerio, and Xavier Vendrell—reflect a cross section of the city’s vibrant architectural scene. They come from large and small firms as well as the academic community, bringing to this exhibition their diverse experiences and insight. The ten participants were selected from an invited competition juried by architects Stanley Tigerman and Harry Cobb in collaboration with curators from the Art Institute’s Department of Architecture.
Within a lively master plan designed by Tigerman, each of the participants is curating and designing his or her own mini-exhibition in a space of approximately 21 by 21 feet square. Tigerman’s setting creates a linear sequence in which visitors pass through the architects’ spaces and an interactive area where the architects’ commentaries can be heard by picking up a telephone. Visitors are encouraged to record their comments on any and all of the “ten visions.”
The wide variety of themes developed by the architects illustrates a broad range of ideas concerning the future of Chicago architecture. Each pavilion is unique and the thought-provoking presentations touch on such timely issues as affordable housing, education, immigration, and regional planning. Other architects have developed more abstract ideas such as the impact of the information age on the city, multiple interpretations and perspectives of the city, and the shifting definitions of real and virtual space.
The exhibition includes not only the traditional plans, models, and projected images but also highlights the spaces themselves as artifacts. These spaces are more akin to installation art, creating complete environments for the visitor. This major exhibition, set in the museum’s Regenstein Hall, encourages fruitful speculation about Chicago’s future and demonstrates the powerful design ideas currently fueling imaginations in the city’s architectural community.
Organizer: Chicago Architecture: Ten Visions is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of Architecture.
Sponsor: This exhibition is made possible by Bank of America.
This exhibition is supported by The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and the Benefactors of Architecture of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ongoing support is provided by the Architecture and Design Society.
Curator: Martha Thorne, associate curator of architecture, Department of Architecture, the Art Institute of Chicago
Above: Design by Xavier Vendrell
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November 26, 2004–April 3, 2005
Overview: Throughout history, Chicago architects have played an active and far-reaching role in bringing innovation to the city’s built environment. They are often the pioneers who debate and propose new ideas for tackling pressing needs of the city. Chicago Architecture: Ten Visions celebrates this role by asking ten architects to define an issue important for the future of the city and create a “spatial commentary” on that theme. The 10 professionals—Jeanne Gang, Douglas Garofalo, Ralph Johnson, Ronald Krueck, Margaret McCurry, Eva Maddox, Katerina Reudi, Elva Rubio, Joe Valerio, and Xavier Vendrell—reflect a cross section of the city’s vibrant architectural scene. They come from large and small firms as well as the academic community, bringing to this exhibition their diverse experiences and insight. The ten participants were selected from an invited competition juried by architects Stanley Tigerman and Harry Cobb in collaboration with curators from the Art Institute’s Department of Architecture.
Within a lively master plan designed by Tigerman, each of the participants is curating and designing his or her own mini-exhibition in a space of approximately 21 by 21 feet square. Tigerman’s setting creates a linear sequence in which visitors pass through the architects’ spaces and an interactive area where the architects’ commentaries can be heard by picking up a telephone. Visitors are encouraged to record their comments on any and all of the “ten visions.”
The wide variety of themes developed by the architects illustrates a broad range of ideas concerning the future of Chicago architecture. Each pavilion is unique and the thought-provoking presentations touch on such timely issues as affordable housing, education, immigration, and regional planning. Other architects have developed more abstract ideas such as the impact of the information age on the city, multiple interpretations and perspectives of the city, and the shifting definitions of real and virtual space.
The exhibition includes not only the traditional plans, models, and projected images but also highlights the spaces themselves as artifacts. These spaces are more akin to installation art, creating complete environments for the visitor. This major exhibition, set in the museum’s Regenstein Hall, encourages fruitful speculation about Chicago’s future and demonstrates the powerful design ideas currently fueling imaginations in the city’s architectural community.
Organizer: Chicago Architecture: Ten Visions is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of Architecture.
Sponsor: This exhibition is made possible by Bank of America.
This exhibition is supported by The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and the Benefactors of Architecture of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ongoing support is provided by the Architecture and Design Society.
Curator: Martha Thorne, associate curator of architecture, Department of Architecture, the Art Institute of Chicago
Above: Design by Xavier Vendrell