June 12, 2024 Ι Architect’s Newspaper There are not one, but two, View-Master toys on display in A Living Room for Bronzeville, an exhibition at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) focused on how Mies van der Rohe’s epochal vision of the modern campus inflicted itself on its neighborhood. Invented by a Black IIT graduate… Continue reading A Living Room for Bronzeville is a pop-culture revision of Mies van der Rohe’s legacy at IIT
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Mary Dill Henry’s Life-long Search for the “Vital Forces” of Art and Technology
Jan. 25, 2023 Ι Metropolis Magazine As an art student from California studying at László Moholy-Nagy’s Institute of Design in the mid-1940s, Mary Dill Henry described the world as such in her MFA thesis: “The world we live in is a vast and beautiful place, full of vital forces that work upon us and within… Continue reading Mary Dill Henry’s Life-long Search for the “Vital Forces” of Art and Technology
IIT and CTBUH launch new tall-buildings degree programs
Architect’s Newspaper Ι Sept. 20, 2022 Antony Wood, president of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), begins just about every speech he delivers with “Ninety-five percent of tall buildings are crap; they should have never been built.” That is why he started a new degree program at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s… Continue reading IIT and CTBUH launch new tall-buildings degree programs
Virgil Abloh’s MCA Exhibition Reveals the Power—and Limits—of Design Disruption
Metropolis Magazine Ι July 15, 2019 Architecture is an attractive medium for the trendsetter-turned-multidisciplinary designer and artist Virgil Abloh. Because buildings are often the face of the establishment, they are ripe targets for subversion—Abloh’s calling card. So it’s no surprise that bits of buildings are strewn throughout Figures of Speech, Abloh’s first solo museum exhibition now… Continue reading Virgil Abloh’s MCA Exhibition Reveals the Power—and Limits—of Design Disruption
Architect Georgia Louise Harris Brown Pioneered Modernism Across Two Continents
Autodesk’s Redshift Ι February 6, 2018 Pioneering African-American architect Georgia Louise Harris Brown had a knack for seeking out the most fertile architecture scenes in the world during her long career. She practiced in Chicago during Mies van der Rohe’s prime and, from there, moved to Brazil, where a singular modernist language was being created for… Continue reading Architect Georgia Louise Harris Brown Pioneered Modernism Across Two Continents
Marshall Brown is Putting the Pieces Together
November 2017 Ι Architect Magazine The studio of Marshall Brown is located on the South Side of Chicago in the Overton Hygienic Building, built in 1922. One of Chicago’s many early-20th-century brick and terra-cotta modest masterpieces, it has survived the tides of development and disinvestment that have washed over this part of the city. It was a… Continue reading Marshall Brown is Putting the Pieces Together