In these views of Chicago, you’ll encounter urban architecture and contemporary art projects that reveal the relationship of architecture to cultural, political, social and urban history in the U.S. and abroad. You’ll catch glimpses of how contemporary architects see the future. We captured the images during an architecture cruise along the Chicago River at the heart of the city, walkabouts in iconic neighborhoods, and visits to the DuSable Museum Roundhouse, Chicago Cultural Center, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, the Graham Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art and Farnsworth House (after a long bus ride to Plano!).
Art: Palais de Tokyo/EXPO Chicago 2017 Singing Stones exhibition, Catherine Wagner, Nick Cave, Dourian Gaudin, Cauleen Smith, David Hartt, Gerard and Kelly, Amanda Williams
Architecture: Chicago Architecture Cruise, 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, Marshall Brown Projects/Chicago, Urban Lab/Chicago, Bureau Spectacular/Los Angeles, Studio Mumbai/Mumbai, Terence Gower
About the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial: The Chicago Cultural Center was the setting for the city’s second biennial exhibition. Curators invited more 140 participants to express what it means to ‘Make New History.’ Our 25 October show on Jolt Radio features Vox Pop from the biennial exhibition preview—a few of the voices behind the dense array of horizontal and vertical maquettes, drawings and installations—from miniature to magnificent—that transform the historic building’s maze of rooms, passageways, windows, doorways and spaces in between, into galleries, arcades, salons and lounges.
- urban view, Pilsen district, Chicago
- Pilsen skyscraper, Chicago
- Fulton Market District gets a lift
- Chinatown bridge
- Chicago in the rain
- Singing Stones, Palais de Tokyo, DuSable Museum Roundhouse
- Dourian Gaudin installation DuSable RoundHouse
- Cauleen Smith sound installation, DuSable Roundhouse
- You Are Here, vertical map, downtown Chicago architecture
- urban architecture seen from boat
- Terrence Gower, Havana Case Study, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
- David Hartt, In the Forest installation view, Graham Foundation
- David Hartt, In the Forest, Graham Foundation
- Ulf Puder, Reservoir, EXPO Chicago
- White Wanderer, Luftwerk, EXPO Chicago 2017
- Nick Cave performance ritual, Navy Pier
- architect Jeanne Gang’s props for Nick Cave performance, Navy Pier
- Nick Cave performance, Navy Pier
- Catherine Wagner, Ephemeral Sculpture, EXPO Chicago 2017
- insterstitial space at the Chicago Culture Center, CAB2017
- Heliomorphic Chicago, Charles Waldheim, Harvard, CAB2017
- Studio Mumbai, Prima Materia, CAB2017
- Chicago Tribune re-design imaginary, CAB2017
- Jurgen Mayer H. & Philip Ursprung, Cosmic Latte, architecture Beige Manifesto, CAB2017
- Marshall Brown, The Architecture of Creative Miscegenation, CAB2017
- Urban Lab, Re-Encampment, CAB2017
- Bureau Spectacular, Another Raumplan, CAB2017
- Amanda Williams, Color(ed) Theory: Ultrasheen 2014-2015, Museum of Contemporary Art
- Amanda Willams, Is Austin Iraq?
- Amanda Williams, Color(ed) Theory: Ultrasheen 2014-2015, Museum of Contemporary Art
- Gerard&Kelly, Modern Living at Farnsworth House
- Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House
- Gerard&Kelly, Modern Living, Farnsworth House