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ArchitectureChicago PLUS (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Gropius in Chicago Coalition will be holding a rally today, Tuesday, November 24 at noon in Daley Plaza to protest the destruction of the architecture of the Michael Reese Hospital campus, and to save the remaining buildings designed with collaboration of Bauhaus co-founder Walter Gropius. All concerned residents are urged to attend, and to wear black. This is the 1912 powerhouse designed in 1911...
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Violinist.com (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
By Laurie Niles: I realized on Thursday night that despite having listened to recordings of the Alban Berg Violin Concerto countless times, I hadn't come close to understanding it. Seeing a live performance enlightened me; moreover, seeing a live performance with violinist Gil Shaham , conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall energized my senses. The evening also included...
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Lux Lotus (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
"It is very good, at least once in your life, to start at zero." ––Anni Albers Last night I had the pleasure of attending a sold-out talk at the Museum of Modern Art given by Nicholas Fox Weber, author of...
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Design Observer (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The upcoming Museum of Modern Art exhibition “Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity” is the first update since “Bauhaus 1919–1928,” MoMA’s first, last and only comprehensive examination of the school.
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ArchitectureChicago PLUS (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
This Thursday, November 19th at high noon, at 1338 West Lake, Leslie Hindman will be auctioning off over 50 lots of rare architectural books from the famed, late, lamented Prairie Avenue Bookshop. You can review the entire catalogue, which also includes such literary items as first editions of This Side of Paradise , Catch-22 , In Our Time , and The Sun Also Rises, as well as antique volumes such as...
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gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity at MoMA. "...Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the nature of art in the age of technology. Aiming to rethink the very form of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site of a dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
For more than three decades Monica Pidgeon edited the Bloomsbury-based Architectural Design (AD). This influential and radical journal was a prime source of information on contemporary architectural culture, and had an international reach. It gave prominence to the work of such architects as Le Corbusier, Jose Luis Sert, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Richard Buckminster Fuller, and Alison and...
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Art Boobs (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Ferenc Berko: Bombay, 1941 Vintage gelatin silver print, 11 7/8 x 9 13/16 inches Ferenc Berkó (1916-2000) is part of long tradition of Hungarian émigré photographers, which includes Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Martin Munkásci. Influenced by some of the great Bauhaus teachers at a young age, Berko explored...
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designShrine (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
What a cool example of creative architecture designed for fashion and function! This gorgeous underground house design by Deca Architecture is built right into the idyllic landscape of the Cycladic Islands in Greece. The hill house was designed to withstand the windy climate off the Aegean Sea. It was carved into the earth with just [...]
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EveryBlock: Ward 6 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
7428 S. Evans Landmarks panel rejects historic label for Reese Among other matters, the landmarks commission endorsed landmark status for two homes connected to famous African-American writers. They are the Richard Wright House, 4831 S. Vincennes, and the Gwendolyn Brooks House, 7428 S. Evans . Published by Chicago Sun-Times on November 6, 2009 .
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HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Courtenay: A weekly presentation about visual arts with a different guest artist each week. Show N Tell can be a slideshow, demo, art talk, artist interview, live painting and more.
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Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A divided Commission on Chicago Landmarks on Thursday voted against a proposal to place the partially demolished former Michael Reese Hospital Campus -- which includes buildings co-designed by noted architect Walter Gropius -- on the National Register of Historic Places. Also Thursday, the commission unanimously voted to recommend to the Chicago City Council that the houses of two great African-American...
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Brainicane (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Photograph: © Grahm M. Balkany / Gropius in Chicago Coalition, used with permission It is hard to get people excited about saving buildings from the 50s and 60s. But then it used to be hard to get people excited about saving Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, and now Chicago values them above all else. That is [...]
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Art in NYC (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
I was invited to MoMA today, as a member of the press, for the preview of Bauhaus 1919-1933 Workshops for Modernity, opening November 8th, running till January 25th, 2009. I took a lot of video footage and here’s what I decided to save (decided not to upload footage I took of the curators, Barry Bergdoll [...]
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chicagotribune.com - Voice of the people (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
After reading Blair Kamin's article about the City of Chicago's shameful ongoing demolition of the Walter Gropius' designed buildings at the former Michael Reese Hospital ("Chicago back to its wreck-first ways," News, Oct. 29), I am speechless.
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