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May 20, 2024
The organization started as a way to fortify the citys intellectual culture. Now its looking to recruit younger members to carry on its traditions.
September 11, 2023
Built in 1891 with Romanesque Revival styling, the unusual structure was among the final projects of noted architect John Wellborn Root
July 1, 2023
The station may have been the last building designed by John Wellborn Root of Burnham & Root, Chicago’s premiere 19th Century architectural firm.
April 28, 2023
Architecture is understood as something distinct from the building, eschewing physical inhabitation.
November 4, 2022
“The Radiance of Being” celebrates iconic Chicago structures with Art Deco elements, including The Rookery, the Palmer House and the Palmolive Building.
October 17, 2022
Discover the 13 iconic buildings you have to visit in New York City.
December 29, 2021
T.S. Eliot's fame and his Nobel Prize in literature owe a debt to an editor working in a repurposed Chicago mansion, Harriet Monroe.
October 8, 2021
Great Chicago Fire, conflagration that began on October 8, 1871, and burned until early October 10, devastating an expansive swath of the city of Chicago. The fire, the most famous in American history, claimed about 300 lives, destroyed some 17,450 buildings, and caused $200 million in damage.
May 16, 2021
Would it be adequate to regard lighting as language sent by architects or interior designers and being received by inhabitants and citizens?
April 8, 2021
Solo exhibition by Richard Rezac on view at Rhona Hoffman Gallery Installation view. CHICAGO, IL .-Rhona Hoffman Gallery is presenting Cast, a solo exhibition by Richard Rezac. Featuring a series of works made within the last yeara period whose insular time has been marked by recollection, in the absence of new visual material or experiences entering an artists frame of referencethe exhibition underscores Rezacs four-decade career of invention and permutation in sculpture. Since the 199...