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Tuesday, April 6, 2010 @ 6:00 p.m.

Tour of the Columbia College Chicago Media Production Center by Studio Gang Architects
Meet architect Jeanne Gang and tour the building
with Alicia Berg, Columbia's head of real estate, planning and facilities.
 
Image courtesy of Studio Gang Architects

Studio Gang is known for their innovative contemporary architecture (the Aqua highrise we all love) that brings the ideals of modernism into the 21st century.

Tour space is limited - please register in advance
(due to quick timing on this, on-line registration only)
 
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Cost $10 for members, $15 for their guests
Space is limited - advance registration only
First come, first served. Only paid reservations will be held
Members dues must be paid for 2010
 
Columbia College MPC is located at 1600 S. State Street, Chicago

Accessible by the #29 and 62 State Street buses, the #3 and 4 Michigan Avenue buses, and a 4-block walk from the Roosevelt Road CTA station.


In Memorium:
Bruce Graham, 84, the architect of the Willis (sears) Tower, and the John Hancock Center, the X-braced giant that became a symbol of Chicago's industrial might, died Saturday, March 6, at his home in Hobe Sound, Fla. 
 
Exerpt from the Chicago Tribune:  Besides the Willis (originally Sears) Tower and the Hancock Center, which bracket Chicago's skyline like enormous black parentheses, Mr. Graham played a major role in designing such landmark structures as the Inland Steel Building and the 1986 expansion of McCormick Place. And Mr. Graham's impact extended beyond individual designs. Though his name is often linked with the planning for the aborted 1992 Chicago World's Fair, he helped produce the visionary Chicago 21 plan of 1973, which led to such improvements as the Museum Campus.

"He was the Burnham of his generation," said the Chicago architectural historian Franz Schulze, referring to the legendary Chicago urban planner Daniel Burnham.
 
Check out the latest issue of Modernism Magazine for a great article on Frank Lloyd Wright's Florida Southern College that we visited on our Sarasota tour last spring.
CLICK HERE to see a preview.


 Joan Gand
Vice-President
Chicago Bauhaus and Beyond
P.O. Box 364
Flossmoor IL 60422
www.chicagobauhausbeyond.org
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