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Discussing Chicago architect Daniel Burnham with Tom Hines, Bill Hasbrouck and Harry Weese.
Studs Terkel rebroadcasts a discussion on the Chicago School of Architecture and its future in memory of Carl Condit. Carl Condit, Richard Nickel, and Ben Weese share their opinions on the Auditorium Theatre, University of Illinois-Circle Campus, Chicago Civic Center, Monadnock Building, and historical continuity.
Architectural historian Robert Twombly discusses the biography “Louis Sullivan: His Life and Work.” Referred to by Studs as the architect that most symbolizes Chicago architecture, Louis Sullivan, this program outlines Sullivan’s life as a prominent architect who was one of the first to incorporate nature, or "the organic", into architecture, and who ended his life in poverty. This program includes a clip from 1956 of Frank Lloyd Wright speaking to his contemporaries, indignant, asking what took them so long to recognize Louis Sullivan and his genius in the architectural field?
Curator John Zukowsky and architect Stanley Tigerman discuss their architecture exhibit and the controversy surrounding it.
Historian Charles Capen McLaughlin discusses landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and how Olmsted worked to create spaces where the working class could enjoy nature in industrialized areas. Studs plays "Whose Garden Was This" - Tom Paxton (1970) and "Tapestry" - Don McLean (1970).