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Discussing the book "From Bauhaus to our house" with the author and journalist Tom Wolfe.
Discussing Chicago architect Daniel Burnham with Tom Hines, Bill Hasbrouck and Harry Weese.
Interviewing guests at the Institute of Design memorial in Crown Hall on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. The student work on view is a collaboration between the Schools of Architecture and Planning, and the Institute of Design.
Discussing "Discrimination in metropolitan Chicago" with Curtiss Brooks, employment specialist, Chicago Urban League, Jane Weston, housing specialist, American Friends Service Committee, and Philip Hauser, Sociology Department of University of Chicago. Brooks, Weston and Hauser provide data, reports and statistics to debunk the myths concerning the Black market for housing in Chicago. Weston states that public attitudes have changed and Real Estate must listen and accommodate open occupancy. Another myth that is discussed is that property values will go down if Blacks move in.
Presenting at the Picasso unveiling: dedication ceremony and comments 30th anniversary.
Author Ross Miller discusses his latest work, which centers around Chicago and the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire and its effects on rebuilding the metropolis and the advantages of gaining a new take on architecture and society.
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?
Richard McLanathan discusses his book "The American Tradition in the Arts" and takes Studs on a sprawling journey through artistic breakthroughs in architecture, painting, literature, and more while touching on dozens of artists and their works.
Renault Robinson, founder of the Afro-American Police League in Chicago and Chicago Housing Authority board member, discusses police programs in public housing projects. He discusses how public housing breeds crime because families are struggling and the building conditions are terrible, and how a new police program can help fix problems.
Discussing architecture with Chicago architects Oswald Grube, Harry Weese and Don Klimovich.
Kenneth and Sarah Vaux discuss the father of landscape architecture Calvert Vaux and his influence on other landscape architects including Frederick Law Olmsted. Kenneth and Sarah focus their discussion on public parks and how these parks were a response against industrialization and served to provide a space for the working class to gather in nature. This program includes an excerpt of an interview with labor activist Edward Sadlowski discussing the working class’ interest in nature, books, theater, and music.
Curator John Zukowsky and architect Stanley Tigerman discuss their architecture exhibit and the controversy surrounding it.
Architect John Vinci, art and architectural historian David Van Zanten, and curator Wim de Wit discuss Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Historical Society’s exhibition “Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament.” The group discusses Sullivan’s use of ornament to add an organic element to his architecture; as well as some of Sullivan’s most prominent work including the Chicago Stock Exchange Building, the Auditorium Building, and the Sullivan Center. This program includes a clip from 1956 of Frank Lloyd Wright discussing Sullivan and his impact on architectural design.
Discussing the debate over the site of the new Chicago Public Library with poet Jim Fuerst and Terry Brunner, Executive Director of the Better Government Association.