Urban Spectacle in Clout City: The Harriet Rees House's $8 million Move

click images for larger view  In 1888, wealthy widow Harriet F. Rees had architects Cobb and Frost build her a mansion on Prairie Avenue, Ch...

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Frank Lloyd Wright at 147: Still dead, still omnipresent

Evans House, Chicago, Frank Lloyd Wright, architect Sunday is his birthday.  Still another year has passed, and Frank Lloyd Wright is still ...

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Rural Studio, Wright's Chicago Years, Sullivan's Auditorium, Vale's Purging, Ronan's Poetic Iterations - More for January!

Okay, so now that we've gotten past the the freeze and the flood, maybe it's time again to venture and check out some great new item...

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Wim de Wit, Ilianna Kwaske, Placemaking, Emotions and Planning, Pop-ups, Pruitt-Igoe, and an Ancient Roman architect in a modern Japanese bathhouse - it's the August calendar!

It takes more than those 60-degree dog days of summer to shut down Chicago.  We've got nearly thirty great items for you this month on t...

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Creation and the Politics of Gender: Modernism's Messengers - the Art of Alfonso and Margaret Iannelli

 Alfonso and Margaret Iannelli -click images for larger view The new show at the Chicago Cultural Center, Modernism's Messengers: The Ar...

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Mies: "I am not a polygamist" - so says the Digital Public Library of America

click images for larger view  Yesterday at noon,  the Digital Public Library of America came online for the first time. According to Harvar...

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