Frank Lloyd Wright Designed George Smith Home, Oak Park Il.
Oak Park is a small village located on Chicago's western boundry. It is known for having the largest number of Frank Lloyd Wright designed homes in the world. The founder of the prairie school of architecture made his home here from 1889-1909. Most of his homes are located on the north side of town, the wealthy side. One is located south of Lake Street on the poorer side of town.
That is the George Smith home located at 404 S. Home was designed in 1895 as one of a group of low cost houses for architect Charles E. Roberts, that were never built.This was during the period when Wright was moonlighting before he started his own company. It was built in 1898 for Smith who was a salesman for Marshall Field.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Trust summer interns create a training presentation.The 2014 Robie House Interns -- Katie Lee and Melanie Bishop -- worked alongside the 2014 Lab School intern, Kimya A. Buckner to create a film presenting an architectural history of the historic Hyde Park neighborhood, home to Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House.
Things to Do in Chicago | 4/16/2014 | Concierge Picks | Chicago Travel
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Christopher Wool has emerged as one of the most important abstract painters of his generation. He's perhaps best known for his paintings of large stenciled letters, which he uses to form words or phrases, often abbreviated or arranged in run-on configurations that disrupt ordinary patterns of perception and speech. This retrospective presents nearly 90 paintings, photographs, and works on paper now until May 11, 2014.
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Rustic House takes its name pretty seriously, marking its walls with burlap, building its bar with weathered barn planks, and hanging iron wheel chandeliers lit by pillar candles. There's an edge of refinement to the rusticity, tweaking familiar tropes with a glamorous update. The menu follows the same polished comfort food path; you'll find a juicy free-range organic chicken turning on the rotisserie each night, sometimes joined by a rack of veal or suckling pig. Snack on thin kettle chips and homemade onion dip before spooning up chicken pot pie draped with a fluffy puff pastry blanket.
Rustic House
1967 N. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60614
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Every Friday evening in April, the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust will have a festive, casual gathering with live music, refreshments and light hors d'oeuvres at the Robie House. The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed residence is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. During the evening, guests will have the chance to explore Frank Lloyd Wright's quintessential Prairie style home at their leisure. April After Hours allows access to Robie House's balconies and private spaces, which include three bedrooms and two bathrooms on the third floor.
Robie House
5757 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL 60637
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Robie House
The Frederick C. Robie House is a U.S. National Historic Landmark on the campus of the University of Chicago in the neighborhood of Hyde Park in Chicago, Illinois, at 5757 S. Woodlawn Avenue on the South Side. It was designed and built between 1908 and 1910 by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and is renowned as the greatest example of the Prairie School style, the first architectural style that was uniquely American. It was designated a National Historic Landmark on November 27, 1963 and was on the very first National Register of Historic Places list of October 15, 1966.
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Chicago - City Video Guide
Chicago, Illinois, rises from the edges of Lake Michigan and offers some of America's best jazz, blues and theater.
Chicago's most visited districts are The Loop, as the city's business center, The Riverwalk and the Miracle Mile. The Miracle Mile houses the Old Water Tower and is full of boutique shops and fine examples from the Chicago School of architecture.
Chicago's parks include the monument-rich Lincoln Park with the Chicago History Museum, Garfield Park Conservatory and Oak Park. Oak Park was home both to the author Ernest Hemingway and the visionary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. In Millennium Park, Frank Gehry's Jay Pritzker Pavilion and the equally futuristic-looking Cloud Gate are the highlights.
Children's attractions in Chicago include the Lincoln Park Zoo, the Museum of Science and Industry or the Field Museum, known from the Indiana Jones movies. The historic Navy Pier also offers waterfront entertainment for all ages, including scenic river cruises.
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Driehaus Preservation Award: Chicago Athletic Association
Open to the public for the first time since its founding as a private social club, the landmarked Chicago Athletic Association building has been transformed into a gracious hospitality destination.
This project was presented a National Preservation Award at PastForward 2016 which took place November 2016 in Houston, Texas. For more information about the awards program visit forum.savingplaces.org/preservation-awards.
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Dual Art Show at Intuit Makes Case for Art as Therapy
Marshall Erdman
Marshall Erdman was a Lithuanian-American builder and colleague of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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WPT Univesity Place: Writing Wisconsin's Communities
Kimberly Blaeser, Wisconsin Poet Laureate; Fabu, Former Madison Poet Laureate; Dion Kempthorne, Dean Emeritus at UW-Richland Center; and Timothy Yu, Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at UW-Madison, discuss how poetry and fiction can shape the future of our communities by engaging diverse populations.
Explore the full archive of WPT's University Place lectures online at
Robert Silman - Preserving Falling Water - Part 2
Robert Silman - Preserving Falling Water - Part 2
Chicago Tonight full episode: July 15, 2019
The latest on potential immigration raids in Chicago. The bungalow of the future. And an update on that elusive alligator with a special in-studio cousin of his – or hers.
Illinois Adventure #1607 Historic Farnsworth House
The Farnsworth House, designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between 1945-51, is a one-room weekend retreat in a once-rural setting, located 55 miles southwest of Chicago. The steel and glass house was commissioned by Dr. Edith Farnsworth, a prominent Chicago-based kidney specialist, as a place where she could enjoy nature and engage in her hobby, translating poetry. Mies created for her a 1,400 square foot house that is widely recognized as a masterpiece of modernist architecture. The home was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006, after joining the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
Restoring the Sauk Prairie: A Story of Hope and Healing
The long-awaited documentary about the Alliance.
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The Generic City: Can the 21st Century Ever Build Special Places?
(Visit: Architecture critic and The New School professor Paul Goldberger looks at whether cities are becoming more and more the same, and why, and what the implications for this are. Recorded on 04/20/2015. Series: UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures [6/2015] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 29297]
Chicago | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:34 1 Etymology and nicknames
00:05:51 2 History
00:06:00 2.1 Beginnings
00:07:21 2.2 Founding and 19th century
00:16:06 2.3 20th and 21st centuries
00:16:17 2.3.1 1900 to 1939
00:20:45 2.3.2 1940 to 1979
00:24:55 2.3.3 1980 to present
00:27:00 3 Geography
00:27:09 3.1 Topography
00:30:48 3.2 Communities
00:31:50 3.3 Streetscape
00:33:45 3.4 Architecture
00:36:39 3.5 Monuments and public art
00:39:31 3.6 Climate
00:42:34 4 Demographics
00:49:30 4.1 Religion
00:50:35 5 Economy
00:57:42 6 Culture and contemporary life
01:02:48 6.1 Entertainment and the arts
01:07:47 6.2 Festivals
01:08:56 6.3 Tourism
01:14:22 6.4 Cuisine
01:16:59 6.5 Literature
01:19:41 7 Sports
01:26:08 8 Parks and greenspace
01:29:04 9 Law and government
01:29:14 9.1 Government
01:30:38 9.2 Politics
01:34:05 9.3 Crime
01:39:46 9.4 Employee pensions
01:40:39 10 Education
01:40:48 10.1 Schools and libraries
01:44:40 10.2 Colleges and universities
01:46:53 11 Media
01:47:02 11.1 Television
01:48:53 11.2 Newspapers
01:49:56 11.3 Movies and Filming
01:51:32 11.4 Radio
01:52:21 11.5 Video Games
01:52:53 12 Infrastructure
01:53:02 12.1 Transportation
01:53:57 12.1.1 Expressways
01:54:53 12.1.2 Transit systems
01:56:57 12.1.3 Passenger rail
01:57:50 12.1.4 Bicycle-sharing system
01:58:38 12.1.5 Freight rail
01:59:44 12.1.6 Airports
02:00:55 12.1.7 Port authority
02:02:32 12.2 Utilities
02:04:04 12.3 Health systems
02:06:26 13 Sister cities
02:07:37 14 See also
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Chicago ( (listen), locally also ), officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States. As of the 2017 census-estimate, Chicago has a population of 2,716,450, which makes it the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States. It is the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the United States. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, which is often referred to as Chicagoland. The Chicago metropolitan area has nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States, the fourth largest in North America, and the third largest metropolitan area in the world by land area.
Located on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900 Chicago was one of the five largest cities in the world. During this period, Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.Chicago is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It was the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures. O'Hare International Airport is the one of the busiest airports in the world, and the region also has the largest number of U.S. highways and railroad freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. Chicago has the fourth-largest gross metropolitan product in the world—generating about $670.5 billion accordi ...
Chicago Park District Nov/Dec '08: Washington Park
Parkways Foundation, the philanthropic partner of the Chicago Park District, raised more than $700,000 in private funds to build the accessible playground. The playground also pays homage to Bronzevilles cultural history through a timeline that highlights significant contributors and events in the neighborhood. Donors to the Washington Park playground include Lollapalooza and C3 Presents, Charter One, Motorola, Chicago Magazine, and the Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust.
Jerry Saltz - Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series - Smithsonian American Art Museum
Since 2007, Jerry Saltz has been the Senior Art Critic for New York Magazine. Before that, starting in 1998, he was Senior Art Critic for the Village Voice. He is a two-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism and has had two volumes of criticism published. The 2007 winner of the Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism from the College Art Association, he has lectured widely including at Harvard, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and many others. He has taught at Columbia University, Yale, RISD, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among many others. In addition to having written for Frieze, Parkett, Art in America, and many other publications, he was recently ranked #57 “Most Powerful Person in the Art World” by ArtReview Magazine—one ahead of Jasper Johns.
This talk is part of the American Art Museum’s annual speaker series, the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art.
Chicago’s Inclusive Economy and the Creative Sector
On November 13, 2017, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation held a public conversation at the Merit School of Music on “Building Chicago's Inclusive Economy: The Role of the Creative Sector.” How can the arts serve as an economic driver and community connector, helping to build a more inclusive economy for our city?
Modern architecture | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:39 1 Origins
00:03:55 2 Early modernism in Europe (1900–1914)
00:10:14 3 Early American modernism (1890s–1914)
00:11:48 3.1 Early skyscrapers
00:13:29 4 Rise of Modernism in Europe and Russia (1918–1931)
00:14:35 4.1 International Style (1918–1950s)
00:17:00 4.2 Bauhaus and the German Werkbund (1919–1932)
00:20:25 4.3 Expressionist architecture (1918–1931)
00:25:22 4.4 Constructivist architecture (1919–1931)
00:29:23 4.5 Modernism becomes a movement: CIAM (1928)
00:32:46 5 Art Deco
00:34:58 5.1 American Art Deco; the skyscraper style (1919–1939)
00:36:47 5.2 Streamline style and Public Works Administration (1933–1939)
00:38:40 6 American modernism - Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra (1919–1939)
00:41:11 7 Paris International Exposition of 1937 and the architecture of dictators
00:44:21 8 New York World's Fair (1939)
00:45:20 9 World War II: wartime innovation and postwar reconstruction (1939–1945)
00:48:16 10 Le Corbusier and the iCité Radieuse/i (1947–1952)
00:50:02 11 Postwar modernism in the United States (1945–1985)
00:50:59 11.1 Frank Lloyd Wright and the Guggenheim Museum
00:53:13 11.2 Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer
00:54:35 11.3 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
00:56:25 11.4 Richard Neutra and Charles & Ray Eames
00:58:19 11.5 Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Wallace K. Harrison
01:00:49 11.6 Philip Johnson
01:02:12 11.7 Eero Saarinen
01:04:57 11.8 Louis Kahn
01:06:55 11.9 I. M. Pei
01:10:17 12 Postwar modernism in Europe (1945–1975)
01:13:56 13 Latin America
01:17:41 14 Asia and the Pacific
01:20:51 15 Preservation
01:22:03 16 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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Modern architecture, or modernist architecture was based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel and reinforced concrete; the idea that form should follow function (→functionalism); an embrace of minimalism; and a rejection of ornament.
It emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II until the 1980s, when it was gradually replaced as the
principal style for institutional and corporate buildings by postmodern architecture.
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