The University of Chicago School of Business + Rockefeller Chapel

The Chicago Graduate School of Business (GSB) - Booth School of Business Building by Raphael Vinoly, 2004

Took inspiration from the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on campus, built in the 1920s and having the second largest Carillon (operable bell tower) and thus the second largest and heaviest musical instrument in the world.  Dedicated to John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s mother.

Frederick C. Robie House, 1908-10

Touring one of the forerunners to modern architecture ... Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece

Nature Boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo

Small pavilion and boardwalk at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo by Studio Gang Architects, prefabricated glu-lam beams and steel plate connectors with cast resin shell.

 

 

Beginning Week 2: Studio Gang

Aqua Tower ... the tallest building in the world designed by a female architect. Completed in 2010.

 

 

Chilapan

Dinner next Wednesday ... Chilapan!   Check out their website

http://tenangrypitbulls.com/chilapan/

 

 

This is Marina City (retro documentary)

 

Drawing the City -- Historic Skyscrapers // Federal Plaza // Willis Tower -- 16 May 2012

Today was very full.  We started with blind contours of the skyline followed by the historic downtown tour - rise of the skyscraper.  The afternoon continued with figure ground drawings, axonometrics and perspectives.