Spring Film Series – Register NOW!
April 16 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
WMAIA FILM SERIES
These films are free but you must register here to receive the Zoom link. WMAIA will record the learning units for each film and discussion attended. All films will be shown via Zoom.
When registering, select the TOTAL # of dates (1 or 2) that you plan to attend. Each evening we will present film followed by discussion.
Studio Gang Architects: Aqua Tower
Wednesday April 16 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 LU pending approval
Chicago is famous for its role in fostering modern architecture, owing to the legacy of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in the late 1900s, and Mies van der Rohe in the mid-20th Century.
Jeanne Gang, founder of Studio Gang, gave the epithet “Chicago School” a new meaning.
The film not only examines the thinking behind Aqua which makes the building’s presence against the skyline so striking, but takes visitors to the award-winning “Brick Weave House” (2009) in a Chicago residential neighborhood, where brick walls form a large open-air “screened porch” at the house’s front.
Another project, the SOS Children’s Village Lavezzorio Community Center on Chicago’s South Side (2008) makes use of irregular, workmanlike concrete.
Robert A.M. Stern: 15 Central Park West and the History of the New York Apartment House
Wednesday April 30 | 6:30 PM | Zoom |1 LU
Even during the Great Recession of 2008, one new apartment house in New York City continued to set the bar for real-estate prices: 15 Central Park West. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects, the lavish, limestone-clad structure from 61st to 62nd streets is arguably one of the most luxurious residential buildings to rise in the city in decades. Stern deliberately evokes the grand era of New York apartments designed in the 1920s and 1930s, especially the intricately planned architecture of Rosario Candela.
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