CHICAGO COMPLEX
ARCHEWORKS
COVER IMAGE: JORIK BAIS, ENTER THE SOLID, TU DELFT, 2016
CHICAGO COMPLEX
CHICAGO 2016 / 2017
2016 / 2017
ARCHEWORKS IS A CHICAGO-BASED DESIGN LAB AND EDUCATOR. OUR MISSION IS TO USE DESIGN AS AN AGENT OF CHANGE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST. WE DRIVE DIALOGUE, POLICY, AND CITY DESIGN. WE INSPIRE A COLLABORATIVE PROCESS WHILE INVENTING AND TESTING INNOVATIVE PROTOTYPES THAT SHAPE THE FUTURE OF OUR CITY.
STUDIO Archeworks conducts and oversees research in many capacities. This multidisciplinary research thinktank engages areas beyond design that influence the social climate that we design within: education, policy, media, technology, waste streams, energy. This team deepens the focus, precision and impact potential for our projects. SCHOOL Archeworks offers a postgraduate certificate that focuses on the skills, techniques and implementation of Public Interest Design: identifying opportunity, engaging a collective audience, convincing and testing ideas, and making design an agent of change. Through a vast network of industry experts, civic leaders, award winning practitioners and successful social entrepreneurs, students are given the tools and access to make a difference in the world, and the accountability to do so. CAMPUS Archeworks operates Chicago Complex, a satellite campus for national and international universities. This academic consortium for advanced urban studies utilizes the Chicago metropolitan area as a laboratory for contemporary cultural production. Students from diverse areas, nationalities and backgrounds bring a balanced and unbiased dialogue around some of Chicago’s most pressing social dilemmas, often exposing latent challenges and finding promising solutions.
ARCHEWORKS
“As designers, with the extraordinary power that we have developed to invent and present new sustainable ways of living, we have the ethical imperative to make our businesses align with this practice and potential. As citizens, we have the ethical imperative to make our governments develop and embrace this new way of being in the world. As individuals we have the ethical imperative to everything we can do to contribute to this way of working, with the greatest possible urgency to overcome the challenges that we face.� BRUCE MAU NOW THAT WE CAN DO ANYTHING, WHAT WILL WE DO? ARCHEWORKS PAPERS VOL 1, NUMBER FIVE, 2008
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CHICAGO COMPLEX ChicagoComplex is a Chicago-based academic consortium for advanced urban studies and research. It operates as a satellite campus for national and international universities, utilizing the Chicago metropolitan area as a laboratory for contemporary cultural production. Based on the interests and curriculum of its allied institutions, ChicagoComplex tailors and provides necessary components of an off-campus program, including instructors, studio space, educational resources, administrative support, and housing. Design studios, classrooms, and lecture halls are located within actively engaged architecture and design offices, civic institutions, and other interested private companies. All students remain enrolled in their university and courses are designed to provide the necessary academic content required for credit. ChicagoComplex conducts a research-based interdisciplinary approach across the fields of architecture, urbanism, and design. Working closely with influential leaders in the public and private sector, ranging from architects and planners to government officials and social activists, ChicagoComplex creates and fosters partnerships with national and international universities to explore and test emerging forms of socially responsible cultural production. ChicagoComplex is a research branch of Archeworks, a multidisciplinary design school with a social agenda. It advances design in the public interest and inspires collaborative action to shape more healthy, sustainable and equitable communities. Its public forums and partnership based education programs propose a range of socially responsible and ecologically resourceful design solutions for urban communities.
ARCHEWORKS
2016
THE COLLECTIVE = STUDENTS, RESEARCHERS, PRACTITIONERS, STAKEHOLDERS, DECISION MAKERS.
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2016 PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS TU DELFT THE NETHERLANDS ECOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE D’ARCHITECTURE SAINT-ETIENNE FRANCE MASSEY UNIVERSITY WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE MONTERREY QUERÉTARO MÉXICO ECOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE D’ARCHITECTURE VERSAILLES FRANCE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES SYDNEY AUSTRALIA INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE MONTERREY MONTERREY MÉXICO UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS UNITED STATES ARCHEWORKS
CITY <> LAB
TU DELFT
WHAT WE DO
WHO ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OPEN TO
ARCHEWORKS
UNIVERSITY
TIME
COORDINATION PREPARATION
7 DAYS
NUMBERS 10 STUDENTS
DISCIPLINE ARCHITECTURE
HOST-FIRM
URBAN PLANNING
HOUSING
POLICY/PLANNING
TRAVEL
INTERIOR ARCH.
TOURS
LANDSCAPE ARCH.
EVENTS
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN PRODUCT DESIGN BUSINESS STRATEGY EXPERIENCE DESIGN GRAPHIC DESIGN VISUAL COMM.
1 SEMESTER 2016 / 2017
40+ STUDENTS
TU DELFT, COMPLEX PROJECTS
DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS SEP 1 - DEC 1 2015 10 STUDENTS 1 DELFT PROFESSOR 1 PROFESSOR PROVIDED BY ARCHEWORKS
HOSTED BY ARCHEWORKS
As part of the Complex Projects objective, it is precisely this search for definition of ‘city’, which guides the studio in its most direct way. Instead of importing and celebrating distant ideas that serve as commodity goods for the day of opening the exhibition, the goal of the studio is to reveal what truly lies underneath a globally determined city and this, we believe, can be only done when doing it in Chicago. The goal of the studio is to examine the very condition of Chicago itself - a center of culture, diversity, education, civic institutions, and freedom of thought. Understanding the hard and soft layers that actually define the values of a contemporary city can lead towards ambitions to follow. The goal of the studio is to be IN Chicago - to take a critical stance to the consumption of culture, disprove cliches, avoid tourism traps - instead experience the city in it’s most crude way. A common ground in a form of a magazine was taken as a collaborative tool to combine various topics. PROJECT OUTCOME: PRODUCED A MAGAZINE CONTAINING CRITICAL RESEARCH, WRITING, AND RENDERINGS IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO
WHAT RESOURCES WE HAVE
WHAT STUDENTS WORK ON
CHICAGO COMPLEX PROGRAM
RESOURCES HOST
PROJECTS
PLACES DESIGN OFFICES
PROJECT TYPE DESIGNED OBJECT
WORKSTATIONS
ARCHEWORKS
SYSTEMS DESIGN
PRINTING
CHI. DESIGN MUSEUM
INTERIOR DESIGN
MATERIALS
AIA CHICAGO
GRAPHIC DESIGN
LECTURES
CHI. ARCH. FOUNDATION
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
REVIEWS PEOPLE MENTORS
BUILDING MASTERPLAN CITY PLANNING
ADVISORS
REGIONAL PLANNING
EXPERTS
PARTICIPATORY DESIGN
DECISION-MAKERS
EXHIBITION
STAKE-HOLDERS
ARCHEWORKS
MASSEY UNIVERSITY
WHAT WE DO
WHO ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OPEN TO
ARCHEWORKS
UNIVERSITY
TIME
COORDINATION PREPARATION
7 DAYS
HOST-FIRM
NUMBERS 10 STUDENTS
ARCHITECTURE
12 STUDENTS
URBAN DESIGN POLICY/PLANNING
HOUSING
INTERIOR ARCH.
TRAVEL TOURS
DISCIPLINE
3 WEEKS
LANDSCAPE ARCH. INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
EVENTS
PRODUCT DESIGN BUSINESS STRATEGY EXPERIENCE DESIGN GRAPHIC DESIGN VISUAL COMM.
4 MONTHS 2016 / 2017
40+ STUDENTS
MASSEY UNIVERSITY
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND NOV 5 - NOV 27 2015 12 STUDENTS 1 MASSEY PROFESSOR
HOSTED BY ARCHEWORKS AND THE GREATER GOOD STUDIO
The Chicago Design/Construct Seminar was an official program of the inaugural 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial. With the Biennial’s prompt of “What is the State of the Art of Architecture?”, Archeworks will explore our own theme of “What is the State of our Society today, as Art?” Included in the workshop, was a research/design/ construct phases that will push students to think critically and react quickly to various themes related to the most pressing socially divisive issues of today: economic disparity, degraded public education, privatization of the city, public health, access to healthy food, crime, etc. Working with faculty from Massey University, the focus, direction and outcome was guided by Archeworks and the Design and Strategy firm, IDEO, generating innovative installations and exhibitions in the Chicago Architecture Foundation and GREC architects office. PROJECT OUTCOME: PARTICIPATORY DESIGN WORKSHOPS WITH CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS RESULTING IN AN EXHIBITION AND INSTALLATION AT THE CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION
WHAT RESOURCES WE HAVE
WHAT STUDENTS WORK ON
CHICAGO COMPLEX PROGRAM
RESOURCES HOST
PROJECTS
PLACES DESIGN OFFICES
PROJECT TYPE DESIGNED OBJECT
WORKSTATIONS
GREATER GOODS ST.
SYSTEMS DESIGN
PRINTING
IDEO
INTERIOR DESIGN
MATERIALS
GREC
LECTURES
ARCHEWORKS
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
REVIEWS PEOPLE MENTORS
GRAPHIC DESIGN
CHI. DESIGN MUSEUM
BUILDING
AIA-CHICAGO
MASTERPLAN
CHI. ARCH. FOUNDATION
CITY PLANNING
ADVISORS
REGIONAL PLANNING
EXPERTS
PARTICIPATORY DESIGN
DECISION-MAKERS
EXHIBITION
STAKE-HOLDERS
ARCHEWORKS
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
WHAT WE DO
WHO ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OPEN TO
ARCHEWORKS
UNIVERSITY
TIME
COORDINATION PREPARATION
7 DAYS
NUMBERS 10 STUDENTS
DISCIPLINE ARCHITECTURE URBAN PLANNING
HOST-FIRM HOUSING
POLICY/PLANNING
TRAVEL
INTERIOR ARCH.
TOURS
LANDSCAPE ARCH.
3 WEEKS
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
EVENTS 25 STUDENTS
PRODUCT DESIGN BUSINESS STRATEGY EXPERIENCE DESIGN GRAPHIC DESIGN VISUAL COMM.
4 MONTHS 2016 / 2017
40+ STUDENTS
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA NOV 5 - NOV 20 2015 24 STUDENTS 3 UNSW PROFESSORS
HOSTED BY SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL
The Chicago Seminar was an official program of the inaugural 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Working with faculty from UNSW, the focus, direction and outcome will be guided by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Archeworks. Architecture and Planning students came to Chicago from Sydney with ideas about the overall role and identity of the Obama Presidential Center together with thoughts on its potential as an ‘urban catalyst’ for the South Side neighborhoods and put these forward for feedback as a way of focusing in-depth investigations in the limited time of the research and analysis phase of our Chicago experience. PROJECT OUTCOME: DEVELOPED CONCEPTS FOR THE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CENTER PRESENTED TO STAKEHOLDERS, AND PRODUCED REPORT
WHAT RESOURCES WE HAVE
WHAT STUDENTS WORK ON
CHICAGO COMPLEX PROGRAM
RESOURCES HOST
CHICAGO
PLACES DESIGN OFFICES
PROJECT TYPE DESIGNED OBJECT
SOM
SYSTEMS DESIGN
PRINTING
ARCHEWORKS
INTERIOR DESIGN
MATERIALS
CHI. DESIGN MUSEUM
GRAPHIC DESIGN
LECTURES
AIA-CHICAGO
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
MENTORING
CHI. ARCH. FOUNDATION
BUILDING
WORKSTATIONS
REVIEWS PEOPLE
MASTERPLAN CITY PLANNING
HOSTS
REGIONAL PLANNING
MENTORS
PARTICIPATORY DESIGN
ADVISORS
EXHIBITION
EXPERTS DECISION-MAKERS STAKE-HOLDERS ARCHEWORKS
MONTERREY TECH, MEXICO
WHAT WE DO
WHO ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OPEN TO
ARCHEWORKS
UNIVERSITY
TIME
COORDINATION PREPARATION
5 DAYS
NUMBERS 10 STUDENTS
DISCIPLINE ARCHITECTURE
HOST-FIRM
URBAN DESIGN
HOUSING
POLICY/PLANNING
TRAVEL
INTERIOR ARCH. LANDSCAPE ARCH.
TOURS 22 STUDENTS
EVENTS
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN PRODUCT DESIGN BUSINESS STRATEGY EXPERIENCE DESIGN GRAPHIC DESIGN VISUAL COMM.
4 MONTHS 2016 / 2017
40+ STUDENTS
MONTERREY-TEC, MEXICO
IWEEK SEP 21-25 2015 20 STUDENTS 2 MTY-TEC PROFESSORS 1 PROFESSOR PROVIDED BY ARCHEWORKS
HOSTED BY SOM, CANNONDESIGN, VWA The first three days were assigned to a workshop and the visits to architecture firms. The last two days were assigned to visits of sites and relevant buildings within the City of Chicago. The focus of the workshop was to design a pavilion for the Chicago Architecture Biennial, using reused building materials. Using only the building components of a shelter cottage kit, groups of 2-3 students at each host-firm created concepts as mock-entries to the Chicago Architecture Biennial’s Kiosk Competition. Groups followed the guidelines of the Kiosk Competition closely, as if each team was entering the competition. Though the deadline for the competition has passed, the means to integrate existing building materials into contemporary architecture projects is just beginning. In addition to traditional means of exploration (drawings, renderings, collages) each group were given a “kit of parts”, modeling materials to explore a conceptual, not literal, representation of the design concept. This is not a scaled model, but a representation of the design concept’s inherent qualities. PROJECT OUTCOME: CREATE MOCK UPS OF PROPOSAL PAVILLIONS FOR THE CHICAGO ARCHITECTURAL BIENNIAL USING A SHELTER COTTAGE “KIT OF PARTS”
WHAT RESOURCES WE HAVE
WHAT STUDENTS WORK ON
CHICAGO COMPLEX PROGRAM
RESOURCES HOST
PROJECTS
PLACES DESIGN OFFICES
PROJECT TYPE DESIGNED OBJECT
WORKSTATIONS
CANNON DESIGN
SYSTEMS DESIGN
PRINTING
SOM
INTERIOR DESIGN
VWA
GRAPHIC DESIGN
MATERIALS
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
LECTURES
ARCHEWORKS
REVIEWS
AIA-CHICAGO
BUILDING
CHI. ARCH. FOUNDATION
MASTERPLAN
CHI. DESIGN MUSEUM
CITY PLANNING
PEOPLE MENTORS ADVISORS
REGIONAL PLANNING
EXPERTS
PARTICIPATORY DESIGN
DECISION-MAKERS
EXHIBITION
STAKE-HOLDERS
ARCHEWORKS
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
WHAT WE DO
WHO ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OPEN TO
ARCHEWORKS
UNIVERSITY
TIME
COORDINATION PREPARATION
7 DAYS
NUMBERS 10 STUDENTS
HOST-FIRM
DISCIPLINE ARCHITECTURE URBAN DESIGN
HOUSING
POLICY/PLANNING
TRAVEL
14 STUDENTS
INTERIOR ARCH.
TOURS
LANDSCAPE ARCH.
EVENTS
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN PRODUCT DESIGN BUSINESS STRATEGY
2 MONTHS
EXPERIENCE DESIGN GRAPHIC DESIGN VISUAL COMM.
4 MONTHS 2016 / 2017
40+ STUDENTS
THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
SALT LAKE CITY, USA JUN 1 - AUG 1 2013 14 STUDENTS 2 PROFESSORS PROVIDED BY ARCHEWORKS
HOSTED BY ARCHEWORKS
The project was a collaboration with the University of Utah’s CHICAGO LAB and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - Chicago (SOM). The work was guided and influenced by many organizations in the public and private sector, but most importantly, by Chinatown Chicago’s civic leadership and local community. Through collaborative ideas, our mission was to help Chinatown establish a set of comprehensive principles, guidelines and goals: to promote, preserve and advance the rich culture, community and live-ability of the area. We have the sole intention of generating discussion - we were not solving problems, but raising questions of opportunity. The students tested the architectural implications of a proposed vision plan and developed a masterplan for the Chinese American Service League. PROJECT OUTCOME: DEVELOPED MASTERPLAN FOR CHICAGO’S CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD ON BEHALF OF THE CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE
WHAT RESOURCES WE HAVE
WHAT STUDENTS WORK ON
CHICAGO COMPLEX PROGRAM
RESOURCES HOST
PROJECTS
PLACES DESIGN OFFICES
PROJECT TYPE DESIGNED OBJECT
WORKSTATIONS
CANNON DESIGN
SYSTEMS DESIGN
PRINTING
SOM
INTERIOR DESIGN
MATERIALS
CHI. DESIGN MUSEUM
LECTURES
AIA-CHICAGO
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
REVIEWS
CHI. ARCH. FOUNDATION
BUILDING
ARCHEWORKS
MASTERPLAN
PEOPLE
GRAPHIC DESIGN
MENTORS
CITY PLANNING
ADVISORS
REGIONAL PLANNING
EXPERTS
PARTICIPATORY DESIGN
DECISION-MAKERS
EXHIBITION
STAKE-HOLDERS
ARCHEWORKS
VIRGINIA TECH + DESIGN HOUSE
WHAT WE DO
WHO ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OPEN TO
ANDREW BALSTER WITH VIRGINA TECH.
UNIVERSITY
TIME
COORDINATION PREPARATION
7 DAYS
NUMBERS 6 STUDENTS
DISCIPLINE ARCHITECTURE
HOST-FIRM
URBAN DESIGN
HOUSING
POLICY/PLANNING
TRAVEL
INTERIOR ARCH.
TOURS
LANDSCAPE ARCH.
EVENTS
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN PRODUCT DESIGN BUSINESS STRATEGY EXPERIENCE DESIGN GRAPHIC DESIGN VISUAL COMM.
1 SEMESTER 2016 / 2017
40+ STUDENTS
DESIGN HOUSE
VIRGINA TECH UNIVERSITY SEP 1 - DECEMBER 1 2014 6 STUDENTS 1 VIRGINIA TECH PROFESSORS
HOSTED BY TEAMS DESIGN AND DESIGN HOUSE Six industrial design students are spending fall semester in Chicago as past of the School of Architecture + Designâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chicago Studio program. The program integrates education and practice by embedding students within top architecture and design firms in Chicago, allowing them to spend a semester living, studying, and working in the city. This semester marks the first time that industrial designers have been allowed to accompany architects, interior designers, urban planners, and landscape architects in the program. PROJECT OUTCOME: DESIGNED AND KICKSTARTED A PRODUCT THAT WAS BROUGHT TO MARKET AND SOLD HTTPS://WWW.KICKSTARTER.COM/PROJECTS/DESIGNHOUSECHI/REVEAL-A-PHOTOFRAME-THAT-SUPPORTS-LOCAL-MANUFACTU?REF=NAV_SEARCH
WHAT RESOURCES WE HAVE
WHAT STUDENTS WORK ON
CHICAGO COMPLEX PROGRAM
RESOURCES HOST
PROJECTS
PLACES DESIGN OFFICES
PROJECT TYPE DESIGNED OBJECT
WORKSTATIONS
TEAMS DESIGN
SYSTEMS DESIGN
PRINTING
DESIGN HOUSE
INTERIOR DESIGN
MATERIALS
ARCHEWORKS
GRAPHIC DESIGN
LECTURES
AIA-CHICAGO
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
CHI. ARCH. FOUNDATION
BUILDING
CHI. DESIGN MUSEUM
MASTERPLAN
REVIEWS PEOPLE MENTORS
CITY PLANNING
ADVISORS
REGIONAL PLANNING
EXPERTS
PARTICIPATORY DESIGN
DECISION-MAKERS
EXHIBITION
STAKE-HOLDERS
KICKSTARTED 25K INITIATIVE
ARCHEWORKS
THE CAMPUS
2016 / 2017
ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, URBAN PLANNING, INTERIOR DESIGN, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL PERKINS+WILL CANNONDESIGN GENSLER GREC ARCHITECTS VON WEISE ASSOCIATES BARKER / NESTOR ARCHITECTS AMY CASSELL ATELIER PORT URBANISM GOETTSCH HOK LATENT DESIGN VOA ASSOCIATES INC. JAHN ARCHITECTS DLR GROUP ECKENHOFF SAUNDERS SOLOMON CORDWELL BUENZ VALERIO DEWALT TRAIN ROSS BARNEY ARCHITECTS INDUSTRIAL DESIGN / PRODUCT & STRATEGY DESIGNHOUSE CHICAGO IDEO TEAMS DESIGN GRAVITYTANK THE GREATER GOOD STUDIO DSCOU MINIMAL (MNML) LUNAR CHICAGO TEAMS DESIGN BEYOND DESIGN CRAIGHTON BERMAN STUDIO INSIGHT PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT RADIUS PRODUCT DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT FORCADE ASSOCIATES DESIGN CONCEPTS FORCADE ASSOCIATES DESIGN CONCEPTS SC JOHNSON BJORKSTEN UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN PURDUE COLUMBIA COLLEGE MEDIA / ADVOCACY BUILTWORLDS AIA-CHICAGO CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION GOVERNMENT / NPO / NGO UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY CITY OF CHICAGO MAYORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OFFICE COOK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF ENV. CONTROL CHICAGO DEPT OF PLANNING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABILITY OFFICE OF THE MAYOR DEPT OF WATER MGMT, STREETS AND SANITATION ALDERMAN FROM MULTIPLE WARDS DELTA INSTITUTE REBUILDING EXCHANGE BUILDING MATERIALS REUSE ASSOCIATION THE PLANT NPF EVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSE METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL UNITED STATES GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL CHICAGO METROPOLITAN AGENCY OF PLANNING CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD ELEVATE ENERGY FAITH IN PLACE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS GROWING POWER CHICAGO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN SEGAL DESIGN INSTITUTE AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS AND SPECIAL EVENTS CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY NEIGHBORSPACE ENLACE CHICAGO DEVELOPERS / CONSTRUCTION / CONTRACTORS NEW CASTLE REAL ESTATE NOVAK CONSTRUCTION GRAYCOR FLATS CHICAGO / CEDAR PROPERTIES DIRTT ARCHEWORKS ARCHEWORKS
OFFICES WE WORK WITH
ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, URBAN PLANNING, INTERIOR DESIGN, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL PERKINS+WILL CANNONDESIGN GENSLER GREC ARCHITECTS VON WEISE ASSOCIATES BARKER / NESTOR ARCHITECTS AMY CASSELL ATELIER PORT URBANISM GOETTSCH HOK LATENT DESIGN VOA ASSOCIATES INC. JAHN ARCHITECTS DLR GROUP ECKENHOFF SAUNDERS SOLOMON CORDWELL BUENZ VALERIO DEWALT TRAIN ROSS BARNEY ARCHITECTS LANDON BONE BAKER INDUSTRIAL DESIGN / PRODUCT & STRATEGY
DESIGNHOUSE CHICAGO IDEO TEAMS DESIGN GRAVITYTANK THE GREATER GOOD STUDIO DSCOUT MINIMAL (MNML) LUNAR CHICAGO TEAMS DESIGN BEYOND DESIGN CRAIGHTON BERMAN STUDIO INSIGHT PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT RADIUS PRODUCT DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT FORCADE ASSOCIATES DESIGN CONCEPTS FORCADE ASSOCIATES DESIGN CONCEPTS SC JOHNSON BJORKSTEN UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN PURDUE COLUMBIA COLLEGE 2016 / 2017
AGENCIES WE ENGAGE WITH
MEDIA / ADVOCACY
BUILTWORLDS AIA-CHICAGO CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION GOVERNMENT / NPO / NGO
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY CITY OF CHICAGO MAYORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OFFICE COOK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL CHICAGO DEPT OF PLANNING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABILITY OFFICE OF THE MAYOR DEPT OF WATER MGMT, STREETS AND SANITATION ALDERMAN FROM MULTIPLE WARDS DELTA INSTITUTE REBUILDING EXCHANGE BUILDING MATERIALS REUSE ASSOCIATION THE PLANT NPF EVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSE METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL UNITED STATES GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL CHICAGO METROPOLITAN AGENCY OF PLANNING CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD ELEVATE ENERGY NATIONAL PUBLIC HOUSING MUSEUM CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS GROWING POWER CHICAGO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN SEGAL DESIGN INSTITUTE AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS AND SPECIAL EVENTS CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY NEIGHBORSPACE ENLACE CHICAGO DEVELOPERS / CONSTRUCTION / CONTRACTORS
NEW CASTLE REAL ESTATE NOVAK CONSTRUCTION GRAYCOR FLATS CHICAGO / CEDAR PROPERTIES DIRTT LAKESHORE RECYCLING ARCHEWORKS
TU DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS
MONTERREY TEC, MEXICO
TU DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS - LECTURE REINIER DE GRAAF, OMA - ROTTERDAM KEES KAAN, KAAN ARCHITECTEN - ROTTERDAM BRIAN LEE, SOM - CHICAGO 2016 / 2017
SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL
ARCHEWORKS
SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL
MONTERREY TEC, MEXICO
MASSEY UNIVERSITY, NEW ZEALAND
THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, USA
GREC ARCHITECTS
IDEO
PERKINS+WILL
ARCHEWORKS
LEADERSHIP + FACULTY ANDREW BALSTER Andrew is a Chicago-based leader operating in the fields of architecture, urbanism, public policy, sociology, and academia. Working closely with influential leaders in the public and private sector, ranging from architects and planners to government officials and social activists, he creates research platforms to explore many forms of cultural production. He received an MScAAD and an MArch w/distinction from the University of Edinburgh in the UK. Andrew joined Archeworks as Executive Director in February 2015.
HILARY GABEL As Managing Director of Archeworks, Hilary oversees operations, communications, and marketing for educational programs and urban design initiatives. Prior to joining Archeworks, Hilary directed the Early College Program, a high school program in art and design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also has held positions in college admissions and possesses a wealth of experience in student recruitment and advising. She earned her BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University and completed graduate coursework in art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
JODY ZIMMER Jody is the Senior Designer at Archeworks and manages all aspects of design operations as the studio head of R&D projects and our internal think-tank. He has worked previously as a research analyst and project designer on several urban design initiatives in Chicago and New York. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Utah and a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan.
PAOLA AGUIRRE Paola is an architect and urban designer from Northern Mexico. Paolaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal experience and professional career is influenced by her transnational background, which feeds her understanding of simultaneity, flow, and exchange through a multidisciplinary approach to place and design. Before joining Place Lab, Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago, she worked at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for over 3 years, served as the coordinator of the Master Plan for Chihuahua 2040, worked at the Office of Strategic Assessment, Planning & Design at NYU. Paola received her M.Arch in Urban Design from Harvardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GSD.
JULKA ALMQUIST Julka is a researcher, designer, and trend/futures analyst. Her work has been largely focused on cultural and civic institutions exploring how design and thoughtful visions of the future, can empower individuals and communities. She has worked as a design researcher at IDEO and the Mayo Clinic, and teaches design students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She holds an interdisciplinary PhD at the intersection of anthropology and design from the University of California, Irvine.
ODILE COMPAGNON Odile is an architect and a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She brought to Chicago, 18 years ago, her experience of 15 years, facilitating public workshops, designing public buildings, planning urban developments in Central France. For her, a vital aspect of sustainable design involves weaving a network of knowledge, experience, and connections, so that endeavors in one arena become sources of creative solutions in another. Her work with theaters has permeated her architecture practice, which she sees as a collaborative effort, allowing for many voices to be heard, leaving some space and time for the unpredictable.
PAM DANIELS Pam is a practicing product designer and an instructor at Northwestern University. Her work experience includes roles as a Director at IDEO, a global design & innovation consultancy, and previously as a Senior Vice President at Starcom MediaVest Group in the media communications field. She has a passion for developing creative leaders of all ages, and inspiring fresh thinking to address problems that matter. She is a founding partner of DesignHouse Chicago, an organization dedicated to growing local manufacturing through design. 2016 / 2017
NATASHA KROL Natasha works on increasing economic empowerment through collaborative innovation across sectors. She is the Managing Director of the Stanford College Transition Collaborative. Natasha previously worked at McKinsey and as the Director of Chicago’s Plan for Economic Growth and Jobs, with organizations in the US, Africa, and Asia. Natasha is a Chicago Council on Global Affairs Emerging Leader and was a Chicago Mayoral Fellow. Natasha holds a Bachelors of Arts in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Michigan.
NILAY MISTRY Nilay is a landscape architect, urban designer and educator. Nilay has executed placemaking projects across the world. His work seeks to expose networks and material flows in the urban landscape. Nilay holds degrees from Harvard Graduate School of Design and University of Illinois and has been visiting faculty at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. His ongoing research has led to numerous community involvement and construction initiatives in the USA, Asia, and Africa. Nilay currently serves as the Program Strategist for Archeworks.
LUIS MONTERRUBIO Luis works in Chicago’s government in the urban planning public sector focusing on land use, economic development and zoning policies as key elements that shape the fabric and livability of cities. He is a believer in creative interdisciplinary participation as the way to resolve pressing dilemmas like access to transit, housing affordability and employment creation of the urban arena. Luis holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Universidad Autonomoma Metropolitana in Mexico City and a Masters of Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
RYAN PAUL NESTOR Ryan is the co-founder of Barker Nestor Architecture + Design - a leading hospitality design firm based in Chicago with a 20 year portfolio of hundreds of highly-regarded restaurant, bar, hotel, and entertainment design projects spanning the US. Awarded baccalaureates of architecture and science in environmental design from Ball State University, Ryan later diversified his education at the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology. There, he was a member of both the Law Review and the nationally-recognized Trial Advocacy Team. Ryan sits as a guest jury critic and guest lectures at numerous Chicago area universities, and is a Visiting Instructor at TU Delft in the Netherlands.
ANNE NICKLIN Anne serves as the executive Director of the Building Materials Reuse Association, a national non-profit organization dedicated to the recovery and reuse of building materials. Anne has led the development of the first nationwide training curriculum and credentialing of deconstruction workers, and is actively collaborating with organizations around the country to expand its reach. In addition, Anne oversees the daily operations of the organization, has expanded the BMRA’s online directory, and brought about the continued expansion of the BMRA’s outreach.
TIM SWANSON Tim is an innovative designer, urban strategist and thought leader whose international portfolio of work explores the specificity of place and the prospect inherent in culture. He is part of the United Nations Habitat’s Placemaking Leadership Council, the Chicago Loop Alliance Placemaking Committee and is a former adjunct lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy and Principal Mentor for the IIC Fellowship program, both at the University of Chicago. Tim is currently the Practice Leader at CannonDesign in Chicago.
XAVIER WRONA Xavier is the founder of the architecture office Est-ce ainsi. Xavier is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette and of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. He taught from 2002-2010 for the Franco-American studio for the Georgia Tech Paris Program at the ENSAPLV in Paris, at the ENSAPBX in Bordeaux and is now associate professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Saint-Etienne, France. Est-ce ainsi was awarded the Young Architects and Landscape Architects prize by the french Ministry of Culture in 2010. ARCHEWORKS
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“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” K. Marx In Chicago public lecture series revisits Kenneth Frampton’s 1983 essay on Critical Regionalism. Frampton’s desire was to bring attention to adverse effects both “modernity” & “postmodernity” had on the profession at that moment. He stated that the practice of architecture in the era of universal civilization and world culture can only be maintained “as arriére-garde position, that is to say, one which distances itself equally from the Enlightenment myth of progress and from a reactionary, unrealistic impulse to return to the architectonic forms of the preindustrial past.” Though written more than a quarter of a century ago, it seems even more true today. The contemporary culture and production is a lazy cocktail of nostalgia and modernism - a mix of mere subjective reference to the past stirred with mass-culture that flattens our locales and becomes the universal form of material production. Like Frampton in 1983, we are still left with the fundamental question: how to critically mediate between the particular and universal? How to practice architecture both locally and globally, if at all?
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The city of Chicago, the great example of disciplinary grid, the frame structure, the market expansion, and the mail order catalogue, is perhaps the perfect grounds to invite contemporary architects of different backgrounds to discuss the ideologies which drive their practices in times of globalization. PRESENTED BY
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KAAN ARCHITECTEN KEES KAAN ROTTERDAM
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VISHAAN CHAKRABARTI NEW YORK
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ARCHITECTURING THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION OF REALITY
“OPINIÂTRETÉ” OBSTINACY THE NEAR FUTURE IS DRIVEN TOWARDS A CERTAIN TYPE OF RESISTANCE. TO SIMPLY GENERATE PROGRESS, WE SHOULD RESIST SEVERAL PHENOMENON’S:
THE ARTICULATION OF ARCHITECTURAL THINKING TO THE PRODUCTION OF REALITY HAS HISTORICALLY TAKEN MANY
TO RESIST NOSTALGIA, TO RESIST POLITICS, TO RESIST NATURE, TO RESIST UTOPIA, TO RESIST EGOS, TO RESIST
FORMS. IT IS FAIRLY RECENT THAT ITS APPLICATIONS DRASTICALLY SHRANK DOWN AND WERE LIMITED TO THE SOLE
BEAUTY, TO RESIST OPTIONS, TO RESIST CONSENSUS, TO RESIST PLANIFICATION, TO RESIST TECHNOLOGIES, TO
PRODUCTION OF BUILDINGS. SUCH PRODUCTION IS CURRENTLY UNDER THE MASSIVE INFLUENCE OF DYSTOPIAN
RESIST GRAPHICS, TO RESIST SPEED, TO RESIST MEDIAS, TO RESIST PUBLICITY.
NEOLIBERAL MECHANISMS, TO THE POINT THAT THEY NULLIFY ANY ATTEMPT OF ITS REFORM, WHETHER THEY RISE OUT OF ARCHITECTURE SCHOOLS OR ARCHITECTURE FIRMS.
ARCHITECTURE SHOULD GENERATE A NEW SIGN OF ENDURANCE, POTENTIALLY THE ONLY OPTION TO REVEAL FUTURE
IF WE SERIOUSLY WISH TO ARTICULATE ARCHITECTURE TO THE "CHANGING" OF REALITY, AS MARX FAMOUSLY COINED
SOURCES OF OPTIMISM. ARCHITECTURE SHOULD NOT ALWAYS BE EXTRA ORDINARY. IT SHOULD RECONSIDER ITS
IT, WE PROPOSE TO APPLY ARCHITECTURAL THINKING TO THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION OF REALITY THEMSELVES.
ABILITY TO BE ORDINARY WITHIN A NEW TYPE OF COLLECTIVISM, SOURCE OF AN EXTRA ORDINARY URBANISM.
BUILDINGS WILL THEN FOLLOW.
WHAT IF ARCHITECTURE COULD HELP TO RECONSIDER A CERTAIN TYPE OF HOPE?
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XAVIER WRONA Est-ce ainsi FRANCE
CLEMENT BLANCHET CLEMENT BLANCHET ARCHITECTURE FRANCE
Xavier Wrona is the founder of the architecture office Est-ce ainsi, a structure working to refocus the architectural practice on its political consequences and its possible participation in the reform of “vivre ensemble.” Est-ce ainsi articulates a critical reading of the f igure of the architect throughout history to the production of inordinately minimum architectures with a particular attention to the means of production of the built environment.
Clément Blanchet is a French architect, teacher and critic, actively practicing in the fields of architectural theory, urbanism, and cultural investigations.
Architect DPLG, Xavier Wrona is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette and of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. He taught from 2002-2010 for the FrancoAmerican studio for the Georgia Tech Paris Program at the ENSAPLV in Paris, at the ENSAPBX in Bordeaux and is now associate professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Saint-Etienne, France. Est-ce ainsi was awarded the Young Architects and Landscape Architects prize by the french Ministry of Culture in 2010.
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Clément Blanchet is an ex -Associate of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, where he joined in 2004. In 2011, Blanchet was appointed Director of OMA France.During his 10 years collaborating with Rem Koolhaas, he has contributed to the development of OMA in France and led several winning project for the firm, including the construction of Serpentine Gallery in London, the design and construction of Caen Library (Completion 2016) in France, the design and development of winning entries like the Convention and exhibition Centre in Toulouse, the Engineering school of Centrale, master plans in Saclay and in Bordeaux, and lately the bridge JJ Bosc over the Garonne in Bordeaux. In May 2014, CLEMENT BLANCHET ARCHITECTURE is founded in Paris. The practice is structured as a laboratory, researching, informing and generating architecture / urbanism in all its forms. From a selection of projects, CBA developped competitions like the redesign of a Ferry Boat Terminal in Toronto, a museum in Berlin, office headquarters in Toulouse and is currently designing a high rise in Nice, the extension of Nice train station, the extension of Polytechnique school in Saclay as well as continuing the finalization of Caen library in collaboration with OMA. He graduated with high honours from the Architectural school of Versailles and has been an invited critic to Architectural schools in France, England, Holland, Denmark & Sweden. He currently teaches at Paris Val de Seine Architectural School and ESA. Clément Blanchet divides his time between this firm in Paris and the United States where he also teaches at the University of Michigan and Rice University. PRESENTED BY
The complexity of the contemporary city requires architects and designers to discover and define new methods, tactics, tools and approaches to projects. The reality is that design, at all scales, involves a vast array of people from the public and private sector: decision makers, stakeholders, investors, consultants, sub-consultants, specialists and most importantly… the people. The profession and the academy both suffer from the lack of ability, or willingness, to engage in this complex environment.
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PORT IS A LEADING EDGE URBAN DESIGN AND PUBLIC REALM CONSULTANCY BASED IN CHICAGO THAT SPECIALIZES IN THE ANALYSIS, VISIONING, DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW FORMS OF COLLECTIVE URBAN SPACE. THE PRACTICE SYNTHESIZES DISCIPLINARY EXPERTISE IN URBAN DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, ECOLOGY AND URBAN PLANNING IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THE HYBRID MODEL OF DESIGN SERVICES NECESSARY TO NEGOTIATE TODAY’S INCREASINGLY COMPLEX PUBLIC REALM CHALLENGES. ESTABLISHED BY CHRISTOPHER MARCINKOSKI AND ANDREW MODDRELL IN 2010, PORT HAS EVOLVED INTO ONE OF THE MOST
FOUNDED IN 2005, ROTOR IS A COLLECTIVE OF PEOPLE WITH A COMMON INTEREST IN THE MATERIAL FLOWS IN INDUSTRY AND CONSTRUCTION. ON A PRACTICAL LEVEL, ROTOR HANDLES THE CONCEPTION AND REALIZATION OF DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS.
INNOVATIVE PUBLIC REALM DESIGN PRACTICES OPERATING IN THE U.S. TODAY.
ON A THEORETICAL LEVEL, ROTOR DEVELOPS CRITICAL POSITIONS ON DESIGN, MATERIAL RESOURCES, AND WASTE THROUGH RESEARCH, EXHIBITIONS, WRITINGS AND CONFERENCES.
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ANDREW MODDRELL PORT URBANISM USA
MAARTEN GIELEN ROTOR BELGIUM
Andrew Moddrell is a founding director of PORT, a leading urban design and public realm consultancy based in Chicago that specializes in the analysis, visioning, design and implementation of new forms of collective urban space. He is currently leading a diverse range of PORT’s public realm design projects including the design and construction of a 3-acre civic venue in Denver’s Paco Sanchez Park; a visioning study for Chicago’s Goose Island; and a collaborative process with Theaster Gates and the University of Chicago Place Lab that defines opportunities to catalyze urban transformation throughout the Greater Grand Crossing and Washington Park neighborhoods on Chicago’s Southside.
Maarten Gielen is a founding member of the collective Rotor where he currently works as designer, manager and researcher. Founded in 2005, Rotor is a group of architects, designers and other professionals interested in material flows in industry and construction, particularly in relation to resources, waste, use and reuse. Rotor disseminates creative strategies for salvage and waste reduction through workshops, publications, and exhibitions. They represented Belgium at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennial in 2010, exhibited at the Fondazione Prada in Milan, and partnered with OMA at the Progress Barbican Art Gallery in London.
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the broader view of design and rising from my fundamental belief that dimensional convergence is the new design grid, the ground is now in view as the field pattern. The dimension of the convergence is only limited by our capacities. I urge the design profession to convergence, speak to the subject, rally the cause of good design, embrace the future with excitement and passion, explore new theories for adapting design for need, shed outdated conditions for new design systems, and recognize the fluid web of interdependent relationships critical for good design. I consider design as an underutilized opportunity and system to effect change in positive ways. Optimistically, I believe that design has the power to engage, support and nurture society.â&#x20AC;? EVA MADDOX DIMENSIONAL CONVERGENCE ARCHEWORKS PAPERS VOL 1, NUMBER ONE, 2004 2016 / 2017
ABOUT OUR FOUNDERS Archeworks was founded in 1994 by internationally known architect Stanley Tigerman, FAIA and award winning designer Eva Maddox, FIIDA. Over the past 22 years, we have collaborated with over 80 partners and completed more than 80 design projects in communities throughout Chicago. Past partners include local government, community organizations, urban farms, advocacy groups, healthcare organizations, schools, municipalities, and cultural institutions. Our collaborative design projects have addressed subjects such as universal design, public health, local food systems, inequity, tactical urbanism, waste systems, renewable energy and sustainable land-use.
STANLEY TIGERMAN, FAIA
EVA MADDOX, FIIDA, ASSOC. AIA, LEED AP
A principal in the Chicago architectural and design firm of Tigerman McCurry and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Stanley Tigerman has thus far designed over 450 buildings and installations around the world throughout his 51 years in private practice. He was the founding member of “The Chicago Seven” as well as the Chicago Architectural Club. In 2008, Mr. Tigerman was named the recipient of the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education as well as the AIA Illinois Gold Medal in recognition of outstanding lifetime service. This year, Stanley Tigerman was honored by AIA Chicago with the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. The author of seven books, he recently completed an essay on “erring” for Perspecta, Yale Architecture School’s journal due out in the fall and is currently working on his next manuscript on “Aura: Unattainable Architectural Longings.” The inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial took its title, The State of the Art of Architecture, from a 1977 conference organized by architect Stanley Tigerman, which invited leading American designers to Chicago to discuss the current state of the field.
Eva is a pioneer in the development of brand strategy and communications through design. Founder of Eva Maddox Branded Environments, her research-based design approach identifies and integrates a client’s “DNA” into tangible experiences. Eva was named by Fast Company as one of the “change agents... designers, and dreamers who are creating your future.” She is the recipient of more than 100 awards for design excellence and garnered the prestigious Chicago Magazine 2002 Chicagoan of the Year award, the International Women’s Forum Women Who Make a Difference award and the 2000 Star Award from the International Interior Design Association (IIDA). A two-time Purpose Prize winner, Eva holds honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Cincinnati and Farris State University and has been elected to the IIDA’s College of Fellows and inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame. Eva is also co-founder of Archeworks, a non-profit alternative design school in Chicago and is active in the International Women’s Forum, The Chicago Network, Architectural Society of the Art Institute of Chicago and The World Future Society.
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In the spring of 1993, I was fired as director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Earlier that year, both Eva Maddox (who significantly, I had brought to teach interior architecture at IC) and I (in our separate professional practices) collaborated on an urban design/streetscape project in Muskegon, Michigan. Some of Muskegon’s “city fathers” expressed interest in our design presentations and pointedly, the language that we used to describe the process by which these designs came about). The spokesman for the Muskegon leadership, Scott Devon, suggested that Eva and I start a Bauhaus-like school in their microregion. (There was something of a recession at that time, causing difficulties for some of the major manufacturers in the furniture industry (Knoll, Herman Miller, Steelcase, Haworth) who were situated within the region.) While we knew that our professional commitments in Chicago could not allow for such a radical move, Eva and I were also aware that we had been privy to a conversation in which something that consequential had been uttered that might just lead us to establishing a similarly derived alternative design school in Chicago. Without any further thought, I promptly resigned from my tenured professorship at the university, which, when accomplished gave me, together with Eva, the opportunity to initiate strategies for the implementation of what was eventually to become known as Archeworks. Stepping back from the outburst of emotional energy that led to our rash decision, we were well aware that while conventional architectural education had, on more than a few occasions, encouraged students to engage in “design in the context of social cause,” precious little of these concepts found their way into practice. We suspected that certain constraints (tenure, prerequisites, etc.) might be among the culprits causing some inertia, retarding the transfer of ideas from the academy into practice. Therefore, Eva and I began to envision an alternative, somewhat less rigid design-educational institution than the conventional model, in which we ourselves had been trained, that might make it easier to attain the confluence that we were seeking. Archeworks evolution from idea to reality was just that simple. We never stopped to think about what roadblocks might stand in the way of our idea for a new design school ultimately very different from the schools with which we were familiar. But—as the pop song goes—“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” In hindsight, it seems somehow appropriate that we began Archeworks on a wish for a whim, for that is precisely the stuff of optimism that (for me) has always informed the intrinsic nature of architecture, thus grounding it in hope. The founding of Archeworks was straightforward: We formed a small board of trustees (composed of a few supporters), we became incorporated as a public charitable trust (for IRS purposes, we became a 501 (c)(3)), and we persuaded two of my recent UIC architecture school colleagues, Doug Garofalo and Bob Somol, to assist us in thinking through some significant pedagogical issues that might have an impact on defining our new, as yet unformed, school. It required a year of planning before classes actually began, but we used that time fruitfully by designing and distributing catalogs and posters to architecture and design schools worldwide. We also presented our conceptual initiative at a social gathering organized by our friend and supporter Judy Neisser, and we began generating focused thoughts about what might be the nature of our mission. In the fall of 1993, I was offered a visiting professorship at Yale’s architecture school, which I promptly configured as a dry run for Archeworks. Yale students who had signed up for the studio were given the opportunity to engage in projects with a social cause. Maddox, Garofalo, and Somol came to New Haven for the final review, and with the help of the students, we convened a conference of those concerned with the interdependence of both “town and gown.” Yale’s
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president, and key faculty, and students from around the university, together with New Haven’s mayor and several alderman, came to deliberate of the topics of ethics in the context of Yale’s and New Haven’s necessarily symbiotic relationship. Back in Chicago, the newly founded institution was generously offered (rent free) a basement space in a recently converted loft building at 18th and Indiana Streets across from H. H. Richardson’s Glessner House. We brought together young, energetic faculty (we referred to them as “facilitators”) and hired an administrator, A. Brown. In autumn 1994, we convened our first one-year, post-professional program, composed of eight students from diverse educational and vocational backgrounds, in what Bob Somol began to refer to as a “post-disciplinary” setting. It was thus that we began our adventure in alternative design education. I can’t say that these 12 years have been without missteps, but they have always been filled with an overreaching optimism that we were on the track of something that, to us, needed to be done. Over time, that optimism was ratified by a number of architecture schools moving in the same direction. Meanwhile, an expanded board of trustees has been enthusiastically supportive, many local and national foundations have opened their (fiscal) doors to us, and our donor base has expanded. We enlarged our full-time staff to include an executive director, a development officer, and a registrar/administrator. Certainly, I’m not about to boast that every project undertaken at Archeworks has had positive results, but as Eva Maddox always said, “…the new school needed to find its own voice.” Over these 12 years, and with a necessary modicum or patience by all involved, I believe that Archeworks has at least done just that. But the significance of Archeworks is more about a new idea, education that explores the “seam” between the academy and practice rather than (not so simply) in generating objects for people who need them most. Were the institution to run its course, its conceptual origins will have nonetheless been of some consequence to conventionally derived design education. Ours is a time when programs like Archeworks are, in my view, genuinely significant. It seems to me that as architects and designers, we are all obligated to give something back to society: it would be awful to think that an ethically optimistic discipline that is so bold as to make something—architecture—out of nothing would be undertaken just to pluck, like apples from a tree, commissions as a signification of success in a free-based capitalist society. Thus, the idea of this publication, at some level, was conceived more as a notation of a flawed epoch, so that an alternative design school such as ours seemed necessary as a corrective. There are notations here by others connected with the school. The aggregate constitutes a record of a time and a city that could somehow absorb an idea like Archeworks: a modest proposal for alternative design education to conceive the best possible design for those in need of it—and then to try to distribute those products. Because of time constraints (a single academic year severely limits a great deal of accomplishment when “actualization” is the name of the game), we have always been hard pressed to consistently fulfill our stated mission. Yet, the conception process seemed to equal the product, and I can report honestly that the morale of the institution remained high throughout. And so, after a dozen years in the trenches—so to speak—we wonder what an Archeworks future holds for us. Whatever transpires, it remains clear to me that an ethical construct underpinned the concept from its beginning to date. Personally, I am thrilled that architects and designers from intrinsically optimistic disciplines came together to collectively address the problems of the day—be damned under what institutional circumstance brought them to those bold decisions. If Archeworks can, in any way, be constructed as an ethical paradigm, it is because architects and designers responded to the needs of society, professionally as well as personally.
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FROM THE BEGINNING OF ARCHEWORKS, DEFINING IT HAS BEEN SLIPPERY... The core of the program is a laboratory that consists of research and development teams that constitute themselves on a per-project basis. Archeworks effectuates change by conceiving and implementing projects that are directed at areas of need. It is in this sense an ambidextrous place where thought and action combine to effect lives. Archeworks takes a critical look well beyond appearance-based ideas of design; in fact as often as not the findings review how the circumstances of the discipline (design, architecture, etc.). With courage and optimism, Archeworks attempts nothing less than a new social contract for design, raising expectations for change. Archeworks is then both a think tank and workshop from the bottom up, and as such it is not an institution for imparting knowledge but a laboratory for constructing it. Archeworks maintains that social agendas can best be substantively addressed in a supraor post-disciplinary setting in order to promote tacticians of need responsible for curing social and community dysfunction. It is in part this detachment from conventional academia, with all its reliance on conventional structure, prerequisites, tenure, accreditation, etc., that frees Archeworks to invent new solutions according to the situation of each problem, client, community, etc. It is not the same for all projects, in fact it rarely repeats. The ability of the institution to change, to morph and reconfigure itself for the purpose of a particular issue, is one of Archeworks most distinguishing features. DOUG GAROFALO ARCHEWORK12 YEARS OF ARCHEWORKS: AN OVERVIEW CONVENTION CHALLENGED , 2006
The Latin prefix “arche-“ means of course “chief” or “principal,” “first in authority of order” —also, significantly, “primitive,” meaning first in time. “Arche”-“ there suggests twin responsibilities — to commencement and commandment — which couple access to first things with the power of final say. The authority of “first works” issues in part from command over the relationship between the various divisions of manufacture in respect of the work as a whole; in part from privileged familiarity with the circumstances under which constructed work begins; and in part from the root principles and antecedents that connect current works with past traditions. Part of the novelty of “Archeworks” derives from its broad extension of these ideas to “design” — we could go so far as to say “first design” or even first designers.” D.S. FRIEDMAN ETHICS WITHIN REACH ARCHEWORKS PAPERS VOL 1, NUMBER TWO, 2005
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