architecture

Ira Bach describes architectural walks "selected to present Chicago as a great cosmopolitan city as well as a collection of local community areas, all tied together by an intricate web of transportation that makes them accessible to the pedestrian for a closer view."

This publication accompanies the exhibition " Barbara Crane: Chicago Loop," organized by The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago , and on view there March 21-June 15, 2002. Includes reproductions of photographs in Barbara Crane's "Chicago Loop" series, 1976-1978, now part of the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection.

"In 'Plans of Chicago,' R. Samuel Roche and Aric Lasher investigate the 'Plan of Chicago' as a design strategy and a point of departure for a new regional planning approach. They illuminate it historical context through a discussion of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and the 1901 McMillan Plan for Washington, DC, its primary antecedents. Comparing its priorities and strategies with those of earlier and later plans of Chicago -- including projects by Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jens Jenson, and Ludwig Hilberseimer -- Roche and Lasher offer a new approach to regional planning that combines the strengths and objectives of these various plans of Chicago.'

A collection of fine arts acquisitions by architect Robert Kleinschmidt, from early career to recent.

"We invited Chicago graffiti artists to consider various architectural spaces, and ask themselves, 'What would you do here?' A careful edit from my portraits of residential, commercial, hospitality corporate and street scenes provide the canvass for the response. The end result is a compilation that delves a bit deeper into questions about graffiti's place in the world at large.

Catalog of paintings by architect Craig Ellwood.

Catalog of an exhibition in 2004 by sculptor Christine Tarkowski at the Hyde Park Art Center. Includes an essay by Hamza Walker.

Catalog of an exhibition of the sculpture of Chicago artist Bernard Williams at the Hyde Park Art Center in 2005. "For the first time, Williams has created a series of sculptures and drawings that reconfigure well-known architectural embellishments into freestanding sculptures in-the-round. These careful arrangements of organic patterns and bold lines salvaged from local buildings are totems of American cultural heritage." Includes curriculum vitae.

"In the 1950s, Lincoln Avenue was the gateway to Chicago from the north. At the edge of the city, new auto 'mo-tels' with the most modern amenities catered to auto travellers. Since then the little motels have fallen on hard times and many have been torn down. Read the story of Lincoln Avenue and take a tour in 3-dimensional photos to see what is left of this classic stretch of roadside Americana."

Photos and description of artist Juan Angel Chavez's exploration of found and borrowed urban objects transformed into a large-scale fantasy "speaker" exhibition in collaboration with sound performers.