october 19, 2007
  AIA Chicago’s New Office Fosters Interaction, Collaboration
Chapter’s office design chosen from Young Architects Forum competition
AIA Chicago moved into its new 4,000-square-foot, second-level office space last March in the historic neoclassical Jewelers Building, overlooking the Chicago River. The design is the result of a competition held by the AIA’s Young Architects Forum. The winning design increases AIA Chicago’s visibility among its members and encourages interaction and collaboration among its seven-person staff. Interface, the winning team, composed of five young architects, was sponsored by HOK Chicago.

Members’ Voice
Open Plan Invites People, Sunlight, and Riverside Cityscapes into AIA Chicago’s New Offices
Prompted by a desire that chapter resources be more accessible for their members and the public, AIA Chicago recently moved from the 10th floor of the Merchandise Mart, where they operated in traditional offices beside the building’s interior design tenants. Now ensconced on the second floor of the historic Jeweler’s Building in the Loop along the famed Chicago River, See what some AIA Chicago members has to say about the new space.

Their Vision, Their Words, Our World
The Art Institute of Chicago’s collection of architects’ oral histories brings the past into focus
The Chicago Architects Oral History Project presents the lives, careers, and achievements of the city’s best architects in their own words. The collection is focused on SOM partners and students of the prominent Illinois Institute of Technology . Expectedly, the influence of Modernist standard bearer and mentor Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is felt throughout.

 

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