(top) Essex Residence, (bottom) Beck Residence, photographs by William Kildow Photography |
Daniel Wheeler
Need / Want, Civil Disobedients, and Other Puzzles
Lecture
6pm, Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Graham Foundation, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago
In the 2000 issue of the Chicago Architectural Club Journal, Dan Wheeler writes that he "longs for the wisdom to cull out need from want." How do we as citizens / architects determine and justify what is appropriate action given conflicting interests? Recently, a respected panel of local architects called for Chicago architects to become civil disobedients. Why, how, when, and where? Mr. Wheeler will use this lecture to try to come to terms with these and other sticky issues of practice by assessing the intent and work of Wheeler Kearns Architects, among others.
A principal of the group practice Wheeler Kearns Architects, Dan Wheeler received his formal training at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence with two years of study in Rome. He worked in the offices of Machado Silvetti Architects, Boston and Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Chicago prior to founding his practice in 1987. He received the CCAIA Young Architect Award in 1985 and was inducted into the AIA College of Fellows in 1998. He currently teaches at the University of Illinois, Chicago, is a Director of the Chicago Architectural Club, and serves as a Trustee of the Graham Foundation.
Copies of the monograph Wheeler Kearns Architects, Ten Houses (Rockport Publishers, 2000) will be available for purchase following the lecture.
Capacity limited to first 150.