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Football Field 1. Maider López. Sharjah Art Museum, Arab Emirates, 2007. © Maider López.
ACTIONS: What You Can Do With the City
www.cca-actions.org
October 16, 2009 - March 13, 2010
GRAHAM FOUNDATION
Madlener House
4 West Burton Place, Chicago, IL 60610
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm;
every third Thursday of the
month, 10 am to 9 pm.
Group tours available.
Free admission.
Actions: What You Can Do With the City presents 99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world. Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their experimental interactions with the urban environment show the potential influence personal involvement can have in shaping the city, and challenge fellow residents to participate.
The exhibition is organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal.
UPCOMING TALKS:
Alex Lehnerer
February 25, 2010, 6pm
Graham Foundation, Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago, IL 60610
www.alexlehnerer.com
www.010.nl/catalogue/book.php?id=666
The Revolution will Be Cultivated
Amy Franceschini
Mar 10, 2010, 6 pm
Graham Foundation, Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago, IL 60610
www.atlasmagazine.com
www.free-soil.org
Seating is limited.
Please RSVP to rsvp@grahamfoundation.org.
Accessibility
Talks are held in the ballroom on the third floor which is only accessible by stairs.
The first floor of the Madlener House is accessible via an outdoor lift. Please call 312.787.4071 to make arrangements.
PAST RELATED TALKS:
Damon Rich
Jan 25, 2010, 6 pm
Graham Foundation, Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place, Chicago, IL 60610
www.damon.anothercupdevelopment.org
Make No Medium-Sized Plans
WORKac
http://www.work.ac/
Oct 29, 2009
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
http://www.thenao.net/
Nov 12, 2009
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PAST EXHIBITIONS
Graham Foundation Exhibition: Cecil Balmond: Solid Void
Cecil Balmond: Solid Void, an exhibition on the work of Balmond and his London-based Advanced Geometry Unit (AGU) at the international, multi-disciplinary engineering firm ARUP, will be on view through June 20, 2009. The first site-specific installation in the 50-year history of the Graham Foundation’s exhibition program, Solid Void transforms the new galleries of the Madlener House, a 1901 Prairie-style mansion.
Cecil Balmond has transformed the role of the engineer in contemporary architecture with his unorthodox and visionary approach that merges architecture and engineering. Born in Sri Lanka and trained as a civil engineer, Balmond is the deputy chairman of ARUP, which he joined in 1968. He founded the Advanced Geometry Unit (AGU) in 2000, a research based practice, which comprises of architects, artists, engineers and scientists, to pursue his interest in the genesis of form using numbers, music and mathematics as vital sources. Under Balmond’s direction, the AGU works to develop new typologies for known building programs, as seen in the Coimbra Footbridge, Mondego River, Portugal (2006), the office building Twist, London (2004), the Battersea Power Station Master Plan, London (1999-2007) and the Ranchi Cricket Stadium, India (2008).
Since the early 1980s Balmond has collaborated with such important contemporary architects and artists working today as Toyo Ito, Anish Kapoor, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind and Álvaro Siza. Balmond has introduced innovative structural concepts that have resulted in some of the most challenging buildings in the canon of contemporary architecture.
Recent Press for Solid Void:
http://www.archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=3183
http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/reviews/exhibitionreviews/2009/01/structuring_the_fourth_dimension.html
http://www.id-mag.com/article/cecilbalmond/
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2008/10/cecil-balmond-e.html