Chicago has staged some of the most significant developments in urbanism of the last century—from Mies van der Rohe’s IIT campus to the recent competition for Navy Pier—drawing on the talents of architects, landscape architects, and urban planners. This roundtable-style session explores the languages, concerns, and roles shared by these disciplines, while discussing future goals for cities and ways to include the public in professional conversations.
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Marshall Brown
IIT College of Architecture
Alexander Eisenschmidt
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Mary P. Mattson
Studio Assistant Professor
IIT
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Bio: CURRENT: Studio Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture, IIT, Chicago and site:constructs, private practice, Chicago PREVIOUS: Peter Walker and Partners, Berkeley, California; Office of Cheryl Barton, San Francisco, California; ASG, Architects & Planners, Baltimore
Education: Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia; BA, International Political and Economic Theory, College of William and Mary; Certificate, Sustainability Management, University of Chicago; Certificate, Woody Plants, George Washington University/National Botanic Garden
Key Publications: CV information available at http://www.iit.edu/arch/faculty/mattson_mary.shtml
Past Assignments: 2013 Research Fellow with the Landscape Architecture Foundation; Lectures and paper presentations on urban agriculture, urban climate change adaptation, and Chicago landscape for National CELA (Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture), National ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects), and the Cultural Landscape Foundation
Alison M. Fisher
Assistant Curator of Architecture
Art Institute of Chicago
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Bio: Assistant Curator of Architecture, Department of Architecture and Design, Art Institute of Chicago. I work primarily with the historical collection of architecture and urbanism, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Ludwig Hilberseimer.
Education: PhD, Art and Architectural History, expected 2014, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; MA, Art History, 2005, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; BA, Art History, 2002, University of Rochester, NY.
Key Publications: The City Dynamic: Planning, Protest, and Spatial Politics, 1960–80 (forthcoming 2014, Princeton University Press); “Tower In The Park? The 1940s or The Lesser-Known Middle Period Of The High Rise,” AREA: Chicago 13, Special Issue on Housing (forthcoming April 2013); “The Road to Community: The Houses and Housing of Bertrand Goldberg,” in Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention (Yale University Press, 2011).
Past Assignments: “Maverick Moderns: Architecture and the City,” Symposium, Harry Weese Reconsidered, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 2011; “From PWA to CHA: Chicago Architecture and the American Public Housing Debate,” College Art Association Annual Conference, 2010; “The Rhetoric of Experimentation: Technology and the Plan Construction Program in France,” Experiments: Transfer of scientific Methods in Architecture and Art, Institute of History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zurich, 2008.
Martin Jaffe
Associate Professor
University of Illinois - Chicago
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