Infill Housing on Five Sites in East Pilsen

Chicago Art Dept

Infill Housing on Five Sites in East Pilsen

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1932 South Halsted, #100
Add to Calendar 2019-01-11 18:00:00 2019-01-11 22:00:00 Infill Housing on Five Sites in East Pilsen Infill Housing on Five Sites in East Pilsen is the culminating exhibition of final projects created for ARTH 24190: Imagining Chicago's Common Buildings, a studio/seminar hybrid course taught by Luke Joyner. Students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds sought to bring new ideas to such buildings’ development through collective work in East Pilsen. Different groups worked differently, as the sites demanded, so the resulting buildings reveal different layers of focus, both social and spatial, within the roughly three-lot wide sites. At a moment of large-scale development (e.g. “The 78”) and streamlined digital design, these projects seek to inject personal and contextual thought at a human scale, without resting on obvious adjacencies. The variety of backgrounds of the students involved — they are not architecture students, in a traditional studio program, and this is the first experience most have had with projects of this sort — becomes a positive, as it manifests in the variety and empathy of the work produced. We’re especially eager to show these projects here, at the edge of East Pilsen, just blocks from the sites the students chose, and extremely grateful to the Chicago Art Department for the opportunity to do so. Featuring student work by: Olivia Harden, Renee Wah & Casey Breen / Kuba Sokolowski, Arseniy Andreyev & Nicholas Villareal / Alina Cui, Daniel Lee & Isabella Zanobini / Jalen Jiang, Camrick Solorio & Jacob Walter / Lydia Wu, Everett Black & Enrique Morales. 1932 South Halsted, #100 Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
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Infill Housing on Five Sites in East Pilsen is the culminating exhibition of final projects created for ARTH 24190: Imagining Chicago's Common Buildings, a studio/seminar hybrid course taught by Luke Joyner.

Students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds sought to bring new ideas to such buildings’ development through collective work in East Pilsen. Different groups worked differently, as the sites demanded, so the resulting buildings reveal different layers of focus, both social and spatial, within the roughly three-lot wide sites. At a moment of large-scale development (e.g. “The 78”) and streamlined digital design, these projects seek to inject personal and contextual thought at a human scale, without resting on obvious adjacencies.

The variety of backgrounds of the students involved — they are not architecture students, in a traditional studio program, and this is the first experience most have had with projects of this sort — becomes a positive, as it manifests in the variety and empathy of the work produced. We’re especially eager to show these projects here, at the edge of East Pilsen, just blocks from the sites the students chose, and extremely grateful to the Chicago Art Department for the opportunity to do so.

Featuring student work by: Olivia Harden, Renee Wah & Casey Breen / Kuba Sokolowski, Arseniy Andreyev & Nicholas Villareal / Alina Cui, Daniel Lee & Isabella Zanobini / Jalen Jiang, Camrick Solorio & Jacob Walter / Lydia Wu, Everett Black & Enrique Morales.