The Chicago Architectural Club invites you to:
MANUFACTURING LANDSCAPES Exhibition + Symposium

Exhibit: May 11-25, 2012
Symposium: Saturday, May 19, 2012 / 1:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 1414 Kingsbury

The CAC is proud to support this two fold event sponsored by the The Rotch Organization, UIUC School of Architecture and Julie Larsen, Assistant Professor at UIUC and 2012 Rotch recipient.

The SYMPOSIUM is a response to how infrastructure and ecology can inform one another and create a more resilient urban fabric that recodes, rather than reacts, to its environment. Infrastructure is going beyond the realm of strictly an ‘engineering problem’ and becoming an integral public component to urban development. As we begin to take on more ecological complexities within our environment, cities can no longer be separated into isolated entities but become a synthesis of integrated systems with cultural significance. The symposium will have a series of public lectures by professionals and academics with a discussion afterwards.

Symposium Presenters: Professionals and Academics from University of Illinois U-C, University of Illinois Chicago, IIT, Columbia University and Ohio State:

ALEXANDER EISENSCHMIDT (STUDIO OFFSHORE + UIC)
MARTIN FELSEN (URBANLAB + IIT)
GALE FULTON (LANDSCAPE INTELLIGENCE + UIUC)
STEWART HICKS + ALLISON NEWMEYER (DESIGN W/COMPANY + UIUC)
ROGER HUBELI (APTUM + UIUC)
JANETTE KIM (URBAN LANDSCAPE LAB + COLUMBIA)
KAREN LEWIS (OHIO KSA)
CLARE LYSTER (CLUAA + UIC)
ANDREW MODDRELL (PORT + UIC)

The EXHIBITION of UIUC graduate studio work was initiated by the tragic events in Japan following the 2011 tsunami which prompted a rethinking of Tokyo Bay as an ideal test bed for new port city strategies tackling climatic concerns. The projects unravel these issues to generate new types of performative architecture that begin to recode their context. The work uses the famous Tsukiji Fish Market as an opportunity to establish an interface and dialogue between infrastructure, ecology, and architecture and think opportunistically about future urban networks and ‘infra-tectural’ prototypes in port cities.

For more information visit: http://studiofyi.tumblr.com/
or contact JULIE LARSEN / jmlarsen@illinois.edu