MEMBERS LIKE YOU GET THE MOST OUT OF OHC

Exclusive access to “My Neighborhood, My Story” virtual tours with eight top architects and local celebrities including Carol Ross Barney, Lin Brehmer, Gordon Gill and Rhymefest. Priority access to our OHC 2020 preview online, October 7 at noon. FREE access to online programs during OHC that are ticketed for the general public. These are some of the OHC benefits you can look forward to as a valued CAC member—so you might want to clear your calendar for October 16−25.

SUNDAY FAMILY FIELD TRIPS ABOARD CHICAGO’S FIRST LADY

Choose your date for a “Sunday Family Field Trip” aboard select CAFC River Cruise departures! Get one FREE ticket for students 14 years or younger with the purchase of each standard adult ticket at full price—that’s two tickets for just $46.29 plus tax! Plus, enjoy special activities and a FREE sandwich for students with each purchase of an adult meal (limit two), redeemable day-of at The Northman Beer & Cider Garden on the Chicago Riverwalk. Redeem beforehand to enjoy your lunch on board!

FALL INTO THESE ARCHITECT TALKS

Reimagining the Skyscraper with Ole Scheeren
Wednesday, September 30 at noon

Büro Ole Scheeren is a global architecture office reimagining the form and function of skyscrapers. This lecture with founding principal Ole Scheeren illuminates the firm’s unique approach to every project, through which bold concepts manifest as real-world solutions.

The Boundary-Breaking Designs of Jeanne Gang
Monday, November 2 at 6pm

Over more than 20 years of practice, Studio Gang founding principal and partner Jeanne Gang has challenged the presumed limitations on architects in order to create stunning places that enhance local identity, community and urban sustainability.

TRUST US: THESE SPECIAL WALKING TOURS ARE NOT TO BE MISSED

“I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work,” architect Frank Lloyd Wright famously said. There’s no better or more picture-perfect time of year to see Wright’s buildings in person than fall, when the leaves change and splash their timeless lines with vibrant color. The CAC is delighted to resume special Wright-themed walking tours in continued partnership with the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.

For a limited time, members get exclusive, free access to our “Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park” tour, every Sunday in October at 1pm or 2pm. This exteriors-only tour begins near Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio and takes you past nearly a dozen homes designed by Wright, ranging from Victorian to Prairie Style. As capacity for walking tours remains limited to support public safety, don’t delay!

Special thanks to the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust for their valuable partnership over the years. Visit flwright.org to view interior tours offered by the Trust to complement your CAC “Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park” tour.

“Modern in the Middle” Book Launch
Thursday, October 15, 2020 from 5:30–6:30pm

Building bookworms and mavens of Modernism can register now for a FREE online book launch and conversation about “Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–1975,” co-authored by Susan Benjamin and Michelangelo Sabatino. Famed as the birthplace of the skyscraper, Chicago also cultivated a more humble but no less consequential expression of Modernism: the private home. Join Benjamin, Sabatino, the CAC’s own Lynn Osmond and Michael Wood, IIT College of Architecture dean Reed Kroloff, and Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and Margaret McCurry on Thursday, October 15 at 5:30pm.

The Chicago Architecture Center, including all exhibits and the CAC Design Store, is now open Saturday and Sunday only from 10am–4pm. Through December 2020, CAC building and neighborhood walking tours (departing from locations other than the Center at 111 E. Wacker Dr.) will be available for purchase on the 15th of the month prior to the month of the scheduled departure.

The CAC remains committed to providing the safest possible experience for its entire community of members, staff, visitors, volunteers and tour attendees. All Center visitors and CAC tour attendees are prompted to acknowledge and accept the CAC’s safety policies supporting recommendations from public health officials from the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago.