The Rev. Emily Gage chose not to take what happened shortly after she started at Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple as an omen. “Right after I began, in the fall of '08, a giant piece of ceiling fell down right above the pulpit,” she said.
This compromise of the building's integrity did not happen during a Sunday service. No one was hurt. And life with Unity Temple, Wright's modernist masterpiece in Oak Park and a mixed blessing of a structure if ever there were one, went on.
Read MoreThe National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) is launching a national multilingual campaign to promote acceptance of LGBT individuals in Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.
Read MoreThere was something otherworldly about being on The 606. Images came to mind of new-world structures like Rem Koolhaas’ McCormick Tribune Campus Center at IIT and the concrete and stainless steel tube enclosing the Green Line track that passes over the building, and Helmut Jahn’s adjacent student dormitory, as did childhood images of the Jetson’s futuristic lifestyle. At other moments along the trail I felt a backwards pull, to medieval, walled cities, where passage along ramparts is cheek-by-jowl with residential quarters and cathedrals.
Read MoreAlphawood Foundation today announced a series of staff changes and additions.
Read MoreAlphawood Foundation, a Chicago private foundation, today announced a £20 million ($32 million) gift to SOAS, University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies) to advance the study and preservation of Buddhist and Hindu art in Southeast Asia. The largest ever gift in Alphawood Foundation’s history, the donation is also one of the largest recorded to UK higher education, especially in the field of arts and humanities.
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