Recognized Architects Offer Ten Visions
Chicago Scenic was excited to participate in the construction of a new exhibit for the Art Institute of Chicago titled “Chicago Architecture: Ten Visions”. For Chicago Scenic this project brought the relationship which began in 1994 with the Institute full circle. The first exhibit, by Stanley Tigerman, called “Retrospective of Chicago Architecture”, reflected on the city’s architecture from the early 20’s until the 90’s, while the current exhibit takes a look into the city’s architectural future.

This exhibit, which runs through April 3rd, showcases diverse views of the future of Chicago’s architecture. Ten architects were given 444 square feet, divided into identical sections, and asked to “visually comment” on a unique theme directly related to the city’s architectural future. Master architect Stanley Tigerman served to design the overall plan of this exhibit.

CSSI Senior Project Manager Gary Heitz worked with Tigerman, as well as Martha Thorne and Bill Caddick of the Art Institute, in order to create ten equal spaces for each architect’s spatial vision. Chicago Scenic fabricated uniform partition walls, columns and diagonal roof trusses that created both the room boundaries for each architect and also the parameters of the entire exhibit. CSSI’s Wayne Adams served as Job Lead.

In addition to creating spaces for each vision, CSSI built a 29’ by 8’ tapering “knife blade” that spanned diagonally overhead in Ron Krueck’s exhibit, which was the focal statement and only element in his space.

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