Features

By Hy Speck, Class of 1995 Rooms With a View Many of our tour route hotels are adding roof gardens to entice customers with food, drink, and spectacular views. What…

“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” -William Bennett, former US Secretary of Education While the primary focus of the CAC Volunteer team over the past two months…

By Carol Muskin, Eduction Guide On Saturday, July 7th, 2018, an intrepid group of Education Guides (Lisa Ciota, Nancy Straus, Kevin Griebenow, Tom Kinsella and Carol Muskin) led a group…

By Karen Clapp, Class of 1997 Frederick Schock is best known for architectural work that helped to shape Chicago’s Austin community, on the west side of the city. Born in…

By Brent Hoffmann, Class of 2005 “I seem to be drawn to these Mies van der Rohe buildings,” said Val Adams. For 20 years, he managed and worked out of…

Ron Campbell, 2005 Just wanted you to know that I brought some visitors to another River Cruise, and again it was spectacular. I believe our docent was Mr. Campbell, gentleman…

By Thomas R. Stelmack, Class of 2017 This 4-part series covers Apple Architecture from its corporate beginnings in a now landmarked garage to the current design concept as epitomized by…

By Diane Wagner, Class of 2006 A Baby and a Wedding   After a long, cold winter, babies are arriving pretty regularly! On August 23, Remi Rose Hunssinger joined the…

By Ellen Shubart, Class of 2005 First Barbara Clark posed the question, then a number of docents sought the answer to the question: why doesn’t the Michigan Avenue Bridge go…

All I can say is: WOW!!! In a city of superlatives, the Chicago Architecture Center enters those ranks. Almost 250 docents and volunteers attended the opening event on September 5th…