Chicago Architects: Why the City’s New Buildings Don’t Look Like Its Classics

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🗓️ 7 March 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Today’s Chicago architects answer why they build the way they do, and to what degree their inspiration comes from the city’s past. Full story, with photos and additional interviews from Chicago architects and developers.

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0:00.0	When were the...
0:03.6	What school's up?
0:06.1	Who decides what the next...
0:07.8	Where's that story?
0:09.3	Why they keep the look?
0:11.2	What is this?
0:13.6	It's Curious City.
0:15.0	Where WBEZ answers your questions about Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:20.3	Hey, this is Jesse Duke's audio producer with Curious City.
0:23.2	And I'm Jen Mason Garp of the Chicago Architecture Foundation, where I'm the director of
0:27.5	interpretation and research.
0:29.0	So Curious City and the Chicago Architecture Foundation have a partnership.
0:32.9	We've been working together for a couple years now to answer questions about architecture
0:36.6	and the built environment.
0:38.3	And this question stands out. It's different than some of the other ones we've taken on.
0:42.9	It comes from Rachel Glick, who recently moved to Oak Park. Let's hear it.
0:47.7	Well, I was wondering if this historic architecture in Chicago is so celebrated and everyone thinks it's so beautiful and wonderful,
0:55.4	why didn't they continue designing in that beautiful, wonderful way?
1:00.0	Jen, you really wanted to answer this question. Why? For several reasons. One is that this is a
1:05.9	question we get a lot at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and our docents deal with us a lot on all of the
1:11.4	thousands and thousands of tours that we give every year. It's a fascinating question because
1:15.8	architects throughout history have constantly dealt with this question. What should our building
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