Saturday / September 23, 2017 / 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Edgar Miller, Architecture and the Decorative Arts
1734 N. Wells St., Chicago, IL 60614
Presented by: Robert Bruegmann PhD
There have been many attempts over the years to break down the professional barriers separating architects, artists and artisans in order to create integrating environments for living, working and playing. Edgar Miller and his band of collaborators achieved one of the most interesting and idiosyncratic examples of how this kind of collaboration might work. This session will consider this work in the context of contemporary practice in the United States and Europe.
Robert Bruegmann, PhD is a historian and critic of the built environment. He received his PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and since 1979 has been at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History, Architecture and Urban Planning. Among his books are the award-winning The Architects and the City: Holabird & Roche of Chicago 1880-1918 (1998), the controversial Sprawl: A Compact History (2005), and The Architecture of Harry Weese (2010). He is currently acting as editor of Art Deco Chicago: Making American Modern, about Chicago architecture, industrial design, graphic design and fashion c. 1910-50, to be published by the Chicago Art Deco Society. His main areas of research are in the history of architecture, urban planning, landscape and historic preservation.
Edgar Miller Legacy is proud to offer partner programming with the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Edgar Miller Legacy, in partnership with AIA Chicago, offers three distinct workshops and tours held at the Kogen-Miller Studios featuring special guest lecturers who will speak to different aspects of Miller’s architectural achievements and how they relate to the wider world of architectural history, decorative arts, and community building. All workshops include an in-depth tour of Edgar Miller’s Glasner Studio led by Edgar Miller Legacy Executive Director, Zac Bleicher
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