Thursday / November 17, 2016 / 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Edgar Miller Legacy Project
AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, #250
During the height of his career in the 1920s and 1930s, Edgar Miller collaborated with numerous artists, designers, architects, writers, musicians, and civic leaders. He also designed and executed two bohemian artist colony buildings known as Carl Street Studios and Kogen-Miller Studios, while in the commercial world, he became a prized decorative artist for top architectural firms like Holabird and Root.
Garnering much attention today is Miller’s Glasner Studio in Chicago, one of his artistically rehabbed homes celebrated in Edgar Miller and the Handmade Home by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams (City Files Press, 2009). This lecture will provide a “best of” glimpse of Miller’s broad oeuvre while discussing the preservation efforts dating back to the 1970s to keep Miller’s most unique pieces of art—the Handmade Homes—intact and vibrant.
Speaker: Zac Bleicher, Director, Edgar Miller Legacy
This program is part of the Preservation Snapshots series organized by Landmarks Illinois.
Photo: Entry to the Glasner Studio. (Alexander Vertikoff, photographer)
