Wednesday / March 18, 2015 / 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
PORT Urbanism: Recent and Ongoing Projects
AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 250
Architect Andrew Moddrell, director of PORT Urbanism, will present the recent work of his urban design and public realm practice which range in scale from a two-acre plaza in Indianapolis and a fourteen-acre park in Denver to a 51-mile greenway in Los Angeles and a 10,000-acre strategic vision for Cleveland.
Speaker: Andrew is a founding director of PORT. He is currently leading a diverse range of PORT’s public realm design projects including a multi-disciplinary visioning project to determine an ideal role for the historic Cook County Hospital and surrounding grounds within the broader context of the Illinois Medical District; the design and construction of a civic venue in Denver’s Paco Sanchez Park; and an OpenLands study for the Calumet River region in Southeast Chicago. Andrew recently represented PORT in Washington D.C. as part of the advisory panel for the National Endowment for the Arts inaugural "Our Town" initiative that awarded millions of dollars to communities that are supporting the arts as part of a community revitalization strategy.
Andrew is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at UIC, and he recently taught at the Architectural Association in London as part of the AA/UIC Visiting School.
Before founding PORT, Andrew was a project architect and project manager at Garofalo Architects and UrbanLab as well as a Research Associate at IIT. He holds a B.Arch with distinction from The University of Kansas, where he was awarded the Thayer Medal for Architectural Design, and an M.Arch from Yale University, where he was awarded the H.I. Feldman Prize for Design Excellence.
