Architecture study trip to Chicago

Architecture studytrip to Chicago

Architecture study trip to Chicago is a journey into the design world. Known as the cultural capital of the USA,Chicago is a design mecca for architecture students and design enthusiasts. In this fortnight sojourn, we will explore the works of great masters of architecture such as Mies Van der Rohe, Louis Sullivan,  Frank Lloyd Wright, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry among others.

Being a design capital , Chicago has a rich thriving urban culture with many public installations fit for students' appreciation. In our quest to understand the evolution of the city, we will be studying the Chicago school style of building by exploring key projects such as Montauk Building, The Auditorium building etc.

“With me, architecture is not an art, but a religion, and that religion is a part of democracy.” _ Louis Sullivan

To indulge more in the design code, a series of walking tours will lead us to explore magnificent installations such as the Chicago architecture foundation,  The Bean sculpture  and several museums. We will also visit  the first skyscraper in the world- Home Insurance Building in Chicago designed by William Le Baron Jenney.

Throughout the study trip,  students will tour historical landmarks, like Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio in Oak Park and Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House. In addition, the group will explore “history of the skyscraper” walking tour led by the Chicago Architectural Foundation and a trip down the river for a visit to the top of the Hancock Tower and Mies’s Lake Shore Apartments.

“Chicago’s one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.” – Frank Gehry

We will visit the Wright Administration Building, the research tower and Norman Foster’s Fortress Hall, a completely transparent oval building.

We will then visit the Wingspread House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Herbert Fisk Johnson, president of the S.C. Johnson and an intellectual stimulation at the University of Chicago. In Spring Green, we will take a tour inside and outside Taliesin East, the house, studio and summer residence of F. LL Wright.

Taliesin, in its three iterations (1911, 1914, 1925), represents the most complete embodiment of Wright’s philosophy on organic architecture.

To reap all the benefits of a studytrip to USA,  we will head east to New York for more architectural wonders and visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater House. The house was designed in 1935 and completed in 1939 over a waterfall on the Bear Run River in Fayette County. In line with his “organic” vision of architecture, in which art is in union with nature, Wright designed the house with local materials. Whatever was available on the property was used, including quarried sandstone.

Areas of Study

Architecture. Art. History

Age: 10+