BURNHAM 2.0 EXHIBITION OPENS
Chicago History Museum
09 NOVEMBER 2008
CHICAGO-Romina Canna and David Goodman served as Guest Curators, Contributors, and Tapers of Red Lines on the Floor for the Burnham 2.0 Exhibition, now open at the Chicago History Museum. The show, sponsored by the Chicago Architectural Club and the Chicago Humanities Festival, marks the Centennial of Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago with a series of speculative projects for the future of the city. It runs through April. You should go see it.
THERE HAS BEEN, APPARENTLY, SOME KIND OF ELECTION
05 NOVEMBER 2008
CHICAGO-It seems as though some kind of election has taken place, in which one candidate, favored locally, has defeated the other. R+D STUDIO LLC will keep you up to date on the implications of what seems to have just happened.
PUBLICATION: WALTER NETSCH
A CRITICAL APPRECIATION + SOURCEBOOK
Northwestern University Press
01 NOVEMBER 2008
CHICAGO-Northwestern University Library and the NU Press have just published an anthology of essays on Walter Netsch. David wrote an essay for the book: "Five Imagined Histories". Sadly, Walter passed away before the book was formally released, though we're told he did get to see the proofs. Anyway, an interesting book; buy one or several here. We're at number 1,431,947 on Amazon this week, and holding steady!
CHICAGO ARCHITECTURAL CLUB LAUNCHES BURNHAM 2.0:
A Patchwork Plan for the High-Speed Rail City
02 JULY 2008
CHICAGO-The Chicago Architectural Club, along with the Chicago Humanities Festival and the Chicago History Museum, is organizing BURNHAM 2.0: A Patchwork Plan. The event will mark the centennial of Burnham and Bennett’s Plan of Chicago through new projects and speculations.
We're working on a collaborative urban plan and an international design competition for the reshaping of the metropolitan Chicago and the Midwest through a regional high-speed rail system.
We're working on two parallel trajectories:
1. An international design competition, which will be launched in Summer 2008. This competition will deal with one of the puzzle pieces in the new composite urban plan, the development of an intermodal train terminal in Chicago’s West Loop district.
2. In parallel to the international design competition, members of the Chicago Architectural Club will be working in teams to rethink the Chicago metropolitan area upon the arrival of high-speed rail. The city will be divided into discrete zones, and teams will work in loose affiliation with one another to produce a patchwork urban plan.
The Patchwork Plan and the results of the competition will be exhibited at the Chicago History Museum starting 8 November 2008. The show will run for roughly two months at the Museum, and may be continued at another venue at the end of its run at the Museum. A Colloquium and Panel discussion with invited guests is also scheduled for the first week of November at the History Museum.
Stay tuned. For a little more information, click on the link below.
SPAIN WINS EUROPEAN CUP: R+D STUDIO LLC WATCH ON TELEVISION
29 JUNE 2008
VIENNA-The Spanish national soccer team defeated Germany 1-0, securing the first European title for Spain since 1964. Although neither Canna nor Goodman appeared on the pitch for the Spanish, they did watch the entire tournament with great seriousness and sense of purpose, frequently shouting instructions and motivational chants at the television.
R+D NAMED PRESIDENTS OF CHICAGO ARCHITECTURAL CLUB
1 JUNE 2008
CHICAGO-Romina Canna and David Goodman have been named Presidents of the Chicago Architectural Club. As darkness fell last night, they were inaugurated in a top secret ceremony held in the fortified bunker beneath the Chicago Architectural Club Presidential Palace. Their Presidency will, no doubt, usher in an era of unprecedented harmony and prosperity for architects across Chicago.
