The Chicago architecture school, founded by Stanley Tigerman and Eva Maddox in 1994, has announced the appointment of Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen of UrbanLab as the new co-directors.
Dunn and Felsen plan to shift the emphasis to "an international discussion of the future of cities," the school said in a news release. When their tenure begins in the 2008-09 school year, they plan to focus on the issue of water, a subject with which they are well-acquainted.
Chicago Tribune
Last year, they won a national design competition, sponsored by the History Channel, that asked competitors to design their home city 100 years into the future. Dunn and Felsen envisioned 22nd Century Chicago as an environmentally friendly urban center — a "living machine," complete with "eco-boulevards," that would replenish Lake Michigan with treated wastewater and storm water.
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I went to the "symposium" last night. The discussion was decent but still lacking. The comment was made in the beginning how tonight's discussion was going to be transcribed into a book - it really really felt like it too. The questions asked, the camaraderie of the 10 panelists; really felt like a book. Not much discussion. Although Victor Margolin tried to start a fire under the discussion at one point...
Plus, Martin and Sarah were never formally introduced. They are getting a big responsibility (don't let Archeworks disappear and go down the drain) and yet no introduction was ever really made.
Interesting proposal of having only one project per year instead of three different group projects. I think that is a valid solution - and a way to keep students from placing themselves where they think they have a claim on knowledge (arch students going to arch project, medicine students going to health project...) Levels the field
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