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«That is what led me to composites»
Focus
A leader in educating artists, designers, and scholars since 1866, the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago (SAIC) offers nationally accredited undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate
programmes to more than 3,500 students from around the globe. Located in the heart of Chicago,
SAIC has an educational philosophy built upon an interdisciplinary approach to art and design,
giving students unparalleled opportunities to develop their creative and critical abilities, while
working with renowned faculty who include many of the leading practitioners in their fields.

in three courses, as illustrative of the
conceptual and technical parameters
they must consider when developing
exterior wall designs. We are fortunate
in Chicago to have examples not only
of current construction, but also of
some of the most important historical
examples in the development of multi-storey buildings. My presentation to
my students, and that which I will be
sharing at the Symposium, includes a
look at these earlier historical evolutions; a technical view that is not always
well understood when these works
are presented to students from an art
historical perspective. Architecture
students need the cultural/historical
understanding but they also need the
technical understanding, so they can
judge what, if anything, can appropri-

ately be applied from these important
earlier works.
The SAIC is a unique venue in this
consideration.
The
architecture
programme is housed in one of the
greatest masterpieces in architectural
history, Louis Sullivan's Carson Pirie
Scott store. Our studios have direct
views of other landmarks of "Chicago
School" and early modern high-rise
construction, such as Burnham's
Reliance Building and SOM's Inland
Steel Building - our students look
across, not up, at these other landmarks. This makes for a unique
setting for the teaching of technical
systems. The students see and better
understand the nature of the quandary
that my research revolves around. The

high degree of creativity in the SAIC
programme means that the students do
not simply clip an existing system onto
the outsides of their designs, but rather
they see the crafting of such enclosure
systems as part of their artistic task.
That teaching, and the research in
preparation for it, led me to be aware
of the JEC symposia - first I found the
one in Paris but then I was delighted
to learn of the one here in Chicago. So
I reached out and connected with JEC
and I am very much looking forward
to discussing this long-time obsession
with people from the industry who
know far more about the potential of
this genre of materials than I do. In my
mind, this is the future of the building
industry, something that will become
a regular part of the education and
consideration of architects around the
world.
More information:
www.saic.edu

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