Designer of the acclaimed Poetry Foundation building in Chicago, John Ronan will discuss his views on Chicago architecture and practicing within its building culture on Sunday, October 4, at 2 p.m. at Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., Chicago.
Ronan’s presentation, “Transcending Pragmatism: Searching for a New Chicago,” will be the fifth in the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust’s annual Thinking Into the Future: The Robie House Series on Architecture, Design and Ideas.
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John Ronan Architects’ Poetry Foundation building in Chicago, built in 2007, received one of the Chicago-based firm’s two AIA Institute National Honor Awards.
Ronan has been recognized by Chicago’s Graham Foundation, the Architectural League of New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and is the subject of a Princeton Architectural Press monograph. He is a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
“Transcending Pragmatism: Searching for a New Chicago” is presented in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial and The University of Chicago Arts.
Launched in 2011, Thinking into the Future: The Robie House Series on Architecture, Design and Ideas engages leading international, national and Chicago voices in architecture, design and contemporary culture. Taking Wright’s forward-thinking philosophy as expressed in the Frederick C. Robie House, the program explores current ideas and issues in architecture, design and society that stimulate debate about our world today.
Designed in 1908 and completed in 1910, the Frederick C. Robie House is Frank Lloyd Wright’s most innovative Prairie style home and an iconic work of the 20th century.