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Italian-born, Los Angeles-based architect Elena Manferdini has become adept at creating vibrant architectural installations that employ complex patterns, luscious colors, and rich textures to introduce new spatial and visual narratives that challenge the clean lines and abstract forms of architectural modernism.

exhibition: “Elena Manferdini: Building the Picture.”
Saturday, 03/07 – Sunday 09/20 // Gallery 286
Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60603

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As concepts are developed and represented across a range of scales, an architect’s work requires a variety of approaches, media, and outputs. Architecture to Scale demonstrates the complex architectural processes from research to production through the work of two groundbreaking architects. . . .

exhibition: “Architecture to Scale: Stanley Tigerman and Zago Architecture.”
Thursday, 06/26 - Sunday, 09/14 / Galleries 283–285
Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60603

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December 11, 2010–July 20, 2011
Galleries 283–286

Modern architecture and design were long viewed as separate disciplines until practitioners in the mid-20th century began crossing boundaries and rethinking form and function. This fluid exchange of ideas has led to innovative solutions addressing issues at the heart of contemporary life—ones that impact the environment, sustainability, technology, politics, personal well-being, and health and safety. The Art Institute of Chicago has now organized a major exhibition highlighting important recent developments that have resulted from the intersection of architecture and design.

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