Jeff Carter at Mies van der Rohe’s Crown Hall, IIT
Jeff Carter’s sculptures of buildings, assembled from IKEA parts, played with the famous dictum “form follows function,” which influenced a score of Chicago architects. The sculptures were perfectly sited in Mies’ Modernist temple of Crown Hall.
Fine Arts Building Act One: The Golden Age, A Building Reborn The building itself is actually 138 years old, opening its doors in 1885 as the Studebaker Brothers’ Lake Front Carriage Repository. But they quickly outgrew their showplace. When the Fine Arts Building reopened in October 1898, it had been staged as an artist-only space. The building was a hit. In its first few years, artists and crafters of every kind…
