The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Conference: Second Wave of Modernism in Landscape Architecture in America (November 13-15, 2008 in Chicago)

Thursday, November 13 [Tickets Required]

The Illinois Institute of Technology is located just south of Chicago’s Loop.
Green Line to the 35th Street stop. Parking available on State Street, east of Crown Hall.

4:00pm

5:00

Cocktail Reception at IIT McCormick Tribune Campus Center
Support from Christy Webber Landscapes

6:30

Keynote Dinner by M. Paul Friedberg IIT’s Crown Hall
Support from Charles J. Fiore Nursery

   

Friday, November 14

The Conference Will Take Place at The Spertus Institute

8:30am

Welcome

8:45

The Framework

9:15-10:45

Social Agenda

10:45-11:05

BREAK

11:10-11:55

Panel: Moving Beyond the Tabula Rasa

11:55-1:15pm

LUNCH (on your own)

1:15-2:45

Material Sensibilities

2:45-3:05

BREAK

3:10-4:40

Form and Space

4:40-5:25

Panel: Technology in the Second Wave

6:00-8:00

Reception at Design Within Reach
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:
TCLF Launches “Landslide 2008: Marvels of Modernism” with presenting sponsor Design Within Reach.

Millennium Park

Saturday, November 15

Modernism Then and Now Walking Tour
Meet at Chicago Architecture Foundation

9:00am-1pm

Walking tour of two downtown public landscapes from the first and second wave of Modernism: the South Garden of the Chicago Art Institute and Millennium Park.