by Vasia Rigou | August 21, 2026Ralph Johnson on Designing for a Rapidly Changing World With the release of his two-volume monograph, the celebrated Chicago architect reflects on six decades of practice, place, process and the future of design.
by Emily McClanathan | August 14, 2026Chicago, Brick by Brick Will Quam’s "Fire and Clay" traces the colors, textures and histories embedded in the city’s architecture.
by Yetta Starr | August 7, 2026Designing a Better Chicago, From the Ground Up A look at the 2026 Designing a Better Chicago grantees and the grassroots projects using design to respond to real community needs across the city.
by Vasia Rigou | July 31, 2026Making Room for Chicago’s Creative Community A new housing program gives Chicago creatives priority at 400 Lake Shore Drive.
by Vasia Rigou | July 24, 2026Designing a Disability-Forward Future A Design Museum of Chicago exhibition invites us to rethink access as a force for imagination, community and cultural change.
by Vasia Rigou | July 17, 2026A Lost Frank Lloyd Wright Design, Worn With a Windsor The Tie Bar turns Wright’s now-demolished Midway Gardens, the architect’s Hyde Park entertainment complex, into wearable Chicago design history.
by Vasia Rigou | July 10, 2026Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford Transforms Familiar Design Icons into Unstable Vessels of Memory, Grief and Time The exhibition at Elmhurst Art Museum turns objects like the Barcelona Chair and the Eames splint into altered forms that feel at once recognizable and estranged.
by Vasia Rigou | June 19, 2026Chicago, 2126: Gensler’s Five Speculative Visions for the City’s Next Century Looking a hundred years ahead to imagine how the city might evolve in the face of shifting climates, aging demographics and rapid technological change.
