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Good Design Awards (Chicago)
The Chicago Athenaeum is a private museum of architecture and design, based in Galena, Illinois. The museum focuses on the art of design in all areas of the discipline: architecture, industrial and product design, graphics, landscape architecture, and urban planning. Among its goals is to advance public education on how design can positively impact the human environment. The museum awards numerous prizes for architecture and design. History The museum was founded in 1988 in Chicago, moved to Schaumburg, Illinois in 1998, and to Galena, Illinois in 2004. The museum in Galena is located in a former brewery building (Fulton Brewery, later Galena Brewery, Eulberg & Sons). In Schaumburg, the museum occupied an old barn at 190 S. Roselle Rd., before the village evicted it in 2004. The Museum also maintained an International Sculpture Park with works of contemporary art. The sculpture park still exists, situated in a park behind the Prairie Center for the Arts. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Narkiewicz-Laine
Christian Narkiewicz-Laine (born June 3, 1952) is an American architect, painter, writer and poet. He is the founding president of the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. Early life and education Christian K. Laine was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He studied architecture at the University of Strasbourg in France and later archaeology at the American School of Archaeology in Athens, Greece. In 1973, he returned to the US and studied art history at Lake Forest College, Illinois. Early career After finishing his studies, he worked for the American Institute of Architects from 1977 to 1981, as well as writing for Inland Architect magazine from 1978 to 1981. In 1978, Narkiewicz-Laine became the first architecture critic to be hired at the Chicago Sun-Times where he wrote a weekly column on national architecture, design, preservation and art. In 1981, he resigned from the newspaper and went to live at The American Academy in Rome for two years. Narkiewicz-Lai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
