SAUD News Release

June 5, 2006
Contact: Cindy Muckey, School of Architecure and Urban Design, (785) 864-3709.

A Fast Tour of the Windy City

Chicago Architecture Tour Participants

Professors Bob Coffeen, Steve Grabow and Kent Spreckelmeyer led 42 students on the School’s 2005 Chicago Architecture Tour. The group departed Lawrence on Thursday, September 29th and returned late Saturday, October 2nd. While in Chicago, they viewed several Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Oak Park and visited his Unity Temple. They also visited the offices of Kirkegaard Associates, Consultants in Acoustics; Perkins + Will; and OWP/P Architects-Engineers. In addition to the traditional visit to Oak Park and Chicago firms, the trip involved a series of tours of landmark buildings and districts: a Thursday tour of buildings by Helmut Jahn, Rem Koolhaas and others located on the Illinois Institute of Technology Campus; Friday tours of the Chicago Symphony Center and the tall buildings in Chicago’s Loop; and a Saturday visit to the new Millennium Park (led by David Broz (B.Arch., 1997) with stops at the Pritzker Music Pavilion and the Harris Theatre.

The following students participated in the tour: Bedoor Alsalem, Brian Ashworth, Matt Baker, Park Baker, Jon Birney, Sarah Boedeker, Sheri Brune, Timothy Burns, Brandon Crain, Lindsey Dahl, Jessica Deem, Lindsey Evans, Amanda Faires, Emily Finch, Molly Fogarty, John Harkness, Shawn Henry, Ashley Hicks, Marshall Hilton, Stephanie Hoeman, Tim Ivy, Nick Johnson, Jane Kimble, Brent Kroner, Kai Sun Luk, Kristen Mack, Josh MacPhee, James Dylan Morgan, DiAnn Mroszczak, Leo Francis Mulvehill, Phil Prange, Christina Przygoda, Emily Reece, Silva Reshmeen, Amber Rucker, Katie Schweissguth, Mirabela Ticu, Bazigha Tufail, Jacqueline Walden, Danielle Wiesner, Garret Wilson, and Stephanie Winn.

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