Remembering Olga Lengyel And “Five Chimneys”
In 1944, Hungarian physician’s assistant Olga Lengyel was deported to Auschwitz along with her parents, husband, and two sons. She was put to work...
Wright and New York: The Making of America’s Architect
Wright and New York turns upside down the conventional notion that Frank Lloyd Wright hated the city, and the city was antagonistic to him. In this...
Mother Tongue Film Festival 2021: A Discussion on Language Revitalization
Language reclamation, pressures on language from current and historical dislocation and forced relocations, and filmmaking for educational purposes...
Lunch and Learn: A Mandarin Read-Aloud Cultural Series
Learn and practice Mandarin, while engaging with Chinese literature, poetry, history and more with fellow enthusiasts. Participants will enjoy live,...
The American Revolution and the Creation of American History
In this lecture, Michael Hattem will discuss his book Past and Prologue: Politics and Memory in the American Revolution. Between the 1760s and 1800s,...
Pure Bearing Wall
Skyscraper Museum webinar. Structural engineer Robert Sinn is a Principal in the Chicago office of Thornton Tomasetti. Before joining TT in 2007, Bob...
“Plunder” Book Talk With Menachem Kaiser And Stephanie Butnick
Menachem Kaiser’s new book Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure is the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment...
Core Value
Skyscraper Museum webinar. Peter Weismantle spent 31 years in the Chicago office of SOM before moving in 2008 to AS+GG as Director of Supertall...
Stories Survive: Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff
As a small child, Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff fled her Nazi-occupied hometown of Kosice, Slovakia (then Czechoslovakia) along with her parents and...
The Forbidden City at 600: Women in the Imperial Palace
Much is known about the lives of the emperors who lived behind the vermilion walls of the Forbidden City. But what of the women? In the third program...
