Exhibit : Saturday, November 8, 2008 to Monday, January 19, 2009
BURNHAM 2.0: A Composite Plan for the High Speed Rail City
Chicago Architectural Club
Exhibit : Saturday, March 7, 2009 to Sunday, May 31, 2009
City Beautiful Art Installations
Greater North Michigan Avenue Association
Celebrate spring with an architectural spin during the sixth annual Tulips on the Magnificent Mile celebration. Six renowned artists and architecture firms have designed original public art installations highlighting architecture and celebrating Burnham's City Beautiful plan for Chicago. The exhibit features six sculptures in varying in size and function situated among the vibrant tulip beds on the west side of North Michigan Avenue. [MORE]
Exhibit : Thursday, March 26, 2009 to Monday, June 8, 2009
Burnham Streetscape
Chicago Loop Alliance
The Chicago Loop Association's inaugural Streetscape program for 2009 highlights Daniel Burnham’s historic vision for Chicago. An engaging installation of artistic and creative works along State Street—utilizing planters, banners, light posts and El station entrances—covers nine blocks from Congress Parkway to Wacker Drive. The installations celebrate, beautify and activate the Loop while celebrating the major Burnham events and exhibitions during 2009.
Presented in conjunction with Shedd Aquarium and the Field Museum [MORE]
Exhibit : Tuesday, May 19, 2009 to Thursday, July 8, 2010
Deep Roots, Green Future: City Planning in Elgin
Gail Borden Public Library District
Many principles of the Chicago Plan were used when Burnham’s partner Edward Bennett formulated a plan for Elgin in 1917. Discover this plan and others that followed including the latest Elgin plan for sustainability.
Exhibit opening will be held Tuesday, May 19 at 6:30 p.m., Gail Borden Public Library. [MORE]
Exhibit : Wednesday, July 29, 2009 to Monday, September 28, 2009
Good Order and Consequent Beauty: Planning the Future of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
On July 4, 1909 the visionary planning document Plan of Chicago was publicly released by the Commercial Club and its authors Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett. As the repository of both the Burnham and Bennett archival collections, the Libraries will celebrate the Plan's centennial by exhibiting letters, diaries, committee minutes, reports and photographs documenting the evolution of the planning concepts, the gathering of data for the plan, and the process of publishing the book. [MORE]
Exhibit : Friday, August 21, 2009 to Sunday, November 1, 2009
Burnham Memorial Competition Exhibit
AIA Chicago
This exhibit features David Woodhouse Architects' winning design and three-dimensional scale model for a proposed Burnham Memorial at a site on the Museum Campus just north of the Field Museum. DWA's design was one of 19 entries submitted by architectural firms throughout the country in the two-phase competition. [MORE]
Exhibit : Monday, August 24, 2009 to Monday, September 14, 2009
Building Your Place in Riverside
Riverside Public Library
To celebrate the Centennial of the Burnham Plan, Riverside residents and businesses will have the opportunity to become part of Olmsted's Plan of Riverside, by participating in a BIG MAP Project, which will be on display August 24 through September 14. [MORE]
Exhibit : Saturday, December 19, 2009 to Sunday, February 28, 2010
C.D. Arnold Photographs of the World's Columbian Exposition
Art Institute of Chicago
The first exhibition in the Art Institute's "Chicago Cabinet" series features highlights from the Ryerson Library’s archive of large platinum prints made by C. D. Arnold, the official photographer of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. The Chicago World’s Fair, as it is also known, attracted some 27 million people, or nearly half the population of the United States, to the city during its six-month run. [MORE]