Chicago Architecture Biennial

    Chicago Architecture Biennial exhibits in the Cultural Center, and it lasts from October 3, 2015 to January 3, 2016. This is an exhibition about the possibilities of architecture. Some of the designs are practical, and some of them are quite exotic and full of imagination. 

   In one of the exhibition halls, it stands a house model. It one kind of the houses in Mexico. Since the explosion of the population,environment problems and social housing problems are more and more severe in Mexico, the country's housing shortage amounts to a total of nine million homes. Therefore,the architects developed a project to create a housing prototype with spatial and material qualities at an affordable price to deal with these problems.  

Chicago Cultural Center

   Chicago Architecture Biennial is being held in the Cultural Center. Therefore, last week we went there to take a visit.
 
   The thing that most impressive me was the cobweb, which be put in a dark room and lit by a light. I had never seen a cobweb so closely and carefully. People always consider the greatest architect in the nature is the spider. After seeing this, I completely agree with what they said. It was amazing.

 Another thing that attracted me most was the tiny world. In there, you could easily think you were in Lilliput, and we were the giants that trespassed their lands. It was very funny.

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Chicago Public Art

Last week, my classmates and I took a tour to find out the Chicago public arts. This was one of the sculpture we had found. It located in 100 W. Randolph Street, just in front of the James R.Thompson Center. Actually, I have been there before to apply my ID. In the past, I just felt curious about this sculpture, I didn't know the meaning of it. This time, after the fieldtrip,I've found some information about it. It's called Monument with Standing Beast, which created by Jean Dubuffet in 1984. It comprises four elements that suggest a standing animal, a tree, a portal and an architectural form. Next time, if I have friends come to Chicago, I will take them to go around and appreciate it.