Elizabeth Blasius
Architectural historian, writer and critic. Co-founder @presfutures. Old, new and future can coexist. She/her
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- Reposted by Elizabeth Blasiusyeah seems like a good choice!
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- My monthly column in MAS Context returns with "A Dark Age for the Renaissance Center," as GM and Bedrock plan to demolish the podium and two towers of the Detroit landmark. The iconic 1977 design, a remnant of Detroit's response to Urban Renewal, "means Detroit nearly as much as the Old English D."
- Tickets are still available for this Thursday's talk, Past & Present Preservation: Women in Architecture & Preservation, co-presented by Edith Farnsworth House, Society of Architectural Historians and taking place at the Charnley-Persky House! See you there! www.eventbrite.com/e/past-prese...
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- My monthly column in MAS Context returns with a review of Bruce Goff: Material Worlds, now open at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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- If the building of 30 North LaSalle and the demolition of the Stock Exchange are inextricably linked in representing a significant moment in the development of the preservation movement in Chicago, than the landmarking of 30 North LaSalle represents a significant moment in its deterioration.
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- I look forward to these awards every year from @langealexandra.bsky.social @cmonstah.bsky.social and @mlamster.bsky.social!
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- Landmarking 30 North LaSalle Street would be more cynical than ironic: (thread incoming)
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- For MAS Context, I investigated what happened to Gerri's Palm Tavern, a legendary Bronzeville venue established in 1933 that survived World Wars, urban renewal, disinvestment, and urban attrition, but ended up a victim of aldermanic prerogative, and an ill conceived development plan.
- Reposted by Elizabeth BlasiusReal dream-team situation going on over here. @katewagner.wehwalt.net / @anjulierao.bsky.social / @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/c...
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- Preservation Futures is looking forward to opening up our office this coming Wednesday, October 29th from 4pm-6pm as a part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial's series of studio and office tours! Register here: chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/program/stud...
- Tickets are still available for tomorrow's Everything Chicago Symposium at the Driehaus Museum! See you there!
- ✨The Everything Chicago Symposium is a FREE one-day public event organized by the Chicago Architecture Biennial on Friday, October 17th at the Driehaus Museum! I will be moderating a panel at 3:30 titled 'Common Chicago: Collective Space.' More information in the link below. See you there! ✨
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- Update: The Roger Brown Home and Studio is on the agenda for the October 9th Commission on Chicago Landmarks Meeting!
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- Unpaid labor at a municipal planning agency is not okay--it devalues the expertise required for these positions, and drives inequity. Chicago's Department of Planning and Development can and should do better!
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- Students, alumni and faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago are speaking out about the significance of the Roger Brown Home & Studio as a part of their creative lives! Nearly 500 people have signed this letter @susannahribs.bsky.social and I wrote together!
- For my monthly column in MAS Context I visited the Archives of Michigan, home of the Yamasaki, Inc., Architectural Firm Records, to consider what remains of the World Trade Center. Thanks, as always, for reading! mascontext.com/observations...
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- Grateful to have this op-ed on the sale of the Roger Brown Home & Studio written by myself and @susannahribs.bsky.social in the Chicago Tribune. This is precisely the type of civic engagement we learned how to do as students in historic preservation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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