Join us at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for All Magnificent and Wild. Notes on Chicago Residential Hotels, the first public presentation of research developed by advanced graduate students at the UIC School of Architecture under Associate Professor Francesco Marullo in collaboration with Daniela Osorio Sañudo, Alex Serbanescu, Candace Bey, and Meghna Sanyal.
The research investigates the conditions for a “retroactive manifesto” of the residential hotel—an architectural type at once elusive, vernacular, subtle yet impudent, and now nearly extinct in Chicago and beyond—in order to reimagine the future of affordable housing. A broad spectrum of case studies will be presented, from everyday single-room-occupancy hotels and rooming houses to hybrid forms such as home clubs and working-palace hotels—many of which disappeared with their buildings, leaving only fragments like newspaper descriptions, commercial flyers, historical photographs, and fire-insurance maps. Like a forensic or archaeological investigation, these traces have been assembled into plans and layouts, reconstructing a hypothetical yet plausible history through a reversed design process, then used to propose refurbishments, expansions, or complete redesigns of existing SRO hotels across the Chicago metropolitan area.
Contributions of Chicago scholars, practitioners, city officials, and policy makers includes, among others, Jeff Bone (LBBA Architects), Jean Butzen (former CEO Lakefront Supportive Housing), Charles Hoch (Emeritus Professor, UIC Urban Planning), Nadia Maragha (Educator, Jane Addams Museum), Steven McKenzie (City of Chicago, Department of Law), Tom Palazzolo (Photographer), Sendy Soto (Chief Homelessness Officer, City of Chicago), Francine Washington (Board of Commissioners Chicago Housing Authority), Dan Weese (Weese Langley Weese Architects).
Many thanks to the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for supporting the UIC School of Architecture and hosting this event.
Friday, November 14, 2–6 pm
800 S Halsted St
Chicago, IL 60607
RSVP here.