  This home, featured in the Tribune article on ranch houses, and recently beautifully renovated by CBB members, will be featured on the Riverwoods tour. For those of you unable to attend our Budlong Woods tour, here are a few fun photos from the day:   The two photos above show a house on our Budlong Woods tour designed by Mendel Glickman, who was Frank Lloyd Wright’s structural engineer for 40 years.  Cocktails on the terrace of the Keck and Keck house. More photos will be on our website soon from this summer’s past events. |  One of the Edward Humrich homes that will be featured on our September tour. Chicago Bauhaus and Beyond NEWS OUR NEXT EVENT- Sign up now! Sunday, Sept. 17 1:00 p.m. Riverwoods Tour: Houses in Harmony with Nature Featuring the Architecture of Edward Humrich This event will celebrate the architecture of Edward Humrich, a prairie modernist who designed and built 40 houses in the village of Riverwoods - a Northern suburb just West of Deerfield. Riverwoods has one of the Chicago area’s largest suburban concentrations of mid-century architecture from the 1950’s and 60’s. In addition to touring several Humrich houses, we will tour the newly renovated home featured in the Chicago Tribune’s "Ranch Dressing" article belonging to CBB members, plus houses by Milton Schwartz, Keck and Keck, and others in the area. At least six homes will be on the tour. Riverwoods, located on the banks of the Des Plaines River, was created by steel magnate Edward L. Ryerson and Lewis Buscaron, his engineer. They were naturalists, and Ryerson gave the county the forest preserve we now know as Ryerson Woods. They chose Edward Humrich as the architect to create an unusual and worthy style of home to “set in the woods without taking the trees out” as Humrich explains in his oral history compiled by the Art Institute of Chicago. He further says that he "did forty houses here, including a home for the first president of the village.” Long, low-slung houses blend into the surrounding woods and create habitats for artful living inside. This unique community has been a "best kept secret" on the north shore. The tour is part of the growing preservation movement in Riverwoods to conserve and protect this unique area. A round-table discussion about Edward Humrich will kick off the event, featuring several architects who knew him well, held at the Riverwoods Village Hall. We will also have a Q&A with Lisa DiChiera, Director of Advocacy, Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois, who will speak about the how-to’s of preservation for homeowners. Tickets are $35 per member, $40 for guests Note: Guests must accompany a CBB member. Members must have dues paid up or pay at time of ticket purchase. Ticket includes talks, tour, hand-out, and cocktail party at the last house. We will meet at the Riverwoods Village Hall for registration and talks, and then tour the houses in groups. For those who like to bike - this tour will be perfect. You will be able to leave your car at the Village Hall and take your bike from there. This event will be quite extensive, and approx. 3-4 hours.Pay online via the link below, or send a check with the names of attendees to: Chicago Bauhaus & Beyond P.O. Box 364 Flossmoor, IL 60422 Register here: http://www.chicagobauhausbeyond.org/calendar.htm Volunteers Needed CBB is an all-volunteer organization, and keep it great, we need YOUR PARTICIPATION. Here are some ways you can get involved: Many of you collect or study specific artists or architects, and have extensive info at hand about them. CBB has added a feature to our website, on the Mission page, to provide biographies for all the architects and designers we are featuring. (Those linked with Chicago area and the Institute of Design). Use those links which are underlined now as examples of the type of info we are seeking. If you wish to submit a bio, please email it to Joan Gand at the CBB email address. Type it up in Microsoft Word and attach it to the email. Help Plan an Event Be a volunteer at one of the houses on the upcoming tour Joan Gand Vice-President Chicago Bauhaus and Beyond P.O. Box 364 Flossmoor IL 60422 www.chicagobauhausbeyond.org Office phone: 847-446-6008 Gand Music and Sound Musical Instruments and Equipment www.gand.com |