Architecture acts
By: with Theaster Gates ; edited by Lynn Tomaszewski and Jeremy Ohmes
Publisher: School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
ISBN-13: 9780963781796
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Architecture; Conservation and restoration; Buildings; Remodeling for other use; Art; Study and teaching; Urban renewal
Other titles: Architecture acts with Theaster Gates
Description: In the 2014-15 GFRY Studio course led by Theaster Gates, students renovate an abandoned building on Chicago's South Side into a neighborhood performance center and meditation couryard. Using materials from a nearby demolished building and other found objects, they created the Back of House: St Laurence Monastery and Gardens while learning the techniques of design-build and DIT (do-it-together) projects from the initial designing stages to the opening of the installation/exhibition to the public.
Notes: Cover title.

"Documents the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's 2014-15 Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Artist, Theaster Gates, and the course Architecture Acts taught in collaboration with Michael Newman and Andrew Santa Lucia"--Title page verso.

"The course was organized and administered by SAIC's Earl and Brenda Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration."--Page 9.
Table of contents: title: Letter from the Dean; title: Letter from the sponsors; title: Foreword; title: A creatively dependent, perpetually performing machine ... as pedagogy; title: A conversation: Douglas Pancoast with Theaster Gates; title: On retroactive interview as a new form of writing; title: Retroactive interview; title: 2014-15 GFRY studio class.