![]() Mary Woolever reading a letter by Frank Lloyd Wright. Mary Woolever discussing the work of Marion Mahony Griffin. We are extremely thankful to Mary Woolever and Nathaniel Parks for taking the time to share key items of their archives, and to all of you who attended the event.īelow are a selection of images of the event: You can browse the Ryerson & Burnham Archives at For more information about the Chicago Architects Oral History Project, please visit the official website /cdm/landingpage/collection/caohp Major architectural events, such as the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, The Century of Progress International Exposition of 1933–1934 in Chicago, and the World’s Fair of 1939 in New York, are also represented in an individual archive. Architects such as Edward Bennett, Daniel Burnham, Bruce Goff, Bertrand Goldberg, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright are represented in a broad range of papers. The Ryerson & Burnham Archives’ collections are notably strong in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century American architecture, with particular depth in midwestern architecture. ![]() They also discussed the influential Chicago Architects Oral History Project, a collection of oral histories that, since 1983, has been documenting the contributions of architects to Chicago during the twentieth-century. Mary Woolever, Art and Architecture archivist, and Nathaniel Parks, assistant archivist, provided an overview of their archival work, as well as highlight key and rare works from the collections. On Saturday, April 25, 2015, MAS Context organized a visit to the Ryerson & Burnham Archives located at the Art Institute of Chicago. Ryerson & Burnham Archives, Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.
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