Chicago Architecture Foundation
224 S Michigan Ave
312.922.3432
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Farnsworth House, Photo: LPCI
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Thursday May 8, 2008 (9:30am)
Sunday May 25, 2008 (9:30am)
Thursday June 12, 2008 (9:30am)
Sunday June 22, 2008 (9:30am)
Thursday July 10, 2008 (9:30am)
Sunday July 20, 2008 (9:30am)
Sunday Aug 3, 2008 (9:30am)
Thursday Aug 14, 2008 (9:30am)
Sunday Aug 24, 2008 (9:30am)
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- Price
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$70
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A seven-hour, $70 architectural tour may seem like a bit much. But when the Chicago Architecture Foundation hosts an authoritative, metro-area-spanning tour of local treasures designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, no expense, nor square inch, is spared. The motorcoach expedition begins at the twin residential skyscrapers of 860-880 North Lake Shore Drive, heads to the Loop for the Federal Center and the IBM Building, and then turns south to the Illinois Institute of Technology for a look at the newly restored Crown Hall. The tour's apex is on the Fox River at the Farnsworth House: a minimal, one-story steel-and-glass cube that appears to float on its idyllic site, embodying van der Rohe's famous aphorism, "Less is more."
