More Flavor: Tour Farnsworth House Plus by Bus

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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."

– Audrey Mast

  • EVENT DETAILS Print

    Price
    $70
    When

    Thursday May 8 (9:30am)

    Sunday May 25 (9:30am)

    Thursday June 12 (9:30am)

    Sunday June 22 (9:30am)

    Thursday July 10 (9:30am)

    Sunday July 20 (9:30am)

    Sunday Aug 3 (9:30am)

    Thursday Aug 14 (9:30am)

    Sunday Aug 24 (9:30am)

    Where
    Chicago Architecture Foundation (224 S Michigan Ave, 312.922.1500)
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