Modernizing Modernism:  Challenges with Preserving Post-War Buildings Carol J. Dyson, AIA

National Historic Tax Credit Conference 2008September 24-26, 2008, Chicago

Carol J. Dyson, AIA

Senior Preservation Architect

Illinois Historic Preservation Agency

Springfield, IL 62712

carol.dyson@illinois.gov

Modernizing Modernism: 

“It’s not your Father’s Building any more”

New Materialsand Systems Glass Curtain Walls Concrete Metals

New Building Typologies –

Lincoln Square, Urbana, Victor Gruen 1964North Eighth Street Plaza,

Pekin, 1951-1959

New Interiors – Open Plans – Office Partitions

Inland Steel, Chicago

New Assemblies – Windows - (and new research)

or Floors

“ We had an expert restore all the original shag carpeting. New Yorker cartoon July 21, 2008”

Illinois Case Studies

Raymond Hilliard Housing, Chicago 1963 Promontory Apartments 860-880 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 1951 Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago 1948- Pacesetter Gardens, Riverdale, 1960 Lincoln Square Shopping Mall, Urbana, 1964

Pacesetter Housing, Riverdale Block and Kuhl storefront, Danville, 1948

Hilliard Housing, Chicago

Raymond M. Hilliard Center, Chicago, 1966 (by Bertrand

Goldberg)

Hilliard Housing, Chicago

Hilliard Housing, Chicago

Hilliard Housing Grand

Opening, Holstein, HUD, CHA, IDA, IHPA, Tenants, Press

Promontory Apartments

Promontory Apartments, Chicago, 1949 (Mies van der Rohe)

860-880 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, (by Mies van der Rohe), completed 1951

860-880 North Lake Shore Drive - Condos

860-880 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago

Plans

860-880 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago

Illinois Institute of Technology: Mies van der Rohe

Crown Hall, 1950-1956

IIT CRB

Chemistry Research Building at IIT, 1959-60 (by Schmidt, Garden and Erikson)

Pacesetter, Riverdale Pacesetter Gardens Housing Complex,

Riverdale, 1960 (by Harry J. Quinn) Part of the Illinois Campaign for Affordable

Housing

Pacesetter Housing, Riverdale

Pacesetter Housing, Riverdale, 1960

Lincoln Square Shopping Mall, Urbana, 1964 (by Victor Gruen)

Lincoln Square Shopping Mall, Urbana, 1964 (by Victor Gruen)

Lincoln Square

Lincoln Square Shopping Mall, Urbana, 1964 (by Victor Gruen)

Lincoln Square, an urban village

Lincoln Square Shopping Mall, 1964, Urbana,

Modernized Main Street (by Raymond Loewy)

Block and Kuhl storefront renovation, Danville, 1948 (by Raymond Loewy)

Block and Kuhl storefront, Danville, 1948 (by Raymond Loewy)

Lincoln Square Shopping Mall, Urbana, 1964 (by Victor Gruen)

Mid-Century Resources

Illinois-history.gov/ps/midcentury.htm

Mid-Century Storefronts Components Guide

Illinois-history.gov/ps/midcentury.htm

Thank You !

and now on to Allen and Inland Steel…

Carol J. Dyson, AIASenior Preservation Architect Illinois Historic Preservation AgencySpringfield, IL 62712carol.dyson@illinois.gov