From the Auditorium to Adler & Sullivan’s Garrick Building

This lecture will be given by architects John Vinci and Marko Pogacnik. 

John Vinci was an early advocate for protecting and restoring historic buildings in Chicago. He was responsible for the restoration of Chicago buildings including H.H. Richardson's Glessner House, Frank Lloyd Wright's studio in Oak Park and the Robie House, and the rescue of the Adler and Sullivan Stock Exchange Trading Room moved into the Art Institute of Chicago as well as the Library in the Ganz Recital Hall in the Auditorium Building. He is known for the Arts Club of Chicago among other of his own buildings.

Marco Pogacnik is a professor of architectural history at the Iuav University of Venice. His primary field of study is 19th-century German architecture, and he has published on the work of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Peter Behrens, Adolf Loos, and Mies van der Rohe.

The collaboration between John Vinci and Marko Pogacnik began in 2022 with the study of Adler & Sullivan’s Garrick Building of 1891, demolished in 1961.

Following the exhibition "Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan & Wright," curated by John Vinci with Tim Samuelson, Chris Ware and Eric Nordstrom (September 24, 2021–February 26, 2022) at the Wrightwood Gallery, the exhibition "Building a Skyscraper" curated by Marko Pogacnik with the support of John Vinci opened in Venice at the end of 2022. This exhibition was devoted to the structural conception of the Schiller Building (later Garrick).

In this lecture, Vinci and Pogacnik will present their in depth study of the Garrick’s structure in light of the construction of the Auditorium Building completed in 1889.

Free event - no reservations required. Non-Roosevelt guests may be asked to show photo ID to enter campus buildings.

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