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Richard Gray Visual Art Series: The City of the Future - Chicago Humanities Festival

ABOUT Marshall Brown

Marshall Brown is an assistant professor at the IIT College of Architecture where he teaches architecture and urban design. He was a 2010 MacDowell Fellow, and is also currently teaching as the first Saarinen Architecture Fellow at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Brown received his masters degrees in architecture and urban design from Harvard University where he won the Druker Fellowship for urban design.
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ABOUT Georgeen Theodore

Georgeen Theodore is an architect, urban designer, and assistant professor at the New Jersey School of Architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology. She has participated in and led large-scale projects in the U.S. and internationally. Her research interests are centered on contemporary urban dynamics, including the development of new analytical and representational techniques for urban designers. Theodore received her BA from Rice University and her master’s at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
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ABOUT Stephanie Smith

Stephanie Smith is one of Chicago’s leading interpreters of contemporary art. Having joined the Smart Museum in 1999, she is now Deputy Director and Chief Curator. She also serves as an affiliate member of the University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts, a founding member of its Open Practice Committee, and as a contributing editor at the international art journal Afterall.
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What does the city of the future look like? Gleaming skylines of chrome and glass as far as the eye can see? Lush gardens and urban farms where factories and city centers once dominated? Architect, futurist, and IIT faculty Marshall Brown has dedicated his career to pondering and predicting the city of tomorrow. What he imagines will surprise you. Georgeen Theodore, a partner at the award-winning New York architecture and design firm Interboro Partners, and Stephanie Smith, chief curator and deputy director at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art, join Brown to share how the varied urban landscapes of the Midwest have contributed to their architectural visions of the future.

The annual Richard Gray Visual Art Series recognizes a significant gift from founding CHF board member and distinguished art dealer Richard Gray.

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