Having started the exploration of the Chicago Seven last week with Helmut Jahn, considered the 8th member, I think we should now to see who the original Chicago Seven members were. We’ll start with Thomas H. Beeby.
Beeby was born in Chicago, Oak Park to be more precise, in 1941. He received his bachelor’s degree at Cornell University then his Master’s degree at Yale. With James Hammond, he founded Hammond Beeby & Associates in 1971. He taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology and later became dean of the Yale School of Architecture. The Chicago Seven challenged modern architecture in the 1970s and 1980s. It wasn’t so much the modern style of Mies Van der Rohe they didn’t like, but more his followers they objected to. They changed the spirit of architecture in Chicago.
The American Academy of Pediatrics Headquarters
1984, Chicago, Illinois
Conrad Sulzer Regional Library
1985, Chicago, Illinois
The Harold Washington Library Centre
1991, Chicago Illinois
The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
1994, Houston, Texas
Farrell Library Renovation Hale Library Addition Kansas State University
1999, Manhatan, Kansas
Meadows Museum Southern Methodist University
2001, Dallas, Texas
The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theatre for Music and Dance
2003, Chicago, Illinois
Anne T & Robert M. Bass Library renovation, Yale University
2007, New Haven, Connecticut
