Film still from Unfinished Spaces, dir. Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray, 2011. Unfinished Spaces will be the premier screening for the ADFF.  

Featuring Graham Grantees and the Graham Pop-up Bookshop

Music Box Theater
3733 N. Southport Ave
Chicago, IL
APR 12-16

For more information on the Film Festival, click HERE

For the second year in Chicago, the Architecture and Design Film Festival will kick-off with a premier screening of the Graham-funded film, Unfinished Spaces and continue with a robust schedule of film screenings, panel discussions, and events featuring a host of other Graham funded projects and grantees. The Graham Foundation Pop-Up Bookshop will also be at the Music Box during the run of the festival to offer a number of hard to find periodicals and titles related to festival films and events.

 

SELECT FILMS

 

Unfinished Spaces

Festival Premier Screening
THU, APR 12, 8PM

Other Screening
SUN, APR 15, 7PM

To see the Unfinished Spaces Trailer, click HERE

*Graham-funded Film

Related publication:

Revolution of Forms: Cuba’s Forgotten Art Schools
by John Loomis
Princeton Architectural Press, 2011

 

Minka

Screenings
SAT, APR 14, 5:15PM
SUN, APR 15, 9:15PM

*Graham-funded film

Related publication:

Minka: My Farmhouse in Japan
by John Roderick
Princeton Architectural Press, 2007

 

Lioness Among Lions: The Architect Zaha Hadid

Screenings
SUN, APR 15, 7:15PM
MON, APR 16, 9PM

Related Publication:

Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion
By Kathryn Bloom Hiesinger
Philadelphia Museum of Art and
Yale University Press, 2011

*Graham-funded publication

 

Film: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

Screenings
FRI, APR 13, 9PM
MON, APR 16, 7:15PM

*Graham-funded Film

 

SELECT EVENTS

Panel Discussion: Architects as Filmmakers
SAT, APR 14, 3:30-4:30PM

Moderated by Sarah Herda, Director of the Graham Foundation. Panelists include Jord den Hollander and Ben Murray, director of Unfinished Spaces.

Panel Discussion: Architect as Diplomat: Embassies and What They Communicate
SAT, APR 14, 5:30-6:30PM

Moderated by Victoria Lautman, well-known host of long-running programs on WFMT and SBEZ Radio and contributing editor for Chicago Magazine. Panelists include Jord den Hollander and Jane Loeffler.

Loeffler is a Graham Foundation grantee and the author of The Architecture of Diplomacy: Building America’s Embassies

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