A drizzly, foggy morning did clear up enough for us to see most of the buildings on the river tour. Chicago skyscrapers, in a variety of architectural styles, always impresses. Here's our view of the skyline.
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Susan Lawlor & Dotty Hamilton
WELCOME
Welcome to the Urban Culture course at Avila University created by Susan Lawlor and Dotty Hamilton. We travel with our students to great cities to explore art museums, engage with the architecture, study the local film and music venues, and experience the ethnic enclaves as a way to learn about the culture of urban spaces and the interaction of art and environment. It's a fun, intense learning environment.
Although the weather was far from ideal, I still feel that the architecture tour was the most informational and interesting. The tour guide was fantastic and had a lot of information and knowledge on Chicago's architecture and history. To me, this particular event encompassed everything we talked about in class into one single tour. We got to hear about architects and buildings we discussed as well as the history of Chicago and just some fun facts. It gave a great overview and tour of the whole city of Chicago. You got to see all the major landmarks and everything that Chicago is known for in one stop. Even though I was freezing cold and wet, I still thoroughly enjoyed it. -Hannah B.
ReplyDeleteCould have asked for a better day, but once I got engaged in the information I forgot about the chill. This tour substantially increased my knowledge of architecture (not hard when it was pretty minimal to begin with). More importantly, it increased my knowledge about the history of Chicago, its trials and tribulations of becoming a city. But what impressed me the most was the legislation passed to maintain the nature in Chicago like Grant Park and the law mandating developers to put a public path beside the river.
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