Supported by the National Building Arts Center, Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis offers a treasure trove of preserved panel reliefs, pendants, spandrels, and other building elements.
New and ongoing exhibitions for November include retrospectives of Pritzker laureates Balkrishna Doshi and Paulo Mendes da Rocha in Spain and Portugal, respectively, and a survey of protest architecture at the Deutches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt.
Affiliated with a number of institutions including Princeton, Cooper Union, Yale, and Brown, England-born Vidler was a towering figure in the world of architectural academia and thought.
Measures to better protect birds may be part of plans to renovate Chicago's Lakeside Center at McCormick Place, where nearly 1,000 migrating birds killed earlier this month by colliding with the glass-fronted convention center.
Baird, a frequent RECORD contributor and recipient of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Gold Medal, served as dean of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto from 2004–2009.
The Chicago-based artist joins past recipients of the National Building Museum–awarded honor including Mabel O. Wilson, Paul Goldberger, and Phyllis Lambert.
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