Dr. Antonio Petrov spoke at the MAS Context event “Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive” on November 13, 2021. In the fifth annual event of the Chicago journal MAS Context, Antonio was asked to present a selected item from the Ryerson & Burnham Art and Architecture Archives at the Art Institute in Chicago. Antonio was among five architects and designers invited to participate and choose from a selection of architects such as Edward Bennett, Daniel Burnham, Bruce Goff, Bertrand Goldberg, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, events like, the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, The Century of Progress International Exposition of 1933–1934 in Chicago, and the World’s Fair of 1939 in New York, discussing them in relationship to their practice, the discipline, and/or society. Nathaniel Parks, Director of the Art Institute of Chicago Archives, provided the background on the archival research. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year the program once again took place online.
Participants included:
Maya Bird-Murphy – Chicago Mobile Makers
Greg Delaney – Designer and historian
Antonio Petrov – Urban Future Lab
Fred Scharmen – Working Group on Adaptive Systems
Rula Zuhour – Architectural designer