University of Chicago Center for Creative and Performing Arts

In Architecture

Details

Location:

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Client:

University of Chicago

Site Area:

3.7 acres / 1.5 hectares

Size:

182,000 gross sq ft / 16,908 gross sq m

Program:

Performing arts and academic building with three theaters, auditorium, music practice and rehearsal rooms, visual arts classrooms and studios, lecture hall, and wood, metal, and plaster workshops

Design:

2006

Type:

• Educational

Project Credits

Morphosis Team

Project Manager

• Silvia Kuhle

Project Designer

• Natalia Traverso Caruana
• Go-Woon Seo
• Aleksander Tamm-Seitz

Project Team

• John Carpenter
• Guiomar Contreras
• Leonore Daum
• Graham Ferrier
• Penny Herscovitch
• Ted Kane
• Michelle Siu Lee

Project Assistant

• Patrick Dunn-Baker

  With:

  • Joe Justus
  • Michael Sargent

Collaborators

Consultants

Structural Engineer

• Thornton Tomasetti Group, Inc.

Mechanical and Electrical Engineer

• IBE Consulting Engineers

Theater Consultant

• Auerbach Pollock Friedlander

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Structural Engineer

• Thornton Tomasetti Group, Inc.

Mechanical and Electrical Engineer

• IBE Consulting Engineers

Theater Consultant

• Auerbach Pollock Friedlander

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Bibliography

• 
  Yukio Futagawa “Morphosis Recent Project” GA Recent Project. A.D.A. EDITA Tokyo (Novermber 25, 2010).
  
• Kamin, Blair, and Patrice M. Jones “U. of C. has $100 million idea to raise arts profile” Chicago Tribune (October 4, 2006).