With Respect to the Recent Past...
(photos by Lee Bey)
Mad for Mod? Check out this link on the website of the preservation group Landmarks Illinois. School of the Art Institute graduate students, led by Landmarks Illinois' Jim Peters have surveyed 700 buildings built between 1935 and 1975 in Chicago's North Shore and northern suburbs. It's a fascinating collection of schools, industrial buildings, shops, etc. They even got one of my favorites, the Pedian Rug Co building on Lincoln Avenue in the town of Lincolnwood.
The Pedian building and that great sign, unfortunately, were demo'd in 2007--reminding us all of the fragile nature of modernism and the need for the SAIC study. But then again, there's always hope: Seattle just landmarked a boarded up Denny's restaurant from 1964.
