All Magnificent and Wild: Notes on Chicago Residential Hotels

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum(JAHHM)draws upon the legacy of international peace activist and feminist, Jane Addams, and other social reformers who worked, alongside their immigrant neighbors, to create social change on the Near West Side of Chicago during the Progressive Era. The Museum preserves and develops the original Hull-House site for the interpretation and continuation of the historic settlement house vision. Exhibitions and public programs elevate histories of activism, progressive education and democratic principles of participation and exchange, and connect them to present-day social justice issues.

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UIC Architecture research reconstructing Chicago’s vanished residential hotels and proposing new futures for SRO housing

Join us at the Hull House Museum for All Magnificent and Wild, the first public presentation of research developed by advanced graduate students at the <a href="https://arch.uic.edu/" title="https://arch.uic.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">UIC School of Architecture</a> under Associate Professor <a href="https://www.francescomarullo.com/" title="https://www.francescomarullo.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Francesco Marullo</a>. The research investigates the conditions for a “retroactive manifesto” of the residential hotel—an architectural type at once elusive, vernacular, subtle yet impudent, and now nearly extinct in Chicago and beyond—in order to reimagine the future of affordable housing. A broad spectrum of case studies will be presented, from everyday single-room-occupancy hotels and rooming houses to hybrid forms such as home clubs and working-palace hotels—many of which disappeared with their buildings, leaving only fragments like newspaper descriptions, commercial flyers, historical photographs, and fire-insurance maps. Like a forensic or archaeological investigation, these traces have been assembled into plans and layouts, reconstructing a hypothetical yet plausible history through a reversed design process, then used to propose refurbishments, expansions, or complete redesigns of existing SRO hotels across the Chicago metropolitan area. Scholars and practitioners involved in the preservation and rehabilitation of SROs will join the event at the Hull-House Museum to broaden the discussion and connect this research to ongoing efforts to sustain affordable housing in the city.Expect to meet and hear from:Jeff Bone (LBBA Architects) Jean Butzen (Lakefront Supportive Housing) Charles Hoch (Emeritus Professor, UIC Urban Planning) Nadia Maragha (Education Manager, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum) Steven McKenzie (City of Chicago, Department of Law) Thomas Palazzolo (Photographer) Sendy Soto (Chief Homelessness Officer, City of Chicago) Francine Washington (Board of Commissioners Chicago Housing Authority) Dan Weese (Weese Langley Weese Architects) and more!

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