Augustus Higginson on
The Rise of the Skyscraper in Chicago
Tuesday, March 30, 5:30-8:30pm
19 South Wabash, 2d floor

Cocktails at 5:30, presentation 6:00-6:30 followed by discussion and more cocktails.     $40 includes drinks, two cigars, and sandwiches. 
Reservations are required.

Chicago was the birthplace of the skyscraper.  The product of advances in technology, soaring land values, and raw American ingenuity, this brand new building type soared ever upward at the hands of brilliant young architects, including William Le Baron Jenney, Daniel Burnham, John Root, Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, and others. Such wonders were these structures that tourists actually came from destinations both near and far to see them. Yet they had their detractors also, not only architecture critics of the time, but social reformers, who saw them as symbols of robber baron capitalism gone amok...  Augustus Higginson, who regularly lectures for the Chicago Architecture Foundation, will lead a slide-show and discussion of the history of the skyscraper and its special meaning for Chicago.

Augustus Higginson is a local artist, architectural historian, and Cigar Society member. Born and raised in Southern California, he earned a BA at the University of California at Santa Barbara in Art History, and an MA in Architectural History from the University of California at Davis. Over the last four years Gus has made his home in Chicago, bringing together his passion for architecture both in teaching and in his unique canvases.  Here he is pictured in his Lake View Studio.

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