The Architecture & Design Film Festival, Ace Hotel Chicago, American Institute of Architects and AIA Chicago Present "Rooftop Architectural Films," an evening of architecture films on The Prairie, the rooftop of the Ace Hotel Chicago.
I Look Up Film Challenge
2017/ Grand Prize Winner + First and Second Runner-up films
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) will screen the winning short films from the third annual I Look Up Film Challenge. This year's challenge called for films that highlight projects and architects that are helping to change communities for the better.
Design That Heals
2016/ 31 min / USA
Directed by architects Alan Ricks and Thatcher Bean, the film profiles Dr. Jean-William Pape, who combats diarrheal diseases that harm and kill Haiti’s poor. Dr. Pape challenged MASS Design Group to design a cholera treatment center where the construction process, as well as the finished building, could address the underlying structural and social conditions that allow cholera to thrive. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the directors.
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