Join the Chicago Architecture Center on August 28 at 12 p.m. for a virtual exploration of Jens Jensen's Columbus Park and Alfred Caldwell's Riis Park—two influential landscape designs inspired by our city's prehistoric shoreline and the region's rich ecology.
Jensen designed Columbus Park in 1917, seizing the opportunity for a clean-slate design in his last major park project in Chicago. Caldwell, on the other hand, designed Riis Park in 1936 using principles of the Prairie School inspired landscape to create an intimate space on a glacial ridge within a larger park focused on active recreation. Join CAC online to examine these influential projects.