Oct 10th 2024

MAS Context Presents: Klaus: Welcome to Tribuneville

@ Society of Architectural Historians

1365 N Astor St, Chicago, IL 60610

Opening Thursday, October 10th, from 6PM - 8PM

Lecture by architectural historian Luis Miguel Lus Arana, better known as architectural cartoonist “Klaus,” about his installation “Welcome to Tribuneville: An Imaginary Vision of an Old Chicago That Could Have Been.” The lecture is organized in partnership with 150 Media Stream.

During this event, Luis Miguel Lus Arana will talk about the background and development of the installation and its historical framework, his scholarly research on architecture and the history of visionary urban design in popular media, and the relationship of both with his two-decade long cartooning work under the pseudonym “Klaus.”

The hand-drawn “Welcome to Tribuneville” animation, installed on 150 Media Stream’s giant media wall—a series of 150 ft x 22 ft LED screens—features sixty of the most inventive building designs entered in the famed 1922 Chicago Tribune Tower architectural competition, as well as flying machines, elevated walkways, monorail tramways, and other fantastical details dreamed up by the artist.

With “Welcome to Tribuneville,” Klaus creates an alternative vision of Chicago by asking, “what if all the entries to the 1922 Tribune Tower Competition had been built?”

In June, the 10-foot long hand-drawing by Klaus that serves as the base for the animation won first prize, practitioner, in RIBAJ’s annual Eye Line drawing competition.

This event is related to the installation “Welcome to Tribuneville: An Imaginary Vision of an Old Chicago That Could Have Been” on display at 150 Media Stream between June 17 and December 30, 2024.

MAS Context, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, is supported in part by private donations. For information about how to support MAS Context, please visit: www.mascontext.com/support

Image: “Welcome to Tribuneville” by Klaus, 2024. © Klaus. Courtesy of 150 Media Stream and MAS Context.

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