Loop and Architecture Tour with Executive Director Scott Chesebro

January 9th, 2008

Scott writes, “I’ve been doing the Loop architecture and sculpture tour with Chicago Center students since Eunice Schatz, a founder turned it over to me in 1978. I learned from Eunice that most of the really interesting stuff is inside the buildings. One of my favorite sculptures is inside the Chase Bank Annex. It was done by Henry Moore before he passed away and is called Interlocking Forms.

“I want students to understand public art and how architecture and the urban streetscape affect the way people use the city. I like to talk about the relationship public sculpture has to Chicago and its history. For example, I ask students to think about the way Chagall imagined the populations of Chicago in his Four Seasons sculpture. I want them to see the way contemporary architects integrate their work into older buildings and the respect they have for other architect’s work.

“The Loop is the nerve center of the city and I believe its art and architecture symbolize both the limits and the possibilities of the city.”

The Winter Garden in Harold Washington Library