Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood is getting an exciting new art place, and it's been designed by none other than Tadao Ando. Wrightwood 659 is a major transformation of a historic building from the 1920s and will be dedicated to exhibitions on architecture and on socially engaged art.



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The place has an impressive lineup of exhibitions and other events, including the inaugural show Ando and Le Corbusier: Masters of Architecture with more than 100 drawings, photographs, and models by Le Corbusier as well as 106 small models of his architectural works crafted by Tadao Ando's students. The show opens on October 12th and will run through December 15th.



A day before the opening, there's also a chance to see Tadao Ando discuss his work at the Art Institute of Chicago's annual Butler-Vanderlinden Lecture on Architecture, co-presented this year with Alphawood Foundation Chicago.

On November 8th and 9th, Wrightwood 659 will host the accompanying symposium Ando's Le Corbusier, organized by Professor Eric Mumford of Washington University in St. Louis, with a keynote lecture by Kenneth Frampton.



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Other noteworthy upcoming exhibitions are Dimensions of Citizenship, the official U.S. exhibition at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale (opening in February 2019) as well as shows dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion, the work by Japanese painter Tetsuya Ishida, and contemporary experimental art in China.



Earlier this year, Wrightwood 659 celebrated a "soft" pre-opening with Ai Weiwei: "Trace" in Chicago in collaboration with the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

All events require online reservations. Tickets for the exhibition will be available from October 1st at www.wrightwood659.org, and for the (free) Tadao Ando Artist's Talk here.

