ADFF:Chicago Day 2

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February 1, 2024

ADFF:Chicago opened last night with sold-out screenings of We Start With the Things We Find, and a Q&A with LOT-EK founders Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano as well as the film's director, Tom Piper moderated by architect, Monica Chadha.

Tom Piper, Director of We Start With the Things We Find

Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, co-founders of LOT-EK

Eleanor Gorski, Executive Director of Chicago Architecture Center

Michael Wood, Gerald Griffin, Frantzie Bourdeau, Kyle Bergman

Veronica Sheaffer, Nina Pilacoutas, Ashley Lukasik, Petra Bachmaier, John Pobojewski

This evening we have 4 screenings including 2 double-features.

ADFF:Chicago February 1

Presented by the Chicago Architecture Center

Film Guide | Schedule | Shorts

5:45pm - Buy Tickets

TerraForma

2023 / 62 min / Ireland

Directors: Laurence Durkin and Kevin Brennan

House of Adaptation

2023 / 42 min / Netherlands

Director: Onur Can Tepe

We've designed our way into a climate crisis, and now we have to design our way out. TerraForma focuses on a remote desert island that was engineered into a tropical paradise. House of Adaptation examines a climate-adaptive building that will float with rising sea levels.

Following the screening will be a conversation between Michelle Woods, Project Manager for the City of Chicago, and Adam Rubin, Sr. Director of Content & Interpretation at the Chicago Architecture Center.

6:00pm - Buy Tickets

Women in Architecture

2022 / 20 min / Switzerland

Director: Boris Noir

Clodagh

2022 / 50 min / Ireland

Director: Oda O'Carroll

Women in Architecture opens a window into the professional and personal lives of three female architects who have changed their field. Clodagh tells the story of how courageous personal decisions shaped the life of the international design icon by the same name.

Following the screening will be a Q&A featuring Clodagh.

8:30pm - Buy Tickets

Radical Landscapes

2022 / 90 min / Switzerland

Director: Elettra Fiumi

Following the death of visionary architect Fabrizio Fiumi, his daughter Elettra embarks on a quest to discover her father’s radical past. Her encounters reveal an unknown page of contemporary Florentine history, a world of utopian collages and gardens in nightclubs.

8:45pm - Buy Tickets

The Promise: Architect B.V. Doshi

2023 / 90 min / Germany

Director: Jan Schmidt-Garre

Balkrishna Doshi, one of India’s most influential 20th-century architects, passed away in 2023 at 95 years old. The Promise provides audiences with the gift of getting to know Doshi, a soft-spoken humanist with distinctly modern designs.

The film will be introduced by Cyrus Rivetna, a Chicago architect and former Doshi colleague.

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