Tod Williams and Billie Tsien: Architecture and Optimism

Locals perked up when the New York-based firm Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners was announced as designers for Obama's Presidential Center on Chicago's South Side. Williams and Tsien, partners in work and life for the past three decades, are known for their elegant designs like the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at The University of Chicago. Their work is focused on signature values and their buildings stand as powerful expressions of the place, the activities, and the people that inhabit them. Together they practice architecture “as an act of profound optimism.” Join them for a discussion about this approach and their architectural ambitions.

This program is generously underwritten by Paula Kahn and Herman Miller.

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