LFPF is pleased to partner with the History Center as we welcome Stuart Cohen and Julie Hacker’s insightful free program on theories and strategies for making additions to historic buildings. They will discuss the choices of architectural language and form appropriate to additions and what they think these decisions should be based upon. They believe that the meaning of an addition is dependent on both the physical relationship of the addition to the existing building and the style of architecture. They believe that additions communicate a value judgement regarding the original building. Their talk will be illustrated by both historic examples of building additions and will also draw numerous illustrations by both historic examples of building additions and will also draw numerous illustrations from their over forty years of designing award-winning additions to historic older houses along Chicago’s North Shore, including work in Lake Forest.
Stuart Cohen is a practicing architect and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is professor of architecture emeritus at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and is the author of four books on Chicago’s historic residential architecture as well as numerous articles of architectural theory and criticism. His 1974 article in the second issues of OPPOSITIONS, a publication of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (NYC), help introduce “Contextualism” into architectural dialogue. His writings and work were recognized in 2018 by an Arthur Ross Award from the Institute for Classical Architecture and Art and in 2019, along with his partner Julie Hacker, he received the Society of Architectural Historians’ Award for Excellence in Design, Academics, and Scholarship. He is the recipient of the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Julie Hacker is a practicing architect and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture. Her residential work has been published nationally and internationally and her firm received the 2007 Residential Architect Leadership Award from Residential Architect Magazine. She and her partner received the National 2019 Society of Architectural Historians Award for Excellence in Design, Academics and Scholarship, and the 2017 Chicago Merchandise Mart’s Hall of Fame Award in Design. The work of her practice is the subject of a book “Transforming the Traditional” (2009) and the book “First Additions Strategies of Adding On” (2023). She has served on the Advisory Board for National AIA CRAN (Custom Residential Architect Network) and currently sits on the steering committee for the Chicago Chapter CRAN. She has organized multiple Symposia for CRAN National and CRAN Chicago, and has served on multiple architectural award juries for the AIA and national magazines. She currently sits on the Executive Committee of the Chicago AIA Board of Directors and mentors young architects as part of the AIA Bridge Program. She served six years on her local Evanston Preservation Commission and helped rewrite the Design Guidelines and the Solar Panel Guidelines for the City of Evanston.
