IfUD On Screen: Hutton, Portman, Sorkin, & Stern

Friday, October 7th, 2011

Director Ben Loeterman’s feature-length film about the life and work of John Portman, A Life of Building, will have its film festival premiere at the Architecture Film Festival in Rotterdam next week before making its way to New York for the Architecture and Design Film Festival later this month. PBS will broadcast Chicago affiliate WTTW’s documentary on Robert AM Stern (pictured at left) nationally on October 9th and 10th. Online, you can catch Board President Michael Sorkin discussing the World Trade Center rebuilding process in a Telegraph video feature, and a TalkingScience clip featuring Ernie Hutton on sustainability in New York City.

Stern Elected to Academy of Arts & Letters, Profiled on WTTW

Friday, April 8th, 2011

Fellow Robert A.M. Stern was elected to become a member of the the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Stern was also selected to receive the 2011 Driehaus Prize last fall; to mark the recent presentation of that award, journalist Geoffrey Baer profiled the architect for Chicago’s WTTW.