The Chicago Architecture Center’s Gala 2020: Open Doors Open Minds
The Chicago Architecture Center is pleased to welcome supporters and design lovers from across and beyond Chicago to Gala 2020: Open Doors Open Minds, starting at 6pm Central Time on Thursday, July 23, 2020.
Access to Gala 2020: Open Doors Open Minds is FREE to anyone online anywhere, here on YouTube as well as at http://www.architecture.org/opendoors.
Gala 2020 is emceed by WTTW host and producer and CAC docent Geoffrey Baer, with CAC President and CEO Lynn J. Osmond and CAC Trustees Andy Gloor, CEO of Sterling Bay; John W. Rutledge, Founder and CEO of Oxford Capital Group, LLC and Oxford Hotels & Resorts, LLC; and Ann Thompson, AIA, Senior Vice President of Architecture and Design at Related Midwest.
Gala 2020 honorees are Edward J. Wehmer, Founder and CEO of Wintrust Financial Corporation, for Wintrust’s generous sponsorship of the CAC’s free festival Open House Chicago; and Nila R. Leiserowitz, FASID, FIIDA, recently retired Regional Managing Principal at Gensler, for her 40 years of extraordinary service to the design industry.
Special guest speakers include alumni of CAC Education programs for teens and leading architects Juan Gabriel Moreno, Billie Tsien and Tod Williams.
Gala 2020: Open Doors Open Minds attendees will be the first to hear about the CAC’s revised plans for its free festival, Open House Chicago (OHC), returning for a tenth consecutive year October 16−25, 2020 with continued lead support from Presenting Sponsor Wintrust Financial Corporation.
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The Chicago Architecture Center wishes to thank Gala 2020 Co-Chairs Andy Gloor, Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Bay; Ursula Moncau, President of Wintrust Financial Corporation; Theodore J. Novak, Partner at DLA Piper; John W. Rutledge, Founder and CEO of Oxford Capital Group, LLC and Oxford Hotels & Resorts, LLC; and Grant C. Uhlir, Regional Managing Principal at Gensler.
Principal Sponsors are Allstate Insurance Company, ArcelorMittal, DLA Piper, Gensler, Michigan Avenue Real Estate Group, Oxford Capital Group, LLC, Oxford Hotels & Resorts, LLC, Sterling Bay, and Wintrust Financial Corporation, and the Benefactor Sponsor is Related Midwest.
Partner Sponsors are Clayco, Inc. and Forward Space.
Gala 2020 Friends are Barnes & Thornburg LLP; Tom Brean; Chuhak & Tecson, P.C.; ComEd; Eckenhoff Saunders; Edelman; ESD Global; Focus; Glenstar; Golub and Company; JDL Development; Wanxiang America Real Estate Group; Harlem Irving Companies, Inc.; Lamar Johnson Collaborative; Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC; Next Realty; Loewenberg Charitable Foundation, James Loewenberg, Robin Loewenberg Tebbe and Mark Tebbe; Optima, Inc.; James D. Parsons; Pepper Construction; Perkins and Will; Patzik, Frank & Samotny, Ltd.; Power Construction; Quarles & Brady LLP; Megan and Steven Shebik; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Jill S. Tanz, Chicago Mediation Services; TAWANI Property Management; Terraco, Inc.; Shiner Group; Thornton Tomasetti; Turner Construction; and UL LLC.
Gala 2020 Supporters are Bucksbaum Properties, LLC; Sandra L. Helton and Norman Edelson; Grand Basin Capital; JGMA; Lynn J. Osmond, Hon. AIA; Solomon Cordwell Buenz; Syska Hennessy Group; Venture One Real Estate; and W.E. O’Neil Construction Co.
Special thanks to the First Church of Deliverance; FROST Chicago; JGMA; Bernard Loyd and The Forum; Madtown Media; Overton Business and Technology Incubator; PJH & Associates, Inc.; Kevin Sutton and the Foundation for Homan Square; Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners; and Erik Scanlon.