The Chicago Architecture Center will transform our galleries into a temporary cineplex for the Architecture & Design Film Festival. The line-up includes 20 stories of creative vision, design innovation, and human relationships embodied in architecture across the globe.

Tickets are $20/film or $15 for CAC Members and includes a single film showing plus access to view all ADFF Short Films before or after your movie time. All showings will be at the Chicago Architecture Center, 111 E Wacker Drive. Please arrive 20-30 minutes ahead of your scheduled showtime.

Festival Schedule:

Opening night pre-screening reception will be held on Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

7:00 PM: We Start With the Things We Find (2023)
Gand Lecture Hall Theatre
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7:15 PM: We Start With the Things We Find (2023)
Drake Family Skyscraper Gallery Theatre
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Thursday, February 1, 2024

5:45 PM: Terra Forma / House of Adaptation (2023 | 2023)
Drake Family Skyscraper Gallery Theatre
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6:00 PM: Women in Architecture / Clodagh (2022 | 2022)
Gand Lecture Hall Theatre
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8:30 PM: Radical Landscapes (2022)
Gand Lecture Hall Theatre
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8:45 PM: The Promise: Architect B.V. Doshi (2023)
Drake Family Skyscraper Gallery Theatre
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Friday, February 2, 2024

6:00 PM: The Genius of the Place: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Bawa (2023)
Gand Lecture Hall Theatre
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6:15 PM: Women in Architecture / Clodagh (2022 | 2022)
Drake Family Skyscraper Gallery Theatre
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8:30 PM: Emotional Architecture 1959 / Soviet Bus Stops (2022 | 2022)
Gand Lecture Hall Theatre
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8:45 PM: Point of Origin / Veins (2023 | 2023)
Drake Family Skyscraper Gallery Theatre
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Saturday, February 3, 2024

1:00 PM: Best in the World (2022)
Gand Lecture Hall Theatre
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1:15 PM: The Genius of the Place: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Bawa (2023)
Drake Family Skyscraper Gallery Theatre
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3:00 PM: Rehab (from rehab) (2023)
Gand Lecture Hall Theatre
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3:15 PM: Life, Assembled (2022)
Drake Family Skyscraper Gallery Theatre
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5:15 PM: The Mies Van der Rohes (2023)
Drake Family Skyscraper Gallery Theatre
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5:30 PM: My Architect: A Son's Journey (2004)
Gand Lecture Hall Theatre
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8:30 PM: Emotional Architecture 1959 / Soviet Bus Stops (2022 | 2022)
Drake Family Skyscraper Gallery Theatre
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8:45 PM: Modernism, Inc. (2023)
Gand Lecture Hall Theatre
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Sunday, February 4, 2024

1:45 PM: Modernism, Inc. (2023)
Drake Family Skyscraper Gallery Theatre
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2:00 PM: Skin of Glass (2023)
Gand Lecture Hall Theatre
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4:00 PM: The Mies Van der Rohes (2023)
Drake Family Skyscraper Gallery Theatre
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4:15 PM: Rehab (from rehab) (2023)
Gand Lecture Hall Theatre
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6:30 PM: The Power of Utopia -- Living with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh (2023)
Gand Lecture Hall Theatre
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6:45 PM: Point of Origin / Veins (2023 | 2023)
Drake Family Skyscraper Gallery Theatre
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Date: January 31-February 4, 2024

Location: Chicago Architecture Center - 111 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60601.

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