Mod Squad Chicago Chicago at Midcentury: Images by Lee Bey

Mod Squad Chicago Chicago at Midcentury: Images by Lee Bey

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Lee Bey has had a distinguished career in the built environment as an architecture critic, mayoral advisor, adjunct professor and civic leader. But he is also a published and exhibited architectural photographer who has documented the city’s midcentury modernist architecture. Bey will share his photography of the city’s modernist architecture and will discuss the importance of everyone to play a role in documenting this unique architectural style.

This program is part of Lunch Talks @ CAF, a weekly lecture series that takes place every Wednesday at 12:15pm at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Further information and resources on this topic are available here.