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Songs About Buildings and Moods

SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND MOODS is a video series exploring the connection between music and architecture through musical interpretations of landmark buildings that invite us to experience them in a completely new way.

Songs About Buildings and Moods  
  • First Church of Deliverance and Milwaukee's Central Library
    Monday, April 7
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Santiago Calatrava's new wing for the Milwaukee Art Museum caused an international sensation with its iconic sun screens that open and close, giving the building the look of a bird just about to take flight. The Morris-Jumel Mansion is Manhattan's oldest still-standing residence and has hosted everyone from George Washington to Lynn-Manuel Miranda who wrote part of Hamilton there.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Emil Bach House and Milwaukee's City Hall
    Monday, April 14
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    The Emil Bach house by Frank Lloyd Wright is a gem on Chicago's north side and a perfect example of his signature Prarie style architecture. Milwaukee's City Hall has been a civic icon since it opened in 1895. It's striking Flemish Renaissance style is an homage to the German immigrants who helped build Milwaukee.
  • Ex Teresa Arte Actual and George Peabody Library
    Monday, April 21
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Ex Teresa Arte Actual is a former 17th century convent in Mexico City's historic Zocalo neighborhood that has been reimagined as a vital center for contemporary art and music. The George Peabody Library in Baltimore is one of the most beautiful library spaces in the world with a historic collection to match.
  • Estudios Churubusco and the Fisher Building
    Monday, April 28
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Estudios Churubusco is Mexico's premiere film production studio and the birthplace of Mexico's Golden Era of Cinema and host of numerous American productions while Detroit's Fisher Building is architect Albert Kahn's masterpiece and a poignant symbol of Detroit's glorious past and hopeful future.
  • Biblioteca Vasconcelos and Ohio State Reformatory
    Monday, May 5
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Shelves hung from the ceiling give the tens of thousands of books in Mexico City's Biblioteca Vasconcelos the illusion of floating in the air. The library is also a thriving culture hub hosting dance, film, music, art exhibits and more. Ohio State Reformatory was built with a hopeful mission of redemption but became a notorious maximum security prison that would later serve as the set for the film The Shawshank Redemption.
  • Brooklyn Tower and the Wrigley Building
    Monday, May 12
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Brooklyn's first super-tall tower looms over one of the most beautiful bank interiors in the country in the Dime Savings Bank which was originally built to serve workers building the first subway tunnels between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Built on five-cent sticks of chewing gum, Chicago's Wrigley Building is an iconic masterpiece that defines the stretch of Michigan Avenue that has come to be known as the Magnificent Mile.
  • Stony Island Arts Bank and Cranbrook Academy of Art
    Monday, May 19
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Once a thriving bank that was abandoned by white residents during the Great Migration, the Stony Island Arts Bank has been repurposed and reimagined by Theaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation as a thriving hub for Black culture. The Cranbrook Academy of Art is a stunning mecca of design just outside of Detroit created by renowned architect Eliel Saarinen that today includes a sprawling education, research and public museum complex.
  • Twa Flight Center and City Methodist Church
    Monday, May 26
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center is one of the most significant examples of mid-century architecture in the world and a symbol of 1960's Jet Age optimism. At the other end of the American experience is the long-abandoned City Church in Gary, IN., mute testimony to the racist and xenophobic forces that caused its downfall.
  • Pabst Historic Brewery and Richard H. Driehaus Museum
    Monday, June 2
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Built to resemble a complex of 18th century German castles, the historic Pabst brewery in Milwaukee was once the largest brewer in the country and the Richard H. Driehaus Museum was designed as a fireproof sanctuary to keep the world out, and a horde of treasure in.
  • First Church of Deliverance And milwaukee's Central Library
    Monday, June 9
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    The First Church of Deliverance, designed by Illinois' first licensed Black architect, has been instrumental in the dissemination of Gospel music and the Emil Bach house by Frank Lloyd Wright is a perfect example of his signature Prarie style architecture. Milwaukee's Central Library is a monumental structure that transported composer Brian Packham back to his library-filled youth.
  • First Church of Deliverance and Milwaukee's Central Library
    Monday, June 16
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Santiago Calatrava's new wing for the Milwaukee Art Museum caused an international sensation with its iconic sun screens that open and close, giving the building the look of a bird just about to take flight. The Morris-Jumel Mansion is Manhattan's oldest still-standing residence and has hosted everyone from George Washington to Lynn-Manuel Miranda who wrote part of Hamilton there.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Emil Bach House and Milwaukee's City Hall
    Monday, June 23
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    The Emil Bach house by Frank Lloyd Wright is a gem on Chicago's north side and a perfect example of his signature Prarie style architecture. Milwaukee's City Hall has been a civic icon since it opened in 1895. It's striking Flemish Renaissance style is an homage to the German immigrants who helped build Milwaukee.

 

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  • First Church of Deliverance And milwaukee's Central Library
    Monday, March 31
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    The First Church of Deliverance, designed by Illinois' first licensed Black architect, has been instrumental in the dissemination of Gospel music and the Emil Bach house by Frank Lloyd Wright is a perfect example of his signature Prarie style architecture. Milwaukee's Central Library is a monumental structure that transported composer Brian Packham back to his library-filled youth.
  • Pabst Historic Brewery and Richard H. Driehaus Museum
    Monday, March 24
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Built to resemble a complex of 18th century German castles, the historic Pabst brewery in Milwaukee was once the largest brewer in the country and the Richard H. Driehaus Museum was designed as a fireproof sanctuary to keep the world out, and a horde of treasure in.
  • Twa Flight Center and City Methodist Church
    Monday, March 17
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center is one of the most significant examples of mid-century architecture in the world and a symbol of 1960's Jet Age optimism. At the other end of the American experience is the long-abandoned City Church in Gary, IN., mute testimony to the racist and xenophobic forces that caused its downfall.
  • Stony Island Arts Bank and Cranbrook Academy of Art
    Monday, March 10
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Once a thriving bank that was abandoned by white residents during the Great Migration, the Stony Island Arts Bank has been repurposed and reimagined by Theaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation as a thriving hub for Black culture. The Cranbrook Academy of Art is a stunning mecca of design just outside of Detroit created by renowned architect Eliel Saarinen that today includes a sprawling education, research and public museum complex.
  • Brooklyn Tower and the Wrigley Building
    Monday, March 3
    1:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Brooklyn's first super-tall tower looms over one of the most beautiful bank interiors in the country in the Dime Savings Bank which was originally built to serve workers building the first subway tunnels between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Built on five-cent sticks of chewing gum, Chicago's Wrigley Building is an iconic masterpiece that defines the stretch of Michigan Avenue that has come to be known as the Magnificent Mile.