(Above) A Marina City resident gazes at the city from a west tower balcony in October 2009. Behind her are the east tower, 330 North Wabash, Chicago River, and Lake Michigan. (Photograph by Andreas Larsson. Click on image to view larger version.)

February 12, 2011 – A project to document the homes of Marina City residents will be displayed this fall at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Photographer Andreas Larsson and architect Iker Gil, who lives at Marina City, have been working on Inside Marina City since 2009.

Their images will be on display at the Art Institute at the same time as an exhibition opening in September celebrating the work of Bertrand Goldberg, Marina City’s architect. That exhibit will run September 10, 2011 through January 8, 2012, according to Lori Hanna Boyer, Exhibitions and Collections Manager.

“We are really excited,” says Gil. “We are still working on the images and the details of the show but we are thrilled by the opportunity to show the work we have done these last two years.”

An adjunct professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Gil is also director of MAS Studio, an architecture and urban design firm. Larsson, a native of Sweden, has photographed on assignment for Chicago Magazine, The New York Times, Dwell, Harper’s Bazaar, and Billboard.

Web sites:

• Andreas E. G. Larsson
• MAS Studio