Toured Harry Weese's 17th Church of Christ Scientist (1968) on Wacker Drive this last Monday with Docomomo and Rolf Achilles.
These seats have a particularly cool feature. Come to find out the Christian Scientist church shares an extemporaneous speaking tradition with Quakers, so these seats are rigged: When a congregant stands during a service to speak, microphones in the immediate vicinity are triggered by their weight, and amplify whatever it is they have to say.
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