Sunday, June 01, 2008

Pecha Kucha, Kerwin, Enquist, Gang, Sexton, Eifler, SEED, Prairie Avenue, Canstruction - 50 events on June Calendar


  • Pecha Kucha celebrates its first birthday with volume 5 at Martyr's;
  • Thomas Kerwin and Phillip Enquist talk on Chicago's 2016 Olympics bid
  • Mark Sexton, John Eifler and Timothy Poell talk about glass and the Spertus, Trump Tower and Garfield Park Conservatory at the Chicago Architecture Foundation,
  • Chicago's Green Permit program,
  • Canstruction Chicago 2008 makes sculptures out of cans and feeds the hungry,
  • Jeanne Gang talks about her new Columbia College Media Production Center, at CAF
  • Bill Tyre discusses his book Historic Prairie Avenue at Glessner House on Friday and a Sunday, fundraiser offers tours of rarely seen mansions
  • SEAOI's annual awards banquet
  • The third SEED Conference with Carlos Segura, Jim Coudal, Edward Lifson and others, at Crown Hall at IIT
  • a webinar explains NCARB-IDP
  • a panel a the Spertus Institute, including Rico Cedro of Krueck and Sexton and Doug Farr of Farr Associates tackles The Future of Sustainable Architecture,
  • the 2008 Rural Heritage conference,
  • the German American Chamber of Commerce offers up a seminar on Renewables and Energy Efficiency
These are just some of the highlights of the nearly 50 items on June's Calendar of Architectural Events. Check it all out here.

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