Okay, so you're collapsed in your easy chair, exhausted from running the gauntlet of thirty-plus screenings and panels in this past weekend's Architecture and Design, plus a couple dozen other events so far in May.
Well, we're . . . .
just . . . .
beginning!
Even with the Memorial Day holiday, there are still over 30 great events still to come in the
May Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events, beginning with the final two festival screenings at the Siskel on Monday, covering Norman Foster and Aaron Betsky.
The big event of the month is Saturday's day-long symposium,
Harry Weese Reconsidered, at CAF, who which, as today, there are still tickets. (Sunday's bus tour of Weese's Chicago's buildings with Bob Bruegmann is sold out.). On Friday the 13th,
Ward Miller will sign copies of the great new book,
The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan at a benefit for
Preservation Chicago at Sullivan's last commission, the
Krause Music Store, now Studio V. Design.
This Tuesday the 10th, the
Graham will sponsor a panel discussion,
How Chicago Are You?, pondering "the role of place in the production of creative works", with such luminaries as
Jeanne Gang,
Dan Wheeler,
Geoff Goldberg and
Robert Somol, among others, on the panel,
Paul Preissner moderating. This Wednesday at CAF lunchtime,
Laurence Okrent discusses his new book,
Chicago from the Sky: A Region Transformed, 1985-2010, while on Thursday the 12th at the
Art Institute,
John Camp will lecture on
The Agora Excavations and the Archaeology of Democracy, while
Friends of Downtown will present their
Best of Downtown Awards at the Haymarket Pub & Brewery.
Want more? There's this year's edition of
CANstruction, Jonathan Muecke at the Graham,
Tim Witman on
Henry Hobbs Richardson in the Landscape, at the
Glessner House,
Elisabeth Logman on the
K-Town Historic District in North Lawndale for
Landmarks Illinois at the Cultural Center.
Next Thursday, the 19th, the
Harry Chaddick Institute will sponsor another blue-ribbon panel including
Miles Berger,
Ruben Hedlund and others on
Plans, Projects and Priorities: The Planning Legacy of the Two Mayor Daleys, on Monday the 23rd, the
Häfele America Chicago Showroom co-sponsors with
AISC a sessions on
Innovations in Steel, while on Wednesday 25th, lunchtime at CAF,
Serhii Chrucky discusses
Popular Modernism: Chicago's Four-Plus-One.
On Thursday the 26th,
Mathew Coolidge of the
Center for Land Use Interpretation lectures at the
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, in conjunction with its great current exhibition,
Public Works. There's also a new exhibition at
ArchiTech Gallery featuring some the early, marketing related work of
Edgar Miller,
The Changing Room continues at the
Extension Gallery, as does
Lee Bey's
Chicago Then and Now, at the
Water Tower Gallery.
Those are just some of the highlights, and we haven't even gotten to the
Festival of the Architecture Book yet. Check out great shows and over thirty events still to come on the
May 2011 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.
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