SEAOI Awards, Pecha Kucha 22, Mies' Lafayette Park, rehabbing the Wrigley, Ian Schrager and much more - it's the June Calendar of Architectural Events!

Okay,we've got a ways to go, but we've got a good start on the June 2012 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events

The week starts out on Tuesday, the 5th, with Volume 22 of the always popular Pecha Kucha Chicago, at Martyr's.  On Wednesday the 6th, Jean Guarino talks about Transforming Land Use for a 24-Hour Downtown, lunchtime at CAF, and on Thursday the 7th, Friends of Downtown host Jan Goldsmith of Zeller Development and Leonard Koroski of Goettsch Partners to talk about The Wrigley Building: Vintage Rehab of Chicago's Architectural Icon, while over at the Art Institute, assistant curator Alison Fischer presents a gallery talk on the exhibition, Rethinking Typologies: Architecture and Design from the Permanent Collection.  This Saturday, the 9th, the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois hosts their annual Structural Engineering Awards Banquet.

This week also holds the openings of two new exhibitions.  On Wednesday the 6th, the Chicago Architecture Foundation hosts a panel discussion with Joseph Calabrese of Cleveland, Michael Schwartz of San Francisco, Ted Orosz of NYC and Gabe Klein, Peter Skosey and Forest Claypool in conjunction with their new exhibition Ticket to Ride:  Bus Rapid Transit: Next Stop, Chicago.

Then on Thursday, the 7th, the Mies van der Rohe Society holds an opening party for its new show at Crown Hall, Lafayette Park: The Settlement Shape, concerning the Mies van der Rohe project, still thriving today, that was the first urban renewal project in the U.S.  The evening will also include a lecture by Noah Resnick, A Bustle in the Hedgerow - Urban Living in the Prairie Landscape, and offer a rare opportunity to see the show outside of working hours.  Normal hours are 9:00 to 5:00, Monday to Friday.  On the afternoon of June 16th, Kevin Harrington will offer another related lecture, Figure and Pattern: Mies, Hilberseimer and Caldwall at Lafayette Park.

NEOCON, Ian Schrager, Julia Bachrach at the Cliff Dwellers for Friends of the Parks, Christopher Vernon on Graceland Cemetery lunchtime at CAF, Frank Lloyd Wright's Ross House in Glencoe discussed by John Eifler for Landmarks Illinois - there's lot a more, and we've already got over two dozen great items to check out on the June 2012 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.