Yes, we're still adding to the
March Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.
If you missed 60 Minutes' segment last night on Antonio Gaudi and Barcelona's Sagrada Familia, you can check it out in the above video. The cathedral has certainly come a long way from when I was there over ten years ago - the wonders of substituting concrete for stone, I guess. And on the Gaudi front, here's something really cool.
Showing
Hiroshi's Teshigahara's mesmerizing documentary
Antonio Gaudi has become an annual Christmas holiday staple at the Gene Siskel, but now
Access Contemporary Music is giving the film a new spin, with a one-time-only showing at
Architectural Artifacts on March 19th accompanied by a live performance of a new score by Chicago composers. More details
here.
The week starts off Monday the 11th with a face-off between
Canadian Centre for Architecture ExecDir
Mirko Zarini at
UIC, and new
IIT Dean of Architecture
Wiel Arets at
Unity Temple.
On Tuesday, the 12th,
SEAOI's March dinner meeting at the
Parthenon (again, the restaurant, not the bombed-out wreck in Athens) has structural engineer
John R. Hillman talking about the striking new
35th Pedestrian Bridge. That same evening,
Lynn Allyn Young talks about her new book on
Lorado Taft,
Beautiful Dreamer, at the
Glessner House Museum.
Wednesday the 13th,
Richard Becker,
Lisa Skolnick and
Susan Benjamin discuss
Edward Dart's
Ancel House at
CAF lunchtime, while in
Crown Hall that evening, it's the
127th birthday party for
Mies van der Rohe, which also will mark the investiture of Wiel Arets as the new Dean of the architecture school Mies founded. No more kicking back in a Barcelona chair and smoking a chair, alas, but there will be cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.
Thursday the 14th, again at
IIT, but at the Auditorium at the Koolhaas Campus Center,
Kenneth Frampton stops by to talk about
The Past and Future Prospects for Architectural Education, while at the
Richard Driehaus Museum,
Rolf Achilles discusses
Great Midwestern Panes from such Chicago artists as Healy and Millet and Max Guler.
That's just a few of the two events this week, and nearly thirty items still to come on the
March Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.
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