Tigerman, Adrian Smith, Dominque Perrault, Toyo Ito, Playboy Architecture, Open House Chicago, Edgar Allan Poe and much more - it's the October Calendar!

Stanley Tigerman receives AIA Chicago's Lifetime Achievement Award

Will we be adding more? You betcha, but right now, there's almost 60 great items on the just-published October Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

Things start fast and furious this week, with Adrian Smith talking Wednesday. the 2nd, about Supertall Towers and Green Cities at the Logan Center for the Arts. Also on Wednesday, Anthony Denzer is at CAF talking about his new book, The Solar House: Pioneering Sustainable Design and 6:00 p.m. at IIT, Christophe Cornubert of PUSH is in from L.A. to deliver a lecture at the McCormick Tribune Campus Center.

Architects? At IIT, at Crown Hall we've got Dominque Perrault  on Tuesday, the 8th, and Iñaki Alday, founder, Arquitectura y Paisaje, on Wednesday the 13th, Alphonse Sarthout and Hugo Haas of Ciguë Agency at the Alliance Française.

Monday the 14th, and 2013 Pritzker Prize Laureate Toyo Ito at the Art Institute on

Tuesday, the 15th. Ito will also participate, along with Yusaku Immura, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, at an Art Institute Public Forum, A Conservation on Beauty earlier in the day. Then, on Friday the 25th, Stanley Tigerman will receive AIA Chicago's Lifetime Achievement Award at the 58th Annual Designight, at Navy Pier.

Princeton's Beatriz Colomina's talks about Playboy

Architecture: 1953 - 1979 at the School of the Art Institute on Thursday the 10th, the same day that Tony Tasset of Eye fame is at Unity Temple in Oak Park.  On Thursday the 4th, the Graham is screening Drop City, a documentary about artists who created their dwellings from “the scrapheap of a wasteful society.” This Saturday the 5th, Hedrich-Blessing's Dave Burk will be leading an Architecture Digital Photography Workshop at the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

Open House Chicago is back for its third year.  The Chicago Architecture Foundation event  will give participants access to 150 buildings on Saturday the 19th and Sunday the 20th.

Jeffrey Boyer and Sachin Anan of dbHMS will be at the Chicago Center for Green Technology to talk about the Decarbonization Plan and Triple Net Zero Design of Nalanda University. CAF lunchtime on Wednesday the 16th, there'll be a presentation of Design Evanston's Jack Weiss, Stuart Cohen, Kris Hartzell, Heidi Hoppe and Laura Saviano on the new book, Evanston: 150 Years, 150 Places. The next week - same time, same place - Michael A. Hirsch of Pelli Clarke Pelli and John Culbert, Dean, will discuss their new Theatre School at DePaul University.

Meg Kindelin of Johnson Lasky discusses Highland's Park International Style Battledeck House at the Cultural Center for Landmarks Illinois on Thursday the 17th, the same day that Dianne Harris will be at the Graham in the evening discussing her new book, Little Houses: Race, Space, and the Ordinary Postwar Home, at the same time that Patti Philippon will talk about The House (Mark) Twain and (Louis Comfort) Tiffany Built at the Driehaus Museum. Also at the Driehaus on Thursday, the 29th, architect Richard Economakis will discuss The Civic Hall and New Town of Cayalá, Guatemala.

Architect and urban designer Marshall Brown will talk about The Speculative City at the American Planning Association Tuesday, the 22nd. Also on the 22nd, Steven Monz talks about the Architecture of Benjamin Marshall at the Glessner House Museum, where, just in time for Halloween, the museum sponsors its 27th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Readings on Saturday the 26th.

On October 24th and 25th, there's not one, but two, two-day Facades+Performance at IIT, and Building for Sustainability at the Center for Green Technology. On the 25th, Openlands has its 50th Anniversary Luncheon at the Hilton Chicago.   On Monday the 28th at the House of Blues, there'll be a special Pecha Kucha Chicago/Chicago Tribune Photojournalism, featuring the work and stories of a dozen photojournalists.
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As you might imagine, these are just some of the highlights.  You can check them all out on the October 2013 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.