Lohan on Mies, Sambunaris' Taxonomy, Democracy and the Built Environment, Prentice v. Commission again - more for February

It's only the first Monday in the month and already have half a dozen new items on the February Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

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For Tuesday, the 26th, we've added an intriguing new event, Democracy and the Built Environment, with Peter Onuf and Marshall Brown, at the Koolhaas McCormick Campus Center at IIT , while on  Wednesday the 12th, Dirk Lohan lectures on his grandfather in Mies van der Rohe's Legacy and the Chicago Skyline, at the Block Museum  in Evanston, the same day the Chicago ACE Mentor Program has its benefit lunch at the Chicago Hilton.

This Thursday, the 7th, Victoria Sambunaris lectures the Museum of Contemporary Photography, currently showing her exhibition, Taxonomy of a Landscape . . .

Sambunaris will also be offering a gallery walkthrough of the exhibition lunchtime on the 12th.

Coming up this week, SEAOI looks at the Wells Street Bridge Reconstruction on Tuesday the 5th, the same day Martha Schwartz is at Fullerton Hall for the School of the Art Institute, and the Chicago Center for Green Technology looks at Chicago's Sustainable Streets Program.

On Wednesday, Joshua Freedland of Wiss, Janney, Elstner discusses Engineering of the Washington Monument lunchtime at CAF.  On Thursday, the folks at Forgotten Chicago talk about their amazing website at the Cultural Center for Friends of Downtown,  the Chicago History Museum has a program on the late Crosstown Expressway and, but far from least . . .

 . . . the Commission on Chicago Landmarks takes up Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital - again - at their monthly meeting, in the County Board Room, 5th floor of the County Building, 118 N. Clark, 12:45 p.m.  Come by to support Prentice, or just take in the show

Check all the nearly 50 great items still to come on February Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

Clare Tower, Bird-Friendly Design, Jones College Prep, Ace Mentor benefit at the Vertigo Lounge, Bus Rapid Transit in Chicago - August far from dead: two dozen great items on this month's Architectural Calendar

Yes, it only seems that everyone's closed up shop and moved to the country.  The August Calendar is alive and well.

Just this Thursday, AIA Chicago offers a tour of Perkins+Will's Clare Tower, and Friends of Downtown have a program on the same firms new building for Jones College Prep, while at Wishnick Hall at ITT, there's a symposium on Bird-Friendly Building Design.  The Commission on Chicago Landmarks also meets on Thursday.  Still no Prentice, and the Permit Review Committee for the month has been cancelled. (Having trouble finding an architect left on the Commission to run it?)

Next week, on Tuesday, AIA Chicago has a session on Community Planning for Wicker Park and Bucktown.  Later in the month, the Metropolitan Planning Council marks the release of its report, Bus Rapid Transit: Chicago's New Route to Opportunity, with a roundtable discussion on Wednesday, the 17th, while on Tuesday, the 23rd, the ACE Mentor Program, which helps Chicago area high school students explore careers in architecture, construction and engineering, holds its annual fundraiser at the Vertigo Sky Lounge at the Dana Hotel.

I'm sure we'll find more, but even now there are over two dozen great programs on the August Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.  Check them all out here.  Or here.*

*this is a test to see how many times we can get you to click on the exact same link.