Today: Aesthetics and Culture of Healing; tomorrow, Leveraging Preservation - still more new events for April

Yes, even headed into the last week of the month, we're still adding new items to the April Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

Today, Wednesday the 24th, Fred Foote of Walter Reed National Military Center, Mike Jager of Cedar Rapids Veterans Commission and architect Paul Alt will discuss The Healing Sanctuary: Aesthetics and Culture of Healing, at the Union League, where they will present prototype projects developed by architects and psychosocial design researchers.  Register by 3:00 p.m.  Lunchtime at CAF, there's also D. Bradford Hunt and Jon B. DeVries will discuss Does Chicago Plan Anymore?


Tomorrow, Thursday, the 25th, Arquitectos membership meeting at the offices of AIA Chicago will include Matt Cole of Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago discussing Leveraging Preservation and Cultural Programming to ReBuild Neighborhoods.

Below it or not, these represent less than half the events taking place over the next two days.  Check out everything still to come this month on the April Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

Barbara Mann on The Place of Space in Jewish Cultures - more for April; plus: tickets still available for annual Wright housewalk in May

Never too late to add to the April Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

This Thursday, April 25th, at the Norris Center at Northwestern in Evanston, Barbara Mann will lecture on Makom: The Place of Space in Jewish Cultures.  The week kicks off with Mark Linder at UIC on Monday, then on Tuesday Greg Walters talks about Unraveling Gridlock at the Chicago Center at Green Technology.  Does Chicago Plan Anymore? is the topic of this Wednesday's lunchtime lecture at CAF, with D. Bradford Hunt and Jon B. DeVries, and in the evening there's another panel at DePaul Center on Chicago's New Eastside.

On Thursday, the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois is sponsoring its tenth annual Midwest Bridge Symposium at Maggiano's, while on Friday new IIT Dean of Architecture Dean Wiel Arets is at the Graham Foundation, and Saturday is both Rebuild Together - Working Together Day, and a lecture by Argonne Lab's Don Hillebrand on Chicago: A Leader in Energy and Technology Breakthroughs at Francis Parker.

And these are just some of the highlights still to come.  Check it all out on the April Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

39th Annual Wright Plus Architectural Housewalk.

 We also learned last week that as of today, there are still tickets available for this usually sold-out annual event.  This year's edition takes place Saturday May 18th, and offers rare interior tours of nine private homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, including the 1913 Harry S. Adams House, and such contemporaries as John S. Bergen, plus three other landmark FLW buildings.  Tickets - $85.00 for Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust members, $100.00 for non-members - can be purchased on-line. More information here.

New Geographies 5, Shirley King for CAF, new items for logjam week on the April Calendar!

Yep, still adding items to the April Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

This Thursday, April 18th, the publication of New Geographies 5 - The Mediterranean: Worlds, Cities, Regions and Architectures will be marked with a panel discussion at the Graham with editor Antonio Petrov, architect Clare Lyster, Sean Keller of IIT, Hashim Sarkis of Harvard and Stephen J. Ramos of the U of GA.

It's one of those logjam evenings that will also include 99% Invisible's Roman Mars at Unity Temple, Erin Feher on The Architectural Rise of San Francisco at the Driehaus, and Paul Stoller of Atelier Ten at AIA/Chicago.

We've also learned that this Friday's Chicago Architecture Foundation Gala, Architecture is Art, at the Radisson Blue at Aqua, will feature, in addition to dinner, dancing and an auction, a performance from Shirley King, who will perform with the Blue Road Band.  About the same time, Preservation Chicago will be hosting it's own Spring fundraiser at the Union League with live music, an auction, and a presentation by Lost Chicago author David Lowe.

As if that's not enough, there's also the final days of the American Planning Association's 2013 National Planning Conference, an AIA/Chicago panel on the Chicago Infrastructure Trust, Michael Webb of Cooper Union at UIC, the principals of Project Projects at the Art Institute, UrbanWorks' Patricia Natke talking about Pilsen at CAF lunchtime on Wednesday.  

Hashim Sarkis returns for a lecture, The World According to Architecture at Wishnick Hall, IIT , a Landmarks Illinois presentation on the restoration of Hairpin Lofts at the Chicago Cultural Center and a DePaul University Real Estate Center symposium on Chicago's New Eastside.

Next Saturday the 20th sees a symposium at Evanston's Block Museum, The Modern Capital: City, Utopica, or Spectacle?, on the occasion of the opening of its new exhibition, Drawing the Future: Chicago Architecture on the International Stage, 1900-1925.

And believe it or not, that's not all, not by a long shot.  Check out all the great items and get the who/what/where's on the April Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

No Maas Tuesday, but Stroik, Hillebrand, Mars (Roman) Holy Name, Mischa Leiner, Bill Latoza, John Norquist and more - New Additions to the April Calendar!

We've just added over half a dozen more great items to the April Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

First the bad news:  MVRDV's Winy Maas has cancelled his Tuesday lecture at UIC, to be rescheduled this Fall.  However, that afternoon, architect Duncan G. Stroik will be at Fourth Presbyterian Church for the Society of Architectural Historians/Chicago Chapter (registration was officially closed last Monday, but if you're motivated, engage your inner resourcefulness.) 

This Wednesday, April 10th, the Graham has a panel discussion on The Artist as Philanthropist: Artist-Endowed Foundations as a New Force in Cultural Philanthropy.  This Saturday, the American Planning Association kicks off its five-day 2013 National Planning Conference at the Hyatt Regency.

On Thursday, the 18th, Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in Oak Park hosts 99% Invisible's Roman Mars, while on Friday the 26th, the IIT Armour College of Engineering will be at Maggiano's Little Italy with a lecture by Richard Kristie of Wiss, Janney, Elstner on The Repair of Holy Name Cathedral, and on Saturday the 27th at Francis Parker, Argonne Lab's Don Hillebrand will talk about Chicago: A Leader in Energy and Technology Breakthroughs.

This week, Mischa Leiner of CoDe will be at UIC on Monday the 8th, Bill Latoza discusses Walter Netsch's Legacy in Chicago's Parks for Friends of the Parks at the Cliff Dwellers on Tuesday, the Congress for the New Urbanism's John Norquist will talk about The Market Embraces Urbanism at CAF lunchtime on Wednesday.

And there's much, much more, this week and beyond.  When we first put up the calendar, we said we had over 50 items.  Now, we're a week into the month and we still have over 50 great items.  Check out the April Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

Late listing: Lecture on J.L. Silsbee at Oak Park Library tonight.

We'll soon be adding a number for additional items to the April Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events, but for now here's a really late heads-up about a lecture by Christopher Payne, tonight (Wednesday) at 6:30 p.m., at the Oak Park Public Library.  J.L. Silsbee and the Making of an Artful Residence.  Check out the details here.  Payne also has a great blog, Searching for Silsbee, here.

Pallasmaa, Jeff Day on Monday, Leiner, Latoza, Stoller, Natke, Maas, much more - it's the April Calendar!

It's here:  The April 2013 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.


It starts out Monday, April 1st with Juhani Pallasmaa at IIT (this is a change of the original playdate), and Jeff Day of Min | Day at the UIC School of Architecture.

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Architects and Designers:  Mischa Leiner, Bill Latoza on Walter Netsch, MVRDV's Winy Maas, Project Projects, Patricia Natke, Paul Stoller of Atelier Ten . . .

Academics, Curators and Activists:  Michael Webb, Hashim Sarkis, Mark Linder, Alison Fisher, David Van Zanten, John Norquist . . .

Places and Procedures: Kind Abdullah Financial District, Revitalizing the Chicago River, The Plant,  The Chicago Infrastructure Trust, Pilsen,  Chicago's New Eastside, Hairpin Lofts, The Architectural Rise of San Francisco, Unraveling Gridlock, SEAOI's 10th Annual Midwest Bridge Symposium, Working Together Day, Masonry Design and Construction for 2013 and Beyond, Working with a Green Architect, Community Tools for Affordable Housing . . .

New exhibitions: SynergiCity at CAF, Drawing the Future at the Block, Sharing Space and Test Fit at the Art Institute and Model Studies at the Graham . . .

Authors:  Timothy Mennel on Jane Jacobs, Edward Dimendberg on Diller Scofidio, D. Bradford Hunt and Jon B. DeVries on Planning Chicago . . . 

Preservation Chicago Spring 2013 Fundraiser . . .

And much, much more.  I'm sure we'll be adding dates, but even now we've got over 50 great events.  Want to know the who/what/when and where?  Check out the April 2013 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.