Just Added: Tenorio's I Speak of The City; plus Pecha Kucha, Grete Marks, Keck and Keck and Chicago Seven Bingo - still more for March!

We're still adding items to the March Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

Specifically, Thursday the 7th at UIC's Great Cities Institute, teacher and author Mauricio Tenorio's I Speak of the City will provide a “multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City [focusing] on the period 1880to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today.

It's one of over a dozen great events this week, including, but not limited to, Pecha Kucha Chicago Volume #25 tonight, March 5th, at Martyr's, Joan Gand talking about Keck and Keck tomorrow the 6th, lunchtime at CAF,  and in the evening a series of panel discussions Urban Documentaries and Social Change at MCA.

Thursday the 7th, Mel Buchanan lectures on Grete Marks: When Modernism was Degenerate, at the Second Presbyterian Church, and Preservation Chicago offers up its Chicago Seven Bingo fundraiser at Lottie's Pub.

Check out the 40+ great items still to come on the March Calendar of Chicago Architecture Events.

Fishman's Next National Plan: More for January

Yes, it's never too late to add another great item to the January Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

Case in point: this Wednesday, January 23rd, the University of Michigan's Robert Fishman will take on the myth of the paucity of national planning in the United States, at the Great Cities Institute. 

Earlier, at lunchtime at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Architecture for Humanity/Chicago's Katherine Darnstadt will discuss recent and upcoming projects.  On Tuesday, there's a meeting of the 2030 Commitment Chicago Working Group at AIA/Chicago, and on Thursday, ULI/Chicago will be taking on the prospect of Chicago: The Next Technology Hub with a morning panel at the Union League.

And this Saturday, it's the latest edition of the Future City Regional Finals, in which 7th and 8th graders are introduced to engineering with SimCity and design idealized cities, in computer simulations, models, essays and presentations.  It's at the Student Center East at UIC.

Check out the nearly 20 great items still to come on the January Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.