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Showing posts with label October 2011 Calendar of Chicago Architectural events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label October 2011 Calendar of Chicago Architectural events. Show all posts
According to Kenan Institute director John D. Kasarda, Korea's Songdo City is the new Eden, a "Smart City" in which the government of South Korean filled in nearly six square miles of tidal wetlands on a migratory bird flight path and turned them over to developers as a tabula rasa to create from scratch a massive city "built by companies for companies."
It's super green, and hyper-wired, and if the full-press PR blitz touting its wonders reminds you of the initial euphoria over George Pullman's 19th century versions of the perfect company town on Chicago's south side, you're not alone. But don't worry yourself; resistance is futile. In the time-honored tradition of academics who have found their own version of the future and can imagine no other, Kasarda sees the model of Songdo City as our future "whether we like it or not."
Kasarda, author of Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next, will be discussing his work at an October 24th event sponsored by the Chaddick Institute.
It's one of two events just added to the October Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events. This Wednesday, October 19th, at Crown Hall, 11:30 a.m. IIT, Carsten Krohn will be discussing The unknown Mies, the "crypto-classical" houses of the architect's early career.
We just posted the October Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events yesterday, and already we're adding. The big addition is an advanced screening of Urbanized, the new documentary from the director of Helvetica, which explores the question, "Who is allowed to shape our cities, and how do they do it?" and offers up a massive, star-studded cast including Amanda Burden, Ricky Burdett, Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas, Oscar Niemeyer and the five marvelous pretzels.
Urbanized plays at the Music Box on Sunday the 9th at 7:00 p.m., and it's only one of what's now approaching 80 great events in October. Just today, Tuesday the 4th, we've got the 3,300 meter Strait of Messina Bridge discussed at this month's Structural Engineers Association of Illinois dinner meeting, at the Cliff Dwellers, and a 6:00 p..m. panel discussion at the Chicago Architecture Foundation in conjunction with its new Design on the Edge exhibition, with everyone from Darryl Crosby to Jeanne Gang, John Ronan, Stanley Tigerman and five other leading Chicago architects.
Want more? We've got Maya Lin, Millennium Park, architects doing other things,Sharon Haar and The City as Campus, Stanley Allen and Juhani Pallasmaa at IIT,Kees Christiaanse and John McMorrough at UIC, Carolyn Armenta Davis discussing Germany's Black Architects, Arup's Ryan Biziorek on Modeling Sound in Space, a tour of the EnV Tower, John Tshirch on McKim, Mead &; White's Isaac Bell House, Ben Weese receiving AIA Chicago's Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Designight.
Take a breath, OK. There's a Bertrand Goldberg-Contemporary Perspectives symposium at the Art Institute with John Ronan, Robert Somol, Elizabeth Smith, Sarah Whiting, Zoë Ryan and Alison Fisher, Adrian Smith interviewed by Bill Kurtis, the Richard Driehaus Preservation Awards, MAS Context: Analog with everyone from Sarah Dunn, to Cheryl Towler Weese to Jason Pickleman, Lee Bey, Strawn and Sierralta and a dozen others, the extraordinary openhouseChicago giving you entry to a hundred-plus great sites, as well a murder mystery at the Driehaus Museum/Nickerson Mansion, and Edgar Allen Poe readings and ghost sightings at Glessner House for Halloween.
