Pecha Kucha 28, Lally's Air from Other Planets, World (Color) Palette 2015+, Dyja's Unbuilt Third Coast, Christmas Gaudi and more - the December Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events

December is all parties and holidays, but that there are still dozens of great items for you to make time for on the just-published December Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

It begins on Sunday the 1st with a lecture on the modernist S.B. Fuller House in Robbins, and continues of Tuesday the 3rd with volume 28 of Pecha Kucha Chicago, and the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois looking at Loyola's new Sports and Student Center. 

The academic theme continues on Wednesday with Patrick Loughran of Goettsch Partners discussing his firm's new home for the Bienen School of Music on Northwestern's Evanston campus.
Thursday the 5th sees Sean Lally at the Graham signing copies and talking about his new book, The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come, and a screening of the parkour documentary, My Playground at the Wit Hotel.

On Thursday, the 12th, Kai-Uwe Bergmann of BIG (Bjarke

Ingels Group) is at the MCA, where Pamela Bannos discusses Cap Streeter and the development of Streeterville on Saturday the 14th.


On Wednesday the 11th, RTKL's Diane Legge Kemp and Smith+Gill's Christopher Drew discuss China, Abu Dhabi and Offshore Urbanism: Exporting our Design Capital at AIA Chicago, while over at CAF, William Tyre talks about Howard van Doren Shaw's Second Presbyterian Church.  On Monday, the 16th, Hafele hosts the unveiling of the Color Marketing Group's World Palette 2015+.

Wednesday the 18th, CAF lunchtime, author Thomas Dyja talks about Unbuilt

Third Coast, including such unrealized projects of Mies's convention center, the scorched-earth Ft. Dearborn plan, and Harry Weese's concept of building a string of islands off the Lake Michigan shore.  That evening at CAF, an Archeworks panel including Studio Gang's Claire Cahan, SOM's Phil Enquist and moderators Iker Gil and Joshua G. Stein, among others will be considering Trickle Up: The Scale of Water in Chicago.

And to end 2013, the Gene Siskel Film Theatre will be continuing their holiday tradition of a week of screenings of Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1985 documentary Antonio Gaudi.

There's a lot more we haven't mentioned here, so check it all out on the December Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

Will December be the last of our monthly calendars?  We've received a grand total of about 5 responses from readers regarding our possible decision to suspend the calendar for 2014.  If you have strong thoughts on the matter please let us know.

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.

Towers (Olympia and Randolph), Pecha Kucha, Vanavehu, Wright's Heller House, Future City 2013 - more for the January calendar!

See - we told you.  We're already adding great new dates for the January Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

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Grab your ascot and reserve the night of Friday, January, 18th. Tickets are going fast for a special Pecha Kucha, co-sponsored by UK/Chicago, at the top of the 61-story-high Olympia Tower, in the the home of the British Consul

General.  It's a benefit for Vanavevhu, which supports and advocates for child-headed households in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Next Thursday, the 10th, you can visit your (substantial) TIF dollars at work at a Real Estate & Building Industries Council sponsored tour of the beautifully renovated Randolph Tower, which began life in the 1920's as the Steuben Club.  Proceeds benefit Landmarks Illinois' programs, including efforts to expand the Illinois State Historic Tax Credit.

On Saturday the 12th, Save Wright Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy is offering an Open House for Wright's Heller House in Hyde Park, offering you the opportunity to say, "I liked the tour so much - I bought the house!"  The 1896 residence is actually for sale.

And on Saturday, January 26th, it's time again for the 2013 edition of the Future City Chicago Regional Finals, at Student Center East at UIC, a great event in which 6th, 7th, 8th graders are introduced to engineering and use Sim City to design their cities, with the winners going on to the finals in Washington with the big prize a trip to U.S. Space Camp.

Check out the details for these events and another several dozen others still to come on the January Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

Gill, Wimer, Johnson, Emanuel, Acconci, plus Gaudi for Christmas - it's the December Calendar!

The Holiday Season is upon us.  Some organizations are skipping December, others are having parties, but we still have a full slate for the December Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

Cyril Marsolier and Wallo Villacorta, First Prize, Future Prentice competition

Make sure you check out this coming week, because events are heavily front-loaded.  On Tuesday, December 4th, CAF has a panel discussion on Shelter - Design for Social Change, with Roberta Feldman, John Car, Bryan Bell, Sunny Fisher, Patrick Tighe, and Theresa Hwang, the same day Archeworks has its mid-year Design Review and SEAOI has Practicing Green: A Guide to the Structural Engineer as the topic of their monthly dinner meeting, and Glessner House has its 125th Anniversary Dedication Dinner.  Over at Martyr's, there's edition #24 of Pecha Kucha Chicago, with Jordan Mozer, Tess Landon, and Future Prentice design competition winners Cyril Marsollier and Wallo Villacorta among  the presenters.

Wednesday the 4th, lunchtime at CAF, Brian Lee and Ross Wimer of SOM, discuss their Infinity Tower in Dubai and Nozul Lusail Marina in Doha.  Thursday the 6th, all day at the UIC Forum, there's a major symposium:  Metropolitan Resilience in a Time of Economic Turmoil, whose participants include Rahm Emanuel, Pat Quinn, Toni Preckwinkle, the mayors of Columbus, Las Vegas and Pittsburgh, and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. 

That evening, ULI Chicago presents its 2012 lifetime achievement award to Eugene Golub.  On Friday, Karen Kice offers another curator's tour of the Art Institute's Building: Inside Studio Gang, while AIA/Chicago's Holiday Party and Annual Meeting at Revolution Brewery honors Farr Associates, Matt Dumich, Paul Knight, Vincent Paglione and Lynn Becker.

Wednesday the 12th finds Gordon Gill at CAF lunchtime to talk about AS+GG's next world's tallest building, Kingdom Tower, while in the evening Vito Acconci lectures at the Art Institute, with dining packages available at Terzo Piano.

On Wednesday the 19th, CAF lunchtime closes out its month of heavyweights with Ralph Johnson of Perkins+Will talking about their Universidade Agustinho Neto in Luanda and Women and Children's Wellness Centre in Nairobi.

And starting Friday, the 21st, the year closes out with the Gene Siskel Film Center's holiday tradition of booking Hiroshi Teshigahara's hypnotic documentary Antonio Gaudi.  (and for something completely different, that same week at the Siskel you also get another to check out Leos Carax's audacious Holy Motors.)

There's also Julia Bachrach on The City in a Garden at Garfield Park Conservatory, and Larry Okrent on Chicago from the Sky at both AIA/Chicago and at the Cultural Center for Friends of the Parks. And much more.

Check out the nearly three dozen great items and exhibitions on the December 2012 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.