Archipalooza! Not One. Not Two. Three Chicago Schools Showcase Student Work on Friday

Exactly what are they teaching the kids in architecture school today?  Well, Friday, May 9th gives you the perfect opportunity to find out, as three major Chicago architecture schools will be showcasing the work of their students on the same day.

The School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago will be holding its Year End Show at the galleries of the A and D Studios, 845 West Harrison Street, from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. while in the building's south lobby, Friday and Saturday are the last days for Myth, the exhibition by Molly Hunker, winner of this year's Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship.


Meanwhile, down at Crown Hall, 3360 South State, IIT's College of Architecture will also have it's annual Student Work Exhibition and Open House, kicking off at 5:00 p.m., with the presentation of the Louis Vuitton SPARK Award chosen from six finalists “from IIT's undergraduate and graduate Cloud Studio program reflecting the College's focus on the City of Chicago and ‘Rethinking the Metropolis.’”.  At 5:45 there will be the Spring Student Award Ceremony, followed by the Open House studio exhibition from 6:30 to 8:30.


Last but not least, at Sullivan Center (a/k/a the Louis Sullivan designed former Carson Pirie Scott

building), 36th South Wabash, 12th floor, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., you can take in SAIC's 2014 Thesis Show: Masters of Architecture and Masters of Architecture with an emphasis in Interior Architecture . .  .

The graduating class of 2014 in the [School of the Art Institute's] newly accredited Master of Architecture program invites you to a year-end exhibition of their thesis work.  Please come to meet the graduates, have some refreshments, and celebrate the 5th graduating class of Chicago's 3rd professional architecture program.

Make it into a pub crawl, going from show to show and downing a shot every time someone mentions parametricism.  After it's over, head down to the Palmer House, up to the Wit, or whatever's chacun à son goût for continuing lubrication and to try start a brawl debating the deficiencies and merits of what you've just seen.   

Tonight: Stanley Tigerman in conversation with Robert Somol at UIC

You may have noticed the August calendar isn't up - (Does anyone other those involved in the events covered even read the thing?) - but here's a heads up that tonight, 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in Gallery 100 of the Art  and Architecture Building at UIC, Stanley Tigerman will confer, converse and otherwise hobnob with UIC School of Architecture Dean Robert Somol.

It's just the first of four conversations - same time and venue - "on topics that are vital to the success of making ideas happen in the city" that will see Martin Felsen in conversation with Alexander Eisenchmidt on Tuesday, the 14th, Sean Lally in conversation with program director Kirk Wooller on Monday the 20th,  and Andrew Zago in conversation with Eisenschmidt, on Tuesday, the 21st.

It's all part of a collaboration with London's Architectural Association  and UIC as the 2012 visiting school, Campaigning Architecture, a "10-day international design workshop that will expose, explore, and develop multiple ways for campaigning architecture – enabling participants to combine the potential of design intelligence with the strategic power of propaganda, in order to get things done in the city."