Urbanized and Eames at the Siskel, Ezio Manzini at SAIC, Archi-Treasures at DIRTT - still more for November

. . . and the hits to the November Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events just keep coming . . .

Today, Sunday, at 3:00 p.m., and Monday, the 7th, and Sunday the 13th, the Gene Siskel Film Center is screening a new documentary, Eames: The Architect and the Painter.  If you purchase a ticket, you can get a discount on tickets for Urbanized, another new documentary by the director of Helvetica, Gary Huswit, that offers up a global tour of public planning from Mumbai to Beijing and beyond.   Urbanized is showing at the Siskel today through next Thursday, except on Wednesday.

This Tuesday, November 8th, Julie Burros will be discussing A New Chicago Cultural Plan at the Great Cities Institute, and that evening John Zils will be discussing The Art and Science of Building Design at CAF,  where on Wednesday the 9th, Art Institute curator Alison Fisher will be discussing The Road to Community: The Houses and Housing of Bertrand Goldberg at lunchtime.

Again on Tuesday, over at AIA Chicago, there's a cocktail reception for the publication of The Lost Panoramas: When Chicago Changed its River and the Land Beyond.On Wednesday, November 16th, Archi-Treasures gets Down & Dirtty with a fundraiser at the DIRTT showroom.

On Monday, the 14th, industrial designer Ezio Manzini of Milan Polytechnic comes to SAIC to talk about "regeneration as a result of social innovations and new ideas of quality in design.", followed by a panel discussion exploring intersections between Manzini's talk and its possible implications in Chicago.

And although it's not on the calendar because it's a trade-only rather than public event, on Wednesday the 9th at the Metropolitan Club, there will be a panel discussion on Trends in High End furnishings and fixtures: Perspectives on the current US and international Markets, with Cheryl Durst, Zurich Esposito, SOM's Eric Keune, Getty's Meg Prendergast, David Grout and SCB's Renee Sprogis-Marohn.  It's part of an Italian American Chamber of Commerce Midwest's 2-day event, November Italian Design B2B. For more information, contact Lisa Kostner at 312/553.9137, ext. 23.

This is the last week for an exhibition at the Instituto Cervantes, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2011, which this year was won by David Chipperfield for his Neues Museum in Berlin.  The exhibition closes on Friday, the 11th with a free lecture by Helmut Jahn at 6:00 p.m.  Also on Friday, there's Irish Architecture Now - with real Irish architects! - at the Art Institute, with Ed Dimendberg at the School of Architecture at UIC.

There are fifty great items still to come this month.  Check them all out at the November Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

Help Me: I've Been Urbanized - preview of documentary from Director of Helvetica among 80 events on October calendar

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.

What are we up to?  A couple dozen? Well, we've got nearly eighty of 'em.  Check out the full October 2011 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events and fill out your dance card.