We continue to add to the
May 2012 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.
This week starts out today, Tuesday, May 8th, with a discussion of
The Bloomingdale Trail at
AIA Chicago at noon, and
Archeworks Final Presentation + Review at Access Living at 6:00. At 7:30 SUNY's
Jack Quinan talks about
Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin house at
Unity Temple in Oak Park.
On Wednesday, the 9th, lunchtime at
CAF, the Park District's Gia Biagi and Paul Seck and Matt Urbanski from
Michael van Valkenburgh Associates talk about the plans for the
renovation of North Grant Park. At 6:00 p.m., at the
Driehaus Museum, a/k/a Nickerson Mansion,
Caitlin Emery talks about
Stanford White's Kingscote Dining Room. (a repeat version of this lecture on Thursday is already full.)
And Thursday is logjam day, with
Critic's Challenge: Does Modernism Still Have Meaning, a panel of Architect Magazine editor
Ned Cramer,
Lee Bey, and Vanity Fair architecture critic
Paul Goldberger at Harry's Weese's Seventeenth Church of Christ Scientist going up against another great
Chaddick Institute panel with
Larry Booth,
Reuben Hedlund,
Rick Fawell,
John Schmidt and
Jerry Butler offering up a
Beyond Burnham Roundtable Discussion: Re-Envisioning Navy Pier, at CAF.
Over at the Merchandise Mart, there's this year's
A-can-emy Awards Gala and Cocktail Party benefiting the
Greater Chicago Food Depository. Our indefatigable correspondent
Bob Johnson has already scoped out the entries, and provides us the photograph of Mr. Peanut seen here.
Friday is
Friends of the Parks 202 Parks Ball 23rd Annual Gala; Saturday the
Second Annual Clarke House Museum History Symposium. And that's just
some of the events this coming week.
Coming up later in the month is
Stanley Tigerman talking about
Architecture and Education at
AIA Chicago,
Larry Shure on the
Typography of Courtyard Apartments in Rogers Park for Landmarks Illinois at the
Cultural Center,
Tony Smith on
TIFs at
APA Chicago, and
Michael Marshall of StructureCraft Buildings talking about
bravura heavy timber construction of the new
Arena Stage in DC and other structures making innovative use of wood.
Ted Wolff talks about the
Landscape Renovation at Graceland Cemetery for
CAF on the 30th, and on the 24th
Tod Williams and
Billie Tsien will be part of a panel at the
Art Institute to talk about their new
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the U of C.
It's a safe bet there'll be still more, but even now there are over three dozen great items still to come on the
May Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.
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