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.

Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention Curator's Talk Friday, Lost Panoramas Tuesday, SAH's Chicago Cultural Icons on the 12th

This Friday, November 4th, from 12:00 to 12:45 curator Alison Fisher will be leading a guided tour of the Art Institute's spectacular exhibition, Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention.  It's free with museum admission.

Another beautiful exhibition that was at the Peggy Notebaert last year, The Lost Panoramas: A Snapshot into Chicago's Past, is now a book, The Lost Panoramas: When Chicago Changed Its River - and the Land Beyond, including the best of 22,000 photos taken in 1894 to document the massive public works project that reversed the flow of the Chicago.  Next Tuesday, November 8th, the Chicago Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians will be hosting a reception and book signing at AIA Chicago, with a cocktail reception at 5:30 p.m., and program at 6:00.

The following Saturday, the 12th, at the Casino Club, the SAH will be holding a Gala Benefit Reception Honoring Chicago's Cultural Icons, John Vinci, Mary Zimmerman and Sophia Siskel, supporting the society's varied educational initiatives.

You can check out the details on these three newly-added events - and more than fifty total -on the November Chicago Architectural Calendar.

(And a correction for those of you wanting to attend Ellen Bailey Dickson's A Discussion on Islamic Architecture at the Glenview Ismaili Jamatkhna, the right number for making an RSVP is 847/730.1950.)

A mayoral forum on public housing, Louis Sullivan's Struggle, Alison Fisher on Prentice, Michael J. Golec, Bill Mackey, Elizabeth Francis - it's the January Calendar!

The year may be starting a bit slowly, but there's still nearly three dozen great architecture-related events already lined up on the January calendar.

It starts off with SEAOI's panel discussion on Bridge Failures this Tuesday, the 4th at the Parthenon (on Halsted Street, not the Acropolis.)  On Thursday the 6th, the Graham offers the first of two lectures being given this month in conjunction with their exhibition, Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown this one by Michael J Golec, with another by Bill Mackey on the 27th.  This coming Sunday, the 9th, the Lake Theater in Oak Park with be offering a benefit screening of the documentary Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture, with director Mark Richard Smith in attendance for a Q&A.

There's quite a bit of sounding off, with conductor and pianist Yaniv Dinur talking about Music and Architecture: Design, Aesthetic and Form at lunchtime on Wednesday the 12th at CAF, and Carl Giegold of Threshold Acoustics talking about Speech, Hearing, Acoustics and AV in the Learning Environment at AIA Chicago lunchtime on Tuesday, the 18th.  The Art Institute's new assistant curator of architecture Alison Fisher talks about Bertrand Goldberg's endangered Prentice Hospital for Landmarks Illinois' lunchtime Preservation Snapshots lecture, Thursday the 20th at the Cultural Center.  On the evening of the 25th, architect Elizabeth Francis gives a talk at the MCA, while Farr Associates Doug Farr talks about LEED for Neighborhood Development at CAF lunchtime on the 26th, where Neal Samors and Bernard Judge discuss their new book, Lake Shore Drive: Urban America's Most Beautiful Roadway, same time and place, a week earlier on the 12th.

On the 11th,  again at the Cultural Center, the Central Advisory Council of Chicago Public Housing Residents will be holding a mayoral Candidate Forum on Public Housing in Chicago.  I don't know if any of the candidates have confirmed but, shockingly, this is the only forum I'm aware of where anyone's putting the screws to the candidates on the critical issues involving the city's built environment.

As usual, there's more, much, much more.  Check out all the events on the January Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.