Felsen and Solomon, Sou Fujimoto, Benjamin Marshall, Rapson in Hyde Park, Rain Screens and Paderewski at the Glessner - 6 Great events just added for February

See, we told you we weren't finished.  We've just added six great new events to the February Chicago Architectural Calendar.

IIT kicks off its 2011 lecture series with Workshopping Chicago: A Conversation with Martin Felsen and Jonathan Solomon, Monday, February 7th at Crown Hall at 6:00 p.m.  The following Tuesday, February 15th, again at Crown Hall at 6:00 p.m., Sou Fujimoto, of Sou Fujimoto Architects, Tokyo  Shinjuku, this years Morgenstern Visiting Chair, will lecture on the overview of his work, Primitive Future.

On Sunday, February 13th, docent and lecturer Steven Monz will present an illustrated talk, Benjamin Marshall, Architect, at the Northbrook Public Library.  The event leads up to a March 4th gala at the Drake Hotel to benefit the Benjamin Marshall Society, a fundraiser for the society's efforts to catalog Marshall's works and organize  an exhibition of them. 

Moving ahead about a  half century in architectural history, The Hyde Park Historical Society, at its annual dinner February 26th at the Quadrangle Club, will considering Preserving History in the Digital Age, with m.c. Jay Mulberry and featured speaker, the Trib's Ron Grossman.  This year's  Marian and Leon Depres Preservation Award will be presented to Leon and Rian Walker for the historic rehabilitation of Ralph Rapson's Willard Gidwitz House on south Woodlawn.

On Thursday, February 10th, Häfele’s Chicago showroom will be sponsoring a seminar on Rain Screen Wall Systems,  and on Thursday, February 17th, the Glessner House Museum will feature a talk by Victoria Granacki on Ignacy Jan Paderewski - Artist, Statesman, Humanitarian: The Chicago Connection.  Paderewski was one of many prominent musicians who gave concerts in the Glessner's music room.

There was over three dozen great events still to come in February.  Check them all out here.

Aerialists and composers, gondolas and exposers, minimalists, subliminalists, Jakob, Wright, Mansueto, Shaw, lots maw - February Architectural events Tonight! (and at other hours, as well)

With snow-related cancellations, it's become a month shortened at each end, but the February Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events still has over three dozen great events.

An aerialist in Mie van der Rohe's Carr Chapel? Check.  The gondola as Venice's chariot in its race against Las Vegas? Check.  Did you know they've proposed a monument to Frederic Chopin in Grant Park?  We didn't either, but they have, and there's an event for that.

Plus Dominque Jakob at the Art Institute, Frank Lloyd Wright's SC Johnson Research Tower at CAF, Absolute Sullivan at the Cultural Center, Halvorson and Partners exposed, a hand's-on, day-long festival of engineering for kids, Ragdale, Men in Public Housing, a First Tuesday Happy Hour hung over into the second, a tour of Hoerr-Schaudt, Louis' Jewelbox Banks, engineering the subterranean, glass-domed Mansueto Library, Summit's Testa Produce, and - as they say - much, much more.

Check out all the who, when and where's for February here.