Dan Pitera at Archeworks on the 21st, Peter Bohlin tonight, new Songs about Buildings and Moods Saturday

A new addition to the September calendar, architect Dan Pitera of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center will lecture on More People, More Programs, More Geographies to kick off Archeworks fall lecture series, September 21 at 6:00.  That same evening, architect Jacques Ferrier will lecture at the Alliance Alliance Française of Chicago.

Also some reminders: Peter Bohlin lectures tonight, September 16th, on The Nature of Circumstance at the Renaissance Chicago for AIA/Chicago, while authors Stuart Cohen and Susan Benjamin talk about their book, The Great Houses of Chicago, at the Driehaus Museum.  And this Saturday, September 18th, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m,  Accessible Contemporary Music presents Songs about Buildings and Moods, where new works by six Chicago composers will be played in the works that inspired them, including the Burnham and Root's Monadnock, Holabird and Roche's Marquette, the Bertoia Sculpture, the Tiffany Dome at the Cultural Center, and Studio/Gang's Aqua.  Fair warning:I'm scheduled to be one of the tour guides for this event.

There are still dozen of great events to go on the September calendar.  Check them all out here.

Studio/Gang Architects at CAF today, 2010 Preservation Excellence Awards Tomorrow (and the Calendar is coming . . . promise)

The new season's first Wednesday luncheon lecture, 12:15 p.m. at CAF, 224 S. Michigan, will feature Kara Boyd and John Wolters of Studio/Gang Architects discussing recent projects such as the new Lincoln Park Nature Boardwalk, the renovation of the Shoreland Hotel, and others.  There's also the always popular ARE Study Hall at AIA Chicago,  35 East Wacker, 5:30 - 9:00.

On Thursday at 10:00 a.m., the 2010 Preservation Excellence Awards will be presented in the Claudia Cassidy theatre of the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, followed at 11:15 by the regular monthly meeting of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks in the Garland Room on the Cultural Center's 1st floor.  Also at the Cultural Center at 12:15 p.m., this time in the Millennium Room, Friends of Downtown will be sponsoring a talk by Rachel Weber of UIC on TIFs and Chicago Development.

All of this is to say that the September calendar isn't quite ready for publication, but we've already got three dozen items - everything from Pecha Kucha 15 on the 7th, to talks by architects Peter Bohlin and Jacques Ferrier, AIA/Chicago's Professional Development Conference, the Architecture for Change Summit on affordable housing at UIC, and Preservation Chicago's fall fundraiser at the recently restored Historic Sears Power House.  Check back Thursday (or maybe Friday) for the full roster of events.