Gang: Sky's the Limit encore Monday, Biomimicry, Karthik Pandian, Brand Brewing, DeJong's (Sub)Urbanisms, Tatum's Pond - new for November

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We wrote on Friday about the new documentary, Jeanne Gang: The Sky's the Limit, and now we've learned of another chance to catch this striking, 14 minute production.  Chicago Tonight on WTTW will be screening it on this Monday's edition - the current estimate for the segment is sometime after 7:30 p.m., but you may want to check in at the beginning of the program at 7:00 p.m. to be sure.

And, amazingly enough, we also have a entire slew (or "slaugh" for our Gaelic speaking readers) of new additions to this month's calendar. I'm too lazy to provide all the links here, but you can get the full details on everything on the November Calendar of Chicago Architectural events.

On Monday, the 14th, Urban Activators opens a new exhibition taken by young people who were taught photography techniques and sent out to document their Bronzeville neighborhood.  On Wednesday, the 16th, there'll be a networking event and panel on Biomimicry: Designing from Nature's Innovations at the Jefferson Tap & Grill, while on Thursday the 17th over at the Graham, artist Karthik Pandian will be presenting Late Culture in the American Bottom, reflecting on his 16mm films and sculptural exhibitions produced out of his research at the pre-Columbian Cahokia Mounds in southern Illinois.

On Monday, November 21st, at the Revolution Brewery, Preservation Chicago will be holding a fundraiser to help save the 1899 Brand Brewing Administration building.

On Tuesday the 29th,  the UIC School of Architecture's Judith DeJong will be discussing New (Sub)Urbanisms at the Great Cities Institute.

Believe it or not, halfway into the month, there are still over 30 great events still come, including two dozen just this week, with Stanley Tigerman, Roger Sherman, Ezio Manzini and The Lost Panoramas at separate events on Monday, Tom Jacobs of Krueck + Sexton discussing their new Net Zero Office Building in Florida at the CCGT on Tuesday, Terry Tatum talking about Irving Pond at the Glessner on Wednesday.  On Thursday, Dennis McClendon lecturing on Chicago's Moveable Bridges at the Chicago Cultural Center for Landmarks Illinois, while Jeanne Gang discusses her new book on the Chicago River, Reverse Effect, with Henry Henderson of the Natural Resources Defense Council at the Harold Washington Library.

This afternoon (Sunday), there's a discussion of Islamic Architecture by Ellen Bailey Dickson at the Glenview Ismaili Jamatkhana, and a lecture by Dale Gyure on the work of architect Minoru Yamasaki at the North Shore Congregation Israel.

So little time, so much to do.  Check out the November Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

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.

David Owen and Green Metropolis today; Islamic Architecture and Real Estate 2012 later - more for November

Yup, we just put the November Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events yesterday, and already we're adding three more events.

Today at 4:00 p.m., New Yorker staff writer David Owen, author of Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability, will lecture at the Great Cities Institute at UIC, while on Sunday, the 13th, Ellen Bailey Dickson will lead a Discussion on Islamic Architecture at the Glenview Jamatkhana, and on the morning of the 14th at the Union League, Curt Bailey, President of Related Midwest will be among panelists at a ULI Chicago event, Real Estate Forecast 2012.

Tomorrow is SEAOI's Structures Symposium and Kate Keleman's curator's talk for Design on the Edge at CAF, where Alexander Eisenschmidt lectures at lunchtime on visionary Chicago architecture, with Sheila Kennedy at IIT in the evening, where on Thursday the 3rd, there's CTBUH's Best Tall Buildings Awards Symposium, one of no fewer than nine events taking place that day.

We're about to cross the 50 items mark, so check 'em all out on the November Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

November Calendar, devoid of Turkeys: Zils, Gang, Goldberg, Jahn, Dimenberg, Pond (x2), Gruen, CTBUH - nearly 50 great events

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Even though I know we'll be adding more, there's already nearly 50 great items on the November Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

It begins on Tuesday the 1st, with Arturo Vittori at Columbia College, continues on Tuesday at CAF, with Kate Keleman's curator talk for Design on the Edge, and Alexander Eisenschmidt on Chicago's unbuilt visionary projects, and Sheila Kennedy at IIT, and then explodes on Thursday the 3rd with no fewer than eight events, including John Ronan talking about his new home for Poetry Foundation for Friends of Downtown, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's star-studded 10th Annual Best Tall Buildings Awards Symposium at IIT, Stuart Cohen discussing Howard Van Doren Shaw's residential designs at Second Presbyterian Church, and the release of Jeanne Gang's new book, Reverse Effect, on possibilities for the Chicago river at the fundraiser for the Natural Resources Defense Council that also includes a one-time-only performance of Carpocalypse! by a troupe from Second City.

On Tuesday, November 8th, there'll be a lecture by great structural engineer John Zils at CAF, where on Wednesday the 9th, Art Institute architecture curator Alison Fisher will talk about The Houses and Housing of Bertrand Goldberg, in conjunction with the museum's blockbuster retrospective on the architect. On Friday, the 11th, a group of architects discussing Irish Architecture Now goes up against Helmut Jahn lecturing at the Instituto Cervantes, and Ed Dimendberg, author of Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity at UIC, where RSAUD's Roger Sherman lectures on the 14th.

Want more? How about Dale Gyure lecturing on the work of Minoru Yamasaki on the 13th at the architects North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe, a reception for Stanley Tigerman at AIA Chicago on  the 14th marking the publication of not one but two new books, Tom Jacobs of Krueck + Sexton talking about their net zero environmental impact building for the GSA in Miramar, Florida on th1 15th, and Terry Tatum discussing the work of Irving and Allen Pond at Glessner House on the 16th. Dennis McClendon talks about movable bridges for Landmarks Illinois at the Cultural Center, while Jeanne Gang is back discussing her new book at the Harold L. Washington Library, with the month ending on the November 30th with Greg Peerbolte discussing the new book on Victor Gruen and Randhurst center at CAF.

Even with things shut down for the Thanksgiving holiday week, things are jumping, and we've only scratched the surface. Check out everything on the November 2011 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.