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| Stanley Tigerman receives AIA Chicago's Lifetime Achievement Award |
Will we be adding more? You betcha, but right now, there's almost 60 great items on the just-published
October Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.
Things start fast and furious this week, with
Adrian Smith talking Wednesday. the 2nd, about
Supertall Towers and Green Cities at the
Logan Center for the Arts. Also on Wednesday,
Anthony Denzer is at
CAF talking about his new book,
The Solar House: Pioneering Sustainable Design and 6:00 p.m. at
IIT,
Christophe Cornubert of
PUSH is in from L.A. to deliver a lecture at the McCormick Tribune Campus Center.
Architects? At
IIT, at Crown Hall we've got
Dominque Perrault on Tuesday, the 8th, and
Iñaki Alday, founder,
Arquitectura y Paisaje, on Wednesday the 13th,
Alphonse Sarthout and
Hugo Haas of
Ciguë Agency at the
Alliance Française.
Monday the 14th, and 2013 Pritzker Prize Laureate
Toyo Ito at the
Art Institute on
Tuesday, the 15th. Ito will also participate, along with
Yusaku Immura,
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle,
Moon Kyungwon and
Jeon Joonho, at an Art Institute Public Forum,
A Conservation on Beauty earlier in the day. Then, on Friday the 25th,
Stanley Tigerman will receive
AIA Chicago's
Lifetime Achievement Award at the 58th Annual
Designight, at Navy Pier.
Princeton's
Beatriz Colomina's talks about
Playboy
at the School of the Art Institute on Thursday the 10th, the same day that
Tony Tasset of
Eye fame is at
Unity Temple in Oak Park. On Thursday the 4th, the
Graham is screening
Drop City, a documentary
about artists who created their dwellings from “the scrapheap of a
wasteful society.”
This Saturday the 5th, Hedrich-Blessing's
Dave Burk will be leading an
Architecture Digital Photography Workshop at the Chicago Architecture
Foundation.
Open House Chicago is back for its third year.
The Chicago Architecture Foundation event will give participants access to 150 buildings on Saturday the 19th and Sunday the 20th.
Jeffrey Boyer and
Sachin Anan of
dbHMS will be at the
Chicago Center for Green Technology to talk about the
Decarbonization Plan and Triple Net Zero Design of Nalanda University.
CAF lunchtime on Wednesday the 16th, there'll be a presentation of Design Evanston's
Jack Weiss,
Stuart Cohen,
Kris Hartzell,
Heidi Hoppe and
Laura Saviano on the new book,
Evanston: 150 Years, 150 Places. The next week - same time, same place -
Michael A. Hirsch of
Pelli Clarke Pelli and
John Culbert, Dean, will discuss their new
Theatre School at DePaul University.
Meg Kindelin of
Johnson Lasky discusses Highland's Park International Style
Battledeck House at the
Cultural Center for
Landmarks Illinois on Thursday the 17th, the same day that
Dianne Harris will be at the
Graham in the evening discussing her new book,
Little Houses: Race, Space, and the Ordinary Postwar Home, at the same time that
Patti Philippon will talk about
The House (Mark) Twain and (Louis Comfort) Tiffany Built at the
Driehaus Museum. Also at the Driehaus on Thursday, the 29th, architect
Richard Economakis will discuss
The Civic Hall and New Town of Cayalá, Guatemala.
Architect and urban designer
Marshall Brown will talk about
The Speculative City at the
American Planning Association Tuesday, the 22nd. Also on the 22nd,
Steven Monz talks about the
Architecture of Benjamin Marshall at the
Glessner House Museum, where, just in time for Halloween, the museum sponsors its 27th Annual
Edgar Allan Poe Readings on Saturday the 26th.
On October 24th and 25th, there's not one, but two, two-day
Facades+Performance at
IIT, and
Building for Sustainability at the
Center for Green Technology. On the 25th,
Openlands has its
50th Anniversary Luncheon at the Hilton Chicago.
On Monday the 28th at the
House of Blues, there'll be a special
Pecha Kucha Chicago/Chicago Tribune Photojournalism, featuring the work and stories of a dozen photojournalists.
symposiums:
As you might imagine, these are just some of the highlights. You can check them all out on the
October 2013 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.
On Monday the 7th at the Wicker Park Field House, William Tishler discusses his new book, Jens Jensen: Writing Inspired by Nature. On Saturday the 12th, Design Evanston is offering a tour of Graceland Cemetery by Craig Soncraft of Wolff Landscape - the firm that has been Graceland's landscape architects for over 20 years - including a discussion of the original design by Ossian Cole Simonds. As part of this year's Open House Chicago, the Guild Literary Complex is featuring Applied Words: Re-Built with Sandra Seaton, Saturday the 19th at the original Sears Tower on Homan. On Tuesday the 22nd, BIG's Kai-Uwe Bergmann will delivering the keynote for the Association of Licensed Architects 15th Annual Architecture Conference and Product Show, at the Drury Lane Conference Center in Oak Brook.
