dasHaus lectures, Lai, Millet, Dick Higgins collaborates (posthumously) with Chicago Police for The Thousand Symphonies - more for September

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Next Friday, September 21st, Das Haus, a traveling pavilion from Germany that demonstrates state-of-the-art technologies in building construction and solar energy use, makes its way to Daley Plaza for a ten day run.  In conjunction, with the installation, there's a series of lectures which we've just added to the September Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.  On Friday, the 21st, the Passive House Alliance Chicago offers an Introduction to Passive House, at the Hafele America Chicago showroom, and at Lunchtime on the 24th, Katrin Klilngenberg talks about 10 Years of Passive House in the U.S. at the Goethe Institute, among other events.

On Thursday, September 18th, 7:00 at the Graham, a chamber ensemble will play a new version of Fluxus artist Dick Higgins' The Thousand Symphonies.  Four Chicago Police officers were enlisted to create the composition by blasting notes onto music paper with machine guns.  The work was originally created by Higgins in 1968 as a non-destructive use of guns for purposes "other than killing Viet Cong and scattering protesters."  The performance will be preceded by a short film documenting the creation of the Chicago composition.

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Next week, we also have Jimenez Lai offering a "quasi-reading" from his new book Citizens of No Place at the Graham on Monday,  and architect Patricia Patkau at the Art Institute on Tuesday.  Wednesday finds Thomas Leslie at CAF lunchtime, and Vincent James and Jennifer Yoos of VJAA at IIT in evening.  On Thursday, the 20th, David Van Zanten talks about The Work of Louis Julien Millet at Second Presbyterian Church.

And those are just the highlights.  We still have over three dozen great items still to come, so check them all out on the September Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

New: Patrica Patkau, Doug Fogelsen, Wright's Roots Extended - more for September!

The hits just keep coming to the September Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events, with several new items just added.

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We've just added a lecture by Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Model winner Patricia Patkau of Patkau Architects, Vancouver.  6:00 p.m.,  Tuesday, September 18th, will be in Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute of Chicago, to give a lecture for SAIC (AIADO).

This Wednesday, September 12th, student group iitExposure kicks off a lecture series on architectural photographers with Doug Fogelson, 12:30 in the Lower Core at Crown Hall.  (More on this interesting series, and on the great new Vivian Maier show, tomorrow.)  Later Wednesday (6:00 p.m., Mikyoung Kim lectures at IIT at the Campus Center.

Also on Wednesday, Bastiaan Bousma discusses this year's edition of the amazing Open House Chicago at CAF lunchtime, Massamilliano Fuksas is at the Graham Tuesday evening.  Thursday, it's Larry Levy at the Chicago Club for Crain's, Rick Valicenti at the SAIC, and Glessner Houses' 125th anniversary Gala at Symphony Center.  And much more.

On the exhibition front, Tim Samuelson's don't-miss exhibition, Wright's Roots, has been extended at Expo 72 Gallery, 72 East Randolph, through October 14th.

There are over 25 great items just this week, and over 60 still come this month.  Check it all out - plus three new exhibitions - on the September Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.