Exhibitions
Great Cities, Great Basin, Bold Ideas for the Great Basic Park, exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation 3 in 1: Contemporary Explorations in Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 28, 2013 through January 5, 2014 Frank Lloyd Wright Prints and Drawings, exhibition at ArchiTech Gallery, Chicago, September 6 - December 21, 2013
Environments and Counter Environments, "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape," MoMA, 1972, at the Graham Foundation, Chicago, September 18 - December 14, 2013
Take Me to the River: Building Chicago's New Waterfront, Exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, thrugh Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection, at the Richard Driehaus Museum, Chicago,

 

 

New Views: The Rendered Image in Architecture, exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, through January 5, 2014                                    
Great Cities, Great Lakes, Great Basin
at the Chicago Architecture Foundation
3 in 1: Contemporary Explorations in Architecture and Design
at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 28, 2013 through January 5, 2014
Frank Lloyd Wright Prints and Drawings
at the ArchiTech Gallery, September 6 - December 21, 2013
Environments and Counter Environments. "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape,” MoMA, 1972
at the Graham Foundation, September 18 - December 14, 2013
Take Me to the River: Building Chicago's New Waterfront
at the Chicago Architecture Foundation
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection
at the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, September 28, 2013 to June 29, 2014
  New Views: The Rendered Image in Architecture
at the Art Institute of Chicago through January 5, 2014
                                       

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March 2013 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events

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« December 1, Sunday »

An Unlikely Ultra modernism: The S. B. Fuller House in Robbins, Illinois, and Its Architects.

200 p.m., - Woodson Library Auditorium, 9524 South Halsted
Sponsor: Robbins History Museum
Free event

Alfred Willis will explore one of Chicagoland’s most important yet least known pieces of African-American heritage in an upcoming presentation in Chicago,An Unlikely Ultramodernism: The S.B. Fuller House in Robbins, Ilinois and its ARchitects, lecture by Alfred Willis at the Woodson Library, Chicago, December 1, 2013

S. B. Fuller was a highly successful African-American entrepreneur and a controversial figure in the Civil Rights movement. His elaborate, villa-like residence in the Black Chicago suburb of Robbins looks as astonishing today as it did when it was built in 1958. Dr. Willis will discuss this currently endangered monument in the context of African-American patronage of advanced architecture in mid-20th-century Chicago; its significance to the African-American culture of its time; and its place in the careers of two notable southside Chicago architects, Elmer E. Carlson and his son, Richard E. Carlson.

Information online.

« December 3, Tuesday »

The Value of a High-Performing Downtown

8:00 - 9:00 a.m., presentation and panel, reception 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. - Gene Siskel Film Center
Sponsor: Chicago Loop Alliance
$15.00 members; $25.00 non-members

Join Chicago Loop Alliance for the announcement of its 2013 Loop Economic Profile + a panel discussion about the importance of a high-performing downtown as part of a successful tourism and business investment strategy, featuring Alderman Brendan Reilly, 42nd Ward; Theresa Mintle, President & CEO, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce; Martin Stern, Chairman, Chicago Loop Alliance Board of Directors; Don Welsh, President & CEO, Choose Chicago; and Christine Williams, Principal, Goodman Williams Group

Information and registration online.

CIC - Going Forward into 2014

6:00 - 7:00 p.m., - AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, #250
Sponsor: AIA Chicago Community Interface Committee
Free event

The CIC is holding a planning meeting to prepare for 2014. Please join us and be a part of the exciting programming for the new year, starting with a very special symposium on Saturday, February 8, with the four authors of Wisdom from the Field: Public Interest Architecture in Practice which was published last summer.

Roberta Feldman, Bryan Bell, Sergio Palleroni, and David Perkes received the 2011 Latrobe Prize of The American Institute of Architects College of Fellows, a $100,000 grant for research leading to significant advances in the architecture profession. The team investigated the needs that can be addressed by public interest practices and the variety of ways that public interest practices are operating. This free event will take place in the MacLean Ballroom of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 112 South Michigan Avenue. During a morning panel moderated by Sharon Haar, AIA, the team will present their findings. Following lunch, a panel of Chicago practitioners will explain how their firms carry out public interest design.

Sound interesting? We’re looking for volunteers to work on this event.

Information and registration online.

Re-Making of Loyola University's Lakeshore Campus - Sports and Student Center

5:15 - 6:00 p.m., cash bar; 6:00 - 7:00, dinner; 7:00 - 8:00 p.m., program - Cliff Dwellers Club, 200 South Michigan, 22nd Floor
Sponsor: Structural Engineers Association of Illinois
$45.00 members; $65.00 non-members

A vibrant hub for sports and student activities is growing at Loyola University’s Lakeshore campus. Through a strategic Re-Making of Loyola University's Lakeshore Campus Sports and Student Center, presentation by Viral Shah for the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois at the Cliff Dwellers, Chicago, December 3, 2013series of renovations and new constructions structured by H+P with architect SCB, over 500,000 sq. ft has been added and renovated over 5 years. At the heart is the Gentile Center basketball arena, which underwent a complete interior renovation – including a construction of reconfigured 5,000+ seat bowl structure and arcade. The new, adjoining Norville Center for Varsity Athletics wraps two sides of Gentile to provide training and support spaces. The new Alumni Student Center further links those two facilities link to Hallas Hall, the student fitness center which is now being renovated and expanded. This presentation will provide an overview of this ongoing work and some key structural solutions, including some interesting transfer trusses: a 100+ ft long truss transferring Norville columns over portions of the Gentile Center and a transfer truss created within the Halas Hall steel structure to transfer out existing columns for a new Olympic-size swimming pool at grade.

Viral Shah, Senior Project Engineer, led H+P’s work for both the Gentile Center and the new Halas Hall renovations. Other recent projects range from the newly opened AMLI River North Tower to the Center for Translational Research at Loyola University’s Center for Translational Research starting construction at Loyola’s Mayfair Medical campus.

Information and registration information on-line.

Introduction to Building Energy Modeling and Simulation

6:00 p.m., - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento
Sponsor: Chicago Center for Green Technology
Free event
AIA LU/HSW

Speaker: Matt Huffman, LEED AP, Murphy & Miller, Inc.& International Building Performance Simulation Association; and Saranya Gunasingh, Energy Center of Wisconsin at Chicago

By simulating the operation and performance of planned or existing buildings on a computer, property owners, architects and engineers can make better design decisions. This course will provide an overview of the software tools available for building energy modeling. Emphasis will be placed on the free software available from the US Department of Energy, including eQUEST and EnergyPlus. This will be an introductory course, and will be suitable for a general audience who may have interest in energy conservation, building design, and sustainability.

Information and registration online. Note: registration for this event is now closed.

Pecha Kucha Chicago Volume #28

8:00 - 10:13 p.m. - Martyr's, 3855 N. Lincoln
Sponsor: Pecha Kucha Night Chicago
$10.00

This will be our 7th PechaKucha Night in December. Holiday season and PechaKucha seem to go together. Sometimes it Pecha Kucha Chicago Volume 28 at Martyr's, Decembersnows. Martyrs' always has twinkly lights. There's egg nog and a whif of pine in the air. And a dozen PechaKucha presenters in red suits turning on little light bulbs in 400 second long presents.

For your edification, Martin Atkins, Kelly Fair, Simon Landon, Mickey Mangan, Avi Mor, Rajiv Nathan, Ana Skolnik, Ben Nicholson, Jo Palma, Rebecca Parrish and Steve Sullivan - an eclectic array of musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects, entrepreneurs, educators and hoola-hoopers - are spending their Thanksgiving holidays preparing their 20 by 20 bits. 20 slides for 20 seconds each, for a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds. For once, we will actually experiment with starting when we advertise (8pm) - but for the most part, the evening will be the same-old, same old - 400 brilliant second segments of creativity, passion, wisdom, hilarity, shock, awe and things you desire, presented for your edification by these dozen brave and creative folks. Melissa Harris has cranked out a clever and thought provoking poster. Peter Exley and Thorsten Bösch have sent their tuxes to the cleaners - they'll be our shiny, gleaming emcees. . It's cold. You need a night out. You could use something to counter the despicable consumption.

Buy tickets on-line. Information on-line.

« December 4, Wednesday»

Picking up the Pieces: Starting and Stopping Projects

8:15 - 10:00 a.m., - AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, #250
Sponsor: AIA Chicago Practice Management KC
1.5 LU
Free event for members, $15.00 non-members

The project is re-starting. But while you see the confetti drift to the ground and you taste the last sip of champagne, you are thinking...what will my role be in this project restart? What’s changed with my client, my firm, and my community since the professional services were performed last, and how will this impact me and the resurrected project? Suspended projects may change due to the passage of time, changes in the site or environment, regulatory modifications, and other issues outside of your control.

Let AEC insurance expert Melissa S. Roberts, AAI (USI Midwest) and attorney Eric L. Singer (Ice Miller LLP) help you uncover the risk management concerns and corrections of your new role and the dynamics of the resurrected project. Among others, topics will include copyright infringement, reliance on information provided by others, managing client expectations and termination of services.
Learning Objectives:
* Identify the 3 common roles for design professionals in project re-starts
* Review the frequency and dynamics of project suspensions and re-starts supported by industry statistics
* Outline strategies to protect your copyright and fee when a project is suspended
* Create a basic checklist of core project resumption issues and risks
* Consider the risk management tools to address the two greatest pitfalls of being a successor design professional

The program will start promptly at 8:30 am. Check-in and light refreshments start at 8:15 am.

Information and registration online.

Lunch Talks@CAF: Building Preview: Northwestern University Music and Communications Building with Goettsch Partners

12:15 - 1:00 p.m. - Lecture Hall Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan
Sponsor: Chicago Architecture Foundation
Free event - arrive early, seating is limited. Guests are welcome to bring a bag lunch.
AIA/CES: 1

Presentation by Patrick Loughran, FAIA, PE, LEED AP – Principal, and Scott Seyer, AIA, LEED AP – Associate Principal, Goettsch Partners

Hear the story of the winning competition entry, the design evolution and construction progress for the new home of the Patrick Loughran discusses Goettsch Partners' Northwestern University Music and Communications Building at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, December 4, 2013Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. Located on the southeastern edge of the Evanston campus, the building occupies a prime site fronting Lake Michigan and is envisioned as a signature facility for Northwestern.

Designed to wrap and connect with the existing Regenstein Hall, the building enables the music school to consolidate its programs for the first time ever. The dynamic, Z-shaped plan conforms to its site, and a large atrium bisects the building, defining the main entry and offering clear views that cut through the facility. The recital hall is the crown jewel, featuring a 40-foot-high glass wall that sets performers against a dramatic backdrop of the lake and the Chicago skyline.

Information: 312/922.3432 or on-line

« December 5, Thursday»

Commission on Chicago Landmarks

12:45 p.m., City Hall, Room 201-A, 121 North LaSalle

Monthly meeting, open to the public. The Permit Review Committee will hold is regular meeting in City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle Street, City Council Chambers at 1:15 p.m.

Times and places tentative, check website to reconfirm.

Information and agenda on-line

The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come

6:00 p.m. - Graham Foundation, 4 West Burton
Sponsor: Graham Foundation
Free event. Reservations required.

Architect Sean Lally will discuss his Graham-funded book The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture toAuthor Sean Lally will discuss his book, The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come, at the Graham Foundation, Chicago, December 5, 2013 Come (Lars Müller Publishers, 2013)—a speculation into an architecture produced by designing the energy within our environment (electromagnetic, thermodynamic, acoustic, and chemical). This architecture exchanges the walls and shells we have assumed to be the only type of attainable architecture for a range of material energies that develop shapes, aesthetics, organizational systems, and social experiences. In this world, energy emerges as more than the substance that simply fills the interior of a building or reflects off its outer walls. Instead, energy becomes its own enterprise for design innovation: it becomes the architecture itself.

A reception and book signing willow Lally's talk in the Graham Foundation bookshop.

Reservations and information: on-line

Film Screening: My Playground

6:00 p.m. - SCREEN, The Wit Hotel, 201 North State Street
Sponsor: Chicago Architecture Foundation
$10.00 members; $15.00 non-members. Price includes two drinks (beer, wine, soft drinks)
1 AIA/CES

Created by Copenhagen-based filmmaker Kaspar Astrup Schroder in collaboration with Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, My Playground, film screening at the Wit Hotel, Chicago, December 5, 2013founder of BIG Architects, My Playground explores the ways in which traceurs – practitioners of parkour – interact and engage with the built environment. Mainly set in Copenhagen (with footage shot in Japan, the United States, United Kingdom and China), the film follows Danish performance group Team JiYo as they athletically interact with Bjarke Ingels’ architecture. The result is a dynamic recording and experience of urban space, challenging perceptions and illustrating the potential of the modern city.

“Whenever you do a building or an urban space you contribute to the future life of the city and in doing that you contribute to the future of the culture and the lifestyle of the inhabitants…'My Playground' is a film of course about parkour but is also very much how public life and architecture are intricately linked.”
-Bjarke Ingels

Information and registration on-line.

Radiant Cooling for Commercial Projects

6:00 p.m., - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento
Sponsor: Chicago Center for Green Technology
Free event
AIA (LU/HSW)

Speaker: James Prisby, Uponor

Is radiant cooling appropriate or applicable for your commercial building? Join Jim Prisby of Uponor as he covers the fundamentals of radiant cooling, the key issues that are faced when proposing a radiant solution and the types of projects that are best suited for the system. Using a sample project, Jim will walk you through the design process.

Information and registration online.

 

 «December 10, Tuesday»

Friends of Downtown Annual Meeting

6:00 - 8:00 p.m. - Forum Studio, 35 East Wacker, Suite 1300
Sponsor: Friends of Downtown
Free for members

Join Friends of Downtown for the 2013 Annual Meeting. Featuring speaker Bonnie McDonald from Landmarks Illinois, the event is an opportunity to submit nominees for the Best of Downtown awards, vote on new Board members and renew memberships for 2014. Drinks and appetizers will be served.

RSVP: on-line.

 «December 11, Wednesday»

Designing Aluminum Structures

7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Westin O-Hare, Rosemont
Sponsor: Structural Engineers Association of Illinois
$300.00 members, $400.00 non-members by December 4; $375.00 and $475.00 thereafter
7.5 hours continuing education credit

J. Randolph Kissell, P.E. co-founded the TGB Partnership, an engineering firm specializing in aluminum structures, in 1993 and has been involved in the design, fabrication, erection, and inspection of aluminum structures since 1978. He co-authored Aluminum Structures - A Guide to Their Specifications and Design, published by John Wiley and now in its 2nd edition, and co-holds two US patents for aluminum structures. Structures he has designed have been featured in Civil Engineering, Engineering News- Record, and at ASCE Structures Congresses, and Randy consulted in the renovation of the aluminum conservatory for the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington.

Information and registration information on-line.

Offshore Urbanism: Exporting Our Design Capital

12:00 - 1:00 p.m., - AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, #250
Sponsor: AIA Chicago Regional and Urban Design KC
1 LU/HSW
Free event for members, $15.00 non-members

Many of Chicago’s architects, planners and urban designers are actively helping China plan the explosive Dianne Legge Kemp of RTKLA and Christopher Drew of Adrian Smith+gordon Gill Architecture discuss Offshore Urbanism: Exporting Our Design Capital, at AIA Chicago, December 11, 2013growth of its cities. Are we exporting our best urban design ideas, or is this a healthy collaboration where experience meets opportunity? This program presents the China experience of two Chicago-based urban design practitioners. We will explore the pitfalls and benefits of working overseas, success in implementation, and the ability to test ideas with open-minded and innovative clients.

Our speakers will be Diane Legge Kemp, FAIA, ASLA, APA, Principal, RTKL Associates, and Christopher Drew, PhD, Director of Sustainability, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP. Ms. Kemp is based in China and Chicago and directs numerous large-scale developments in China. Dr. Drew was the Sustainability Manager for MASDAR City in Abu Dhabi and now with AS+GG is active in performative design of buildings and cities throughout China.

Bring your lunch; beverages provided.

Information and registration online.

Lunch Talks@CAF: Second Presbyterian Church: Chicago’s Newest National Historic Landmark

12:15 - 1:00 p.m. - Lecture Hall Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan
Sponsor: Chicago Architecture Foundation
Free event - arrive early, seating is limited. Guests are welcome to bring a bag lunch.
AIA/CES: 1

Presentation by William Tyre, Executive Director and Curator, Glessner House Museum

In February 2013, Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago’s South Loop was designated Chicago's only William Tyre discusses the Second Presbyterian Church at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, December 11, 2013National Historic Landmark church. The sanctuary, the masterwork of noted architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, is widely regarded as one of the largest and best preserved Arts and Crafts interiors in the nation. To complete this stunning interior, showcasing some of the finest examples of Arts and Crafts mural painting, sculpture, stained glass and crafting in metal, fabric, wood and plaster, Shaw worked with the leading designers of his day - Louis Comfort Tiffany, Edward Burne-Jones, Morris & Company, Frederic Clay Bartlett, Giannini & Hilgart and others. Join us as we learn more about this vibrant congregation and the architects and artisans that created this world-class interiory.

Information: 312/922.3432 or on-line

Senior Living: Breathing New Life into Legacy Buildings

6:00 - 7:00 p.m., - AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, #250
Sponsor: AIA Chicago Design for Aging KC
1 LU/HSW
Free event for members, $15.00 non-members

A large percentage of skilled-care providers around the country operate “legacy buildings” constructed since 1946*which do not meet contemporary standards for resident-centered care. As these providers undertake repositioning efforts they are faced with a variety of physical challenges that inhibit the incorporation of future-focused models of care.

Through the use of case studies, Heidi Dahle, AIA, EDAC and Todd Wiltse, AIA (Worn Jerabek Architects, P.C.) will provide an in-depth look at a variety of strategies that address the entire spectrum of renovation challenges: structural, cultural, and financial. Specific interventions targeted at improving independence and wellness, advancing future-focused models of care, and addressing the needs of all stakeholders will be discussed; with a focus on principles, process, and best practices utilized in these “legacy building” renovations.

Join the Design for Aging KC in exploring these issues.

Information and registration online.

 «December 12, Thursday»

The Integration of Public Art and Public Parks

12:15 p.m. - Claudia Cassidy Auditorium, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 East WashingtonThe Integration of Public Art and Public Parks, Friends of the Parks Walter Netsch lecture by Jon Pounds of Chicago Public Art Group at the Chicago Cultural Center, December 12, 2013
Sponsor: Friends of the Parks
Free event

Jon Pounds, Executive Director of the Chicago Public Art Group will talk about the group's extraordinary work expanding the experience of public art into the underpasses of Lake Shore Drive, in parks and in other settings around Chicago.

Information: on-line.

Chicago Community Development Commission

1:00 P.M., City Council Chambers, 121 North LaSalle
Open to the public

Monthly meeting.

Meeting schedules and agenda's on-line

Architecture is Art...Is Architecture Art? Kai-Uwe Bergmann of BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group)

6:00 p.m. - Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago
Sponsor:Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Architecture Foundation
$8.00 members, $10.00 non-members, $6.00 students

Kai-Uwe Bergmann is a partner at BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), a Copenhagen- and New York-based Kai-Uwe Bergmann of BIG (Bjarke Ingeles Group) lectures at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, December 12, 2013group of architects, designers, and builders. He discusses the firm’s creative process and the art involved in architecture.

The Architecture Is Art talks examine the intersections and blurred boundaries between the professional practice and creative process of architects and contemporary artists. The series explores how architects and artists identify their work, where they turn for inspiration, how their process and presentation materials are interpreted, and when it’s useful or necessary to distinguish the disciplines of art and architecture for viewers.

Information and registration: on-line.

« December 14, Saturday »

Gallery Talk: Pamela Bannos: Cap Streeter and the development of Streeterville

3:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago
Sponsor:Museum of Contemporary Art
Free with admission

Pamela Bannos’s Shifting Grounds: Block 21 and Chicago’s MCA, included in The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology, explores the history of the MCA’s location between Michigan Ave. and the lake. Gallery Talks: Pamela Bannos: Cap Streeter and the development of Streeterville, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November 16, 2013Each talk in this series explores a different chapter in this history. Bannos utilizes methods of research that highlight the forgotten and overlooked, exploring the links between visual representation, urban space, history and collective memory. An exhibiting artist since the 1980s, Bannos has shown her photographic works nationally and internationally, including in solo exhibitions at the Photographers’ Gallery in London, England (1992), and the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York (2003). Her art practice has branched out from creating photographic works that incorporate found imagery to also include research projects that are site-specific and/or web-based. Since launching Hidden Truths: The Chicago City Cemetery and Lincoln Park in 2008, Bannos has given presentations to audiences crossing over into disciplines that include archaeology, history, and genealogy

Information: on-line

« December 16, Monday »

Color Marketing Group - World Palette 2015+

5:30 to 8:00 p.m. - Hafele Showroom – 154 W. Hubbard
Sponsor: Hafele Chicago Showroom
Free event, RSVP
Educational credits pending

Join the newly-elected President John F. West of Color Marketing Group for the revelation of CMG's John F. West, President Color Marketing Group, discusses World Palette 2015+ at Hafele Showroom, Chicago, December 16, 2013World Palette for 2015. The cornerstone of Color Marketing Group is the dynamic exchange of ideas and information between color experts from around the world. The World Palette is comprised of forecasts from Asia Pacific, Europe, North and Latin America. Join us to see comparisons of the Color Forecasting Workshops held in 2013 and learn about directional color trends & the forces influencing color and design, the application of color to product, color combinations, finishes, and expressions.

Information and registration on-line.

« December 17, Tuesday »

Underfloor Service distribution: A Key Strategy for Green Buildings

11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. - Hafele Showroom – 154 W. Hubbard
Sponsor: Hafele Chicago Showroom, Association of Licensed Architects
Free event for members; $20.00 non-members
1 LU ALA, AIA; .1 CEU IDCEC; 1 CEU for LEED

Presented by David Bessert, LEED AP of Tate Access Floors, this seminar will demonstrate the use of underfloor service distribution (UFSD) as a Key Green Strategy by exploring the numerous benefits of the system including Improved IAQ; Energy efficiency; Personal comfort control; Daylighting; Flexibility; and the reduction, recycling, and reuse of materials

The benefits of UFSD will be compared with other common green building strategies by examining the characteristics in three categories: High Performance, Sustainability, and Overall Financial Performance.

Information and registration on-line.

« December 18, Wednesday »

Lunch Talks@CAF: Unbuilt Third Coast

12:15 - 1:00 p.m. - Lecture Hall Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan
Sponsor: Chicago Architecture Foundation
Free event - arrive early, seating is limited. Guests are welcome to bring a bag lunch.Thomas Dyja talks about Unbuilt Third Coast at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, December 18, 2013
AIA/CES: 1

Presenter: Thomas Dyja is the author of The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream, winner of the 2013 Heartland Prize for Non-fiction.

It's hard to imagine Chicago without its iconic mid-century buildings: Mies van der Rohe's IIT campus and pioneering lakeshore apartments; SOM's Inland Steel and Bertrand Goldberg's Marina Towers, to name a few. But there were other projects on the boards during those years that could have dramatically changed the city as we know it, if they'd been built. Some were high—Wright's mile-high skyscraper—and some, like Mies' colossal Convention Center, were low; some were just a single structure, like Hugh Hefner's original Playboy mansion, while others like the Fort Dearborn plan, would have razed and rebuilt entire sections of the city, or in the case of Harry Weese's plan, put a string of islands out into the lake. Join Thomas Dyja as he explores the Chicago that might have been, and the city we got instead.

Information: 312/922.3432 or on-line

Trickle Up: The Scale of Water in Chicago

6:00 p.m. - Lecture Hall Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan
Sponsor: Archeworks
Free even , RSVP

This discussion among some of the city's leading thinkers on water will address our region's greatest Trickle Up: The Scale of Water in Chicago, Archrworks panel at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, December 18, 2013natural asset, the current climate crisis, and potential actions on multiple scales that can re-shape our understanding of the city and region. At one end of the scale, water issues surpass typical boundaries of jurisdiction and governance, trickling up to define and impact unexpectedly larger territories. At a smaller scale, individual and community actions can increasingly bring influence outside the systems of big infrastructure.

Panelists will include Claire Cahan, Design Team Member, Studio Gang; Phil Enquist, FAIA, Partner, Urban Design and Planning, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; Martin Felsen, Principal, UrbanLab; Antonio Petrov, Assistant Professor, UTSA's College of Architecture and Co-Director, Chicago Expander; and Frances Whitehead, Civic Practice Artist and Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Moderators will be Iker Gil, Mas Studio and Co-Director, Chicago Expander and Joshua G. Stein, Principal, Radical Craft.

This discussion on water is organized by the Chicago Expander and Joshua Stein in collaboration with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP and the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

RSVP on-line, Information on-line

« December 19, Thursday »

Chicago Plan Commission

Time and place tentative: 1:00 P.M., City Council Chambers, Room 201-A, 121 N. LaSalle Street
Open to the public

Commission meeting and schedule and agenda's on-line

« December 20, Friday »

Antonio Gaudi Antonio Gaudi

6:15 p.m. - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State
Sponsor: Gene Siskel Film Center
$11.00, $7.00 students, $6.00 film center members, $4.00 students and faculty of SAIC and staff of AIC

In what's become an annual holiday tradition , the Film Center is again showing Antonio Gaudi, the 1985 film by Woman of the Dunes director Hiroshi Teshigahara, inspired by the wild, undulating, joyously erupting forms of Barcelona architect Antonio Gaudí. Teshigahara's eye for texture, shape and sensual detail meets Gaudí's whimsy in the cinematic exploration of such masterpieces of visionary architecture as the cathedral of the Sagrada Familia. The contemporary of artists such as Picasso and Joan Miró, Gaudí drew on Barcelona's medieval Romanesque architecture and ancient Arab culture for his inspiration. This film reveals the intricacy and hallucinatory richness of his concepts through camera work alone. Forgoing narration, Teshigahara accompanies his images with a brilliantly eclectic selection of music, ranging from baroque harpsichord to glass orchestra.

Information on-line or call 312/846.2800

« December 21, Saturday »

Antonio Gaudi

3:00 and 4:30 p.m. - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State
Sponsor: Gene Siskel Film Center
$11.00, $7.00 students, $6.00 film center members, $4.00 students and faculty of SAIC and staff of AIC

In what's become an annual holiday tradition , the Film Center is again showing Antonio Gaudi, the 1985 film by Woman of the Dunes director Hiroshi Teshigahara, inspired by the wild, undulating, joyously erupting forms of Barcelona architect Antonio Gaudí. Teshigahara's eye for texture, shape and sensual detail meets Gaudí's whimsy in the cinematic exploration of such masterpieces of visionary architecture as the cathedral of the Sagrada Familia. See December 20 listing for details.

Information on-line or call 312/846.2800

« December 22, Sunday »

Antonio Gaudi

3:15 p.m. - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State
Sponsor: Gene Siskel Film Center
$11.00, $7.00 students, $6.00 film center members, $4.00 students and faculty of SAIC and staff of AIC

In what's become an annual holiday tradition , the Film Center is again showing Antonio Gaudi, the 1985 film by Woman of the Dunes director Hiroshi Teshigahara, inspired by the wild, undulating, joyously erupting forms of Barcelona architect Antonio Gaudí. Teshigahara's eye for texture, shape and sensual detail meets Gaudí's whimsy in the cinematic exploration of such masterpieces of visionary architecture as the cathedral of the Sagrada Familia. See December 20 listing for details.

Information on-line or call 312/846.2800

« December 23, Monday »

Antonio Gaudi

6:15 p.m. - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State
Sponsor: Gene Siskel Film Center
$11.00, $7.00 students, $6.00 film center members, $4.00 students and faculty of SAIC and staff of AIC

In what's become an annual holiday tradition , the Film Center is again showing Antonio Gaudi, the 1985 film by Woman of the Dunes director Hiroshi Teshigahara, inspired by the wild, undulating, joyously erupting forms of Barcelona architect Antonio Gaudí. Teshigahara's eye for texture, shape and sensual detail meets Gaudí's whimsy in the cinematic exploration of such masterpieces of visionary architecture as the cathedral of the Sagrada Familia. See December 20 listing for details.

Information on-line or call 312/846.2800

« December 26, Thursday »

Antonio Gaudi

6:15 p.m. - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State
Sponsor: Gene Siskel Film Center
$11.00, $7.00 students, $6.00 film center members, $4.00 students and faculty of SAIC and staff of AIC

In what's become an annual holiday tradition , the Film Center is again showing Antonio Gaudi, the 1985 film by Woman of the Dunes director Hiroshi Teshigahara, inspired by the wild, undulating, joyously erupting forms of Barcelona architect Antonio Gaudí. Teshigahara's eye for texture, shape and sensual detail meets Gaudí's whimsy in the cinematic exploration of such masterpieces of visionary architecture as the cathedral of the Sagrada Familia. See December 20 listing for details.

Information on-line or call 312/846.2800

« December 27, Thursday »

Antonio Gaudi

6:00 p.m. - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State
Sponsor: Gene Siskel Film Center
$11.00, $7.00 students, $6.00 film center members, $4.00 students and faculty of SAIC and staff of AIC

In what's become an annual holiday tradition , the Film Center is again showing Antonio Gaudi, the 1985 film by Woman of the Dunes director Hiroshi Teshigahara, inspired by the wild, undulating, joyously erupting forms of Barcelona architect Antonio Gaudí. Teshigahara's eye for texture, shape and sensual detail meets Gaudí's whimsy in the cinematic exploration of such masterpieces of visionary architecture as the cathedral of the Sagrada Familia. See December 16 listing for details.

Information on-line or call 312/846.2800

 
     
     
     

 

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