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| 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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An Unlikely Ultra modernism: The S. B. Fuller House in Robbins, Illinois, and Its Architects. 200 p.m., - Woodson Library Auditorium, 9524 South Halsted Alfred Willis will explore one of Chicagoland’s most important yet least known pieces of African-American heritage in an upcoming presentation in Chicago, 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.
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 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. 6:00 - 7:00 p.m., - AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, #250 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 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. Introduction to Building Energy Modeling and Simulation 6:00 p.m., - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento 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 This will be our 7th PechaKucha Night in December. Holiday season and PechaKucha seem to go together. Sometimes it 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.
Picking up the Pieces: Starting and Stopping Projects 8:15 - 10:00 a.m., - AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, #250 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. 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 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 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
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 Architect Sean Lally will discuss his Graham-funded book The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to A reception and book signing willow Lally's talk in the Graham Foundation bookshop. Reservations and information: on-line 6:00 p.m. - SCREEN, The Wit Hotel, 201 North State Street Created by Copenhagen-based filmmaker Kaspar Astrup Schroder in collaboration with Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, “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.” Information and registration on-line. Radiant Cooling for Commercial Projects 6:00 p.m., - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento Information and registration online. |
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Friends of Downtown Annual Meeting 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. Designing Aluminum Structures 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Westin O-Hare, Rosemont Offshore Urbanism: Exporting Our Design Capital 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., - AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, #250 Many of Chicago’s architects, planners and urban designers are actively helping China plan the explosive 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 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 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 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. Join the Design for Aging KC in exploring these issues. Information and registration online. The Integration of Public Art and Public Parks 12:15 p.m. - Claudia Cassidy Auditorium, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 East Washington 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 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 Kai-Uwe Bergmann is a partner at BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), a Copenhagen- and New York-based 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.
Gallery Talk: Pamela Bannos: Cap Streeter and the development of Streeterville 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago 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. Information: on-line
Color Marketing Group - World Palette 2015+ 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. - Hafele Showroom – 154 W. Hubbard Information and registration on-line.
Underfloor Service distribution: A Key Strategy for Green Buildings 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. - Hafele Showroom – 154 W. Hubbard 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.
Lunch Talks@CAF: Unbuilt Third Coast 12:15 - 1:00 p.m. - Lecture Hall Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan 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 This discussion among some of the city's leading thinkers on water will address our region's greatest 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. RSVP on-line, Information on-line
Chicago Plan Commission Time and place tentative: 1:00 P.M., City Council Chambers, Room 201-A, 121 N. LaSalle Street Commission meeting and schedule and agenda's on-line
Antonio Gaudi 6:15 p.m. - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Information on-line or call 312/846.2800
Antonio Gaudi 3:00 and 4:30 p.m. - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Information on-line or call 312/846.2800
Antonio Gaudi 3:15 p.m. - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Information on-line or call 312/846.2800
Antonio Gaudi 6:15 p.m. - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Information on-line or call 312/846.2800
Antonio Gaudi 6:15 p.m. - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Information on-line or call 312/846.2800
Antonio Gaudi 6:00 p.m. - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Information on-line or call 312/846.2800 |
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series 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.
snows. 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.
Bienen School of Music
founder 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.
growth 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. 
National 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 
group of architects, designers, and builders. He discusses the firm’s creative process and the art involved in architecture.
Each 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 
World 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.
natural 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.
