Barbara Mann on The Place of Space in Jewish Cultures - more for April; plus: tickets still available for annual Wright housewalk in May

Never too late to add to the April Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

This Thursday, April 25th, at the Norris Center at Northwestern in Evanston, Barbara Mann will lecture on Makom: The Place of Space in Jewish Cultures.  The week kicks off with Mark Linder at UIC on Monday, then on Tuesday Greg Walters talks about Unraveling Gridlock at the Chicago Center at Green Technology.  Does Chicago Plan Anymore? is the topic of this Wednesday's lunchtime lecture at CAF, with D. Bradford Hunt and Jon B. DeVries, and in the evening there's another panel at DePaul Center on Chicago's New Eastside.

On Thursday, the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois is sponsoring its tenth annual Midwest Bridge Symposium at Maggiano's, while on Friday new IIT Dean of Architecture Dean Wiel Arets is at the Graham Foundation, and Saturday is both Rebuild Together - Working Together Day, and a lecture by Argonne Lab's Don Hillebrand on Chicago: A Leader in Energy and Technology Breakthroughs at Francis Parker.

And these are just some of the highlights still to come.  Check it all out on the April Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

39th Annual Wright Plus Architectural Housewalk.

 We also learned last week that as of today, there are still tickets available for this usually sold-out annual event.  This year's edition takes place Saturday May 18th, and offers rare interior tours of nine private homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, including the 1913 Harry S. Adams House, and such contemporaries as John S. Bergen, plus three other landmark FLW buildings.  Tickets - $85.00 for Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust members, $100.00 for non-members - can be purchased on-line. More information here.