Rojos at UIC Tonight, plus Nair, Shaw, Atomic West and Democracy and the Built Environment - still more for February!

You might think that at this point, we were just waiting for March and spring, and that February was pretty much finished.  You'd be wrong.  This is one active week on the February Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

Today, Monday the 25th, the School of Architecture of UIC kicks off its spring lecture series with Luis Rojo of Rojo/Fern�ndez-Shaw arquitectos of Madrid.  

On Tuesday, the 26th, the Chicago Loop Alliance has its 2013 Annual Meeting, and superstar structural engineer Dr. Shankar Nair lectures of Skyscrapers-Past, Present and Future at CAF for the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois, while down at the Koolhaas Campus Center at IIT, Peter Onuf and Marshall Brown will deliver the Benjamin Franklin Lecture: Democracy and the Built Environment.

Wednesday, the 27th, Terry McDonnell talks about engineering the (Sears) Willis Tower Skydeck lunchtime at CAF, while over at the Driehaus Museum, a/k/a/ Nickerson Mansion, Stuart Cohen will discuss The Architecture of Howard Van Doren Shaw: Reimaging the Traditional House.

It all wraps up on Thursday, the 28th, with Navigating Change, an all-day conference of the Midwest Ecological Landscaping Association, a Friends of the Parks lecture on Walter Netsch's Legacy, Robert Chattel talking about the The Atomic Wild Wild West at SAIC, and Fritz Haeg discussing Domestic Integrities at the Graham.

To give you a small preview, March begins with a bang on the 1st with the barnstorming new dean Wiel Arets at the College of Architecture at IIT stopping by Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple in Oak Park with A Wonderful World.

More on March later.  For now, there are nearly two dozen great items still to come this month.  Check them all out on the February calendar of Chicago Architectural Events

Lohan on Mies, Sambunaris' Taxonomy, Democracy and the Built Environment, Prentice v. Commission again - more for February

It's only the first Monday in the month and already have half a dozen new items on the February Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

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For Tuesday, the 26th, we've added an intriguing new event, Democracy and the Built Environment, with Peter Onuf and Marshall Brown, at the Koolhaas McCormick Campus Center at IIT , while on  Wednesday the 12th, Dirk Lohan lectures on his grandfather in Mies van der Rohe's Legacy and the Chicago Skyline, at the Block Museum  in Evanston, the same day the Chicago ACE Mentor Program has its benefit lunch at the Chicago Hilton.

This Thursday, the 7th, Victoria Sambunaris lectures the Museum of Contemporary Photography, currently showing her exhibition, Taxonomy of a Landscape . . .

Sambunaris will also be offering a gallery walkthrough of the exhibition lunchtime on the 12th.

Coming up this week, SEAOI looks at the Wells Street Bridge Reconstruction on Tuesday the 5th, the same day Martha Schwartz is at Fullerton Hall for the School of the Art Institute, and the Chicago Center for Green Technology looks at Chicago's Sustainable Streets Program.

On Wednesday, Joshua Freedland of Wiss, Janney, Elstner discusses Engineering of the Washington Monument lunchtime at CAF.  On Thursday, the folks at Forgotten Chicago talk about their amazing website at the Cultural Center for Friends of Downtown,  the Chicago History Museum has a program on the late Crosstown Expressway and, but far from least . . .

 . . . the Commission on Chicago Landmarks takes up Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital - again - at their monthly meeting, in the County Board Room, 5th floor of the County Building, 118 N. Clark, 12:45 p.m.  Come by to support Prentice, or just take in the show

Check all the nearly 50 great items still to come on February Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.