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November starts out today, Thursday the 1st, with the issue of
landmark designation for
Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital finally comes to a head at the
Commissions on Chicago Landmarks monthly meeting starting at 12:45 p.m. in room 201-A (Council Chambers) at
City Hall. The event has been carefully scripted by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to quickly end in an approval of Prentice's destruction. We'll see how much the players adhere to lines Emanuel has written for them.
It will to be hard to top today, but there are almost fifty items already on the
November Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events. Its includes the announcement of the winners and display of the work of the
Future Prentice Competition, at the Chicago Architecture Foundation on the 15th.
This Saturday the 3rd,
Yves B�har will be discussing
Design for Tomorrow at the
Chicago Humanities Festival, and next Wednesday
Ann Clark discusses
Design in Haiti at
CAF.
You want architects? We've got
Meejin Yoon at
IIT Wednesday the 7th, where
Jean-Louis Cohen lectures on the 14th,
Eva Castro Iraola of
Plasma Studio at the
Art Institute Monday, the 12th,
Chan-li Lin discussing
Three Hospitals by Rafael Vinoly Architects at
CAF lunchtime on Wednesday the 14th,
An Te Liu, Monday the 19th at
UIC, where
Ciro Njale lectures on Friday, the 16th.
Books? Robert McCarter talks about his new book
Understanding Architecture at
Unity Temple on Thursday, the 8th, the same day
Julia Bachrach discusses her
City in a Garden at
The Cliff Dwellers, and on Monday the 19th,
Ben Nicholson and
Inigo Manglano-Ovalle discuss their new book
Chicago Makes Modern, at the
Graham, where
Yuval Yasky talks about
Kibbutz on Tuesday the 27th
H.H. Richardson's Glessner House is celebrated with a lecture by
Ken Breisch on Friday the 9th, and a
day-long symposium Saturday the 10th, the same day the
Society of Architectural Historians have their
annual gala, while
Lisa Lise Dub�-Scherr of the
Richard H. Driehaus Museum discusses the history of its home, the
Nickerson Mansion, for
Landmarks Illinois at the
Cultural Center on the 15th, the same day
Jean-Louis Cohen discusses
The Russian Avant-Garde between East and West at the
Graham and curator
Karen Kice offers a
gallery talk on the Art Institute's exhibition
Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects, where
Iker Gil of
MAS Studio leads an "
Archi-Salon" the following Saturday, the 17th
The
Structural Engineers Association of Illinois discusses
The Christchurch Earthquake Tuesday the 13th, the same day
Christopher Enck gives an overview of
20th Century Furniture Design at the
Herman Miller Showroom for
AIA/Chicago.
SEAIO also offers an all-day symposium on
Chicago Loads on the 7th, and a three-day conference on
Fundamental and Structural Analysis for curved and Skewed Steel Bridges beginning on 14th.
And this is just scratching. Check out the entire
November 2012 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.
99% Invisible's Roman Mars, whose April appearance at Frank Lloyd Wrights Unity Temple was rained out, has designs 4 dignity has its' big Spirit of Design fundraiser at Ignite Glass Studio.
The Glessners'Kutani ware bowl and Chicago's take on Japonisme at the Glesser House Museum, while on Thursday the 16th, James Caughman talks about Furniture, Fashion and Music in the 18th Century at the Baker Knapp and Tubbs Chicago Showroom, and on Wednesday the 9th, Jeff Greene of EverGreene Architectural Arts talks about Preservation at the SAIC.
