Rural Studio, Wright's Chicago Years, Sullivan's Auditorium, Vale's Purging, Ronan's Poetic Iterations - More for January!

Okay, so now that we've gotten past the the freeze and the flood, maybe it's time again to venture and check out some great new items we've just added to the January Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

On Monday, the 20th, there's a fundraiser at Revolution Brewing for the Rural Studio, founded by Samuel Mockbee  and D.K. Ruth, this year celebrating its 20th anniversary, observed with an evening of Pecha Kucha-style talks.

We've got two new events for Thursday, January 23rd.  At the Arts

Club, the newly renamed Frank Lloyd Wright Trust (can a Sherman act be far behind?) will sponsor a cocktail reception and panel discussion, Frank Lloyd Wright's Chicago Years with David Bagnall, filmmaker Tim Sakamoto and David van Zanten, with the Trust's CEO Celeste Adams moderating.

Meanwhile, over at the  Cindy Pritzker Auditorium at the Harold L. Washington Library, Lawrence Vale will talk about Transforming Public Housing and his new book, Purging the Poorest:  Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities.

This coming Thursday evening, January 16, Barbara Geiger will be talking about Evanstonian Daniel H. Burnham and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in a lecture titled The Devil Comes to Wilmette, at the Evanston History Center.  Earlier in the day, art historian Rolf Achilles will be discussing The Significance of The Auditorium Building, for Landmarks Illinois, at the building's Murray-Green Library.

On Wednesday the 15th, lunchtime at Chicago Architecture Foundation, representatives from SCB and Loyola will provide a Building Preview: Institute of Environmental Sustainability.

And if that's enough, we've also added a new exhibition, Iterations: John Ronan's Poetry Foundation, at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The snow is melting; the sidewalks clearing -   liberate yourself!  Escape from cabin fever with the dozens of great things still to come on the January Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

Katherine Darnstadt at the Apple Store, Future City Regionals at UIC, Wright Before "Lloyd" - more for January

Yup, we're still adding great items to the January Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

This Thursday, January 9th at 6:00 p.m., Katherine Darnstadt of Latent Design brings architecture to The Apple Store on North Avenue with a free workshop, Contemporary Urban Design: Beyond the Building.

Move forward to Saturday, January 25th, and it's the Future City 2014 Chicago Regional Finals, at UIC, bringing together 6th, 7th and 8th graders using Sim City for this year's topic Tomorrow's Transit - Design a way to move people in and around the city.

And if you missed Tim Samuelson's great 2012 exhibition, Wright's Roots , you can see selections from it at the Chicago Cultural Center in Wright Before the "Lloyd",  a look at Frank Lloyd Wright's early, pre-greatest-architect-in-the-world years that runs through Mid-March.


This week, there's also SEOIA's dinner meeting on Hurricane Sandy and Coastline Rebuilding Efforts on Tuesday,  Steven M. Nilles and Joachim Scheussler discussing Goettsch Partners new Chicago project, 150 North Riverside, lunchtime at the Chicago Architecture Foundation on Wednesday, and Christopher Vernon talking about another Wright protege, Walter Burley Griffin, the Oak Park Studio's Landscape Architect, 1901-1906 at Oak Park's Unity Temple on Thursday.


There's a lot still to come this month.  Check it all out on the January Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

150 North Riverside, Jeanne Gang on Radical Creativity, Achilles on the Auditorium, Vernon on Griffin and more: Just Posted! the January Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events

Once more into the breach, dear friends - we've just put up the January 2014 Calendar of Chicago

Architectural Events.

The year starts slowly but we still have dozens of great items in the first month of the New Year, beginning with representatives of Wiss, Janney, Elstner and Thorton Tomasetti discussing Hurricane Sandy and Coastline Rebuilding Efforts for the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois,

Lunchtime Wednesdays at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, it begins with building previews -on the 8th, with Steven M. Nilles and Joachim Schuessler of Goettsch Partners discussing 150 North Riverside, which has just landed its anchor tenant; and the 15th finds representatives from Solomon Cordwell Buenz and Loyola discussing the school's under-construction Institute of Environmental Sustainability.  Then on the 22nd, Julia Bachrach, Elizabeth Patterson and Frances O'Cherony Archer talk about the Chicago Historic Schools website, a fantastic new resource of images and information.  On the 29th, Chicago Chief Sustainability Officer Karen Weigert talks about Building a Livable, Competitive and Sustainable City.

Want more?  Christopher Vernon flies in from Australia to talk about Walter Burley Griffin, the

Oak Park Studio's Landscape Architect at Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple on Thursday, the 9th, while Rolf Achilles takes on The Significance of The Auditorium Building for Landmarks Illinois in the structure's Murray-Green Library on Thursday the 16th.

On Wednesday morning, January 22nd, Jeanne Gang talks about Radical Creativity and Collaborative Design at The Executive's Club of Chicago's Women's Leadership Breakfast, while over at APA Chicago, Adam Rosa discusses A Tale of Two Neighborhoods: The HUD Choice Neighborhoods in Action on Tuesday the 28th.

New shows:  Chromatic Patterns for the Graham Foundation:

Judy Ledgerwood opens on the 23rd, while ArchiTech Gallery launches its new show, Alfonso Iannelli and the Studios, Saturday the 3rd.

There's lot more, so check out all the goodies on the January 2014 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.