Yes, I know it's June 17th, and no, it's not too late to be adding another half dozen great items to the
June Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.This Wednesday, June 19th,
Version Festival will be the focus of a gallery walk through the great
Spontaneous Interventions exhibition at the
Cultural Center, where on Saturday the 29th, there'll be a
Scholarly Perspectives panel discussion moderated by
Gordon Douglas, with
Jeffrey Kidder,
David Schalliol and others.
On Tuesday, the 25th,
The Swiss-American Business Council will be sponsoring
A Swiss View: Urban and the Future of Cities: 5, 10, and 50 years from Now, with
Tom Jacobs,
Hanno Weber and
Susanne Cannon.
Thursday the 27th is bursting with newly added items, beginning with 's
Marshall Brown discussion with
Geof Oppenheimer on
Architecture, Power, and the Urban Imaginary at the
Western Exhibitions Gallery, which is currently hosting Brown's show,
Center of the World, Chicago. That same evening, there'll be a book launch at the
First Bank and Trust for
Evanston 150 Years, 150 Places; while at the
Woodson Regional Library, architectural historian
Carolyn Armenta Davis will discuss
Today's African-American, Afro-European and Africa Architects.
The
Museum of Science and Industry marks its
80th birthday with a double-header from Chicago cultural historian
Tim Samuelson on Sunday the 23rd. In the morning, he partners with
Lisa M. Snyder of the
Urban Simulation Team at UCLA for
Exploring the White City, the latest iteration of the UCLA's evolving computer simulation of the 1893 World's Columbia Exposition, this time with an emphasis on Louis Sullivan's polychrome Transportation Building.
Then in the afternoon, Samuelson teams up with University of Arizona architectural historian
Lisa Schrenk for a look at
Building a Century of Progress, exploring the often strikingly modernist pavilion and exhibit designs for the 1933-34 Chicago's World Fair.
The MSI events are incredibly pricey - $20-$25.00 atop the museum's minimum $27.00 entry fee - but the White City simulation, especially, is a fascinating project, and these events usually sell out quickly, so be warned.
Already on the schedule is
Martin Adolfsson on
Suburbia Gone Wild this Tuesday the 19th, and then on to
Creating the Pullman Cultural Renaissance,
Channel Glass Wall Systems, the
Wells Street Bridge Rehabilitation, the
Common Cause of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd Wright, the new growth industry of
Urban Farming in Chicago, the
Original Sears Tower, the
Illinois Statewide Preservation Conference, and a lot more.
How much more? Well, check it out for yourself - two dozen great items still to come on the
June Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.
I'm pretty sure these will be the last additions for June Calendar of Chicago Architecture Events, but the Graham Foundation is opening a new exhibition, Where if Not Us? - Participatory Design and its Radical Approaches, with a reception this Thursday the 27th, and a public discussion Participatory Design and its Radical Approaches, on Friday with Mathias Heyden and Ines Schaber, as well as Roberta Feldman, Landon Bone Baker Architects and Henry Sanoff.
Thursday is one of those log-jam days, with a special Chicago Commission Landmarks rubber stamp session on Wrigley Field in the morning, and in the evening, in addition to the reception at the Graham, the opening the Illinois State Preservation Conference, an AIA/Chicago tour of the Joyce Foundation's new offices, The Green Office Challenge at the Center for Green Technology, Marshall Brown and Geof Oppenheimer discussing Architecture, Power and the Urban Imaginary; a signing and reception for the new book Evanston: 150 Years, 150 Places, and Carolyn Armenta Davis discussing The Art of Architecture: Today's African-American, Afro-European and African Architects at the Woodson Regional Library.
