It's that whole flowers-after-the rain thing. Even with things shutting down for the Memorial Day weekend, there's still over 40 items on the
May Calendar of Chicago Architectural events.
It begins on Wednesday the 1st at the
Art Institute, with a panel on
Building Public Art and Public Spaces: The Chicago Picasso and its Legacy, featuring
Stephanie D'Alessandro,
Julie Burros,
Fred C.T. Lo,
Richard F. Tomlinson,
Mark Sexton,
Dan Peterman and curator
Alison Fisher as moderator.
Preserving the Past/Making it New is this month's theme for the lunchtime lectures at CAF, with
Preservation Chicago's
Jonathan Fine talking about this year's
Seven Most Threatened Buildings on the 1st,
Susan Rabe on Milwaukee's
St. Josaphat on the 8th,
Landmarks Illinois' Lisa DiChiera discussing their 2013 list of
Ten Most Endangered Historic Places, set to be unveiled this Tuesday,
Zurich Esposito talking about
AIA/Chicago's
Small Firm/Small Project Award winners on the 22nd, and
Hume An and
Jeff Bone discussing the rehab of the landmark
Viceroy Hotel into the
Harvest Common Apartments.
Also at the
Art Institute,
Jodi Magness lectures on
Ancient Synagogues in the Land of Israel on Saturday, the 4th, while on the 9th there's a lecturer tour of the institution's own
Art and Architecture from 1893 to today.
AIA/Chicago is offering a tour of
SCB's Klarchek Information Commons at Loyola on Tuesday, the 7th, the same day
SEAOI's May dinner meeting will hear presentations from the finalists for its annual
Excellence in Structural Engineer Awards.
Christopher Kopp discusses
Bus Rapid Transit in Curitiba, Brazil on Thursday, the 9th, the same day that at AIA/Chicago, ZPD+A's
James Damato and
David Keller of the
Camp Douglas Restoration Foundation will discuss efforts to create a memorial on the South Side site where thousands of Confederate prisoners died during the Civil War, and
David Hartt and
Karthik Pandian are in conversation with
Hamza Walker at the
Graham.
I'm afraid we missed the opening the
SAIC student show in April, but the
UIC School of Architecture opens its
Year End Show on Saturday the 4th, and
IIT College of Architecture has its
Open House and Annual Exhibition of Student Work on Thursday, the 10th.
On Wednesday, the 15th,
Carl Smith discusses his new book
City Water, City Life at the
Newberry, while film-title designer
Karin Fong of
Imaginary Forces is at Fullerton Hall for the
Architecture and Design Society of the Art Institute. This month's
Landmarks Illinois Preservation Snapshots lecture, Thursday the 16th at the Cultural Center, features
Nick Kalogeresis,
Jean Guarino and
Douglas E. Gilbert talking about
The Architecture of River Forest at lunchtime, while in the evening at the
Driehaus, Dr.
Susan R. Braden discusses
The Architecture of Leisure: The Florida Coast Resorts of Henry Flagler and Henry Plant.
And on Wednesday the 22nd,
CTBUH is sponsoring a panel at CAF on the
Shanghai Tower, with
Dennis Poon,
Grant Uhlir and
Christian Vol Holten.
I'm sure I'm leaving off stuff I'll be adding later, but even now, we've got over 40 great items, so check out all the details on
The May 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.