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This calendar of Chicago architectural events is jointly sponsored by Repeat and the Chicago Architectural Club. Send listings, corrections, comments, complaints and limericks to: webmaster
First Tuesdays Happy Hour and Meeting 5:30 - 7:30 P.M. - Rock Bottom Brewery, 1 W. Grand Avenue Come to network and meet other young architectural professionals for a drink or dinner and discussion. Look for the table with a sign. If the weather is good, we'll be on the roof top. Bring a friend AIA membership not required! Information: 312/670.7770
Heritage at Millennium Park/Pedway 12:15 P.M. - Chicago Cultural Center Brown Bag luncheon lecture Information: 312/458.9454 Commission on Chicago Landmarks Monthly meeting.
12:45 P.M., 33 N. LaSalle, Room 1600
Archeworks Summer 2005 Open House 5:30 - 7:00 PM - (Program at 6:00 P.M.)Archeworks, 625 N. Kingsbury, at Ontario Do you want to learn about design and architecture through hands on experience? Are you interested in using your professional skills to help underserved communities and non profit organizations in Chicago? At Archeworks, students work next to design professionals on real world projects. Students spend one year working in teams with non profit partners to create design solutions for social concerns. Archeworks is a part time evening program and offers a Post Professional Diploma in Alternative Design. Spaces are still available for the 2005-06 school year. Come learn about the Archeworks design program, see the projects and find out how you can get a scholarship. Bring your friends and co-workers, refreshments will be served. RSVP Online or at 312/867.7254
Incident and Injury Free: Safety in Design, Construction and Everyday Life 7:30 A.M. - Merchandise Mart Conference Center, 350 N. Orleans, 2nd Floor Speakers: John Salley and Fred Brandstrader, AIA, Bovis Lend Lease Zigmas Saduskas and Frank Perrino, OSHA Steve Pianalto, JMJ Associates Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770 Chicago Community Development Commission Monthly meeting.
1:00 P.M., City Council Chambers
Planning for 2006 12:00 P.M.. - AIA Chicago, #1049, Merchandise Mart Annual planning workshop to discuss topics and programs for the upcoming year. Bring your ideas and lunch; beverages provided. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. - Kendall College, 900 N . North Branch (Near Chicago and Halsted) Take a tour of Kendall’s new eight-floor, 166,000 square-foot campus building along the Chicago River. It is a showpiece facility with 16 high-tech professional kitchens, an elegant restaurant, auditorium with demonstration kitchen and broadcast capability, wine room, organic gardens, riverwalk and other amenities. Buy tickets online. Information: 312458.9454
Jordan Mozer 5:30 P.M. - Merchandise Mart Conference Center (2nd floor pedway) Lecture by Jordan Mozer, whose company, Jordan Mozer and Associates, is internationally renowned for restaurants, hotels, stores and offices that blend architecture, industrial design and sculpture. He will discuss recently completed projects, including a boutique hotel fashioned from the ruins of an old iron foundry in Hamburg, Germany, a bronze sculpture that explores the look of music at the Bellagio Resort in Las Vegas, designs for the Crown Jeweler in London, a futuristic deli, a Karstadt department store prototype in Mulheim, Germany and several projects that are still on the boards. Advance registration required. Call 312/464.9660 New Urbanist Approaches to Parking 6:30 P.M. - School of the Art Institute auditorium, Columbus and Jackson, second floor (former Film Center) A panel discussion on confronting the policy and design challenges of parking in urban neighborhoods. Accommodating parking is a key obstacle when building dense, human-scale neighborhoods. Come hear three accomplished New Urbanists reflect upon their struggles to balance urbanism with the demands of parking. A distinguished panel will recount how they've dealt with parking in their professional work, including parking strategies for new neighborhoods, transportation and parking demand management schemes, and major code revisions. The panel: Patrick Siegman, Principal, Nelson/Nygaard; John Norquist , President & CEO, Congress for the New Urbanism, and past mayor of Milwaukee; and Andre Brumfield, Associate, Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP Information 312/551.7300
Farnsworth House PLUS by Bus
Tour by deluxe motor coach traces the Chicago career of the 20th century’s most influential modernist architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, including a selection of his most important buildings and an extended visit to Farnsworth House, considered by many the iconic masterpiece of the Modernist movement.
First stop is 860-880 North Lakeshore Drive, the buildings that launched the modern skyscraper, and the neighboring Esplanade Apartments. We enjoy views of the IBM Building (the last project directly supervised by Mies) and the Federal Center complex on the way to our next stop, the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. Here we visit either the award winning S.R. Crown Hall or IIT Commons, Mies’s first “clear span” building, depending on availability. (Crown Hall is undergoing restoration).
Then on to Farnsworth House, designed by Mies as an idyllic retreat on the Fox River and jointly owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Landmark Preservation Council of Illinois. The tour is led by CAF docents, with LPCI docents guiding at Farnsworth House, and includes a box lunch at the Homestead B&B in Plano (The Lewis Steward House, 1854), an evocative historic site that helps set the stage for Mies’s revolutionary vision. Information: http://www.architecture.org/ Prepaid, non-refundable reservations required. Call 312/922-3432, ext. 240.
Walk-ins are welcome if space permits.
What's New at Chicago Department of Environment 5:30 P.M.. - AIA Chicago, #1049, Merchandise Mart Acting Commissioner Sadhu Johnston and Elise Zelechowski, director of the department's Resource Center, will update us on the City's environmental initiatives and provide a peek at what's on their near and far project horizon. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770
Write Right 12:30 P.M.. - AIA Chicago, #1049, Merchandise Mart How your writing could be more effective? Whether you are writing on paper or in cyberspace, your ideas should be clear and persuasive. Lisa Willis, proprietor of Mind l space, will share ten ways to improve your written communication skills. Bring your lunch (and pen!); beverages will be provided. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770
Removing Barriers to Chicago Accessibility Code 12:00 P.M. - Chicago Bar Association, 321 S. Plymouth Court Leah Riley, senior code consultant with The Code Group, will review the main features of the new Chicago Accessibility Code, describing its origin and equivalency to state and federal codes. Applicability to both commercial and residential properties discussed. Bring lunch or buy at CBA cafeteria (purchase lunch ticket in first-floor shop). Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770 The Manhattan Building: Preserving Innovation and Beauty 12:15 - 1:00 PM - Claudia Cassidy Theater, 2nd Floor, Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph Street Monthly meeting.
1:00 P.M., City Council Chambers
Film: Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright's Buildings and Legacy in Japan: 7:30 P.M. - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Street Magnificent Obsession explores Frank Lloyd Wright’s lifelong love of all that is Japanese, and details the six-year Tokyo sojourn, 1917-22, that revitalized the Prairie-Style master’s flagging career. Meticulously researched, the film delves into lesser-known aspects of the Wright legend with the behind-the-scenes story of the building of his flagship Japanese commission, the Imperial Hotel, and illuminates Wright’s creative process while documenting his lasting influence and legacy in Japan. A must-see for any architecture buff. In English and Japanese with English subtitles and narration. DigiBeta video. Co-directors Karen Severns and Koichi Mori will be present for audience discussion at all three shows. Information: 312/846.2600
Film: Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright's Buildings and Legacy in Japan: 3:00 P.M. - see July 23rd listing
Tour: Affordable Housing at Roosevelt Square 3:30 - 5:30 P.M. - Sales Center at 1200 W. Roosevelt (at Racine) Tour Phase 1 of this acclaimed development. Representatives from LR Development will explain the planning and design of the project. Hard hats are required; boots are recommended. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770 Film: Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright's Buildings and Legacy in Japan: 6:30 P.M. - see July 23rd listing
Doors and Their Details 5:30 - 7:45 P.M. - OWP/P, 111 West Washington Street, #2100 What's the latest on commercial interior doors? Dave San Paolo of The Maiman Company will explain how to avoid common conflicts with stile and rail doors, such as how to integrate design and hardware, and the advantages of a performance-based, quality standard over a conventional, prescriptive specification for architectural wood flush doors. He will also touch on the advantages of low-pressure laminates over those produced under high pressure. If you specify stile and rail and interior wood flush doors, you'll want to attend. Refreshments will be served. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770 Farnsworth House PLUS by Bus
Tour by deluxe motor coach traces the Chicago career of the 20th century’s most influential modernist architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, including a selection of his most important buildings and an extended visit to Farnsworth House, considered by many the iconic masterpiece of the Modernist movement.
First stop is 860-880 North Lakeshore Drive, the buildings that launched the modern skyscraper, and the neighboring Esplanade Apartments. We enjoy views of the IBM Building (the last project directly supervised by Mies) and the Federal Center complex on the way to our next stop, the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. Here we visit either the award winning S.R. Crown Hall or IIT Commons, Mies’s first “clear span” building, depending on availability. (Crown Hall is undergoing restoration).
Then on to Farnsworth House, designed by Mies as an idyllic retreat on the Fox River and jointly owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Landmark Preservation Council of Illinois. The tour is led by CAF docents, with LPCI docents guiding at Farnsworth House, and includes a box lunch at the Homestead B&B in Plano (The Lewis Steward House, 1854), an evocative historic site that helps set the stage for Mies’s revolutionary vision. Information: http://www.architecture.org/ Prepaid, non-refundable reservations required. Call 312/922-3432, ext. 240.
Walk-ins are welcome if space permits.
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