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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
Funny, It Doesn’t Look Jewish - An Exploration of Architecture Of, For and Particularly By Jews 12:00 - 1:30 P.M. - Spertus Institute, 618 S. Michigan ITo register, call 312/222/1743 or via email. Final Presentations for SEAOI Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards 5:15 P.M. cash bar; 6:00 P.M. dinner, 7:00 program - Maggiano's, 111 West Grand This month's SEAOI's dinner meeting will feature presentations by project finalists in the 2006 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards program. Representatives from the firms named as finalists will present discussions of the merits of their projects before a panel of distinguished leaders in the construction industry that will include Abbas Aminmansour, Associate Professor & Chair of Structures Program, University of Illinois School of Architecture; Craig Barner – Editor, Midwest Construction; Eli Cohen, S.E. – Principal, Thornton-Tomasetti; Bruce Lake – President, James McHugh Construction Company; Diane O’Keefe - District Engineer Region 1, Illinois Department of Transportation; and George Schipporeit – Associate Professor Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology. Announcement of award winners will be made at the SEAOI Annual Banquet scheduled to be held June 10, 2006 at the W Hotel. Reservations: call Donna Childs at 312.649.4600 x200 by Friday, February April 28, 2006 First Tuesdays Happy Hour With IIDA 5:30 - 8:00 P.M. - Rock Bottom Brewery, 1 West Grand Information: 312/670.7770
The Spectacular Landscape: 17th-21st Century Park Design 12:15 P.M. - John Buck Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan Lecture by Ned Cramer, curator, Chicago Architecture Foundation Information: 312/922.3432 x266 or on-line
Garden in a City 12:15 P.M. - Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, Millennium Park Room, 5th floor southeast Laura Foxgrover, director of development at the Chicago Park District, will discuss Garden in a City, America’s first garden and landscape design show focusing on urban horticulture and the greening of urban communities, which will debut in Grant Park May 13-21. Displays will be created by leading landscape architects, landscape designers and landscape contractors in the Chicago area. She will also offer thoughts on Chicago’s role as an international leader in urban greening. Information: 312/458.9454 or on-line Commission on Chicago Landmarks Monthly meeting.
12:45 P.M., 33 N. LaSalle, Room 1600
Connecting the Community to the Museum 6:30 P.M. -Daley Bicentennial Plaza - 337 East Randolph The Chicago Children's Museum presents, "Connecting the Community to the Museum." Chicago Children's Museum representatives will give a thorough update on the proposed move of the Chicago Children's Museum from its current Navy Pier location to Grant Park's Daley Bicentennial Plaza and what the impact will be on the park itself and the Grant Park community. Among much else, the request for proposal process and status will also be discussed. Information on-line or call 312/829.8015
Chicago Community Development Commission Monthly meeting.
1:00 P.M., City Council Chambers 6:00 P.M. - Rubloff Auditorium, The Art Instituter of Chicago, 111 South Michigan (enter through Columbus)
Lecture by architect and educator Bernard Tschumi. As a theorist Tschumi first came to attention with the project The Manhattan Transcripts (1981), experimental drawings that played with architectural notation and its inherent cinematic Ticket Purchase Information, call 312/443-7300 Advanced Engineering Systems in High Performance Buildings 6:00 - 8::00 P.M. - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento Boulevard Presenter :Lev Zvenyach, IBC Engineering Services, Inc.
Are all “high performance” buildings considered “sustainable” buildings? Join Lev Zvenyach of IBC Engineering for a seminar that aims to clarify the understanding of high performance versus sustainable buildings and discuss ways Register via email or call 312/746.9642 Building Chicago: Before the Architect 6:00 P.M. - I-Space Gallery, 230 West Superior Street, 2nd Floor A candid conversation with US Equities development managers Robert Wislow and Nancy Pacher
Cap the Ike: a study and context-sensitive solution 12:15 P.M. - John Buck Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan Lecture by Robert Andrews of URS and Fred Brandstrader, AIA, chair of the Cap the Ike Stakeholders Committee. Information: 312/922.3432 x266 or on-line
Hands-On Masonry Restoration Workshop 8:30 A.M.- 1:00 P.M. - Tuckpointers Training Center, 1111 S. Western Join IMI and Tuckpointers Local 52 BAC for the fifth annual Masonry Restoration Workshop. Learn requirements and methods for mortar analysis, matching and replicating; masonry unit replacement; pointing procedures; restoration standards; and preparing specifications. Try your hand at terra cotta repair and Jahn patching, tuckpointing, flashing and lintel replacement, concrete patching, stone repair, and masonry cleaning under the direction of IMI apprentice instructors and journeyman restoration craftworkers. Wear jeans and work boots. Light breakfast and lunch provided by IMI. A bus will depart the south entrance of the Merchandise Mart promptly at 8:30 A.M. Limited to 40 particiants. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770
IIT Open House - Exhibition of Student Work 5:30 - 8:30 P.M.. - IIT, S.R. Crown Hall, 3360 South State. Information 312/567.3279
ASHRAE 90.1: What You Need to Know 7:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M. - Best Western Chicago West, 1600 Oakton St., Elk Grove Village Here's the training you need as states and local governments adopt ANSI/ ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2004. It sets minimum requirements for energy use (except in low-rise residential buildings) and a methodology to attain these goals. Instructors: Presenters: Len Sciarra, AIA, Serena Sturm Architects; Helen Kessler, FAIA, HJKessler Associates; Sachin Anand, PE, CCJM Engineers. $40.00 Registration includes copies of Standard 90.1 and User's Manual; lunch and refreshments Registration form . Information, call Tom Kroeschell at 847/272.4626 or Ryan Hoger at 708/418.7901 Global Perspective on Green Building Rating Systems 5:30 - 7:45 P.M. - AIA Chicago, 1049 Merchandise Mart You know LEED, but have you heard of BREEAM, CASBEE, Green Globes, and GBTool? What rating systems are being used around the world, and could they be used here? What are the advantages of each? Speakers include Jiri Skopek, ECD Energy and Environment Canada; Vuk Vujovic, AIA, Legat Architects; and Helen Kessler, FAIA, HJKessler Associates. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770
It Makes Horse Sense: Rehabilitating the Glessner Coach House 12:15 P.M. - John Buck Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan Lecture by Anne T. Sullivan, AIA, Senior Associate, Johnson Lasky Architects Information: 312/922.3432 x266 or on-line Globalization: Who Gains and Who Loses? 5:30 - 7:00 P.M. - AIA Chicago, 1049 Merchandise Mart Globalization is energizing some and frightening others. How might your business and personal life be affected? Panelists: Tom Kerwin, AIA, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and immediate past president of AIA Chicago; Mike Waldinger, executive vice president, AIA Illinois; Steve Tisza, Communication Workers of America Local 4250 - Chicago; Rada Doytcheva, AIA, PhD, Rada Architects; Karen Plunkett-Muenster, AIA, Design Consultants (Milwaukee) and immediate past chair of AIA's International Committee, moderator. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770 Infrastructure: Designing for Man vs. Nature 6:00 P.M. - John Buck Lecture Hall, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan What exactly happened to the levees of New Orleans? What are the barriers to rebuilding, and what are the future possibilities? Professor Charles Dowding, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Northwestern University, will provide the big picture regarding future long term infrastructure issues. John Zils of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill will discuss how structural engineers design for hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. Last of a series of three programs: After Katrina: Preservation, Rebuilding and Infrastructure in the Gulf Coast. Make reservations on-line or call 312/922.3432 x 225. Information
Tour Chicago's Parks: Gardens in the City 9:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M. - Leaves from Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe Landscape historian and preservation consultant Barbara Geiger will take participants to several of Chicago's lovely green spaces to see historical, contemporary and innovative trends in the parks. At each stop, tour leaders will explain the site's history and design characteristics. Boxed lunch and transportation are included. For a course catalog describing programs and classes in more detail, or to register, call the School of the Chicago Botanic Garden at (847) 835-8261, or visit online. R. Buckminster Fuller & the Fuller Dome Home 12:15 - 1:00 PM - Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph Street Learn about the life and history of R. Buckminster Fuller, the effort to preserve the Fuller Dome Home (listed to Information: Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois; 312/922.1742 Design Exposed: Peter Lindsey Schaudt Landscape Architecture 6:00 - 7:00 P.M. - 410 S. Michigan, #612
Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770 Catherine Opie and Wolfgang Tillmans in Conversation 6:30 P.M. - Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago Avenue Photographers Catherine Opie and Wolfgang Tillmans as they discuss their art, creative process, and issues in contemporary art. Opie's exhbition, Catherine Opie: Chicago (American Cities) opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Saturday, May 20th. Information or call 312/280.2660. Reserve tickets online. ($3.00 fee)
Chicago Plan Commission Monthly meeting.
1:00 P.M., Cook County Boardroom Great Chicago Conversations: Jaime Lerner, Donna Robertson and Lee Bey 6:00 P.M. -Chase Auditorium Theater, 10 South Dearborn Street Today's cities are instruments of change, with some of the most impactful examples of urban planning coming from unexpected parts of the world. Enjoy a lively conversation with architect and planner Jaime Lerner, former Mayor of
Great Chicago Places and Spaces 7:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. - various locations with many tours leaving from the Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S.Michigan. Opening day of City of Chicago's celebration of Chicago architecture, offering more than 200 tours on foot, by trolley bus and boat. Great Excursion tours needed to reserved in advance. Registration for Event Day Tours can be made the morning of the tour at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. (An early arrival is recommended to get the specific tour you want.) Among Saturday events, to name just a few, is an Architecture River Cruise with WTTW's Geoffrey Baer, a tour of the new Gary Comer Youth Center by its architect, John Ronan., architect Joseph Valerio presenting the latest version of a UCLA computer simulation of the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition, Jonathan Fine of Preservation Chicago leading a tour of sites on its Chicago's 7 Most Endangered List, former Chicago Planning Commissioner Alicia Berg leading a tour of the Columbia College campus, a visit to the rooftop garden at City Hall, a tour of Marina Towers by Brian Strawn and Karla Sierrelta, and a tour of Millennium Park by Edward Uhlir, its Director of Planning, Architecture and Landscape. A number of this year's tours celebrate the sesquicentennial of Louis Sullivan's birth. Beginning May 1, register for excursion tours on-line. ($3.00 fee) Advance registration closes May 12th. A pdf-format timetable of all Saturday tours is available online. Sustainable Urban Development in Sao Paulo, Brazil 10:00 A.M. - 12::00 P.M. - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento Boulevard Presenter: Martin Klaeschen, HausHouse, IIT This case study explores the different aspects of holistic sustainable thinking, including: culture, design, energy consumption, landscaping, structural systems, materials, recycling and more. In addition to the case study, this seminar will include opportunities for discussion and Q&A. Register via email or call 312/746.9642 Catherine Opie: Chicago (American Cities) - opening day of exhibition 10:00 A.M. - 5::00 P.M. - Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago Avenue During the past seven years, Los Angeles-based photographer Catherine Opie has undertaken a project in which she Information or call 312/280.2660 Todd Eberle: Architectural Abstractions - opening day of exhibition 10:00 A.M. - 5::00 P.M. - Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Opening day of an exhibiton of the work of Todd Eberle, whose most recent photographic series proposes fresh ways of seeing, thinking about, and interpreting architecture. His radically cropped, totally flat representations of interior Information or call 312/443.3600
Great Chicago Places and Spaces 8:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. - various locations with many tours leaving from the Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S.Michigan. Closing day of City of Chicago's celebration of Chicago architecture, offering more than 200 tours on foot, by trolley and boat. Great Excursion tours needed to reserved in advance. Registration for Event Day Tours can be made the morning of the tour at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. (An early arrival is recommended to get the specific tour you want.) Among Sunday events, to name just a few, is an Architecture River Cruise with WTTW's Geoffrey Baer,a tour of Rogers Park coffee houses by Congress for New Urbanism President and former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist, an exploration of Mies van der Rohe's master plan for the IIT campus by Architectural Historian Kevin Harrington, drawing and building "labyrinths in the sand" at Montrose Beach with Professor Ben Nicholson, a tour of 111 S. Wacker with Drew Nieman and James Goettsch, a tour of the Auditorium Theater by its historian Bart Swindal, a tour of the Monadnock by John Vinci, and a tour of four restored Loop landmarks with preservation architect Gunny Harboe. A number of this year's tours celebrate the sesquicentennial of Louis Sullivan's birth. Beginning May 1, register for excursion tours on-line. ($3.00 fee) Advance registration closes May 12th. A pdf-format timetable of all Saturday tours is available online.
Is Chicago Commercial Real Estate Heading Towards the Perfect Storm? 4:45 - 6:30 P.M. - Renaissance Hotel, 1 W. Wacker Drive Come hear the debate and projections amidst soaring interest rates, minimal new employment, historically low cap rates, high vacant rates, escalating energy and insurance expenses, new office construction, and falling leading economic indicators for the past two months. Will the “Bubble” burst? Speakers will include Jacques Gordon, Global Strategist, LaSalle Investment Management; Diane Swonk, Senior Managing Director and Chief Economist, Mesirow Financial; and Charles H. Wurtzebach, PhD Managing Director, North America, Henderson Global Investors (North America) Inc. Register on-line. On-line registration deadline May 19th, other registrations May 18th. Information: 773.549.4972 Creative Engineering Systems in High Performance Buildings 6:00 - 8::00 P.M. - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento Boulevard Presenter: Lev Zvenyach, IBC Engineering Services, Inc.
Join Lev Zvenyach of IBC Engineering to further your understanding of high performance buildings with a focus on engineering systems. This program will highlight case studies of creative engineering systems that are currently being Register via email or call 312/746.9642
The Re-Crowning of Carson Pirie Scott 12:15 P.M. - John Buck Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan Lecture by T. Gunny Harboe, principal, Harboe ArchitectsInformation: 312/922.3432 x266 or on-line Young Engineer Committee Happy Hour 5:30 - 7:30 P.M. House of Blues Hotel, 333 North Dearborn Network with other young engineers in the Chicago area. Find out how to get involved in SEAOI. Learn about future Young Engineer Committee events/ Meet SEAOI board members. Two 13th Edition combined ASD/LRFD manuals will be raffled Information: 312.649.4600
Combined Heat and Power 6:00 - 8::00 P.M. - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento Boulevard Presenters: Steffen Mueller and John Cuttica, University of Illinois at Chicago
Have you ever wondered how and when on-site energy generation (combined heat and power) fits into the matrix of energy and environmentally conscious approaches? Here’s an opportunity to have your questions answered as well as Register via email or call 312/746.9642
Sustainable Technologies at the Chicago Center for Green Technology 6:00 - 8::00 P.M. - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento Boulevard Presenters :IBC Engineering Services, Inc. and Farr Associates
Join the design team that collaborated on the award-winning Chicago Center for Green Technology for an in-depth look at the green technology originally specified and installed. Participants will then be invited on a behind-the-scenes Register via email or call 312/746.9642
Frank Lloyd Wright Places of Worship 12:15 P.M. - John Buck Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan Lecture by Frank Landi, architectural historian Information: 312/922.3432 x266 or on-line
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qualities. Influenced by the social and political dimensions of the field, he has written several books, most notably the Event-Cities series (1994 and 2000) and a collection of theoretical essays, 
LPCI’s 2004 
Peter Schaudt
Curitiba, Brazil, whose innovative ideas for citizen participation and mobility have led to world-recognized models of transportation and recycling programs. He is credited with implementing the Integrated Mass Transport System, acknowledged for its efficiency, quality and low cost. Joining him will be Donna Robertson, Dean of the School of Architecture at IIT, whose campus plays a major role in the redevelopment of the south side of Chicago and respected writer and critic of architecture and urban policy, Lee Bey (Skidmore Owings & Merrill, LLP). The event is part of 
has systematically photographed key elements in several major American cities. Steeped in the documentary tradition and seeking to uncover aspects of each city’s identity and sense of community in her penetrating photographs, this series focuses on Chicago -- the American “city of architecture.” This new body of work examines the spectacular way the city’s architectural monuments are nocturnally lit, complemented by a group of views of Lake Michigan at different seasons during the year. While the architectural photographs are horizontally-formatted in black and white, Opie’s views of the lakefront are large-format color images so as to better reveal its changing light qualities and moods. These images present a nuanced vision of key aspects of Chicago’s identity in a revelatory and unexpected way that reflects an intermingled formal, conceptual, and documentary emphasis. 
surfaces transform the figurative into the abstract. His ostensible subject matter in each picture, which canbe ascertained only from the title, is secondary to the work's visual construction as a modular, repetitively patterned surface--most often an interior ceiling plane. Eberle, best known for his pictures of Donald Judd's artwork and buildings in Marfa, Texas, started his career taking photographs of such artists and architects as Zaha Hadid, Philip Johnson, Brice Marden, and Agnes Martin. He then expanded into architectural and fashion photography. This presentation of his work comprises 12 large-format (60 x 45 in.) photographs, and highlights include the ceiling outside an elevator bank at Gordon Bunshaft's Lever House, New York (2002); an elevator cab at Chicago's Lake Shore Drive apartments by Mies van der Rohe (2002); and a Frank Lloyd Wright ceiling at Unity Temple in Oak Park (2002).Pictured to the right is Untitled No. 10, from the Tennessee Pipeline Company Building in Houston.
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