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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 with ISDA 5:30 - 7:30 P.M. - Rock Bottom Brewery, 1 West Grand - roof garden Information: 312/670.7770
Synchronizing Geometry 6:00 P.M. -McCloska Auditorium, McCormick Tribune Cam pus Center, IIT, 3210 S. State St. Lecture by Spanish architect Carlos Ferrater, whose exhibition Synchronizing Geometry. on display in Crown Hall from September 5th through September 22nd, shows the investigation and experimental work of the architecture office of Carlos Ferrater Partnership since 1989. Several geometrical mechanisms, such as nets, ribbons, meshes, or folds, are applied in projects of different scales, structuring the first sket6ches and adapting to the specific programs andconstruction processes. Information: 312/567.3279
Analyze This: A Critical Review of Risk Management, Legal and Insurance Issues for Multi-Family Projects 9:00 - 11:30 A.M.. - Merchandise Mart, Room 8A. Condominium and townhouse projects present special issues. How do you manage these risks through client selection, contract language, file documentation, and scope of services, including construction phase and post-construction involvement? Review trends in professional liability claims as well as statistical benchmarking. A brief look at fee collection and mechanics liens is included. Speakers: Melissa Roberts, Euclid Insurance Agencies; Timothy Hickey and Laurie Randolph, Hinshaw & Culbertson; and Frank Musica, Victor O. Schinnerer & Co. SOLD OUT, with long waitlist. Information: 312/670.7770 11:00 A.M. - Noon - Charnley-Persky House, 1365 North Astor Street Opening event of six week series celebration of the 150th anniversary of architect Louis Sullivan's birth. Speakers will include Pauline Saliga, executive director, Society of Architectural Historians; John Eifler, principal, Eifler & Associates Architects; T. Gunny Harbor, principal Harboe Architects, pc; and John Russick, curator, Chicago History Museum. There will be cake.
Information: 312/642.4600 or on-line
12:15 P.M. - Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, Millennium Park Room, 5th floor southeast David Hood of the General Services Administration will present expansion and improvement plans for the Chicago Federal Center. He will discuss the process that led to the acquisition of an expansion site on State Street, the current plans for the site and how the expansion will serve the public, enhance State Street and the Chicago Loop, while complementing Mies van der Rohe’s original Federal Center design. Information: 312/458.9454 or on-line Commission on Chicago Landmarks Monthly meeting.
12:45 P.M., 33 N. LaSalle, Room 1600 September agenda (Adobe Acrobat format)
LEED for the Layperson: An Introduction to the LEED Green Building Rating System 12:15 - 1:00 P.M. - John Buck Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan Lecture by Lois Vitt-Sale, AIA, principal, Phoenix Architects, Chair of the USGBC Chicago Chapter. The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System was created by the US Green Building Council to excite the market and bring uniformity to this growing building trend. At this lecture, first in the Chicago Architecture Foundation and Chicago Center for Green Technology co-sponsored Green Lecture Series, Vitt-Sale, will give an overview of the benefits of green building practices the fundamental details of the LEED Rating System and the project certification process. Information on-line Chicago Community Development Commission Monthly meeting.
1:00 P.M., City Council Chambers August agenda (Adobe Acrobat format) (September agenda not yet posted) 5:15 P.M. cash bar; 6:00 P.M. dinner, 7:00 program - 410 Club, located in the Wrigley Building at 410 N. Michigan Paul. Green will provide his insights and analyses regarding the upcoming elections in Illinois, particularly the gubernatorial election. Green is Director of the Institute for Politics and Arthur Rubloff Professor of Policy Studies at Roosevelt University. He is also the Political Analyst for WGN Radio, guest columnist for Crain’s Chicago Business, the author of several books and articles on Illinois and Chicago politics. His latest publications, co-authored with Mel Holli, are entitled World War II Chicago and The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, 3rd edition. 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. -Eckenhoff Saunders, 700 S. Clinton St. #200 ARE study session. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770
Cap the Ike: Reconnecting a Community 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. - AIA Chicago, 1049 Merchandise Mart The Village of Oak Park seeks to reconnect its north and south portions which were divided when the Eisenhower Expressway was constructed over 50 years ago. This bold proposal to construct a deck over the highway would restore as many as 57 acres of land, primarily for park use; greatly reduce noise in the vicinity; and mitigate other pollutants by using innovative cleaning and filtering technologies. "Cap the Ike" committee chair Fred Brandstrader, AIA, and Bob Andrews, PE (URS Corp.), will present the initial feasibility study. Bring lunch; beverages provided. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770 Daniel Coffey - Current Projects 12:15 P.M. - John Buck Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan Lecture by Daniel Coffey, principal for design, Daniel P. Coffey & Associates Information: 312/922.3432 x266 or on-line How to Plan for Retirement - Or At Least Work Less! 5:30 - 6:30 P.M. - AIA Chicago, 1049 Merchandise Mart Do you know how much you need to put away for retirement? Are you doing it today? Do you have vehicles for it? How can you transition your firm to get the most out of your equity? Mark Mann, CPA, Mann Weitz & Associates LLC (AIA Chicago's accounting firm), lays out the issues you and your firm need to address. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770 Louis Sullivan and the Structure of Ornament: Work in Progress Lecture by architect, author and art historian Anthony Alofsin. Louis Sullivan's ornament has long been seen as central Register for this event. Information: 312/787.4071 and on-line. 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. -Eckenhoff Saunders, 700 S. Clinton St. #200 ARE study session. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770 6:00 P.M. -McCloska Auditorium, McCormick Tribune Cam pus Center, IIT, 3210 S. State St. Lecture by Leslie Van Duzer on the villa for Milada and Frantisek Muller in Prague (1928-30), the chef-d’oeuvre of the international architectural avant-garde. It is an example of the rare concord between an enlightened client and a brilliant architect and the embodiment of the surprising harmony between modern Functionalism and the classic English style. The lecture is being presented in conjuction with an exhibtion on the Muller Villa in IIT's Hermann Hall lounge that runs through September 30th. Information: 312/567.3279 Large Firm Tour: DeStefano and Partners
Becky Calcott, AIA, principal of the firm, will lead a tour of the firms and present its hi story, current projects, and future plans. Limited to 20 participants. Event SOLD OUT, with long waitlist - additional registrations are not being accepted. Information: 312/670.7770
Preservation Lessons from France: Presentation by a Richard Morris Hunt Fellow 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. - AIA Chicago, 1049 Merchandise Mart How do we respect our past and decide and what to save? How does this effect the decisions made on each project, and which elements are worthy of restoring or others for replacing? Mary Brush, AIA, Klein & Hoffman, will speak on lessons learned from her experiences in France through AIA's Richard Morris Hunt Fellowship last year. Bring lunch; beverages provided. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770 Purcell and Elmslie: Prairie Progressive Architects 6:00 P.M. - Graham Foundation, 4 West Burton Lecture by Patricia Gebhard will provide a lecture on the recently published book, Purcell and Elmslie: Prairie Progressive Architects. The book explores the work of two important members of the organic architecture movement and celebrates their tremendously important contributions to American architecture and the Prairie School. Like Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, Purcell and Elmslie held the conviction that a building does not end with its simple structure, but reaches its final and logical culmination in the clothing-color, situation and natural environment, together with its decoration of glass, terra-cotta, and other textural materials.Copies of the new book will be on hand for purchase. RSVP with Dick Spurgin, 312/427.8325 Louis Sullivan and Henry Ives Cobb, Architects of Commerce and Culture 6:00 P.M. - Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Ruggles Hall Louis Sullivan's contemporary, Henry Ives Cobb (1859-1931), designed several of Chicago's most notable late nineteenth-century cultural and commercial buildings. Sullivan is celebrated one of the most forward-looking architects of his time, while the lesser-known Cobb is most often viewed as one who looked to the past. A closer look with art historian Diane Dillon reveals that the two had much in common and leads to greater appreciation of both architects
To register, call 312/ 255.3700 or 312/255.3592. Information on-line 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. - IMI, 53 W. Jackson Blvd. #315 ARE study session. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770
How Both Halves Lived: An All Day Tour of the Prairie Avenue & Pullman Historic Districts 10:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. -Glessner House, 1800 South Prairie In the 1880s and 1890s, Chicago came into its own as an urban center. As industry in the city grew, some of its citizens grew richer and richer while other labored in factories for just dollars a week. How Both Halves Lived will focus on the different lifestyles of wealthy industry magnates who lived on Prairie Avenue and the workers who lived in the planned factory town of Pullman. The tour starts on Prairie Avenue where visitors will tour the interior of the Glessner House Museum. Glessner House Museum is the only Prairie Avenue home from this period that has been restored and is open to the public.Tour participants will then board the Metra Electric and travel down to Pullman , the model company town built by George Pullman between 1880 and 1884 for the manufacture of his Pullman Palace Car. The town was designed by architect Solon Beman with the intention of creating a wholesome environment for all of Pullman’s employees. Lunch will be provided on the veranda of Hotel Florence, which visitors will then tour. Next, a guided tour of the historic neighborhood will take visitors past several different styles of worker housing and a number of original public buildings and parks to gain a better understanding of 19th century life in a company town. The Pullman visit will finish with an interior tour of an original Pullman worker’s cottage. A tour of the Prairie Avenue district will conclude the day. Bruce Mau and the Institute without Boundaries 3:00 P.M. - Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago Avenue Curator of Massive Change Bruce Mau and students from the Institute without Boundaries, a program founded in 2003 by George Brown College and Bruce Mau Design, discuss their experience researching, writing, and designing the exhibition.
Riverwoods Tour: Houses in Harmony with Nature Sponsor: Chicago Bauhaus and Beyond A celebration of the architecture of Edward Humrich, a prairie modernist who designed and built 40 houses in the village of Riverwoods - a Northern suburb just West of Deerfield. Riverwoods has one of the Chicago area's largest There will also be a Q&A with Lisa DiChiera, Director of Advocacy, Landmarks Illinois, who will speak about the how-to's of preservation for homeowners. We have put together a slide show with over 80 items from the Humrich archive. Riverwoods, located on the banks of the Des Plaines River, was created by steel magnate Edward L. Ryerson and Lewis Buscaron, his engineer. The tour is part of the growing preservation movement in Riverwoods to conserve and protect this unique area.
The Parthenon of Modern Civilization: The Restorations of the Auditorium Theatre 6:00 P.M. - Auditorium Theater of Roosevelt University, 50 East Congress Parkway
The Auditorium Theatre opened in 1889, closed in 1941 and reopened in 1967, but the restoration is still ongoing. Come hear fascinating firsthand stories of our 1967, 1992 & 2001 projects from the architects involved in each one: Ben Weese, FAIA; Jack Hartray, FAIA; Laurence Booth, FAIA; and Daniel P. Coffey, FAIA. Our moderator will be Rick Kogan, author, columnist for the Chicago Tribune and broadcaster on WGN Radio. A wine and cheese reception will follow.
Call 312/ 341.9668 to register. Information on-line.
Lighting, Energy and Taxes 5:30 - 6:30 P.M. - AIA Chicago, 1049 Merchandise Mart What do you know about the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which provides a tax deduction for investment in energy-efficient commercial buildings as part of new construction or renovation? Learn about the lighting aspects from Ingrid McMasters, LC, KJWW Engineering Consultants. Hear how a simple bid alternate can save approximately 25% of lighting energy. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770 The Chicago Freedom Movement: 1966 and 2006 6:00 P.M. - John Buck Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan Lecture by Kale Williams, Senior Scholar, the Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University Chicago. A veteran of the Chicago Freedom Movement,Williams will discuss the history and current impact of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s housing initiatives in Chicago. RSVP via email lsmith@architecture.org or call 312.922.3432 x224 or on-line The Architecture of Louis Sullivan: Newberry Library 10-Week Seminar begins 6:00 - 7:30 P.M. - Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street In honor of the 150th anniversary of Louis Sullivan’s birth, Newberry
To register, call 312/ 255.3700 or 312/255.3592. Information on-line 6:00 P.M. - Room 1100, Arts and Architecture Building, 845 West Harrison Lecture by David White of Transsolar. Information: 312/996.3335 or on-line.
The History of Sears Roebuck & Company 12:15 P.M. - John Buck Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan Lecture by John Oharenko, author Information: 312/922.3432 x266 or on-line Learning from North Lawndale - Exhibtion Opening Reception, Chicago Architectural Club's Burnham Prize Winner Announced 5:30 - 7:00 P.M. - Atrium Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan
The Learning from North Lawndale exhibition, on view from tonight through November 18th, is designed to promote a deeper understanding of the west side community’s unique place in our nation’s history. One of the densest communities in Chicago for much of its early history, North Lawndale is an archive of early 20th century American architecture. The exhbition is being mounted in conjunction with the Chicago Architectural Club's 2006 Burnham Prize competition, also called Learning From North Lawndale. At tonight's reception, the winner of the competition, who will represent the Chicago Architectural Club as a Fellow to the American Academy in Rome, Italy, will be announced. RSVP via email lsmith@architecture.org or call 312.922.3432 x224 or on-line Convention Challenged: 12 Years of Archeworks 6:00 P.M. - Archeworks, 625 N. Kingsbury, at Ontario
Reception for the publication of Convention Challenged: 12 Years of Archeworks, edited by Stanley Tigerman and Eva Maddox, assisted by Cara Cantlebary Flaster. 'Refreshments will be served and copies of the book will be available for purchase. RSVP online - Information or call:312/867.7254 Designing Pediatric Emergency Departments 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. - University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, Goldblatt Building, Room P117, 860 E. 59th St. Speaker: Mark A. Hostetler, MD, MPH Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770
New Dollars/New Partners
Suzanne Germann, Landmarks Illinois, and Tuomi Forrest, Partners for Sacred Places, will speak on the success of the New Dollars/New Partners for Your Sacred Place program. In an effort to assist religious congregations with older buildings, Landmarks Illinois is holding a year-long fundraising training program for ten Chicago-area congregations. The program provides practical tools to help congregations with older and historic buildings broaden and diversify the circles of donors and partners that can support the care and good community use of their sacred places. Information: Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois; 312/922.1742 Monthly meeting.
1:00 P.M., Cook County Boardroom 5:30 - 7:30 P.M. - Columbia Yacht Club, Monroe Harbor Reception with complimentary refreshments and hors d’oeuvre featuring guests Bruce Kaskel (SEAOI), Mike Waldinger (AIA-Illinois) and Dave Kennedy (ACEC) will discuss the latest issues pertinent to the structural engineering profession. In addition, SEPAC lobbyists Alice Phillips and Loretta Durbin will also be present to discuss what's happening in Springfield. 6:00 P.M. - Room 1100, Arts and Architecture Building, 845 West Harrison Lecture by Robin Geunther of Geunther 5 Architects, New York Information: 312/996.3335 or on-line.
The Japanese Influence and the 19 th-Century Home 1::00 P.M. -Glessner House, 1800 South Prairie Slide Lecture by Joan Maria Hansen, a design historian specializing in the design and marketing of home furnishings in Britain and America in the 19 th - and early 20-centuries. In 1876 Japanese art and design was seen by 1/3 of the American public at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, and families began to acquire a range of Japanese objects. Designers and manufacturers picked up the trend and began producing objects that reflected the Asian influence and resulted in a distinct Anglo-Japanese style. Interest in Japanese design and objects transcended financial standing and class. It was a way for Victorians to experience another culture, to ‘travel to another country.’ They incorporated this exotic element into the furnishings of their homes, reflecting their ‘cosmopolitan’ tastes.’ John and Frances Glessner can be counted among the most discriminating collectors of Japanese and Anglo-Japasnese art objects. Their collection provides a window through which we can look at this notable influence on the American home.
Louis Sullivan and the Saints 3:00 P.M. - Holy Trinity Cathedral, 1121 N. Leavitt Street Sullivan expert and City of Chicago Cultural Historian Tim Samuelson will lead a talk and tour of the Cathedral, sharing insights on its design, creation, and the relationship between Sullivan and the parish priest who later became a Saint. Participants will also enjoy a buffet dinner of traditional Russian foods, and hear a performance of liturgical music by the Pan Orthodox Choir of Greater Chicago. In designing this landmark structure Sullivan studied the design of numerous Russian churches and a small wooden church in the village of Tatarskaya served as inspiration. To help build the Cathedral Csar Nicholas gave $4,000.
Call 773/486.6064 to register. Information on-line.
6:00 P.M. -McCloska Auditorium, McCormick Tribune Campus Center, IIT, 3210 S. State St. Lecture by Piet Oudolf, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Visiting Professor in Landscape Architecture Information: 312/567.3279 6:00 P.M. - Room 1100, Arts and Architecture Building, 845 West Harrison Lecture by Paul Raff, Paul Raff Studio, Toronto Information: 312/996.3335 or on-line.
Chicago Community Development Commission 1:00 P.M. - City Hall, 121 North LaSalle, 2nd floor September agenda (Adobe Acrobat format) 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. -Eckenhoff Saunders, 700 S. Clinton St. #200 ARE study session. Register for this event. Information: 312/670.7770 Music of the Auditorium's First Golden Age 7:00 P.M. - Rudolph Ganz Recital Hall, 7th Floor, Roosevelt University, 430 South Michigan Avenue. Free concert by the faculty and students of Roosevelt University's Chicago College of the Performing Arts. Louis Sullivan's gold-leaf electroliers & the restored Albert Fleury murals of Ganz Hall (originally the Banquet Hall of the Auditorium Hotel) provide an evocative setting for the faculty & students of Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts playing music popular between 1889, the year of the Auditorium Building's opening, and 1893, the memorable year of the World's Columbian Exposition.
Call 773/486.6064 to register. Information on-line
Route 66 in North Lawndale: A Journey through History 12:15 P.M. - John Buck Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan
Information: 312/922.3432 x266 or on-line An Evening Dedicated to Fazlur Kahn 5:00 P.M. -Illinois Institute of Technology An evening dedicated to the brilliant structural engineer Fazlur R. Kahn, whose work includes Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center.
Information: 312/567.3279 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. -Eckenhoff Saunders, 700 S. Clinton St. #200 ARE study session. 6:30 P.M. - iSpace Gallery, 230 West Superior Street, 2nd floor Lecture by Charles Waldheim (Landscape Urbanism) and Bob Bruegmann (Waterfront Infrastructure). Charles Waldheim’s teaching and research focuses on landscape and contemporary urbanism and he is an internationally renowned expert on parks development and revitalization. He is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design and director of the Masters of Landscape Architecture program at the University of Toronto. Bob Bruegmann, historian and critic of the built environment, is Professor of Art History, Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of numerous books, most recently Sprawl: A Compact History in 2005. Information on-line.
The Hotel Condo Market 8:15 A.M. - The Mid-Day Club, Chase Plaza, 10 S. Dearborn, 56th Floor
Living in a hotel used to be a lifestyle reserved for CEOs and rock stars, but not anymore. By uniting the public's desire to invest in real estate with the travel industry's quest for new properties, the condo hotel has reinvigorated the hotel construction business and begun altering the skyline of mayor cities throughout the world. Who are the developers? Who are the buyers/investors? What is the supply and demand in Chicago? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Information. Registration on-line.by September 26th, or call 773/549.4972.
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to his contribution to modern architecture, yet the processes by which he designed his patterns have roots in ancient practices of design utilized from prehistory through the Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century. This lecture presents the results of the recent collaboration between Anthony Alofsin, University of Texas at Austin, and the Experiential Technologies Center at UCLA to use the computer to investigate the structure of Sullivan's ornament, to define the rule systems behind its composition, and to extrapolate how ornament can be the basis of new, advanced forms of virtual and conceptual architecture. Representing an interim point in ongoing research, the results are suggestive of design possibilities, and the lecture will be interactive with dialogue between Dr. Alofsin and the audience.
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6:00 - 8:00 P.M. - 445 E. Illinois St., 2nd floor
suburban concentrations of mid-century architecture from the 1950's and 60's. The tour will include 7 homes, 5 Humrich houses plus 2 others by mid-century architects. A round-table discussion about Edward Humrich with slide show will kick off the event, featuring architect Don Wrobleski, architectural historian Susan Benjamin, and some of the original Humrich homeowners, held at the Riverwoods Village Hall. Also featured will be a local contractor who has lived in and remodeled numerous Humrich homes.
Panel discussion with architects Ben Weese, Jack Hartray, Laurence Booth, & Daniel P. Coffey, moderated by Rick Kogan.
Library scholar-in-residence Diane Dillon will survey the architect’s career in a ten part seminar, running through November 28th, which will study Sullivan’s biography and published writings; analyze his most important buildings in detail, paying attention to his development of distinctive building types for the tall office building, the department store, and the small-town bank; examine his connections to fellow architects, craftsmen, and materials suppliers in Chicago; and assess his ongoing influence and reputation.
Convention Challenged—with commentary from the cofounders, administrators, project facilitators, students, and project partners and consultants—offers clarity, complexity, and ambiguity in describing Archeworks’s 12-year history as an avant-garde education and design institution in Chicago. Through the diversity of accounts, this text vivifies the success of Archeworks projects that focus on health, education, and community despite limited resources, bouts of internal and external discord, a lack of formal boundaries, and project deviations. Convention Challenged illustrates that Archeworks’s visionary outlook and its dedication to ethically provide good design solutions in response to social needs has been, and will continue to be, two of the few static threads that bind the dynamic history and pedagogy of the almost indefinable institution.
12:15 - 1:00 PM - Millennium Park Room on the fifth floor of the Cultural Center
Planting Design