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March 3, Tuesday
YAF at Pecha Kucha
6:00 - 11:00 P.M. - Martyrs, 3855 N. Lincoln Avenue
Sponsor: AIA Chicago Young Architects Forum
Tickets $10 (21 and over only) . Advance purchase strongly recommended .
Join us this month as we replace our happy hour with a visit to Pecha Kucha Night #8.
(see listing below)
Charge by phone at 800/594.8499 or online.
Current Legal Developments for Illinois Structural Engineers
5:15 P.M., cash bar, 6:00 P.M.,dinner, 7:00 P.M., the Cliff Dwellers Club,
200 S. Michigan Avenue,
22nd Floor
Sponsor: Structural Engineers Association of Illinois
$45.00 members, $65.00 non-members
Topics to be covered will include what’s happening in worker injury cases and the possible revival of the Structural Work Act including a discussion of the recent appellate decision upholding an $11 million award to an injured worker against an engineer (SEAOI participated in an amicus curiae brief in support of the engineer). Other topics will include re-enactment of the Structural Engineering Practice Act (what are some of the changes being considered?), recent rulings regarding expert witness qualifications, mediation/arbitration news, licensing law issues, changes to the QBS statute, and insurance issues. Our presenter will be Kevin Sido, a partner at the Chicago office of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP. He is an associate member of SEAOI, AIA Illinois and ASCE and a court certified mediator.
Reservations: call 312/726.4165 x200 extension 200. Information on-line.
Pecha Kucha Chicago - volume 8
Doors open 6 :00 P.M., begins 8:00 P.M.-ish - Martyrs, 3855 N. Lincoln Avenue
Sponsor: Pecha Kucha Night Chicago
$10.00 (21 and over only)
The eighth Chicago installment of the artists' presentation event where, in the words of The Architects Newspaper , they present "their work in some depth but at a comically breakneck pace—20 slides, 20 seconds each—while the audience heckles and drowns its sorrows."Chicago’s Volume 8 features 6 minutes and 40 seconds seconds each of architect Dan Wheeler, School of the Art Institute President and architect Duke Reiter, 3rd generation musician Miles Nielsen of Rockford, recent Harrington College of Design graduate Beth DeBonis, artists Jesse Seay of Chicago and Dan Rybicky of Gary, IN, cartographer Dennis McClendon, game programmer and Columbia College faculty member Theresa Devine, designer and educator Anne Wells, landscape architect Peter Osler, and Rujanee Mahakanjana whose film on architecture, “Man and His Erections”, recently premiered at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Architects Peter Exley and Yamani Hernandez will emcee the evening.
Charge by phone: 800.585,8499, Tickets can be purchased on-line. Information on-line.
March 4, Wednesday
Homecoming: The Staybridge Hotel on LaSalle
12:15 - 1:00 P.M., John Buck Lecture Hall, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan
Sponsor: Chicago Architecture Foundation
Free event, seating limited. Eric R. Multhauf lunchtime lecture - guests are welcome to bring a bag lunch.
AIA/CES 1
Since architect Joe Valerio returned to his hometown of Chicago in 1985, the majority of his projects have been out of town. In a true homecoming, Valerio speaks about his firm’s three major high-rise projects nearing completion in Chicago: The Staybridge Hotel, 1401 South State Street Apartments and 161 West Kinzie.
7:00 P.M. - Budlong Woods Branch Library, 5630 N. Lincoln
Sponsor: Urban Habitat Chicago
Free event. Space limited, registration requested.
Lecture by Nicholas Petty, Morton Arboretum, who will share his research into vertical growing systems and the opportunities that exist in built spaces.
A question and answer session and discussion will follow the lecture.
5:30 - 9:00 P.M. - AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 250
Sponsor: AIA Chicago Young Architects Forum
Free event
ARE 3.1 and 4.0 study materials are available in an informal setting.
Information: 312/670.7770
March 5, Thursday
Chicago's Central Area Plan, Six Years Later
12:15 P.M., Millennium Room, 5th floor east, Chicago Cultural Center, Washington and Michigan
Sponsor: Friends of Downtown.
Free event.
The 2003 Chicago Central Area Plan, the work outlined development, transportation, and open space guidelines for Chicago's downtown. Broad in scope and visionary in its predictions for future growth, the Central Area Plan represented a 20-year vision for Chicago's development. Now, almost one-third into the plan's proposed build-out, join Benet Haller from the City of Chicago as he presents an overview of the successes of, and challenges to, the plan in the past six years. Benet will discuss recent modifications to the plan, and adjustments the city has made in response to changing demographics and economic conditions.
12:45 P.M., City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle Street, Room 201-A , Permit Review Committee meets afterwards at 33 North LaSalle, Suite 1600
Open to the public
Commission meeting and schedule and agenda's on-line.
LEED Extra Credit: Building Green: A Variety
of Perspectives
5:30 - 8:00 p.m. - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento Boulevard
Sponsor: Chicago Center for Green Technology, U.S. Green Building Council, Chicago Chapter
$10.00 USGBC members, $15.00 non-members
AIA/CES: 2
Presenters: George Modrovic, ELFI; Lindsey Smith, Custom Green Homes
Chicago; Tim Bossy, Mid-America Development
“Green,” “Sustainable,” “Environmentally friendly,” . . . how do these themes translate to real-world green building applications?
This seminar will answer several important questions; regarding the
economics, practicality, value, and accessibility of sustainable materials
and technologies to support putting these themes into
practice. What is the value and what are the applications of “green
rating systems”? Intended learning objectives also include understanding
the how and why of constructing a tight exterior envelope, insulation
and R-values, opportunities and challenges of remodels and retrofits,
and renewable energy realities for various building types.
Eco-friendly Landscaping Options in the Urban Environment
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., John Buck Lecture Hall, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan
Sponsor: Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago Center for Green Technology
Free Event. Guests are welcome to bring a bag lunch. Argo Tea will be on site before the program with a tasting menu of their signature drinks.
AIA/CES 2
Lecture by Greg Raymond, Managing Member, Ecogardens, LLC. To coincide with the beginning of the spring planting season, this workshop explores and evaluates environmentally responsible landscaping alternatives for the urban environment. Raymond discusses green roofs, rain gardens, living walls, rain water harvesting, and natural landscape care as some of the options that lessen environmental impact without sacrificing aesthetics.
No RSVP required, but arrive early, as seating is limited. Information: 312.922.3432 x224 or on-line.
An Introduction to the SmartEnergy Design Assistance
Center and Building Energy Efficiency
1:00 - 3:00 P.M. - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento Boulevard
Sponsor: Chicago Center for Green Technology,
Free event. Registration required.
AIA/CES: 2
Presenter: Ben Sliwinski, University of Illinois SmartEnergy Design Assistance
Center (SEDAC)
The seminar will introduce the services of the SmartEnergy Design Assistance
Center (SEDAC) and its past and present roles in Illinois building energy
efficiency. The seminar will also discuss the top ten methods for reducing energy
costs in buildings. This will include a review of both conservation and renewable
energy technologies.
Register by
calling the hotline at 312/746.9642, or by emailing your desired class and contact information with “Green Tech U” as the subject line.our desired class and contact
information.
March 9, Monday
Robert Bruegmann
6:00 P.M., Gallery 1100, Art and Architecture Building, UIC, 845 West Harrison
Sponsor: School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago
Free event.
Lecture by Robert Bruegmann, Professor, Department of Art History, UIC, Chicago.
12:15 - 1:00 p.m. - John Buck Lecture Hall, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan
Sponsor: Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago Center for Green Technology
Free event, seating limited. Guests are welcome to bring a bag lunch.
AIA/CES 1
Lecture by Joseph F. Clair, P.E., Director of Campus Energy and Sustainability, Illinois Institute of Technology.Recognizing that the improvement of school buildings affects both the learning environment as well as the health of a large portion of the population, the U.S. Green Building Council has tailored its LEED rating system for school construction. This presentation reviews LEED for schools, the updates in LEED 2009, and how these have been applied in the Chicago building market.
Archeworks Winter Open House and lecture by Douglas Garofalo: Combinatory Territories and Projects
5:00 P.M., lecture at 6:00 P.M.- Archeworks, 625 N. Kingsbury, at Ontario
Sponsor: Archeworks
Free event
The open house will include a tour of Archeworks Studios, the change to meet students, staff and Directors Martin Felsen and Sarah Dunn, learn about current and upcoming architect projects and find out how to apply. The lecture by Douglas Garfalo, FAIA, of Garofalo Architects, will focus on new combinations of spaces and activities that are influencing unique urban and architectural proposals and projects.
6:00 - 7:30 P.M. - 1528 West Adams Street, 2nd floor
Sponsor: AIA Chicago Young Architects Forum
Free for AIA members; $15.00 non-members
1.5 LU
This tour of Columbian Model & Exhibit Works 6000 SF workshop will feature demonstrations of the latest technologies for model making including lasers, 3-D printers, and a Shopbot CNC router. Refreshments will be served.
Information: 312/670.7770; Information and Registration on-line.
March 11, Wednesday
Beyond Burnham: Protecting Natural Resources
12:00 - 1:00 P.M. - AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 250
Sponsor: AIA Chicago Regional & Urban Design KC
Free for AIA members; $15.00 non-members
1.0LU/HSW/SD
Daniel Burnham envisioned a regional system of forest preserves and parkways in the 1909 Plan of Chicago. In 2009, conservation efforts are informed by a greater understanding of ecosystems and the water resource impacts of contemporary development patterns. Landscape architect James Patchett, president of Conservation Design Forum, will discuss the scientific and philosophical foundation of sustainable planning, and present case studies that illustrate how to apply sustainable water management practices through integrated design. Bring your lunch; beverages provided.
Information: 312/670.7770; Information and Registration on-line.
A Tale of Two Towers: The Heritage and The Legacy on Millennium Park
12:15 - 1:00 P.M., John Buck Lecture Hall, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan
Sponsor: Chicago Architecture Foundation
Free event, seating limited. Eric R. Multhauf lunchtime lecture - guests are welcome to bring a bag lunch.
AIA/CES 1
Richard A. Hanson discusses the evolution of two important residential buildings and their relationship to Millennium Park during the last ten years. He outlines the design process of both buildings, their place in the Michigan/Wabash corridor, and the vision they embrace in the Daley Administration’s plan to revitalize downtown urban living.
5:30 - 7:00 P.M. - AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 250
Sponsor: AIA Chicago Interior Architecture KC
Free for AIA members; $15.00 non-members
1.5 LU
What is it like to create a room in the Merchandise Mart's annual DreamHome? Carlos Martinez, AIA (Gensler) and Joan Craig, AIA (Lichten Craig Architects) were part of the 2008 display: Carlos did the home office and Joan designed the kitchen. They will tell us all about it: the actual room designs (what was the program for the room and how they executed it) and the experience of being part of such a display (how they got involved, the satisfactions and difficulties of their experience).
Information: 312/670.7770; Information and Registration on-line.
Passive Solar Principles and Methods: Adding Passive Solar Features
and Optimizing Solar for Your Building
6:00 - 8:00 P.M. - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento Boulevard
Sponsor: Chicago Center for Green Technology,
Free event. Registration required.
AIA/CES: 2
Presenter: James Gill, Earth and Sky Energy LLC
With the cost of natural gas and electricity steadily climbing, building designers,
builders and consumers are motivated to consider other options for maximizing
efficiency and minimizing economic stress. This workshop will furnish ideas and
methods that optimize using or dealing with the sun’s energy. Topics will be
focused on ways that can help reduce energy bills.
Register by
calling the hotline at 312/746.9642, or by emailing your desired class and contact information with “Green Tech U” as the subject line.our desired class and contact
information.
Hosted by the Chicago Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, this session reviews the LEED for New Construction Version 2.2 Reference Guide for those who are preparing to take the LEED Accredited Professional exam.
Please note that you must register for LEED AP exam NC v2.2 by March 31, 2009. The deadline to schedule and take the exam have not been released.
6:00 - 9:00 p.m., Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago
Sponsor: Museum of Contemporary Art
$40.00 per person, $35.00 MCA members, Children 12 and under are free (that is to say, free admission, you will NOT be able to adopt 12 year children for free at this event.)
A night of revelry and celebration as the MCA opens the museum's doors for a three-floor fundraising event in honor of their new spring exhibition, Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, which opens officially tomorrow. Proceeds from this event directly support the programs of the MCA.
Tickets include food, two complimentary beverages, and live entertainment (the Josh Berman Trio and DJ Madrid, hors d'oeuvres and drinks catered by Wolfgang Puck's), in addition to museum admission.
Information: 312/280.266. Purchase tickets on-line. Information on-line
March 14 , Saturday
Curator Talk: BOOM TOWNS! Chicago Architects Design New Worlds
11:00 - 11:45 a.m., ArcelorMittal CitySpace Gallery, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan
Sponsor: Chicago Architecture Foundation,
Free event
Guest curator Lynn Becker will engage and confuse as he discusses the exhibition, Boom Towns! Chicago Architects Design New Worlds, which explores similarities and differences in the architectural responses to boom conditions in two centuries and cities by featuring pairings of iconic works of architecture from late 19th-century Chicago with parallel works in today’s China and the Middle East.
Growing Up: Buckminster Fuller: Allegra Fuller Snyder reflects on her father's formative years
2:00 p.m., MCA Theater, Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago
Sponsor: Chicago Architecture Foundation
$10.00 general admission, $8.00 MCA members, $6.00 students
Born in Chicago the year her father Buckminster Fuller transformed his whole life, Allegra Fuller Snyder reflects on his formative years and her own experience growing up with him; the people who seeded so much of his work; and his lasting legacy as a visionary and a great teacher. Her talk is followed by a discussion about Fuller's significance for today's world. Allegra Fuller Snyder is Professor Emerita of Dance and former Director of the Graduate Program in Dance Ethnology at UCLA. Lecture presented in conjunction with the MCA exhibition, Buckmister Fuller: Starting with the Universe, which runs from March 14th through June 21st.
For tickets, call the MCA Box Office at 312/397.4010. Information: 312/280.266 or on-line
March 15, Sunday
Lake Forest City Planning- 1920 to Present:
The History of City Ordinances
Right from the start, the City of Lake Forest was a planned community. In fact, it is one of the oldest planned communities in the nation. It was one of the first in the country to have a zoning code (1923). And it was one of the first in Illinois to have a subdivision ordinance (1929) and a Building Review Board (1962). Through over a century and a half of thoughtful municipal planning, The City of Lake Forest has worked with its citizens to meet multiple challenges to the preservation and conservation of the City’s visual character as first envisioned by the 1857 plat. Join Arthur Miller, President of the Preservation Foundation and Archivist of Lake Forest College, and Gail Hodges, past Lake Forest Alderman and past Chairman of the Lake Forest Building Review Board, for an enlightening discussion of how the City’s ordinances have helped sustain and enhance both the fragile uniqueness of Lake Forest and the economic value of the community.
The Chicago Chamber Musician's Sounds and Spaces Winter Salon
will take place in two
significant buildings by Mies van der Rohe (1888-1969) on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. Guests will begin the afternoon with a tour by Justine Jentes, director of the Mies van der Rohe Society, of S. R. Crown Hall followed by CCM's performance of two works by Giovanni Gabrieli. Guests then stroll through the campus guided by Ms. Jentes to the Carr Chapel for CCM's performance of Beethoven's Op 59, No 3. String Quartet, Razumovsky . Following the performance, guests will join the artists for a reception in the Pritzker Club in the McCormick Tribune Campus Center.
Purchase tickets on-line. Information: on-line, or call 312/225.5226.
March 16, Monday
K. Michael Hays
6:00 P.M., Gallery 1100, Art and Architecture Building, UIC, 845 West Harrison
Sponsor: School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago
Free event.
Lecture by K. Michael Hays, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge
5:00 P.M. - Burnham Conference Center at APA • 122 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 1600,
Sponsor: American Planning Association
Free event
CM 1.0
Archeologists, anthropologists and historians have long known that the world's first cities were built in ancient Mesopotamia beginning in about 3500 BC. Archaeolgist Geoff Emberling, the Director of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, will discuss principles of ancient Mesopotamian urban development with a look at the city of the legendary king Gilgamesh, capital cities of the Assyrian empire, and the largest ancient Mesopotamian city, Babylon.
6:30 p.m., Kanter Meeting Room, Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago
Sponsor: Museum of Contemporary Art
Architect Paul Preissner, whose UBS 12 X 12 New Artists/New Work exhibition is currently on display at the MCA, and Robert Somol, architectural theorist and Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, discuss some current issues in architecture. Join them as they talk about things that the like, and also about things that they don't.
7:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. The Chicago Club, 81 East Van Buren Street
Sponsor: ChicagoRealEstateDaily.com
65.00 in advance
Albert M. Friedman is Chairman and CEO of Friedman Properties Ltd., which over the past 38 years has become one of the city's most active real estate development companies. The firm owns or manages more than 50 properties throughout the Chicago area and has been instrumental in the redevelopment of 12 full city blocks, mainly in Chicago's River North neighborhood. Noted projects include the redevelopment of the former Medinah Temple/Tree Studios, the former Cook County Courthouse and the former Reid-Murdoch Center along the Chicago River. Friedman will be interview by Thomas A Corfman, Senior Reporter, Crain's Chicago Business.
Sustainable and Energy Efficient Building Envelope Design and Construction
8:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Schaumburg Marriott, 50 N. Martingale Road
Sponsor: Illinois Society of Professional Engineers Environment KC, ILASLA, Merchandise Mart Properties Inc.
Early Registration through March 4, $70.00 AIA and ISPE members,$90.00 non-members; thereafter, $100 AIA and SPE members, $120.00 non-members
5.0 LU/HSW/SD
A program organized by ITX Corp. offering four technical presentations related to the building envelope - and these talks qualify for AIA's new Sustainable Design credit. Begins at 8:00 A.M. with registration and continental breakfast; table-top displays. Sessions include Green Roofs: Achieving Sustainable Results by Tremco Group; Masonry Walls and Concrete Floors in Sustainable Design by PROSOCO, Inc.; Insulated Wall Claddings for Sustainable and Energy Efficient Design by Dryvit Systems, Inc.; and Steel Thermal Efficient Panels for Sustainable Design by Accelerated Building Technologies, LLC
An Architectural Whodunit: The Renovation of “Carlson Cottage”
12:15 - 1:00 P.M., John Buck Lecture Hall, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan
Sponsor: Chicago Architecture Foundation
Free event, seating limited. Eric R. Multhauf lunchtime lecture - guests are welcome to bring a bag lunch.
AIA/CES 1
Lecture by Paul Steinbrecher, AIA, Principal, InterActive Design, Architects; and
Neal David, AIA, Vice President of Facilities, Lincoln Park Zoo
In 2008, Lincoln Park Zoo transformed the historic Carlson Cottage from an eyesore to an architectural treasure. The 120-year-old “comfort station” (restroom facility) was closed 40 years ago and no period photographs or drawings to guide the rehabilitation could be found. Steinbrecher and David describe their experiences in preservation sleuthing and the surprises that they uncovered.
5:30 - 9:00 P.M. - AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 250
Sponsor: AIA Chicago Young Architects Forum
Free event
ARE 3.1 and 4.0 study materials are available in an informal setting.
Information: 312/670.7770
Coming to the Table: Expanding Architecture & Fostering Partnerships
6:00 - 7:30 p.m., John Buck Lecture Hall, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan
Sponsor: Chicago Architecture Foundation
Free event.
AIA/CES 1.5
The kick-off event for Converge/Exchange, a two day symposium that seeks to engage activist practitioners in communities within and outside Chicago in a conversation about innovative strategies applied and experiences gained in local economies, built environments, and beyond. This presentation by Bryan Bell (Founder and Executive Director, Design Corps), Katie Swenson (Director, Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship) and John Cary (Executive Director, Public Architecture) will showcase projects from other parts of the country that can serve as case studies for Chicago.
Sustainable and Energy Efficient Building Envelope Design and Construction
8:30 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. - Merchandise Mart Conference Center, 350 West Mart Center Drive, 2nd floor
Sponsor: AIA Chicago Environment KC, ILASLA, Merchandise Mart Properties Inc.
Early Registration through March 4, $70.00 AIA and ISPE members,$90.00 non-members; thereafter, $100 AIA and SPE members, $120.00 non-members
5.0 LU/HSW/SD
A program organized by ITX Corp. offering four technical presentations related to the building envelope - and these talks qualify for AIA's new Sustainable Design credit. Begins at 8:00 A.M. with registration and continental breakfast; table-top displays. Sessions include Green Roofs: Achieving Sustainable Results by Tremco Group; Masonry Walls and Concrete Floors in Sustainable Design by PROSOCO, Inc.; Insulated Wall Claddings for Sustainable and Energy Efficient Design by Dryvit Systems, Inc.; and Steel Thermal Efficient Panels for Sustainable Design by Accelerated Building Technologies, LLC
Information: 312/670.7770; Information and Registration on-line.
Converge/Exchange
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Egan Urban Center, DePaul University, 1 East Jackson
Sponsor: ADPSR Egan Urban Center SHED Studies
Free event; RSVP required
The second and final day of Converge/Exchange, designed to engage activist practitioners in communities within and outside Chicago in a conversation about innovative strategies applied and experiences gained in local economies, built environments, and beyond. Featured events of the day will include:
A morning panel discussion, focusing on community organizations and individuals who are engaged in innovative grassroots efforts in Chicago. There will be 3 concurrent panels, centered on food access and food justice, and the related subjects of sustainability, green jobs, health and quality of life.
A networking lunch, with informal presentations by Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), Black Oaks Sustainable Center, and others. The lunch is free and open to the public. Attendees are requested to either brown bag, or purchase from a selected number of items that will be made available.
Afternoon round table discussions to share knowledge and resources on the following areas of focus:
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Community participation; led by Joyce Fernandes (Archi-treasures) and Bryan Bell (Design Corps)
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Professional involvement; led by John Cary (Public Architecture) & Thomas Fischer (Dean, College of Design, University of Minnesota) and local partner (to be confirmed)
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Building partnerships; led by Martin Felsen (Archeworks) and Katie Swenson (Rose Architectural Fellowship)
12:15 - 1:00 PM - Claudia Cassidy Theatre, Chicago Cultural Center, 77 West Randolph
Sponsor: Landmarks Illinois
Free Event
Some of the “L” stations on the CTA system date to the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Hear transit expert Graham Garfield describe some recent efforts to restore the most historic stations
Time and place tentative: 1:00 P.M., City Council Chambers 121 N. LaSalle Street
Open to the public
Commission meeting and schedule and agenda's on-line.
Design Exposed: Levy Senior Center and Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. - Levy Center, 300 Dodge Ave., Evanston
Sponsor: AIA Chicago Design, Environment, IFRAA KCs
Free for AIA members; $15.00 non-members
2.0 LU/HSW/SD
Visit two Evanston projects by Ross Barney Architects and learn about the firm’s design philosophy and practice. The designers will discuss the challenges and opportunities of community-based design, in contrast to a private client. Sustainable design aspects of the Jewish Reconstructionist Synagogue, a LEED-Platinum building, will be highlighted. What impact have these projects had on their community? Speakers: Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, design principal; John Fried, AIA, principal in charge for Levy Center; Mike Ross, AIA, principal in charge for JRC; and Kimberley Patten, Assoc. AIA, project manager for JRC. Limited to 50 participants. Meet in Levy Center lobby; parking is available in the center's lot. Driving time from downtown Chicago: 45 to 60 minutes.
Information: 312/670.7770; Information and Registration on-line.
Sustainable Urban Environments: Definitions and Impacts
6:00 - 8:00 P.M. - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento Boulevard
Sponsor: Chicago Center for Green Technology,
Free event. Registration required.
AIA/CES: 2
Sustainable urban environments have the ability to address numerous societal
challenges from climate change and national security to health and happiness.
This session will introduce sustainable urban environment concepts, players,
organizations, and resources including the USGBC’s LEED for Neighborhood
Development rating system (LEED ND), which rates the sustainability of a community. A brief case study of how the LEED ND rating system was applied to the Edgewater community will also be presented. This session is bound to make you think in new ways about where you live and how society could evolve to be more sustainable.
Register by
calling the hotline at 312/746.9642, or by emailing your desired class and contact information with “Green Tech U” as the subject line.our desired class and contact
information.
Expanding Architecture: Conversations on Design as Activism
6:00 p.m., Steelcase WorkLife Center, Merchandise Mart
Sponsor: Metropolis Magazine
Free event. Space limited, registration required.
A challenge for designers to play a direct role in solving critical social and environmental problems - and to incorporate this outreach into practices to serve an ever-growing client base with real needs. Metropolis Magazine editor in cheif Susan S. Szenasy will engage in conversation with a panel that will include Bryan Bell, founder and executive Director of Design Corps; Sadhu Johnston, Chief Environmental Officer for the City of Chicago; Thomas Fisher, Professor and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota; Joel Makower, co-founder and executive editor of Greener World Media, Inc.; Roberta Feldman, Director, City Design Center, University of Illinois at Chicago; Eli Ungar, founder and principal of Antheus Capital. Refreshments will be served. Copies of Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism will be available for purchase and book signing.
10:00 - 11:30 a.m. - AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 250
Sponsor: AIA Chicago
Free event
Are you planning to build a new home, remodel your kitchen, or renovate
a three-flat? If so, attend this free seminar to help you learn if you need an architect, how to select an architect, understand the phases of a project, and create your dream house.
There will be opportunities to have 15 minute one-on-one consultations with the architects after the program.
Information: 312/670.7770; Register in advance with Megan Bell at 312-376-2725 or via-email and bring along any drawings pertinent to your project. Space is limited.
High Design/Low Carbon
1:00 - 3:00 P.M. - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento Boulevard
Sponsor: Chicago Center for Green Technology,
Free event. Registration required.
AIA/CES: 2
An architectural overview of how the forms of sustainable buildings can be
informed from successful classic regional designs. Architectural design originally came about in a very site specific way based on a time tested responses to local climates and local building materials. Working with Nature and not against it,
modern sustainable designs are best optimized when they start with this design philosophy.
Register by
calling the hotline at 312/746.9642, or by emailing your desired class and contact information with “Green Tech U” as the subject line.our desired class and contact
information.
March 23, Monday
Authenticity and How it Shapes Historic Preservation
5:30 - 6:30 p.m., tours and drinks, 6:30 p.m., panel discussion - Glessner House Museum, 1800 South Prairie Avenue
Sponsor: Western Great Lakes Chapter, Association for Preservation Technology
Vincent Michael will moderate a panel discussion with WGL Chapter Fellows Paul Gaudette, Harry Hunderman, Walker Johnson, Steve Kelley and Deborah Staton
5:00 p.m., registration, 5:30 p.m., dinner, 6:30 p.,m, program , continental breakfast and program, The Union League Club – 5th floor. 65 W. Jackson
Complimentary for CSI Chicago Members, $40.00 non-members
Sponsor: Chicago Chapter, Construction Specifications Institute
1.0 AIA/CES LU’s
A panel discussion about the value of specifications from the Owner, Architect and General Contractor perspective. Hear an expert panel’s viewpoints and ask your own questions about how each of these parties values the specification and what lessons can be learned about improving their usage. Panelists will include Jim Kreps, CSI, CCCA, AIA, General Growth Properties, two members of The Chicago Builder’s Association, plus an architect/specifier. Moderated by Mark Nelson, CSI, CDT, President, Nelson Testing
The Dream for True Urbanism in the Middle East: Recent Planning and Development in Abu Dhabi
5:30 - 7:00 p.m., John Buck Lecture Hall, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan
Sponsor: Chicago Architecture Foundation
$15.00, $10.00 CAF members, students.
AIA/CES 1.5
Lecture by Larry Beasley, Distinguished Practice Professorof Planning, University of British Columbia and founding principal of Beasley and Associates. With wealth, talent, and tenacity, the emirate of Abu Dhabi is determined to transcend the development trends in the Middle East. Beasley, Special Advisor on planning for the government of Abu Dhabi, discusses this planning agenda—the sustainable principles being pursued, the civic initiatives for quality of life, and the special efforts to build a provocative and evocative capital city.
Information: 312/922.3432 x 224. Purchase tickets and information on-line
Researching Green
6:00 - 8:00 P.M. - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento Boulevard
Sponsor: Chicago Center for Green Technology,
Free event. Registration required.
AIA/CES: 2
Presenter: Kelly Reiss, Chicago Center for Green Technology
Determining if something is “green” can be a research intensive endeavor. This seminar provides an overview of resources that can help lead you in the right direction. Certification methods, directories, and databases will be discussed. This seminar will tour and utilize the Green Building Resource Center at the Chicago Center for Green Technology.
Register by
calling the hotline at 312/746.9642, or by emailing your desired class and contact information with “Green Tech U” as the subject line.our desired class and contact
information.
Tour: Yannell Zero-Energy House
6:30 - 7:30 P.M. - 4895 N. Ravenswood Ave. (SE corner of N. Ravenswood and W. Ainslie)
Sponsor: AIA Chicago Environment KC
REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED
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Visit the first single-family home in Chicago designed to be Zero-Net Energy and LEED Platinum under the USGBC LEED for Homes Pilot Program. Farr Associates designed the home to produce more energy than it consumes. The tour will feature insights from Farr Associates, Goldberg General Contracting, Inc., and dbHMS (MEP engineer and energy modeler).
Information: 312/670.7770; Information and Registration on-line.
March 25 , Wednesday
One Museum Park East, Museum Park and the Central Station Planned Development
12:15 - 1:00 John Buck Lecture Hall, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan
Sponsor: Chicago Architecture Foundation
Free event, seating limited. Guests are welcome to bring a bag lunch.
AIA/CES 1
Prominently located at the southwest corner of Roosevelt Road and Columbus Drive, One Museum Park East is the flagship project for Museum Park and the Central Station neighborhood. The luxury high rise residential building is the first of four planned towers that will define the south streetwall of Grant Park.
5:30 - 9:00 P.M. - AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 250
Sponsor: AIA Chicago Young Architects Forum
Free event
ARE 3.1 and 4.0 study materials are available in an informal setting.
Information: 312/670.7770
Van Der Vogue
6:00 - 8:00 p.m., S.R. Crown Hall, 3360 South State
Sponsor: The Mies van der Rohe Society
$100.00 per person, includes a Mies van der Rohe Society one-year membership at the Brick level, $50.00 for current Society Members .
This years celebration of architect Mies van der Rohe's birthday (he's hitting the big 123) offers a cocktail party to celebrate Mies' contributions to Chicago and
modern architecture. This year, modern architecture is explored through fashion, with a cocktail-enhanced presentation of creations by local
fashion designers inspired by signature buildings.
We, the Unsigned: Dispatches from the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
6:00 p.m., doors open at 5:30 p.m. - Graham Foundation, Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place
Sponsor: Graham Foundation,
Free event, but space limited RSVP required.
Into the Open: Positioning Practice, the official U.S. pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, the 11th International Architecture Exhibition, will be on view through May 1, 2009 at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons in New York City. The exhibition focuses on the increasing interest in civic engagement in American architectural practice, and examines the means by which a new generation of architects is reclaiming a role in shaping community and the built environment.
Aaron Levy is the Executive Director and Senior Curator of the Philadelphia-based Slought Foundation (www.slought.org), and teaches in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. William Menking is the founder and editor of The Architect's Newspaper and is Professor, School of Architecture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
RVSP with Katie Freeman at 312/787.4071. ext. 26 by email. Information on-line.
Case Study: Sustainable Residential Building Science
6:00 - 8:00 P.M. - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 North Sacramento Boulevard
Sponsor: Chicago Center for Green Technology,
Free event. Registration required.
AIA/CES: 2
Presenter: Tim Heppner, Sustainability Designer, Builder and Consultant
This class will utilize the Heppner residence to demonstrate engineering, architecture and best practices combined with methodologies required to renovate 100 year old wood framed single family home making it energy efficient, environmentally friendly, sustainable and affordable. This project voluntarily participated in the Chicago Green Permit Process, Chicago Green Homes Program and Energy Star for Homes. Content of this seminar will be somewhat technical.
Register by
calling the hotline at 312/746.9642, or by emailing your desired class and contact information with “Green Tech U” as the subject line.our desired class and contact
information.
Paul Goldberger: Frank Lloyd Wright, Sacred Space, and the Challenge of the Modern
7:30 p.m., Unity Temple, 875 Lake Street, Oak Park
Sponsor: Unity Temple Restoration Foundation,
15.00members, $20.00 non-members
I s there a conflict between the desire to express a modern idea and the timelessness we expect of sacred space? Paul Goldberger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic of The New Yorker, will talk about Unity Temple in the context of great religious spaces throughout history. His talk will look at the connection between architecture and the spiritual and consider its meaning, both for Frank Lloyd Wright and for the architecture of today.
Chicago Modernism Show and Sale and lecture Gilbert Rohde: Modern Design for Modern Living
noon - 5:00 P.M., lecture, 2:00 P.M. - 1422 N.Kingsbury
Sponsor: Chicago Modernism Show and Sale,
$10.00
Closing day. Over 50 noted national and international decorative and fine arts exhibitors presenting all design movements of the 20th Century.
At 2:00 p.m., Phyllis Ross, author of Gilbert Rohde: Modern Design for Modern Living (Yale University Press) will offer an insightful overview of this first monograph on one of New York's least known, but highly influential, designers, who helped bring modern design to America in the years before World War II with his modular office furniture, boomerang coffee tables, a plastic chair and other innovations. Sponsored by the Chicago Art Deco Society
Gilbert Rohde (1894–1944) was an American modernist furniture and industrial designer who specialized in designing mass-produced furniture and was recognized as one of the leading designers of his era. Rohde’s promotion of modular furniture, biomorphic design, and his pioneering office-furniture system anticipated trends that took hold in the postwar era. Phyllis Ross is the author of Gilbert Rohde: Modern Design for Modern Living. Published by Yale University Press in March 2009, this volume presents the first comprehensive appraisal of Rohde’s career. She is an independent researcher and scholar based in New York City as well as a graduate of the History of Decorative Arts Master’s Program, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum/Parsons School of Design. The monograph will be available for purchase the night of the event.
Call 312/443-3631 for tickets. Information on-line.
A former journalist and co-editor of the book Design Like You Give a Damn,Kate Stohr describes the work of Architecture for Humanity, the international organization she co-founded in 1999 with Cameron Sinclair to solve the world's most pressing humanitarian crises through innovative and sustainable design.
pace—20 slides, 20 seconds each—while the audience heckles and drowns its sorrows."Chicago’s Volume 8 features 6 minutes and 40 seconds seconds each of architect 
predictions for future growth, the Central Area Plan represented a 20-year vision for Chicago's development. Now, almost one-third into the plan's proposed build-out, join Benet Haller from the City of Chicago as he presents an overview of the successes of, and challenges to, the plan in the past six years. Benet will discuss recent modifications to the plan, and adjustments the city has made in response to changing demographics and economic conditions.
environmentally responsible landscaping alternatives for the urban environment. Raymond discusses green roofs, rain gardens, living walls, rain water harvesting, and natural landscape care as some of the options that lessen environmental impact without sacrificing aesthetics. 
bring a bag lunch. 
Fuller Snyder reflects on his formative years and her own experience growing up with him; the people who seeded so much of his work; and his lasting legacy as a visionary and a great teacher. Her talk is followed by a discussion about Fuller's significance for today's world. Allegra Fuller Snyder is Professor Emerita of Dance and former Director of the Graduate Program in Dance Ethnology at UCLA. Lecture presented in conjunction with the MCA exhibition, 
significant buildings by Mies van der Rohe (1888-1969) on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. Guests will begin the afternoon with a tour by Justine Jentes, director of the Mies van der Rohe Society, of 
past 38 years has become one of the city's most active real estate development companies. The firm owns or manages more than 50 properties throughout the Chicago area and has been instrumental in the redevelopment of 12 full city blocks, mainly in Chicago's River North neighborhood. Noted projects include the redevelopment of the former Medinah Temple/Tree Studios, the former Cook County Courthouse and the former Reid-Murdoch Center along the Chicago River. Friedman will be interview by Thomas A Corfman, Senior Reporter, Crain's Chicago Business. 
in communities within and outside Chicago in a conversation about innovative strategies applied and experiences gained in local economies, built environments, and beyond. Featured events of the day will include:
philosophy and practice. The designers will discuss the challenges and opportunities of community-based design, in contrast to a private client. Sustainable design aspects of the 
problems - and to incorporate this outreach into practices to serve an ever-growing client base with real needs. Metropolis Magazine editor in cheif Susan S. Szenasy will engage in conversation with a panel that will include Bryan Bell, founder and executive Director of Design Corps; Sadhu Johnston, Chief Environmental Officer for the City of Chicago; Thomas Fisher, Professor and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota; Joel Makower, co-founder and executive editor of Greener World Media, Inc.; Roberta Feldman, Director, City Design Center, University of Illinois at Chicago; Eli Ungar, founder and principal of Antheus Capital. Refreshments will be served. Copies of 
emirate of Abu Dhabi is determined to transcend the development trends in the Middle East. Beasley, Special Advisor on planning for the government of Abu Dhabi, discusses this planning agenda—the sustainable principles being pursued, the civic initiatives for quality of life, and the special efforts to build a provocative and evocative capital city.
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Architecture Exhibition, will be on view through May 1, 2009 at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons in New York City. The exhibition focuses on the increasing interest in civic engagement in American architectural practice, and examines the means by which a new generation of architects is reclaiming a role in shaping community and the built environment.
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