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Friday,
September 22
Biennial Events
Sight Six: Chicago Architecture Biennial Poster Exhibition
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Partner Events
The Chicago Project: Future Present – celebrating the genius of Chicago architecture through movement, image and sound
Performance, 3:00 PM, The Ruth Page Center for the Arts
Rare Earth: A Speakeasy of Sound and Images
Exhibition Opening, 6:00 PM, Arts Incubator
Unsolicited Sideshow: Tank Takeover 1
Performance, 6:00 PM, Chicago Athletic Association
Saturday,
September 23
Biennial Events
Sight Six: Chicago Architecture Biennial Poster Exhibition
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Partner Events
SAIC at Homan Square Open House
10:00 AM, Nichols Tower
Rooting of Oaks of North Lawndale
Reception/Social, 10:00 AM, Nichols Tower
Edgar Miller, Architecture, and the Decorative Arts
Workshop/Activity, 1:00 PM, The Glasner Studio at Kogen-Miller Studios
The Unmentioned: Chicago Women in Architecture that Broke the Glass Ceiling
Tour, 3:00 PM, Cloud Gate - Millenium Park
Public celebration of In Wood We Trust, A Room Has Its Own Voice, and Mykitas Epoch – Habitat
Reception/Social, 4:00 PM, 6018North
Sunday,
September 24
Biennial Events
Sight Six: Chicago Architecture Biennial Poster Exhibition
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Monday,
September 25
Biennial Events
Sight Six: Chicago Architecture Biennial Poster Exhibition
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Tuesday,
September 26
Biennial Events
Sight Six: Chicago Architecture Biennial Poster Exhibition
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
White Wanderer: Creating a Climate Change Soundtrack
Lecture/Panel, 6:30 PM, Chicago Cultural Center - Claudia Cassidy Theater
Partner Events
Betweeness: Art, Architecture & Activism
Workshop/Activity, 4:00 PM, National Museum of Mexican Art
Chicago’s Architectural Past: NOW - Creating 360° Immersive Tours of Sacred Spaces
Lecture/Panel, 6:00 PM, Chicago History Museum
Rooftop Architectural Films
Film Screening, 6:30 PM, Ace Hotel Chicago
Wednesday,
September 27
Biennial Events
Sight Six: Chicago Architecture Biennial Poster Exhibition
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Partner Events
Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan
Lecture/Panel, 6:00 PM, Graham Foundation
Smart Museum Fall Opening Reception
Exhibition Opening, 6:30 PM, Smart Museum of Art
Thursday,
September 28
Biennial Events
Sight Six: Chicago Architecture Biennial Poster Exhibition
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
What is Organic Architecture Today?
Lecture/Panel, 2:00 PM, Chicago Cultural Center
Partner Events
Designed for Feeling Good, Feeling Better
Lecture/Panel, 5:30 PM, Pella Crafted Luxury Showroom
Ângela Ferreira: Zip Zap and Zumbi - Curator's Tour
Tour, 5:30 PM, DePaul Art Museum
2017 Small Project Awards: Small But Mighty
5:45 PM, Merchandise Mart #100
[tiny garage] Experimental Sound Series
Performance, 7:00 PM, Defibrillator Gallery
Friday,
September 29
Biennial Events
Sight Six: Chicago Architecture Biennial Poster Exhibition
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Mark Fell with Katherine Young: 7 Facts In Logical Space
Performance, 8:00 PM, Chicago Cultural Center
Saturday,
September 30
Biennial Events
Sight Six: Chicago Architecture Biennial Poster Exhibition
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Partner Events
Nuclear Thresholds
Exhibition Opening, All Day, UChicago Arts: Nuclear Thresholds
Designed Awareness | | | Youth + Community Design Challenge
Workshop/Activity, 9:00 AM, Boombox Wicker Park
Savageness, or There are veins embraced in the property
Performance, 6:00 PM, 6018North
Sunday,
October 1
Biennial Events
Thinking Into the Future: Designing With Light
Lecture/Panel, 2:00 PM, Chicago Cultural Center - Preston Bradley Hall
Partner Events
Designed Awareness | | | Youth + Community Design Challenge
Workshop/Activity, 9:00 AM, Boombox Wicker Park
Chicago Architecture Book Festival
Workshop/Activity, 12:00 PM, Columbia College
Crowd Out: A 1,000-voice experience by and for the people of Chicago
Performance, 3:00 PM, Millennium Park
Tuesday,
October 3
Biennial Events
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle & Hannah B Higgins
Lecture/Panel, 6:30 PM, Chicago Cultural Center - Claudia Cassidy Theater
Partner Events
Chicago Architectural Club: Burnham Prize
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago’s Architectural Past: NOW - Chicagoland Prize Homes
Lecture/Panel, 6:00 PM, Chicago History Museum
Dan Peterman—Slipping and Jamming: Variable Installation of Z-Forms, Opening Reception
Exhibition Opening, 6:00 PM, William Eckhardt Research Center lobby
Wednesday,
October 4
Biennial Events
Building With Digital Fragments
Lecture/Panel, 5:00 PM, Chicago Cultural Center
Jens Jensen: The Living Green
Film Screening, 6:30 PM, National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture
Partner Events
Chicago Architectural Club: Burnham Prize
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
bLumen & Westside Wednesdays Celebration
Reception/Social, 5:00 PM, Homan Park Community Center
First Wednesdays at CiaoChicago: An Italian Design Night
Lecture/Panel, 6:00 PM, Ciao Chicago
Thursday,
October 5
Biennial Events
Matter/Structure/Architecture: A Conversation with Yasmil Raymond and Tomás Saraceno
Lecture/Panel, 6:00 PM, Chicago Cultural Center
Partner Events
Chicago Architectural Club: Burnham Prize
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Friday,
October 6
Partner Events
Chicago Architectural Club: Burnham Prize
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Gallery Talk: Color Studies
Lecture/Panel, 12:00 PM, Art Institute of Chicago
Beverly Arts Center Happy Hour for a Cause
Reception/Social, 4:00 PM, Beverly Arts Center
Saturday,
October 7
Partner Events
Chicago Architectural Club: Burnham Prize
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Second Presbyterian Church - Basement to Belfry: October Tour
Tour, 10:00 AM, Second Presbyterian Church
UChicago Architecture Biennial Shuttles
Tour, 10:00 AM, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Opening Closings: Reactivating Closed Chicago Public Schools
Workshop/Activity, 11:00 AM, Former Anthony Overton Elementary School
Logan Center Five Year Bash
Workshop/Activity, 11:30 AM, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Beverly Art Walk at the Beverly Arts Center
Tour, 12:00 PM, Beverly Arts Center
Thiago de Paula Souza
Lecture/Panel, 2:00 PM, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Cauleen Smith: If Thoughts Could Heal
Performance, 2:00 PM, DuSable Museum of African American History
Sunday,
October 8
Partner Events
Chicago Architectural Club: Burnham Prize
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Monday,
October 9
Partner Events
Chicago Architectural Club: Burnham Prize
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Do Ho Suh
Lecture/Panel, 6:00 PM, Art Institute of Chicago - Rubloff Auditorium
Tuesday,
October 10
Biennial Events
Spray Runners with Miguel Aguilar
Lecture/Panel, 3:00 PM, Chicago Cultural Center
CANCELLED: Fashion + Body + Beats with Cheryl Pope
Workshop/Activity, 3:00 PM, Chicago Cultural Center
Partner Events
Chicago Architectural Club: Burnham Prize
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
H. H. Richardson and the Ames Family: The Architecture of Scandal and Redemption
Lecture/Panel, 7:00 PM, Glessner House Museum
Wednesday,
October 11
Partner Events
Chicago Architectural Club: Burnham Prize
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Thursday,
October 12
Partner Events
Chicago Architectural Club: Burnham Prize
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Spotlight: Architecture+Space+Design at the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival
Film Screening, 10:00 AM, AMC River East 21
MAS Context presents: Charles Rice | Interior Urbanism
Lecture/Panel, 6:00 PM, Society of Architectural Historians
RARE EARTH: Joshua Abrams/Tomeka Reid/Dave Rempis
Performance, 6:30 PM, Arts Incubator Pavilion at 265 E Garfield Blvd
SOM: Engineering x [Art + Architecture] – Panel Discussion: Structure as Poetry
Lecture/Panel, 7:00 PM, Ace Hotel Chicago
Friday,
October 13
Partner Events
Chicago Architectural Club: Burnham Prize
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Spotlight: Architecture+Space+Design at the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival
Film Screening, 10:00 AM, AMC River East 21
Sampson Wong: Objects for Protest
Lecture/Panel, 4:15 PM, SAIC - Leroy Neiman Center
Unsolicited Sideshow :Tank Takeover 2
Performance, 6:00 PM, Chicago Athletic Association
Preview—Confluence • 20+ Creative Ecologies of Hong Kong
Reception/Social, 6:00 PM, Chicago Design Museum
Altar Call: The Architecture of Black Sacred Space
Exhibition Opening, 6:30 PM, Rootwork Gallery
Performing Home
Performance, 7:00 PM, Links Hall
Saturday,
October 14
Partner Events
Open House Chicago
Tour, 9:00 AM, Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago Architectural Club: Burnham Prize
Exhibition Opening, 10:00 AM, Chicago Cultural Center
Spotlight: Architecture+Space+Design at the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival
Film Screening, 10:00 AM, AMC River East 21
Hong Kong Creative Ecologies: The Plurality of Visions in Design
Exhibition Opening, 12:00 PM, Block 37 Third Floor
The Lineage of Inspiration: From Tradition to Innovation
Lecture/Panel, 12:30 PM, Chicago Design Museum
Obama Presidential Center Panel
Lecture/Panel, 2:00 PM, DuSable Museum of African American History
Objects for Protest: Contemporary Crowd Creation
Lecture/Panel, 4:00 PM, Chicago Design Museum
BIG Time
Film Screening, 6:00 PM, AMC Theater River East 21
Performing Home
Performance, 7:00 PM, Links Hall
Sunday,
October 15
Partner Events
Open House Chicago
Tour, 9:00 AM, Chicago Architecture Foundation
Spotlight: Architecture+Space+Design at the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival
Film Screening, 10:00 AM, AMC River East 21
Performing Home
Performance, 7:00 PM, Links Hall
Monday,
October 16
Partner Events
Spotlight: Architecture+Space+Design at the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival
Film Screening, 10:00 AM, AMC River East 21
Designing for Diplomacy with James Timberlake
Lecture/Panel, 6:00 PM, Chicago Architecture Foundation
Tuesday,
October 17
Biennial Events
From Waste to Wonder: Developing The River as Chicago's Second Coast
Lecture/Panel, 6:00 PM, Chicago Cultural Center - Claudia Cassidy Theater
Partner Events
Spotlight: Architecture+Space+Design at the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival
Film Screening, 10:00 AM, AMC River East 21
The Architecture of Noir
Film Screening, 4:00 PM, AMC River East
MCA In Progress: Artist Talk with Amanda Williams
Lecture/Panel, 6:00 PM, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The American Indian Center: The Role of the Arts and Cultural Spaces in Decolonizing Historical Narratives
Lecture/Panel, 6:30 PM, Chicago Cultural Center
Wednesday,
October 18
Partner Events
Spotlight: Architecture+Space+Design at the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival
Film Screening, 10:00 AM, AMC River East 21
David Hartt: in the forest - Artist Talk
Lecture/Panel, 6:00 PM, Graham Foundation
Book Talk: Architects' Gravesites with Henry H. Kuehn
Lecture/Panel, 6:00 PM, Chicago Architecture Foundation
From Frank Lloyd Wright to Chicago’s Jackson Park: The Work of Japanese American Architect Kaneji Domoto Lecture by Lynnette Widder
6:00 PM, Alphawood Gallery
Future Cities: A Conversation with Chad Friedrichs
Film Screening, 6:30 PM, Chicago Cultural Center
Ongoing Events
Arquitectos X Perspectives (AxP)
Thursday,
October 19
Biennial Events
Housing as a Human Right: Social Construction
Exhibition Opening, 5:30 PM, NPHM + Archeworks
Partner Events
Spotlight: Architecture+Space+Design at the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival
Film Screening, 10:00 AM, AMC River East 21
Rural Urban Framework: Joshua Bolchover and John Lin
Lecture/Panel, 4:15 PM, LeRoy Neiman Center
John Vinci: Life and Landmarks
Lecture/Panel, 6:00 PM, Illinois Institute of Technology - S.R. Crown Hall
RARE EARTH: Performance featuring Mykele Deville and Growing Concerns Poetry Collective.
Performance, 6:30 PM, Arts Incubator Pavilion
How the Arts Affect Neighborhoods: Panel Discussion
Lecture/Panel, 7:30 PM, Beverly Arts Center
Ongoing Events
Arquitectos X Perspectives (AxP)
Friday,
October 20
Biennial Events
range
Performance, 6:30 PM, Columbia College
Partner Events
Spotlight: Architecture+Space+Design at the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival
Film Screening, 10:00 AM, AMC River East 21
Ongoing Events
Arquitectos X Perspectives (AxP)
Saturday,
October 21
Partner Events
Glessner House Museum: October Behind-the-Scenes Architecture Tour
Tour, 10:00 AM, Glessner House Museum
Spotlight: Architecture+Space+Design at the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival
Film Screening, 10:00 AM, AMC River East 21
MAS Context : Analog 2017
Lecture/Panel, 11:00 AM, The Joinery
Edgar Miller and the Legacy of Arts & Crafts
Workshop/Activity, 1:00 PM, The Glasner Studio at Kogen-Miller Studios
Singing Stones: Guest-Designer Led Tour with Andrew Schachman
Lecture/Panel, 2:00 PM, DuSable Museum of African American History
Floating Museum + Avery R Young: Parable of a maroon moon ritual & a southern tree
Performance, 3:00 PM, DuSable Museum of African American History
Ongoing Events
Arquitectos X Perspectives (AxP)
