Yes, it's time to again start rolling the boulder up the mountain, with another month full of great programs on the
March Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.
It kicks off Friday morning, March 1st, with the
SEAOI 2013 Trade Show at the University
Club,
Rick Valicenti presenting a keynote for the two-day
Chicago Creative Expo at the Cultural Center, and, in the evening, new IIT College of Architecture Dean
Wiel Arets treading on Frank Lloyd Wright turf with
A Wonderful World, a lecture at
Unity Temple in Oak Park.
March also includes appearances of two world renowned architects, with
Dominique 
Perrault, talking about
The Disappearance of Architecture: Between Presence and Absence, at
IIT's Wishnick Auditorium on the 27th, while 2012 Pritzker Prize winner
Wang Shu appears at
Rubloff Auditorium for the
Architecture and Design Society of the Art Institute on Thursday, the 28th.
On the academics front, there's
Mirko Zardini, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Monday the 11th at
UIC, which also hosts
Alessandra Ponte of L'École d’architecture de l'Université de Montréal on the 18th, while over at IIT,
Kenneth Frampton talks about
The Past and Future Prospects for Architectural Education on the 14th
This month's theme for
CAF's lunchtime lectures is
Mod Squad Chicago, with Bauhaus and Beyond's
Joan Gand talking about the
Hidden Gems of Mid-Century, Keck and Keck on Wednesday the 6th,
Richard Becker and
Lisa Skolnick discussing
Edward Dart's Ancel House on the 13th, and
Chicago at Midcentury: Images by Lee Bey on the 20th.
March is
Mies month (actually, in Chicago, every month is Mies month), with the celebration of the
master's birthday 127th on the 13th at
Crown Hall, where
Christianne Lange lectures on
Mies Van der Rohe in Krefeld on the 27th,
Edward Windhorst talks about
Mies van der Rohe and Historic Preservation: A Report 
and Prognosis at the
Cultural Center on the 21st for
Landmarks Illinois, and Windhorst joins up with his co-author
Franz Schulze at CAF lunchtime on the 27th to talk about
Rewriting the Life of Mies can der Rohe: New Perspectives after 25 years.
And, really, how many chances do you have to combine supporting Chicago's architectural history with Bingo? Well,
Preservation Chicago will be offering up just such a combination with their
Chicago Seven Bingo fundraiser, on, appropriately enough, the 7th, anticipating the release of this year's list of the seven most endangered buildings the following week.
Tuesday the 5th,
Pecha Kucha returns to
Martyr's for its Volume #25.
For its monthly dinner meeting,
SEOAI has
John R. Hillman talking about the engineering of the
35th Street Pedestrian Bridge over Lake Shore Drive on the 12th at the Parthenon, the same evening
Lynn Allyn Young is over at the
Glessner House Museum to talk about her book,
Beautiful Dreamer - The Completed Works and Unfilled plans of Sculptor Lorado Taft .
Mel Buchanan recounts the story of
Grete Marks: When Modernism was Degenerate, Thursday the 7th at
Second Presbyterian Meanwhile, over at the
Driehaus Museum on the 14th,
Rolf Achilles discusses the lesser-known stained glass artisans who created
Great Midwestern Panes.I'm sure we'll be adding even more, but even now there are nearly fifty great items to check out on the
March Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.
Club, Rick Valicenti presenting a keynote for the two-day Chicago Creative Expo at the Cultural Center, and, in the evening, new IIT College of Architecture Dean Wiel Arets treading on Frank Lloyd Wright turf with A Wonderful World, a lecture at Unity Temple in Oak Park.
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