Never too late to be adding great new events to the
September Chicago Architectural Calendar . . .
On Thursday, September 26th, WTTW's
Geoffrey Baer will be at Frank Lloyd Wright's
Unity Temple in Oak Park to talk about his documentary,
The Ten Buildings that Changed America. On Wednesday, September 18th, at the
Expo 72 Gallery on Randolph across the street from the Cultural Center, there'll be a
panel discussion at the exhibition
City Works - Provocations for Chicago's Urban Future with
Stanley Tigerman, John David Brown,
Studio/Gang,
UrbanLab and exhibition curator
Alexander Eisenschmidt, moderated at AIA Chicago's
Zurich Esposito.
This Wednesday the 12th, there'll be the
presentation ceremony at the Garfield Park Conservatory for the
2013 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence, with a panel discussion
with
Metropolis editor
Susan Szenasy,
Gabriel Goodman,
Benet Haller,
Ann Marie Lubenau,
Eunita Rushing,
Susana Vasquez, and architect
Larry Kearns, whose design for
Inspiration Kitchens won this year's Gold Medal. The the next day, Friday the 13th,
AIA Chicago will host Promoting Design and More through Rudy Bruner Awards, with Kearns, Bruner Foundation director Lubenau and
Emily Emmerman of the
Gary Comer Youth Center, which won the Bruner Silver Award in 2011, and
Ed Uhlir, whose
Millennium Park won Silver in 2009.
Also coming up this week, we've got
Pecha Kucha Chicago Volume #27 at
Martyr's tomorrow (Tuesday), photographer
Richard Wasserman talking about Midstream: The Chicago River, 1999-2010 
Wednesday lunchtime at the
Chicago Architecture Foundation, which is also hosting a
special river cruise with the designers currently remaking the Chicago's riverfront - CDOT's
Michelle Woods,
Carol Ross Barney, Sasaki's
Gina Ford, Studio/Gang's
Claire Cahan and bKL Architecture's
Tom Kerwin - Thursday evening. Lunchtime on Thursday,
Friends of the Parks will be hosting
a lecture on
The Brilliance of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County: Celebrating 100 Years, lunchtime at the
Cultural Center. On Saturday, the 14th, the
Museum of Contemporary Art, in conjunction with its exhibition,
Homebodies, will have a
gallery talk with artist
Julia Fish and architect
Dan Wheeler, while
Landmarks Illinois has its
2013 Skyline Social fundraiser at the
Elks Memorial.
And that's just scratching the surface. There are over 40 great events still to come this month. Check out all the details on the
September Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.
Wednesday lunchtime at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, which is also hosting a special river cruise with the designers currently remaking the Chicago's riverfront - CDOT's Michelle Woods, Carol Ross Barney, Sasaki's Gina Ford, Studio/Gang's Claire Cahan and bKL Architecture's Tom Kerwin - Thursday evening. Lunchtime on Thursday, Friends of the Parks will be hosting a lecture on The Brilliance of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County: Celebrating 100 Years, lunchtime at the Cultural Center. 
