Looking forward to restoration efforts after Hurricane Katrina and looking back on the history of Chicago’s first subsidized housing, it’s a big week for architecture in Chicago. Yo’s architecture site, City spaces, city places, has you covered.
The Chicago Architecture Foundation will sponsor “After Katrina: Preservation, Rebuilding, and Infrastructure in the Gulf Coast” at 6 p.m. Thursday April 20 at the Archicenter’s John Buck Lecture Hall Gallery, 224 S Michigan Ave. Tickets are $20 ($15 for students) and can be bought online. Panelists include Reed Kroloff, dean of the School of Architecture at Tulane University; John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for New Urbanism; Kate Stohr, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity; and Thomas Murphy, of the Urban Land Institute. Read more at City spaces, city places.