It’s another week packed with architecture and design events in Chicago. YoChicago’s architecture journal City Spaces, City Places fills you in. Click on “more” to see the list, and feel free to add events in the “comments” section below.
Monday, Feb. 19
Archeworks Open House & Lecture
A studio tour followed by an information session on Archeworks’ part-time design program begins at 5:30 p.m. A lecture, “Spatializing Histories at the Foot of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount / Haram al Sharif,” by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Ph.D., begins at 6:30 p.m. Archeworks, 625 N Kingsbury. Free. R.S.V.P. online or call 312-867-7254.
Tuesday, Feb. 20
The 2010 Imperative: Global Emergency Teach-In (a live webcast by Architecture 2030)
The Chicago Architecture Foundation presents a webcast from the New York Academy of Sciences on how the academic and design communities can address global warming and resource depletion. 11 a.m. — 2:30 p.m., The John Buck Company Lecture Hall, 224 S Michigan Ave. Free and open to the public. No R.S.V.P. needed.
The 2010 Imperative: Global Emergency Teach-In (a live webcast by Architecture 2030)
The American Institute of Architects Chicago presents the same webcast. 11 a.m. — 2:30 p.m., USG Solutions Center, 222 W Hubbard St, 4th floor. Free. Advance registration recommended; limited to 35 participants at this location. Call 312-670-7770.
“Architecture in the Museum of Contemporary Art”
A lecture by MCA chief curator Elizabeth Smith. 6 p.m., Archeworks, 625 N Kingsbury. R.S.V.P. online or call 312-867-7254.
Chicago Architecture Foundation Lunchtime Lecture: “Beyond Sprawl: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Utopian Vision for America”
A lecture by Robert Fishman, professor of urban planning and architecture at the University of Michigan. 12:15 p.m., ArchiCenter, 224 S Michigan. Free and open to the public. No R.S.V.P. needed. For more information, call 312-922-3432, ext. 226.
Saturday, Feb. 24
Planning for the South Lakefront Parks Bus Tour
Eleanor Roemer, public trust and policy director with Friends of the Parks, leads a bus tour of Chicago’s south lakefront between the South Shore Cultural Center and the southern boundary of Calumet Park, presented by the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Dress for the outdoors. 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. The tour meets 20 minutes before departure at the John Buck Company Lecture Hall, 224 S Michigan Avenue. Price: $47; $40 Chicago Architecture Foundation members; $43 students and seniors. Reservations highly recommended. Buy tickets online or call 312.922.3432 x224. Walk-ins are welcome if space permits.
Sunday, Feb. 25
“The Story of Alva Beatrice Maxey-Boyd”
In honor of Black History Month, Glessner House Museum docent Allan Vagner will give a lecture on Maxey-Boyd, an African-American educator who saved a Prairie Avenue mansion. Tour the mansion at the conclusion of the lecture. 1:30 p.m., Glessner House Museum, 1800 S Prairie Ave. Price: $15 for museum members, $20 for non-members. Reservations required by Thursday, Feb. 22. Attendees must provide their own transportation from Glessner House to the mansion at 2801 S Prairie Ave.
Feel free to add events for the week of Feb. 19 by clicking “comments” below.