Version Festival, Swiss Futures, Marshall Brown's Urban Imaginary, Armenta Davis, Evanston Places, White City Simulated and more - lots of new stuff for the June Calendar!

Yes, I know it's June 17th, and no, it's not too late to be adding another half dozen great items to the

June Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

This Wednesday, June 19th, Version Festival will be the focus of a gallery walk through the great Spontaneous Interventions exhibition at the Cultural Center, where on Saturday the 29th, there'll be a Scholarly Perspectives panel discussion moderated by Gordon Douglas, with Jeffrey Kidder, David Schalliol and others.

On Tuesday, the 25th, The Swiss-American Business Council will be sponsoring A Swiss View: Urban and the Future of Cities: 5, 10, and 50 years from Now, with Tom Jacobs, Hanno Weber and Susanne Cannon.

Thursday the 27th is bursting with newly added items, beginning with 's Marshall Brown discussion with Geof Oppenheimer on Architecture, Power, and the Urban Imaginary at the Western Exhibitions Gallery, which is currently hosting Brown's show, Center of the World, Chicago.  That same evening, there'll be a book launch at the First Bank and Trust for Evanston 150 Years, 150 Places; while at the Woodson Regional Library, architectural historian Carolyn Armenta Davis will discuss Today's African-American, Afro-European and Africa Architects.

The Museum of Science and Industry marks its 80th birthday with a double-header from Chicago cultural historian Tim Samuelson on Sunday the 23rd.  In the morning, he partners with Lisa M. Snyder of the Urban Simulation Team at UCLA for Exploring the White City, the latest iteration of the UCLA's evolving computer simulation of the 1893 World's Columbia Exposition, this time with an emphasis on Louis Sullivan's polychrome Transportation Building.  

Then in the afternoon, Samuelson teams up with University of Arizona architectural historian Lisa Schrenk for a look at Building a Century of Progress, exploring the often strikingly modernist pavilion and exhibit designs for the 1933-34 Chicago's World Fair.

The MSI events are incredibly pricey - $20-$25.00 atop the museum's minimum $27.00 entry fee - but the White City simulation, especially, is a fascinating project, and these events usually sell out quickly, so be warned.

Already on the schedule is Martin Adolfsson on Suburbia Gone Wild this Tuesday the 19th, and then on to Creating the Pullman Cultural Renaissance, Channel Glass Wall Systems, the Wells Street Bridge Rehabilitation,  the Common Cause of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd Wright, the new growth industry of Urban Farming in Chicago, the Original Sears Tower, the Illinois Statewide Preservation Conference, and a lot more.

How much more?  Well, check it out for yourself - two dozen great items still to come on the June Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

Lifson on Prentice Curves, Explore Engineering at CAF, Marie Aquilino, Carolyn Armenta Davis, People's History and Preservation, plus last days for Bertrand Goldberg:Reflections - more for February

We told you there was a lot more coming to the February 2012 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events, and it turns out we weren't kidding.  We've just added another dozen+ items.

On Thursday, the 23rd, Edward Lifson will be talking about Those Mysterious Curves: Why Prentice Women's Hospital Should be Reborn at the Häfele America Chicago Showroom, while a mile or so north, Rebecca Graff will be presenting Archaeology at the Charnley-Persky House: Changing Tastes on Chicago's Gold Coast, 1890-1930 at, appropriately enough, the Charnley-Persky House.

On February 29th, the Chaddick Institute at DePaul will have a symposium bridging the real and the virtual, Connecting Digital and Physical Space: Social Media and Technology's Impact on How & Where We Work, Live & Shop.  And on Sunday the 19th at CAF, Chicagoland Engineers Week will be sponsoring Explore Engineering - How do they do that? Find out. Figure Out. Try Out, "a day-long festival of fun, hands-on activities designed to help families discover what engineers do, try out activities, have fun building, constructing, and solving engineering challenges," targeting families with kids 5-13 and students 14 to 18.

And for Wednesday, the 22nd, we've added a lecture at the Graham Foundation by Marie Aquilino, editor of the book Beyond Shelter, Architecture and Human Dignity, who will describe the ways in which some of the world's most innovative architecture and engineering firms, nonprofits and research centers are changing how we engage in disaster recovery solutions.

This week, on Monday the 6th, we've got Yolande Daniels of Studio SUMO lecturing at the Art Institute, and on Tuesday the 7th, Jamie Simone talks about Planning in Progress: The Bloomingdale Trail Project at the Great Cities Institute in the afternoon, and in the evening there's the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois monthly dinner meeting at the Cliff Dwellers, on the topic The Structural Engineer and Construction Disputes, while Emmanuel Pratt is at the Chicago Cultural Center for Archeworks, and Carolyn Armenta Davis discusses Creativity Released: Designs from Black Architects in Paris, Dakar, and Beyond at Alliance Française de Chicago.

This Friday, the 10th, there's what promises to be a different kind of look at historical preservation with a  round table discussion at the Jane Adams Hull-House Museum, This is Not My Beautiful House: Historic Preservation and the People's History, with Vince Michael, Roberta Feldman, Estevan Rael-Galvaz, Mary Means and Lee Bey.

We're already in the second week of the month, but there's still 50 great upcoming events to check out on the February Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

And a final reminder that you have only through this Wednesday, February 8th, to catch the great exhibition, Bertrand Goldberg:Reflections at the Arts Club of Chicago.

Gill, Gang, and Kamin today at Ideas Week, Erika Allen at Access Living on the 25th - more for the October calendar

Still more additions to the October Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

As of this writing, there were still tickets ($15.00) for a panel on Architecture, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., at the Chicago History Museum featuring Gordon Gill, Jeanne Gang, the Trib's Blair Kamin, plus Andrew Kotchen, Matt Berman and photographer Scott Frances.  It's a part of Chicago Ideas Week, which includes such other attractions as Bill Clinton on Tuesday, and a tour of Millennium Park with former Mayor Richard M. Daley (sold out).

On Wednesday, there's a all-day conference, GreenTown - the Future of Community, at Unity Temple in Oak Park, and on Tuesday, the 25th, Archeworks has added a lecture by Erika Allen of Growing Power Chicago, Closing the Loop: Planning and Implementation of Community Food Systems, at Access Living.

Also this week, Chicago Women in Architecture have a reception with Jeanne Gang on Tuesday, and a Wednesday logjam includes The City as Campus author Sharon Haar at CAF,  architect Stanley Allen at IIT, and Kevin Harrington discussing H.H. Richardson at the Glessner House Museum.  On Thursday, Carolyn Armenta Davis talks about Designing for the 21st Century: Germany's Black Architects, at the Goethe Institut.  Friday brings MAS Context: Analog, and Saturday and Sunday, the spectacular openhousechicago, with behind-the-scenes of over a hundred Chicago building.

Check out all the over fifty events still to come on the October Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.