Landscape Architecture

SET OFF, a design exploration off the beaten path, features final projects by emerging designers from four graduate design programs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). The largest of five new SAIC exhibitions on view during NeoCon, North America's largest design exposition, SET OFF is online at saic.edu/setoff.

Also opening June 10, the 2013 Post-Baccalaureate Exhibition features 20 students completing SAIC’s Post-Bac in Studio and Post-Bac in Fashion, Body and Garment curricula. The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Studio is offered in the Departments of Art and Technology Studies; Ceramics; Fiber and Material Studies; Film, Video, New Media, and Animation; Painting and Drawing; Performance; and Visual Communication Design.

The opening reception is Monday, June 10, 6:00–8:00 p.m., and a SET OFF panel discussion will be held in the galleries 4:00–5:30 p.m.

All shows are free and open to the public Tuesday–Saturday, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m, June 8–July 5 (closed July 4).

The GFRY Studio exhibition "A View with a Room," and "whatnot" and "Functional Fiction"—a pair of design exhibitions originally presented in Milan and New York City, are also featured in the Sullivan Galleries.

A list of participating students and more information is available in the press release online at bit.ly/188gITp

saic.edu/exhibitions | 312.629.6635 | exhibitions-saic@saic.edu

PechaKucha Chicago style is this week - Tuesday December 4th (doors at 6pm, place is hopping by 7:30, and we'll start at 8:20)
What do the winners of the Prentice Future Competition, the managing editor of the Chciago Tribune and a red-headed rock n roll band have in common?
For one, they are all presenters at PechaKucha Night Chicago Volume 24 on Tuesday evening.
If you haven't been to PK in a while, it's time to get back in the habit and join iconic Chicago designer Jordan Mozer, Chicago's loudest band White Mystery, Roche Scholarship recipient Anne Dudek, Tribune Managing Editor Jane Hirt, art and design advocate Tess Landon, young architects Wallo Villacorta and Cyril Marsollier, Dose Market’s April Francis, brand innovator Tom Marquardt, molder of minds Sandi Dumich and 2014 AIA Chicago Board member Juan Moreno.

No snow yet, but if it's the first December in Chicago then at least there's a guaranteed PechaKucha Night. Loads of fun and festivity for all family members (over the age of 21).
Our presenters are ready to chit-chat for 400 seconds while you guzzle egg nog and snuggle round the open fire (aka Martyrs' stage).

It'll be so much fun, and you'll certainly learn something you didn't know before.
Come and open your presents early at Martyrs' - Tuesday, December 4th at 8pm (but get there a bit early for conversation and libations).

Martyrs'
3855 N Lincoln Avenue, Chicago
Tickets at http://www.martyrslive.com

Links to presenters at http://www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/chicago/24

Inventive. Collaborative. Research-driven.

Led by principal and founder Jeanne Gang, Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects has established itself as one of the premier architectural firms working today. Inside Studio Gang Architects presents an engaging workshop-like environment that showcases and reveals the practice's creative process as they seek architectural solutions to pressing contemporary issues.

Eva Castro is co-founder of Plasma Studio and GroundLab both architecture and landscape urbanist practices based in London and Beijing. She studied architecture and urbanism at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and subsequently completed the Architectural Association Graduate Design program with Jeffrey Kipnis. She is winner of the Next Generation Architects Award from the Architecture Foundation UK and the Shanxi Province Women award in China. Her work is published and exhibited worldwide.

Monday, November 12, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Fullerton Hall
Please use Michigan Avenue entrance.
Admission is free; seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information please call Jennifer Breckner at (312) 443-3631.

This lecture is supported by Chicago Women in Architecture. The Architecture & Design Society gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of Park Hyatt Chicago.

Image courtesy of Plasma Studio.

DOCK 6 DESIGN + ART SERIES #4
FRIDAY, OCT 12 6PM - MIDNIGHT
SATURDAY, OCT 13 11AM - 4PM

NEW DESIGN FROM:
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Lagomorph Design Thomeworks
zakrose

Featuring 16 artists

Beer by Half Acre
Food by Brimstone BBQ and Snowcones by Jo Snow

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PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.
It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of "chit chat", it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It's a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace.

See the Pecha Kucha Chicago Website for more info: http://pecha-kucha.org/night/chicago/

Come Check out a special edition Pecha Kucha Night at the Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago! Speakers include:

Doug Fogelson
Steven Haulenbeek
Karen Kice/Claire Cahan
Troy Klyber
Jon Langford
Jason Lazarus
Liz Neely
Sally Timms

Come have a drink and enjoy the show!
For more info go to the PK website: http://pecha-kucha.org/night/chicago/newsletters/2625

Join AIA Chicago for the 57th annual Design Excellence Awards during Designight. Categories for these distinguished awards include Devine Detail, Interior Architecture, SustainABILITY Leadership and Distinguished Building.

The Architecture & Design Society of the Art Institute of Chicago presents the Modern Ball, which celebrates 30 years of the Architecture & Design Society and honors the lifetime achievement of Stanley Tigerman. Enjoy cocktails, dinner and a silent auction, followed by dancing of the Terzo Piano's terrace at this elegant event. Proceeds benefit the Architecture & Design Society's Education and Acquisition Fund.

SAIC Graduate Exhibition Tele Vision Closing Event
Film Screening and Panel Discussion "Where Design Meets Art? - New Practices in Design Architecture and Fashion"

The practices of design, architecture, and fashion are shifting in interesting new ways. Non-traditional approaches to projects are being embraced, with film and installation work increasingly appearing alongside models and prototypes. These themes are very much in evidence in the work of SAIC’s graduate students, whose work is on show in the Tele Vision exhibition. On the final day of the exhibition, a film screening and panel discussion will uncover these modes of working and examine what these changes mean for this generation of graduates.

The screening will show two short films by influential designer/film maker Noam Toran, whose work sits astride the collapsing border between design and contemporary art. This will be followed by a panel discussion featuring SAIC faculty and guests.