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    Nov 06, 2023–Nov 12, 2023

    Wed, Nov 08, 2023

    Artist Gallery Talk: Scheherazade Tillet and Robert Narciso

    at Chicago Cultural Center CAB 5
    Lectures & Talks

    Thu, Nov 09, 2023

    Partner

    Symposium: Contemporary French Architecture

    at Alliance Française de Chicago
    Lectures & Talks Workshops

    Sat, Nov 11, 2023

    Partner

    ArchAgenda Debates: DANIEL BOLOJAN (Coop Himmenb(l)au / NonStandardStudio / FIU)

    at ArchAgenda
    Lectures & Talks

    Partner

    Land in Common

    at Goethe-Institut
    Workshops

    Designing The Forest
    Lectures & Talks

    Ongoing

    Columbia College Chicago’s Wabash Arts Corridor

    Ongoing

    at Wabash Arts Corridor
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Life Cycles

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    at DePaul Art Museum
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Native Futures

    –

    at Center for Native Futures
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Living with Mies, photography by Arina Dähnick

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    at Edith Farnsworth House
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Rathin Barman: Unsettled Structures

    –

    at The Arts Club of Chicago
    Exhibitions

    CAB 5 Sites

    Partner

    CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal

    –

    at James R. Thompson Center
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    overhearings

    –

    at Experimental Sound Studio
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Bio-Block™ Spiral

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    at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Knowledge Transfer – a virtual exhibition in the metaverse

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    at Metrotopia Metaverse
    Exhibitions

    CAB 5 Sites

    Partner

    Gelitin: Democratic Sculpture 7

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    at Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Water

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    at 6018North
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Charnley-Persky House Tours, Friday & Saturday

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    at Society of Architectural Historians
    Tours

    Partner

    Free Charnley-Persky House Tours, Wednesday

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    at Society of Architectural Historians
    Tours

    Partner

    A Lot With Little

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    at MAS Context Reading Room
    Exhibitions

    Exhibition Venues

    CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal

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    at Graham Foundation
    Exhibitions

    CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal

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    at Chicago Cultural Center CAB 5
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    ChartierDalix: Systems

    –

    at Chicago Architecture Center
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Deb Sokolow “Visualizing”

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    at Western Exhibitions
    Exhibitions

    UNMONUMENT CHICAGO: AFTER WORK

    –
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero of Luftwerk: 1/24th, Light Over Light

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    at Volume Gallery
    Exhibitions

    SHIFT

    –
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Only in the Dark

    –

    at Art on the Mart
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    The Geometry of Thought

    –

    at Art on the Mart
    Exhibitions

    Nov 22, 2025

    Nov 22, 2025

    Exhibition Venues

    archKIDecture: Learning Lab Artist-in-Residence

    at Chicago Cultural Center
    Workshops

    In Conversation: Finnegan Shannon and Ignacio G. Galán

    at Online
    Lectures & Talks

    Ongoing

    Columbia College Chicago’s Wabash Arts Corridor

    Ongoing

    at Wabash Arts Corridor
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Architecture and Design Collection Galleries

    Ongoing

    at The Art Institute of Chicago
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Myth of the Organic City

    Ongoing

    at 6018North
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Atrium Project: Edie Fake

    –

    at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Tuan Andrew Nguyen: We Were Lost in Our Country

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    at The Art Institute of Chicago
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Shakkei: Work by Mayumi Lake and Bob Faust

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    at Elmhurst Art Museum
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    INHABIT: Edith Farnsworth House and Environs in Four Seasons

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    at Edith Farnsworth House
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: A Want for Nothing

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    at DePaul Art Museum
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Tengo Lincoln Park en mi Corazón: Young Lords in Chicago

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    at DePaul Art Museum
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Temitayo Ogunbiyi: You will have revelations along felled branches and longer roots/routes

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    at The Arts Club of Chicago
    Exhibitions

    Exhibition Venues

    SHIFT: Melting Solids

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    at Stony Island Arts Bank
    Exhibitions

    Exhibition Venues

    SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change

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    at Chicago Cultural Center
    Exhibitions

    Exhibition Venues

    SHIFT: TRACES by Balsa Crosetto Piazzi and Giorgis Ortiz

    –

    at Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
    Exhibitions

    Exhibition Venues

    SHIFT: Fragmented Manifestos

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    at Graham Foundation
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Permission To… Permission Too

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    at Community Engagement Hub at Columbia College Chicago
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Eyes on the Future: Evolving Hotel Design at Populus

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    at Studio Gang
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Common Chicago

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    at MAS Context Reading Room
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Theaster Gates: Unto Thee

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    at Smart Museum of Art
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Don’t Mind If I Do

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    at UIC Gallery 400
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    The Disappointed Tourist

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    at Chicago Architecture Center
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    A Mies Space for Senses

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    at Illinois Institute of Technology, Galvin Tower
    Exhibitions

    Buenos Aires, Difference and Repetition

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    at Argentinian General Consulate in Chicago
    Exhibitions

    Exhibition Venues

    SHIFT: Ecologies

    –

    at 840 N. Michigan Ave
    Exhibitions

    Exhibition Venues

    Living With / Vivre Avec

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    at 840 N. Michigan Ave
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    BREAKTHROUGH: Housing Futures

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    at National Public Housing Museum
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Rieles y Raíces: Traqueros in Chicago and the Midwest

    –

    at National Museum of Mexican Art
    Exhibitions

    Exhibition Venues

    Re-SPLAM (Reclaimed Spatial Laminated) Timber Pavilion

    –

    at Millennium Park
    Exhibitions
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