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    Oct 16, 2023–Oct 22, 2023

    Tue, Oct 17, 2023

    Partner

    Endured/Chosen Communities

    at Villa Albertine
    Lectures & Talks

    Partner

    Rethinking the Loop

    at Chicago Architecture Center
    Lectures & Talks

    Wed, Oct 18, 2023

    Warnock Lecture Series: Swati Chattopadhyay (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Mapping the Ephemeral: Decolonizing Durational Imagination”
    Lectures & Talks

    Partner

    Living in a Modern or Contemporary House in Riverside

    at Riverside Arts Center
    Lectures & Talks

    Thu, Oct 19, 2023

    Partner

    Pictures of Ghosts (Retratos fantasmas) (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil, 93 minutes)

    at Chicago International Film Festival
    Films

    Fri, Oct 20, 2023

    Partner

    Susan Giles, Space Has Become This Material Thing: Catalog Release Party

    at Glass Curtain Gallery—Columbia College Chicago
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    SAH | Places Prize Lecture by Ginger Nolan: “Black Capitalism and the City: African American Insurance and the Actuarial Imagination”

    at Society of Architectural Historians
    Lectures & Talks

    Sat, Oct 21, 2023

    Partner

    Hector Guimard’s Designs for Living: A Forum for New Research & Ideas

    at Driehaus Museum
    Lectures & Talks

    Partner

    Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2023

    at MAS Context Reading Room
    Lectures & Talks

    Partner

    ArchAgenda Debates: YOSUKE HAYANO (MAD Architects) – Presentation

    at Metrotopia Metaverse
    Lectures & Talks

    Ongoing

    Columbia College Chicago’s Wabash Arts Corridor

    Ongoing

    at Wabash Arts Corridor
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Susan Giles, Space Has Become This Material Thing

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    at Glass Curtain Gallery—Columbia College Chicago
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Life Cycles

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    at DePaul Art Museum
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Stephen Burks: Spirit Houses

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    at Volume Gallery
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    An ornate façade

    ornament is; arguments on ornament in Architecture and Design

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    at Bridgeport Art Center
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    Native Futures

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    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

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    at The Arts Club of Chicago
    Exhibitions

    CAB 5 Sites

    Partner

    CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal

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    at James R. Thompson Center
    Exhibitions

    CAB 5 Sites

    Partner

    House of Kapwa

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    at Oakwood Beach
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    overhearings

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    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

    Black Box (dir. Aslı Özge, Germany, Belgium, 120 minutes)

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    at Chicago International Film Festival
    Films

    Partner

    ACD46: WAYS

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    at Association for Community Design
    Workshops

    CAB 5 Sites

    Partner

    Englewood Village Market

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    at Grow Greater Englewood
    Youth & Family

    Partner

    At Home with the Collective: A Summit on Communal Housing

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    at University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Architecture
    Lectures & Talks

    Partner

    Only in the Dark

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    at Art on the Mart
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    The Geometry of Thought

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    at Art on the Mart
    Exhibitions

    Nov 15, 2025

    Nov 15, 2025

    Exhibition Venues

    SHIFT Chicago Cultural Center Public Tour

    at Chicago Cultural Center

    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

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    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

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    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

    Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory

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    at Instituto Cervantes of Chicago
    Exhibitions

    Partner

    code: KING ALFRED

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    at Blanc Gallery
    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

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    at 840 N. Michigan Ave
    Exhibitions

    Exhibition Venues

    Living With / Vivre Avec

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    at 840 N. Michigan Ave
    Exhibitions
    Chicago Architecture Biennial