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    Oct 30, 2023–Nov 05, 2023

    Mon, Oct 30, 2023

    Partner

    Opening night, Exhibition : Maurice Sullins

    at Alliance Française de Chicago
    Opening Reception

    Wed, Nov 01, 2023

    Chicago Cultural Center

    CAB 5 Chicago Cultural Center Opening Day

    at Chicago Cultural Center CAB 5

    Curatorial Panel Discussion: This is a Rehearsal

    at Chicago Cultural Center CAB 5
    Lectures & Talks

    Curatorial Conversation: Interior Rehearsal

    at Chicago Cultural Center CAB 5
    Lectures & Talks

    CAB 5 Celebration Benefit

    at Chicago Cultural Center CAB 5

    Thu, Nov 02, 2023

    Curatorial Panel Discussion: Rehearsing Architectures of Horror

    at Chicago Cultural Center CAB 5
    Lectures & Talks

    CAB 5 Sites

    Partner

    Book Discussion: Architecture and Land in and out of the Americas

    at James R. Thompson Center
    Lectures & Talks

    REST.RISE.MOVE.NOURISH.HEAL: The Live Edit Presented by Vershawn Sanders-Ward and Jovan Landry

    at Chicago Cultural Center CAB 5
    Performances

    Curatorial Conversation: Fallacies of Misplaced Concreteness

    at Chicago Cultural Center CAB 5
    Lectures & Talks

    Partner

    Be Generous Rather than Generic: Book Launch with ChartierDalix

    at Chicago Architecture Center
    Lectures & Talks

    Partner

    Rethinking the World: Italo Calvino and the Visionary Architecture of Lightness

    at Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
    Lectures & Talks

    Partner

    James von Klemperer Symposium: Contemporary French Architecture

    at Alliance Française de Chicago
    Lectures & Talks Workshops

    Partner

    Water Organoids performance by Baudouin Saintyves

    at 6018North
    Performances

    Fri, Nov 03, 2023

    Curatorial Panel Discussion: The Time of the Land

    at Chicago Cultural Center CAB 5
    Lectures & Talks

    Partner

    Deb Sokolow “Visualizing”

    at Western Exhibitions
    Opening Reception

    Partner

    Committee of Six: Screening and Public Discussion

    at Chicago Architecture Center
    Films

    Sat, Nov 04, 2023

    Partner

    ArchAgenda Debates: LEV MANOVICH (Cultural Analytics Lab / CUNY)

    at ArchAgenda
    Lectures & Talks

    Partner

    Shamiana: Grow and Gather

    at Good City Group
    Community Festival

    CAB 5 Sites

    Partner

    Phillip Denny: Bibliophilia Laura Coombs: Versions

    at James R. Thompson Center
    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

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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

    –

    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

    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

    CAB 5 Opening Weekend Public Programs

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    at Chicago Cultural Center CAB 5
    Exhibitions Films Lectures & Talks

    Theatre for One: This is a Rehearsal

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    at Chicago Cultural Center CAB 5
    Performances

    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 08, 2025

    Nov 08, 2025

    Exhibition Venues

    archKIDecture: Learning Lab Artist-in-Residence

    at Chicago Cultural Center
    Workshops

    Partner

    Create With Us Day: Bob Faust

    at Elmhurst Art Museum

    Exhibition Venues

    Discotecture: Panel Discussion

    at 840 N. Michigan Ave

    Exhibition Venues

    NYRA Criticism Panel

    at 840 N. Michigan Ave

    Exhibition Venues

    Living Histories: Space for Reckoning

    at 840 N. Michigan Ave
    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

    Living in the Shade: Open Space and Public Housing

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    at National Public Housing Museum
    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