Calendar

Exhibition Venues

A Collective Conversation on Latin American Contemporary Architecture

Exhibition Venues

SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change Panel Discussion

Partner

Munni Market by SpaceShift Collective

Partner

Trifecta House Tour

D-Composed & Allison Loggins-Hull | Remix as Ritual: Sound, Space, and Story

September 19–September 20, 2025

Exhibition Venues

Field Harp Performance

氣 : Performance by Irene Hsiao with Dominic Kießling’s “Blob”

Exhibition Venues

LOUDREADERS at Stony Island Arts Bank

September 19–September 20, 2025

Exhibition Venues

On Architecture Interviews

Partner

Myth of the Organic City

September 19–September 21, 2025

Partner

In the Making: A Public Art Journey Through Washington Park

Partner

Partner

Towards a New Standard: New Housing Strategies in Chicago

July 29, 2025

Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab

July 05–August 31, 2025

Partner

CAB at EXPO Chicago

April 27, 2025

Partner

CAB at EXPO Chicago

April 26, 2025

Partner

CAB at EXPO Chicago

April 25, 2025

Partner

CAB at EXPO Chicago

April 24–April 27, 2025

Partner

CAB at EXPO Chicago

April 24, 2025

Partner

Architectural Head Games

February 21–May 31, 2025

February 07–April 27, 2025

Partner

A Tale of Today: Materialities

January 25–April 27, 2025

Exhibition Venues

A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration

Exhibition Venues

Winter Open House

December 21, 2024

Community Festival

Partner

Teen Saturday Studios – Culinary Architecture: Gingerbread City

December 21, 2024

Partner

Beyond Closure

December 15, 2024

Exhibition Venues

Ka Baird, Lampo Performance Series

December 07, 2024

Partner

Teen Saturday Studios – Design with Lego

November 16, 2024

October 24–January 05, 2025

Partner

Photographing Frank Lloyd Wright

October 23–March 15, 2025

Exhibition Venues

Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines

Partner

Teen Saturday Studios – Capturing Architecture: Architecture Photography

October 19, 2024

Partner

Walking Chicago’s Alleys

September 28, 2024

September 22–June 01, 2025

Partner

Myth of the Organic City

September 21–January 27, 2025

Partner

Germane Barnes: Columnar Disorder

Partner

Teen Saturday Studios – Façade Design: Architecture Aesthetics

September 21, 2024

September 12–February 23, 2025

Partner

Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917-1967

Partner

Brick of Chicago Summer Walking Tours

September 04, 2024

Partner

Teen Saturday Studios – Architectural Drafting: Into To Sketching

August 17, 2024

Partner

Walking Chicago’s Alleys

August 17, 2024

Partner

the urban+nature sonic pavilion, a Millennium Park Residency Program

August 15, 2024

Partner

Brick of Chicago Summer Walking Tours

August 07, 2024

Partner

Rewilding Chicago’s Waterways

August 02, 2024

Partner

Teen Saturday Studios – Exploring Architecture Materials

July 20, 2024

Community Festival Performances

Partner

Millennium Park 20th Anniversary Celebration

July 18–July 21, 2024

Partner

Brick of Chicago Summer Walking Tours

July 17, 2024

Partner

the urban+nature sonic pavilion, a Millennium Park Residency Program

July 13, 2024

Partner

Walking Chicago’s Alleys

July 13, 2024

Partner

Brick of Chicago Summer Walking Tours

June 26, 2024

June 17–December 30, 2024

Partner

Welcome to Tribuneville: An Imaginary Vision of an Old Chicago That Could Have Been

Exhibition Venues

Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light

June 15, 2024

Partner

Teen Saturday Studios – Design a City: Urban Planning

June 15, 2024

Partner

Walking Chicago’s Alleys

June 15, 2024

Praise House: We All Shine – Cecil McDonald, Jr.

May 31–June 01, 2025

Community Festival Exhibitions Films Performances Workshops

DCASE Spring Open House

May 30, 2024

Opening of “Praise House: We All Shine” at the CAB Studio

May 30, 2024

Partner

Deem Symposium | Designing for Dignity 02: A Convening of Possibilities

May 19, 2024

Partner

Deem Symposium | Designing for Dignity 02: A Convening of Possibilities

May 18, 2024

Partner

Deem Symposium | Designing for Dignity 02: A Convening of Possibilities

May 17, 2024

Partner

Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris

May 11–June 15, 2024

Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris

May 04–August 25, 2024

Partner

Opening Passages: Photographers Respond to Chicago and Paris

May 04–July 27, 2024

Exhibition Venues

Cédric Van Parys, Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland

April 18, 2024

Partner

Art Deco Outside of the Loop

April 17, 2024

Partner

Assaf Evron: Collage for the Edith Farnsworth House

April 11–June 23, 2024

Partner

Skyline Sketching

April 09, 2024

Partner

Cédric Van Parys, Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland

April 05–May 03, 2024

Partner

Windows on Design

March 30, 2024

Partner

Roots of Reform: A Woman’s Place is…?

March 20, 2024

Partner

Design the Future, Inch by Inch

March 14, 2024

Community Festival Youth & Family

Black Girl Takeover: The Black Girlhood Altar Festival

March 09–March 10, 2024

Partner

Chicago’s Most Endangered Buildings 2024

March 06, 2024

Partner

Celebrate Chicago’s Birthday with CAC

March 04, 2024

Lectures & Talks Tours

Reimagining and Remembering Series: Say Her Re-Naming / Douglass Park

February 24, 2024

Protecting Black Women & Girls: A Conversation Between A Long Walk Home and A Call To Men

February 22, 2024

Partner

Water: Moon Readings + Bottle Stringing

February 17, 2024

CAB 5 Tours

February 11, 2024

Theatre For One: This is a Rehearsal – Final Interactive Audio Installation

February 11, 2024

meeting: a rehearsal with shaman

February 11, 2024

CAB 5 Tours

Partner

BuildIt! with archKIDecture

Youth & Family

Almighty & Insane Books presents Towers of Steel, Concrete & Glass: Drawings by Kareem Davis + Richard Willis

Theatre For One: This is a Rehearsal – Interactive Audio Installation

In Solidarity of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

February 09, 2024

Lectures & Talks Performances

Partner

FACADE by Oren Safdie, a metaverse reading

February 09, 2024

On Enchantment

February 07, 2024

Partner

Sowing Change with Erika Allen and Linda Goode Bryant

February 06, 2024

Partner

Reimagining Chicago’s Collective Future

February 06, 2024

Partner

Architecture & Design Film Festival

CAB 5 Tours

Theatre For One: This is a Rehearsal – Final Live Performances

meeting: a rehearsal with shaman

Partner

Architecture & Design Film Festival

Partner

NextGEN Tekton

Didactic Rehearsal with David Jude Greene

Partner

Lampo: Sarah Davachi

CAB 5 Tours

Theatre For One: This is a Rehearsal – Live Performances

Partner

Architecture & Design Film Festival

February 02, 2024

Partner

Architecture & Design Film Festival

February 01, 2024

Partner

Architecture & Design Film Festival

January 31, 2024

Rehearsal with CCC Dance Studio Resident Helen Lee

January 28, 2024

CAB 5 Tours

January 28, 2024

ArchAgenda Debates: PATRIK SCHUMACHER & AADRL STUDENTS (Zaha Hadid Architects / AADRL)

January 27, 2024

CAB 5 Tours

January 27, 2024

Archiving the Present

January 27, 2024

Partner

Healing Water: A Restorative Guided Meditation & Energy Exchange with Lake Michigan

January 21, 2024

CAB 5 Tours

January 21, 2024

January 20–April 28, 2024

Partner

A Love Supreme: Norman Teague

CAB 5 Tours

January 20, 2024

Partner

LEGO® & LIBATIONS

January 19, 2024

Taking Care: A Discussion on Doula and Midwifery Care

January 17, 2024

Rehearsal with CCC Dance Studio Resident Helen Lee

January 17, 2024

Partner

Healing & Repair: Water

January 14, 2024

Daughters of Yemaya: Spiritual Altar Making

Partner

ArchAgenda Debates: JOSÉ PAREJA GÓMEZ (Zaha Hadid Architects / ZHVR / AADRL)

Roy Kinsey Rehearsing A Westside Story: Legacy Project

Partner

Water: Moon Readings + Bottle Stringing

Delirious Futures

Artist Talk with Deb Sokolow

January 10, 2024

January 05–February 17, 2024

Partner

Apex curated by Meaghan Roddy

January 05–February 17, 2024

Partner

Courttney Cooper “America’s Octoberfest. Zinzinnati. U.S.A.”

Partner

Courttney Cooper “America’s Octoberfest. Zinzinnati. U.S.A.” Opening Reception

January 05, 2024

CAB 5 Tours

December 23, 2023

December 23–December 30, 2023

CAB 5 Tours

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

ArchAgenda Debates: VEDRAN MIMICA & ALASKA FU (Illinois Institute of Technology)

December 21, 2023

Rehearsal featuring The Era Footwork Crew

December 17, 2023

Partner

Intermissions: Alexandra Pirici

December 17, 2023

Partner

ArchAgenda Debates: AUSTIN WILLIAMS – PANEL (Future Cities Project)

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

Books Are More Fun Than Buildings

Artist Talk with Jeff Carter

CAB 5 Tours

Partner

Intermissions: Alexandra Pirici

Partner

Intermissions: Alexandra Pirici

December 15, 2023

Reimagining and Remembering Series: Brown Bag Lunch Conversation with Advocates on Missing and Murdered Black Girls

December 13, 2023

Partner

Encounters with Architecture

December 13, 2023

Partner

A Conversation with Chicagoland High School Poets and Chicago Poet Laureate avery r. young

December 13, 2023

December 13–December 17, 2023

Partner

Intermissions: Alexandra Pirici

December 11–December 31, 2023

Partner

Holiday Lights Sidewalk Exhibition

Partner

ArchAgenda Debates: SHAJAY BHOOSHAN (Zaha Hadid Architects/ZHA CODE /AADRL)

Partner

BuildIt! with archKIDecture

December 09–February 10, 2024

Youth & Family

CAB 5 Tours

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

Contango Journal: An Unintentional Trilogy

Theatre For One: This is a Rehearsal

CAB 5 Tours

Community Festival Performances

ALWH’s 20th Year Celebration: Special Evening of Music, Poetry, and Art at Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar Exhibition

December 08, 2023

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

Chicago Sinfonietta: Holiday Pop-Up

December 08, 2023

Community Festival

Partner

SOLVE: Puzzle Design Exhibit

December 08–March 31, 2024

Partner

I, I

December 03, 2023

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

Activation lV: Iteration(s), with Jared Brown and Briana Lynn

Partner

Moon Readings

Exhibitions Performances

Partner

ArchAgenda Debates: Theodore Spyropoulos (Minimaforms/AADRL)

Partner

Conversation: Architects Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood of AD–WO with Dawit L. Petros

Partner

Cycles: Building as Form Symposium with Keynote Madeline Hollander

November 30, 2023

Partner

Confronting Complexity through Design: Ambition of Change

November 30, 2023

Partner

Cycles: Visiting Artist Lecture with Madeline Hollander

November 30, 2023

November 30–January 07, 2024

Partner

Glass to Garden: Tiffany Inspired Floral Designs

November 27–November 30, 2023

Partner

Touristic Intents

Partner

ArchAgenda Debates: Tsvetelina Georgieva & Pavlina Vardoulaki (DesignMorphine)

November 25, 2023

Partner

Walk with the Good City Group and friends around the site of the soon-to-open Peterson Metra Station

November 19, 2023

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

3831 Activation lIl: The Haus: An Introspective of House Music, Bauhaus Architecture + Queer Aesthetics at 3831, moderated by SSCAC Exhibitions Manager and Curator Lola Ayisha Ogbara

Partner

Crossing Lines

Lectures & Talks Tours

Partner

Drag Up: Karmaklubb* X DPAM in collaboration with Brendan Fernandes (Day 2)

Partner

ArchAgenda Debates: FILIPPO LODI (UNStudio / UNSx)

Reimagining and Remembering Series: Superheroes and healing powers led by Elizabeth Gerald, Wisdom Baty, and Scheherazade Tillet

Partner

Drag Up: Karmaklubb* X DPAM in collaboration with Brendan Fernandes (Day 1)

November 17, 2023

ARTSLINK ASSEMBLY 2023: THE FUTURE IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE

November 17, 2023

November 17–January 20, 2024

Partner

Diane Simpson

November 16–December 30, 2023

Partner

Season of Light

Partner

Land Outside Capital

November 16, 2023

ARTSLINK ASSEMBLY 2023: THE FUTURE IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE

November 16, 2023

Partner

Discussion with Ryan Chester, Author of Chicago Reflected: A Skyline Drawing from the Chicago River

November 14, 2023

Partner

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

November 11, 2023

Partner

Land in Common

November 11, 2023

Designing The Forest

November 11, 2023

Partner

Symposium: Contemporary French Architecture

November 09, 2023

Artist Gallery Talk: Scheherazade Tillet and Robert Narciso

November 08, 2023

November 06–December 30, 2023

SHIFT

Partner

Shamiana: Grow and Gather

November 04, 2023

Community Festival

Partner

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

November 04, 2023

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

Phillip Denny: Bibliophilia Laura Coombs: Versions

November 04, 2023

Partner

Deb Sokolow “Visualizing”

November 03–December 16, 2023

Partner

Deb Sokolow “Visualizing”

Partner

Committee of Six: Screening and Public Discussion

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

Thompson Center Celebration

Curatorial Panel Discussion: The Time of the Land

UNMONUMENT CHICAGO: AFTER WORK

Exhibitions Films Opening Reception

UNMONUMENT CHICAGO: AFTER WORK

November 03–November 25, 2023

November 03–December 16, 2023

Partner

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

Partner

Water Organoids performance by Baudouin Saintyves

Partner

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

CAB 5 City Sites Bus Tour

Partner

Be Generous Rather than Generic: Book Launch with ChartierDalix

Curatorial Panel Discussion: Rehearsing Architectures of Horror

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

Curatorial Conversation: Fallacies of Misplaced Concreteness

Partner

James von Klemperer Symposium: Contemporary French Architecture

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

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

CAB 5 Celebration Benefit

November 01–November 04, 2023

CAB 5 Opening Weekend Public Programs

Exhibitions Films Lectures & Talks

Curatorial Conversation: Interior Rehearsal

Curatorial Panel Discussion: This is a Rehearsal

CAB 5 Press Conference

CAB 5 Exhibition Opening

CAB 5 Chicago Cultural Center Opening Day

November 01–November 04, 2023

Theatre for One: This is a Rehearsal

November 01–January 27, 2024

Exhibition Venues

CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal

November 01–February 11, 2024

CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal

November 01–April 30, 2024

Partner

ChartierDalix: Systems

Partner

Opening night, Exhibition : Maurice Sullins

October 30, 2023

Partner

ArchAgenda Debates: ALISA ANDRASEK (AIARCH / Biothing / RMIT)

Partner

Living with Mies: From Home to Photo

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

Fun on the Farm Harvest Fest

Community Festival Tours

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

Urban Growers Collective Tours

Partner

overhearings: Mary Hennen & Regina Martinez in Conversation

October 26, 2023

October 26–January 27, 2024

Partner

A Lot With Little

Partner

The Power of Transformative Art in Cities

October 25, 2023

Partner

Creating Sustainable Practices in Chicago

October 25, 2023

Partner

Notre-Dame de Paris : Redesigning the Parvis

October 24, 2023

Partner

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

October 21, 2023

Partner

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2023

October 21, 2023

Partner

ArchAgenda Debates: YOSUKE HAYANO (MAD Architects) – Presentation

October 21, 2023

October 21–October 28, 2023

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

Urban Growers Collective Tours

October 20–October 21, 2023

Partner

ACD46: WAYS

Partner

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

October 20, 2023

Partner

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

October 20, 2023

Partner

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

October 19, 2023

October 19–October 20, 2023

Partner

At Home with the Collective: A Summit on Communal Housing

Partner

Living in a Modern or Contemporary House in Riverside

October 18, 2023

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

October 18, 2023

October 18–December 21, 2023

Partner

Free Charnley-Persky House Tours, Wednesday

October 17–October 19, 2023

Partner

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

Partner

Rethinking the Loop

October 17, 2023

Partner

Endured/Chosen Communities

October 17, 2023

Partner

Interactive Walk Around the Peterson Metra Station Site

October 15, 2023

Partner

Shorts 8: Architecture—Versions of Home

October 15, 2023

October 15–October 16, 2023

Partner

Architects’ Roundtable: Designing Sukkahs to Amplify Civic Life

October 15, 2023

Lectures & Talks Tours

Partner

Bad Living (dir. João Canijo Portugal, France, 127 minutes)

October 15–October 16, 2023

Partner

Living Bad (dir. João Canijo Portugal, France, 125 minutes)

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

3831 Activation ll: The Last Greenbook Walking Tour, with Nia Easley.

October 14, 2023

Partner

ArchAgenda Debates: ROLAND SNOOKS (Snooks + Harper / RMIT)

October 14, 2023

October 14–October 15, 2023

Partner

Open House Chicago

Partner

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

October 14, 2023

October 14–December 16, 2023

Partner

Charnley-Persky House Tours, Friday & Saturday

Partner

Depot – Reflecting Boijmans (Dir. Sonia Herman Dolz, Netherlands, 86 minutes)

October 13, 2023

Partner

Indigenous Peoples’ Day Celebration

October 12, 2023

Partner

Depot – Reflecting Boijmans (Dir. Sonia Herman Dolz, Netherlands, 86 minutes)

October 12, 2023

Contemporary Spanish Architecture Practices: BeAr and HANGHAR

October 11, 2023

Partner

Integrating Nature into Cities

October 09, 2023

Partner

Dr. Esther da Costa Meyer on the Architecture of Refugee Housing

October 05, 2023

Partner

Susan Giles, Space Has Become This Material Thing– Artist Talk

October 05, 2023

Partner

InDialogue: Artist Talk with Feda Wardak

October 03, 2023

Exhibitions Performances Workshops Youth & Family

Terrain Biennial 2023 Block Party

October 01, 2023

Partner

Chicago Sukkah Design Festival: Opening Celebration

October 01, 2023

Exhibitions Workshops Youth & Family

Partner

Chicago Sukkah Design Festival

October 01–October 21, 2023

Workshops Youth & Family

Partner

Water

September 30–March 02, 2024

Exhibition Venues

Innovando la Tradición “Living Treasures” Film Screening + Conversation

September 30, 2023

Partner

ArchAgenda Debates: PATRIK SCHUMACHER (Zaha Hadid Architects / AADRL) – Keynote

September 30, 2023

Partner

Building Enjoyable Living Environments Through Architecture, Art, and Design

September 30, 2023

September 30–October 28, 2023

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

Englewood Village Market

Youth & Family

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

Friendship Meditation: A Rehearsal

September 29, 2023

Partner

Reaching for the Sky : The Future of the Highrise

September 27, 2023

Partner

Roman Mixtapes

September 26, 2023

Shamiana Launch Party

September 24, 2023

Partner

Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside Walking Tour

September 23, 2023

September 23–January 12, 2024

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

Gelitin: Democratic Sculpture 7

September 21–December 31, 2023

Partner

Tour of There is Room with Kwong Von Glinow

September 23, 2023

Exhibitions Tours

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal

September 21–November 05, 2023

CAB 5 Sites

Partner

House of Kapwa

September 21–December 31, 2023

Partner

overhearings

September 21–December 31, 2023

Partner

Bio-Block™ Spiral

September 21–February 11, 2024

Partner

Knowledge Transfer – a virtual exhibition in the metaverse

September 19–December 22, 2023

Partner

Rathin Barman: Unsettled Structures

September 17–November 26, 2023

Partner

Living with Mies, photography by Arina Dähnick

Exhibitions Opening Reception

Partner

“Native Futures” Exhibition Grand Opening

September 16, 2023

Partner

Native Futures

September 16–May 17, 2024

September 15–November 03, 2023

Partner

ornament is; arguments on ornament in Architecture and Design

September 14–November 15, 2023

Partner

Only in the Dark

September 14–November 15, 2023

Partner

The Geometry of Thought

Partner

Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside

September 10, 2023

September 10–October 21, 2023

Partner

Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside

September 08–October 28, 2023

Partner

Stephen Burks: Spirit Houses

September 07–February 11, 2024

Partner

Life Cycles

September 05–October 27, 2023

Partner

Susan Giles, Space Has Become This Material Thing

August 15–October 14, 2023

Partner

There is Room

Chicago Architecture Tour Family Tour

September 29, 2022

Tours Youth & Family

Architecture of Reparations: Bronzeville Bike Tour

July 23, 2022