Please join us for the opening night celebration for three exhibitions—CFA Lab: Repair – Democracy and Urban Spaces, AIANY Design Awards 2026, and Gerrit Rietveld: Wealth of Sobriety—that will be on view at the Center for Architecture from May 7–September 2, 2026. The evening will include remarks from each exhibition team as well as mingling and light refreshments!
About the Exhibitions:
Center for Architecture Lab: Repair – Democracy and Urban Spaces
Center for Architecture Lab is a multi-month, multi-disciplinary residency program that offers new voices in architecture and design full authorship over dedicated areas of the Center for Architecture’s platforms, allowing them to develop and share compelling and provocative content meant to elevate underrepresented perspectives.
The 2026 Lab cohort will respond to the prompt of “Repair – Democracy and Urban Spaces.” Residents will address the urgent need to repair not only the physical infrastructure of our environments but also the political and social inequities embedded within them. The open call invited architects, urban planners, designers, artists, cultural conservationists, and community activists to examine how the concept of repair can serve as a lens to reimagine democratic, equitable spaces.
Selected residents:
Energies of Repair: Visualizing Community Power in NYC by Andrea Johnson and Ashley Dawson
DEPAVE: An Ecological Repair of the Ground by Friends Making Work (Christine Giorgio, Amelyn Ng, and Gabriel Vergara)
Graphic Design: WSDIA
AIANY Design Awards 2026
AIANY Design Awards 2026 features Honor, Merit, and Citation recipients in the categories of Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design. The selected projects and the architecture firms that designed them represent the exceptional work by AIA New York members and architects practicing in New York City. To be eligible, projects had to be completed by AIANY members or architects/designers practicing in New York or be New York projects designed by architects/designers based elsewhere.
Graphic Design: World
Gerrit Rietveld: Wealth of Sobriety
In 2018 Dutch photographer Arjan Bronkhorst published the photographic volume Wealth of Sobriety based on a several-years-long project of photographing the lesser-known, and sometimes all but unknown, houses by the renowned architect Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964). A selection of the projects published in the book will be on view at the Center for Architecture.
Photography: Arjan Bronkhorst
Curators: Arjan Bronkhorst and Barry Bergdoll
Graphic Design: Ian Sullivan
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