AIANY City Guide
Past Events
A’18 Community Service Day
6/23/18, 7:30am - 5pm
Center for Architecture
Volunteers will be escorted to various sites from this meeting place. Get ready to roll up your sleeves for a good cause! This year AIA New York is partnering with...
Curator-led Exhibition Tour of Designing Waste
6/23/18, 11am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a tour of Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City, an exhibition based on the Zero Waste Design Guidelines, led by the curator, Andrew Blum. Designing...
FIGMENT NYC Participatory Art Festival
6/23/18, 10am - 7pm
Governors Island at Colonels Row
FIGMENT NYC is an explosion of creative energy—a free annual celebration of participatory art and culture where anything is possible. For one weekend each summer, FIGMENT transforms Governors Island into...
Making Place: Downtown Brooklyn
6/23/18, 10:30am - 6pm
Various Locations in downtown Brooklyn
A wave of new development is dramatically reshaping Downtown Brooklyn. On June 23, Open House New York will open more than a dozen buildings and sites to give you a...
Open House at Paul Rudolph’s MODULIGHTOR BUILDING
6/23/18, 12pm - 8pm
246 East 58th St.
Tour the MODULIGHTOR BUILDING (as well as the amazing residential duplex within), both designed by Paul Rudolph. Rudolph co-founded MODULIGHTOR to create the kind of lighting he needed to compliment...
Woodlawn Cemetery Architecture and Design Walking Tour
6/23/18, 2pm - 3:30pm
3800 Jerome Ave. (Bronx)
Hosted by Woodlawn’s own architectural historian, Anthony Pellino, the tour will allow visitors to explore the unique works commissioned by lot owners in expression of their grief. The tour will...
A+ Session: Lessons Learned from Whitney Young
6/22/18, 3:10pm - 3:30pm
Jacob K. Javits Center, Booth 1739
Part of the AIA Conference on Architecture 2018, Architect Live took place in booth #1739 as a way for conference attendees to hear from industry leaders on a variety of...
Open House at Paul Rudolph’s MODULIGHTOR BUILDING
6/22/18, 6pm - 9pm
246 East 58th St. (Midtown)
Tour the MODULIGHTOR BUILDING (as well as the amazing residential duplex within), both designed by Paul Rudolph. Rudolph co-founded MODULIGHTOR to create the kind of lighting he needed to compliment...
League Prize 2018: Night 2
6/22/18, 7pm - 9pm
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Parsons School of Design at 66 Fifth Ave. (Greenwich Village)
The League Prize is an annual competition that has been organized by The Architectural League since 1981. Open to designers ten years or less out of school, it draws entrants...
Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers
6/22/18, 12pm - Saturday, 6/23, 6pm
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries Parsons School of Design at 66 Fifth Ave. (Greenwich Village)
On view June 22–23 (12-6pm) and ongoing through August 4th Exhibition of work by the winners of the 2018 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers: Objective: Gabriel Cuellar &...
Curator-led Exhibition Tour of Designing Waste
6/22/18, 10am - 11am
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a tour of Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City, an exhibition based on the Zero Waste Design Guidelines, led by the curator, Andrew Blum. Designing...
League Prize 2018: Night 1
6/21/18, 7pm - 9pm
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Parsons School of Design at 66 Fifth Ave. (Greenwich Village)
The League Prize is an annual competition that has been organized by The Architectural League since 1981. Open to designers ten years or less out of school, it draws entrants...
NYC Pride
Various Locations
Taking place June 14-24 Celebrate LGBT Pride in NYC with ongoing events and activities happening around the city starting June 14 and culminating with the annual Pride March on June...
Akari: Sculpture by Other Means
Noguchi Museum at 9-01 33rd St., Island City
On view through January 2019 Akari: Sculpture by Other Means includes several installations that allow visitors to experience ways that Isamu Noguchi’s Akari—a modular ecosystem of lightweight, collapsible paper lanterns—can create...
New York at Its Core: 400 Years of NYC History
Museum of the City of New York at 1220 Fifth Ave. (Upper East Side)
What made New York New York? Follow the story of the city’s rise from a striving Dutch village to today’s “Capital of the World,” and consider its future in our...
Summer Solstice Aperitivo at Vitra
6/21/18, 4pm - 8pm
Vitra at 100 Gansevoort St. (Meatpacking District)
Raise a toast to summer solstice with Vitra and Skyline Design! Whether you’re local or visiting NYC for the AIA National Conference, Vitra and Skyline Design invite you to celebrate...
The New World Trade Center
6/21/18, 7pm - 8:20pm
National 9/11 Memorial & Museum 180 Greenwich St. (Lower Manhattan)
World-renowned architect and World Trade Center master planner Daniel Libeskind and 9/11 Memorial architect Michael Arad will examine the evolution and revitalization of the World Trade Center site since the...
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SAY IT LOUD Minority Architects and Designers Exhibition
S9 Architecture at 460 West 34th St., 20th Fl. (Chelsea)
On view June 21-22 (10am–5pm) and June 23 (12–5pm) S9 Architecture presents, in collaboration with the United Nations and National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), the SAY IT LOUD exhibition highlights...
Now What?! Advocacy, Activism & Alliances in American Architecture Since 1968
Pratt Institute School of Architecture Robert H. Siegel Gallery at 61 Saint James Place, Brooklyn
On view through July 6 Now What?! Advocacy, Activism and Alliances in American since 1968 is the first exhibition to examine the little-known history of architects and designers working to...
Panorama of the City of New York
Queens Museum at Flushing Meadows Corona Park
On long-term view The best overview of New York City is provided not from the top of the One WTC or Rockefeller Center, but the Panorama, the sprawling scale model...
Waterfront
Empire Stores, Brooklyn Bridge Park at 55 Water Street (DUMBO, Brooklyn)
On view through December 31 Waterfront conveys the history of Brooklyn’s coastline through the stories of its workers, artists, families, activists, and more. Organized by the Brooklyn Historical Society the show...
The Senses: Design Beyond Vision
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum at 2 East 91st St. (Upper East Side)
On view through October 28 This exhibition examines how multisensory design amplifies everyone’s ability to receive information, explore the world, satisfy essential needs, and experience joy and wonder. Featuring work...
David Bowie is
Brooklyn Museum at 200 Eastern Parkway (Park Slope, Brooklyn)
On view through July 15 This blockbuster show presents objects from the David Bowie Archives, including original costumes, handwritten lyrics, original album art, and more, in an immersive multimedia environment....
River to River Festival
Various locations
Taking place June 15-24 Now in its 17th year, this annual festival, produced by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, includes dance, music, theater, and visual arts at over 40 unique...
New York Architecture Book Fair Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare St. (NoHo)
Open June 18 – August 25 Storefront presents the first iteration of the New York Architecture Book Fair. Programs include Architecture Books, an exhibition that presents a selection of 100 fundamental books chosen by...
New York Designs: AIA New York 2018 Member Show
6/20/18, 8am - Friday, 6/22, 6pm
Jacob K Javits Convention Center
AIA New York’s Member Shows celebrate the work of NYC-based AIA members, providing a snapshot of the work being produced in our city. New York Designs presents the scope and quality...
The Architecture of Culture
6/20/18, 12pm - 1:30pm
Project 6 by AF New York
How can architecture affect the culture of work across the globe? Miguel McKelvey, WeWork’s Co-Founder and Chief Culture Officer, shares his story of applying his experience in architecture to a...
Mind the Gap: Improving Urban Mobility through Science and Design
6/20/18, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Van Alen Institute 30 West 22nd St. (Flatiron)
Mind the Gap explores existing and potential opportunities for design to support wellbeing and healthy behavior using tools and insights from the sciences. The aims of this event are to...
Modernism in America Awards
6/20/18, 6:30pm - 9pm
Design Within Reach 957 3rd Ave. (Midtown East)
Join Docomomo US for its fifth annual Modernism in America Awards ceremony, the only national program that celebrates the people and projects working to preserve, restore and rehabilitate our modern heritage sensitively...
Future City Lab Curator-Led Tour
6/20/18, 4pm - 5pm
Museum of the City of New York 1220 5th Ave. (Upper East Side)
The Future City Lab is an innovative, interactive exhibition which invites visitors to consider the big challenges facing New York City today and to imagine approaches and solutions for a...
Curator’s Tour of MILLENNIUM: Lower Manhattan in the 1990s
6/20/18, 3pm - 4pm
Skyscraper Museum 39 Battery Pl. (Battery Park City)
Skyscraper Museum director and curator Carol Willis leads a curator’s tour of the current exhibition MILLENNIUM: Lower Manhattan in the 1990s, devoted to a crucial chapter in Lower Manhattan’s history....
From Lighthouses to the Big Wheel: Rebranding Downtown Staten Island
6/20/18, 12:45pm - 3:30pm
Whitehall Terminal at 4 Whitehall (Lower Manhattan)
This tour, organized by the AIA Staten Island chapter, brings visitors on the renowned S.I. ferry across New York Harbor, on a walking loop that features old and new architectural gems,...
Design for Circularity: Buildings as Material Banks
6/19/18, 6pm - 9pm
LMHQ 150 Broadway, 20th Fl.
The Danish Cleantech Hub is delighted to host Design for Circularity: Buildings as Material Banks. As part of this panel discussion and workshop session, we will examine how circular building...
Gallery Talk
6/19/18, 7pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Ennead Architects invites you to a conversation between James Stewart Polshek, FAIA, 2018 AIA Gold Medalist, Kenneth Frampton, FAIA, Ware Professor, Columbia University GSAPP, and Karen van Lengen, FAIA, Kenan...
Higher Education – Higher Ambitions: Sustainable Practices, Healthy Environments, and Better Learning
6/19/18, 8:30am - 10:30am
NYU Kimmel Center for University Life at 60 Washington Square S. (Greenwich Village)
Our educational institutions and universities have always been shining symbols of modernity, progress, and the dream of a bright future. More now than ever, we strive to mirror these values...
[CANCELED] Architectural Interior Solutions Tour and Sustainable Wallcoverings Course for 1.0 HSW/LU Credit
6/19/18, 9am - 2pm
Duggal Visual Solutions Innovation Lab Showroom at 63 Flushing Ave. (Brooklyn Navy Yard)
This event has been canceled. For future AIA CE courses, please contact with your interest Jeanne Tassone at jeanne@duggal.com. Join us at Duggal Visual Solutions for breakfast, a tour of two...
Night at the Museums at The Skyscraper Museum
6/19/18, 4pm - 8pm
39 Battery Pl. (Lower Manhattan)
On June 19, from 4-8pm, visit The Skyscraper Museum FREE, as part of Night at the Museums 2018. No RSVP required. Night at the Museums gives locals and tourists the...
Night at the Museums
6/19/18, 4pm - 8pm
Various Locations
Fourteen Lower Manhattan museums open their doors, free of charge, as part of this annual event. Visit the African Burial Ground, Museum of Jewish Heritage, South Street Seaport Museum, National...
Architecture Books Opening Reception
6/19/18, 7pm - 9pm
Storefront for Art and Architecture at 97 Kenmare St. (SoHo)
Opening reception for Architecture Books, an exhibition presented by Storefront as part of the New York Architecture Book Fair that displays 100 fundamental books in architecture over the last 35 years,...
MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program
6/18/18, 6pm - 8pm
Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd St.
Exhibition of 2018 Young Architects Program, featuring finalists LeCAVALIER R+D, FreelandBuck, BairBalliet, and OFICINAA. The winning scheme Hide & Seek by Dream The Combine (Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers), in collaboration...
Equity X Design Mappy Hour: Sketching Equitable Workplaces
6/18/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Inclusive design has been a hot topic since the discrimination of traditional public restrooms made its way onto the political agenda last year. But inclusive design principles can and should...
Designing Waste
6/16/18, 1pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a symposium for Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City, an exhibition based on the Zero Waste Design Guidelines. Designing Waste explores how architects, designers, and...
James Stewart Polshek Exhibition Opening
6/15/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Ennead Architects for the opening of James Stewart Polshek, on view at the Center for Architecture during the AIA Conference on Architecture 2018. James Stewart Polshek explores the life...
Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City Opening
6/14/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City. The exhibition explores how we manage waste in our buildings and neighborhoods, and how design can help...