Book Talk
Upcoming Events
Book Launch for Contemporary Art Underground: MTA Arts & Design New York
Wednesday, 11/20, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a lively discussion on New York’s underground art world as featured in the recently published Contemporary Art Underground: MTA Arts & Design New York (Monacelli, 2024). The...
Past Events
American Modern: Architecture, Community Columbus, Indiana – Virtual Presentation
8/13/24, 6:30pm - 8pm
Zoom
DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State presents a virtual program coinciding with the publication of American Modern: Architecture, Community, Columbus, Indiana, written by Matt Shaw, with photography by Iwan Baan. Published by...
Loving Louis & Our Communities: A Night at LAHM with Caples Jefferson
7/24/24, 6pm - 8pm
Louis Armstrong House Museum
nycoba | NOMA is hosting a special event with Caples Jefferson founders Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson in their recently completed Louis Armstrong Center at the Louis Armstrong House Museum....
POSTPONED: Book Talk – Midcentury Houses Today: An Evolving Legacy in New Canaan
6/10/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please note: due to unforeseen circumstances this event will be postponed to a future date. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to welcome you at a reassigned date—stay tuned!...
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Book Launch Cocktail Party
5/15/24, 6pm - 8pm
Rizzoli Bookstore
Book launch party for Cities in the Sky, and interview with the author, Jason Barr, one of the world’s top experts on the economics of skyscrapers—a fascinating account of the...
Fifth Avenue—Architecture and Society: History of America’s Street of Dreams
4/16/24, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Fifth Avenue, America’s “Street of Dreams,” embodies New York’s evolving architectural, urban, and social history. Present on the 1807 Commissioners’ map emerging from a country road, then in the proposed...
Glass Houses Book Talk and Signing
3/13/24, 6:30pm - 8pm
Sperone Westwater
An inspiring collection of 50 spectacular houses built almost entirely from glass. Glass Houses presents 50 stunning architect designed homes that utilize glass to maximum effect. The international selection includes...
Designing the Forest and other Mass Timber Futures
3/4/24, 6pm - 7pm
Virtual Event
Architect Lindsey Wikstrom’s book Designing the Forest and other Mass Timber Futures traces wood’s passage from stewarded seed in the soil of forests, to harvested biomass, to laminated mass timber...
The New Suburbia Book Talk
2/20/24, 6pm - 7pm
The Skyscraper Museum
The conventional story of suburbs as bastions of white, middle-class homeowners no longer describes the suburbs of America’s cities. Today they house a more typical cross-section of the nation—rich, poor,...
Frida Escobedo: The Book of Hours
12/4/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a book talk and book signing with architect Frida Escobedo. Isabel Zumtobel, head of Arts & Culture for Zumtobel Group, and Escobedo will present the Zumtobel Group’s 2022/2023 Artistic Annual...
The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight
5/16/23, 6pm - 7pm
Online
In The Great American Transit Disaster, urban and planning historian Nicholas Dagen Bloom offers a potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit. Countering the standard histories...
Building the Empire State
5/1/23, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Constructed in eleven months, the 1,250-foot Empire State Building, the world’s tallest skyscraper from 1931 to 1971, was a marvel of modern engineering. The frame rose more than a story...
An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City
3/14/23, 6pm - 7pm
The Skyscraper Museum
An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City, written by Phillip James Dodd with photography by Jonathan Wallen, is a sumptuous book on an era–roughly from the 1870s to...
Woods + Dangaran Invite you to Celebrate their Debut Monograph
3/9/23, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Carpenters Workshop Gallery
WOODS + DANGARAN invite you to CELEBRATE THEIR DEBUT MONOGRAPH THURSDAY, MARCH 9, COCKTAILS + HORS D’OEUVRES, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Conversation with culture reporter Sarah Medford at 7:30...
The Fulton Fish Market: A History
Online
Today, the once bustling, fragrant fish market in lower Manhattan’s South Street Seaport is a rebuilt retail destination with a new kind of marketing – but from its founding in...
Density of Lives Book Launch & Signing
11/5/22, 3pm - 5pm
Perrotin Gallery and Bookstore
Ingrid Taillandier, the award-winning French architect and founder of ITAR Architectures, announces the launch of Density of Lives, a three-volume book collection exploring the concept of density not only as...
Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York
11/1/22, 6pm - 7pm
The Skyscraper Museum
Bits and pieces of the lives led long before the age of skyscrapers are scattered throughout New York City, found in backyards, construction sites, street beds, and parks. Indigenous tools...
New York Art Deco: Birds, Beasts & Blooms
10/18/22, 6pm - 7pm
The Skyscraper Museum
New York City, arguably the world’s Art Deco capital, is well known for its iconic towers. In a new book, New York Art Deco: Birds, Beasts & Blooms, photographer Andrew...
The Landscapes of Dieter Kienast by Anette Freytag
10/17/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
On the occasion of Archtober, New York City's Architecture and Design Month, the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University, the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York and the...
Book Club – Supertall: How The World’s Tallest Buildings are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
10/8/22, 6:30pm - 7:45pm
The Concrete Jungle
Join us for a book club discussion of “Supertall: How the World’s Tallest Buildings are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives” by architect Stefan Al which was published earlier this...
Architecture Unbound: Alternative History of Alternative Architecture
4/4/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Anthony Vidler, Gwendolyn Wright, and Thomas Leeser will join author Joseph Giovannini for a discussion of his recent volume on contemporary architectural history, Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive...
Teresa Fankhänel Book Talk: The Architectural Models of Theodore Conrad
12/7/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
The Skyscraper Museum
In her new book The Architectural Models of Theodore Conrad, historian and curator Teresa Fankhänel offers an alternative history of American modern architecture, highlighting the often-overlooked influence of architectural models...
The Architecture of the Villain’s Lair
11/15/21, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Internationally acclaimed architect Chad Oppenheim, editor of Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains, examines the compelling and seductive abodes of movie villains. The villain’s lair is much more...
Book Talk by David Freeland: “American Hotel: The Waldorf-Astoria and the Making of a Century”
10/28/21, 6pm - 7:15pm
The Skyscraper Museum
In American Hotel: The Waldorf-Astoria and the Making of a Century, historian David Freeland recounts the history of not just an American hotel, but, arguably, the American hotel. From the...
Posh Portals
9/23/21, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
The National Arts Club
“First impressions count” has been the watchword since the first luxury apartment house opened in 1884. Entrance doors and their embellishment set the mood of an apartment building and form...
The Seagram Building Construction Ecology
7/20/21, 6pm - 7pm
Online
In his new book Unless, Kiel Moe, professor of Architecture at McGill University and author of Empire State & Building, dissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of the...
Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital
7/6/21, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Historian Katherine Zubovich will discuss her new book Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital, an in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper. In the early years of...
The Floating Pool Lady: A Quest to Bring a Public Pool to New York City’s Waterfront
6/21/21, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Historian, waterfront planner, and activist Ann L. Buttenwieser is the “Floating Pool Lady.” As parks protector Adrian Benepe writes in the description of Buttenwieser’s new book of the same name:...
Antiquity in Gotham: The Ancient Architecture of New York City
6/1/21, 6pm - 7pm
Online
In her new book, Prof. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis applies an archeological lens to the study of the New York buildings. Antiquity in Gotham explores how the language of ancient architecture communicated...
The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race
5/18/21, 6pm - 7pm
Online
In her book The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race (JHUP, 2019), Adrienne Brown examines works produced by writers, painters, architects, and laborers who grappled with the early...
Building Brands: Corporations and Modern Architecture
5/11/21, 6pm - 7pm
Online
As the first in-depth book to explore the role of branding in the design of corporate modernism, Building Brands re-tells the stories of four corporate headquarters in the context of...
McKim Mead and White: The Early Years
4/29/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Online
Everyone starts somewhere. Even lauded Starchitects like the trio of McKim, Mead & White had to make their way up from someplace. C.F. McKim was raised in a notable Abolitionist...
Book Talk – Names of New York
4/20/21, 5pm - 6pm
Online
Join MAS for a free virtual book talk with author Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, who will be joined in conversation by Dylan Thuras (Co-Founder, Atlas Obscura) to discuss his new book, Names...
Race, Gender, and Power in Modernist Design with Kristina Wilson
4/13/21, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Online
In this virtual talk hosted by DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State, Art History Professor Kristina Wilson will investigate how race and gender influenced—and were influenced by—the development and marketing of midcentury...
Book Talk: Antonin Raymond and Friends
4/7/21, 7pm - 8:30pm
Online
Helena Capkova, PhD, will join us from Japan to present her new book Antonin Raymond in Japan, 1948-1976, a Czech-American architect who helped rebuild Japan after WWII. Antonin Raymond (Reimann) was...
Wright and New York: The Making of America’s Architect
4/6/21, 6pm - 8pm
Online
Wright and New York turns upside down the conventional notion that Frank Lloyd Wright hated the city, and the city was antagonistic to him. In this illustrated lecture based on...
UnHealthcare: A Virtual Lecture and Book Signing by Dr. Stephen Klasko
3/25/21, 5pm - 6:30pm
Online
JB&B University is proud to host a virtual lecture and book signing by Dr. Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA, President of Thomas Jefferson University, CEO of Jefferson Health, and co-author of...
The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York
3/10/21, 6pm - 8pm
Online
In The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York, Mariana Mogilevich details a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake New York...
Modern Mobility Aloft: Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate
2/9/21, 6pm - 8pm
Online
In Modern Mobility Aloft: Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-Interstate America, Amy Finstein reveals the utopian roots of elevated highway designs in the first half of the twentieth...
The Structure of Skyscrapers in America 1871-1900: Their History and Preservation
1/19/21, 6pm - 8pm
Online
In his new book, The Structure of Skyscrapers in America, 1871–1900, historian and structural engineer Donald Friedman presents a thorough history of the development of high-rise buildings, not only in...
Book Talk: Power at the Roots: Community Gardens, Gentrification, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side, by Miranda Martinez
12/10/20, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Through direct engagement with gardeners, activists, and residents, Dr. Miranda Martinez’s Power at the Roots shows the breadth and diversity of the community gardening movement and how these groups inserted...
Book Talk: The North Atlantic Cities and the Row House as Fulcrum
12/8/20, 6pm - 7pm
Online
The North Atlantic Cities by Charles B. Duff, which is available for the first time in the United States, is a book about urban development and urban life masquerading as...
Building Modern to Save America’s Cities: Ed Logue’s Complex Career in Urban Renewal
11/16/20, 6:30pm - 8pm
Online
Edward Logue was both one of the most prominent figures in American urban renewal and one of the post-war era’s most prolific patrons of Modern architecture. Harvard Professor Lizabeth Cohen,...
The Tall (Not) Office Building: Other Uses, Other Issues
10/28/20, 6pm - 8pm
Online
Week 4 pointedly enlarges our focus on urban commercial architecture to examine two lesser-studied types of tall buildings by use: hotels and lofts. Urban historians, A.K, Sandoval-Strausz and Andrew Dolkart,...
Book Talk: Stanford White in Detail
10/27/20, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Nothing defines Stanford White, a partner in the legendary architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, and the master of classical architecture and interior design, as much as his ornamental...
Tudor City: Manhattan’s Historic Residential Enclave
10/26/20, 6pm - 8pm
Online
In Tudor City: Manhattan’s Historic Residential Enclave, Lawrence R. Samuel recounts the history of Midtown Manhattan’s “urban Eden.” Created by the innovative developer Fred F. French from 1925 to 1929,...
Michael Murphy Architecture Keynote: Boston Book Festival, “Justice is Beauty”
10/23/20, 7:30pm - 8:15pm
Online
Boston Book Festival Architecture Keynote: Michael Murphy, MASS Design Group “Justice is Beauty” Celebrating the first decade of our work, JUSTICE IS BEAUTY highlights the projects, people, and partnerships that...
Praxis 15: Bad Architectures
2/12/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The architectural journal Praxis is celebrating the publication of its final issue, “Bad Architectures.” Edited by Amanda Reeser Lawrence, Ashley Schafer, and Irina Verona, the issue features designers and writers...
“How Exhibitions Transformed Architecture” led by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen PHD
12/13/19, 7pm - 9pm
Modulightor
The Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce our ‘SpaceMaker Salon Series’ to continue a tradition that grew from Paul Rudolph’s desire to encourage debates about important issues surrounding...
Makeshift Metropolis
10/30/18, 7pm - 8:30pm
Van Alen Institute, 30 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010
In conjunction with Archtober, Van Alen Book Club will read and discuss Witold Rybczynski’s Makeshift Metropolis. Looking back on a long career of thinking and writing about cities, Rybczynski considers...
Oculus Book Talk: Ethics of the Urban: The City and the Spaces of the Political
10/10/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a discussion of the book Ethics of the Urban: The City and the Spaces of the Political, edited by Mohsen Mostafavi. Ethics of the Urban: The...
Oculus Book Talk: John Yeon Architecture: Building in the Pacific Northwest
9/11/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a discussion of the books John Yeon Architecture: Building in the Pacific Northwest and Wright’s Writings: Reflection on Culture and Politics 1894-1959. John Yeon Architecture: Building...
Oculus Book Talk: Welcome to Your World
6/15/17, 6pm - 8pm
The Center for Architecture
Rescheduled from 6/12/2017 Sarah Williams Goldhagen’s new book, Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives, explores how the world around us influences our day to day existence without...
Oculus Book Talk: Magnetic City
5/8/17, 6pm - 8pm
The Center for Architecture
Join us at the Center for Architecture on May 8 to hear Justin Davidson discuss his latest book, Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York! Through seven illustrated walking tours...
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Oculus Book Talk: The Arab City
3/7/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us at the Center for Architecture for a discussion on the book The Arab City: Architecture and Representation by Amale Andraos. Moving beyond reductive notions of identity, myths of authenticity,...
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Oculus Book Talk: When Ivory Towers Were Black
2/13/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us at the Center for Architecture for a discussion of the book When Ivory Towers Were Black: A Story about Race in America’s Cities and Universities by Sharon Egretta Sutton,...
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Oculus Book Talk: Manual of Section
1/9/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us at the Center for Architecture on January 9 as Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis discuss their latest book, Manual of Section! What are the varieties of...
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Oculus Book Talk: Never Built New York
12/14/16, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us at the Center for Architecture on December 14 to hear Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell discuss their latest book, Never Built New York! New York towers among world...
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Oculus Book Talk: The Well-Tempered City
11/9/16, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join innovative real estate developer and author Jonathan F. P. Rose for this launch of his new book, THE WELL-TEMPERED CITY: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us...
Oculus Book Talk: The Creative Architect
10/20/16, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us at the Center for Architecture to hear Pierluigi Serraino discuss his latest book, The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Midcentury Personality Study. From 1958 to 1959, forty of...
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