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Upcoming Events

Book Talk – Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook

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Monday, 3/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the book launch and discussion of Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook (Lars Müller Publishers, 2024). This intimate conversation will celebrate the publication of Louis I. Kahn:...
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Past Events

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,...

Book Talk – Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture

Haesley Hamlet Grand Hall
2/15/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In-person tickets for this event are sold out. Only Zoom tickets are available. Join us for a discussion of Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture (Rizzoli, 2022) with Laura Britton and Vittorio...

Book Talk – Sea Pools: 66 Saltwater Sanctuaries from Around the World

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1/18/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion of Chris Romer-Lee’s Sea Pools: 66 Saltwater Sanctuaries from Around the World (Batsford 2023), in conversation with Robert Hammond and Kara Meyer. Designed to provide...

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...

Book Talk – Why Public Space Matters to New York

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9/5/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion to mark the occasion of Setha Low's new publication, Why Public Space Matters (Oxford University Press, 2022), in conversation with Ya-Ting Liu, Matthew Clarke, and Quilian Riano....

Book Talk – Verify in Field: Projects and Conversations with Höweler + Yoon

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5/31/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a talk by Eric Höweler, J. Meejin Yoon, and Thomas de Monchaux for a discussion on Höweler + Yoon's latest book, Verify in Field: Projects and Conversations with Höweler +...

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...

Material Worlds: Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures

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5/5/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Carson Chan and Lindsey Wikstrom for the culmination of the Material Worlds lecture series. The inaugural episode of Materials Worlds was focused on Mass Timber, and brought together the President...

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...

Book Talk – E 1027: Restoring a House By the Sea

Book cover of E 1027, showing the villa on the waterfront.
4/4/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Published following the completion the long-awaited restoration of a legendary house, this book explores an exemplary conservation project. A modern house par excellence, Villa E 1027, located in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, was...

Back to the Office: 50 Revolutionary Office Buildings and How They Sustained

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3/30/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a conversation with Ashley Schafer, Ruth Baumeister, and Stephan Petermann about their latest publication, Back to the Office: 50 Revolutionary Office Buildings and How They Sustained (NAi010 publishing, 2022). ...

Book Talk: New York Stilled Life

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3/20/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a book talk on New York Stilled Life: Portrait of a City in Lockdown (Goff Books, 2021), led by author Gregory Peterson. Mid-March 2020: native New Yorker Gregory...

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...

Book Talk: Creating Dynamic Places for Learning

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3/1/23, 9am - 11am
Center for Architecture
Peter Lippman and Elizabeth Matthews will present their latest book, Creating Dynamic Places for Learning: An Evidence Based Design Approach (Springer, 2023), which provides an evidence-based design approach to the planning...

Book Talk: The Architecture of Disability

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2/23/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
By re-contextualizing the history of architecture through the discourse of disability, David Gissen's recent book The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) presents...

Book Talk: Geospaces – Continuities Between Humans, Spaces, and the Earth

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2/15/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Join Salon Alper Derinboğaz founder and principal Alper Derinboğaz for the launch of his book Geospaces: Continuities Between Humans, Spaces, and the Earth (Actar Publishers, 2022). Geospaces is an extended visual essay of...

Book Talk: Occupation: Boundary – Art, Architecture, and Culture at the Water

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2/13/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cathy Simon and Laurie Olin will discuss the book Occupation: Boundary Art, Architecture, and Culture at the Water (ORO Editions, 2022) in a conversation moderated by Ashley Simone. The book...

Book Talk: Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect

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2/10/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the Center for Architecture for a discussion on the book Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect (Birkhäuser, 2022), edited by Frida Grahn. From the bustle...

Reception: Manual of Biogenic House Sections

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1/26/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Center for Architecture will host a reception for the release of Manual of Biogenic House Sections (ORO Editions, 2022) by LTL Architects, along with an accompanying installation of selected projects...
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The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy

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1/24/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
What is the innovation economy, and how does it shape the city?  Join us for a conversation with Sharon Zukin and Alby Bocanegra on The Innovation Complex, a book exploring the forces...

The Fulton Fish Market: A History

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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...

Manfredo Tafuri’s Modern Architecture in Japan

Fig. 1 Kenzō Tange, Nichinan Cultural Center. Photograph: Yukio Futagawa.
12/12/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Jean-Louis Cohen, Catherine Ingraham, Yukie Kamiya, and Mohsen Mostafavi for a discussion of the celebrated Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri's book Modern Architecture in Japan (Mack Books, 2022). Originally...

Giuliana Bruno: Atmospheres of Projection

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12/7/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Giuliana Bruno presents her new book, Atmospheres of Projection: Environmentality in Art and Screen Media (University of Chicago Press, 2022), which considers the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment. "What...

Agricultural Modernization and Collective Memory: 50 Species-Towns

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11/17/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architect and urbanist Charles Waldheim, John E. Irving Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, invites you to a reception for his recent book, Agricultural Modernization and Collective Memory: 50 Species-Towns (Harvard...

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...

Book Talk: The Women Who Changed Architecture

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10/26/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for a conversation with three accomplished architects featured in The Women Who Changed Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2022). This publication is a visual...

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 Talk: Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens

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10/13/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
To celebrate the third edition of Ioanna Theocharopoulou’s book Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens (Onassis, 2022), the Onassis Foundation is hosting a wide-ranging discussion about the relevance of...

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...

CONNECT: A Lecture by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing, OPEN Architecture

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9/27/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Li Hu and Huang Wenjing will present recent public and cultural projects by the New York City- and Beijing-based design practice OPEN Architecture, including those included in the new book Reinventing...

Exactitude: On Precision and Play in Contemporary Architecture

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9/7/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a book talk for Exactitude: On Precision and Play in Contemporary Architecture (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022).  Precision is necessary in the field of architecture. New technologies have increased...

China Dialogues

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5/10/22, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
China Dialogues (ORO Editions & Tongji University Press, 2022) is an anthology of 21 insightful conversations selected by Vladimir Belogolovsky from his archive of interviews conducted with leading Chinese architects...

Carlo Mollino: Architect and Storyteller

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5/9/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a conversation about the newly published book, Carlo Mollino: Architect and Storyteller (Park Books, 2021), by co-authors Napoleone Ferrari and Michelangelo Sabatino. Italian architect and designer Carlo...
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Robert A.M. Stern’s Journey in Architecture: A Conversation with Barry Bergdoll

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4/22/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Robert A.M. Stern’s newly published autobiography, Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture (Monacelli, 2022), surveys his life and seismic role in the field of architecture from the 1960s to the...

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...

Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb

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3/31/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Sunnyside Gardens was one of the early 20th century’s most acclaimed experiments in affordable housing in New York. Based on their recent book, Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a...

Book Launch: Formulations by Andrew Witt

The cover of Andrew Witt's book Formulations
3/26/22, 12pm - 2pm
Center for Architecture
Join author Andrew Witt to launch his new Writing Architecture Series book, Formulations, an examination of the intersections between architecture and mathematics and of architecture’s encounters with calculational systems. In...

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...

Launch Event – New York: An Illustrated History

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11/29/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a launch event for the newly expanded edition of New York: An Illustrated History by Ric Burns and James Sanders, with a brief remarks featuring a selection of...

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: Sandfuture with Justin Beal and Dung Ngo

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11/9/21, 6pm - 7pm
Center for Architecture
Artist and writer Justin Beal will discuss his new book, Sandfuture, with design writer and editor Dung Ngo. Sandfuture (MIT Press, 2021) is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki, who remains on...

Book Talk: The Future of Modular Architecture

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11/3/21, 6pm - 7pm
Center for Architecture
David Wallance, FAIA, will present a lecture on his recently published book, The Future of Modular Architecture (Routledge, 2021).  The Future of Modular Architecture presents an unprecedented proposal for mass-customized mid-and high-rise...

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...

Book Talk – Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things

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10/7/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for an event with Winka Dubbeldam, founding partner of Archi-Tectonics NYC and Chair and Miller Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design,...

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...

Who Cares About Energy Codes? Architect’s Guide to NYC’s Carbon Reduction Code

Who Cares About Energy Codes? Architect’s Guide to NYC’s Carbon Reduction Code
7/22/21, 5pm - 7pm
Online and In-Person
Join AIA New York and the Building Energy Exchange for the launch of the BE-Ex Architect Advisory Council’s (AAC) 2020 vision document, Who Cares About Energy Codes? The Architect’s Guide to...

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...

Book Talk – 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright

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6/24/21, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright (Rizzoli, 2021) begins with a simple question: What lessons can designers today learn from Frank Lloyd Wright? Unlike books focusing on Wright’s personal life, and equally...

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:...

Book Talk – Drama with David Rockwell and Bruce Mau

OMNIA, nightclub, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, 2015. Photo: Al Powers, Powers Imagery LLC.
6/7/21, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* David Rockwell’s fascination with theater has long informed his built work, which...

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...

Book Talk – Hip-Hop Architecture with Sekou Cooke

Appropriated Tekniques by Mauricio D. Zamora. Photo: Mauricio D. Zamora.
5/24/21, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Join Sekou Cooke and Mabel O. Wilson in conversation as they explore...

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...

Book Talk – Gas and Glamour: Roadside Architecture in Los Angeles

The Donut Hole 15300 Amar Rd. La Puente, CA 91744. Photo: Ashok Sinha
5/10/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Car Culture and Architectural Advertising in Los Angeles During America’s Golden Age...

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...

POSTPONED – Book Talk – 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright

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4/19/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is has been postponed. We apologize for the inconvenience! A new date will be announced shortly.* 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright (Rizzoli, 2021) begins with a simple...

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...

Book Talk – Radical Architecture of the Future with Beatrice Galilee

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4/5/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Radical Architecture of the Future (Phaidon, 2020) is an important and fascinating...

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...

Book Talk – Designing Lightness: Structures for Saving Energy

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3/16/21, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* This program features the author and designer of the recently released book Designing...

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...

POSTPONED: Radical Architecture of the Future: Book Talk with Beatrice Galilee

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2/10/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* An important and fascinating collection of original projects by unique thinkers in...

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: The Structure of Skyscrapers in America 1871-1900

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12/11/20, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* In the long-awaited book The Structure of Skyscrapers...

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...

Skinny House: A Memoir of Family

Images courtesy of Julie Seely.
12/10/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Please join us for a talk with Dr. Julie Seely, author of...

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...

Material Transfers: Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary Architecture

Photo courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates
12/2/20, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Join us for a book talk with Françoise Astorg...

Three Architects, Three Fairy Tales

Mary English and Xavier Vendrell, Little Red Riding Hood
12/1/20, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Join authors Andrew Bernheimer and Kate Bernheimer in conversation with Rice + Lipka...

Book Talk – Data Action: Using Data for Public Good

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11/19/20, 6pm - 8pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Please join us for a book talk with Sarah Williams as part...

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...

Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemics, Futures

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3/4/20, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for a conversation with the editors of and a few contributors to the new publication Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemics, Futures (Applied Research...

Reglazing Modernism

Reglazing Modernism: Intervention Strategies for 20th-century Icons by authors Angel Ayon, Uta Pottgiesser, and Nathaniel Richards
2/27/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Reglazing Modernism: Intervention Strategies for the Renewal of 20th Century IconsThe extensive use of exterior glazed enclosures is one of the most character defining features of Modern architecture. After decades...

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...

Bunshaft’s Impact and Legacy: Then and Now

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1/7/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the publication of Gordon Bunshaft and SOM: Building Corporate Modernism (Yale University Press), author Nicholas Adams will discuss Bunshaft, his work, and his legacy with Mary McLeod (Columbia...
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Oculus Book Talk: Millennials in Architecture

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12/17/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Almost five years ago, Darius Sollohub collaborated with AIA New York on a seemingly small research project about young architectural professionals. That work has grown into a new book, Millennials in Architecture:...

“How Exhibitions Transformed Architecture” led by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen PHD

12/13/19, 7pm - 9pm
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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...

Architectural Conservation in Asia: National Experiences and Practice

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9/20/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The field of architectural conservation has grown more globalized, yet much of its focus has centered on the Western world. This event and discussion, based on the book Architectural Conservation...

Building Great Schools for a Great City Book Launch: Honoring Work by the SCA

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9/10/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join AIA New York in honoring the New York City School Construction Authority’s (SCA) 30 years of work building and modernizing public school buildings. Lorraine Grillo, the Authority’s President and...

Oculus Book Talk: Palaces for the People

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6/10/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Sociologist Eric Klinenberg will discuss his latest work,Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Penguin Random House, 2018). In Palaces...

Oculus Book Talk – Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

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2/26/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Eminent sociologist Richard Sennett will discuss his latest book, Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018) in the latest Oculus Book Talk. In this sweeping...

Growing Up in a Frank Lloyd Wright House

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1/31/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Kim Bixler’s family owned Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1908 Edward E. Boynton House in Rochester, New York, from 1977 to 1994.  In her multi-media presentation, Kim recounts the joys and pitfalls...
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Oculus Book Talk: The Man in the Glass House

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1/7/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for our January Oculus Book Talk on The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century (Little, Brown and Company, 2018) with author Mark Lamster in conversation...

Oculus Book Talk: William B. Helmreich and Sam Lubell

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12/10/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for our December Oculus Book Talk, featuring two new guide books: The Manhattan Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide by William B. Helmreich, and Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel...

Oculus Book Talk – Exhibit A: Exhibitions That Transformed Architecture

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11/27/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How do you exhibit a building, a locality, a city? Exhibit A, the first book to explore the 20th century’s most significant architectural exhibitions, reveals how architecture has pushed the...

Perform: Designing for the Performing Arts

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11/14/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
A performing arts center is one of the most challenging and rewarding buildings an architect can design. It is a landmark building, celebrating its community’s commitment to the arts and...
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Cocktails and Conversations: Book Launch at Porcelanosa

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11/7/18, 6pm - 9pm
Porcelanosa Showroom
Over the last six years, the AIANY Architecture Dialogue Committee’s Cocktails and Conversation series has hosted some of architecture’s most interesting and provocative practitioners to discuss what informs their designs....

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: Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III

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10/9/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a book talk with Martin Filler about his new book in the Makers of Modern Architecture series, Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III: From Antoni Gaudí...

Spaces of Disappearance: The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition

Spaces of Disappearance: The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition by Jordan H. Carver, (UR) Urban Research, 2018. Background: Guantánamo Bay individual prisoner photos, Wikileaks, 2011. Cover design and creative by: Isaac Gertman / The Independent Group
9/21/18, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
To date, dozens of political histories, participant autobiographies, journalistic accounts, and academic investigations have addressed the many aspects of the War on Terror. Urban Research’s (UR) latest book, Spaces of...

Oculus Book Talk: The Design of Childhood

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6/25/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In her new book, The Design of Childhood (Bloomsbury, June 2018) design critic Alexandra Lange investigates the histories of children’s human-made environment at all scales, from objects to landscapes, and...

Oculus Book Talk: The New Landscape Declaration

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5/14/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
On the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg’s 1966 “Declaration of Concern,” the Landscape Architecture Foundation convened acclaimed practitioners to ask what the discipline should achieve in the future. These proposals and reflections were captured...

Oculus Book Talk: The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion

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3/1/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion (Actar, 2017) is an encyclopedia of 202 tools—or “weapons”—used by architects, planners, policy makers, developers, real-estate brokers, activists, and other urban actors in the...

Oculus Book Talk: LAB: Building a Home for Scientists

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11/27/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a discussion of the book LAB: Building a Home for Scientists (Lars Müller Publishers, 2017) by Mark C. Fishman. Fishman will be joined in discussion by architect Toshiko...

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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