Book Talk
Upcoming Events
The Other 41: Mid-Rise Housing for a High-Rise City
Thursday, 12/5, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us as a panel of architects, journalists, developers, and planners share innovative approaches to creating, developing, and financing mid-rise housing. Of the 51 council districts in New York, 10...
Past Events
Book Signing for Contemporary Art Underground: MTA Arts & Design New York
11/20/24, 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...
Book Talk: Designing for Empathy
11/12/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Aybars Aşçı, author of Designing for Empathy: The Architecture of Connections in Learning Environments (ORO Editions, 2024), to discuss the inextricable relationship between developmental psychology and our physical environment....
Book Talk: Days without Number, New York City
10/29/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Head Hi is excited to announce the publication of their second book, co-published by Mousse, featuring the work of Milan-based architectural photographer Giovanna Silva. Titled Days without Number, New York City,...
Book Talk – The Edith Farnsworth House: Architecture, Preservation, Culture
6/20/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion on The Edith Farnsworth House: Architecture, Preservation, Culture (Monacelli, 2024). One of the most famous residences in modern history, a glass and steel marvel that seems...
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Book Talk: Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate
5/13/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Center for Architecture is pleased to host a round-table discussion celebrating the book launch of Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate (Routledge, 2024) edited by Tülay Atak, Luis...
The Flexible City: Solutions for a Circular and Climate Adaptive Europe
4/12/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion of Tom Bergevoet’s and Maarten van Tuijl’s The Flexible City: Solutions for a Circular and Climate Adaptive Europe (Nai010 Publishers, 2024), in conversation with Yasemin...
Book Talk – Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook
3/18/24, 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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Book Talk – Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture
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
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...
Book Talk – Why Public Space Matters to New York
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
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 +...
Material Worlds: Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures
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...
Book Talk – E 1027: Restoring a House By the Sea
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
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
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...
Book Talk: Creating Dynamic Places for Learning
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Manfredo Tafuri’s Modern Architecture in Japan
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
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
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...
Book Talk: The Women Who Changed Architecture
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...
Book Talk: Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens
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...
CONNECT: A Lecture by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing, OPEN Architecture
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
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
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
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
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...
Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb
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
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...
Launch Event – New York: An Illustrated History
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...
Book Talk: Sandfuture with Justin Beal and Dung Ngo
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
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 – Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things
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,...
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...
Book Talk – 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
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...
Book Talk – Drama with David Rockwell and Bruce Mau
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...
Book Talk – Hip-Hop Architecture with Sekou Cooke
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...
Book Talk – Gas and Glamour: Roadside Architecture in Los Angeles
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...
POSTPONED – Book Talk – 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
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...
Book Talk – Radical Architecture of the Future with Beatrice Galilee
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...
Book Talk – Designing Lightness: Structures for Saving Energy
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...
POSTPONED: Radical Architecture of the Future: Book Talk with Beatrice Galilee
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...
Book Talk: The Structure of Skyscrapers in America 1871-1900
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...
Skinny House: A Memoir of Family
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...
Material Transfers: Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary Architecture
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
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
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...
Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemics, Futures
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
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...
Bunshaft’s Impact and Legacy: Then and Now
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
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:...
Architectural Conservation in Asia: National Experiences and Practice
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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....
Oculus Book Talk: Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III
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
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
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
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
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
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...