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Book Talk

Past Events

Book Talk, Special Event

Book Talk- The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon

11/18/25, 5pm - 8pm
The Skyscraper Museum
This is an in-person program at the Museum’s lower Manhattan gallery. You must reserve your place by registering on Ticketstripe. Museum members receive priority registration by emailing [email protected]. Chicago’s tallest...
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Book Talk – Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair

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11/10/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Historic Buildings Committee for book talk about Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair (Row House Publishing, 2023) by art and architectural conservator Rosa Lowinger, who will...
Book Talk, Partner Program

Discussion on Climate Optimism

11/1/25, 3pm - 5pm
Center for Architecture, 532 LaGuardia Pl., New York, NY 10012
"Is optimism the most radical climate tool we have?" This conversation brings together architects Lindsey Wikstrom and Sierra Bainbridge, designers, thinkers, and authors who are redefining public space through regeneration,...
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Book Launch for Buildings for People and Plants with WORKac

10/24/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture, 532 LaGuardia Pl., New York, NY 10012
“We don’t think of buildings as isolated objects. Rather, we enlist their power to frame, reexamine and reinvent relationships–between citizens and cities, public and private space, the individual and the...
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New York Architecture & Design Book Club on Bruno Munari

10/21/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture, 532 LaGuardia Pl., New York, NY 10012
Join New York’s only architecture and design book club (that we know of!) The New York Architecture + Design Book Club, organized by Head Hi and the design journal Untapped,...
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Book Launch and Chat for Projections: Exhibiting the Hidden

10/17/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture, 532 LaGuardia Pl., New York, NY 10012
“If we were to think of the exhibition space as a space station, everything orbiting around it—probes, stars and planets, human or extraterrestrial constructions, mechanical or natural entities, inert or...
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Book Talk: “The Projects: A New History of Public Housing” by Howard Husock

10/15/25, 8am - 9:30am
Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus, Lowenstein Hall, Room #508
Author and scholar Howard Husock will discuss his new book, The Projects: A New History of Public Housing (NYU Press, 9/25). Mr. Husock will be interviewed by author and journalist...
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Queens: From Agricultural Hinterland to Vital Urban Corridor

10/14/25, 6:30pm - 8pm
St. Paul & St. Andrew United Methodist Church
In celebration of the late Jeffrey A. Kroessler’s book Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queens (Rutgers U. Press, 2025), his widow, Laura Heim, will discuss with Eve Kahn...
Book Talk, Partner Program, Webinar

Dual Cities: Social Housing in London + New York

10/14/25, 8am - 9am
Webinar
A housing tale of two cities. Growing up in tandem and maturing as urban democracies during the 19th and 20th centuries, London and New York have both influenced the shape...
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Book Talk: Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queens

10/12/25, 1pm - 3pm
Flushing Town Hall
You’re invited to celebrate the publication of Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queens by the late Jeffrey A. Kroessler.  Join Laura Heim, architect and widow of author Jeffrey...
Book Talk, Partner Program

Photography Book Release for The First Draft with Rich Gilligan

10/10/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture, 532 LaGuardia Pl., New York, NY 10012
“How could a skater spinning to earth at dusk, the wonder of a smouldering, skylit puddle, and the Knieval-daring of a skater flying high over ramps coalesce to convey a...
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A People’s Handbook of Surveillance for New York

Book Launch
10/9/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the launch of A People’s Handbook of Surveillance for New York! The launch will feature a thought provoking discussion of urgent surveillance issues by panelists, including Dr. Alex...
Book Talk, Partner Program

Book Launch: Strangers Need Strange Moments Together with Daily tous les jours

10/4/25, 4pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture, 532 LaGuardia Pl., New York, NY 10012
“It may feel strange to smile, dance, or make music with a stranger these days. But connecting with others through joy, bringing bodies, minds and spirits together in laughter, is...
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Architectural Behaviorology: Denise Scott Brown Photographs

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9/16/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Beatriz Colomina, Andrés Jaque, Izzy Kornblatt, and Lars Müller for a panel discussion celebrating the release of Encounters: Denise Scott Brown Photographs (Lars Müller Publishers, 2025). Drawing on Scott...
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Book Talk- Albert Kahn Inc.: Architecture, Labor, and Industry, 1905–1961

9/16/25, 6pm - 7:30pm
This is an in-person program at the Museum’s lower Manhattan gallery. In her new book Albert Kahn Inc.: Architecture, Labor, and Industry, 1905–1961, Claire Zimmerman charts a history of second-wave...
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Book Talk – The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play

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9/12/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a conversation between historian Frank Guridy and architect, Douglass Alligood, who will discuss Guridy’s new book, The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play (Basic...
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Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queens – Book Launch & Panel Discussion

9/11/25, 4pm - 6pm
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Segal Theatre
Join us for a panel discussion of the recently published book Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queens by Jeffrey A. Kroessler. The panel discussion will be moderated by...
Book Talk, Webinar

Queens: A History of the Most Diverse Place on Earth

9/9/25, 6pm - 7:30pm
Online
This is a virtual program — online only. In his new book, Queens: A History of the Most Diverse Place on Earth, prolific author Lawrence R. Samuel charts the historical...
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New York’s Scoundrels, Scalawags, and Scrappers: The City in the Last Decade of the Gilded Age

8/12/25, 6pm - 7:30pm
The Skyscraper Museum
This is an in-person program at the Museum’s lower Manhattan gallery. Tireless chronicler of Manhattan’s building history, John Tauranac finds a new angle on the city’s past in his new...
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Designing the American Century: Clarke and Rapuano

7/22/25, 6pm - 7:30pm
The Skyscraper Museum
In his new book Designing the American Century: The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano, 1915-1965, Thomas J. Campanella argues that Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano were the foremost...

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