Book Talk
Upcoming Events
Book Talk- Beyond Architecture: The NEW New York
Tuesday, 4/15, 6pm - Thursday, 1/1, 7:30pm
The Skyscraper Museum
Beyond Architecture: The NEW New York is a volume of essays that commemorate the 60th anniversary of the passage of the New York City Landmarks Law, which established the Landmarks...
Past Events
The Great Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City’s Citicorp Tower
6/3/25, 6pm - 7:30pm
Online
Thirty years ago a New Yorker article, “The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis,” recounted the little-known drama of the threatened collapse of a Manhattan skyscraper. In a new book, The Great Miscalculation: The...
Book Talk: Climate-Driven Design I
5/7/25, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Building Energy Exchange
Join us for a special Book Talk featuring thought-leader and MIT professor, Christoph Reinhart, author of Climate-Driven Design I. In this exciting moderated program, Reinhart will explore the pressing challenges...
Beyond Architecture: The NEW New York – A Discussion on Historic Preservation
4/15/25, 6pm - 8pm
The Skyscraper Museum
The Skyscraper Museum hosts an in-person discussion on Beyond Architecture: The NEW New York, a collection of essays marking the 60th anniversary of the New York City Landmarks Law. Contributors...
Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects: Building in Place Talk & Book Signing
3/31/25, 5:30pm - 8pm
Rizzoli Bookstore
Talk and book signing for Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects’ latest book, Building in Place: Architecture Rooted in Context and Social Equity, written by Greg Goldin. Book discussion will be led by...
Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism
3/10/25, 6:30pm - 8pm
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP
For the first Modern Conversations presentation of 2025, please join us in welcoming Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy as they discuss their new book Women Architects at Work:...
Lost Danish Treasures: Finn Juhl Book Talk with Carl D’Silva
3/4/25, 6:30pm - 8pm
Scandinavia House
Join us for a book talk with award-winning Chicago architect Carl J. D’Silva on his new book Lost Danish Treasure (Oro Editions, 2024), exploring Danish modernist Finn Juhl’s iconic Chieftan...
Vishaan Chakrabarti and Thomas Dyja, Beyond Architecture: The NEW New York
2/20/25, 6pm - 8pm
The New York Society Library
Beyond Architecture brings together architectural critics, city planners, historians, scholars, journalists, and more to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the passage of the New York City Landmarks Law, exploring the...
Book Talk: Le Corbusier Album Punjab, 1951
11/21/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion on Le Corbusier Album Punjab, 1951 (Lars Müller Publishers, 2024). In 1951 Le Corbusier was invited to the Indian state of Punjab to help develop...
Book Discussion – Spatial Futures: Difference and the Post Anthropocene
10/19/24, 3pm - 5pm
581 Mother Gaston Blvd, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11212
No registration required; all are welcome. Join Brownsville Heritage House for a book discussion of Spatial Futures: Difference and the Post Anthropocene, edited by LaToya Eaves, Heidi J. Nast, and Alex...
The Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture
9/19/24, 5:30pm - 8pm
Spitzer School of Architecture, Sciame Auditorium
Lecture on book published by Georgetown University Press: Under the Dome: Politics, Crisis and Architecture at the United States Capitol, presented by the author, Alan M. Hantman, FAIA, 10th Architect...
Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture
9/16/24, 6pm - 7pm
The Skyscraper Museum
The Museum’s focus on mass timber and wood, in conjunction with the exhibition TALL TIMBER: The Future of Cities in Wood, continues this fall with a webinar & book talk...
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....





