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Book Talk, Continuing Education, Webinar

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...
Book Talk, Talk, Webinar

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, Partner Program, Talk, Webinar

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...
Book Talk, Talk, Webinar

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, Talk, Webinar

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...
Book Talk, Webinar

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...
Book Talk, Webinar

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, Continuing Education, Talk, Webinar

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...
Book Talk, Talk, Webinar

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, Webinar

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...
Book Talk, Talk, Webinar

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...
Book Talk, Talk, Webinar

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, Talk, Webinar

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...
Book Talk, Webinar

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, Continuing Education, Talk, Webinar

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...
Book Talk, Talk, Webinar

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, Continuing Education, Talk, Webinar

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...
Book Talk, Webinar

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...
Book Talk, Partner Program, Talk, Webinar

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...
Book Talk, Webinar

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...

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