Continuing Education
Collecting Design with Dr. Daniella Ohad: Fall 2019 (Session 10)
Tuesday, 12/17, 10:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace, standing at the forefront of style and taste. While initially...
Collecting Design with Dr. Daniella Ohad: Fall 2019 (Session 9)
Tuesday, 12/10, 10:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace, standing at the forefront of style and taste. While initially...
Collecting Design with Dr. Daniella Ohad: Fall 2019 (Session 8)
Tuesday, 11/26, 10:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace, standing at the forefront of style and taste. While initially...
Collecting Design with Dr. Daniella Ohad: Fall 2019 (Session 7)
Tuesday, 11/19, 10:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace, standing at the forefront of style and taste. While initially...
Collecting Design with Dr. Daniella Ohad: Fall 2019 (Session 6)
Monday, 11/18, 10:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace, standing at the forefront of style and taste. While initially...
Collecting Design with Dr. Daniella Ohad: Fall 2019 (Session 5)
Tuesday, 11/12, 10:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace, standing at the forefront of style and taste. While initially...
Collecting Design with Dr. Daniella Ohad: Fall 2019 (Session 4)
Tuesday, 11/5, 10:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
Collecting Design with Dr. Daniella Ohad: Fall 2019 (Session 3)
Tuesday, 10/29, 10:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace, standing at the forefront of style and taste. While initially...
Collecting Design with Dr. Daniella Ohad: Fall 2019 (Session 2)
Tuesday, 10/22, 10:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace, standing at the forefront of style and taste. While initially...
Collecting Design with Dr. Daniella Ohad: Fall 2019 (Session 1)
Tuesday, 10/15, 10:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace, standing at the forefront of style and taste. While initially...
AIANY Industrial Waterway Tour: Freshkills Park in Staten Island
Sunday, 10/6, 9:45am - 12:30pm
Boat departs from Chelsea Piers, near 22nd St. on the Hudson River (Manhattan, NY)
Come witness one of the most remarkable land reclamation projects in history. This extended AIANY architecture boat tour travels to Staten Island and offers a limited “backstage pass” to experience...
AIANY Industrial Waterway Tour: Freshkills Park in Staten Island
Sunday, 8/18, 9:45am - 12:30pm
Boat departs from Chelsea Piers, near 22nd St. on the Hudson River (Manhattan, NY)
Come witness one of the most remarkable land reclamation projects in history. This extended AIANY architecture boat tour travels to Staten Island and offers a limited “backstage pass” to experience...
AIANY Industrial Waterway Tour: Freshkills Park in Staten Island
Saturday, 7/13, 9:45am - 12:30pm
Boat departs from Chelsea Piers, near 22nd St. on the Hudson River (Manhattan, NY)
Come witness one of the most remarkable land reclamation projects in history. This extended AIANY architecture boat tour travels to Staten Island and offers a limited “backstage pass” to experience...
CityPride: Creating LGBTQ Spaces
Monday, 6/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The New York metro area has a diverse range of buildings and structures where LGBTQ people gather to find support, safety, community, and pride. A panel of architects who designed recent projects...
Dining & Dialogue: Industry Kitchen
Wednesday, 6/12, 6pm - 8:30pm
Industry Kitchen: 70 South Street, New York, NY 10038
Bringing together architectural and culinary enthusiasts, this series explores the intersection between design, branding, storytelling and marketing a concept. Join us for a communal meal where we feast, drink, and...
Building Enclosure Design Flaws and How to Avoid Them
Tuesday, 6/11, 6pm - 8pm
Building Energy Exchange, 31 Chambers St Suite 609, New York, NY 10007
A panel of experts will present and discuss solutions to common building envelope design flaws in multifamily and commercial buildings. They will address the considerable challenges faced by architects as...
AIA Conference on Architecture 2019
Thursday, 6/6, 8am - Saturday, 6/8, 8pm
Las Vegas, NV
Every year the Conference on Architecture travels to an iconic city for three immersive days of what’s new and now in architecture and design. In 2019, we’re heading to Las...
The Forensics of Architecture: CSI of Buildings
Wednesday, 6/5, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The practice of forensic architecture is an investigative process that involves the examination of issues or claims made during design, construction, and once the building is completed. Most problems a...
Mies Van de Rohe’s Tugendhat House
Monday, 6/3, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Mies Van der Rohe’s Tugendhat House in Brno, Czech Republic, is a preeminent example of early modernist design. Van der Rohe designed the house, which was completed in 1930, at...
AIANY Industrial Waterway Tour: Freshkills Park in Staten Island
Saturday, 6/1, 9:45am - 12:30pm
Boat departs from Chelsea Piers, near 22nd St. on the Hudson River (Manhattan, NY)
Come witness one of the most remarkable land reclamation projects in history. This extended AIANY architecture boat tour travels to Staten Island and offers a limited “backstage pass” to experience...
Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus
Thursday, 5/30, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us in celebrating the 100th anniversary of Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus with this documentary exploring the history, present, and future of the utopian design and architecture school and communal social...
The Quantified City: Impacts on the Urban Context
Tuesday, 5/28, 5pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This panel will be preceded by a creative (re)mixer and cocktail hour from 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Entitled ‘Design Against Extinction’ and orchestrated by Terreform ONE, the event will...
Livable Cities for the 21st Century: The International Perspective
Thursday, 5/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for an evening with Jan Gehl, Hon. FAIA. Gehl is a Danish architect and urban design consultant whose life work has centered around pedestrian and cycling-oriented urban design. Gehl...
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FutureNOW: Re-imagining Practice Redux
Thursday, 5/23, 6pm - 8pm
KPF, 11 West 42nd Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10036
Reviewing Implementation Strategies for New Technologies Please join us to further discuss the ideas presented during the March 2019 FutureNOW symposium.* The redux will feature highlights from the symposium presentations...
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One Learning Environment for Every Child
Thursday, 5/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Knoll New York Showroom, 1330 6th Ave, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10019
How spaces for active learning in mainstream schools can allow children with special education needs (SEN) to learn with their friends. The transition towards competency-based education requires us to rethink...
Build Yourself Workshop: Setting Ambitious & Creative Career Goals
Wednesday, 5/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Women often sell themselves short—what Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In calls the “leadership ambition gap.” In this interactive workshop, we break down why that gap exists, and how women...
TORCH Mentorship Program – Communicating Architecture
Tuesday, 5/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Communicating Architecture: How to Tell A Compelling Story At the beginning of every project there is a story; an effective one requires a narrative that responds to more than just a...
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Low Carbon Comfort – Electrifying HVAC with Variable Refrigerant Flow Technology
Tuesday, 5/21, 6pm - 8pm
Building Energy Exchange, 31 Chambers St Suite 609, New York, NY 10007
Variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems have been used since the 1980s. Their space and energy saving characteristics have taken on a new meaning in the context of global climate challenges....
Art Omi: Architecture Tour
Saturday, 5/18, 12:30pm - 3pm
Art Omi, 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY 12075
Join the AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee for a day trip to Art Omi, an arts center with a sculpture and architecture park and gallery in Ghent, NY. Within the 200-acre...
Leadership Breakfast with Claire Weisz, FAIA
Friday, 5/17, 8am - 9am
Center for Architecture
Please join the Women in Architecture Committee for the Spring installment of our Leadership Breakfast series. Claire Weisz, FAIA, Principal in Charge at WXY, will discuss her career and recent projects. ...
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2019 Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture: Annabelle Selldorf
Thursday, 5/16, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The annual Oberfield lecture was founded as a memorial to Gil Oberfield, AIA, former member and chair of the AIANY Interiors Committee. The lecture brings to the podium speakers whose...
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Lighting Landmarks in New York City
Wednesday, 5/15, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Hosted by the AIANY Building Codes Committee, the AIANY Historic Buildings Committee, and Illuminating Engineering Society NYC’s (IESNYC) Lighting Council, this program will present a panel of lighting designers and...
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Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen Featuring Michael Kimmelman
Monday, 5/13, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something...
Fundamentals of Photoluminescent Egress Systems
Thursday, 5/9, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Photoluminescent (PL) egress systems are non-electric, illuminated routing markers that provide an intuitive path that can be easily followed during an emergency evacuation of a building. This course will instruct...
New York Digital Design Community
Thursday, 5/9, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
WeWork, 115 W 18th St, 6th Floor
The New York Digital Design Community is a forum that focuses on showcasing technology-driven design by leading New York individuals, practices and universities. It is dedicated to disseminating the application...
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Prefabrication in Practice
Wednesday, 5/8, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The integration of design and construction of modular principals and prefabricated processes into the built environment has a long history, filled with successes as well as missed opportunities and setbacks....
NYLON #15: Design Quality and Public Housing
Wednesday, 5/8, 8am - 10am
Center for Architecture
With London witnessing a resurgent public sector with improved capabilities, funding avenues, and delivery mechanisms at hand, it is critical that any new public housing shifts existing negative perceptions. At...
Cocktails & Conversation: Toshiko Mori and Fred Bernstein
Friday, 5/3, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Each program...
Energy and Climate Analysis Tools for Architects
Tuesday, 4/30, 9am - 5pm
Center for Architecture
The workshop will begin by taking a hands-on approach towards environmental design questions by having participants follow along with the creation of customized climate graphics in the Grasshopper visual scripting...
Project Tour: City Tech
Saturday, 4/27, 1pm - 3pm
New York City College of Technology, "City Tech"
Please join AIANY Women in Architecture Committee on a tour of City Tech, a new facility for the New York College of Technology in Brooklyn, NY. The tour will be...
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Envisioning the Integrated Academic Medical Center
Thursday, 4/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a talk about the integration of academic, research, and clinical environments and how these functions are tied to and reflected in the design of academic medical center (AMC)...
Games, Gossip, and Greeting: Seniors’ Uses of Public Space
Tuesday, 4/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This panel will focus on public open space design that meets the health and recreational needs of urban seniors as they age-in-place in their neighborhoods. Recent case studies of innovative...
AIANY Earth Day Urban Ecology Boat Tour
Monday, 4/22, 1:45pm - 4:30pm
Chelsea Piers, Pier 62
Don’t miss the first-annual Earth Day boat tour, a collaboration between AIANY and Classic Harbor Line focusing on issues of urban ecology! Join us on this special full circumnavigation of Manhattan...
ENYA Beyond the Boards: BIG
Tuesday, 4/16, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Bjarke Ingels Group NYC, 45 Main Street, 9th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201
The AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) is proud to announce the next presentation in the Beyond the Boards series. BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group leadership will profile their firm and design process before focusing on...
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Demystifying Building Performance Modeling for Sustainable Design
Thursday, 4/11, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As the importance of energy performance and efficiency continues to increase, today’s design and construction professionals have the challenging task of making buildings more efficient and sustainable. Not only have...
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Smart Building Summit
Wednesday, 4/10, 8:30am - 4:30pm
Center for Architecture
Join the Cross-Learning Alliance for the Smart Building Summit. This day-long event will convene 22 expert building professionals to investigate how building automation can improve energy performance and tenant wellness....
Perspectives from Sweden: Designing Innovative Learning Environments
Wednesday, 4/10, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a presentation and panel discussion that examines the planning and design of learning environments in Sweden. Swedish architect Åsa R. Machado will present several large-scale educational projects...
Coast to Coast: The Gender of Preservation
Monday, 4/8, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As women have become the majority of students in architecture schools, our profession has been in the throes of both examining and reexamining the role of women in design. Many...
RESET and ORIGIN: Measuring Air Quality and Material Impacts
Thursday, 4/4, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Designing for wellness requires careful material choice and ongoing measurement of indoor air quality. Come hear from Raefer Wallis, an architect and the founder of GIGA, the independent organization working...
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Pad Thai Thai: A Talk by Kulapat Yantrasast
Thursday, 4/4, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Kulapat Yantrasast as he delves into the complex and playful world of wHY’s work, which combines the frenetic elements of the architect’s Thai upbringing with his minimalist Japanese training....
Collecting Design: History, Collections & Highlights (Session 6)
Tuesday, 4/2, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Center for Architecture
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace, standing at the forefront of style and taste. While initially...
Women-Built NYC | Three Decades of Public Design
Wednesday, 3/27, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
To celebrate the Women’s History Month, Keri Butler, the Deputy Director of NYC Public Design Commission (PDC), and Rebecca Macklis will highlight multigenerational women who have made a significant impact on...
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POP! Culture: Creativity in Temporary Spaces
Tuesday, 3/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This panel discussion explores creative cultural events in non-traditional “pop up” venues. Temporary spaces, which often involve architects and engineers, can give increased exposure to artists and extend the outreach...
Cocktails & Conversation: Vishaan Chakrabarti and Justin Davidson
Friday, 3/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Each program...
Mobility + Social Agency: Embedding Equity in Mobile Systems
Thursday, 3/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
United States landmark legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 established legal rights to accommodation and access that have had a...
TORCH Mentorship Program – Career Paths: What’s Your Plan?
Tuesday, 3/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architecture offers a variety of ways to practice, but it can be challenging to find the right career path. The 2019 TORCH Mentorship curriculum begins with a discussion on finding...
Collecting Design: History, Collections & Highlights (Session 5)
Tuesday, 3/19, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Center for Architecture
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace, standing at the forefront of style and taste. While initially...
FutureNOW: Re-imagining Practice Through Data Disruption
Saturday, 3/16, 9am - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Now more than ever, data is being collected and applied to evaluate problems and deliver solutions. “FutureNOW” will explore the implementation of technology-driven advancements in the AEC industry. Through a...
_Destinations: Mexico City
Thursday, 3/14, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the inaugural event of AIANY’s Global Dialogues “_Destinations” series, bringing together some of the city’s most dynamic designers to discuss how they address and are inspired by the...
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Achieving Circular Material Loops with Gypsum Wall Board
Friday, 3/8, 8:30am - 10am
Center for Architecture
While gypsum wallboard has great potential for circularity and can be recycled indefinitely, it is fragile and has to be carefully separated from other construction waste. Currently, up to 20%...
Success Starts with Strategy: Tips for Fierce Marketing and Communications
Wednesday, 3/6, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee and the AIANY Marketing and Communications Committee as they present an architectural practice panel to share useful advice and strategies in marketing, PR,...
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New Practices in Hong Kong Architecture: A Symposium
Friday, 3/1, 1pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a symposium presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Paul Rudolph: The Hong Kong Journey, and convened by Barry Bergdoll and Seng Kuan. Taking Rudolph’s work as...
Tour of the Ford Foundation
Thursday, 2/28, 5pm - 6:30pm
Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd St, New York, NY 10017
Join the AIANY Interiors Committee for a tour of the Ford Foundation. The Ford Foundation is an independent, nonprofit grant-making organization. For more than 80 years it has worked with...
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Collecting Design: History, Collections & Highlights (Session 2)
Tuesday, 2/26, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Center for Architecture
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace, standing at the forefront of style and taste. While initially...
AIANY Around Manhattan: Architecture Boat Tour
Saturday, 2/23, 11am - 1:45pm
Chelsea Piers, Pier 62
This 2-hour-and-45-minute cruise circumnavigates the island of Manhattan via the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers, and is AIA New York’s signature tour experience. Enjoy the views from one of Classic...
Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen Featuring Elizabeth Diller
Thursday, 2/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Updated 4/30/2019: Listen to the podcast featuring Elizabeth Diller on PersonPlaceThing.org. Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on the idea that people are particularly...
Collecting Design: History, Collections & Highlights
Tuesday, 2/19, 10:30am - Tuesday, 5/7, 11:28am
Center for Architecture
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace, standing at the forefront of style and taste. While initially...
AIANY Around Manhattan: Architecture Boat Tour
Saturday, 2/16, 1:30pm - 4:15pm
Chelsea Piers, Pier 62
This 2-hour-and-45-minute cruise circumnavigates the island of Manhattan via the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers, and is AIA New York’s signature tour experience. Enjoy the views from one of Classic...
Minoru Yamasaki: Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World
Wednesday, 2/13, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architectural historian Dale Allen Gyure will discuss the career and life of Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), best know as the architect of the World Trade Center. Born to Japanese immigrant parents...
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AIANY Around Manhattan: Architecture Boat Tour
Saturday, 2/9, 1:30pm - 4:15pm
Chelsea Piers, Pier 62
This 2-hour-and-45-minute cruise circumnavigates the island of Manhattan via the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers, and is AIA New York’s signature tour experience. Enjoy the views from one of Classic...
Leadership Breakfast with Frances Halsband, FAIA
Friday, 2/8, 8am - 9am
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for a conversation with Frances Halsband, FAIA, Founding Partner, Kliment Halsband Architects. Speaker: Frances Halsband, FAIA Halsband is a founding partner of...
AIANY Around Manhattan: Architecture Boat Tour
Saturday, 2/2, 1:30pm - 4:15pm
Chelsea Piers, Pier 62
This 2-hour-and-45-minute cruise circumnavigates the island of Manhattan via the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers, and is AIA New York’s signature tour experience. Enjoy the views from one of Classic...
Growing Up in a Frank Lloyd Wright House
Thursday, 1/31, 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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Cocktails & Conversation: Hayes Slade and James Slade with Fred Bernstein
Friday, 1/18, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture and design issues. Each...
Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen featuring Jeffrey Sachs
Tuesday, 1/8, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Updated 3/30/2019: Listen to the podcast featuring Jeffrey Sachs on PersonPlaceThing.org. Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on the idea that people are particularly...
Oculus Book Talk: The Man in the Glass House
Monday, 1/7, 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...
Samuel Ratensky Memorial Lecture: Maurice Cox
Tuesday, 12/18, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
The annual Ratensky Lecture was initiated by the AIANY Housing Committee in honor of Samuel Ratensky (1910-1972), an architect and NYC housing official who was responsible for major housing initiatives in...
Energy Modeling Workshop for Project Managers
Friday, 12/14, 2pm - 5pm
Center for Architecture
This course will be offered over the course of two consecutive Fridays: Session One: Friday afternoon, December 14, 2:00pm – 5:00pm Session Two: Friday morning, December 21, 9:00am – 12:00pm...
Remix Resample Remaster: Identity and Making Architecture
Tuesday, 12/11, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Through shared dialogue between with poets, educators, artists, architects and activists, this participatory program will explore how identity and cultural forces can influence the process of how we design, both...
The Birth – Part 2
Wednesday, 12/5, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Birth – Part 2 is the second of two conversations exposing deeper investigations into Hip-Hop Architecture. Each speaker will discuss the origins of their association with the architectural movement...
Deep Energy Reductions in NYC Public School Design
Wednesday, 12/5, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As part of NYC’s 80×50 goal, Local Law 31 of 2016 requires significantly reduced energy use in new city-owned and city-operated buildings. The New York City School Construction Authority (NYCSCA)...
Architecture Across Cultures: The Chinese Vanguard
Monday, 12/3, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The 2008 Beijing Olympics were a seminal moment for Chinese culture on the global stage, one that featured landmarks by Western architects as emblems of contemporary design and served as...
Albert Frey: The Architectural Envoy – Film Screening and Discussion
Friday, 11/30, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Albert Frey, the unpretentious Swiss-born, mid-20th-century architect, was a key figure in the introduction of Corbusian-influenced modernism to the United States. Through his innate curiosity about the American landscape, he...
Energy Analysis and Modeling Tools for Architects
Tuesday, 11/27, 10am - 5pm
Center for Architecture
Using prepared modeled examples, this course will provide a practical understanding of current energy modeling programs, workflows, and analyses for design project team members. Analyses will include early design sensitivity...
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Oculus Book Talk – Exhibit A: Exhibitions That Transformed Architecture
Tuesday, 11/27, 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...
The Birth – Part 1
Monday, 11/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Birth – Part 1 is the first of two conversations exposing deeper investigations into Hip-Hop Architecture. Each speaker will discuss the origins of their association with the architectural movement...
Perspectives on Energy Modeling: A Dialogue Between Architects and Consultants
Tuesday, 11/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Through the lens of two distinct practices and areas of expertise – architecture and sustainability consulting – this lecture and panel discussion will explore how both groups view the energy...
Architects as Activists Primer
Monday, 11/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Traditionally, the planner and architect are seldom seen as advocates for the urban poor, especially with the ongoing competition for so-called starchitects to produce “iconic” buildings for a global market; but...
Perform: Designing for the Performing Arts
Wednesday, 11/14, 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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Sustainability ∩ Resilience Integration IV: Internet of Things and RTEM
Tuesday, 11/13, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This panel discussion will address the basics of Internet of Things (IoT) and Real Time Energy Management (RTEM) systems, incentive programs for implementation, current challenges, opportunities, and trends. Speakers will...
The Trunk Line: The Future Beyond the Gateway Tunnel
Monday, 11/12, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
New York City’s rail travel operates primarily through Pennsylvania Station and Grand Central Terminal. Both function as terminus stations, creating rail transit congestion that impacts the region. Independent transportation advocates from...
Funding the Future Workshop: Resilience Planning Across Public & Private Sectors
Friday, 11/9, 9am - 2pm
Center for Architecture
This course also offers 4 LA CES. Resilience planning across all domains has become a crucial part of national, state, and local discourse in recent years. We know that the...
Sustainable Trends in Architectural Lighting for Educational Environments
Wednesday, 11/7, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Architecture for Education Committee for a discussion of the trends, standards, and technologies that are driving and advancing lighting design in today’s educational and non-educational environments....
Leaning Out VI | _Action: Women Making Moves
Wednesday, 11/7, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
More and more women are slowly ascending to top positions at established firms in design, development, and construction. Some of those who have ascended then take the leap to start...
New York Digital Design Community
Wednesday, 11/7, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
United Technologies Digital Accelerator (55 Water Street, Brooklyn NY 11201)
The New York Digital Design Community is a forum that focuses on showcasing technology-driven design by leading New York individuals, practices, and universities. It is dedicated to disseminating the application...
Civic Impact in Practice
Thursday, 11/1, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the 2018 AIANY Civic Leadership Program team at the Center for Architecture as they showcase a spectrum of current civic engagement practices in New York City. In September 2018, the Civic...
Designing the Future of the Tri-State Region
Monday, 10/29, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This is a related program for the exhibition The Future of the New York Metropolitan Area: The Fourth Regional Plan. RPA’s Fourth Regional Plan proposes how our built and natural...
Workplace Design: Part 2 – Coworking
Tuesday, 10/23, 6pm - 8pm
Knoll Contract Showroom
With the highest concentration of coworking spaces in the country, New York City is a key influencer in this rapidly evolving category. Various typologies of coworking have emerged, serving new...
Responsive Cities: Urban Heat Challenges
Tuesday, 10/23, 6pm - 8pm
John L. Tishman Auditorium, The New School
Organized by Consulate General of Switzerland in New York in collaboration with the AIA Technology Committee, Singapore-ETH Centre, ETH Future Cities Laboratory, Cooling Singapore, ETH Zurich, and The Urban Systems Lab at The New...
Responsive Cities: Citizen Engagement
Monday, 10/22, 6pm - 9pm
Center for Architecture
Responsive cities are the new frontier in human settlement, engaging residents and prospective citizens from the very beginning in the planning and management of their habitats based on smart city...
_Action: No More Words (Viral Voices 2018)
Thursday, 10/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
20 years ago, traditional print journals were the gatekeepers, setting the agenda for big ideas that shaped the culture of architecture. Blogs and e-zines have rapidly changed the nature of...
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2018 NPNY Winner Talk: Agency—Agency in Conversation with Andrés Jaque
Thursday, 10/18, 6pm - 8pm
Benjamin Moore Showroom at New York Design Center
AIANY New Practices Committee along hosts a series of lectures by winning firms of the New Practices New York 2018 Competition. This lecture series will be held at the new Benjamin...
12th Annual Arthur Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture: Odile Decq
Thursday, 10/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee presents its annual lecture on excellence in museum design, this year featuring Odile Decq of Studio Odile Decq. Odile Decq is a French architect and...
Leadership Breakfast with Andrea Lamberti, AIA NCARB
Friday, 10/12, 8am - 9am
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for a conversation with Andrea Lamberti, AIA, NCARB, partner at Rafael Viñoly Architects. SpeakerAndrea Lamberti, AIA, NCARB, Partner, Rafael Viñoly Architects During her...
J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture | Attaining Wakandan Utopia
Friday, 10/12, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the New York Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (nycobaNOMA) and the AIANY Diversity & Inclusion Committee for “Attaining Wakandan Utopia: Representation, Place-Making and the Diaspora,” presented...
RPA, MPC and SPUR Discuss 20 Years of Regional Change
Thursday, 10/11, 8:30am - 10am
Center for Architecture
This program is related to the exhibition The Future of the New York Metropolitan Area: The Fourth Regional Plan. Chicagoland’s Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC), the Bay Area’s San Francisco Bay Area Planning...
Rebuilding Confidence: The Design, Safety, and Security of 1 World Trade Center
Thursday, 10/11, 11am - 2pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the engaging lunch discussion Rebuilding Confidence: The Design, Safety, and Security of One World Trade Center. Presenter Nicole Dosso, FAIA, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), will...
Playground Design: Inclusion, Independence, and Engagement
Tuesday, 10/9, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Playgrounds fulfill a critical role in urban schools and neighborhoods, making space for physical and social wellbeing. The design of playgrounds goes far beyond equipment, incorporating planting and natural elements,...
Zero Waste Challenge: Results
Tuesday, 10/9, 8:30am - 10:30am
Center for Architecture
The Zero Waste Design Guidelines address the crucial role that design plays in achieving New York City’s ambitious goal, outlined in OneNYC, to send zero waste to landfills by 2030. Created with...
AIANY Industrial Waterway Tour: Freshkills Park in Staten Island
Saturday, 10/6, 9:45am - 1pm
Come witness one of the most remarkable land reclamation projects in history. This extended AIANY architecture boat tour travels to Staten Island and offers a limited “backstage pass” to experience...
Close to the Edge: Hip-Hop Architecture Symposium
Saturday, 10/6, 1pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a symposium for Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip Hop Architecture. Presentations and a panel discussion will be followed by a workshop by BlackSpace...
2018 NPNY Winner Talk: MABU in Conversation with Beatrice Galilee
Thursday, 10/4, 6pm - 8pm
Benjamin Moore Showroom at New York Design Center
The AIANY New Practices Committee along hosts a series of lectures by winning firms of the New Practices New York 2018 Competition. This lecture series will be held at the new...
Collapse: Climate, Cities & Culture
Wednesday, 10/3, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Global Design NYU (GDNYU) formed COLLAPSE: CLIMATE, CITIES & CULTURE, a traveling international exhibition between New York and Berlin open to the public that focuses on the design community’s response...
A Knowledge Gap: What you Need to Know About Sourcing Endangered Woods – 12:30pm
Wednesday, 10/3, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Center for Architecture
Architects and designers across the country are invited to participate in the second annual National Day of Learning. For decades, architects and designers have specified wood to bring warmth and...
A Knowledge Gap: What you Need to Know About Sourcing Endangered Woods – 3:00pm
Wednesday, 10/3, 3pm - 4pm
Center for Architecture
Architects and designers across the country are invited to participate in the second annual National Day of Learning. For decades, architects and designers have specified wood to bring warmth and...
In the Dark: Emergency Lighting Requirements
Tuesday, 10/2, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This event will discuss the current emergency lighting requirements in the NYC Building Code, including egress illumination, options for emergency power systems (generator, inverter, battery pack, EM lights), challenges when...
Cocktails & Conversation: Signe Nielsen and Molly Bourne with David Burney
Friday, 9/28, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Each program includes...
2018 NPNY Winner Talk: NHDM in Conversation with Sean Anderson
Thursday, 9/27, 6pm - 8pm
Benjamin Moore Showroom at New York Design Center
The AIANY New Practices Committee along hosts a series of lectures by winning firms of the New Practices New York 2018 Competition. This lecture series will be held at the new...
NYU in Brooklyn: Designing a New Academic Frontier
Monday, 9/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As part of New York City’s Applied Science Initiative, NYU and the NYC Economic Development Corporation partnered to revitalize and transform 370 Jay Street, the former headquarters of the MTA...
AIANY Industrial Waterway Tour: Freshkills Park in Staten Island
Saturday, 9/22, 9:45am - 1pm
Come witness one of the most remarkable land reclamation projects in history. This extended AIANY architecture boat tour travels to Staten Island and offers a limited “backstage pass” to experience...
Planning for Sustainability at the Neighborhood Scale
Saturday, 9/22, 9:30am - 4pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Planning and Urban Design Committee invites all to participate in a panel discussion exploring sustainability at the local level. Practicing sustainability on a neighborhood scale creates opportunities for community members, municipal stakeholders, technical...
Spaces of Disappearance: The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition
Friday, 9/21, 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...
Public Private Partnership Case Study: Cary Leeds Tennis Center
Friday, 9/21, 8am - 10am
Center for Architecture
Hailed by The New York Times as “one of the city’s best new works of public architecture”, the award-winning Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning includes a two-story, 12,000-square-foot clubhouse...
2018 NPNY Winner Talk: P.R.O. in Conversation with Tod Williams
Thursday, 9/20, 6pm - 8pm
Benjamin Moore Showroom at New York Design Center
The AIANY New Practices Committee hosts a series of lectures by winning firms of the New Practices New York 2018 Competition. This lecture series will be held at the new Benjamin...
Architects, As Required: Exploring the Periphery of Design
Thursday, 9/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the 2018 AIANY Civic Leadership Program as we explore alternative placemaking processes with guests who are leading conversations about the democratization of the built environment. We will examine how...
Building Resilience: NYC’s Distributed Energy Future, Part 1
Wednesday, 9/19, 4pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Meeting NYC’s Climate and Resilience Goals with DERs Achieving climate goals and greater resilience requires integrated systems-level thinking, particularly when it comes to energy demand, distribution, and supply. How can...
Building Resilience: NYC’s Distributed Energy Future, Part 2
Wednesday, 9/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Integrating DERs into Building and Campus-Scale Projects NYC’s energy landscape is changing and the development of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are critical to meeting our climate and resilience goals at the urban scale. ...
Resilient Cities: Equitable, Collaborative and Connected
Tuesday, 9/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cities like Boston and New York City have revealed the lasting consequences of inequity, effects that can no longer be ignored. This event will explore the complicated intersection of architecture,...
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Instagram Strategies
Tuesday, 9/18, 6pm - 8pm
Cosentino City Manhattan, A&D Building
This event will introduce how social media plays into an overall marketing strategy, unpacking differences in content and application strategies for sole practitioners, mid-size firms, and large firms. Take a deeper...
Housing as Intervention: Architecture Towards Social Equity
Monday, 9/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This event was shared on Facebook Live. Watch the video here. In the face of persistent social inequities worldwide, how can architects make a meaningful contribution? Housing’s primary position in...
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Creating More Housing without New Construction
Friday, 9/14, 8am - 10am
Center for Architecture
This program is related to the exhibition The Future of the New York Metropolitan Area: The Fourth Regional Plan. Meeting our need for housing in New York is tough. We need to...
Building Science Days 2018: Defining and Implementing High Performance
Thursday, 9/13, 8:30am - 5pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Building Enclosure Council for two consecutive seminars with renowned building scientists Dr. John Straube and Dr. Joseph Lstiburek. With their combined expertise, Straube and Lstiburek will help attendees understand...
Tech in the Yard: Brooklyn Navy Yard Tour
Wednesday, 9/12, 5pm - 7pm
SITU Fabrication
The Brooklyn Navy Yard is one of New York City’s fastest growing centers of technology, design, and creative manufacturing. From 1801 to 1966, the yard served as the US Navy’s...
Building Science Days 2018: Defining and Implementing High Performance
Wednesday, 9/12, 8:30am - Thursday, 9/13, 5pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Building Enclosure Council for two consecutive seminars with renowned building scientists Dr. John Straube and Dr. Joseph Lstiburek. With their combined expertise, Straube and Lstiburek will help attendees understand...
Diversity X Design Breakfast Series: Infrastructure with Building Leaders
Tuesday, 9/11, 8am - 10am
Center for Architecture
Join us for another inspiring installment of the Diversity X Design Breakfast Series with Amy Macdonald, who will discuss infrastructure and leadership in engineering, as well as actionable steps in...
_Action: New Ecological Prototypes
Thursday, 9/6, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
At times impatient with the pace of industrial innovation in producing smart, low-carbon, responsive building products and systems, designers are now jumping into the arena with do-it-yourself research and development...
Fall Film Social: Living Salk Institute
Wednesday, 9/5, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Social Science and Architecture Committee for a special documentary film screening and post-screening discussion with the filmmakers of Living Salk Institute. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies,...
Understanding New York City Agency Contracts & More: For All Design and Construction Professionals
Thursday, 8/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join nycoba|NOMA at the Center for Architecture on Thursday, August 23rd for “Understanding New York City Agency Contracts & More: For All Design and Construction Professionals.” Topics include NYC design...
Private Tour: Hide and Seek by Dream the Combine at MoMA PS1
Monday, 8/6, 6pm - 8pm
MoMA PS1
Join the AIANY Interiors Committee for a private tour of MoMA PS1’s Young Architect’s Program’s (YAP) temporary outdoor installation. This year’s installation is Hide & Seek by Jennifer Newsom and...
Face of a Nation: What Happened to the World’s Fair?
Thursday, 8/2, 2pm - 4pm
Regal Lynbrook (321 Merrick Rd)
Feature Documentary / Long Beach Premiere / Filmmaker Q&A An idealistic American architect struggles to help her dream alive as she journeys to discover why America abandoned World’s Fairs. USA...
Roundtable: A Candid Dialogue on Pamphlet Architecture 36: Buoyant Clarity
Monday, 7/30, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the launch of Pamphlet Architecture 36: Buoyant Clarity, the latest edition to Princeton Architectural Press’s celebrated Pamphlet Architecture 36 series, which explores groundbreaking, contemporary lines of thought surrounding...
AIANY Industrial Waterway Tour: Freshkills Park in Staten Island
Saturday, 7/28, 9:45am - 1pm
Come witness one of the most remarkable land reclamation projects in history. This extended AIANY architecture boat tour travels to Staten Island and offers a limited “backstage pass” to experience...
Memorial Visions: Fifteen Years After the 9-11 Competition
Wednesday, 7/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This lecture will reflect on how designers create memorials in the wake of 2003’s 9/11 memorial competition. The past fifteen years have been marked by numerous tragedies. The need remember and process...
Tour of 1 Hotel, Brooklyn Bridge Park
Wednesday, 7/25, 6pm - 8pm
1 Hotel
Join the AIANY Interiors Committee for a tour of 1 Hotel, Brooklyn Bridge Park designed by INC with Marvel Architects. This structure, a visual praise poem dedicated to Brooklyn’s waterfront,...
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Robotic Innovations: A Discussion of Research with Industrial Robots for Design
Thursday, 7/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Robotics! We’ve heard a lot about the topic, as well as how automation might revolutionize, threaten, disrupt, or transform AEC professions. To better understand how robotics might shape the future...
Outside the Boundary: An Architectural Practice Panel
Wednesday, 7/18, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Women in Architecture Committee presents an architectural practice panel focusing on the work of sole practitioners who combine their passion for architecture with interests outside their firms; giving...
ENYA Beyond the Boards: ODA
Tuesday, 7/17, 6:30pm - 8pm
ODA
The AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) is proud to announce the next presentation in the Beyond the Boards series. ODA leadership will profile their firm and design process before focusing on several current...
AIANY Industrial Waterway Tour: Freshkills Park in Staten Island
Saturday, 7/14, 9:45am - 1pm
Come witness one of the most remarkable land reclamation projects in history. This extended AIANY architecture boat tour travels to Staten Island and offers a limited “backstage pass” to experience...
Dining Detritus: Zero Waste Restaurants
Thursday, 7/12, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This is a related program for the exhibition Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City. Can design help restaurants and food service facilities go zero waste? In the third...
New York Digital Design Community
Wednesday, 7/11, 6:30pm - 9pm
ARUP (77 Water Street)
The New York Digital Design Community is a forum that focuses on showcasing technology-driven design by leading New York individuals, practices and universities. It is dedicated to disseminating the application...
Building Yugoslavia, 1948-1980
Wednesday, 7/11, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In the framework of the exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980, opening at the Museum of Modern Art on July 15, architects represented in the exhibition will...
Packer Early Learning Center Tour
Wednesday, 7/11, 6pm - 8pm
Packer Early Learning Center (100 Clinton Street)
Located on the edge of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, 100 Clinton Street is a two-story glazed brick and terracotta building. Built in 1923, it was subsequently purchased by Packer...
Zone Greener: Facilitating Solar Adoption
Tuesday, 7/10, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This course has been approved for 1.5 GBCI credits. In 2012, New York City adopted a package of amendments to the NYC Zoning Resolution, collectively called Zone Green, to facilitate more...
Raymond Farm Center Symposium: DETAILS, details
Saturday, 6/30, 8:30am - 6pm
Raymond Farm Center for Living Arts & Design
Residential Architecture Assembled/the Prose & Poetry of Construction In celebration of the 80th Anniversary of the Publication of Antonin and Noémi Raymond’s Architectural Details (1938), the Raymond Farm Center for...
Waste & Other Infrastructure: Discovering the Invisible City
Thursday, 6/28, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Infrastructure is banal and wondrous, ubiquitous and hidden. The task of presenting it to a general public—in galleries, publications, or events—comes with a unique set of challenges, distinct from architecture...
Oculus Book Talk: The Design of Childhood
Monday, 6/25, 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...
AIANY Industrial Waterway Tour: Freshkills Park in Staten Island
Sunday, 6/24, 9:45am - 1pm
Come witness one of the most remarkable land reclamation projects in history. This extended AIANY architecture boat tour travels to Staten Island and offers a limited “backstage pass” to experience...
Making Place: Downtown Brooklyn
Saturday, 6/23, 10:30am - 6pm
Various Locations in downtown Brooklyn
A wave of new development is dramatically reshaping Downtown Brooklyn. On June 23, Open House New York will open more than a dozen buildings and sites to give you a...
A’18 Conference on Architecture
Wednesday, 6/20, 8am - Saturday, 6/23, 10pm
New York City
In 1857, thirteen architects met in New York to form an organization to promote architects and architecture. The AIA was born. Ten years later, the AIA held its first annual...
Workshop: Negotiation is Your Power Tool
Tuesday, 6/19, 6:30pm - 8pm
Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA)
AIANY Women in Architecture Committee (WIA) is pleased to present Negotiation is Your Power Tool, a special workshop to improve your negotiating skills. Would you like to become a more...
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[CANCELED] Architectural Interior Solutions Tour and Sustainable Wallcoverings Course for 1.0 HSW/LU Credit
Tuesday, 6/19, 9am - 2pm
Duggal Visual Solutions Innovation Lab Showroom at 63 Flushing Ave. (Brooklyn Navy Yard)
This event has been canceled. For future AIA CE courses, please contact with your interest Jeanne Tassone at jeanne@duggal.com. Join us at Duggal Visual Solutions for breakfast, a tour of two...
Equity X Design Mappy Hour: Sketching Equitable Workplaces
Monday, 6/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Inclusive design has been a hot topic since the discrimination of traditional public restrooms made its way onto the political agenda last year. But inclusive design principles can and should...
Designing Waste
Saturday, 6/16, 1pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a symposium for Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City, an exhibition based on the Zero Waste Design Guidelines. Designing Waste explores how architects, designers, and...
A Conversation with John Burgee: Film Screening and Discussion
Wednesday, 6/13, 6:30pm - 9pm
The General Society Library
A Conversation with John Burgee: The Architecture of Johnson/Burgee is a documentary exploring the life and work of American architect John Burgee. Burgee, one of the founders of the influential firm...
Sustainability ∩ Resilience Integration II: Metrics
Wednesday, 6/13, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Metrics of Resilience and the RELi Rating System Sustainability and resilience are two sides of the same coin. When combined with regeneration, civility, and health, they create an emergent property...
Mass Timber: Design and Research
Thursday, 6/7, 5pm - 6:30pm
Building Energy Exchange
Please join BE-Ex to celebrate the publication of Mass Timber: Design and Research with author Susan Jones, one of the foremost voices in the mass timber dialogue today. A widely-discussed contemporary construction...
Annual Hamptons Tour: George Nelson + Rottet Studio House
Saturday, 6/2, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Rottet Studio House
Join the AIANY Interiors Committee in Montauk, NY for the Annual Hamptons Tour. This year’s tour will take participants to Lauren Rottet’s home, originally designed by George Nelson and Gordon Chadwick, and...
Cocktails & Conversation: Lee Mindel and Joseph Giovannini
Friday, 6/1, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Each program includes...
NYLON #13: Homelessness
Thursday, 5/31, 8am - 10am
Center for Architecture
With over 160,000 people in London without permanent accommodation and over 63,000 in the New York City municipal shelter system, how are these global cities tackling homelessness and providing innovative...
Improving Your Commute: A Look at the RPA’s Fourth Regional Plan
Wednesday, 5/30, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hosts a panel discussion on the Regional Plan Association’s Fourth Regional Plan. The plan contains a series of ideas to create a more dynamic,...
Got License?
Tuesday, 5/22, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
Join representatives from the NYS Board for Architecture and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) for “Got License?” The program will cover NCARB and NYS updates, including the transition...
Lighting With People In Mind
Monday, 5/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Preeminent lighting designers will discuss the differences between lighting for safety and for feeling, developing a vocabulary about lit space, and the surprising ways that lighting carries symbolic meaning about...
Tour of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Sunday, 5/20, 10am - 11:30am
Grace Auditorium
This one-and-a-half hour private guided walking tour will educate attendees about the historic and modern architecture of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), as well as the groundbreaking biomedical research taking...
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The Complete Package: Specifications for Steel Stud Masonry Veneer Wall Systems
Thursday, 5/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In today’s high-performance building market, specifying materials that work together as a complete wall system is more critical than ever. Systems can help designers meet new energy codes, reduce costs,...
2018 Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture: LEVENBETTS
Thursday, 5/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The annual Oberfield lecture was founded as a memorial to Gil Oberfiled, AIA, former member and chair of the AIANY Interiors Committee. The lecture brings to the podium speakers whose...
Effective Building Enclosure Designs & Strategies
Tuesday, 5/15, 8:15am - 4:30pm
Center for Architecture
A day of presentations and CEU’s revolving around effective building enclosure designs & strategies. Free admission for all design professional Complimentary continental breakfast & lunch provided Space is limited to...
Oculus Book Talk: The New Landscape Declaration
Monday, 5/14, 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...
Mass Timber: Benefits and Barriers
Thursday, 5/10, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Mass timber is quickly becoming a viable construction option for tall buildings due to its strength, beauty, and carbon sequestration potential. Come hear from a diverse panel of professionals as...
Quality Affordable Housing in NYC
Wednesday, 5/9, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
NOTE: A digital copy of Designing New York: Quality Affordable Housing is available for download here. Since Mayor de Blasio launched the Housing New York plan in 2014, New York City has greatly...
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Historic Terracotta: Stabilize, Restore or Replace?
Monday, 5/7, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This panel will discuss why terracotta may get a bad rap in many of New York’s historic buildings. It will review how the NYC Department of Buildings differentiates one building...
Mental Health in Justice Facilities
Thursday, 5/3, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This roundtable discussion will focus on planning and designing for mental health populations in justice facilities. A group of multi-disciplinary experts representing diverse perspectives will describe the complex issues around...
Workplace Design: Part 1
Wednesday, 5/2, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Every space tells a story. For companies, to what degree does marketing their physical work environment attract talent and retain employees in this era of both highly amenitized and deliberately nomadic...
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Cocktails & Conversation: John Ruble & Mark Simon on Charles Moore
Friday, 4/27, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversations is series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Each program includes a...
Housing Action: Innovating for Affordable Living
Thursday, 4/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
During the era of Modernism, architects led the charge in addressing housing shortage, devising innovative formal, technical, and organizational strategies for mass housing at a time of rapid urbanization and...
Rooftop Solar Panels: Installation and Access
Thursday, 4/26, 4pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Building Codes Committee for a presentation on solar panel installation and rooftop access. Representatives from the NYC Department of Buildings and the NYC Fire Department will cover topics including...
Tour and Centenary Celebration of Paul Rudolph
Wednesday, 4/25, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Modulightor Building
Join the AIANY Interiors Committee for a tour of a sleekly modernist apartment designed by the iconic architect Paul Rudolph. The tour will include a walk-though of his Modulightor showroom...
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Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Architecture and Landscape
Monday, 4/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, located twenty miles north of Copenhagen, Denmark, is famous for its enchanting seaside setting, distinctive architecture, and welcoming, unpretentious atmosphere. Constructed around a park,...
Building Tour: Columbia University School of Nursing
Friday, 4/20, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Columbia University School of Nursing
The new Columbia University School of Nursing is a state-of-the-art educational facility at the Columbia University Medical Center campus in upper Manhattan. The design focuses on creating a bright, welcoming...
Community Engagement: Creating Success Where It Counts
Thursday, 4/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How can architects, planners, builders, and building managers ensure good design while meaningfully addressing communities about which there are many assumptions? What if buildings could make communities stronger and more...
OUALALOU + CHOI: Territories of Disobedience
Wednesday, 4/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architects today play a marginal role in the production of built environments, often entering a project long after its critical limits have been defined. OUALALOU + CHOI seeks to reestablish...
Speed Presentations Edition 9 – Wellness
Wednesday, 4/18, 6pm - 8pm
Steelcase
The AIANY Interiors Committee is pleased to announce “Speed Presentations Edition 9 – Wellness” presented in conjunction with the AIANY Health Facilities Committee. Ten New York-based architects will present their...
Mastering Manhattan: An Architectural Showdown
Friday, 4/13, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In just under three months, New York City architects will welcome thousands of colleagues from across the country for the AIA Conference on Architecture (A’18). In preparation for this momentous...
Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Data
Monday, 4/9, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architects have been tasked with integrating qualitative and quantitative data sources more frequently in the design and optimization of their work. Measures range from financial to ecological. Yet social and human environmental...
AERIAL FUTURES: Urban Constellations
Friday, 4/6, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In cities where demand for air travel is high, it’s not uncommon to find two, three or even—as is increasingly the case in some metropolitan areas—six airports. These multiple-airport cities...
Michael Murphy: Justice is Beauty
Wednesday, 4/4, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Can buildings heal and promote justice in our divided communities? How can we use design tools to create a healthier community and a more just world? MASS Design Group’s Co-founder...
The Road Less Taken: Re-Emergence of Career, Technical, & Adult Education Spaces
Wednesday, 4/4, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The return of high‐tech manufacturing to the United States, combined with a paucity of trained professionals in technical and engineering fields, has driven demand for career-specific training. Educational and other...
Zone Greener: Higher-Efficiency Wall Systems
Tuesday, 4/3, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In 2012, the City of New York adopted a package of amendments to the NYC Zoning Resolution, collectively called Zone Green, to facilitate more sustainable and energy-efficient design. Zone Green...
Performance in NYC: Designing for a New Generation
Monday, 4/2, 7pm - 8pm
Hayes Theater
How does the design of performance space impact the creation of new work? How can that space transform the experience of the viewer? This program will look at how recent...
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The Habits of Entrepreneurs: The Intersection of Design and Hacker Culture
Friday, 3/30, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
As emerging professionals in a collaborative field, we are constantly seeking new and better ways to communicate. The ENYA Committee and Architecture Practice Talks (APT) have invited Bluecadet’s Brad Baer...
The Amazing Career of Nathaniel A. Owings (1903–1984)
Monday, 3/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
When Nathaniel Owings died, the Washington Post wrote that the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was his finest creation. SOM is, however, but one piece of an extraordinary career. Gordon...
Planning the Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930
Monday, 3/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In the context of the exhibition The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930, opening at the Americas Society on March 21st, co-curators Idurre Alonso and Maristella Casciato, as well as architecture...
Unsung Protagonists: The Power of Women in 21st Century Architecture
Thursday, 3/15, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In honor of Women’s History Month, the AIANY Diversity and Inclusion Committee is convening a panel of esteemed women in the design industry to discuss their contributions to the built...
Sustainability ∩ Resilience | Integration Series 1
Wednesday, 3/7, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How can our projects better meet both climate change adaptation and mitigation goals? How can our profession more proactively discuss issues of risk related to both objectives with our clients?...
Public Space: Crossroads of Art, Architecture, and Community
Tuesday, 3/6, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee presents a panel presentation and discussion on strategies for including public art in public spaces. An esteemed panel will present ways in which public art...
Cocktails & Conversation: Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
Friday, 3/2, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
This series of dialogues about design joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Friday night is not “Friday Night” without...
Oculus Book Talk: The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
Thursday, 3/1, 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...