Continuing Education
Frances Bronet: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
Monday, 12/9, 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...
AIANY x RDI Retail Design Excellence
Monday, 12/2, 6pm - 8pm
Gensler, 1700 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, New York 10019
Celebrating Retail Design Join both the AIANY Interiors Committee and Retail Design Institute (RDI) NY Chapter as they host presentations by New York firms for projects recognized in the Retail...
The New Social Security: Co-Housing for Seniors
Tuesday, 11/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This panel explores examples of co-housing for seniors in urban environments and stresses the role of design in discussions about housing alternatives for seniors. The program will also explore how...
Preservation of Traditional Houses in Jamaica
Saturday, 11/23, 3:30pm - 5pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the screening of Rockstone and Fire, directed by Courtney Coke, Founding Member of the Wattle and Red Earth Collective. The documentary illustrates an approach to preservation anchored by architectural landmarks,...
TORCH Mentorship Program – The Business of Architecture
Tuesday, 11/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Business of Architecture: What they Didn’t Teach You In School What are the important factors in running a successful architecture practice? The fifth panel of the 2019 TORCH Mentorship...
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Overcoming Carbon Form
Tuesday, 11/19, 6pm - 9pm
Center for Architecture
Please Join AIA New York and Log, a journal publication by Anyone Corporation, for “Overcoming Carbon Form.” This round-table discussion serves as the launch for Log 47: Overcoming Carbon Form, a guest-edited...
Case Studies in Preservation and Adaptive Reuse for Academic Buildings
Monday, 11/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Learning Curve: Case Studies in Preservation and Adaptive Reuse for Academic Buildings Restoration, preservation, adaptive reuse, reconstruction and addition, all share the same limitations inherent to working within existing structures,...
The Glass House as Queer Space
Friday, 11/15, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, famously sheltered its architect Philip Johnson and his partner, the curator David Whitney, in a relationship that began before the Stonewall rebellion. A...
The Future of the NYC Waterfront: Jamaica Bay
Thursday, 11/14, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Conservation and DevelopmentJamaica Bay, New York City’s only national park, is consistently at the center of debates around conservation and development. Being a national park in the largest city in...
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Fringe City Foundations: Hudson River Valley
Thursday, 11/14, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a related program for the exhibition Fringe Cities: Legacies of Urban Renewal in the Small American City. Moderated by Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group, this panel...
James Polshek: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
Wednesday, 11/13, 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...
Vote! Process and Place
Monday, 11/11, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Serving as a polling site is a unique use for a building, only occurring on a few days each year. Architects design polling sites indirectly, rarely knowing that a project...
TWA Hotel Tour
Wednesday, 11/6, 5pm - 6:30pm
TWA Hotel, John F. Kennedy Airport
Join the AIANY Interiors Committee at the John F. Kennedy Airport for a tour of the newly completed TWA Hotel. The tour will include the restored Saarinen-designed beloved building (a...
Madison Avenue: High Fashion and Historic Preservation
Saturday, 11/2, 1pm - 3pm
Meet at the Madison Avenue BID offices, 29 East 61 Street, 3rd floor
Meet at the Madison Avenue BID offices, 29 East 61 Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10065. Join AIANY and the Madison Avenue BID as we discover the history behind...
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AIANY CRAN Fall House Party
Saturday, 11/2, 10am - 2pm
Olnick Spanu House & Magazzino Italian Art
AIANY Custom Residential Architects Network is hosting their 2019 Fall House Party at Olnick Spanu House, designed by Alberto Campo Baeza. A tour of the home and landscape will be...
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Engaging Barriers: Physical Safety Measures Reshaping the Public Realm
Wednesday, 10/30, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join AIANY’s Civic Leadership Program (CLP) at the Center for Architecture for the first of two public CLP events in 2019. An Information Session and Happy Hour will take place at 5pm preceding the talk,...
Thermal Bridge Modeling for Architects
Friday, 10/25, 1pm - 5pm
Building Energy Exchange, 31 Chambers Street, Suite 609, New York, NY 10007
Thermal bridging from concrete or metal elements such as steel studs or concrete balconies can significantly reduce the effectiveness of insulation, create cold surfaces where mold can grow, and can...
Building Health: The Next Frontier
Tuesday, 10/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Current construction practices lead to buildings with short lifespans made from products that contain a range of toxic chemicals, whose toxic afterlives can span millennia, that pollute our homes and...
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The Future of the NYC Waterfront: The Lower East River
Monday, 10/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Access and DevelopmentThe Lower East River has been at the center of the New York City’s development and increased public waterfront access for decades. From the development of Brooklyn Bridge Park...
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The Power of Public Space in a Digital Age
Thursday, 10/17, 3pm - 6pm
United Nations, Conference Room 11, 46th St & 1st Ave
Due to UN building regulations, registration for this event closes on October 10. Early registration is encouraged. See more details at the bottom of the page.* Affiliated with UN Habitat...
J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture | Planning to Stay
Wednesday, 10/16, 6pm - 8pm
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall - The New School
Join the New York Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (nycoba | NOMA) and the AIANY Diversity & Inclusion Committee for the 2019 J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture....
Naturalness: Design in the Anthropocene – 3:00pm
Wednesday, 10/16, 3pm - 4pm
Center for Architecture
Architects and designers across the country are invited to participate in the third annual National Day of Learning. With mounting evidence that we are entering a whole new geological epoch—one...
Naturalness: Design in the Anthropocene – 12:30pm
Wednesday, 10/16, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Center for Architecture
Architects and designers across the country are invited to participate in the third annual National Day of Learning. With mounting evidence that we are entering a whole new geological epoch—one...
AIANY Urban Ecology Boat Tour
Wednesday, 10/16, 1:45pm - 4:30pm
Chelsea Piers, Pier 62
Join AIANY and Classic Harbor Line on this special full circumnavigation of Manhattan, and explore green infrastructure designed to both restore the health and productivity of the region’s marine ecology and...
13th Annual Arthur Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture: Thomas Phifer
Tuesday, 10/15, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee presents its annual lecture on excellence in museum design, this year featuring Thomas Phifer, FAIA, of Thomas Phifer and Partners. Thomas Phifer founded his New York...
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The BQE in Context: Communities, Infrastructure and Public Space
Monday, 10/7, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This session will serve to educate a wider audience about the 1.5-mile Triple Cantilever section of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE), built in the 1940s by Robert Moses. This section...
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...
Madison Avenue: High Fashion and Historic Preservation
Saturday, 10/5, 1pm - 3pm
Meet at the Madison Avenue BID offices, 29 East 61 Street, 3rd floor
Meet at the Madison Avenue BID offices, 29 East 61 Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10065. Join AIANY and the Madison Avenue BID as we discover the history behind...
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How Low Can We Go – Historic Preservation and Carbon Reduction
Thursday, 9/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Engaging Strategies For the Preservation of Existing and Historic Buildings in the Age of Resilience and Increasingly Low Carbon Targets Join us for a panel discussion that explores the intersection...
The Soane Fellowship Lecture – Architects Abroad: Seeing, Drawing, and Traveling
Monday, 9/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Sir John Soane found travel generative to his foundations as an architect, collector, and educator. As a young man, he drew “by the stealth of moonlight” in Pompeii and, near...
Project Tour: Brownstone Townhouse Renovation
Saturday, 9/21, 10am - 1pm
125 West 87th Street
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture (WIA) for a tour of a brownstone townhouse renovation in the Upper West Side, hosted by WIA members Ada Ko of Ogawa Depardon Architects and...
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Architectural Conservation in Asia: National Experiences and Practice
Friday, 9/20, 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...
Embodied Carbon Network New York: Kickoff Event and Workshop
Thursday, 9/19, 1pm - 3pm
Building Energy Exchange, 31 Chambers Street, Suite 609, New York, NY 10007
Join us for the kickoff event for the New York Chapter of the Embodied Carbon Network, a series of organized events to empower building industry professionals to advance towards the...
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Embodied Carbon Part 1: The Blind Spot of the Building Industry
Thursday, 9/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Our industry mostly ignores embodied carbon, even though it will account for almost half of total new global construction emissions between now and 2050. This lecture will provide an overview...
Building Science Days 2019: High Performance, Energy Efficiency & Sustainability
Thursday, 9/19, 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...
The Architect’s Challenge: Work/Family Balance
Wednesday, 9/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
We are pleased to announce that Billie Tsien and Tod Williams have recently joined as panelists for this program. “The Architect’s Challenge: Work/Life Balance” is a behind-the-scenes professional practice panel organized by the AIANY...
Building Science Days 2019: High Performance, Energy Efficiency & Sustainability
Wednesday, 9/18, 8:30am - Thursday, 9/19, 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...
Building Enclosure Excellence and How to Achieve it
Wednesday, 9/18, 6pm - 8pm
Building Energy Exchange, 31 Chambers Street, Suite 609, New York, NY 10007
A panel of experts will present and discuss design and construction solutions to common building envelope conditions in multifamily and commercial buildings. They will address the considerable challenges faced by...
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Reinventing Thomas Jefferson’s Rotunda
Tuesday, 9/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a panel organized by the AIANY Historic Buildings Committee. Project leads from John G. Waite Associates, Architects and additional project team members on the preservation and...
TORCH Mentorship Program – Community Engagement and Social Responsibility
Tuesday, 9/17, 6pm - 8pm
Häfele Showroom, 20 West 22nd Street, Suite 201, New York, NY 10010
Community Engagement and Social Responsibility: Learning Leadership How do architects participate in the community outside of their firms? The fourth panel of the 2019 TORCH Mentorship program explores how architects...
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Defining Design Excellence in the Era of Climate Change
Monday, 9/16, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
With the recent adoption of the AIA Resolution for Urgent and Sustained Climate Action, “design excellence” for our profession has been redefined to align with the COTE Top Ten Measures....
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Cocktails & Conversation: Wendy Evans Joseph and Rosalie Genevro
Friday, 9/13, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
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 + Spatial Agency: Autonomy in the New Urban Interface
Thursday, 9/12, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Urban mobility has always been mediated by layers of technologies, services, and organizations, but today’s accelerated transitions to digital platforms heighten the urgency for critical perspectives on the practical effects...
Big Ideas: Finalists’ Presentations
Monday, 9/9, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a related program for the exhibition Big Ideas Small Lots. The finalists of the Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC competition, organized by AIA New York and the NYC...
Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen Featuring Signe Nielsen
Thursday, 9/5, 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...
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...
Going Somewhere In-Between
Wednesday, 8/14, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Organized by the AIANY New Practices Committee, “Alone Together & Somewhere In-Between: Modes of Practice in Contemporary Architecture” is a three-part series of panel discussions delving deeper into the way...
Madison Avenue: High Fashion and Historic Preservation
Thursday, 8/1, 5pm - 7pm
Meet at the Madison Avenue BID offices, 29 East 61 Street, 3rd floor
Meet at the Madison Avenue BID offices, 29 East 61 Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10065. Join AIANY and the Madison Avenue BID as we discover the history behind...
Experiments in Design: 20 Years of the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program
Tuesday, 7/30, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Since its inception twenty years ago by MoMA and MoMA PS1, the Young Architects Program (YAP) has been committed to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design a temporary...
Plaza Life Revisited: Field Guide Release
Thursday, 7/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the release of Field Guide to Life in Urban Plazas. The guide outlines a research effort focused on New York City, the primary location of urbanist William...
Summer Celebration at COOKFOX Architects: Biophilic Design, Health & Wellness
Wednesday, 7/24, 6pm - 8pm
COOKFOX Architects at 250 W 57th Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10107
Interior design leaders from COOKFOX Architects will present the work of COOKFOX through the lens of high-performance and biophilic design. COOKFOX has built their practice around a critical goal: to create...
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Designing New York: Prefabrication in the Public Realm
Tuesday, 7/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a roundtable discussion to address the future of prefabrication in New York City, with a focus on how prefabrication practices can be applied to small-scale urban infrastructure...
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PERSPECTIVE USA 2019
Thursday, 7/18, 8am - 6:30pm
New York Marriot Downtown
Perspective USA is an annual forum on Architecture and Interior Design organized by THE PLAN ( Gruppo Maggioli), launched in 2013 and now at its 6th consecutive annual edition. Taking...
Integrated Design Services for the Digital Age
Thursday, 7/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This presentation will focus on the practice of collaborative “integration” in research, during design, via project delivery, and in verification of project performance. The firms of Kieran Timberlake and BurroHappold...
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Going Together
Thursday, 7/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Organized by the AIANY New Practices Committee, “Alone, Together & Somewhere In-Between: Modes of Practice in Contemporary Architecture” is a three-part series of panel discussions delving deeper into the way...
Climate Change and Health through the Lens of the Built Environment
Wednesday, 7/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This event is sold out. To add your name to the waitlist, please click here Join us for a panel discussion on the effects of climate change on health, and...
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Visible City: Reading Transportation and Infrastructure Systems
Tuesday, 7/16, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Some of the most fascinating and frustrating aspects of transportation infrastructure often emerge when trying to get a grasp on large systems. Whether the need for understanding takes place while...
ENYA Beyond the Boards: The Midtown Mile
Tuesday, 7/16, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
SOM, 14 Wall St 25th Flr, New York, NY 10005
“The Midtown Mile” is the next presentation in the AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA)‘s “Beyond the Boards” series. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill‘s leadership will profile their firm and design process before focusing...
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Topiary Tango Talk
Monday, 7/15, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
What is topiary and why are we talking about it? Join us this evening for a playfully serious look into the horticultural practice of trimming bushes into geometric shapes. Presented...
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...
The Economics of Making a Public Building
Tuesday, 7/9, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a related program for Mapping Community: Public Investment in NYC. How does New York City plan its capital projects and then turn those from a budget...
Open House Party and Tour in Dutchess County
Friday, 7/5, 10am - 1pm
Summer House in Dutchess County
Please join the AIANY Custom Residential Architects Network Committee (CRAN) in bucolic Dutchess County for its inaugural Open House Summer Party, featuring the home of Dennis Wedlick, FAIA, of BarlisWedlick Architects!...
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Private Tour: Hórama Rama by Pedro & Juana at MoMA PS1
Monday, 7/1, 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 followed by a reception at Stickbulb showroom. This year’s installation is...
Annual Hamptons Tour: Wuehrer House – a Record Houses 2019 Winner
Saturday, 6/29, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Wuehrer House
Join the AIANY Interiors Committee in Amagansett, NY for the Annual Hamptons Tour. This year’s tour will take participants to Wuehrer house, designed by Jerome Engelking and built in 2018. Located...
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Tour of the Flatiron Institute: Design as Catalyst for Collaboration
Thursday, 6/27, 6pm - 8pm
Flatiron Institute, 162 Fifth Avenue (Entrance on 21st Street, just West of Fifth Avenue)
Join us for a tour of the Flatiron Institute, which was launched to advance scientific research through computational methods, including data analysis, theory, modeling, and simulation. The institute, an internal research...
Karen Braitmayer: A Profile in Accessible Practice
Tuesday, 6/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architect Karen Braitmayer, FAIA, has been named the 2019 recipient of the prestigious AIA Whitney M. Young Jr Award. The Seattle-based architect has been recognized by the Institute for her...
Museums Without Buildings
Saturday, 6/22, 11am - 3pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a workshop led by the team from Cneai= Paris, based around the theories and manifestos of Yona Friedman. Visitors young and old will join forces to assemble hula...
Yona Friedman’s Lexicon
Friday, 6/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a video presentation about the life and work of Yona Friedman, followed by a discussion with Kenneth Frampton. Sylvie Boulanger, Director of Cneai, and Nicholas Vargelis, Visual...
CityPride: Tracing LGBTQ Spaces
Thursday, 6/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Diversity and Inclusion Committee for a walking tour of the Stonewall Uprising before this panel. Sign up for the tour here. In honor of the 50th...
Organizing Against Evictions: Strategies from Women Leaders of Rio de Janeiro
Tuesday, 6/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This event will share strategies and stories from a unique inside look at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from the heart of its favelas, offering urban planners and human rights activists...
Special Briefing: New York’s Next Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
Tuesday, 6/18, 8am - 10am
Center for Architecture
New York City has officially kicked off the planning stages for the next Comprehensive Waterfront Plan. Published every ten years, the Comprehensive Waterfront Plan outlines the strategic vision of the...
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...
Cocktails & Conversation: Mehrdad Yazdani and Sam Lubell
Friday, 6/14, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
Created by the AIANY Architecture Dialogue Committee, Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to...
Going Alone
Wednesday, 6/12, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Organized by the AIANY New Practices Committee, “Alone, Together & Somewhere In-Between: Modes of Practice in Contemporary Architecture” is a three-part series of panel discussions delving deeper into the way...
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...
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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...
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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 der 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. Speaker:...
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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)