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Past Events

UMBAU. Nonstop Transformation

10/9/24, 10am - Thursday, 11/7, 6pm
The Goethe-Institut New York
On the heels of gmp’s successful exhibition of adaptive-reuse works that ran parallel to the Venice Biennale of Architecture in Italy last May, the firm debuts its first ever U.S....

Exhibitions Opening Night: Built by New York and Why Design?

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10/1/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us to celebrate the opening of two fall exhibitions at the Center for Architecture and the launch of the 14th edition of Archtober, a month-long NYC-based festival that celebrates...

Summer Exhibitions Closing Celebration

Members of the public mingle in the Center for Architecture gallery space
8/21/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Come celebrate the Center for Architecture's current exhibitions, Constructing Hope: Ukraine and Spatializing Reproductive Justice, before they close on September 3. Join us to toast a successful summer of exhibition programs, and congratulate...

AFTERIMAGE: Exhibition Opening at the IPA Open [Block] House

8/17/24, 12pm - Sunday, 8/25, 4pm
The Block House
Visit us on Saturday, August 17th, 12pm–4pm for the last IPA Open [Block] House of the Summer and the opening of AFTERIMAGE, the culminating exhibition of the 2024 Summer Independent...

Constructing Housing During Crisis: Ukraine

Top down view of two people drawing an architectural layout.
7/25/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion of the role of temporary housing as a place of care and healing during the ongoing crisis. This event is hosted in collaboration with the exhibition...

Living Room Rhapsody

7/25/24, 6pm - Thursday, 9/5, 6pm
Allen Street Gallery is pleased to announce, “The Living Room Rhapsody,” running from July 25 to September 5, 2024. Curated by Annie Chen Ziyao, this exhibition reimagines the traditional art...

Loving Louis & Our Communities: A Night at LAHM with Caples Jefferson

7/24/24, 6pm - 8pm
Louis Armstrong House Museum
nycoba | NOMA is hosting a special event with Caples Jefferson founders Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson in their recently completed Louis Armstrong Center at the Louis Armstrong House Museum....

Spatializing Reproductive Justice: Guidelines and Codes

Exam room diagrams for outpatient abortion facilities
7/22/24, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
Presented as part of the Spatializing Reproductive Justice exhibition at the Center for Architecture, on view through September 3, 2024, this program will discuss building codes and planning concerns surrounding abortion clinics....

Women in Architecture Exhibition Tour: Spatializing Reproductive Justice

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7/12/24, 5pm - 6:30pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for a private tour led by the curators of the Spatializing Reproductive Justice exhibition, Lindsay Harkema and Bryony Roberts. We will learn...
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Spatializing Reproductive Justice: Architecture, Activism, and Advocacy

Linear map of the United States of America, with bushes and plants growing out of some states, against a blue and white background.
7/11/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a conversation on the intersection of creative process and legal rights to abortion access in the United States. This program is presented as part of the Spatializing Reproductive...

Constructing Architectural Networks: Ukraine

Three people moving a window.
7/10/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion with architects working on material logistics and mutual aid networks, hosted in collaboration with the exhibition Constructing Hope: Ukraine which is currently on view at...

Two Years After Dobbs: Spatial Practice + Reproductive Health

Spatializing Reproductive Justice
6/27/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion of architectural practice in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. This program is organized in conjunction with Spatializing Reproductive Justice, on view...

Spatializing Reproductive Justice: Panzi Hospital by White Arkitekter

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6/13/24, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
Join us for a presentation from White Arkitekter on the Panzi Hospital project. This program is presented as part of the Spatializing Reproductive Justice exhibition at the Center for Architecture,...

Constructing Memory: Ukraine

Installation view of Constructing Hope: Ukraine exhibition at the Center for Architecture
5/30/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for an in-depth discussion of select projects featured in the exhibition Constructing Hope: Ukraine, as well as related work. Each project illustrates the importance of the role of story-telling, model-making, and...

Student Open House: Spatializing Reproductive Justice

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5/29/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a chance to connect with the students and team behind Spatializing Reproductive Justice! Spatializing Reproductive Justice is a traveling exhibition showcasing student projects from design studios held concurrently...

Art at Work: A Sanitation and Social Practice Group Show

5/4/24, 6pm - Thursday, 5/30, 7pm
All Street Gallery
Art at Work is a group exhibition of works by artists-in-residence at municipal sanitation departments in four different US cities, including New York. In these remarkable programs, cities invite artists...

Spring Exhibitions Opening Night

5/2/24, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the opening night celebration for three exhibitions—Spatializing Reproductive Justice, Constructing Hope: Ukraine, and AIANY 2024 Design Awards—that will be on view at the Center for Architecture...

Rezoning: At What Cost? By Tatiana Lahera Kalainoff

4/25/24, 6pm - Sunday, 6/30, 6pm
Leroy Street Studio
Leroy Street Studio is pleased to announce the opening of “Rezoning: At What Cost?” by Tatiana Lahera Kalainoff. Please join us for an after hours reception on Thursday, April 25th...

VICTIMS OF GRENOUILLE Art Show Oleksii Scherbak’s Solo Exhibition

Mriya Gallery
Born in 1997 in Chernihiv and now based in Paris, Oleksii Shcherbak is one of the most promising emerging artists in the Ukrainian contemporary art scene. Using traditional oil techniques...

Virtual Q:DREAM Workshop

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2/21/24, 6pm - 8pm
Zoom link will be sent to attendees the day before the workshop.
This workshop will be held virtually.  The Q:DREAM workshop for queer and trans collective visioning and dreaming will ask attendees to share their stories and experiences, and to reflect on...

Exhibition Opening- Adrienne Moumin: In Another Life

2/15/24, 6pm - 8pm
District Architecture Center
Join us to celebrate the opening of our latest exhibition, Adrienne Moumin: In Another Life. With this exhibition, artist Adrienne Moumin presents a collection of her works that display her...

Q:DREAM Workshop

Closeup photo of Postcards of the Future installation in CFA Lab gallery
1/25/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Q:DREAM workshop for queer and trans collective visioning and dreaming will ask attendees to share their stories and experiences, and to reflect on them through collaging and model-building exercises....

Q:DREAM Workshop

Closeup photo of Postcards of the Future installation in CFA Lab gallery
12/15/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Q:DREAM workshop for queer and trans collective visioning and dreaming will ask attendees to share their stories and experiences, and to reflect on them through collaging and model-building exercises....

Exhibition Opening – CFA Lab: Seeking Refuge and Making Home in NYC

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11/16/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of CFA Lab: Seeking Refuge and Making Home in NYC. The exhibition will feature the Center for Architecture Lab’s 2023 residents. The residents were selected from...

Through the Lens: Honoring the Architectural Legacy of Paul Revere Williams

Black and white photo of a one-story house.
10/18/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a talk about Janna Ireland on the Architectural Legacy of Paul Revere Williams in Nevada featuring photographer Janna Ireland and curator Carmen Beals in conversation with Daonne Huff. Paul...

Exchanging Collaborative Practices: Towards a Sustainable Future (Day 2)

10/3/23, 11am - 4pm
Center for Architecture
Colectivo Warehouse will occupy the Center for Architecture’s main lecture hall for two days to celebrate the opening of Generation Proxima: Emerging Environmental Practices in Portuguese Architecture. The collective will...

Generation Proxima Exhibition Opening

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10/2/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of Generation Proxima: Emerging Environmental Practices in Portuguese Architecture. The exhibition provides an environmentally-oriented overview of emerging architectural practices in Portugal. Generation Proxima highlights seven...

Exchanging Collaborative Practices: Towards a Sustainable Future (Day 1)

10/2/23, 11am - 4pm
Center for Architecture
Colectivo Warehouse will occupy the Center for Architecture’s main lecture hall for two days to celebrate the opening of Generation Proxima: Emerging Environmental Practices in Portuguese Architecture. The collective will...

Chile Day: Emerging Chilean Architecture

Glass-walled house with dome roof.
8/17/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a program that discusses innovation and sustainability in Chilean architecture. The event will feature an overview of Chile's emerging generation of architects, presented by Jeannette Plaut and...

Janna Ireland on the Architectural Legacy of Paul R. Williams in Nevada Opening

Black and white photo of triangular stained glass reflecting onto vaulted cathedral ceiling.
7/13/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of Janna Ireland on the Architectural Legacy of Paul Revere Williams in Nevada. The exhibition features photography by Janna Ireland exploring the important contributions of...

Exhibitions Opening Night: CAMPUS AULA and AIANY Design Awards

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5/4/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the opening of two exhibitions at the Center for Architecture: CAMPUS AULA: Educational Architecture in Latin America and AIANY Design Awards 2023. Curated by Jeannette Plaut and Marcelo...

Building Connections Opening

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2/16/23, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of Building Connections, the Center for Architecture Education Department’s annual exhibition of K-12 student design work from our Learning By Design:NY in-school residencies and studio...

New Practices in Conversation: ANY

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2/1/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the New Practices New York exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a series of salon-style programs featuring the six winners of the competition’s last cycle. New...

New Practices in Conversation: BRANDT : HAFERD

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1/12/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the New Practices New York exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a series of salon-style programs featuring the six winners of the competition's last cycle. New...

New Practices in Conversation: Bryony Roberts Studio with Alexandra Lange

High Museum of Art, Atlanta
12/6/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the New Practices New York exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a series of salon-style programs featuring the six winners of the competition's last cycle. New...

Optimist in Action

12/3/22, 5pm - 10pm
All Street NYC
An open gallery event showcasing design ideas for the transformation of cities including a proposed revolution in NYC waste infrastructure and research in material innovation.

New Practices in Conversation: Citygroup

Talk in Circle, New York, NY, 2020.
12/2/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the New Practices New York exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a series of salon-style programs featuring the six winners of the competition's last cycle. New...

New Practices in Conversation: GRT Architects with Marc Tsurumaki

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11/30/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the New Practices New York exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a series of salon-style programs featuring the six winners of the competition's last cycle. New...

New Practices in Conversation: New Affiliates with Paul Lewis

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11/16/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the New Practices New York exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a series of salon-style programs featuring the six winners of the competition's last cycle. New...

Fairy Tale Architecture Opening

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11/11/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of Fairy Tale Architecture! The Center for Architecture's Fairy Tale Architecture exhibition presents a series of fantastical domestic structures exploring the intimate relationship between fairy tales and...

Pier 58l0 Exhibition Opening

11/8/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Atelier 58l0 is a foundation dedicated to challenging the relationship between art and architecture through exhibitions, filmmaking, product design, and virtual reality. Their first project, titled Pier 58lO, is an...

New Practices New York Opening

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9/30/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of the New Practices New York exhibition at the Center for Architecture!  New Practices New York presents winners of AIANY’s 2020 New Practices New York...

Decolonizing Suburbia

Installation view with five people standing and reading exhibition content behind an orange seat with an orange trellis installed above them
8/4/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the Decolonizing Suburbia team as they present on their project for the Center for Architecture's exhibition, Reset: Towards a New Commons. Decolonizing Suburbia is informed by an interest in the...

Re:Play: Reclaiming the Commons Through Play

Installation view with two screens on the left wall and 3D printed models on white square bases on the right
7/28/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the Re:Play team as they present on their project for the Reset: Towards a New Commons exhibition. In Re:Play, young residents of three New York City Housing Authority campuses...

Aging Against the Machine

Long angled shelf with architectural models and images installed on it
7/11/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
To mark the current Center for Architecture exhibition, Reset: Towards a New Commons, members of the interdisciplinary design team for the project Aging Against the Machine will present diverse interventions...

Opening Night – Reset: Towards a New Commons and Design Awards 2022

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4/14/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening night celebration for two exhibitions: Reset: Towards a New Commons and AIANY Design Awards 2022. Exhibitions on view: Reset: Towards a New CommonsContemporary American society has become...

afikra Pop-up: Live Conversation with Mohamed Elshahed and Rami Abou-Khalil

Cairo Modern installed at the Center for Architecture
3/11/22, 5:30pm - 7pm
Center for Architecture
Join this special live conversation to celebrate the close of Cairo Modern. Cairo Modern showcases works by Egyptian modernists from the 1920s to the 1970s, half a century of rich architectural production that...

Cairo Modern Curator Tour

Cairo Modern installed at the Center for Architecture
1/19/22, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
Join Mohamed Elshahed as he leads an in-depth virtual tour of the Cairo Modern exhibition. Cairo Modern showcases works by Egyptian modernists from the 1920s to the 1970s, half a...

Center for Architecture Reopening

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10/1/21, 4pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the reopening of the Center for Architecture! We’re excited to invite you back after an 18-month hiatus for an evening celebrating the launch of two new exhibitions: Cairo Modern...

Political Intimacy Launch + Exhibition

4/29/21, 7pm - Tuesday, 6/22, 7pm
Online and Pratt Manhattan Gallery Windows 144 West 14th St, New York, NY
Political Intimacy demystifies and humanizes the process of running for local office. Senator Jabari Brisport will be introducing a conversation between Recess: Assembly participants, Pratt Institute students, and Pratt Fine...

Visualize NYC 2021: Behind the Data – Building Emissions and Accessibility

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12/18/20, 8:30am - 9:30am
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Some of the content in this program was originally scheduled for 12/11...

Visualize NYC 2021: Behind the Data – Healthy Food and Senior Amenity Access

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12/15/20, 8:30am - 9:30am
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* How can data communicate the complexities of New York City? This program...

RESCHEDULED – Visualize NYC 2021: Behind the Data

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12/11/20, 8:30am - 9:30am
Webinar
*This program has been rescheduled. The visualization Devil’s in the Data: The Real Pathway to Reducing NYC’s Building Emissions will be discussed on Friday December 18 along with a second data visualization *  ...

Visualize NYC 2021: Behind the Data – Online Offline Mismatch

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12/8/20, 8:30am - 9:30am
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* How can data communicate the complexities of New York City? This program...

NYLON #18: The Changing Face of Cities

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11/18/20, 9am - 10:30am
Live webinar taking place simultaneously in both New York and London. New York and London will come together to have a conversation about the future of our cities and of...

Wassef Boutros-Ghali: A Retrospective

11/12/20, 11am - Saturday, 12/19, 6pm
Wassef Boutros-Ghali: A Retrospective, opening November 12, surveys over eight decades of painterly inquiry and traces the artist’s global influences and encounters with movements ranging from synthetic-cubism to abstract expressionism. An...

Data Mapping and the Equitable City

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8/20/20, 2pm - 3pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Please join us for a conversation based on the 2019 exhibition and...

Digital Exhibition Talks: Sekou Cooke on Hip Hop Architecture

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7/23/20, 2pm - 3pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* As part of the Center for Architecture’s newly launched digital exhibitions, we will...

POSTPONED – Cairo Modern Opening

Architect Sayed Karim posing at his home office with a model of his unbuilt Hotel Nefertiti, circa 1960.
3/26/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
*This event has been postponed. A future date will be provided shortly.* Please join us for the opening of Cairo Modern.  Cairo Modern showcases works by Egyptian modernists from the 1920s to the...

Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures Opening and Lecture

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2/11/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the opening of Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures. The opening will include a presentation on the exhibition. Schedule:6:00-6:30 – Exhibition Viewing6:30-7:30 – Lecture    Daniel...

Public Works Opening and Lecture

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1/16/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the opening of Public Works: Reflecting on 15 Years of Project Excellence for New York City. The opening will include presentations about the DDC Design Excellence program....

The Single-Story Project: A Conversation with Adam Friedberg and Alan G. Brake

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1/9/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a conversation about the exhibition Single-Story Project between photographer Adam Friedberg and curator Alan G. Brake. Since 2015, Friedberg has been documenting every single-story building in...

Fringe City Futures: Rethinking Development in Small American Cities

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12/4/19, 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 Katie Swenson of Enterprise Community Partners, this panel...

Lovable New York: Buildings c. 1830-1930

11/23/19, 12pm - 5pm
SPACED: Gallery of Architecture
Come visit an exhibition of prints, paintings and photographs at SPACED Gallery. Almost all the structures in this array of New York images still exist as almost half of them...

Single-Story Project Opening

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11/21/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the opening of Single-Story Project. For more than a decade, the photographer Adam Friedberg has been documenting every single-story building in the East Village and the...

Opening Reception for Women-Designed NYC Exhibition

11/21/19, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
The Louise McCagg Gallery
The Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department invites you to an exhibition and reception for Women-Designed NYC, a publication of the Public Design Commission of New York City. Women-Designed NYC focuses...

Lovable New York: Buildings c. 1830-1930

11/16/19, 12pm - 5pm
SPACED: Gallery of Architecture
Come visit an exhibition of prints, paintings and photographs at SPACED Gallery. Almost all the structures in this array of New York images still exist as almost half of them...

Building Connections 2019 Opening

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11/15/19, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the opening of Building Connections 2019! Building Connections is the Center for Architecture’s annual exhibition of student design work from our K-12 Learning By Design:NY school...

Fringe City Foundations: Hudson River Valley

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11/14/19, 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...

Lovable New York: Buildings c. 1830-1930

11/9/19, 12pm - 5pm
SPACED: Gallery of Architecture
Come visit an exhibition of prints, paintings and photographs at SPACED Gallery. Almost all the structures in this array of New York images still exist as almost half of them...

Lovable New York: Buildings c. 1830-1930

11/2/19, 12pm - 5pm
SPACED: Gallery of Architecture
Come visit an exhibition of prints, paintings and photographs at SPACED Gallery. Almost all the structures in this array of New York images still exist as almost half of them...

Small Lots: Rethinking Infill Development

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10/29/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a related program for the exhibition Big Ideas Small Lots.  Moderated by Laura Kusisto of The Wall Street Journal, this panel discussion will explore the challenges associated...

Dwell and Resource Furniture Present: Big Ideas for Small Lots

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10/23/19, 6pm - 8pm
Resource Furniture
How do you make housing in New York accessible for all? A new design competition asked architects to come up with creative solutions for turning the tiny, underutilized properties that...

Made in Tokyo: Architecture & Living, 1964/2020

10/11/19, 12pm - Sunday, 1/26, 5pm
Japan Society
Tokyo, the transforming metropolis, has experienced a variety of social, economic and political shifts. The 1964 Summer Games were the trigger to facilitate the rapid improvement of infrastructure. And Tokyo...

CANCELLED: Fringe Cities Symposium

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10/5/19, 1pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
This event has been cancelled. Please join us for upcoming evening programs related to Fringe Cities: Legacies of Renewal in Small American Cities Fringe City Foundations on November 14th Fringe...

Fringe Cities: Legacies of Renewal in the Small American City Opening

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10/2/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of Fringe Cities: Legacies of Renewal in the Small American City. Fringe Cities: Legacies of Renewal in the Small American City, curated and designed by MASS Design...

Big Ideas: Finalists’ Presentations

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9/9/19, 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...

A Look at Rescue Company 2

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8/8/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a discussion of Studio Gang’s Rescue Company 2, presented in conjunction with Mapping Community: Public Investment in NYC. The conversation will be between Weston Walker, AIA, of Studio...

Big Ideas Small Lots Opening

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8/1/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of Big Ideas Small Lots. An exhibition of the results of the Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC competition organized by the NYC Department of Housing, Preservation, and...

Elected Officials on the Built Environment

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7/29/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a related program for Mapping Community: Public Investment in NYC. Elected officials have a great deal of influence over the makeup of public buildings and infrastructure in...

Topiary Tango Talk

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7/15/19, 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...

Topiary Tango Opening

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7/11/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of Topiary Tango. Topiary Tango takes a playfully serious look into the horticultural practice of trimming bushes into geometric shapes. Curated by the 2017 Stewardson Keefe LeBrun...

The Economics of Making a Public Building

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7/9/19, 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...

CANCELLED Mapping Community: Public Investment in NYC Symposium

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6/15/19, 1pm - 3pm
Center for Architecture
Instead of the symposium advertised on the Center for Architecture’s printed calender we hope you will join us for our related programming for Mapping Community: Public Investment in NYC: The Economics...

Mapping Community: Public Investment in NYC Opening

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6/13/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of Mapping Community: Public Investment in NYC. How do public buildings like schools, firehouses, and libraries end up in your community, and who had a say...

Syria Before the Deluge: Syrian Monuments and Heritage Today

Tetrapylon, Palmyra. Photo: Peter Aaron
5/20/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a discussion on the status of Syrian monuments today, framed by Peter Aaron’s 2009 photographs of important sites before the onset of the Syrian Civil War....

CANCELLED Patchwork: The Architecture of Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak – Symposium

Grabowska-Hawrylak's iconic residential buildings, pictured here in 1982, were built between 1963 and 1969 in Wrocław's Grunwaldzki Square. Photo: Chris Niedenthal.
5/18/19, 1pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a closing symposium for the exhibitionPatchwork: The Architecture of Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak More details and speakers TBA Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak was one of the most important architects of...

Celebrating and Safeguarding the Glories of Syrian Culture

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5/18/19, 3pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
“Celebrating and Safeguarding the Glories of Syrian Culture, Architecture, and Design” is a conversation with distinguished Syrian architect Majed Abdulsamad and former Syrian resident George Batah about the role of...

RESCHEDULED – Syria Before the Deluge: Syrian Monuments and Heritage Today

Tetrapylon, Palmyra. Photo: Peter Aaron
5/9/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Due to a change in speaker availability, we have been forced to reschedule this event for Monday May 20th. We hope to see you at the rescheduled program! Please join us...

Opening Reception for “Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989”

4/23/19, 6pm - Saturday, 3/23, 8pm
Grey Art Gallery, NYU
Join us for the opening reception of “Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989,” debuting in New York in two parts at both the Grey Art Gallery and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay...

Contemporary Polish Architecture: From One Paradigm to Another

Grabowska-Hawrylak's iconic residential buildings, pictured here in 1982, were built between 1963 and 1969 in Wrocław's Grunwaldzki Square. Photo: Chris Niedenthal.
4/17/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a related program for Patchwork: The Architecture of Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak. Three generations of architects will reflect on the place of contemporary Polish architecture in a panel discussion...

2019 AIANY Design Awards Exhibition Opening

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4/15/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of the 2019 AIANY Design Awards Exhibition. The 2019 AIANY Design Awards exhibition features winning projects in the categories of Best in Competition, Architecture, Interiors,...

Syria Before the Deluge Opening

Tetrapylon, Palmyra. Photo: Peter Aaron
3/28/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of Syria Before the Deluge. Syria Before the Deluge presents photos of Syrian architectural monuments taken by acclaimed architectural photographer Peter Aaron in 2009. Nearly...

Bloki: Film Screening

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3/18/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a film screening of Bloki, a 2017 documentary about Polish housing directed by Konrad Królikowski. Bloki tells the story of the often-reviled gigantic apartment complexes, known...

Theoharis David 50 Years Teaching and Learning: A Process of Design St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church WTC / NYC

3/18/19, 6pm - Tuesday, 4/2, 6pm
Pratt Institute, Higgins Hall, 61. St. James Place, Brooklyn, NY 11205
Opening Reception: Monday, March 18, 6:00 PM, Hazel and Robert Siegel Gallery, Higgins Hall, School of Architecture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY This exhibit aspires to communicate through primarily one specific...

Disruption by Design: Case Studies in Design for a Just New York

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3/4/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a related program for Design and the Just City in NYC. This program will take a closer look at the case studies presented in the exhibition....

Opening Reception: Michael Hollander Drawing Excellence Award Exhibition

3/4/19, 6pm - 8pm
Pratt Institute, Higgins Hall, 61. St. James Place, Brooklyn, NY 11205
Michael Hollander (May 27, 1934–November 11, 2015), was an influential and distinguished professor of architecture at Pratt Institute for 40 years. Professor Hollander inspired generations of Bachelor of Architecture students...

Patchwork: The Architecture of Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak – Symposium POSTPONED

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3/2/19, 1pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO SATURDAY MAY 18TH! Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak was one of the most important architects of her generation in Poland. Her extensive architecture career spanned much of the...

New Practices in Hong Kong Architecture: A Symposium

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3/1/19, 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...

Patchwork: The Architecture of Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak Opening

Grabowska-Hawrylak's iconic residential buildings, pictured here in 1982, were built between 1963 and 1969 in Wrocław's Grunwaldzki Square. Photo: Chris Niedenthal.
2/28/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of Patchwork: The Architecture of Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak. The opening will include a discussion with curators Michał Duda and Małgorzata Devosges-Cuber. Schedule:6:00-6:30 – Exhibition Viewing6:30-7:15 –...

Opening Reception – Domoto: Visions of Usonia

2/13/19, 6pm - 8pm
Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, School of Art and Design at SUNY Purchase, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY 10577
An architecture exhibition featuring the work of Kaneji Domoto. Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery February 13 – March 13, 2019 Open: Tuesday – Friday, 12-5pm

FXCollaborative: “Havana: Faded Glory” Opening Reception

1/17/19, 6pm - 8:30pm
22 West 19th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY
Join FXCollaborative for the opening reception of “Havana: Faded Glory” on Thursday, January 17, from 6-8:30PM in the firm’s gallery. “Faded Glory”, an exhibition featuring photography by Josh Silber, is...

Design and the Just City in NYC Opening

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1/10/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for an event celebrating the opening of Design and the Just City in NYC and marking the closing of Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip Hop Architecture. Design and...

Opening Reception for Fritz Ascher: Expressionist, and Metamorphoses: Ovid According to Wally Reinhardt

1/8/19, 6pm - 8pm
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York NY 10003
Please join us at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery for the opening of two new exhibitions – Fritz Ascher: Expressionist and Metamorphoses: Ovid According to Wally Reinhardt. Fritz Ascher: Expressionist is...

Paul Rudolph: Influences and Opportunities

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12/19/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a program for Paul Rudolph: The Hong Kong Journey. Paul Rudolph considered an allowance for growth in his architecture and once said his buildings “took on a...

Paul Rudolph: A Way of Working

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12/14/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a program for Paul Rudolph: The Hong Kong Journey. For Paul Rudolph, architecture was “a highly personal affair involving a considerable degree of emotion and which needs...

Remix Resample Remaster: Identity and Making Architecture

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12/11/18, 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

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12/5/18, 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...

Opening – Paul Rudolph: The Hong Kong Journey

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11/29/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of Paul Rudolph: The Hong Kong Journey. On the occasion of Paul Rudolph’s Centennial, The Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation and The Center for Architecture are...

New York School of the Arts/THE HUB Center for the Arts Exhibition and Open House

11/28/18, 6pm - 9pm
New York School of the Arts / THE HUB Center for the Arts, 315 East 62nd Street, 2nd & 6th Floors New York, New York 10065 (Between First and Second Avenues)
THE HUB Center for the Arts and The New York School of the Arts are pleased to announce A Sweet Day of November, an exhibition that is running in association...

The Birth – Part 1

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11/26/18, 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...

Building Connections 2018 Opening

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11/12/18, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
Join us to celebrate our 22nd-annual Building Connections exhibition, showcasing K-12 student design work from the 2017-2018 school year and summer. This year’s exhibition highlights students’ exploration of New York City’s...

Examination of the City Environmental Quality Review Process

11/8/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
*AIANY Members should register using the link to the right. MAS members and the General Public may register here.  Join Municipal Art Society for the release of its latest report in the Accidental Skyline...

Designing the Future of the Tri-State Region

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10/29/18, 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...

Building Smart & Sustainable Cities and Regions

10/18/18, 8am - 10am
Center for Architecture
This program is related to the exhibition The Future of the New York Metropolitan Area: The Fourth Regional Plan. From transportation to affordable housing to climate resilience, cities across the world are...

Times Square Valentine Heart Design Competition Finalists

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10/15/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
AIA New York is proud to be partnering with Times Square Arts on this year’s Times Square Valentine Heart Design Competition. For the first time ever, the proposals for the...

RPA, MPC and SPUR Discuss 20 Years of Regional Change

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10/11/18, 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...

Close to the Edge: Hip-Hop Architecture Symposium

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10/6/18, 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...

Opening Reception: Toward a Livable City

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10/4/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) for an evening of drinks, light refreshments, and camaraderie, as we remember 125 years of advocacy and look ahead to...

Paul Rudolph: The Personal Laboratory

10/4/18, 11am - Saturday, 12/15, 6pm
The Modulightor Building, 246 E 58th St, New York, NY 10022
An exhibition, on the occasion of Paul Rudolph’s Centennial, of models, drawings, photographs and personal artifacts exploring his residences — designed by himself, for himself—that served as his laboratories for...

Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture Opening

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10/1/18, 6pm - 10pm
Center for Architecture
Based on response, please note that, depending on attendance and venue capacity, an RSVP to the opening does not guarantee entry. Join us for the opening of Close to the...

Unfinished Exhibition Opening Reception

9/21/18, 6pm - 8pm
The City College of New York, The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, Atrium Gallery
The Unfinished exhibition, presented in the Spanish pavilion at the Biennale, seeks to direct attention to processes more than results in an attempt to discover design strategies generated by an...

Creating More Housing without New Construction

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9/14/18, 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...

Opening Reception: Art by Architects

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9/11/18, 6pm - 9pm
New York Genome Center, 101 Avenue of the Americas Ground Floor conference Center New York, NY 10013
Opening reception for exhibition of art by New York City area architects. The exhibition will be held September 10, 11 & 12 at  The New York Genome Center, 101 Avenue of the...

Exhibition Opening: 44 Low-resolution Houses

9/11/18, 5:30pm - 8pm
Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ 08544
Exhibition on view September 11-November 9, 2018 Exhibition Opening: September 11, 5:30pm North Gallery, Princeton University School of Architecture The term Low-resolution precedes Houses in order to make the exhibition-goer...

Opening Reception for Images of New York City – Richard Haas & Friends

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9/7/18, 5pm - 8pm
Michael Ingbar Gallery, 568 Broadway, Lower Level, New York, NY 10012
Michael Ingbar Gallery is proud to host a benefit exhibit for the Center for Architecture, which will receive 20% of artwork sale proceeds during the opening reception. On view from...

2018 Residential Review Opening Reception

9/6/18, 6pm - 8pm
GD Arredamenti
The fourth-annual Residential Review, organized by the AIANY Interiors Committee, showcases the best work in residential interiors projects by New York City architects. The work of ten selected winners will...

The Future of the New York Metropolitan Area: The Fourth Regional Plan Opening

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7/26/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Based on response, please note that, depending on attendance and venue capacity, an RSVP to the opening does not guarantee entry. Join us for the opening of The Future of...
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Dining Detritus: Zero Waste Restaurants

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7/12/18, 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...

A Call to Act(ivism): Echoing Whitney Young, 50 Years Later Opening

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7/10/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of A Call to Act(ivism): Echoing Whitney Young, 50 Years Later. The exhibition revisits Whitney M. Young Jr.’s keynote address at the 1968 AIA Conference, which...

Waste & Other Infrastructure: Discovering the Invisible City

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6/28/18, 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...

Curator-led Exhibition Tour of Designing Waste

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6/23/18, 11am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a tour of Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City, an exhibition based on the Zero Waste Design Guidelines, led by the curator, Andrew Blum. Designing...

Curator-led Exhibition Tour of Designing Waste

Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City
6/22/18, 10am - 11am
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a tour of Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City, an exhibition based on the Zero Waste Design Guidelines, led by the curator, Andrew Blum. Designing...

New York Designs: AIA New York 2018 Member Show

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6/20/18, 8am - Friday, 6/22, 6pm
Jacob K Javits Convention Center
AIA New York’s Member Shows celebrate the work of NYC-based AIA members, providing a snapshot of the work being produced in our city. New York Designs presents the scope and quality...

Designing Waste

Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City
6/16/18, 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...

James Stewart Polshek Exhibition Opening

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6/15/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Ennead Architects for the opening of James Stewart Polshek, on view at the Center for Architecture during the AIA Conference on Architecture 2018. James Stewart Polshek explores the life...

Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City Opening

Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City
6/14/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of  Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City. The exhibition explores how we manage waste in our buildings and neighborhoods, and how design can help...

Quality Affordable Housing in NYC

Projects clockwise from the top left: Arbor House, Danois Architects; Hunters Point South, Ismael Leyva Architect, P.C.; Prospect Gardens, RKTB Architects; Frost Street Apartments, Curtis + Ginsberg Architects; Schermerhorn,Ennead Architects; Navy Green, FXCollaborative Architects; Creston Avenue Residences, Magnusson Architecture and Planning
5/9/18, 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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2018 AIANY Design Awards Exhibition Opening

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4/20/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The 2018 AIANY Design Awards Exhibition features winning projects in the categories of Best in Competition, Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design. AIA New York’s annual Design Awards program recognizes...

Exhibition Opening: Now What?! Advocacy Activism and Alliances in American Architecture Since 1968

4/13/18, 6pm - 8pm
Arnold & Sheila Aronson Galleries, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons School of Design, The New School, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003
Join ArchiteXX for the opening night of Now What?! Advocacy, Activism and Alliances in American since 1968, the first exhibition to examine the little-known history of architects and designers working to further...

New Practices New York 2018 Opening

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4/12/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of New Practices New York 2018. New Practices New York, a biennial competition since 2006, serves as New York City’s preeminent platform to recognize and...

Affordable Housing in North America

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3/20/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How do architects in North American cities approach the design of affordable housing? This program will look at projects based in cities besides New York to shed light on how...

Donald Judd : Process and Practice of the Artist

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3/5/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This panel will include short presentations aimed to focus on Donald Judd’s process and practice of making architecture. Questions by the moderator will be followed by questions from the audience....

Oculus Book Talk: The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion

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3/1/18, 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...

ADAA The Art Show: 30 YEARS

2/28/18, 12pm - Sunday, 3/4, 5pm
Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York City, NY
Organized annually by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), The Art Show offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with artworks of the highest quality...

Transforming Social Housing – Stories from Europe

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2/17/18, 1pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Across Europe living habits and architectural traditions differ from country to country, but uniting the continent is a renewed focus on embracing new methods and innovative refurbishment strategies to achieve...

Social Housing – New European Projects Opening

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2/15/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the opening of Social Housing – New European Projects! Across Europe, a new generation of architecture practices are transforming affordable housing. Responding to continued need, changing clients, and...

The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion: New York Edition – Opening

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1/26/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the opening of The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion: New York Edition! The exhibition will present 156 “weapons” utilized by architects, planners, policymakers, developers, real estate...

Responsive Scaffolding: Emergency Relief

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1/4/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How is scaffolding used in response to emergency situations? Quickly deployed and configurable to myriad contexts, scaffolding performs a vital role in stabilizing damaged structures, constructing new shelters, and providing...

POSTPONED Responsive Scaffolding: Emergency Relief

12/4/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This event has been postponed and a new date will be announced shortly.

Building Connections 2017 Exhibition Opening

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11/17/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Stop by the Center to celebrate our 21st annual exhibition showcasing K-12 student design work, and learn more about our K-12 architecture education programs. Program staff will be on hand...

Obdurate Space: Architecture of Donald Judd Exhibition Opening

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11/14/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the opening of Obdurate Space: Architecture of Donald Judd! Obdurate Space: Architecture of Donald Judd is an exhibition focusing on built and unrealized architectural projects by Judd,...

Theatrical Scaffolding: A Flexible Stage

11/9/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Scaffolding is both a noun and a verb, object and action. Beyond its role in the construction industry, it is frequently used to erect temporary theaters, create set designs, and...

Scaffolding: A Framework for Social Engagement

10/7/17, 1pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
This is a related exhibition program for Scaffolding. Please join us for the symposium for our new exhibition Scaffolding, which examines the potential of scaffolding as a kit-of-parts technology to...

Creative Scholarship: A NYSID Faculty Exhibition

10/4/17, 12am - Friday, 12/15, 12am
The New York School of Interior Design will showcase the creative scholarship of its outstanding faculty in an exhibition devoted to their contemporary practices, curated by VP for Academic Affairs...

Scaffolding Exhibition Opening

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10/2/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the opening of Scaffolding! Scaffolding is an exhibition that examines the history and extraordinary potential of scaffolding as a kit-of-parts technology to provide novel forms of...

5×5 Provocative Presentations

9/28/17, 6pm - 9pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for presentations from some of the firms included in 5×5 Participatory Provocations. Participants will discuss their responses to the prompts in the exhibition and how they used models...

Who Was Gregory Ain? Conversation: Katherine Lambert and Christiane Robbins

9/7/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This conversation is a related to the exhibition This Future Has a Past, originally created by architect Katherine Lambert and director Christiane Robbins, of California, for Time-Space-Existence, a group exhibition at...

5×5 Curators’ Talk

7/27/17, 6pm - 9pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a curators’ talk on 5×5 Participatory Provocations. Curators will discuss the content of the exhibition focusing on the five categories and what the responses have uncovered. In...

This Future Has a Past Opening

7/25/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of This Future Has a Past. A multimedia installation that reflects on the life of Gregory Ain, FAIA (1908–1988), and his 1950 Exhibition House for the...
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5×5 Participatory Provocations Opening

7/11/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In 5×5 Participatory Provocations, 25 young architects engage controversial issues in an imagined future, producing physical expressions or provocations. Each team responds to one of five prompts, contemplating the future of...

Kaneji Domoto at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonia Opening

6/22/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the opening of Kaneji Domoto at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonia. The exhibition presents the houses by Japanese American architect and Taliesin student Kaneji Domoto in Westchester County’s...

2017 Residential Review Opening Reception

6/13/17, 6pm - 8pm
GD Cucine
The third-annual Residential Review, organized by the AIANY Interiors Committee, showcases the best work in residential interiors projects by New York City architects. The work of ten selected winners will...
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Modern Architecture and Design in Venezuela

5/30/17, 6pm - 9pm
Center for Architecture
Note: A video of this event will be shared on Facebook Live here. Please join us for a program looking at modern architecture and design in Venezuela. Complementing the exhibition El Helicoide:...
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Exhibition Tour with Curator Celeste Olalquiaga

5/20/17, 4pm - 5pm
Center for Architecture
Curator Celeste Olalquiaga will lead a guided tour through El Helicoide: From Mall to Prison. Built in the late 1950s as a state-of-the-art, drive-in mall, El Helicoide was never completed and...
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El Helicoide Opening

5/9/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us at the Center for Architecture for the opening of El Helicoide: From Mall to Prison.  Built in the late 1950s as a state-of-the-art, drive-in mall, El Helicoide...
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African Modernism(s): Past/Present/Future

4/22/17, 1pm - 4pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition Architecture of Independence – African Modernism. African Modernism(s): Past/Present/Future explores the legacy of architectural modernism featured in the exhibition Architecture...

2017 Design Awards Opening

4/21/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
2017 AIANY Design Awards features winning projects in the categories of Best in Competition, Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design. The full list of winners is available here. AIA New...
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Kunle Adeyemi

4/18/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a lecture with architect Kunlé Adeyemi. Kunlé Adeyemi is an architect, designer and urban researcher. He is the founder/principal of NLÉ and a Design Critic in Architecture...
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African Health Facilities

3/16/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Designing new health facilities in African countries requires careful consideration of a particular country’s regional climate, cultural context, and construction methods so that the final product reflects local culture and...
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African Modernism: Iwan Baan

3/15/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a conversation with architectural photographer Iwan Baan. Baan’s work is included in the exhibition Architecture of Independence – African Modernism, currently on view at the Center for...
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Pierre Chareau Exhibition Tour and Talk

3/7/17, 6pm - 7:30pm
Jewish Museum
Join Claudia Nahson, Alex Knezo, and the AIANY Interiors Committee for a private tour of the Jewish Museum’s Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design, the first US exhibition dedicated to the work...
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2017 AIANY Design Awards Announcement

3/6/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the announcement of this year’s AIA New York Design Awards winners in Architecture, Interiors, Urban Design, and Projects. A moderated symposium discussion with this year’s jurors will...
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Follies, Function and Form: Imagining Olana’s Summer House Exhibition Opening

1/31/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us on January 31 for the opening of Follies, Function and Form: Imagining Olana’s Summer House! The Olana Partnership, in collaboration with the New York chapters of the American Institute...

Say It Loud Exhibition Opening

1/26/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us at the Center for Architecture for the opening of SAY IT LOUD: Distinguished Black Designers of NYCOBA | NOMA. The approximately 2,090 licensed African American architects in the...

Old Buildings, New Businesses

12/12/16, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Authenticity and Innovation explores preservation in contemporary New York City, a particularly relevant topic for a metropolis characterized by perennial change. Here, old buildings moor a rapidly transforming cityscape as it...
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Building Connections Exhibition Opening

11/10/16, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Stop by the Center to celebrate our 20th annual exhibition showcasing K-12 student design work, and learn more about our K-12 architecture education programs. Program staff will be on hand...
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Authenticity and Innovation Guided Exhibition Tour

11/7/16, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
Join Tim Hayduk, Lead Design Educator at the Center for Architecture, for a guided tour and open discussion of the Authenticity and Innovation exhibition! Authenticity and Innovation explores the preservation and reuse of...

Authenticity and Innovation: The Inherent Value of Older Buildings

10/25/16, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a panel discussion related to the exhibition Authenticity and Innovation. The exhibitionexplores the preservation and reuse of existing buildings in contemporary New York City, a particularly...

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