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Upcoming Events
Turkey and Syria After the Earthquakes: Long-Term Recovery: Building Back Better
Saturday, 9/30, 10am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
The 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that hit Southeastern Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2023, officially took an estimated 60,000 lives. Entire neighborhoods were destroyed in cities such as...
17th Annual Arthur Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture: Tom Kundig
Tuesday, 10/3, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Arthur M. Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture on Museum Design is an AIANY signature event organized each year by the Cultural Facilities Committee. This year the committee is honored to host...
The Dreams of Others: 60 years of Spanish Architecture
Friday, 10/6, 12pm - 2pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a screening of The Dreams of Others, the documentary film produced by ArquinFAD and Nihao Films, directed by Xavi Camrecios and Pep Martin. The film presents a...
Coming Out, Staying In, and Moving Beyond: Home, Housing, Identity, Community
Wednesday, 10/11, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 is National Coming Out Day! This is a day of pride, visibility, and self-actualization for many. But not for all. Cultural acceptance for the LGBTQIA+ community,...
Interiors Residential Review Opening Reception
Thursday, 10/12, 6pm - 8pm
Artemide, Boffi, and Foscarini Showrooms on Greene St.
Join us for the opening of the 6th-annual AIANY Interiors Residential Review, organized by the AIANY Interiors Committee. Each year, the Residential Review showcases the best work in residential interiors...
ENYA Beyond the Boards: Beyer Blinder Belle
Thursday, 10/12, 6:30pm - 8pm
Beyer Blinder Belle
The AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) is proud to announce the first fall presentation in their Beyond the Boards series. Leadership at Beyer Blinder Belle (BBB) will profile...
ENYA Beyond The Boards: Reenvisioning The Met’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
Friday, 10/13, 3pm - 6pm
Metropolitan Museum of Art Rockefeller Wing
ENYA members will be led on a building tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Renovation, designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and WHY Architects, as presented...
ENYA Beyond The Boards: NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Renovation
Saturday, 10/14, 11am - 1pm
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
ENYA members will be led on a building tour of New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Renovation, designed by Beyer Blinder Belle, as presented at the previous Beyond...
Through the Lens: Honoring the Architectural Legacy of Paul Revere Williams
Wednesday, 10/18, 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...
Past Events
Championing a Sustainable Framework for Integrated Design Excellence
9/18/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Climate change is everyone’s crisis, and architects are uniquely positioned to help solve it. AIA ratified the Resolution for Urgent and Sustained Climate Action and has adopted the Framework for...
Toward an Architectural Education with an Awareness of Advocacy
9/14/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In this third and final panel of the three-part Advocacy and Agency in Architecture series organized by the AIANY Social Science and Architecture Committee, we will explore a range of learning...
Understanding Equity in Sustainable Architecture
9/7/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Are we just fulfilling checkboxes when we claim to design for equity? In 2023, our design focus and impact assessment warrant scrutiny. Architecture both mirrors and molds society. It nurtures...
Recipe for a Room: Places of Respite
9/6/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Recipe for a Room is a model-making contest about building spatial, sculptural, miniature rooms while fostering fun, creativity and professional mentorship. For the 2023 edition, two-person teams, each comprised of...
Book Talk – Why Public Space Matters to New York
9/5/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion to mark the occasion of Setha Low's new publication, Why Public Space Matters (Oxford University Press, 2022), in conversation with Ya-Ting Liu, Matthew Clarke, and Quilian Riano....
Chile Day: Emerging Chilean Architecture
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...
Women in Architecture Roundtable: Reinforcing Safe & Equitable Practice
8/16/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Pier 57 | Daffodil & Seahorse Community Classrooms
Recent news has again brought to light the persistent challenges women continue to face in our industry. AIA New York acknowledges that these incidents serve as painful and traumatic reminders...
Circular Economy and Design Part 2 – Disassembly and Reuse
8/9/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
This course is the second in a two-part series on the principles and practices of circular design in architecture. In this panel discussion, professionals from deconstruction research, supply chain management,...
Start Accurate Stay Accurate: Laser Scanning and BIM
8/8/23, 12pm - 1pm
Zoom
In this course, subject matter experts from the team at Existing Conditions will illustrate how 3D laser scanning, point clouds, and BIM can be used to reduce risk and add...
Turkey and Syria after the Earthquakes: Mid-Term Relief & Transitional Programs
7/29/23, 9:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
This presentation will start at 10am EST/5pm GMT. Doors will open for in-person attendance at 9:30am EST/4:30PM GMT. The 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that hit Southeastern Turkey and Syria on February...
Beyond ADA: Social Connections in Aging Communities
7/26/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How does the need for community change as we age? What does it mean to be socially connected and physically cared for in your home? How can design facilitate better...
Turkey and Syria After the Earthquakes: Emergency Responses
7/22/23, 9:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
The 7.8- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that hit southeastern Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2023 officially took an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 lives. Entire neighborhoods were destroyed in cities such...
Creative Inspirations and Multiple Applications of Natural Leather
7/20/23, 12pm - 2:30pm
New York Metropolitan Pavilion
Sustainable leather can be used to create a variety of building products, including flooring, wall coverings, and furniture. Architects, designers, and builders—particularly ones interested in sustainability and creative experimentation in...
Creative Inspirations and Multiple Applications of Natural Leather
7/19/23, 12pm - 2:30pm
Metropolitan Pavilion
Sustainable leather can be used to create a variety of building products, including flooring, wall coverings, and furniture. Architects, designers, and builders—particularly ones interested in sustainability and creative experimentation in...
Moisture Management and Protection Strategies for Mass Timber Buildings
7/12/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Interest in mass timber and awareness of its advantages have exploded in recent years. But with any new construction technique comes new challenges. For mass timber, a particular concern is...
Decarbonizing NYC Labs: New FDNY Compliance Pathway for Optimized Ventilation
7/6/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Science and Research Facilities Committee for a program exploring ventilation strategies at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Belfer Research Building, designed by Ennead Architects with Jaros, Baum & Bolles...
Françoise Raynaud: On Botanical Buildings
6/29/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Françoise Raynaud for "Botanical Buildings," a talk on the connection between the built and natural environments. How do we live better in the city tomorrow? Today, more than ever, buildings must...
In Conversation with the Land: Two Indigenous Practices
6/28/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Elisapeta Heta (Ngātiwai, Waikato Tainui, Sāmoa from Aotearoa New Zealand) and Chris Cornelius (citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, North America) will discuss their experiences as Indigenous designers, comparing...
LATITUDES: Latin American Architecture NOW
6/22/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
This program brings together over a dozen architects practicing across Latin America, from Mexico to Chile. Conceived as a complement to CAMPUS AULA: Educational Architecture in Latin America, currently on view at...
Anti-Racist Hot Dog: Creating Inclusive Workspaces
6/20/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As architects, we must push ourselves to create socially-responsible and ethical designs. However, before we can achieve this, we must first address the biases and patterns of discrimination that exist...
Designing for Coastal Resiliency in Lower Manhattan: Why, What, How?
6/12/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Several projects responding to sea level rise and future storms are being designed and constructed in and around New York, and especially in lower Manhattan. These projects are large, complex...
Reimagining Justice: A Conversation with Formerly Incarcerated Artists
6/6/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Ideas and proposals that once existed at the margins are now central to conversations on criminal justice. Today, we must ask ourselves, “Over the past years of cultural and political...
Book Talk – Verify in Field: Projects and Conversations with Höweler + Yoon
5/31/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a talk by Eric Höweler, J. Meejin Yoon, and Thomas de Monchaux for a discussion on Höweler + Yoon's latest book, Verify in Field: Projects and Conversations with Höweler +...
2023 Gil Oberfield Lecture: Desai Chia Architecture
5/22/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The annual Gil Oberfield Lecture was founded in honor of Gil Oberfield, AIA, former member and chair of the AIANY Interiors Committee. The lecture brings to the podium speakers whose...
The Mycelium House: From Sculpture to Tiny Home
5/19/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
The Mycelium House is a series of design workshops exploring the use of mycelium, the thread-like structures (hyphae) in fungi, as a residential building material in combination with other zero-carbon...
Advocacy and Agency in Architecture: Organizational Models
5/16/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The series “Advocacy and Agency in Architecture” will explore how current modalities of architectural education and practice have the potential for architects to act as advocates and agents for change...
Scandinavian Schoolhouse Design
5/15/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
What do schools look like in Sweden and Scandinavia today? What will they look like tomorrow? What expectations and pressures are placed on these important buildings? And how do we...
Visualizing Building Science with Infrared Thermography
5/11/23, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
An infrared (IR) camera is a critical investigative tool for building diagnostics, used to detect a wide range of thermal anomalies ranging from air leaks and missing insulation to HVAC...
Women in Design and Development: The Value of an Integrated Approach
5/10/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As more architects foray into the realm of real-estate development and urban planning, the interdisciplinary thinking that is required for navigating work at this intersection becomes increasingly important. Please join...
Art Omi: Open Works and Architectural Installations
5/9/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Art Omi for a panel about “open works.” The panel will explore architectural works and installations that are dynamic and not static. Rather than a single integration, open works...
Material Worlds: Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures
5/5/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Carson Chan and Lindsey Wikstrom for the culmination of the Material Worlds lecture series. The inaugural episode of Materials Worlds was focused on Mass Timber, and brought together the President...
Women in Fabrication Conference and Workshop
4/29/23, 9am - 5:30pm
Eventscape
As the industry explores more sustainable construction methods and technologies to iterate the design process, the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee (WIA) hosts five pioneering women design and construction leaders...
Experimental: Recent Work by Studio Zhu Pei
4/28/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
During this evening event, Zhu Pei will present recent work by Beijing-based Studio Zhu Pei, including the Imperial Kiln Museum, the Majiayao Ruins Museum Observatory, and the Zibo Art Center....
Build Out Alliance: An Evening with Matthew Bremer
4/27/23, 5:30pm - 7pm
Gensler, 1700 Broadway, New York, NY, 10019
Matthew Bremer, AIA, became President of AIA New York in January 2023 and, in doing so, became the first openly gay person to hold this position since the organization's founding...
Circular Economy and Design Part 1: Applying Arup’s Circular Buildings Toolkit
4/26/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
This course is the first in a two-part series on the principles and practices of circular design in architecture. The course will briefly introduce the concept of the circular economy...
Transportation and Infrastructure Spotlight: LaGuardia Airport (Terminal B)
4/25/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Brickworks
As the first in a series of spotlight events celebrating winners of AIANY's Transportation and Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards, this program will focus on LaGuardia Airport's new Terminal B, a...
Cocktails & Conversation: Farshid Moussavi with Joann Gonchar
4/14/23, 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. This program...
The Mycelium House: Material Exploration for a Zero-Carbon Tiny Home (Session C)
4/12/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Zoom
“The Mycelium House” is a series of design workshops exploring the use of mycelium, the thread-like structures (hyphae) in fungi, as a residential building material in combination with other zero-carbon...
Guidance for Emerging Sustainable Design Warriors: Opportunities in a New Era
4/11/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Are you passionate about sustainable design yet perplexed by how to get started? Would you like to learn how to support sustainability efforts as a firm principal, a firm specialist,...
Book Talk – E 1027: Restoring a House By the Sea
4/4/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Published following the completion the long-awaited restoration of a legendary house, this book explores an exemplary conservation project. A modern house par excellence, Villa E 1027, located in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, was...
Cocktails & Conversation: Nader Tehrani with Nima Javidi
3/31/23, 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. This program...
Back to the Office: 50 Revolutionary Office Buildings and How They Sustained
3/30/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a conversation with Ashley Schafer, Ruth Baumeister, and Stephan Petermann about their latest publication, Back to the Office: 50 Revolutionary Office Buildings and How They Sustained (NAi010 publishing, 2022). ...
AIANY Design Awards: Interiors Showcase
3/29/23, 6pm - 8pm
Brickworks Design Studio
Organized by the AIANY Interiors Committee, this program dives into the recipients of the 2023 AIANY Design Awards in the Interiors category. Project presentations will be led by the architectural...
Centering the Role of Design in Design-Build
3/22/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
As New York City moves to increase the use of design-build for critical project delivery, and amidst the pressures of cost and time savings, how can we work together to...
Buildings of Excellence Round Three Awards
3/21/23, 10am - 11am
Zoom
Please join us to celebrate the winning projects for Round Three of the Buildings of Excellence Competition, New York State Energy and Research Development Authority's (NYSERDA) exciting $48+ million initiative...
Book Talk: New York Stilled Life
3/20/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a book talk on New York Stilled Life: Portrait of a City in Lockdown (Goff Books, 2021), led by author Gregory Peterson. Mid-March 2020: native New Yorker Gregory...
Remembering Rafael Viñoly: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
3/16/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
We are deeply saddened to learn that Rafael Viñoly, FAIA, passed away on March 2 in New York City at the age of 78. Our thoughts are with his family,...
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The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway at 75: A Crisis in Context
3/14/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
In-Person Tickets are now sold out! We are still accepting registrations to join the event on Zoom. The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is in need of an integrated approach that incorporates both...
Embrace Equity: Madame Architect on Stories and Lessons for a Way Forward
3/8/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
AKDO Showroom
For the past five years, the digital magazine and media start-up Madame Architect has celebrated the extraordinary women that shaped our world. Its founder and Editor-in-Chief, Julia Gamolina, Assoc. AIA,...
Book Talk: Creating Dynamic Places for Learning
3/1/23, 9am - 11am
Center for Architecture
Peter Lippman and Elizabeth Matthews will present their latest book, Creating Dynamic Places for Learning: An Evidence Based Design Approach (Springer, 2023), which provides an evidence-based design approach to the planning...
Cloudbursts and NYC: Strategies for Design, Mitigation, and Implementation
2/28/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In August and September 2021, Hurricanes Henri and Ida showed us the havoc intense rainfall can create across New York City’s five boroughs. More than 40 deaths occurred, caused by...
Book Talk: The Architecture of Disability
2/23/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
By re-contextualizing the history of architecture through the discourse of disability, David Gissen's recent book The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) presents...
Book Talk: Geospaces – Continuities Between Humans, Spaces, and the Earth
2/15/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Join Salon Alper Derinboğaz founder and principal Alper Derinboğaz for the launch of his book Geospaces: Continuities Between Humans, Spaces, and the Earth (Actar Publishers, 2022). Geospaces is an extended visual essay of...
Book Talk: Occupation: Boundary – Art, Architecture, and Culture at the Water
2/13/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cathy Simon and Laurie Olin will discuss the book Occupation: Boundary Art, Architecture, and Culture at the Water (ORO Editions, 2022) in a conversation moderated by Ashley Simone. The book...
Book Talk: Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect
2/10/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the Center for Architecture for a discussion on the book Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect (Birkhäuser, 2022), edited by Frida Grahn. From the bustle...
The Howl: An Open Mic and Film Forum
2/9/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Howl will serve as a multimedia forum to explore storytelling and filmmaking as powerful tools for architects to create a more compelling, equitable, and sustainable built environment. Stories shape...
Design for a Connected Society and Home
2/2/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Advances in communications technology have created a connected society and living environments. Today's network speed, accessibility, and the expansion of online connectivity and content allow us to access and manage...
New Practices in Conversation: ANY
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...
Kenneth Frampton: Modernization & the Presence of Architecture
2/1/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In this event, Kenneth Frampton will explore the impact on architecture of a society undergoing constant technological modernization, which renders the realization of social theorist Jürgen Habermas’s "unfinished modern project" (the idea...
Unionization in Architecture
1/30/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Though New York’s architects have long been unionized in the public sector and academia, it was not until 2022 that an architecture firm unionized. In this panel discussion, you will...
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Cocktails & Conversation: Thom Mayne and Winka Dubbeldam
1/27/23, 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. This program...
12th Annual Women in Architecture Recognition Award and Holiday Party
1/26/23, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Brickworks Design Studio
Come celebrate the New Year at the AIANY Women in Architecture (WIA) Holiday Party in the Brickworks Design Studio as we toast to the women licensed in 2022 and to...
The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy
1/24/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
What is the innovation economy, and how does it shape the city? Join us for a conversation with Sharon Zukin and Alby Bocanegra on The Innovation Complex, a book exploring the forces...
Brunner Recipient Roundtable: Post-World War II Architecture in Europe
1/23/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
AIA New York and the Center for Architecture host a panel discussion with recipients of the Arnold W. Brunner Grant, which supports advanced studies in any area of architectural investigation that...
Redlines and Green Zones: Reassessing the Redline Maps
1/18/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Between 1935 and 1940, the federal government through the U.S. Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) drew and issued maps of cities and towns all over the U.S. The purpose of...
New Practices in Conversation: BRANDT : HAFERD
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...
2023 AIANY Design Awards Announcement
1/9/23, 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 discussion with this year's jurors will follow....
Designing for Post-Incarceration
12/16/22, 8:30am - 1pm
Center for Architecture
Incarceration is at the heart of major debates in both architecture and government. Even as New York City and State change decades-long policies around criminal justice, major questions remain about...
AIA New York 2023 Board Inaugural
12/14/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
AIA New York invites you to celebrate the 2023 Board Inaugural. The event will feature the passing of the gavel from 2022 President Andrea Lamberti, AIA, to 2023 President Matt...
RESCHEDULED – Redlines and Green Zones: Reassessing the Redline Maps
12/13/22, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Please note this event has been rescheduled for Between 1935 and 1940, the federal government through the U.S. Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) drew and issued maps of cities and...
Manfredo Tafuri’s Modern Architecture in Japan
12/12/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Jean-Louis Cohen, Catherine Ingraham, Yukie Kamiya, and Mohsen Mostafavi for a discussion of the celebrated Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri's book Modern Architecture in Japan (Mack Books, 2022). Originally...
Giuliana Bruno: Atmospheres of Projection
12/7/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Giuliana Bruno presents her new book, Atmospheres of Projection: Environmentality in Art and Screen Media (University of Chicago Press, 2022), which considers the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment. "What...
New Practices in Conversation: Bryony Roberts Studio with Alexandra Lange
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...
Retail Design Institute’s 51st International Design Competition
12/6/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Interiors Committee and the Retail Design Institute NY Chapter as they host presentations by New York firms for projects recognized in the Retail Design Institute’s 51st International...
New Practices in Conversation: Citygroup
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...
Cocktails & Conversation: Sarah Williams with Brad Samuels
12/2/22, 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. For this...
Design for Deconstruction: The Circular Economy and NYC’s Building Industry
12/1/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This event, hosted by the AIANY Civic Leadership Program, will explore the environmental, financial, and social impacts of construction and demolition waste disposal in NYC, as well as options for...
New Practices in Conversation: GRT Architects with Marc Tsurumaki
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...
Samuel Ratensky Memorial Lecture: Angela Brooks & Lawrence Scarpa
11/28/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The annual Samuel Ratensky Memorial 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...
Piero Lissoni on Unintentionally Perfect: The Philosophy of the Error
11/21/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Every project has an incredible capacity to create, to generate, to produce errors, sometimes in a way that is totally unintentional, either because some things—a proportion, a depth, a height—are...
Today’s Global Harvard Design Magazine 50: Sarah Whiting and Nicolai Ouroussoff
11/18/22, 9am - 10:30am
Center for Architecture
Join us for an hour-long discussion between educator and design critic Nicolai Ouroussoff and Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of...
Agricultural Modernization and Collective Memory: 50 Species-Towns
11/17/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architect and urbanist Charles Waldheim, John E. Irving Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, invites you to a reception for his recent book, Agricultural Modernization and Collective Memory: 50 Species-Towns (Harvard...
New Practices in Conversation: New Affiliates with Paul Lewis
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...
Advocacy, Agency and Architecture: Evolving Beyond Participatory Design
11/16/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The series “Advocacy and Agency in Architecture” will explore how current modalities of architectural education and practice have the potential for architects to act as advocates and agents for change...
Biking in NYC Now: Opportunities and Limitations Within Urban Infrastructure
11/15/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As we take stock after the pandemic, it’s clear that more people are competing for New York City's limited biking infrastructure. The increased demand has come from residents and tourists...
BDNY
11/14/22, 9am - 5pm
Javits Center
Set in the cultural capital of New York City, BDNY, the leading trade fair and conference for boutique hospitality and lifestyle interiors, returns to the Javits Center to connect hospitality...
BDNY
11/13/22, 9am - Monday, 11/14, 5pm
Javits Center
Set in the cultural capital of New York City, BDNY, the leading trade fair and conference for boutique hospitality and lifestyle interiors, returns to the Javits Center to connect hospitality...
Wast(ED): Living with Trash
11/8/22, 4pm - 8pm
SOM's office at 7 World Trade on the 27th floor and Zoom
Please join the AIANY Committee on the Environment, Pratt's Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) program, NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) for...
The Mycelium House: Material Exploration for a Zero-Carbon Tiny Home (Session A)
11/3/22, 12pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
The Mycelium House is a series of design workshops exploring the possibility of using mycelium, the thread-like structures (hyphae) in fungi, as a residential building material in combination with other...
AIANY Women in Architecture Professional Practice Series: Path to Principal
11/2/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The percentage of women in top jobs at the biggest architecture firms has doubled over the past five years, but women still only occupy one out of five key roles....
Sandy+10: Resilient Future
11/1/22, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Ten years after Hurricane Sandy, New York City and the greater region are slowly increasing their resliency to coastal storms and their impacts. However, as we’ve learned in the years...
Emerging Practices: Hong Kong and New York
10/28/22, 8am - 9:30am
Center for Architecture and Zoom
A select group of emerging professionals from New York City and Hong Kong will discuss their architectural practices. The practices all share in common that they actively seek to redefine...
Book Talk: The Women Who Changed Architecture
10/26/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for a conversation with three accomplished architects featured in The Women Who Changed Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2022). This publication is a visual...
Michael Boyd: Millennium Modern
10/25/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Michael Boyd lives by Le Corbusier's mantra: “To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows...
Mass Timber Construction: Sara Cultural Center
10/24/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Mass timber has emerged as one of the most sustainable solutions for building structures and research on engineered timber has unleashed a world of previously unimagined design possibilities. The newly...
Vision Zero Cities: Safe Streets Save Lives
10/20/22, 8am - 4:30pm
Center for Architecture
Vision Zero is not just a policy goal—it’s an imperative. From October 19–21, Vision Zero Cities will bring together leading industry and policy experts, advocates, and elected officials. Explore the...
Women in the Allied Professions Panel | NYU 181 Mercer: Facade Design Technology
10/17/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How does an innovative, state-of-the-art university complex get executed? Join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for an engaging panel discussion on NYU’s 181 Mercer Street. Learn from the women-led...
Community Schools Workshop
10/14/22, 9am - 11am
Center for Architecture
How can a school’s design and programming enhance learning, resiliency, and wellness not only for students and teachers but the community as a whole? Join the AIANY Education Committee for...
Book Talk: Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens
10/13/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
To celebrate the third edition of Ioanna Theocharopoulou’s book Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens (Onassis, 2022), the Onassis Foundation is hosting a wide-ranging discussion about the relevance of...
History of Existing Party Walls and New Construction
10/12/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
For over 2,000 years party walls have offered common solutions for residential construction in cities. In New York City, these empirically designed walls multiplied in the 1800s especially as a...
16th Annual Arthur M. Rosenblatt Lecture: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
10/6/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Arthur M. Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture on Museum Design is a signature event organized each year by the AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee. This year, the committee is honored to host...
Designing Schools in the Post-COVID World
10/4/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The global COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented disruption to schools and education, not only in New York City but around the world. Join the AIANY Architecture for Education Committee for a...
CONNECT: A Lecture by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing, OPEN Architecture
9/27/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Li Hu and Huang Wenjing will present recent public and cultural projects by the New York City- and Beijing-based design practice OPEN Architecture, including those included in the new book Reinventing...
Stories from Arquitina: Elevating Latinas in Architecture
9/20/22, 5pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As we strive for a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive architecture profession, we seek to elevate those that have been largely left out conversations on racial equity. Arquitina, an organization...
James Wines: Re-Thinking it All
9/15/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the Center for Architecture for a lecture by James Wines, President of SITE NY, as he explores the messages communicated, impact on the natural environment, and cost implications of buildings...
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Delivering the Goods: NYC Urban Freight in the Age of E-Commerce
9/12/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Webinar
When do you want your delivery? The next day? The same day? In a few hours? In recent years shifts in expectations and consumption have led to a surge in...
Exactitude: On Precision and Play in Contemporary Architecture
9/7/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a book talk for Exactitude: On Precision and Play in Contemporary Architecture (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022). Precision is necessary in the field of architecture. New technologies have increased...
Decolonizing Suburbia
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
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...
Sensory Space: Design for Neurodiversity
7/21/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The design of interiors affects everything we do. This interactive, in-person program asks: How do we feel in an interior and why do we feel that way? What elements make...
The Infrastructure Bill: In Conversation with Polly Trottenberg
7/19/22, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Zoom
In November 2021, the US Congress passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), creating the most ambitious federal transportation and infrastructure program in a decade, with major funding streams directed to...
Building for the Youngest New Yorkers: NYC SCA’s Pre-K/3-K Programs
7/13/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Architecture for Education Committee for a lively roundtable discussing the design, programming, construction, and management of New York City’s Universal 3-K and Pre-K programs, spaces that needed...
Aging Against the Machine
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...
IndiaNOW: Architecture in the Contemporary Landscape
6/28/22, 9am - 12:30pm
Webinar
This program will run from 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT and in India from 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM IST. See the full program PDF here. The post-Independence project...
Equity in Electrification: Electrification of Affordable Housing
6/22/22, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture and Webinar
The passage of Local Law 154 means that design professionals in New York City will be tasked with providing effective solutions for electrifying buildings. With this push towards a more...
Studio Tour and Presentation: Brickworks Design Studio
6/22/22, 6pm - 8pm
Brickworks Design Studio
Join the AIANY Interiors Committee and the Retail Design Institute New York Chapter as they host presentations on the brand, design, and construction of the recently opened Brickworks Design Studio....
Public Housing, Practice, and Design: New York + London
6/17/22, 9am - 1pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Amid the current housing and affordability crisis, there is a clear need for city governments to take an expanded role in promoting the practice of good design in the provision...
2022 AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Awards Winners’ Event
6/16/22, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
Join the AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee as they announce the 2022 winners of the AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards. The AIANY + ASLANY Transportation +...
Book Talk: Climate Change and the Built Environment
6/14/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Climate change can have enormous impacts on our nation’s public infrastructure. Insurance companies, government agencies, and regulatory entities are continuously reevaluating the risks inherent in the range of situations that...
Fellows Workshop 2022
6/10/22, 8:30am - 10:30am
Center for Architecture & Webinar
The Fellows Workshop provides section-by-section guidance about the schedule, contents, and formatting requirements for an FAIA submission to the AIA National Jury. Members of the AIANY Fellows Committee will lead...
Interiors Speed Presentations: Edition 13
6/9/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the 13th edition of the AIANY Interiors Committee’s Speed Presentations. In alignment with 2022 AIANY President Andrea Lamberti’s theme, Just Practice, the theme of this year’s edition is...
Building Socially Sustainable Communities: Bridging the Divide at Essex Crossing
6/8/22, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Every community should have an opportunity to develop a collective vision to shape its future. Often, the process of urban redevelopment can be polarizing, with community stakeholders and private developers entrenched...
Independent Aging in Asian Cities
6/7/22, 7pm - 9pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Often in the American imagination, Asian societies are better places to grow old. This event investigates that premise with panelists who specialize in issues of the elderly in three major...
Morning Leadership Talk: Elaine Molinar, AIA
6/3/22, 8am - 9am
Center for Architecture
The work from Snøhetta strives to enhance our sense of surroundings, identity, and relationship to others and the physical spaces we inhabit. Museums, products, reindeer observatories, graphics, landscapes, and dollhouses...
Designing Energy Efficient Buildings with cove.tool
6/2/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Webinar
Designing day-lit, glare free, energy-efficient buildings under budget-shifting energy codes is challenging architects with a wide array of parameters to balance like energy, cost, daylight, views, and embodied carbon. Meanwhile,...
Planning for Waste Management: DSNY’s New Rule for Residential Buildings
5/20/22, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
Watch the CEU accredited course here. How much space will your building’s trash and recycling take up on the sidewalk? New residential buildings over 150 units now need to submit...
Open Restaurants Innovation: 3 Teams Share Findings
5/20/22, 12pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
This public event, which marks the official end of the Open Restaurants Innovation program, will feature presentations by three teams who have been working directly with multiple stakeholders, including restaurateurs,...
2022 Gil Oberfield Lecture: LTL Architects
5/19/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The annual Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture was founded in honor of Gil Oberfield, AIA, former member and chair of the AIANY Interiors Committee. The lecture brings to the podium speakers...
The Infrastructure Bill: What Are the Regional Priorities?
5/18/22, 12pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
The federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is poised to unlock an historic level of funding for a vast array of infrastructure projects. This program will feature discussions with representatives from the...
The Destruction of Memory: Film Showing & Discussion
5/18/22, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Webinar
Join the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee for a screening of The Destruction of Memory: The War Against Culture and the Battle to Save It. “Over the past...
Insider Tour: Weeksville Heritage Center (Late Tour)
5/17/22, 3pm - 5pm
Weeksville Heritage Center
Join the AIANY Historic Buildings Committee for a special in-depth tour of the Weeksville Heritage Center. In addition to learning about the important history of the site and touring the historic...
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Insider Tour: Weeksville Heritage Center (Early Tour)
5/17/22, 2pm - 4pm
Weeksville Heritage Center
Join the AIANY Historic Buildings Committee for a special in-depth tour of the Weeksville Heritage Center. In addition to learning about the important history of the site and touring the historic...
NYC’s Housing Crisis
5/13/22, 8am - 1pm
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, 455 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016
Lost in the shadow of competing issues of economics, climate, racial equity, and the pandemic affecting New York City is a new chapter in the housing crisis, evidenced by multiple...
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China Dialogues
5/10/22, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
China Dialogues (ORO Editions & Tongji University Press, 2022) is an anthology of 21 insightful conversations selected by Vladimir Belogolovsky from his archive of interviews conducted with leading Chinese architects...
Carlo Mollino: Architect and Storyteller
5/9/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a conversation about the newly published book, Carlo Mollino: Architect and Storyteller (Park Books, 2021), by co-authors Napoleone Ferrari and Michelangelo Sabatino. Italian architect and designer Carlo...
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The Project of Independence: A Conversation with Raj Rewal
5/4/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Following the end of British rule in 1947/48, architects in the territories of today’s India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka embraced the language of modernism as a means of proclaiming...
Robert A.M. Stern’s Journey in Architecture: A Conversation with Barry Bergdoll
4/22/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Robert A.M. Stern’s newly published autobiography, Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture (Monacelli, 2022), surveys his life and seismic role in the field of architecture from the 1960s to the...
Designing Urban Agriculture Part III: Emerging Models and New Directions
4/20/22, 12pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
The third in a three-part lecture series on urban agriculture, this program explores best practices, emerging models, and new directions for urban agriculture. Our first panel asked, “Why now?” Our...
Deborah Berke: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
4/19/22, 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 they...
Buildings of Excellence Round 3 Announcement
4/7/22, 11am - 12pm
Zoom
Please join NYSERDA and Passive House Accelerator virtually for an exciting announcement on Buildings of Excellence, NYSERDA’s $40 million program to advance resilient, profitable, beautiful and affordable buildings for all...
Public Space Research and Design: Tracing Gender and Sexuality Inequalities
4/5/22, 5pm - 6:30pm
Zoom
Societal attitudes toward public spaces have long been plagued by binary thinking: is this space good or bad, safe or seedy, masculine or feminine? These reductionist framings often create inequalities,...
Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb
3/31/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Sunnyside Gardens was one of the early 20th century’s most acclaimed experiments in affordable housing in New York. Based on their recent book, Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a...
The Infrastructure Bill: What Are Some of the Key Components?
3/30/22, 12pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, signed into law by President Biden on November 15th, 2021, contains $1.2 trillion in total spending on a vast array of different infrastructure projects,...
Book Launch: Formulations by Andrew Witt
3/26/22, 12pm - 2pm
Center for Architecture
Join author Andrew Witt to launch his new Writing Architecture Series book, Formulations, an examination of the intersections between architecture and mathematics and of architecture’s encounters with calculational systems. In...
Cocktails & Conversation: Moshe Safdie, FAIA, with Donald Albrecht
3/25/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
*Ticket price includes the evening’s custom-crafted cocktail. Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss...
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2022 New Fellows Celebration
3/24/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Each year, the American Institute of Architects elevates selected candidates to its prestigious AIA College of Fellows. Advancement is granted for significant achievements in design, preservation, education, literature, and service....
Re-Generation: Design and New Technologies for a Sustainable Future
3/23/22, 10am - 12pm
Zoom
Italian Design is a distinctive element of the “Italy Brand” and contributor of innovative technologies for a sustainable future. Join Italian Design Day to learn about the trends and determinants...
Exploring Community Engagement with Hester Street: Building Community Control
3/17/22, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
Community control is a development strategy used by residents and nonprofit organizations to retain and grow community wealth, increase resilience, preserve community space and culture, build local power, and uplift...
Yung Ho Chang: Building Issues
3/15/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a lecture by Yung Ho Chang, where the architect will discuss building issues in architecture, such as form, space, and tectonics, as well as issues beyond the...
afikra Pop-up: Live Conversation with Mohamed Elshahed and Rami Abou-Khalil
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...
Founders Forum 2022: Women Who Break the Bias
3/2/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Webinar
Meet the women who are helping to #BreakTheBias in the profession while building their own practices, and learn how you can be inspired to do the same! In honor of...
Cocktails & Conversation: Brooks + Scarpa with Joseph Giovannini
2/25/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
*Ticket price includes the evening’s custom-crafted cocktail. Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss...
Hurricane Ida: Impacts and Exposures
2/24/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Webinar
During the summer of 2021, the Northeast experienced unprecedented hurricanes and intense rainfall, causing extreme flooding and more than 40 deaths. Many of the deaths in New York City occurred...
Founders Showcase: Black Firms in the Spotlight
2/23/22, 6pm - 8pm
Webinar
Join the AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) and the AIANY Diversity and Inclusion Committee as we celebrate Black firm founders who have united their love of architecture and design with...
Design Presentation: African Burial Ground National Monument
2/16/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
To celebrate Black History Month, the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee will have an abbreviated committee meeting from 6:30-7:00 pm, which will then transition to a virtual design presentation by...
Global Modernism Today
2/10/22, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
This panel will focus on the current state of histories of global modernism, a term often used to expand the scope of previously Euro-centric narratives around the architectural production of...
Women in Architecture Speed Mentoring
2/9/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Webinar
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee (WIA) for our 13th annual Speed Mentoring event, which is going virtual for the second year in a row! One of WIA’s...
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Child of Apartheid Film Screening
1/31/22, 6pm - 7:30pm
Zoom
Join the AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) for an evening of filmmaking, architecture, and activism as we host an exclusive virtual screening of Child of Apartheid. This short,...
AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction: 10th Anniversary Event
12/16/21, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Webinar
This special event will celebrate the first ten years of the AIANY Design for Risk & Reconstruction Committee (DfRR). Recognizing the need to address the increasing threats and vulnerabilities faced...
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
12/13/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
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 they...
AIA New York 2022 Board Inaugural
12/9/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
AIA New York invites you to celebrate the 2022 Board Inaugural. The event will feature the passing of the gavel from 2021 President Kenneth Lewis, AIA, to 2022 President Andrea...
Retail Design Institute’s 50th International Design Competition
12/6/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Interiors Committee and the Retail Design Institute NY Chapter as they host presentations by New York firms for projects recognized in the Retail Design Institute’s 50th International...
POSTPONED – AIA New York Member Happy Hour
12/3/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
AIA New York is welcoming members and friends back to the Center for Architecture! After an 18-month hiatus, New York City’s leading venue for architecture and the built environment has...
Launch Event – New York: An Illustrated History
11/29/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a launch event for the newly expanded edition of New York: An Illustrated History by Ric Burns and James Sanders, with a brief remarks featuring a selection of...
Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights (Session 5)
11/23/21, 11am - 1pm
Lost City Arts
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace. While initially fueled by the fine arts market, design has...
Public Space Research Design Part I: Gauging Climate Inequities
11/18/21, 5pm - 6:30pm
Webinar
As we all witness the effects of climate change on our cities, it is impossible to ignore how environmental issues perpetuate long-standing social injustice and inequality. Disproportionate tree canopies, long-neglected infrastructural repairs,...
Building the Circular Society: Brick by Brick
11/17/21, 8:30am - 9:30am
Zoom
According to the circular pioneers at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the circular economy is based on three fundamental questions: What if waste and pollution were never created in the first place?...
Shakers Architecture: Did Diversity Drive Innovation?
11/16/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Near the end of the 18th Century, the Shakers of Mount Lebanon, New York formed an intentional, faith-based society that thrived well into the 19th Century. The Shakers are celebrated...
Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights (Session 4)
11/15/21, 11am - 1pm
Park Avenue Armory
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace. While initially fueled by the fine arts market, design has...
A Better Choice: Healthy Materials for Affordable Housing
11/11/21, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
Why should we care about material choices when designing affordable housing? During this presentation, Catherine Murphy, Senior Research Associate at Parsons Healthy Materials Lab, and Shelby O’Neil, Senior Program Officer...
Samuel Ratensky Memorial Lecture: Lacaton & Vassal and Frédéric Druot
11/10/21, 7pm - 9pm
The Great Hall at Cooper Union and Zoom
Link to simulcast available here. The annual Ratensky Lecture was founded by the AIANY Housing Committee in honor of Samuel Ratensky (1910-1972), an architect and housing official who was responsible for major...
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2021 Deans’ Roundtable
11/5/21, 6pm - 8pm
Zoom
Please join us for the Center for Architecture’s 17th-annual Deans’ Roundtable. Representatives from over a dozen northeastern schools of architecture will discuss current directions in architectural education. Speakers: Marta Gutman, Interim Dean,...
Book Talk: The Future of Modular Architecture
11/3/21, 6pm - 7pm
Center for Architecture
David Wallance, FAIA, will present a lecture on his recently published book, The Future of Modular Architecture (Routledge, 2021). The Future of Modular Architecture presents an unprecedented proposal for mass-customized mid-and high-rise...
Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights (Session 3)
11/2/21, 11am - 1pm
Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace. While initially fueled by the fine arts market, design has...
POSTPONED – Travel To: Khushnu Panthaki Hoof on Balkrishna Doshi
10/26/21, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Zoom
*This event has been postponed! A new date will be released as soon as possible.* Architect, designer, and curator Khushnu Panthaki Hoof joins us from India to discuss her work...
Wast(ED): Living with Trash
10/26/21, 3pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Please join the AIANY Committee on the Environment, Pratt’s Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) program, NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) for...
Designing Urban Agriculture Part II: Digging in to Farming in the City
10/25/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
The second in a three-part lecture series on urban agriculture, this program will focus on the on-the-ground logistics of urban farming, including issues of land use, design, format, scale, community...
Morning Leadership Talk: Francine Houben
10/22/21, 8am - 9am
Zoom
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for the Archtober installment of their Morning Leadership Talk series. Featured speaker Francine Houben, Founding Partner and Creative Director of Mecanoo, will discuss...
The New Art Depot
10/19/21, 12pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
The new art depot is an unprecedented building typology that responds to the desire of museums around the world to expand public access to their collections. At any given time, major...
Designing, Training and Building in Four African Nations
10/19/21, 8:30am - 10:30am
Center for Architecture and Zoom
The AIANY Architecture Dialogue Committee is collaborating with the AIANY Future of Practice and AIANY Global Dialogue Committees to feature discussions on global design issues by emerging and mid-career global...
Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights (Session 2)
10/19/21, 11am - 1pm
Heller Gallery
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace. While initially fueled by the fine arts market, design has...
TORCH Mentorship Program: Advancing Your Career
10/18/21, 6pm - 8pm
Zoom
Our careers are a series of choices we make over a lifetime. They shape—and are shaped by—our life experiences and the opportunities we are exposed to. Join us for the...
J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture | The Man, The Legacy
10/14/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Zoom
Join the New York Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (nycoba | NOMA), the J. Max Bond Center of City University of New York, and the AIANY Diversity...
Travel To: Young & Ayata in Mexico City
10/12/21, 12pm - 1pm
Zoom
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Winner of a 2021 AIA New York Honor Award, Young & Ayata...
Design for Us, By Us: Activating Community Agency
10/9/21, 10:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Join the Community Design Collaborative (Philadelphia) and the Center for Architecture (New York City) for a cross-festival event featuring some of the top voices in community-led design. Bridging Design Philadelphia and...
Remembering Kristen Richards: Connecting Through Architecture
10/8/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
In July 2021, Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA, passed away. Join us for an evening featuring some things she loved: lively stories, deep conversation, and connecting with friends. At...
Book Talk – Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things
10/7/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for an event with Winka Dubbeldam, founding partner of Archi-Tectonics NYC and Chair and Miller Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design,...
Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights (In Person)
10/5/21, 11am - Tuesday, 12/14, 1pm
Center for Architecture
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace. While initially fueled by the fine arts market, design has...
TORCH University: A Conversation with AIANY Emerging New York Architects & Pratt
10/4/21, 4pm - 5:30pm
Webinar
The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) encourages membership, participation, and leadership in AIANY among emerging architects (licensed 10 years or fewer) and professionals in the fields of design and...
Traditional Houses of Bukhara’s Old Jewish Mahallah
9/30/21, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
Home to an isolated part of the Jewish Diaspora for over two millennia, the Uzbek city of Bukhara is characterized by its traditional houses–exceptional representations of the woodworking craft developed by Bukharian...
2021 ASLA-NY, AIANY, APA-NY Annual Conference
9/24/21, 12:30pm - 5pm
Virtual
The COVID-19 Pandemic has fundamentally affected global society. In New York City, we’ve seen existing inequities exacerbated, further impacting the health and economic wellbeing of marginalized individuals and communities, making...
2021 ASLA-NY, AIA-NY, APA-NY Annual Conference
9/23/21, 9am - 1:15pm
Virtual
The COVID-19 Pandemic has fundamentally affected global society. In New York City, we’ve seen existing inequities exacerbated, further impacting the health and economic wellbeing of marginalized individuals and communities, making...
15th Annual Arthur Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture: Álvaro Siza
9/14/21, 2pm - 3:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee presents its annual lecture on excellence in...
Recipe for a Room: Places of Learning
8/19/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Recipe for a Room is a model-making contest about building spatial, sculptural,...