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Upcoming Events

Urban Design Symposium: Regional Extractions And Dependencies In The Hudson Valley

Saturday, 12/8, 2pm - Thursday, 1/1, 12:00am
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Co-hosted by the Fall Urban Design Studio, the Hudson Valley Initiative at Columbia GSAPP, the APA Urban Design Committee, and the AIANY Planning and Urban Design Committee Free and open...
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Forum on Architecture, Spirituality, and Culture Symposium 2023

Wednesday, 5/31, 9am - Sunday, 6/4, 5pm
Thomas Berry Place
“New Patterns of Communion” Symposium 2023 May 31 – June 4, 2023, New York, New York From May 31 to June 4, 2023, The Forum on Architecture, Spirituality, and Culture...
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Reimagining Justice: A Conversation with Formerly Incarcerated Artists

Image of Eye to Eye performance by Shaun Leonardo
Tuesday, 6/6, 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...
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Designing for Coastal Resiliency in Lower Manhattan: Why, What, How?

Image of Wagner Park
Monday, 6/12, 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...
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Anti-Racist Hot Dog: Creating Inclusive Workspaces

Event attendees at a previous Anti-Racist Hot Dog Event
Tuesday, 6/20, 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...
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Biodesign Challenge Summit 2023

Thursday, 6/22, 8:30am - Friday, 6/23, 4pm
Parsons School of Design and MoMA
Since its founding in 2015, Biodesign Challenge (BDC) has worked with over 100 high schools and colleges in 29 countries. Each June, finalist teams gather at the Museum of Modern...
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LATITUDES: Latin American Architecture NOW

La Casa Intermedia in Asuncion, Paraguay Architects: Equipo de Arquitectura
Thursday, 6/22, 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...
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Françoise Raynaud: On Botanical Buildings

Thursday, 6/29, 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...
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Chile Day: Emerging Chilean Architecture

Thursday, 8/17, 6pm - 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...
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Book Talk – Beyond Whyte and Jacobs: Public Space and Social Justice

Why Public Space Matters book cover
Tuesday, 9/5, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This event has been canceled.  Join us for a conversation with Setha Low on her latest publication, Why Public Space Matters (Oxford University Press, 2022). This program presents recent findings about the...
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Past Events

Changes in Campus Residential Life: Designing for a New Student Generation

6/1/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Moving into a dormitory is one of a student’s first experiences at college. How does student wellness impact the design of campus housing today and how are institutions using housing...

Book Talk – Verify in Field: Projects and Conversations with Höweler + Yoon

Front cover of "Verify in Field: Projects and Conversations | 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 +...

Tackling Water Insecurity in South Asia: The Case for Reviving Historic Water Management Systems

5/31/23, 10am - 11am
Zoom Webinar
Join World Monuments Fund (WMF) for a panel discussion exploring ongoing efforts to tackle water insecurity in South Asia by reviving historic water management systems in India and Nepal. Moderated...

The Shape of the Sacred

5/31/23, 5:30pm - 7pm
Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine
Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine will host a public conversation on contemporary sacred buildings with Justin Davidson, the architecture critic for New York Magazine. This event honors...

The Architecture of Art and Performance

5/31/23, 5:30pm - 7pm
7 World Trade Center
When it comes to culture and the performing arts, New York City’s institutions are estimable. The stages, museums, galleries and concert venues that are the homes to much of our...

2023 Gil Oberfield Lecture: Desai Chia Architecture

Interior of an open plan kitchen
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...

BQE 2053

5/20/23, 9:30am - 5:30pm
New York Harbor School on Governors Island
Join us on Saturday, May 20, 2023, at the New York Harbor School on Governors Island in New York City. The symposium includes two sessions: morning (9:30 AM–12:30 PM) and...

Looking Beyond Landmarks: Celebrating That Which is Difficult to Preserve

5/20/23, 9am - 1pm
New York Law School
Join the Historic Districts Council at the Annual Preservation Conference, which will examine sites that are difficult to preserve, including sites of cultural significance, non-buildings, places of commemoration and trauma,...

The Mycelium House: From Sculpture to Tiny Home

The Phoenix installation
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...

Immigration – A Survival Guide for the A&E Comunity

5/18/23, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Langan (or Virtual)
The pandemic disrupted business in numerous ways, not least our ability to hire qualified candidates from other countries to sponsor for work visas and green cards. Jeff Margolis, Founder, The...

City of Yes for Carbon Neutrality: Implications for NYC

5/16/23, 8:30am - 10am
Center for Architecture
Achieving New York City's target of carbon neutrality by 2050 will require significant changes to energy production, storage, and transmission; building performance and management; transportation; and waste streams. The NYC...

Advocacy and Agency in Architecture: Organizational Models

Illustration of Rubik's Cubes
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...

The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight

5/16/23, 6pm - 7pm
Online
In The Great American Transit Disaster, urban and planning historian Nicholas Dagen Bloom offers a potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit. Countering the standard histories...

Scandinavian Schoolhouse Design

interior of a Scandinavian Schoolhouse
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

Infrared image of the exterior of a building
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...

Building HueSpaces: The Legacy of Black Communities Built and Sustained

5/11/23, 9am - 5pm
Weeksville Heritage Center
As we move forward through designing your new brick and mortar space, let’s also consider how you can make the most out of your investment in our organization. How can...

Women in Design and Development: The Value of an Integrated Approach

A woman looking at a 2-D model skyline
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

View of Art Omi grounds with 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

Material Worlds lecture series posts and "Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures" book cover against yellow and green background.
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...

Limitations of Liability in the AEC Industry

5/2/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architects and engineers tend to focus intensely on the essence of their craft: delivering thoughtful, profound solutions to specific clients, the public, and society writ large through design. However, responsibly...

Building the Empire State

5/1/23, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Constructed in eleven months, the 1,250-foot Empire State Building, the world’s tallest skyscraper from 1931 to 1971, was a marvel of modern engineering. The frame rose more than a story...

Women in Fabrication Conference and Workshop

Closeup on the sculptural surface of 3D-printed concrete
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

Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum by 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

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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

Image of a 2D red circle
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)

Image of the interior of The LaGuardia Airport New 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...

Building HueSpaces Session 4: Designing with Care

4/20/23, 5pm - 8pm
Kamau Studios
This session, we are taking our discussion of accessibility into the virtual realm! In these unprecedented times, we have seen more organizations turn to technology to bridge the gap between...

Screening of And The Worlds That Surround with Live Score

4/18/23, 7pm - 8:30pm
Tishman Auditorium at The New School
For American architect and filmmaker Eric Franklin Romeo, better understanding the nuances of the environments that surround us has always served as a primer to designing within it. Over the...

Cocktails & Conversation: Farshid Moussavi with Joann Gonchar

Rendering of the exterior of Ismaili Center Houston a white brick building with crisp angles showing pedestrians walking and sitting in the public spaces
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...

Re-landscaping Notre-Dame

4/12/23, 7pm - 8pm
French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)
Four years following the tragic Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral fire, the extensive renovations have progressed to the surrounding neighborhood. The landscape architect of the LUMA park in Arles, Bas Smets,...

The Mycelium House: Material Exploration for a Zero-Carbon Tiny Home (Session C)

AI generated image of a Mycelium House using Midjourney, by Omid Oliyan
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

Pexels image of a building
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,...

Q&A with “My Architect” Filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn with architects Brinda Somaya & Gina Pollara

4/11/23, 7:30pm - 10pm
Film Forum
A new restoration of the Academy Award-nominated My Architect, which received rapturous reviews when it first opened at Film Forum nearly 20 years ago. Louis Kahn, who in 1974 died...

Q&A with “My Architect” Filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn

4/9/23, 7:10pm - 10pm
Film Forum
A new restoration of the Academy Award-nominated My Architect, which received rapturous reviews when it first opened at Film Forum nearly 20 years ago. Louis Kahn, who in 1974 died...

Q&A with “My Architect” Filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn with author and architecture critic Paul Goldberger

4/7/23, 7:30pm - 10pm
Film Forum
A new restoration of the Academy Award-nominated My Architect, which received rapturous reviews when it first opened at Film Forum nearly 20 years ago. Louis Kahn, who in 1974 died...

Coffee With Fellows: Featuring Kim Yao and Josh Gonsalves

4/6/23, 12pm - 1pm
Online
Coffee with Fellows is an ongoing series centered around a conversation between one Fellow and one emerging professional, interviewing each other. The podcast-like format allows for the inviting conversation to...

South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City

4/4/23, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history—originally titled We’re Still Here in a 1986 first edition—Jill Jonnes continues to chronicle the rise, fall, rebirth, and ongoing revival of the...

Book Talk – E 1027: Restoring a House By the Sea

Book cover of E 1027, showing the villa on the waterfront.
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

The entryway to MIT site 4 showcasing a large, long canopy on stilts connecting the entrance to the sidewalk
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

Book cover for Back to the Office
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). ...

2023 Design for Freedom Summit

3/30/23, 9am - 6pm
Grace Farms
Join us to design a more humane future at the Design for Freedom 2023 Summit at Grace Farms on March 30, 2023, as we come together for a day of...

Broadway Linear Park Design Workshop

3/30/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Transportation Alternatives Offices
Join Transportation Alternatives’ Broadway Linear Park (BLiP) campaign for the first night of design workshopping! We’re seeking input for how to build upon the preliminary design work we’ve done to...

Reconstruction of the Henry Hudson Bridge South Approach

3/29/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This presentation will cover a brief history of the Henry Hudson Bridge and the recent reconstruction of a major section of the original bridge: Project HH-88B/13A. From a design and...

AIANY Design Awards: Interiors Showcase

Adams Street Library interior by WORKac
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...

Norma Merrick Sklarek Lecture

3/29/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
The Event Oval, Lower Level 1, The Diana Center, Barnard College
Sara Zewde of Harlem-based Studio Zewde will give the inaugural Norma Merrick Sklarek Lecture at Barnard College on Wednesday, March 29. The Norma Merrick Sklarek Lecture honors Barnard alumna Norma...

New Perspectives on Refining CEQR: A Look Back at Citywide Development

3/27/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As part of a collaborative effort to examine ways to refine City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR), the Municipal Art Society and Regional Plan Association will present new research into the...

MadaMind

3/25/23, 10am - 3pm
COOKFOX Architects
MadaMind is a “mastermind” mini-conference focused on development for a diverse group of women during Women’s History Month.  Personal and professional development will be covered by experienced and dynamic speakers....

Back to Basics – Wood Flooring 101

3/23/23, 1pm - 2pm
Zoom
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist “ONLINE” for our one credit course, Back to the Basics-Wood Flooring 101. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned wood flooring specialists &...

Climate Resiliency in NYC

3/23/23, 5:30pm - 7pm
Building Energy Exchange - Surrogate's Courthouse
ASHRAE NY and BE-Ex host a panel event on climate resiliency, diving into the dual challenges of efficient and GHG-free building design that responds to increasing flooding, precipitation, and heat...

The United Nations of Rivers, Deltas and Estuaries

3/23/23, 8am - 10am
Strategies and methodologies aimed at the sustainable management of water and water ecosystems need to go beyond technical and economic-driven approaches. In the run-up to the UN Water Conference and...

Building HUE Spaces Session 3: Designing with Care

3/23/23, 6pm - 8pm
El Barrio's Artspace P.S.109
You have your dream team, you have your timeline, and you are ready to embark on some capital campaigning, but wait, there’s more! Let’s discuss accessibility and processes to make...

Building HueSpaces Session 3: Designing with Care

3/23/23, 6pm - 8pm
El Barrio's Artspace P.S. 109
You have your dream team, you have your timeline, and you are ready to embark on some capital campaigning, but wait, there’s more! Let’s discuss accessibility and processes to make...

Centering the Role of Design in Design-Build

Exterior photo of Chicago Public Library Chinatown Branch
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...

Mentorship for Women in Architecture Seminar

3/22/23, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Hosted Virtually
We will hear from Karin Payson, AIA, LEED AP and Principal at Karin Payson Architecture + Design, about Ensuring a Creatively Fulfilling Career. We will also hear from Suchi Reddy,...

Using Historic Preservation to Develop and Maintain Affordable Housing in NYC

3/22/23, 9am - 12pm
Online
Everyone agrees that New York City is facing an affordable housing crisis. Adaptive reuse and rehabilitation of historic buildings has in many cases proven to be an effective way to preserve...

Buildings of Excellence Round Three Awards

NYSERDA Buildings of Excellence event graphic
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

Book cover for New York Stilled Life. Photograph taken of an empty field in New York's Central Park
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

Rafael Vinoly Carrasco Intl Airport
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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An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City

3/14/23, 6pm - 7pm
The Skyscraper Museum
An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City, written by Phillip James Dodd with photography by Jonathan Wallen, is a sumptuous book on an era–roughly from the 1870s to...

The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway at 75: A Crisis in Context

Promotional graphic for 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...

Brick Design: Incorporating Unique Detailing in Architecture

3/9/23, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Brickworks Design Studio
Brick, known for its durability, has been used for millennia to help shape architecture throughout history. More recently other key attributes of brick have come to the forefront. Sustainability and...

NYLON: Innovation in New York and London

3/9/23, 9am - 10:30am
What is the impact of increasing innovation districts on the urban fabric of cities? Join a discussion between New York and London. For decades, innovation districts were campuses outside the...

Embrace Equity: Madame Architect on Stories and Lessons for a Way Forward

Headshot image of Julia Gamolina
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,...

G.E. Kidder Smith Builds: The Travel of Architectural Photography

3/4/23, 1pm - 2:30pm
Online
DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State presents a virtual program coinciding with the recent publication of G.E. Kidder Smith Builds: The Travel of Architectural Photography (ORO Editions) written by Angelo Maggi with...

The Met’s Skylights and Mechanical System Replacement

3/2/23, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
The skylights of the A, B, and C wings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art provide natural daylighting for the European Paintings Galleries, which house some of the museum’s most...

Svetlana Kana Radević: Aggregate Assemblies, 2023 Womxn in Design and Architecture Conference

3/2/23, 6pm - Friday, 3/3, 4pm
Princeton School of Architecture
Svetlana Kana Radević’s architecture is a radical act of mediation. Rising to prominence in post-war Yugoslavia, her buildings speak on all scales, engaging geo-political and social complexities. Drawing from knowledge...

Book Talk: Creating Dynamic Places for Learning

Children at work in a classroom
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

Image of vehicles submerged on a waterlogged road in New York, the United States, Sept. 2, 2021
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...

From the Forest to the Floor

2/23/23, 1pm - 2pm
Zoom Webinar
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist “ONLINE” for our one credit course, From the Forest to the Floor. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned wood flooring specialists &...

Book Talk: The Architecture of Disability

The Architecture of Disability book cover
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...

Waste Heat Energy Recovery Technologies

2/22/23, 10am - 11:30am
Online
In the effort to reduce emissions, one innovative approach that is often overlooked is waste heat energy recovery. Waste heat is a by-product of other HVAC  systems and processes, such...

‘Healthy Furniture’: Interior Design and Hygiene in Victorian Britain

2/21/23, 2pm - 3pm
Online
Learn how Victorian Britain dealt with pandemics and how sanitary reform influenced interior design Hand sanitizer, social distancing, face masks, and plexiglass dividers are today’s responses to a global health...

Beauty is More Than Skin Deep – Maintaining and Refinishing Wood Floors

2/19/23, 1pm - 2pm
Zoom
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist “ONLINE” for our one credit course, Beauty is More Than Skin Deep – Maintaining & Refinishing Wood Floors. Joe Avila, one of the world’s...

Designing with Wood Floors

2/16/23, 1pm - 2:30pm
Zoom
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist “ONLINE” for our one credit course, Designing with Wood Floors. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned wood flooring specialists & wood flooring...

Building HueSpaces Session 2

2/16/23, 6pm - 8pm
The Clemente
Now that you have considered how to start a capital project and figuring out what you need, it’s time to assemble your dream team. In this session, co-hosted by The...

Who Shapes the Campus Round Table at the Rutgers Club

2/16/23, 5pm - 8:30pm
The Rutgers Club
HLW, Syska and Rutgers invite you to a round table event entitled Who Shapes the Campus, at the Rutgers Club. This discussion explores the variant perspectives among the many decisionmakers...

Book Talk: Geospaces – Continuities Between Humans, Spaces, and the Earth

Geospaces book covers
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...

Vitra Salon Series: Public Works and Design Excellence

2/15/23, 6pm - 8pm
Vitra, 95 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Overseeing more than 375 million square feet of federal workspace, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is the government’s landlord and the nation’s largest real estate holder. Through its decades-long...

Political Action Fund Kickoff: Featuring Mark Levine

2/13/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
The crucial 2023 New York City Council elections are fast approaching. The outcomes of these races will significantly impact the practice of architecture throughout the city. Therefore, AIA New York...

Book Talk: Occupation: Boundary – Art, Architecture, and Culture at the Water

Painting by Johann Heirich Remberg, The Tempest circa 1800
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

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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...

Engineered Wood Flooring

2/9/23, 1pm - 2pm
Zoom Webinar
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist “ONLINE” for our one credit course, Engineered Wood Flooring. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned wood flooring specialists & wood flooring inspectors,...

The Howl: An Open Mic and Film Forum

Image of an interview at a film studio
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...

“Building Faith” – Divine New York: Inside the Historic Churches and Synagogues of Manhattan

2/8/23, 7pm - 8pm
92nd Street Y
Manhattan is home to a remarkably diverse range of houses of worship, many of them several hundred years old, yet few see beyond the often-unassuming façades except the local faithful....

It’s Not Easy Being Green – Sustainability of Wood

2/2/23, 1pm - 2pm
Zoom
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist “ONLINE” for our one credit course, It’s Not Easy Being Green – Sustainability of Wood. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned wood...

Design for a Connected Society and Home

Photo of a modern home, in the hills.
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

Hudson Restaurant concept rendering by 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

Headshot of Kenneth Frampton
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...

Special Inspections: What You Need to Know

1/31/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Special inspections were developed and codified to minimize improper construction and ensure that the design-professional-in-responsible-charge remains engaged in the construction process in an effort to reduce project defects and failures....

Airports of Tomorrow – Today

1/31/23, 9am - 11:45am
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Auditorium
Join us for a two-part panel on the Port Authority’s role in shaping and growing the metropolitan region’s three major airports from the 1940s to today, using the RPA’s 1947...

Unionization in Architecture

Promotional graphic for Unionization in Architecture event
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

Exterior photo of Morphosis' addition to Cooper Union.
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...

Rethink Penn Station NYC: Bold Visions for a New Penn Station

1/26/23, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
The Great Hall at Cooper Union Foundation Building
Come see designs for the new Penn Station NYC deserves. ReThink Penn Station NYC, will be hosting a design forum at Cooper Union to showcase Penn Station proposals-along with Alex...

Passive House Construction Primer

1/26/23, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
Learn the basic principles and best practices of Passive House construction in this one-hour introductory course. The Passive House Construction Primer is a slightly more technical version of our original...

12th Annual Women in Architecture Recognition Award and Holiday Party

Four women posing for a photo and holding award certificates at the 11th Annual WIA Recognition Award
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...

Cork, Bamboo and Hardwood as Flooring Material

1/26/23, 1pm - 2pm
Zoom Webinar
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist “ONLINE” for our one credit course, Cork, Bamboo and Hardwood as a Flooring Material. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned wood flooring...

Managing Management: Post-COVID Workplace Advice for Architects

1/25/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
With the unwinding of the COVID-19 pandemic, architecture offices are in the process of debating next steps, such as the tradeoffs between remote-only work, office-only work, and hybrid work, and...

Grounding for Railroads and Transit

1/25/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This presentation will explore the role of grounding in relation to NFPA-70 (NEC) and the regulations of the local utility (Con Edison), as well as minimizing shock and accident risk....

The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy

Book Cover of The Innovation Complex by Sharon Zukin
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...

Navigating Diversity & Inclusion at Your Firm: A DEI Knowledge Exchange

1/24/23, 6pm - 8pm
Primary
Over the last few years, the structural engineering community has increasingly recognized the importance of advocacy for the inclusion of marginalized and underrepresented groups. Individual engineering firms have pursued an...

50 Years after Roe v. Wade: Our Current Situation

1/23/23, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) and ArchiteXX present the first in a series of joint panel discussions on how reproductive rights legislation impacts the design realm. It has been 50...

Brunner Recipient Roundtable: Post-World War II Architecture in Europe

The Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, researched by Hayes. Image courtesy of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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...

Beauty is More Than Skin Deep – Maintaining and Refinishing Wood Floors

1/19/23, 1pm - 2:30pm
Zoom Webinar
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist “ONLINE” for our one credit course, Beauty is More Than Skin Deep – Maintaining & Refinishing Wood Floors. Joe Avila, one of the world’s...

Acoustics Matters: Sound Design in Learning Spaces

1/19/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
The Players Club
This panel discussion features industry thought leaders on acoustics and architecture with expertise in educational environments.  The panelists will explore the impact of acoustics in learning spaces, while connecting the...

Building Hue Spaces Session 1: Visioning

1/19/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
So you want to build an arts space for your non-profit? Great—now how do you even begin? In this initial session of "Building Hue Spaces," we will explore how to...

POSTPONED – Redlines and Green Zones: Manhattan

1/19/23, 6pm - 8pm
Zoom
This event has been postponed. Please check back for a new date to be announced shortly! "Redlines and Green Zones" is a series of virtual workshops dedicated to exploring and...

Wood Flooring Trends – Wide and Long Planks

1/19/23, 1pm - 2:30pm
Zoom Webinar
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist “ONLINE” for our one credit course, Wood Flooring Trends-Wide & Long Planks. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned wood flooring specialists &...

Future of Practice Committee Kickoff Meeting

1/18/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Webinar
AIA New York would like to invite you to the Future of Practice Committee Kickoff Meeting on January 18 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. The committee serves as a platform...

Mentorship for Women in Architecture Seminar

1/18/23, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Online
We will hear from Nina Kinoti-Metz, Founder of Studio Parallel, about Creating Your Own Opportunities and Path to Success. We will also hear from Julie Nelson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C...

Redlines and Green Zones: Reassessing the Redline Maps

Illustration of Brooklyn, New York Redlining Map
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...

NYC Decarbonization: Fundamentals

1/18/23, 8am - 12pm
Webinar
As COVID-19 appears to be under control, decarbonization has swept through the HVAC & buildings industry like wildfire. In the rush to electrify our buildings, what should be the major...

Climate Mobilization Act Primer

1/18/23, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
Get informed on New York City climate legislation and its impact on buildings. Register now for the Climate Mobilization Act Primer, a one-hour seminar examining the basic principles of the...

New Practices in Conversation: BRANDT : HAFERD

architectural model against a black background
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...

The Fulton Fish Market: A History

Online
Today, the once bustling, fragrant fish market in lower Manhattan’s South Street Seaport is a rebuilt retail destination with a new kind of marketing –  but from its founding in...

Retaining Walls and Parking Structures

1/10/23, 12pm - 1:15pm
Zoom
With recent code changes, property owners are required by law to file compliance reports on these two unique structures. This presentation will review different types of retaining walls and parking...

2023 AIANY Design Awards Announcement

2023 AIANY Design Awards graphic
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....

Formgiving: Giving Form to the Future

1/4/23, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
The National Arts Club
Formgiving, the Danish word for design, means to give form to that which has not yet been given form: create a world to the world we would like to find...

Designing for Post-Incarceration

Designing for Post-Incarceration Logo
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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

12/15/22, 1pm - 2:30pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our two credit course: From the Forest to the Floor + Specifying the Right Wood Floors for the Job on December 15, 2022...

AIA New York 2023 Board Inaugural

Closeup of the AIA Presidential medal and gavel
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

Illustration of Brooklyn, New York Redlining Map
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

Fig. 1 Kenzō Tange, Nichinan Cultural Center. Photograph: Yukio Futagawa.
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...

Meet and Mingle: The Lost Art of Pre-Construction

12/9/22, 5:30pm - 8pm
Brickworks Design Studio
How can the A/E/C industry broadly improve the quality of its projects and customer satisfaction? Looking to the past, the Ancient Greek "master builder" (arkhitekton) anticipated every phase of the...

Introduction to the Passive House Standard

12/8/22, 1pm - 5pm
Live online
Passive House goals and methodology change the way architects and builders think and work, making the architectural design itself a driver of climate, health, and social solutions. This is a...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

12/8/22, 1pm - 2:30pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our two credit course: Specifying Commercial Wood Floors + Designing with Wood Floors on December 8, 2022 between 1PM-2:30PM online. Joe Avila, one...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

12/7/22, 1pm - 2:30pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our two credit course: How Cut Affects Appearances of Wood Flooring + Engineered Wood Flooring on December 7, 2022 between 1PM-2:30PM online. Joe...

Giuliana Bruno: Atmospheres of Projection

Book cover for Atmospheres of Projection: Environmentality in Art and Screen Media
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

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...

Passive House Retrofits: Part 1

12/6/22, 1pm - 5pm
Online
Passive House standards are not just for new construction. Existing structures can benefit from upgrading airtightness, insulation, reducing thermal bridging, upgrading to high performance doors and windows, and adding energy...

Engineering in the Emergency Response Cycle

12/6/22, 12pm - 1pm
Zoom
We continue the SEAoNY Resilience Panel Series with a panel on engineering in the emergency response cycle. This panel is presented in collaboration with the SEAoNY Structural Engineering Emergency Response (SEER)...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

12/6/22, 1pm - 2:30pm
Online
lease join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our two credit courses: Wood Flooring Species + Cork, Bamboo and Hardwood as a Flooring Material on December 6, 2022 between 1PM-2:30PM online....

Retail Design Institute’s 51st International Design Competition

Image of Treat Store Front in JFK International Airport
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

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...

Cocktails & Conversation: Sarah Williams with Brad Samuels

Establishing shot of the Distance Unknown Exhibition at MIT
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

Design for Deconstruction promotional event graphic
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...

BQE: Community Mosaic

12/1/22, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Block House, Governors Island
Join the IPA 2022 Fellows and their Community Partners for a conversation on the issues and opportunities facing communities along the BQE. This is the final of three public panels...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

12/1/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: Beauty is More Than Skin Deep – Maintaining & Refinishing Wood Floors on December 1, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online....

New Practices in Conversation: GRT Architects with Marc Tsurumaki

Image of Millerton Studio by GRT Architects
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...

Turnout NYC: Building New Public Spaces for New York Artists

11/30/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Prior to the pandemic, people living in vulnerable areas already had limited access to cultural opportunities. Today, those scarce opportunities are at a higher risk of disappearing. Turnout NYC is...

Unequal Cities: Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality in the United States

11/29/22, 6pm - 7pm
Skyscraper Museum
Cities are central to prosperity: they are hubs of innovation and growth. Yet the economic vitality of wealthy cities is marred by persistent and pervasive inequality. In his new book...

The Church in Sag Harbor: A Repurposed 1836 Sanctuary, Now an Arts Center

11/28/22, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
The National Arts Club
Award-winning architect Lee Skolnick discusses his recent work on The Church, an artist residency, exhibition space, and creativity center in Sag Harbor, NY. The Church is an adaptive reuse and...

Samuel Ratensky Memorial Lecture: Angela Brooks & Lawrence Scarpa

Rendering of Xantho Workhouse a live work space in Los Angeles
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

Portrait of Piero Lissoni in a suit and pushing his glasses up on his nose
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

Harvard Design magazine spring/summer 2022 cover
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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

11/17/22, 1pm - 2:30pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our two credit courses: Wood Flooring 101 on November 17, 2022 between 1PM-2:30PM online. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned flooring...

AIANY Building Science Committee Kickoff

11/17/22, 12:30pm - 2pm
Zoom
AIA New York is thrilled to introduce you to the newly established AIANY Building Science Committee. We invite you to register and attend the committee’s monthly meetings, which are meant to...

Agricultural Modernization and Collective Memory: 50 Species-Towns

Image from Agricultural Modernization and Collective Memory: 50 Species-Towns, Charles Waldheim (Cambridge, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2022)
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...

Sustainable Affordable Housing: Financing Strategies for an Equitable Energy Transition

11/17/22, 10am - 11:15am
Virtual
With nearly half of New York State’s residents earning a low or moderate income, it is essential to identify paths to finance upgrades to affordable housing in support of meeting...

Is the Grass Really Greener?

11/16/22, 6pm - 8pm
STV
A discussion on what it is like to make the switch from working on the structural Engineer of Record side of projects to working on the construction management or owner’s...

New Practices in Conversation: New Affiliates with Paul Lewis

Image of Rashaad Newsome Assembly Theater by New Affiliates
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

Image of AIANY Engagement session with PLASTARC
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...

ESG in AEC: Environment – Shifting to a Carbon-Neutral Industry

11/15/22, 8:30am - 10:30am
TBD
Building construction and operation accounts for 37% of global carbon dioxide emissions. This jarring statistic, reported in 2021 by the United Nations Environment Programme’s global status report, and those reported...

Biking in NYC Now: Opportunities and Limitations Within Urban Infrastructure

Biking in NYC Now event poster
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

Interior hotel lobby
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

Interior hotel lobby
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...

Women Pioneering Architecture: The first Italian Architects Plautilla Bricci and Elena Luzzatto. A Talk by Prof. Consuelo Lollobrigida

11/12/22, 10:30am - 12:15pm
THE ATHENÆUM OF PHILADELPHIA
Join us for a presentation about the history of women artists in modern times and their importance in architecture.

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

11/10/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: Wood Flooring Grades on November 10, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned flooring...

BQE: Why Can’t We: Case Studies of Highway Removal Projects in US and South Korea

11/10/22, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Block House, Governors Island
The IPA’s second Public Panel of our Fall Fellowship, “BQE: Why Can’t We”, examines case studies of highways that have been or will be removed, deck-over, or transformed into community...

BQE: Why Can’t We?

11/10/22, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
The Block House
Come out to Governors Island on Thursday, November 10, 6:30-8:30PM for the second of three public panels held at the Block House, part of the Institute for Public Architecture (IPA)’s...

Wast(ED): Living with Trash

Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility by Selldorf Architects.
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...

Sustainable and Functional Design – Building For Today and Tomorrow

11/7/22, 5:30pm - 8pm
Brickworks NYC Design Studio
Brickworks events are open to architectural, design, and building industry professionals only. Brick Beyond Style The panel will define the various certifications parameters of LEED, Fitwel, ILFI Zero, and BREEAM....

2022 T.R. Higgins Lecture-Dr. Amit Kanvinde Presents Column Base Connections

11/7/22, 12pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
Column base connections are arguably the most important connections in steel buildings, transferring loads from the entire structure into the foundation. At the interface of steel and concrete, these connections...

2022 Deans’ Roundtable: Historically Black Colleges and Universities

11/4/22, 6pm - 8pm
Zoom
As the largest chapter of the AIA, with a broad base of members from small, medium and large firms, AIA New York is committed to creating meaningful relationships with architecture...

Celebrate My Architect with Acuity Brands

11/3/22, 6:30pm - 10pm
The Experience Center by Acuity Academy
6:30pm: Doors open—get ready with hors-d’oeuvres and drinks! 7:15pm: Pre-screening remarks with Nathaniel Kahn, film director 7:30pm: Exclusive screening of My Architect: A Son’s Journey. This documentary film about the...

The Mycelium House: Material Exploration for a Zero-Carbon Tiny Home (Session A)

Mycelium House
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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

11/3/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: Wood Flooring Trends-Wide & Long Planks on November 3, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online. Joe Avila, one of the world’s...

Lecture with Architect Bryan Young, YOUNG PROJECTS

DOM Interiors
The lecture presentation will be an inside look into the cutting-edge research and work of Young Projects, founded by Bryan Young, where materiality, structure, and form intersect to generate new...

Mentoring Seminar with Speakers Talisha Sainvil and Kerry Nolan

11/3/22, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Virtual
Talisha Sainvil, Principal of 40 Six Four Architecture, will speak about Defining Professional Behavior and making space in architecture for all. Kerry Nolan, Senior Associate at Beyer Blinder Belle Architects...

CEU Night & Designer Discussion

11/3/22, 5pm - 7pm
AFNY
Please join us at New York’s architectural showroom for a catered event including gourmet Italian food & fine wine while experiencing the journey of finding comfort in the home through...

Reflections on the Limits of Architecture: Critical Regionalism Revisited

11/3/22, 6:30pm - 12:00am
The New School, Parsons School of Design, Tishman Environment and Design Center
Kenneth Frampton is an architect, critic, historian, and previously Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University (1972-2021). His most important works...

Investing in Health: A New Frontier of Health and Housing Partnerships

11/3/22, 9am - 10:45am
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Auditorium
On Thursday, November 3, 2022, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will host an in-person event centered on investments in affordable housing by healthcare systems and health insurers. Speakers...

AIANY Women in Architecture Professional Practice Series: Path to Principal

Drawing of a woman professional entering a staircase to join a meeting of men.
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....

Hiring and Quality of Life: The Best Techniques of Successful Practices

11/2/22, 8am - 10:30am
Center for Architecture
Join the Society for Design Administration New York Chapter (SDA New York) for an in-person panel discussion about how four forward-thinking firms have handled the evolving recruiting and employee engagement landscape....

Sandy+10: Resilient Future

ROW Rendering
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...

Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York

11/1/22, 6pm - 7pm
The Skyscraper Museum
Bits and pieces of the lives led long before the age of skyscrapers are scattered throughout New York City, found in backyards, construction sites, street beds, and parks. Indigenous tools...

Emerging Practices: Hong Kong and New York

Illustration of JUST-ARCH Landscape Mono
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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

10/27/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: Specifying the Right Wood Floors for the Job on October 27, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online. Joe Avila, one of...

Book Talk: The Women Who Changed Architecture

Book cover for 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...

Brooklyn Bridge Rehabilitation Program – Design and Preservation

10/26/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Brooklyn Bridge is a National Historic Landmark and a New York City Landmark that has been in use for almost 140 years. This presentation discusses the engineering challenges and...

Affordable Housing for Seniors: Challenges and Opportunities for Service-Enriched Properties in the Second District

10/26/22, 2:30pm - 5pm
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Benjamin Strong Conference Room (10th floor)
On Wednesday, October 26, 2022, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will host an in-person event centered on the need for affordable housing that includes services for low- and...

Defining the Evolving Professional Standard of Care

10/25/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The professional standard of care is not static but fluid. This course will explain what the standard of care is at a base level and how it is legally determined;...

Michael Boyd: Millennium Modern

The exterior of Shed House in Malibu showing the modernist structure and its swimming pool at dusk
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

6 DJI 0893 2 Edit Visit Skellefteå
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...

J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture | Answering a Call to Action

10/20/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

10/20/22, 1pm - 2:30pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our two credit courses: Designing with Wood Floors + From the Forest to the Floor on October 20, 2022 between 1PM-2:30PM online. Joe...

Vision Zero Cities: Safe Streets Save Lives

Logo for 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...

Introduction to Passive House Trades

10/20/22, 1pm - 5pm
Online
The Introduction to Passive House Trades will broadly cover the following topics: Passive House basics, review typical construction types, windows and installation, air barriers and insulation and new, innovative PH...

Transforming Tragedy: From Pulse Nightclub to onePULSE Foundation

10/19/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Build Out Alliance and onePULSE Foundation, hosted by the Center for Architecture, to hear the compelling story of Pulse Nightclub and the creation of onePULSE Foundation, aiming to honor...

Philip Johnson & the Glass House

10/19/22, 6pm - 12:00am
The National Arts Club
Join the National Arts Club for a lecture examining one of the nation’s most innovative architectural environments, The Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. This former home of architect Philip...

New York Art Deco: Birds, Beasts & Blooms

10/18/22, 6pm - 7pm
The Skyscraper Museum
New York City, arguably the world’s Art Deco capital, is well known for its iconic towers. In a new book, New York Art Deco: Birds, Beasts & Blooms, photographer Andrew...

Women in the Allied Professions Panel | NYU 181 Mercer: Facade Design Technology

The facade for 181 Mercer showcasing its dynamic windows popping in and out of the building
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...

The Landscapes of Dieter Kienast by Anette Freytag

10/17/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
On the occasion of Archtober, New York City's Architecture and Design Month, the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University, the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York and the...

Community Schools Workshop

Image of a class in the Community Garden at Watkins Elementary School
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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

10/13/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: Specifying Commercial Wood Floors on October 13, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned...

Introduction to the Passive House Standard

10/13/22, 1pm - 5pm
Live online
Passive House goals and methodology change the way architects and builders think and work, making the architectural design itself a driver of climate, health, and social solutions. This is a...

Book Talk: Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens

Book cover with title overlaid on an image of the densely packed grid of 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

Image of Brownstones depicting Paty Walls
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...

Book Club – Supertall: How The World’s Tallest Buildings are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives

10/8/22, 6:30pm - 7:45pm
The Concrete Jungle
Join us for a book club discussion of “Supertall: How the World’s Tallest Buildings are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives” by architect Stefan Al which was published earlier this...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

10/6/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: Engineered Wood Flooring on October 6, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned flooring...

16th Annual Arthur M. Rosenblatt Lecture: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Moritzburg Museum Halle exterior from a slightly aerial perspective
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

Image of A class at the Spence School
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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

9/29/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned flooring inspectors, covering how you and your firm can avoid wood flooring failures and costly lawsuits when specifying wood flooring systems. Stay...

Designing Camelot

9/29/22, 6pm - 8pm
New York School of Interior Design
Join the New York School of Interior Design on September 29th at 6pm for a richly illustrated talk “Designing Camelot: Jacqueline Kennedy and the Restoration and Redefinition of America’s White...

LEED Convene and Connect: NYC

9/28/22, 11am - 2pm
Center for Architecture
Join U.S. Green Building Council President and CEO, Peter Templeton, USGBC organizational and community leaders and LEED technical staff including Melissa Baker, senior vice president of LEED, for the next...

Architecture and Design Film Festival

9/28/22, 6pm - Sunday, 10/2, 9pm
Cinepolis Chelsea
The Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) returns to New York for its 14th edition this fall. From September 28 to October 2, ADFF:NY will showcase a diverse range of...

MENY Wimmer Memorial Lecture

9/28/22, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
No registration required. The Municipal Engineers of the City of New York (MENY) is proud to announce its prestigious annual Wimmer Memorial Lecture featuring distinguished speaker Jamie Torres-Springer, President MTA...

CONNECT: A Lecture by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing, OPEN Architecture

Image of Dune Art Museum
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...

World Premiere Screening of ‘And The Worlds That Surround’ with Live Score

9/23/22, 7pm - 9pm
Fotografiska
For American architect and filmmaker Eric Franklin Romeo, better understanding the nuances of the environments that surround us has always served as a primer to designing within it. Over the...

A Rising Tide: Learning from Leading Asian and Pacific Islander Designers

9/23/22, 6pm - 8pm
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
Please join us for our first event, A Rising Tide: Learning from Leading Asian and Pacific Islander Designers, at 6pm EST/3pm PST on Friday, September 23. The event begins with...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

9/22/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: How Cut Affects Appearances of Wood Flooring on September 29, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online. Joe Avila, one of the...

Segregation by Design

9/21/22, 6pm - 7pm
Virtual
Using colorized and remastered historic photography, Segregation By Design documents the intentional destruction of communities of color due to the federal policies of redlining, “urban renewal,” and freeway construction. Through...

Electric Vehicles Race to Market – Will Building Codes Catch Up

9/21/22, 9am - 10am
Virtual
As electric vehicles (EV) are racing to the market there is a parallel race to build the necessary battery charging infrastructure.  Through this paradigm shift away from the internal combustion...

MWA Seminar: Work in Progress | Women in Practice: Community & Collaborative

9/20/22, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Online
Founding members of feminist design collective, WIP Collaborative, will share their personal paths, how they work together on research and design projects, and speak about bringing a community of women...

Stories from Arquitina: Elevating Latinas in Architecture

Image of book cover 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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

9/15/22, 1pm - 2:30pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our two-credit course: Beauty is More Than Skin Deep – Maintaining & Refinishing Wood Floors + Wood Flooring Species on September 15, 2022...

James Wines: Re-Thinking it All

Pietro Rossini: Fondazione Pietro Rossini Pavilion
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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Passive House Retrofits: Part 1

9/13/22, 1pm - 5pm
Online
Passive House standards are not just for new construction. Existing structures can benefit from upgrading airtightness, insulation, reducing thermal bridging, upgrading to high performance doors and windows, and adding energy...

How ESG is Driving Green Building

9/13/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) values are increasingly shaping the building industry. Investors are eager to bet on companies and products that integrate them, and they want to see a...

Delivering the Goods: NYC Urban Freight in the Age of E-Commerce

Promotional event graphic for Transportation and Infrstructure event
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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

9/8/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: It’s Not Easy Being Green – Sustainability of Wood on September 8, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online. Joe Avila, one...

Exactitude: On Precision and Play in Contemporary Architecture

Mizuta Museum of Art, ramped engawa. Courtesy studioSUMO. Photo: Daici Ano.
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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

9/1/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: Back to Basics – Wood Flooring 101 on September 1, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online. Joe Avila, one of the...

Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability (CCES)

9/1/22, 9am - Saturday, 9/3, 5pm
Climate change is any change in the temperature or water levels that affects Earth for a long period of time. Humans today are experiencing rapid and unexpected changes in temperature...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

8/25/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: Wood Flooring in Commercial Spaces on August 25, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most...

Crushing the Code NYS: Commercial

8/24/22, 9am - 5pm
Virtual
Crushing the Code New York State: Commercial is an online course that prepares building and design professionals in New York State to comply with the many requirements in the 2020...

Huggins Wood Flooring Specalist: CEU Webinar Series

8/18/22, 1pm - 2:30pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our two credit courses: Wood Flooring Trends-Wide & Long Planks + Wood Flooring Grades  on August 18, 2022 between 1PM-2:30PM online. Joe Avila,...

Crushing the Code NYC: Commercial

8/17/22, 9am - 5pm
Virtual
Crushing the Code New York City: Commercial is an online course that prepares design and building professionals to comply with the many requirements in the 2020 NYCECC and create more...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

8/11/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: Specifying the Right Wood Floors for the Job on August 11, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online. Joe Avila, one of...

The Mycelium Project: Building House Parts with Fungi

8/10/22, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
In 2021, the AIANY Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN) hosted a three-part workshop to explore the potential of mycelium, the thread-like structures (hyphae) in fungi, as an innovative and sustainable...

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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

8/4/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: From the Forest to the Floor on August 4, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online. Joe Avila, one of the world’s...

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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

7/28/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: Designing with Wood Floors on July 28, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

7/21/22, 1pm - 2:30pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our two credit course: Engineered Wood Flooring + Specifying Commercial Wood Floors on July 21, 2022 between 1PM-2:30PM online. Joe Avila, one of...

Sensory Space: Design for Neurodiversity

Rendering of a cross section of a building
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

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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

7/14/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our two credit course: Engineered Wood Flooring + Specifying Commercial Wood Floors on July 14, 2022 between 1PM-2:00PM online. Joe Avila, one of...

Building for the Youngest New Yorkers: NYC SCA’s Pre-K/3-K Programs

The interior of a classroom
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

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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

7/7/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our two credit course: Engineered Wood Flooring + Specifying Commercial Wood Floors on July 7, 2022 between 1PM-2:00PM online. Joe Avila, one of...

The City Is [Not] A Tree: The Urban Ecologies of Divided Cities

7/2/22, 9am - 5pm
Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
The City Is [Not] A Tree: The Urban Ecologies of Divided Cities is an international collaboration, with associates principally from Europe and Africa, and open to collaboration with contributors from...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

6/30/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our two credit course: Engineered Wood Flooring + Specifying Commercial Wood Floors on June 30, 2022 between 1PM-2:00PM online. Joe Avila, one of...

IndiaNOW: Architecture in the Contemporary Landscape

Aerial photo of Balaji Temple AKA Temple of Steps showing two black stone stepped structures located on a pond
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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

6/23/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our two credit course: Engineered Wood Flooring + Specifying Commercial Wood Floors on June 23, 2022 between 1PM-2:00PM online. Joe Avila, one of...

Equity in Electrification: Electrification of Affordable Housing

Dattner project rendering
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

Interior photo of white stone gallery space
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....

Learning Series: How to Build the Impossible [New York]

6/21/22, 12pm - 1pm
Brickworks Design Studio
Lunch will be provided. Our events are open to architectural, design, and building industry professionals only. How to Build the Impossible: A case study on the Dr. Chau Chak Wing...

Outward Looking: Cornell Tech and the Moon Village

6/21/22, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
The National Arts Club
Cornell Tech is a new applied sciences university on Roosevelt Island that inverts the traditional, insular campus into an outward-looking and inviting place. In collaboration with James Corner Field Operations,...

Public Housing, Practice, and Design: New York + London

Logo for Public Housing Practice + Design program
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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

6/16/22, 1pm - 2:30pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our two credit courses: Back to Basics – Wood Flooring 101 + It’s Not Easy Being Green – Sustainability of Wood on June...

2022 AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Awards Winners’ Event

Logo for AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards
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

Image of offshore windmill park with stormy clouds and a blue sky, windmill park in the Netherlands
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

A closeup photo of the AIA College of Fellows medals
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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

6/9/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our two credit course: Engineered Wood Flooring + Specifying Commercial Wood Floors on June 9, 2022 between 1PM-2:00PM online. Joe Avila, one of...

Interiors Speed Presentations: Edition 13

Northeast Bronx YMCA
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

Essex Crossing at Broom Street
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...

Design, Incorporated – Reinventing Contemporary Practice and Workplace Culture

6/8/22, 8pm - 10pm
Zoom
Don’t miss this important and timely panel discussion about managing a profitable, purposeful, and diverse architecture and design firm. Speakers (pictured below) will highlight successful approaches to ensure a healthy,...
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Oculus at Large: Inside Urban Housing

6/7/22, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Glen-Gery Brickworks Design Studio
As cities grow, we hear a lot about urban-scale plans for developing greener, healthier neighborhoods. But how do we think about healthy housing at the scale of individual dwellings, and...

Independent Aging in Asian Cities

Seniors on a Basketball Court.
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...

Introduction to Passive House Trades

6/6/22, 1pm - 5pm
Online
The Introduction to Passive House Trades will broadly cover the following topics: Passive House basics, review typical construction types, windows and installation, air barriers and insulation and new, innovative PH...

The Ford Foundation – Gensler

6/6/22, 6pm - 7pm
Virtual Event
Completed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates in 1968, the Ford Foundation building was hailed as an architectural icon. A non-profit organization established in 1936, it partnered with Gensler...

Morning Leadership Talk: Elaine Molinar, AIA

Headshot of Elaine Molinar
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...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

6/2/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: Wood Flooring Grades on June 2, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned flooring...

Designing Energy Efficient Buildings with cove.tool

Headshot of Nilesh Bansal
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,...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

5/26/22, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: Wood Flooring Trends-Wide & Long Planks on May 26, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online. Joe Avila, one of the world’s...

Planning for Waste Management: DSNY’s New Rule for Residential Buildings

A waste management facility
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

Pro Thai's outdoor dining structure designed by Soluri Architecture.
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

Interior office of 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?

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

Image of a scene in Film Distruction of Memory
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)

The exterior of the Weeksville houses with a green lawn in foreground
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)

The exterior of the Weeksville houses with a green lawn in foreground
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

NYC's Housing Crisis conference logo
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

Several people walking through a passageway with a roof made of a complex web of wood beam
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

A dramatic multi-level interior with a sculptural ceiling, wood paneling, and suspended walkways and staircases criss crossing the image
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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Huggins Wood Floor Specialist: CEU Webinar Series

Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist for our one credit course: Specifying Commercial Wood Floors on May 5, 2022 between 1PM-2PM online. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned...

Mentorship for Women in Architecture: Mentoring Seminar Series for Women Entering the Profession of Architecture

5/5/22, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Hosted Virtually
Join us for a discussion led by Arthi Krishnamoorthy, AIA, LEED AP, Partner at Deborah Berke Partners and Suzanne Musho, AIA, NCARB, Chief Architect & Vice President of Real Estate...

NYLON #20: Activating Streets

5/5/22, 9am - 10:30am
Webinar
Over the past two years, the COVID crisis has revealed new usages of the public realm and more particularly streets. With the closure of restaurants, stores, cultural venues, the streets...

Black Neighborhoods Matter

5/4/22, 7:30pm - 9pm
“Black Neighborhoods Matter” is a collaboration between the graduate level Right to Shelter housing seminar at Parsons and four national experts in grassroots community renewal. The experts span four generations...

The Impact of NFTs on Architecture & Design

5/4/22, 12pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
By now you’ve likely heard about NFTs: the $23+ billion cryptographic industry that has exploded in recent years. Christies sold an NFT of digital artwork for $69 million. An NFT...

The Project of Independence: A Conversation with Raj Rewal

a large scale grid structure with two figures standing in the foreground.
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...

The Architecture of Mental Health

5/3/22, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
This educational session will provide an overview of the history and current state of mental health facilities design, aloong with an exploration of future challenges to creating safety and security in...

Circular City Week

5/2/22, 9am - Tuesday, 3/8, 9pm
Various locations
Circular City Week, the biggest circular economy festival in the US, is an open and collaborative festival for circular economy related events. For the fourth time, Circular City Week will...

The City is [Not] a Tree: the Urban Ecologies of Divided Cities

5/2/22, 9am - 5pm
Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
THE CITY IS [NOT] A TREE: THE URBAN ECOLOGIES OF DIVIDED CITIES is an international collaboration, with associates principally from Europe and Africa, and open to collaboration with contributors from...

Brickworks Speaker Series: Brick – Beyond Style with Grant F. Marani

4/28/22, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Brickworks Design Studio
On Thursday, April 28, at 6:00 PM ET, join RAMSA Partner Grant F. Marani for a lecture hosted by Brickworks, where he will discuss brickwork traditions that have influenced his...

An Architectural Look at the Famed Waldorf Astoria

4/25/22, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
The National Arts Club
When the Waldorf Astoria opened its doors on Park Avenue in 1931, the new building became an instant New York City icon. The world’s first skyscraper hotel has been home...

Brickworks New York Design Studio

4/23/22, 12pm - 1pm
Brickworks New York Design Studio
One important reason for brick’s popularity is its ability to adapt to design criteria. It can be shaped and used in a wide variety of traditional and contemporary detailing: Such...

Robert A.M. Stern’s Journey in Architecture: A Conversation with Barry Bergdoll

Robert Stern's autobiography sits on a table with a martini glass.
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

A girl learning about Urban Farming in a community garden.
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

Portrait of Deborah Berke
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...

Introduction to the Passive House Standard

4/14/22, 1pm - 5pm
Live online
Passive House goals and methodology change the way architects and builders think and work, making the architectural design itself a driver of climate, health, and social solutions. This is a...

Introduction to the Passive House Standard

4/14/22, 1pm - 5pm
Live online
Passive House goals and methodology change the way architects and builders think and work, making the architectural design itself a driver of climate, health, and social solutions. This is a...

Innovation Briefing: What LEED V4.1 Commissioning Means to You

4/13/22, 9am - 10am
Virtual
With facilities becoming more technically advanced, the pressure put on a building’s mechanical, electrical, life safety and networked systems to perform at high levels has increased demand for advanced commissioning...

Buildings of Excellence Round 3 Announcement

NYSERDA 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...

Women in Architecture Career Day: Building the Future Pipeline

4/7/22, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
The AIANY Women in Architecture Committee, in collaboration with the ACE Greater New York and the NYC Department of Education’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) Programs, is offering a virtual...

A Better Place to Live: Walkable Communities, Sustainable Urban Planning, Historic Preservation, Social Equity, and Battery Park City

4/5/22, 6pm - 7:15pm
The National Arts Club
New Urbanism is the cutting-edge urban design canon that is creating better places to live that reduce sprawl and respond to climate change.  A panel of experts will present an...

An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City

4/5/22, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
The National Arts Club
The Gilded Age, also referred to as the American Renaissance, is an era associated with unparalleled growth, technological advancement, prosperity, and cultural change. Taking a close look at 20 of...

Public Space Research and Design: Tracing Gender and Sexuality Inequalities

A rainbow colored street crossing by Tayla Kohler.
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,...

Architecture Unbound: Alternative History of Alternative Architecture

4/4/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Anthony Vidler, Gwendolyn Wright, and Thomas Leeser will join author Joseph Giovannini for a discussion of his recent volume on contemporary architectural history, Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive...

Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb

This is an image on the cover of the Sunnyside Gardens: Preservation & Planning in a Historic Garden Suburb book.
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?

Decorative graphic for The Infrastructure Bill event 1
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,...

Architects, Born Jewish in the 19th Century

3/30/22, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
The National Arts Club
The National Arts Club presents a closer look at the Jewish architects who have contributed to buildings in the U.S. From Ely Jacques Kahn and Joseph Urban to Rudolph Schindler,...

Film Screening – Another Kind of Knowledge: A Portrait of Dorte Mandrup

3/29/22, 7:30pm - 10pm
SVA Theatre
AIANY Women in Architecture is pleased to co-sponsor the Architecture and Design Film Festival’s screening of Another Kind of Knowledge, which focuses on the renowned Danish architect Dorte Mandrup, a...

Book Launch: Formulations by Andrew Witt

The cover of Andrew Witt's book Formulations
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

Interior photo of Jewel Changi Airport showcasing an indoor rainforest with a large waterfall in the center
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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An Evening with Jane Greenwood: Life & Career as an Out, Gay Woman

3/24/22, 6pm - 8pm
Thornton Tomasetti or via Google Meet
Join Build Out Alliance for an evening with with Jane Greenwood as she speaks about her career, experiences, and what it means to be an out, gay woman in the...

Ennead Architects: How Civic Architecture Can Inspire Change (With Molly McGowan and Thomas Wong)

3/24/22, 4pm - 5pm
Go to Webinar
Join us for Best Practice, a virtual fireside chat series dedicated to practice operations at architecture firms and beyond. From pain points to potential, hear how leaders in the architecture...

2022 New Fellows Celebration

This is an image of Happy Hour: Honoring the 2021 Women Fellows medals
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....

Learning Series: Adding Interest with Brick Shapes

3/23/22, 12pm - 1pm
Brickworks Design Studio NYC
One important reason for brick’s popularity is its ability to adapt to design criteria. It can be shaped and used in a wide variety of traditional and contemporary detailing: Such...

Re-Generation: Design and New Technologies for a Sustainable Future

Promotional graphic for Italian Design Day 2022 with the logo and text "Regeneration" and date "Webnesday March 23, 10AM EST (3pm Italian Time)
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...

The Great Reawakening: Is It a Launch Point or a Need for Change

3/23/22, 5pm - 6:30pm
Virtual
Where has the talent gone? Our upcoming panel discussion will explore the motivations of employees who are changing jobs, career paths, and even industries—what some are calling a reawakening—and what...

Exploring Community Engagement with Hester Street: Building Community Control

This is an image of a group of people having a discussion
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...

One Vanderbilt by James von Klemperer of KPF

3/17/22, 6pm - 7pm
Virtual
One Vanderbilt, Midtown’s newest and tallest office tower, is linked at grade and underground to Grand Central Terminal in New York City. The facade of this 93-story tower is intended...

Yung Ho Chang: Building Issues

China Academy of Art Liangzhu Campus in Hangzhou by FCJZ
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

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...

Carbon 360, A Guide to Recent Codes and Best Practices for Operational and Embodied Carbon

3/9/22, 9am - 10am
Virtual
New York, Boston, Washington are all enacting legislation to reduce carbon emissions in new and proposed building stock with the goal to slow or halt climate change.  Decarbonization policies and...

New York: An Illustrated History (Revised and Expanded)

3/8/22, 6pm - 7pm
Virtual
Twenty-two years after the original New York: An Illustrated History—first published in 1999 as a companion volume to the acclaimed 17 ½-hour PBS series New York: A Documentary Film, directed...

Nishan Kazazian, (F)acts of Bonding: Art, Architecture, Culture and History

3/3/22, 1:30pm
Zoom
Nishan Kazazian is an Artist, licensed Architect and Educator. In this presentation of his artworks and architectural explorations and visions, he traces aspects of his childhood, personal and professional growth...

Mentorship for Women in Architecture: Mentoring Seminar Series for Women Entering the Profession of Architecture

3/3/22, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Hosted Virtually
Join us for a discussion led by Alexandra Cuber, AIA LEED AP, Director at Fogarty Finger and Angelique Pierre, RA, NOMA.  Alexandra will speak on The Benefits of Having A...

AIAS Pratt Lecture Series x Thomas Hanrahan “Rewinding”

3/3/22, 3pm - 4pm
AIAS Pratt Chapter
Tom Hanrahan, founding partner of HMA will present ‘Rewinding’, focusing on the firm’s projects that weave nature into architectural and urban design at the scale of buildings and cities. The...

Thomas Hanrahan “Rewinding” x AIAS Pratt Lecture Series

3/3/22, 3pm - 4:30pm
Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Higgins hall
Tom Hanrahan, founding partner of HMA will present ‘Rewinding’, focusing on the firm’s projects that weave nature into architectural and urban design at the scale of buildings and cities. The lecture will...

Founders Forum 2022: Women Who Break the Bias

A group of people having a roundtable discussion.
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

An early evening photo of a 60-unit apartment building by Brooks + Scarpa taken at a flat angle to highlight the open courtyard visible from the street.
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

People surrounding the flooded Bathesda Terrace and Fountain in 2021 after Hurricane Ida.
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...

Community Documentary Night Featuring Hollywood’s Architect – Paul R. Williams

2/24/22, 7pm - 9pm
Virtual
NOMAtlanta is teaming up with Community Documentary Night for a virtual documentary night on February 24, featuring the film Hollywood’s Architect and showcasing African American architect Paul R. Williams. Watch...

BUILT UP: An Historical Perspective on the Contemporary Principles and Practices of Real Estate Development

2/23/22, 6pm - 7pm
Virtual
The history of speculative real estate development is an essential aspect of the histories of most cities, yet is a subject often ignored by academia. In her long awaited book...

Founders Showcase: Black Firms in the Spotlight

The hands of a Black architect drawing plans.
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

Aerial view of the African Burial Ground in New York City
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...

Reimagining Black Communal Care: A Pratt Futures Conversation with Justin Garrett Moore, Deanna Van Buren, and Chandra Christmas-Rouse

2/15/22, 6pm - 8pm
It has long been time to address care in our communities. Not radical, for it is practical and an element of each step towards liberation. Not as a red pill...

Global Modernism Today

Cairo Modern installed at the Center for Architecture
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...

Introduction to the Passive House Standard

2/10/22, 1pm - 5pm
Live online
Passive House goals and methodology change the way architects and builders think and work, making the architectural design itself a driver of climate, health, and social solutions. This is a...

Women in Architecture Speed Mentoring

This is an image of at the WIA speed mentoring event.
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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Passive House Retrofits: Part 1

2/8/22, 1pm - 5pm
Live-Online
Passive House standards are not just for new construction. Existing structures can benefit from upgrading airtightness, insulation, reducing thermal bridging, upgrading to high performance doors and windows, and adding energy...

Paul Rudolph First Friday Open House

2/4/22, 6pm - 9pm
Modulightor
Experience the ONLY Paul Rudolph-designed interior open to the public in New York City.  The Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation hosts our monthly open house at the Rudolph-designed Duplex within the...

High Rise, Low Carbon Series Launch

2/3/22, 9am - 11am
Be-Ex: Building Energy Exchange and Webinar
Join NYSERDA and the Building Energy Exchange for this launch of the Empire Building Challenge educational series High Rise, Low Carbon, promoting the market for low-carbon retrofits of tall buildings across...

Introduction to Passive House Trades

2/2/22, 1pm - 5pm
Online
The Introduction to Passive House Trades will broadly cover the following topics: Passive House basics, review typical construction types, windows and installation, air barriers and insulation and new, innovative PH...

Child of Apartheid Film Screening

This is an image of an Architect holding Architecture models.
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,...

Designing Green Inside-Out – Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Architecture

1/26/22, 9am - 11am
Center for Architecture
To accelerate deep energy efficiency retrofits, cities need better collaboration and international knowledge exchange. Strict building codes, energy labeling, and an innovative approach to decarbonization of the building industry have...

Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde

1/25/22, 6pm - 7pm
Virtual
In Architecture Unbound noted architecture critic JOSEPH GIOVANNINI traces our current architecture landscape to the disruptive scientific advances and transgressive and progressive art movements that roiled Europe before and after...

On My Watch: Bears Ears Cultural Landscape

1/20/22, 12pm - 1pm
Zoom
In an act of spatial and social justice, the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah were restored on October 8, 2021. This decision reversed a 2017 decision to...

Paul Rudolph First Friday Open House

1/7/22, 6pm - 9pm
Modulightor
Experience the ONLY Paul Rudolph-designed interior open to the public in New York City.  The Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation hosts our monthly open house at the Rudolph-designed Duplex within the...

AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction: 10th Anniversary Event

The view of Kivalina from Air Force One on Sept. 2, 2015, as President Barack Obama flew to Kotzebue, AL. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza).
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...

Mentorship for Women in Architecture Holiday Event: Premiering an Interview with Debora Reiser of RUR Architecture

12/16/21, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Hosted Virtually on Zoom
‘Tis the season for celebration and what better way to celebrate the holidays with MWA than by celebrating an exemplary woman in architecture? We’ll be premiering our interview with Debora...

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

Closeup of the AIA Presidential medal and gavel
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...

Innovation Briefing: Net Zero – What is it? And how do we get there?

12/8/21, 9am - 10am
Virtual
Man-made climate change due to carbon emissions is an existential threat to global health, safety, and welfare. Carbon emissions cause environmental warming that impacts polar ice melt, rising seas, and...

Towards Comprehensive Planning: Preserving Historic and Cultural Resources

12/7/21, 5pm - 6pm
Virtual - Zoom
Many New Yorkers are seeking a more coordinated and collaborative approach to land use planning in the city, while others are comfortable with the status quo or feel New York...

Teresa Fankhänel Book Talk: The Architectural Models of Theodore Conrad

12/7/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
The Skyscraper Museum
In her new book The Architectural Models of Theodore Conrad, historian and curator Teresa Fankhänel offers an alternative history of American modern architecture, highlighting the often-overlooked influence of architectural models...

Retail Design Institute’s 50th International Design Competition

Photo of Tempur-Pedic showroom showing fours mattresses located in semi-private spaces on wooden floors with window-sized screens of a forest.
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

A photograph of opening night event at the Center for Architecture with people mingling in the main gallery space
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...

Future Smart Cities (FSC) – 4th Edition

12/3/21, 8am - Sunday, 12/5, 6pm
Online
A Smart City is a city well-performing in a forward-looking way in these six characteristics (smart economy, smart people, smart governance, smart mobility, smart environment, smart living), built on the...

Ground Zero Master Plans: Part 2 of the Commercial Imperative

12/1/21, 6pm - 7:15pm
The Skyscraper Museum
Two design competitions determined the direction of the master plan at Ground Zero and the concept and position of the 9/11 memorial and museum. Ultimately the memorial, museum, and landscaped...

Activists Make Space

11/30/21, 6pm - 7:40pm
Zoom
ACTIVISTS MAKE SPACE: A community conversation with artist / activist Christopher Paul Jordan ONLINE | ZOOM In 2015 as a member of the Tacoma Action Collective, Christopher Paul Jordan was...

Refrigeration Cycle 101: The Key to Electrification

11/30/21, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Center for Architecture
Created and presented by ASHRAE New York Chapter, this course explains the basic refrigeration principles to help architects and non-engineers better understand the basics of heat pumps, refrigerants, environmental legislation...

Launch Event – New York: An Illustrated History

Cover of New York: An Illustrated History. Cover shows skyline view of Manhattan at dusk.
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)

George Nakashima chair, lounge style with wood frame and white woven surface
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...

Urban Green Live: Tackling Food Waste

11/18/21, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Join us for the next episode of Urban Green Live hosted by Urban Green Council CEO John Mandyck. This live interview series features industry experts who share their insights and...

Public Space Research Design Part I: Gauging Climate Inequities

This is an image of the Uptown Grand Central weekly GrowNYC Fresh Food Box
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

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?

This an image of The Mount Lebanon Shaker Village.
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)

George Nakashima chair, lounge style with wood frame and white woven surface
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

This is a black and white image of the New York skyline
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...

COP26 Network Workshop | Built Environment Coalition

11/10/21, 4pm - 5:30pm
Online
Welcome to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation Network Workshop: COP26 Edition. Our Network Workshops are bi-annual events run exclusively for the Foundation’s Network—providing a forum for insight and inspiration that enables...

Samuel Ratensky Memorial Lecture: Lacaton & Vassal and Frédéric Druot

Exterior photograph of GRP - Bordeaux Cite du Grand Parc after its transformation which provides more space for residents and access to the community
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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Travel To: Louis Kahn and the Castle in Kuressaare

11/9/21, 11am - 12pm
Zoom
Join us as we travel to Kuressaare in Saaremaa, Estonia for a virtual tour of the castle that impacted the work of the architect Louis Kahn. Louis Kahn’s interest in...

TORCH Mentorship Program: Social Responsibility & Community Engagement

11/9/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Zoom
Participatory design directly engages users in a design process. Also known as “co-creation”, “co-design”, or “cooperative design,” it encompasses techniques useful to both initial discovery and subsequent design phases of a...

2021 Deans’ Roundtable

Photo of Columbia GSAPP students at an architecture studio in Avery Hall.
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,...

What’s Next for Basement Apartments After Hurricane Ida?

11/4/21, 6pm - 8pm
Zoom
According to Mayor de Blasio, roughly 100,000 New Yorkers live in 50,000 or more illegal basement apartments. While vital housing stock, basement apartments are often not up to building code,...

Climate Mobilization Act Series: What About Affordable Housing?

11/3/21, 9am - 10:30am
Building Energy Exchange / Online
Join us for a discussion of new policy guidance from New York City on the application of Local Law 97 to affordable housing, and how meeting these requirements can act...

Book Talk: The Future of Modular Architecture

A page from 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...

Introduction to the Passive House Standar

11/3/21, 10am - 4pm
Online
Passive House goals and methodology change the way architects and builders think and work, making the architectural design itself a driver of climate, health, and social solutions. This is a...

Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights (Session 3)

George Nakashima chair, lounge style with wood frame and white woven surface
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...

In Conversation with Sean Ahlquist and Mimi Lien

10/30/21, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Lincoln Center
Join us for a conversation between two celebrated artists whose works explore fundamental questions about design and interaction. Noted architecture professor and designer Sean Ahlquist builds interactive works for neurodiverse...

Book Talk by David Freeland: “American Hotel: The Waldorf-Astoria and the Making of a Century”

10/28/21, 6pm - 7:15pm
The Skyscraper Museum
In American Hotel: The Waldorf-Astoria and the Making of a Century, historian David Freeland recounts the history of not just an American hotel, but, arguably, the American hotel. From the...

Selldorf Architects: How to Build Collaborative Practices

10/28/21, 4pm - 5pm
Online
Join us for Best Practice, a virtual fireside chat series dedicated to practice operations at architecture firms and beyond. From pain points to potential, hear how leaders in the architecture...

Ground Zero, Part 2: The Commercial Imperative

10/27/21, 6pm - 7:15pm
The Skyscraper Museum
Two design competitions determined the direction of the master plan at Ground Zero and the concept and position of the 9/11 memorial and museum. Ultimately the memorial, museum, and landscaped...

Write & Shoot to Win: Lighting Awards 101

10/27/21, 9:15am - 10:15am
Javits Center
Hear from the professionals behind award-winning lighting projects—the copy writers, marketeers, designers, architects, and photographers. Learn how to prepare, coordinate, and execute a rock-solid submission for your firm to be well-positioned...

The World Trade Center – Case Study Live

10/27/21, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Online
Managing Principal at Thornton Tomasetti, Najib Abboud PHD PE, will deliver a presentation to the NYC Chapter of New York State Society of Professional Engineers about the performance of the...

POSTPONED – Travel To: Khushnu Panthaki Hoof on Balkrishna Doshi

A photograph of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, India, 1977-1992 by 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

Piles of landfill trash, mostly plastic, with worker in yellow coat sweeping up debris
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

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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

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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...

Diller Scofidio + Renfro: How to Run Projects and Lead Teams

10/21/21, 4pm - 5pm
Online
Join us for Best Practice, a virtual fireside chat series dedicated to practice operations at architecture firms and beyond. From pain points to potential, hear how leaders in the architecture...

Climate Mobilization Act Primer

10/21/21, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Get informed on New York City climate legislation and its impact on buildings. Register now for the Climate Mobilization Act Primer, a one-hour seminar examining the basic principles of the...

The New Art Depot

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, a new archive building designed by MVRDV for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam
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...

NYLPF Forum 2021 – International Cities: Past/Future

10/19/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Webinar
Topic — “International Cities : Past/Future” Guest Speakers: James von Klemperer, KPFGregg Pasquarelli, SHoP Architects Moderated by Amale Andraos, Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture Location — The University Club...

Designing, Training and Building in Four African Nations

Exterior birds-eye view of Mt Sinai Surgical Facility in Uganda (photo by Bob Ditty)
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)

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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

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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...

Courageous by Design: Landscape Architects Confronting the Climate Crisis in New York City

10/15/21, 9am - 5pm
440 West 15th St New York, NY 10011
Register now for Courageous by Design: Landscape Architects Confronting the Climate Crisis in New York City on October 15. How is a world-class city dealing with a worldwide threat? This...

T.J. Gottesdiener — SOM in New York: The Complex Role of the Architect in the Transformation of the City

10/14/21, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Cooper Union--The Great Hall / Online
SOM Managing Partner T.J. Gottesdiener, FAIA AR’79 has played a pivotal role in realizing some of the firm’s most significant projects in New York City,  where he has navigated the...

J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture | The Man, The Legacy

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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...

Dattner Architects: How to Build Firm Health and Vitality

10/14/21, 4pm - 5pm
Online
Join us for Best Practice, a virtual fireside chat series dedicated to practice operations at architecture firms and beyond. From pain points to potential, hear how leaders in the architecture...

Modeling the Future: Integrating Energy Performance for Carbon Reduction

10/13/21, 8:30am - 10am
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Join Building Energy Exchange, AIA New York, and ASHRAE New York for a BE-Ex Architect Advisory Council (AAC) discussion on energy modeling and performance design, where leading experts will discuss...

Women at the Helm

10/13/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Studies show that firms with greater gender diversity among senior leaders are significantly more successful. Why is women leadership so important? How can we forge new leadership paths for the...

Travel To: Young & Ayata in Mexico City

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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

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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

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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

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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,...

Woods Bagot: How to Increase the Impact of Digital Culture

10/7/21, 4pm - 5pm
Online
Join us for Best Practice, a virtual fireside chat series dedicated to practice operations at architecture firms and beyond. From pain points to potential, hear how leaders in the architecture...

Beyond Zero Series: Big Buildings, Big Impacts

10/6/21, 9am - 10:30am
Building Energy Exchange / Online
Building Energy Exchange and NYSERDA are pleased to announce the launch of the new Beyond Zero Series; “Big Buildings, Big Impacts,” a panel discussion about high-impact, high-profile new construction projects:...

Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights (In Person)

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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...

Little Island: New York’s Floating Garden

10/4/21, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
The National Arts Club
Little Island is a dramatic 2.4 acre park built in the Hudson River that marries nature and art in an immersive experience. Punctuated by lush gardens and sinuous pathways, it...

TORCH University: A Conversation with AIANY Emerging New York Architects & Pratt

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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

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...

Modernism as Branding: Selling Thrift, Soap and Plexiglas

9/29/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Online
DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State’s Modern Conversations series is back for Fall. In this virtual talk, architectural historian Grace Ong Yan will investigate the intersection of branding, corporate design, and business...

Education of the Architect: Radical vs. Incremental Change

9/27/21, 5pm - 6:30pm
Webinar
This roundtable conversation brings together diverse voices—the student, the educator, the firm partner, and the emerging professional—to discuss the education of the architect. Participants will discuss how the traditional educational model...

2021 ASLA-NY, AIANY, APA-NY Annual Conference

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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

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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...

Posh Portals

9/23/21, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
The National Arts Club
“First impressions count” has been the watchword since the first luxury apartment house opened in 1884. Entrance doors and their embellishment set the mood of an apartment building and form...

Climate Mobilization Act Series: Integrative Environmental Justice

9/22/21, 12pm - 1:30pm
New York City is taking an integrative approach to environmental justice (EJ) to address disproportionate environmental, climate, and health impacts on low-income communities and communities of color. Join us for...

How Low Can We Go – Historic Preservation and Carbon Reduction: Applied Trades

9/21/21, 12pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
The third annual “How Low Can We Go” event will focus on applied trades and will feature a panel discussion with architects, uniquely positioned tradespeople, and educators. Retrofitting existing buildings...

15th Annual Arthur Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture: Álvaro Siza

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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...

Support NYC’s Fossil Fuel Ban in Buildings

9/13/21, 10:30am - 11:30am
100 Flatbush Avenue
Please join the #GasFreeNYC coalition, Alloy Development, AIA New York, and New York Passive House in support of Int. 2317, a city council bill banning fossil fuel hookups in new and retrofitted buildings. Limiting new fossil fuel...

20 Years Later: Remembering September 11th & the Leaders Who Rebuilt NYC

9/9/21, 11am - 12pm
Virtual
Commercial Observer Co Power Briefing Many experts have drawn comparisons between the fear felt following 9/11 with the city’s struggles in midst of an out of control pandemic. But true...

Post-COVID Cities: Framework for Opportunity

9/8/21, 12pm - 2pm
Webinar
This program is the third in the “Post-COVID Cities” series, hosted by the AIANY Planning and Urban Design Committee and the AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “Framework for Opportunity” will...

The Creation of Innolabs: A Purpose-Built Commercial Laboratory Facility

9/8/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Creation of Innolabs: How Three Buildings from the 1930s Create a...

CSU Green Cities 2021: Ljubljanas

9/2/21, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
Green Cities 2021 is a monthly virtual lecture program organized by the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization on the first Thursday of each month at 12:00 PM ET. The series focuses on innovations...

Recipe for a Room: Places of Learning

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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,...

ResArch Now: Lunch/Learn with the 2020 Award Winners, Part 3

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8/12/21, 12pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
* This is a three-part series. Registrants will be sent a link to access all three sessions. * ResArch Now: Lunch/Learn with the 2020 Residential Design Award Winners Six Unique...

CSU Green Cities 2021: Los Angeles

8/5/21, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
Green Cities 2021 is a monthly virtual lecture program organized by the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization on the first Thursday of each month at 12:00 PM ET. The series focuses on innovations...

Greetings from Big Sky Country!: Career Stories from Four Montana-Based Women Architects

8/4/21, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Online
Join us for Greetings from Big Sky Country! with Lindsey Love and Lindsay Schack, Founding Principals of Love Schack Architecture, as well as Sophia Sparklin, Founding Principal of Spark Architecture,...

Lessons from the Pandemic: Learning from Neighborhoods Now

7/29/21, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Online
In the early days of the pandemic in New York City, the Urban Design Forum and Van Alen Institute launched a platform for pro bono design support to communities in...

Design for All: Accessibility, Technology, and Agency

7/26/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* How does technology make our interior environments more accessible? From smart homes...

Town Hall | Climate Mobilization – ACT NOW

7/22/21, 12pm - 2:30pm
Online
NYPH invites you to reimagine the future of New York City buildings at a Passive House Town Hall. The event will include presentations and panel discussions featuring key policy-makers, designers,...

2021 New Gravity: Accelerated Edition

7/21/21, 7pm - Thursday, 7/22, 9pm
Online
New Gravity is focused on discussing and promoting policies and practices that support high-performance affordable housing. This year will feature four virtual interactive sessions ranging from technical insight on projects...

Center for Architecture Lab: AR/VR Tools for Storytelling

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7/21/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Join the Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning, and Design (ISAPD) as they...

The Seagram Building Construction Ecology

7/20/21, 6pm - 7pm
Online
In his new book Unless, Kiel Moe, professor of Architecture at McGill University and author of Empire State & Building, dissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of the...

The Architecture of Trees

7/17/21, 11am - 12pm
39 Battery Place
Architects can spend years designing their buildings, but trees have been perfecting their own architecture in response to their environment for eons. On a walk through Wagner Park, in Battery...

Founders’ Showcase: Women-Owned Firms In the Spotlight

7/13/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Webinar
Calling all entrepreneurs! Join the Emerging New York Architects (ENYA) and Women in Architecture (WIA) committees for a joint event focusing on female founders and their stories. The panel will...

Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital

7/6/21, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Historian Katherine Zubovich will discuss her new book Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital, an in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper. In the early years of...

Supporting Emerging Architects, Part 2: CV/Portfolio Workshop and Review

7/6/21, 5pm - 6:30pm
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) presents a portfolio workshop...
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CSU Green Cities Session 5: Tshwane, South Africa

7/1/21, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
THE SPEAKERS Lutske Newton works for the City of Tshwane in the City Sustainability Unit in the Office of the Executive Mayor. She is responsible for Climate Change Adaptation and...

POSTPONED – TORCH Mentorship Program: Equity Redux – Changemakers

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6/30/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Webinar
*This event has been postponed to September 2021. More information coming soon.* Join the TORCH Mentorship Program as we spotlight the changemakers reshaping the profession and its conversations around diversity,...

Symbiosis, Part 2: Interlinking Practice and Education for Equity

6/29/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* As conversations surrounding diversity and inclusion have increased, the architecture community has...

Designing Urban Agriculture, Part 1: Why Now?

A lone eggplant waits to be picked at the North Brooklyn Farm (NBF) in the shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge is a site for agritourism where crops are grown. USDA Photo by Preston Keres
6/28/21, 12pm - 1:30pm
This is the first in a three-part series that will explore the intersection of agriculture and the urban environment at this moment and at a range of scales. This session...

Symbiosis, Part 1: Interlinking Practice and Education for Equity

6/24/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* As conversations surrounding diversity and inclusion have increased, the architecture community has...

The Floating Pool Lady: A Quest to Bring a Public Pool to New York City’s Waterfront

6/21/21, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Historian, waterfront planner, and activist Ann L. Buttenwieser is the “Floating Pool Lady.” As parks protector Adrian Benepe writes in the description of Buttenwieser’s new book of the same name:...

ResArch Now: Lunch/Learn with the 2020 Award Winners, Part 1

Villa Varoise in France by NADAAA with Bidard & Raissi. Photo: John Horner.
6/17/21, 12pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
* This is a three-part series. Registrants will be sent a link to access all three sessions. * ResArch Now: Lunch/Learn with the 2020 Residential Design Award Winners Six Unique...

Thom Mayne: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen

6/17/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on...

The Potential of the Public Realm

6/16/21, 5pm - 6pm
Online
City life doesn’t stop at the door of a building. Our waterfronts, parks, plazas, streets, and sidewalks are some of New York’s largest public assets. Over the last 16 months,...

The Science of Storm Surge Risk Reduction

6/16/21, 1am - 2:30pm
Online
USGBC’s Middle Atlantic and New England regions have collaborated with the NYC Post of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) to bring you a variety of monthly webinars in...

ENYA Beyond the Boards: Peterson Rich Office (PRO)

Peterson Rich Office (PRO) Studio Workspace
6/14/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
The AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) is proud to announce the next presentation in our Beyond the Boards series. Join us as the award-winning firm Peterson Rich Office (PRO) profile...

Fight or Flight? Climate Justice and Equity

The view of Kivalina from Air Force One on Sept. 2, 2015, as President Barack Obama flew to Kotzebue, AL. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza).
6/11/21, 9am - 12pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* “Fight or Flight? Rethinking the Urban Footprint“ is a six-part series that will address...

Safe and Equitable Streets: Age, Ability, and Inclusion

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6/10/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* In 2020, pivotal national and global events brought about increased awareness of...

Post-COVID Cities: Reinventing World Cities

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6/10/21, 12pm - 2pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* “Reinventing Global Cities” is the second in a series of three high-profile...

NYLON #19: Workplace Futures

6/8/21, 9am - 10:30am
Webinar
Live webinar taking place simultaneously in both New York and London. Organized in association with New London Architecture, Urban Design Forum and Van Alen Institute. New London Architecture have just...

Book Talk – Drama with David Rockwell and Bruce Mau

OMNIA, nightclub, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, 2015. Photo: Al Powers, Powers Imagery LLC.
6/7/21, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* David Rockwell’s fascination with theater has long informed his built work, which...

The Venice Biennale: Louise Braverman, FAIA, and Martha Thorne

Centro de Artes Nadir Alfonso, photo courtesy of Louise Braverman Architect
6/4/21, 1pm - 2:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar on June 4, 2021 at 1:00 PM EDT / 18:00 BST / 19:00 CET. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the...

Fight or Flight? Stemming the Tide

The view of Kivalina from Air Force One on Sept. 2, 2015, as President Barack Obama flew to Kotzebue, AL. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza).
6/4/21, 9am - 12pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* “Fight or Flight? Rethinking the Urban Footprint“ is a six-part series that will address...

In Dialogue With: Stacy Smedley and Betty Rexrode on Their Paths to Net Zero

6/3/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* How do you build an architectural career in sustainability while navigating the...

Antiquity in Gotham: The Ancient Architecture of New York City

6/1/21, 6pm - 7pm
Online
In her new book, Prof. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis applies an archeological lens to the study of the New York buildings. Antiquity in Gotham explores how the language of ancient architecture communicated...

Meet Kathryn Garcia: An AIANY Highly Rated Candidate for Mayor

5/27/21, 10am - 11am
Webinar
New York City faces a pivotal election in this June’s Democratic Primary, which will determine the outcomes of most races in our very Democratic city. Term limits are forcing most elected...

Saarinen’s Flight Center for TWA

5/27/21, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Eero Saarinen’s iconic Flight Center for Trans World Airlines (TWA) 20-year revitalization process charted changing attitudes to mid-century modern architecture and the sustainable regeneration of obsolete transportation buildings. The design...

Meet Brad Lander: AIANY’s Highly Rated Candidate for Comptroller

5/27/21, 9am - 10am
Webinar
New York City faces a pivotal election in this June’s Democratic Primary, which will determine the outcomes of most races in our very Democratic city. Term limits are forcing most...

Speed Presentations Edition 12

5/26/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* As we continue to navigate through a global pandemic, seek action on...

Book Talk – Hip-Hop Architecture with Sekou Cooke

Appropriated Tekniques by Mauricio D. Zamora. Photo: Mauricio D. Zamora.
5/24/21, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Join Sekou Cooke and Mabel O. Wilson in conversation as they explore...

Black Reconstructions: Prosperity and Innovation

5/24/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Online
How have Black innovation and prosperity persisted in the face of economic exclusion and racial violence? How does innovation relate to self-determination for Black Americans? And what if safety and...

Towards Comprehensive Planning: Global Cities in Conversation

5/21/21, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Many New Yorkers are seeking a more coordinated and collaborative approach to land use planning in the city, while others are comfortable with the status quo or feel New York...

2021 Gil Oberfield Lecture: Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects

Marc Jacobs Showroom & Offices. Photo: Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects.
5/20/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The annual Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture was founded in honor of Gil Oberfield,...

Radio BE-Ex: Building Retrofits as Climate Action with Carl Elefante

5/20/21, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Join us for our next episode of Radio BE-Ex, where Architect Carl Elefante, FAIA, FAPT, LEED AP, highlights AIA’s commitment to climate action and the central importance of retrofitting existing...

“Person Place Thing” With LPC Chair and Commissioner Sarah Carroll

5/19/21, 5pm - 6pm
Online
This installment of Person Place Thing will be a conversation with Sarah Carroll, who is both the Chair and a commissioner on the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)....

The Future of Cultural Centers: Kristina Newman-Scott, BRIC

Kristina Newman-Scott, President of BRIC. Photo courtesy of BRIC
5/18/21, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Cultural Centers Dialogue Series As the world rapidly changes...

Clean Curbs: Design Solutions for Waste Storage in the Street

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5/18/21, 5pm - 6:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Recent events have led many New Yorkers to realize the value of...

WISE Media Club: Inclusive Climate Action

5/18/21, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Grab your beverage and snack of choice and meet us online for the next WISE Media Club, on May 18th from 6:00-7:00pm. (*Note: Space is limited to preserve a participation-based...

Design Fuels Recovery: Furniture in a More Sustainable, Equitable, and Healthy NYC

5/17/21, 10am - 11:15am
Online
As NYC begins to re-emerge, what is the role of design in a new future? How do we fully incorporate sustainability, health and equity? Highlighting furniture design, this session will...

Real Estate 101 for Communities of Faith

5/17/21, 10am - 12pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* This educational workshop for faith-based organizations will cover the fundamentals of real-estate...

Black Reconstructions: Speculative Timelines Workshop

5/15/21, 11am - 1pm
Online
What if Tulsa, Oklahoma, had become a thriving hub for Black and Indigenous communities? What if the Freedmen’s Bureau had succeeded? Join architect and design justice advocate Bryan Lee with...

Meet Shaun Donovan: An AIANY Highly Rated Candidate for Mayor

5/14/21, 10:30am - 11:15am
Webinar
New York City faces a pivotal election in this June’s Democratic Primary, which will determine the outcomes of most races in our very Democratic city. Term limits are forcing most elected...

ResArch Interiors: Sustainably Sourcing Natural Fibers

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5/12/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
The AIANY Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN) is focusing its efforts on the future of materials sourced in residential interior furnishings. The embodied carbon of materials is the new metric...

Cities Matter: Resilient Cities after COVID-19

5/12/21, 10am - 1pm
Webinar
The COVID-19 pandemic has left in its wake a worldwide wave of despair and death. But despite the pandemic, worldwide urbanization will continue, particularly in the developing world. The promise...

Future of Military Engineering Innovation for Resilience

5/12/21, 1pm - 2:30pm
Online
The USACE North Atlantic Division (NAD) Commander and the New York District Commander will provide on over view of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The discussion will include specific...

The Future of Cultural Centers: Pieternel Thijssen, LocHal Library

Pieternel Thijssen, Manager of Social Programming for LocHal. Photo courtesy of LocHal.
5/11/21, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Cultural Centers Dialogue Series As the world rapidly changes...

Book Talk – Gas and Glamour: Roadside Architecture in Los Angeles

The Donut Hole 15300 Amar Rd. La Puente, CA 91744. Photo: Ashok Sinha
5/10/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Car Culture and Architectural Advertising in Los Angeles During America’s Golden Age...

Housing for Veterans

5/10/21, 12pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
The AIANY Housing Committee is launching a new discussion series, “Housing For…” that focuses on housing for often-underserved populations that are often described as vulnerable or as having special needs. Housing...

CSU Green Cities Session 3: Josep Bohigas, Barcelona Regional

5/6/21, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
THE SPEAKERJosep Bohigas holds a degree in Architecture from the ETSAB (UPC). He studied the AAD Master’s program from Columbia University and the Official Master’s program in Communication and Design...

Book Talk – Jane Jacobs’s First City

5/4/21, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Online
Hear author Glenna Lang at an in-person lecture and slide presentation celebrating the release of her new book—Jane Jacobs’s First City: Learning from Scranton, Pennsylvania (New Village Press). Learn how...

Decolonizing Design Research: Measuring Justice

Graphic: Studio For
5/3/21, 6pm - 7:15pm
Webinar
“Decolonizing Design Research” is a workshop series that explores how research can create spaces and places that reflect values of anti-racism and justice. The dominance of western design aesthetics and...

The Story of Modern Design: Mid-Century Modern (Session 2)

Lina Bo Bardi, Bowl Chair, c. 1951, courtesy Rago/Wright
4/30/21, 10am - 11am
Design educator and historian Daniella Ohad presents a unique online course exploring the foundation of modern design history. This intensive five-session course provides an overview of Mid-Century Modern design in...

Black Reconstructions: In the Kitchen

4/30/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Online
How is the kitchen a space of community and conflict, joy and survival? Join architect Germane Barnes, culinary historian Michael Twitty, and food scholar Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson for a conversation...

Closing the Gap in NYC: Sendero Verde Under Construction in an Evolving Industry

4/29/21, 5pm - 6pm
Online
Presenters: Ryan Lobello (Handel Architects) Dylan Martello (Steven Winter Associates) Louis Koehl (Handel Architects) Program Overview: In the four years since the start of the Sendero Verde development, the gap...

McKim Mead and White: The Early Years

4/29/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Online
Everyone starts somewhere. Even lauded Starchitects like the trio of McKim, Mead & White had to make their way up from someplace. C.F. McKim was raised in a notable Abolitionist...

The Future of Cultural Centers: Gabriel Kogan on SESC Pompéia

Gabriel Kogan, Architect, critic, and professor. Photo courtesy of Gabriel Kogan
4/27/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Cultural Centers Dialogue Series As the world rapidly changes...

Nature’s Patterns + Design

4/27/21, 5pm - 6pm
Online
Nikos Salingaros and Ann Sussman will discuss the importance of patterns and ornament in architecture, both inside and out. The presentation will reveal why modern architecture, in the 20th-century, lost...

HerStory in Place

4/26/21, 5pm - 6pm
Online
From civil rights and women’s suffrage to environmentalism, the names and memories of women are intertwined with the urban fabric and history of our city. Join MAS for a program...

Bennerley Viaduct: Building Community Wellbeing Through Restoration

Bennerley Viaduct, England. Photo by: Paul Atherley
4/22/21, 1pm - 2:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Built in 1877 to carry an important railway line...