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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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NYLON: Activating Public Spaces in New York City and London

Rendering of Fifth Ave by Field Operations
Wednesday, 11/6, 1pm - 2:30pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion between New York and London (NYLON) on rethinking streetscapes to prioritize people, create dynamic and sustainable environments, and enhance the public realm. Co-organized by the...
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TSX Broadway: Lifting the Profession through Design and Collaboration

Wednesday, 11/6, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Times Square recently witnessed the realization of one New York City's largest, most complex, and exciting projects: TSX Broadway. Through a decade of collaboration, the client and the team of...
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…So that you all won’t forget – A Talk by Curry J. Hackett, Wayside Studio

Thursday, 11/7, 6:15pm - 7:15pm
Pratt School of Architecture, Higgins Hall Auditorium
What does a “cultural use case” for generative artificial intelligence look like, particularly for artists and designers? Perhaps more importantly, what is the role of Blackness in shaping imaginative approaches...
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Woven Heritage: Legacy Businesses in the Garment District

Thursday, 11/7, 6pm - 7pm
Online
This panel will explore the enduring presence and influence of the legacy businesses that have shaped the Garment District, an HDC 2024 Six to Celebrate neighborhood, for decades. Join designers,...
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Cocktails & Conversation: SO–IL

Exterior image of Nine Chapel
Friday, 11/8, 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 design issues. For this program,...
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Architecture and Planning for Cultural Preservation and Resilience

Layout of the Lakou family compound Haiti
Saturday, 11/9, 11am - 2pm
Center for Architecture
As architects and planners design their projects, they are finding themselves more deeply challenged to respond not only to evolving programmatic goals but also to planning frameworks, climate change, and...
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POSTPONED – AIANY Interiors Speed Presentations

Tuesday, 11/12, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please note this event has been postponed. AIANY Interiors Speed Presentations is an annual competition that showcases outstanding interior spaces designed by architects based in New York. The format of the...
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The Isaac Bell House Restoration and Legacy

Tuesday, 11/12, 6pm - 7pm
The National Arts Club
Isaac Bell House was completed in 1883 from the designs of New York-based firm McKim, Mead, and White. The house remains one of the best surviving examples of shingle- style...
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Book Talk- Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years

Tuesday, 11/12, 6pm - 7:30pm
Online
Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years tells the story of the transformation of Chinese architecture from a traditional timber-frame, single-story building system with ceramic tile roofs of anonymous craftsmen to supertall...
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Book Talk: Designing for Empathy

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Tuesday, 11/12, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Aybars Aşçı, author of Designing for Empathy: The Architecture of Connections in Learning Environments (ORO Editions, 2024), to discuss the inextricable relationship between developmental psychology and our physical environment....
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Happy Hour and CE Course: Accelerate Your Sustainable Projects

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Wednesday, 11/13, 2:30pm - 6:30pm
Times Square EDITION
Architects, engineers, and their clients are invited to join BRAYN Consulting for an important Continuing Professional Education (CPE) course on using federal tax incentives to support sustainable construction and to help...
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New Practices New York 2025: Competition Launch and Roundtable

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Wednesday, 11/13, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a celebratory relaunch of the New Practices New York competition, featuring a roundtable discussion with a range of past winners and the formal announcement of the 2025...
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Vishaan Chakrabarti: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen

Thursday, 11/14, 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...
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From Lofts To Living Quarters: Garment District Architecture And Workers Housing

Thursday, 11/14, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Baruch College Conference Center, the Edythe and Stanley Becker Room 14-270
In the early 20th Century, New York City’s garment industry not only clothed the nation, but also helped shape New York’s urban fabric, creating the manufacturing lofts in Manhattan where...
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J. Max Bond, Jr. Lecture | Architects’ Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH) @ 60

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Friday, 11/15, 5:30pm - 8pm
Aaron Davis Hall, City College of New York
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 and Inclusion...
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ARCH at 60: Bridging Past Visions and Present Realities

Saturday, 11/16, 9:30am - 4:50pm
Aaron Davis Hall, City College
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Architects’ Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH), which was created to serve the planning and urban design needs of Harlem residents....
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American Modern: The Columbus Update

Monday, 11/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Since 2014, Landmark Columbus Foundation has led a design renaissance in one of America’s most iconic small cities, Columbus, Indiana. Building off the summer release of the critically acclaimed publication...
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Sustainable Economic Development and Green Initiatives

Tuesday, 11/19, 8am - Wednesday, 11/20, 5pm
Online
Join us in this intellectual voyage, where together we strive to shape a future that harmonizes economic progress with environmental stewardship.
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State of the Construction Industry

Tuesday, 11/19, 8am - 10am
Club 101
Join Anchin for our 19th annual State of the Construction Industry event on Thursday, November 19, 2024, presented in cooperation with the New York Building Congress (NYBC), the American Council...
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The Modern Concrete Skyscraper: Translations in Concrete: Montreal’s Place Victoria

Tuesday, 11/19, 6pm - 7pm
Online
The Skyscraper Museum continues its lecture series “In Situ: The Modern Concrete Skyscraper,” which examines key experiments in concrete construction and the range of paradigmatic concrete skyscrapers throughout history, in...
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The Future of Public Space and Art: Trends, Crafts, Technology

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Tuesday, 11/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the fourth program in a four-part series on The Future of Public Space and Art. The series challenges us to discover better design strategies for the public realm...
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Book Launch for Contemporary Art Underground: MTA Arts & Design New York

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Wednesday, 11/20, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a lively discussion on New York’s underground art world as featured in the recently published Contemporary Art Underground: MTA Arts & Design New York (Monacelli, 2024). The...
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A Celebration of Hip Hop: The Hip Hop Museum

Thursday, 11/21, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
The National Arts Club
The Hip Hop Museum, located in the birthplace of the genre, the Bronx, was co-founded by Executive Director Rocky Bucano. This dynamic 55,000-square-foot space, slated to open late 2025, will...
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Book Talk: Le Corbusier Album Punjab, 1951

Thursday, 11/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion on Le Corbusier Album Punjab, 1951 (Lars Müller Publishers, 2024). In 1951 Le Corbusier was invited to the Indian state of Punjab to help develop...
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Office-to-Residential Conversion Symposium: Design and Technical Considerations

Friday, 11/22, 8:30am - 5:15pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a comprehensive symposium dedicated to exploring innovative solutions in the evolving landscape of office-to-residential conversions. As cities grapple with surplus commercial space and pressing housing shortages, this...
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Build Better NYC: How Capital Process Reform Improves Public Infrastructure

Wednesday, 12/11, 9am - 12pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
The process of designing and building public works in New York City impacts New Yorkers throughout their life cycle: not only when they are complete, but also during planning, design,...
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Landscapes Across the Mediterranean (CrossMED)

Wednesday, 12/11, 9am - Friday, 12/13, 5pm
Università degli Studi Mediterranea
The first edition of the International Conference “Landscapes Across the Mediterranean (CrossMED)” in 2024 aims to highlight sustainable development issues related to the cultural landscape in the Mediterranean Region. The...
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Sustainable Artificial Intelligence-Powered Applications (SAIPA)

Monday, 3/10, 8am - Tuesday, 3/11, 5pm
Online
SAIPA conference aims to establish an interactive and interdisciplinary forum, enabling attendees to explore cutting-edge developments, exchange innovative perspectives, and collectively tackle the evolving challenges across these vibrant sectors. Through...
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Past Events

Urban Thinkers Campus

11/2/24, 9am - 4pm
Spitzer School of Architecture
The open forum will facilitate critical discussions among urban researchers, professionals, and decision-makers who view urbanization as a chance to drive positive transformations in our cities, with examination of the...

Deans’ Roundtable 2024

11/1/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the Center for Architecture’s annual Deans’ Roundtable, when representatives from over a dozen schools of architecture discuss current directions in architectural education. Speakers: Abimbola Asojo, FAIA,...

State of the NYC Industrial Economy 

An aerial view of the New York City skyline at golden hour
10/30/24, 8:30am - 11am
Center for Architecture and Zoom
The NYC Department of City Planning, the NYC Economic Development Corporation, and NYC Small Business Services are working to bolster the city's industrial sector through the NYC Industrial Plan—a comprehensive...

Book Talk: Days without Number, New York City

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10/29/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Head Hi is excited to announce the publication of their second book, co-published by Mousse, featuring the work of Milan-based architectural photographer Giovanna Silva. Titled Days without Number, New York City,...

Climate Adaptation Strategies for Cooperative Housing Report Launch

10/29/24, 5pm - 7pm
EDF Office
You are invited to join Environmental Defense Fund, Cornell University, and Urban Homesteading Assistance Board for a presentation and panel discussion of “An Assessment of NYC Cooperative Housing’s Climate Vulnerability...

18th Annual Arthur Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture: Weiss/Manfredi

Olympic Sculpture Park Rendering
10/28/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In-person tickets for this event are sold out. Please join us online with a Zoom ticket. The Arthur M. Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture on Museum Design is an AIANY signature event...

Carbon-Free Cities: Climate Action in the Built Environment

10/28/24, 10am - 2pm
United Nations Headquarters
Join us this October for Carbon-Free Cities: Climate Action in the Built Environment at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The half-day, flagship conference will delve into the latest advances in technology and...

Unfinished – Billie Tsien

10/24/24, 6:15pm - 7:30pm
Higgins Hall Auditorium
Life and architecture are not straight lines. This talk will discuss how practice shifts over time and how that changes the work, and ourselves. We will investigate how some principles...

Cutting Carbon: Strategies for Sustainable Life Science Facilities

10/23/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join building environment Buro Happold engineers Chris Ashton and Kevin Morrisroe as they tackle the hot topic of cutting carbon in life science facilities. They’ll break down the must-dos for...

A House and a Tower: Sustainable Building with Inès Lamunière

Two-story white geometric house on a corner lot
10/23/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Award-winning Swiss architect Inès Lamunière has consistently shaped the built environment with vision and purpose. As the head of dl-a designlab-architecture in Geneva, she presents two recent projects that serve as...

Film Screening: Before and After Time

10/23/24, 6pm - 8pm
Haworth Showroom
BEFORE TIME/AFTER TIME ​is a film produced as the culmination of the Claiming the Justice Narrative media and advocacy project, which seeks to support recent incursions in the felony court...

The Role of the Integrator in 2024

10/23/24, 6:30pm - 9pm
McIntosh House of Sound
The night will feature 3 rooms of audio demos by the McIntosh and Crescendo teams along with a CEU and an exciting theater demo featuring Top Gun 2 and Dune...

USC Architecture NYC Alumni Diaries

10/23/24, 5pm - 7pm
Henning Larsen NY, 250 West Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10013
Ever wonder what you really learn in architecture school, besides architecture? Join us for an evening where USC School of Architecture alumni at various stages of their careers share how...

Rising Currents at 15: Coastline Resiliency Post Sandy

Bird's-eye view of lower Manhattan rendered in black and white with green landscape edges moving into the harbor
10/22/24, 6pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a conversation on Rising Currents on the 12th anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. Rising Currents, a workshop held at MoMA PS1 in 2009 that led to an exhibition...

The Modern Concrete Skyscraper: One Shell Plaza, Houston

10/22/24, 6pm - 7pm
Online
The Skyscraper Museum continues its lecture series “In Situ: The Modern Concrete Skyscraper,” which examines key experiments in concrete construction and the range of paradigmatic concrete skyscrapers throughout history, in...

Book Discussion – Spatial Futures: Difference and the Post Anthropocene

10/19/24, 3pm - 5pm
581 Mother Gaston Blvd, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11212
No registration required; all are welcome. Join Brownsville Heritage House for a book discussion of Spatial Futures: Difference and the Post Anthropocene, edited by LaToya Eaves, Heidi J. Nast, and Alex...

A Greener Path: Adaptive Reuse & Sufficiency

10/16/24, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Goethe Institute New York
Adaptive reuse is seen as a key to sustainability and more successful decarbonization. This panel, with gmp, sbp, and GSAPP’s Andrés Jaque, examines the case for sufficiency through the use...

Designing Waste Containerization into Streetscapes

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10/16/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Since the release of the Zero Waste Design Guidelines in 2017, the AIANY Committee on the Environment (COTE) has advocated for and collaborated with the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) on...

Future Smart Cities (FSC) – 7th Edition

10/14/24, 9am - Wednesday, 10/16, 6pm
Online
Future Smart Cities delves into the challenges and opportunities associated with shaping urban environments, considering factors such as sustainability, infrastructure development, land use, transportation systems, environmental considerations, and community engagement.

Architectural History of Modern Synagogues

10/10/24, 2pm - 3pm
Roundtable by 92NY
Dive into the architectural history of mid-century American synagogues, from Frank Lloyd Wright to Walter Gropius, in this engaging one-session online course with Professor Emerita of Architecture Anat Geva.

Indigeneity and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Spatial Practices

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10/10/24, 6pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a conversation organized in collaboration with the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning, and Design (ISAPD). This event will convene distinguished guests to examine and discuss the intersection...

The Bioclimatics of Science and Research Buildings

10/10/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Science and research facilities are among the most energy intensive forms of building, but we miss tremendous architectural opportunities if we approach them solely as an energy issue. In contrast,...

Cultural Transformations: Rethinking Spaces & Places for Art

10/10/24, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Goethe Institute New York
In this era of reinvention and adaptive reuse, leading cultural institutions are increasingly rethinking their settings and approaches to delivering visual and performing arts resources to their audiences. Seen in...

Architecture Matters: From Vision to Reality  

Wisdome Stockholm Architect Elding Oscarson Photo by David Valldeby
10/10/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with Archtober, the Consulate General of Sweden, Architects Sweden, STHLMNYC, and the Swedish Institute are partnering with the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY), along with other...

Endless Journey for an Equitable City: Medellín – A Lecture with Alejandro Echeverri

10/10/24, 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Higgins Hall Auditorium
The Challenge to make life in our cities more vital, inclusive and sustainable is an endless journey, it is extraordinary and exciting. In our experience from the government of the...

Passive House for Everyone: Are We There Yet?

10/9/24, 9:30am - 11am
Surrogate's Courthouse + Online
Join BE-Ex, Pratt Institute, and NYSERDA for an insightful panel discussion where leading experts will discuss the impact of Passive House standards on the building industry, the importance of education...

Interiors Residential Review Opening Reception

Image courtesy of GD Arredamenti
10/9/24, 6pm - 8pm
Poggenpohl (138 Green St.), Salvatori (102 Wooster St.), and Scavolini (429 West Broadway)
Join us for the opening of the 7th annual AIANY Interiors Residential Review, organized by the AIANY Interiors Committee to showcase the best work in residential interiors by New York...

Out in Architecture: Elevating LGBTQIA+ Stories to Build Equitable Futures

Out in Architecture
10/9/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY LGBTQIA+ Alliance in welcoming the authors of Out in Architecture as they share their paths to authentic expression and equity-building within the architecture profession. Published in...

AI in Architecture: Disruption and Opportunity

10/8/24, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
The National Arts Club
Artificial intelligence is rapidly emerging as one of the most consequential new technologies of our age, with the potential to remake our economy and culture. What does it mean for...

Why Is Everything So Ugly

10/8/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In an essay titled "Why Is Everything So Ugly?" published in n+1's Winter 2023 issue, the magazine's editors explored a wide range of unattractive, unseemly, and visually depressing phenomena across...

POSTPONED – Build Better NYC: Capital Process Reform

An image from the site of Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center.
10/7/24, 9am - 12pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
This event has been postponed. Please check back for a new date to be announced shortly! The process of designing and building public works in New York City impacts New...

Waste[ED]: Producing with Waste

10/7/24, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
WAST[ED]: Producing with Waste is co-hosted by Center for Architecture, AIANY Committee on the Environment, Pratt GALAUD, NYU, and SOM, examining issues of how to deal with the current state...

Cocktails & Conversation: Kimberly Dowdell

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10/4/24, 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 design issues. For this program,...

The Future of Public Space and Art: Social Agency

Image of Richmond Barthé, Exodus and Dance,1941. Sculpture/frieze, under restoration, NYCHA Kingsborough Houses, Crown Heights.
10/2/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the third program in a four-part series on The Future of Public Space and Art. The series challenges us to discover better design strategies for the public realm...

Cities of Repetition: Hong Kong’s Private Housing Estates

10/1/24, 11am - 12pm
Online
New York and Hong Kong are dense, intense vertical cities. In this truly international webinar, architects and educators Jason Carlow, a professor of Architecture at the American University of Sharjah,...

WIA Outing to US Premiere of ADA: My Mother the Architect

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9/28/24, 8:15pm - 10:15pm
Village East by Angelika
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee on the closing night of NYC’s Architecture & Design Film Festival for a special outing to see the US Premiere of ADA...

Regenerative Metropolis ’24

9/27/24, 9am - 11:30am
Center for Architecture
The Port Authority has broken ground on a transformative $19 billion dollar public/private redevelopment program to build a new John F. Kennedy International Airport with two giant new terminals, expansion,...

The Nature-Based Industrial Revolution: Redefining Future-Forward Architecture

Image of Cape Coast beach, Ghana
9/26/24, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
There has never been a more important time to elevate the role of the built environment in addressing the climate crises and acting as a catalyst for change. Since the...

Decarbonizing Buildings: A Whole Life Cycle Approach

9/26/24, 8:30am - 11am
Center for Architecture
The design, construction, and operation of buildings account for roughly 40% of global energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Historically, significant attention has been focused on reducing the energy use associated...

Adapt Together: Urban Neighborhoods Against Climate Change

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9/25/24, 8:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
As climate change continues to accelerate, its effects are increasingly felt across both urban and rural landscapes, making it essential to adapt our living conditions to this new reality. Recognizing...

Let’s Make Housing its Own SDG: Reframing the Post-2030 Agenda

9/25/24, 9am - 10:30am
Center for Architecture
Housing isn’t just a place to live—it’s the foundation of thriving communities and sustainable cities. Join Build Change in-person during Climate Week NYC for “Let’s Make Housing its Own SDG:...

Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen & Former Parks Commissioner Gordon Davis

9/24/24, 6pm - 7:30pm
NYC Department of Records and Information Services
Join award-winning New York Times columnist, Randy Cohen and the former NYC Parks & Recreation Commissioner, Gordon Davis for a free live recording of the podcast, Person Place Thing at...

NYC Mass Timber Studio Final Review: From Design to Delivery

NYC Mass Timber Studio Final Review
9/24/24, 9am - 12pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
In-Person Tickets are sold out; additional registration is for Zoom attendance only. Join New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and partners for the NYC Mass Timber Studio final review event,...

Building with Wood: Nature’s Climate Solution

9/24/24, 5pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
Join the American Wood Council and WoodWorks for their first Climate Week NYC event. This panel discussion and networking reception will take a deep dive into the sustainability of the whole...

AMFP Conversations: How Healthcare Systems Use Real Estate to Advance Their Business

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9/24/24, 5:30pm - 8pm
CannonDesign NYC Office
Join the Association of Medical Facility Professionals (AMFP) Greater NY Chapter for an interactive session focused on innovation in institutional policy. Panelists will describe the factors that affect healthcare system...

Tracking Environmental Justice in New York City

9/23/24, 5pm - 6:30pm
FXCollaborative
On April 29, 2024, the New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice (MOCEJ) released the Environmental Justice NYC (EJNYC) Report, the city’s first comprehensive study on systemic...

The Animals’ Lawsuit Against Humanity

9/23/24, 10am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
As part of Climate Week NYC, Earth Law Center (ELC) is hosting a live reading and premiere of The Animals' Lawsuit Against Humanity, a 1,000-year-old Earth law fable, now in theatrical...

Housing Our Future: Architecture for a Greener, Safer, and More Affordable Habit

9/21/24, 11:30am - 2:30pm
Center for Architecture
The International Union of Architects (UIA) is pleased to present an offsite event, in coalition with UN-Habitat and the Brazilian Government and supported by the French Government, under the theme...

Mobilizing Women-Led Green Entrepreneurship III

9/20/24, 1pm - 4pm
As New York City strives to transition to clean energy, it is essential to ensure that economic exclusion does not hinder progress. Building a diverse and inclusive green economy is...

The Future of Public Space and Art: New Perspectives

Image of a public space work from WIP Collective/Hudson Square Properties
9/19/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the second program in a four-part series on The Future of Public Space and Art. The series challenges us to discover better design strategies for the public realm...

The Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture

9/19/24, 5:30pm - 8pm
Spitzer School of Architecture, Sciame Auditorium
Lecture on book published by Georgetown University Press: Under the Dome: Politics, Crisis and Architecture at the United States Capitol, presented by the author, Alan M. Hantman, FAIA, 10th Architect...

Nervi’s Towers: Milan, Montreal, & Sydney

9/19/24, 6pm - 7pm
The Skyscraper Museum
The Skyscraper Museum resumes its lecture series In Situ: The Modern Concrete Skyscraper, which examines key experiments in concrete construction and the range of paradigmatic concrete skyscrapers throughout history, in preparation for...

Decarbonizing NYC Offices: Implementing Forward-Thinking Fit-Outs

9/17/24, 9am - 10:30am
Surrogate's Courthouse + Online
With leased tenant spaces often accounting for more than 50% of a commercial building’s energy use, office fit-outs are critical to improving energy performance and attaining substantial emissions reductions. As...

Resilience to Extreme Weather Events: Floods and Hurricanes

Image of a person walking in a flooded area while an NYPD car drives by.
9/17/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for an in-depth discussion and presentation by two building envelope consultants, a structural engineer, and an architect, all actively working on a variety of flood and hurricane mitigation...

It Happened HERE: Moynihan US Courthouse

9/17/24, 5pm - 7:30pm
Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse
Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse was completed in 1994. To celebrate Constitution Day and the 30th anniversary of the building, James von Klemperer, FAIA,...

2024 Fast Company Innovation Festival: Experiences, Spaces, Brands, Stories

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9/17/24, 9am - 10am
CannonDesign New York Office
As part of the 2024 Fast Company Innovation Festival, CannonDesign will host an inspiring discussion on how we can better unleash design. Experiences. Brands. Stories. Spaces. All elevated by the...

Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture

9/16/24, 6pm - 7pm
The Skyscraper Museum
The Museum’s focus on mass timber and wood, in conjunction with the exhibition TALL TIMBER: The Future of Cities in Wood, continues this fall with a webinar & book talk...

Book Talk: Multiplicity in Contemporary Architecture

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9/12/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion of Multiplicity: On Constraint and Agency in Contemporary Architecture (University of Massachusetts Press, 2024). Today, the field of architecture faces a reckoning. While there is no longer...

Her Practice: the Architecture of Debora Reiser

9/12/24, 6:15pm - 8pm
Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Higgins Hall Auditorium
A Celebration of Debora Reiser Introduction: Quilian Riano, Alicia Imperiale, Lori Gibbs Interlocutor: Sanford Kwinter Speakers: Jesse Reiser Maya Reiser Deborah Berke Dana Cupkova Laurie Hawkinson Ted Mirvis August Ventura...

Climate Mobilization Act Series: Funding, Financing & Incentives

9/11/24, 9:30am - 11am
Building Energy Exchange and Online
IRA, GGRF, 179D, HEAR. What do all these have in common? They’re examples of funding opportunities that can help you meet New York’s ambitious climate mandates and create healthy, high-performance...

Cocktails & Conversation: LEVENBETTS

Exterior image of Brooklyn Public Library East Flatbush Branch
9/6/24, 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 design issues. For this program,...

Recipe for a Room: Places for the Displaced

Photo of an origami paper house with an umbrella print.
9/5/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Recipe for a Room is a model-making contest about building spatial, sculptural, miniature rooms while fostering fun, creativity, and professional mentorship. For the 2024 edition, two-person teams, each comprised of...

MWA Seminar – Women in Development

8/15/24, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
MWA
Join Jen Grosso, Tara Mrowka and Alexandra Militano as they discuss their path in architecture and their current leadership roles at Alloy Development. In a design-led development company, Jen, Tara...

Resilient and Responsible Architecture and Urbanism

8/12/24, 9am - 4pm
German Jordanian University (GJU), Jordan
RRAU will explore a wide range of topics related to resilience and responsibility in architecture and urbanism, sustainable building design, construction technologies, and urban planning strategies that promote social equity...

Second Chances: Reintegrating into Society

8/1/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
In the AIANY Architecture for Justice Committee's ongoing series on “Reimagining Justice” we are exploring the way back home: what happens after incarceration. Through sharing their own lived experience in...

Constructing Housing During Crisis: Ukraine

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

TALL TIMBER: Height & Hybrids

7/23/24, 6pm - 8pm
Thornton Tomasetti's Lower Manhattan office
How do we increase and optimize the uses of Mass Timber in the building industry? Join us for a review of a decade of research on timber towers and a...

Chile Day 2: Public Scale and Social Impact

7/18/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Chile Day 2: Public Scale and Social Impact delves into recent public architecture projects in Chile. CONSTRUCTO Directors Jeannette Plaut and Marcelo Sarovic will introduce 20 projects that have had...

Natasha Jen: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen

ClosedWorlds
7/17/24, 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...

Designing Tomorrow: Advocacy in Action

City of Yes Housing rally in New York City. Photo: AIA New York.
7/16/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us to review and discuss AIA New York's extensive advocacy efforts focusing on City of Yes for Housing Opportunity. Bringing together representatives from National Associates Committee (NAC) and Young...

Legacies of Redlining: Preservation and Development in Staten Island

Image of an abandoned Seamans Retreat at Bayley Seton Hospital in Staten Island.
7/16/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Staten Island—NYC’s least populous borough and the only one not connected by subway—has long stood apart from the rest of New York City. The island’s geography and history shaped its...

Spatializing Reproductive Justice: Architecture, Activism, and Advocacy

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

Constructing Architectural Networks: Ukraine

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

Engaged Practice: A Conversation Series

7/10/24, 6:30pm - 8pm
MKCA
Architecture is a practice of constant engagement. This series of conversations, co-hosted by Design Advocates (D/A) and the AIANY Future of Practice Committee, is an opportunity to discuss ways of...

Forced Labor in Supply Chains: Taking Action

Rendering of the Carnegie Global Ethics Hub
7/8/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The three-part series “Forced Labor in Supply Chains” explores the often-invisible affliction of human exploitation embedded within the extensive supply-chain networks that create the very materials for our construction endeavors....

TALL TIMBER: Waugh on Wood

7/2/24, 6pm - 8pm
The Skyscraper Museum
The Skyscraper Museum continues its “Mass Timber Semester” lecture series, which brings together key voices in the Mass Timber movement to reflect on its short history, current condition, and promising...

Two Years After Dobbs: Spatial Practice + Reproductive Health

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

Pride at NYSID: Aaron Cobbett Talks Queer Visual Culture

6/26/24, 6pm - 7:30pm
New York School of Interior Design
Aaron will be presenting the 2024 Arthur King Satz Lecture on the intersection of humanities and design. From a window dresser at Bergdorf Goodman to now showing his work in...

TALL TIMBER: Upfront Carbon — The Now Narrative

6/25/24, 6pm - 7:30pm
SOM New York Office
The Skyscraper Museum continues its “Mass Timber Semester” lecture series, which brings together key voices in the Mass Timber movement to reflect on its short history, current condition, and promising...

NYC Greenways: Paths to an Equitable City-Wide Network

Promotional graphic for NYC Greenwants event featuring colorful abstract human figures overlaid on a sepia toned background photo of a green public walkway
6/24/24, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
New York City is home to over 300 miles of greenways consisting of a patchwork of bikeways, pedestrian paths, and trails. Join the AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to discuss...

TECH Perspectives

6/20/24, 8:30am - 12:30pm
Japan Society
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changer across industries, and the AEC sector is no exception. What are the key challenges and ethical considerations associated with the integration of...

Artistic Homes: Queer Landmarks and Public Interpretation

6/20/24, 6:30pm - 8pm
New York Studio School
In partnership with Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation | Hosted by the New York Studio School LGBTQ artists have played a...

ESKAYEL Panel Discussion + Cocktail Soiree

6/20/24, 5pm - 8pm
Eskayel
Eskayel will be throwing open the doors of their newly refreshed Brooklyn showroom and lifting the lid on the latest sun-ready designs at a soiree to celebrate summer, Thursday June...

Book Talk – The Edith Farnsworth House: Architecture, Preservation, Culture

Mies visiting construction site with project supervisor Myron Goldsmith, Fall 1950
6/20/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion on The Edith Farnsworth House: Architecture, Preservation, Culture (Monacelli, 2024). One of the most famous residences in modern history, a glass and steel marvel that seems...
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AGENCY: The Power of Architects Inside, Beside, and Beyond Practice

Promotional graphic for Agency symposium
6/15/24, 10am - 5pm
Center for Architecture
AGENCY (noun) is defined as: 1a: the office or function of an agent 1b: the relationship between a principal and that person’s agent 2: the capacity, condition, or state of...

K-12 Security Design and Buildout: Best Practices

6/13/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The School District of Philadelphia is the eighth largest school district in the United States. The District's Office of School Safety and physical security program is tasked with providing safety...

Biodesign Challenge Summit 2024

6/13/24, 8:30am - Friday, 6/14, 4:30pm
The New School & MoMA
Join us at the Museum of Modern Art and Parsons School of Design for the BDC Summit—an event that brings together university and high school teams with leading voices in...

Planning for Net-Zero: The Retrofit Playbook for Large Buildings with New Empire Building Challenge Multifamily Winners

6/11/24, 9am - 12pm
Building Energy Exchange
Are you a multifamily building owner or manager trying to meet your Local Law 97 obligations? Are you a solution provider looking for a better way to assist your clients...

Ever Upward: Skyscrapers in the 21st Century, a Book Panel Discussion

6/11/24, 5pm - 7pm
The Skyscraper Museum
Skyscrapers today are controversial – especially in New York – but globally they are getting taller and more numerous. This evening features two authors, an economist, and a real estate...

City of Yes for Housing Opportunity: Analyzing Its Impact on New York City

6/11/24, 8:30am - 11:30am
Center for Architecture and Zoom
For years, New Yorkers have been experiencing a growing housing and affordability crisis. Antiquated and unnecessary zoning laws limit opportunities to build housing and make projects that are built more...

POSTPONED: Book Talk – Midcentury Houses Today: An Evolving Legacy in New Canaan

6/10/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please note: due to unforeseen circumstances this event will be postponed to a future date. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to welcome you at a reassigned date—stay tuned!...
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Underground Cinema – The Subway on Screen

6/6/24, 6pm - 7:30pm
New York Transit Museum
The New York City transit system plays a leading role in the lives of millions of commuters every day, but it also has a side career on the big screen. From...

ACSF Symposium 2024

6/5/24, 12pm
Kaylon Hotel
The upcoming 2024, 14th Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Symposium is set to unfold in the heart of Istanbul, Turkey on June 5. This venture marks the first time the symposium...

TALL TIMBER: Susan Jones Mass Timber by Code and at Scale

6/4/24, 6pm - 7pm
The Skyscraper Museum
The Skyscraper Museum continues its “Mass Timber Semester” lecture series, which brings together key voices in the Mass Timber movement to reflect on its short history, current condition, and promising...

Healing Light: The Biological and Sociological Effects of Lighting

Interior of a building lobby with brightly lit warm colored materials, high ceilings and ornamental column on left and dimly lit dark grey monochromatic low ceilings on right.
6/3/24, 5pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Beyond just illumination, light can create mood, enhance color, and focus on design features. But light is so much more than that. It is an active participant in a space...

Future View: Vernacular Technologies Symposium

5/31/24, 10am - Saturday, 6/1, 6pm
Weston Hall
A symposium considering the impact of vernacular construction materials and methods on the future of architecture, this two day event includes one day of lectures and conversations and one day...

Eco-Critical Spatial Practices in Art and Design

5/31/24, 5pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for an exploration at the intersections of art, design, and ethics in a world grappling with the challenges of climate breakdown. As our planet contends with the unfolding...

Reimagining Justice Film Festival (5 of 5): Rights and Reactions

5/30/24, 6pm - 8pm
Haworth New York Showroom
How can architects be better advocates for a better world? The Reimagining Justice Film Festival will create the opportunity to encounter revolutionary ideas through investigating the history and lived experiences...

Constructing Memory: Ukraine

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

The Intersection of Fashion and Architecture: Celebrating Yeohlee Teng

A person wearing the Yeohlee Cape
5/29/24, 6:30pm - 8pm
FXCollaborative
"Clothes have magic. Their geometry forms shapes that can lend a wearer power." – Yeohlee Teng To celebrate Yeohlee's incredible design talent, her contribution to fashion, and her illustrious career,...

Reimagining Justice Film Festival (4 of 5): TED Talk by JR, Unguarded, and More

Image of a cell
5/23/24, 6pm - 8pm
Grimshaw Architects New York
How can architects be better advocates for a better world? The Reimagining Justice Film Festival will create the opportunity to encounter revolutionary ideas through investigating the history and lived experiences...

Solutions & Strategies for Section 174 Uncertainty: 179D New Legislation

AIANY alliantgroup promotional graphic
5/23/24, 8:30am - 10:30am
Center for Architecture
As architecture firms are deepening and expanding the time they spend on innovative solutions to design challenges—from energy efficiency to historic restoration with new materials, long term resilience, and health...

Inclusive Campus: Architecture, Intellectual Disability, and Human Values

Rendering of a new campus in Angola (UAN University)
5/22/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As transcendent institutions dedicated to the integral formation of human beings, universities must equip themselves with an urban-architectural corpus that matches their purpose. The planning of a university campus is...

Art Works: An Inside Look at Creating, Curating, and Conserving Public Art

5/22/24, 6:30pm - 8pm
SVA Theatre
Explore the art collections of MTA Arts & Design, NYC Health + Hospitals, and the Public Housing Community Fund. Art is all around us in New York City—not just in the...

TALL TIMBER: Michael Green and the Evolution of Mass Timber

5/22/24, 6pm - 7pm
The Skyscraper Museum
The Skyscraper Museum continues its “Mass Timber Semester” lecture series, which brings together key voices in the Mass Timber movement to reflect on its short history, current condition, and promising...

Solving for NYC Stormwater Flooding with Innovative Tools and a New Lens

5/22/24, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
New York City is solving for stormwater flooding with a new lens. Determining the best mitigation strategies for stormwater flooding is a complex undertaking that involves understanding ground conditions and...

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

5/21/24, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Join us for a Book Talk with award-winning author of “The Plaza,” Julie Satow. She looks south on Fifth Avenue and back through the 20th century to examine the golden...

Sacred Space: Designing the 9/11 Memorial & Museum

5/21/24, 5pm - 7pm
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Join 9/11 Memorial & Museum Director, Clifford Chanin and Chief Curator, Jan Seidler Ramirez, in conversation with Mark Wagner and Carl Krebs, Principals at Davis Brody Bond, A Page Company,...

Cocktails & Conversation: Jonathan Marvel, FAIA, with Fred Bernstein

St Ann's Warehouse, Location: Brooklyn NY, Architect: Marvel Architects
5/17/24, 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...

Breakfast Meet and Greet with Senator Brian Kavanagh

Headshot of NYS Senator Brian Kavanagh with his arms crossed in a suit
5/17/24, 9am - 10:30am
Center for Architecture
Please join AIANY Political Action Fund (AIANY PAF) on Friday, May 17 at 9:00am at the Center for Architecture for a breakfast meet and greet with Senator Brian Kavanagh. AIANY...

Reimagining Justice Film Festival (3 of 5): Navigating a Volatile Tide

Image of Rising Above the Tide film
5/16/24, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How can architects be better advocates for a better world? The Reimagining Justice Film Festival will create the opportunity to encounter revolutionary ideas through investigating the history and lived experiences...

2024 Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture: WORKac

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5/15/24, 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...

Got License?

Young adults laughing in audience at new fellows celebration.
5/14/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join representatives from the New York State Board for Architecture and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) for “Got License?” The program will cover NCARB and NYS updates, including...

Minerva Parker Nichols: America’s First Female Solo Architect

Image of A Woman Architect", no. 3, June 1891, pgs 240-241 (Feature about female architect, Minerva Parker)
5/14/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In her long and notable architectural career, Minerva Parker Nichols (1862–1949) designed dozens of small and large private residences throughout the United States, several public buildings such as the New...

Pratt Ice Box Challenge: Empowering Tomorrow’s High Performance Designers

5/14/24, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Building Energy Exchange
This event will celebrate and showcase student work from the Pratt Institute’s Ice Box Challenge. Originating from Brussels, Belgium, the Ice Box Challenge demonstrates the benefits of high energy efficiency...

Book Talk: Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate

Metal standing farms in a field of green tall grass with tall trees in the background
5/13/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Center for Architecture is pleased to host a round-table discussion celebrating the book launch of Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate (Routledge, 2024) edited by Tülay Atak, Luis...

Early Life and Work of Frank Lloyd Wright

5/10/24, 3pm - 4pm
The National Arts Club
Join us to learn about the early days of legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright, from his family life to his education and beyond. Explore Wright’s early influences, like architect Louis...

Pratt Institute School of Design’s Design for Aging and Beyond

Rendering of people walking through a double height walkway
5/9/24, 5pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Design for Aging Committee for a presentation of design proposals by students in Pratt Institute School of Design's Spring 2024 class "Design for Aging and Beyond." The...

Reimagining Justice Film Festival (2 of 5): 16 Bars

Screengrab from 16 Bars
5/9/24, 6pm - 8pm
Häfele New York City Showroom
How can architects be better advocates for a better world? The Reimagining Justice Film Festival will create the opportunity to encounter revolutionary ideas through investigating the history and lived experiences...

The Future of Public Space and Art: History and Memory

Installation View of 14th Gwangju Biennale
5/6/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the first program in a four-part series expanding on the theme Belonging and Beyond, established earlier this year by 2024 AIANY President Gregory Switzer, AIA, NOMA. Belonging and Beyond...

New Opportunities for US Architects to Work in the UK

5/3/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In February 2023, a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) was signed between the UK’s Architect’s Registration Board (ARB) and US National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB). This was brought into...

Reimagining Justice Film Festival (1 of 5): Mothers of Bedford

Mothers of Bedford film poster
5/2/24, 6pm - 8pm
Gensler New York
How can architects be better advocates for a better world? The Reimagining Justice Film Festival will create the opportunity to encounter revolutionary ideas through investigating the history and lived experiences...

The Architecture of the Perelman Performing Arts Center

5/2/24, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
The National Arts Club
Join us for an evening exploring the architecture of the iconic Perelman Performing Arts Center  at the World Trade Center with Joshua Ramus, founding principal of REX. In addition to...

Decarbonizing Your Building: A Workshop to Help You Strategize & Electrify

4/30/24, 6pm - 8pm
Brooklyn Heights Library
Learn from technical experts and industry professionals about heat pumps, heat pump hot water heaters, and other high-performance technologies to make your residential building more efficient, healthy, and safe. Speakers...

NYC Mass Timber Studio Presents Inaugural Cohort

Map of New York City with locations of the 7 Mass Timber Studio projects identified
4/29/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture & Webinar
In-Person Tickets are sold out; additional registration is for Zoom attendance only. Join New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and its partners for the New York City Mass Timber...

Fontainebleau Fine Arts Centennial Alumni Conference

4/27/24, 9:30am - 2:30pm
Center for Architecture
The conference will explore the history and future trajectory of the Fontainebleau Fine Arts program and its influence on American architecture. The school has its roots in the United States...

Can New York City Learn to Live with Water?

New York City Skyline
4/26/24, 9:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
As the city works to manage the worst impacts of flooding from sea and sky, an important awareness is beginning to settle in: we will not be able to floodproof...

Designing the Historic Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center

Exterior facade and sidewalk in front of the Stonewall National Monument Visitors Center
4/25/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Designated by President Barack Obama, the Stonewall National Monument marks the historic site of the Stonewall riots, a pivotal moment for the Gay Rights Movement (which grew into the modern LGBTQIA+...

Innovations in Housing: Laboratorio de Vivienda

Housing No. 8
4/24/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Housing Committee is pleased to present a discussion of Laboratorio de Vivienda as the next installment of its Innovations in Housing Lecture Series. The experimental project Laboratorio de Vivienda...

JFK Airport Redevelopment Program Overview

4/24/24, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Port Authority has broken ground on a transformative $19 billion dollar public/private redevelopment program to build a new John F. Kennedy International Airport with two giant new terminals, expansion,...

For Students and Educators: Pedagogical Approaches in Sustainability

4/23/24, 2pm - 3:30pm
Online
Architecture and design schools often tout their credentials in the field of sustainability, but, in the process, they often recycle the same old clichés and classroom semantics. However, there is...

Materiality – Brick in Contemporary University Architecture

4/18/24, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Brickworks Design Studio
Materiality is a publication that explores the use of bricks in contemporary architecture. Materiality is intended to provoke discussion and interest among architects and designers, professionals and students, and the...

Portico: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission’s New Permit Portal

Photo of One Centre Street from entryway looking out to City Hall Park
4/17/24, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
Join the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) for a webinar on Portico, LPC’s new web-based permit portal. Portico is designed to make it easier to file a permit...

Plaster & Wallpaper Conservation at The Lower East Side Tenement Museum

4/16/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is in a five-story brick tenement located at 97 Orchard Street in New York City. Between its construction in 1863 and closure in 1935,...

Earth Day 2024: Challenge Accepted—Tackling the Climate Crisis

4/15/24, 7:30am - 1:30pm
Fordham University / Lincoln Center: McNally Amphitheater
In our annual Earth Day event, ASHRAE President Ginger Scoggins presents The Challenge of The Climate Crisis – ASHRAE’s Response & Update. Carrie Brown will present an update on ASHRAE...

The Flexible City: Solutions for a Circular and Climate Adaptive Europe

Resource Rows, Copenhagen
4/12/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion of Tom Bergevoet’s and Maarten van Tuijl’s The Flexible City: Solutions for a Circular and Climate Adaptive Europe (Nai010 Publishers, 2024), in conversation with Yasemin...

Toward a Hybrid City: “Inter-building” with Mass Timber

Interior of URSSAF Headquarters in Paris, France
4/11/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The climate crisis is an invitation to imagine more meaningful ways of living in a resilient environment. The necessary optimization of resources is a chance to rediscover the benefits of...

Architecture, Film, and the In-Between Book Talk

4/11/24, 6:15pm - 8pm
Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Higgins Hall Auditorium
In this new work of scholarship, three Pratt architecture professors contribute essays exploring the intersection of the radical ends of the architecture and film disciplines. Jason Vigneri-Beane explores ecology, machines,...

2024 AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Awards Winners’ Event

4/10/24, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Join the AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee as they announce the 2024 winners of the AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards, which celebrate exceptional design in transportation and...

Building a State-of-the-Art Theatre for the Future of Dance

4/10/24, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
The National Arts Club
Three years after a fire that destroyed the Doris Duke Theatre on the campus of Jacob’s Pillow, which The New York Times called “the dance center of the nation,” a...

AIANY Interiors Committee Speed Presentations

A group of children are engaged in hands-on learning at an interactive exhibit, with wooden levers on a brightly lit wall, as adults supervise in the background.
4/9/24, 5:30pm - 8pm
De Padova
AIANY Interiors Speed Presentations is an annual competition that showcases outstanding interior spaces designed by architects based in New York. The format of the event—a selection of architects presenting their...

Cocktails & Conversation: A.I. and the Arts with James Wines and Phillip Denny

Ink on paper axonometric drawing of Garden Pavilion Rossini
4/5/24, 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...

Joshua Ramus of REX lectures on “Empowerment”

4/4/24, 6:15pm - 8:30pm
Higgins Hall Auditorium
Believing architecture should actively empower its users and communities—not simply be a representational art—REX advances building paradigms and promotes the agency of architecture. This ethos guides the studio’s aspiration to...

Designing for An Aging Population: The Female Perspective

Senior women giving each other a high five
4/2/24, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The number of women in the professions of AEC and real-estate development has been growing. What strengths can women’s perspectives bring to these fields? If we look more specifically at...

Huggins Wood Floor Specialist Presents: It’s Not Easy Being Green – Sustainability of Wood

3/28/24, 1pm - 2pm
Online
Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist virtually for their 1 CEU credit course It’s Not Easy Being Green – Sustainability of Wood. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned...

Architectural Record on the Road: Adaptive Reuse

3/27/24, 6pm - 9pm
Brickworks Design Studio, 445 5th Ave., New York, NY 10016
Join Architectural Record for three CE sessions followed by a cocktail reception. Earn credits for each session attended. This program earns a total of 2.25 AIA LU/HSW. While it’s often the case...

The 2024 Norma Merrick Sklarek Lecture

3/27/24, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
The Event Oval, LL1, The Diana Center, Barnard College
The Barnard Architecture Department is delighted to announce that Felecia Davis will give the 2024 Norma Merrick Sklarek Lecture at Barnard College on Wednesday, March 27. The Norma Merrick Sklarek...

The 2024 Norma Merrick Sklarek Lecture

3/27/24, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
The Event Oval, LL1, The Diana Center, Barnard College
The Barnard Architecture Department is delighted to announce that Felecia Davis will give the 2024 Norma Merrick Sklarek Lecture at Barnard College on Wednesday, March 27. The Norma Merrick Sklarek...

Legacies of Redlining: Preservation and Development in Manhattan

Closeup photo of the UnDesign the Redline exhibit at Barnard College
3/27/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This is the first in a series of borough-based roundtable discussions intended to build capacity, share narratives, and develop a collective understanding of both historical parallels and preservation paradigm shifts...

Parking Structures: The Parallels of Code and Inspection

3/27/24, 5:30pm - 9pm
Center for Architecture
This presentation will discuss key measures needed to ensure the structural stability of existing parking structures. We will cover data that is relevant to parking structures in NYC that led...

2024 Design for Freedom Summit

3/26/24, 10am - 6pm
Grace Farms
Attend the 3rd annual Design for Freedom Summit—a momentous day of action and awareness—at Grace Farms in New Canaan, Connecticut. During this one-day program, hear from leading experts across sectors...

Making the Triangle Fire Memorial

Close up of a rendering of names etched into a shiny black surface.
3/25/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
March 25, 2024 will mark the 113th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and the first commemoration ceremony with the permanent memorial installed on the site of the fire....

AIANY Design Awards: Interiors Showcase

Interior of Gallery56
3/25/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Organized by the AIANY Interiors Committee, this program dives into the recipients of the 2024 AIANY Design Awards in the Interiors category and projects in other categories with a significant...

Reimagining Urban Futures: Lessons from Ukraine’s Resilience

3/23/24, 2pm - 4pm
Pratt Institute Higgins Hall Auditorium
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, cities and communities have faced unprecedented challenges, leading to a profound re-evaluation of urban priorities. This crucial moment in history not only...

Cocktails & Conversation: Making Home with Matthew Bremer and Fred Bernstein

Animated gif moving between images of The Hillside and A Caribbean Dispatch
3/22/24, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture and design issues. This...
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Extreme Heat, Flooding, and Fires: Designing for Resiliency and Social Equity

3/21/24, 8:30am - 10:30am
Center for Architecture
Devastating fires, flooding, and extreme heat are increasingly impacting communities locally, nationally, and globally. Longstanding economic, planning and design practices have placed the burden of these resiliency events disproportionately on...

AIANY International Women’s Day Celebration: Inspire Inclusion

Headshot of Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA, Visiting Professor, Parsons School of Design
3/21/24, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
AKDO NYC Showroom
To celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8) and its 2024 theme, #InspireInclusion, the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee is combining our monthly March meeting with a networking event featuring a...

James Wines | SITE “Cohabitation – Trying to Do More With Less”

3/21/24, 6:15pm - 8pm
Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Higgins Hall
James Wines, founder of the architecture and environmental design studio SITE, has spent much of his career challenging the notion that architecture is an act of formal invention. His lecture...

This Is How We Built This! Alternative Pathways in Architecture

3/21/24, 6pm - 8pm
Safavieh Home Furnishings
This event will be a roundtable discussion with professionals working in spaces outside of traditional architecture: Amanda L. Miller Amankona, AIA, Michael Caton, AIA, Walter Cruz, and moderated by Bradly...

The Larsen Salon Series: Calvin Tsao in conversation with Sherri Donghia

3/20/24, 6pm - 8pm
New York Academy of Art
The Larsen Salon Series, offered by LongHouse Reserve in honor of its founder Jack Lenor Larsen (1927-2020), carries on a tradition of conversations, presentations, and lectures by designers, architects, and...

Book Talk – Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook

Sketches on a page with notes around them.
3/18/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the book launch and discussion of Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook (Lars Müller Publishers, 2024). This intimate conversation will celebrate the publication of Louis I. Kahn:...
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Fulton, Elliott, and Chelsea Houses: Re-Design for An Aging Population

3/13/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and resident leaders have the selected Essence Development and The Related Companies to provide approximately $366 million in comprehensive repairs and investments for...

For the Emerging Professional: Leading Sustainability Efforts at Architecture Firms

3/12/24, 2pm - 3:30pm
Online
Have you ever wondered what a sustainability director does? On March 12, join RECORD and three sustainability directors—all from highly regarded architecture firms—to find out. The panelists will discuss how...

Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York

3/12/24, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
The National Arts Club
Returning lecturers H. Arthur Bankoff, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at Brooklyn College; and Amanda Sutphin, Director of Archaeology at the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, share highlights from...

New York City Coastal Resilience: A Dialogue

Rendering of Page Ave
3/12/24, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
The AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee (DfRR) is pleased to introduce Laurian Farrell, the Deputy Commissioner for the Bureau of Coastal Resilience, a new office within New York...

Forced Labor in Supply Chains: Examples of a Humanely Built Environment

Harriet Tubman Monument in Newark, NJ
3/11/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
The three-part series on “Forced Labor in Supply Chains,” stemming from the Design for Freedom initiative, aims to shed light on the social inequalities caused by forced labor in our...

2024 Preservation Conference: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Government’s Impact on Historic Neighborhoods

3/9/24, 9am - 3pm
The City College of New York
How do communities within New York City navigate significant government initiatives directly affecting them? From designating historic districts to altering zoning regulations and executing major infrastructure projects, each neighborhood in...

Fostering Neighborhoods: Hospitals and the Development of Affordable Housing

3/7/24, 3pm - 5:30pm
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Auditorium)
On Thursday, March 7, 2024, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in partnership with the NYU Furman Center, will host a hybrid event encouraging cross-sector collaboration to build more...

AnA New York | Toshiko Mori + Bjarke Ingels

3/5/24, 6:30pm - 9pm
Brickworks Design Studio
The renowned architecture event series “Architects, not Architecture” is set to debut in America with an event in New York City. After hosting successful events in 15 cities in Europe...

Democratizing Design: NYC’s Principles of Good Urban Design

Green illustration of a NYC City Park and Buildings
3/4/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
*In-person tickets are sold out. Guests who did not register in advance can watch the livestream here.* The NYC Department of City Planning’s Principles of Good Urban Design offer New...

LongHouse Presents – The Larsen Salon Series: Michael Arad and Paul Goldberger

2/29/24, 6pm - 8pm
Offices of Robert A.M. Stern Architects
The Larsen Salon Series, offered by Longhouse Reserve in honor of its founder Jack Lenor Larsen (1927-2020), carries on a tradition of conversations, presentations, and lectures by designers, architects, and...

High-Rise Construction with Complex Below-Grade Conditions in NYC

2/28/24, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This presentation will discuss the structural design challenge (impact to existing utilities, operation of MNR and LIRR etc.) for the new corporate headquarters for JPMorgan Chase in Manhattan Located at...

Branches of Architecture: Alternate Career Paths

2/23/24, 5pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for an insightful evening as we host a panel discussion featuring four esteemed female architects, each specializing in different branches of the architectural field. From sustainable design to...

Turkey & Syria after the Earthquakes: Hatay Planning Center Report

Image of an aerial view shows collapsed and damaged buildings in Hatay, Turkey almost a year after the February 6, 2023 earthquakes.
2/22/24, 9am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
The 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that hit Southeastern Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2023, officially took an estimated 60,000 lives. Entire neighborhoods across 11 provinces were destroyed in...

2024 nycoba|NOMA Black History Month Celebration and Panel Discussion

2/22/24, 5:45pm - 8:30pm
Join nycobaNOMA in our 2nd Annual Black History Month Celebration and Panel Discussion. The theme this year is Black in Architecture: Conversations, History and Reflections from NYCOBA: The New York...

Dress to Impress: The Intersection of Fashion and the Built Environment

Inside of clothing store with curvilinear silver architectural adornments surrounding mannequins.
2/21/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a conversation between Andi Soos, independent curator, and Avery Trufelman, podcast host and radio producer, about the intersection of fashion and the built environment. Architecture is often...

Pitching to Print Media: A Primer for Small Firms and Young Practitioners

Image of Architecture magazines on a display shelf.
2/20/24, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
For architecture and design firms, publishing work can boost professional credibility and lead to new opportunities—but the print media landscape can also be daunting. What are the typical terms of...

Book Talk – Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture

Haesley Hamlet Grand Hall
2/15/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In-person tickets for this event are sold out. Only Zoom tickets are available. Join us for a discussion of Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture (Rizzoli, 2022) with Laura Britton and Vittorio...

Fifth Avenue—Architecture and Society: History of America’s Street of Dreams

2/13/24, 6pm - 7:15pm
Online
Esteemed architectural historian Prof. Mosette Broderick offers an extraordinary evening on one of the most remarkable thoroughfares in the world: NYC’s Fifth Avenue in the 19th and early 20th century...

Fifth Avenue: History of America’s Street of Dreams with Mosette Broderick

2/13/24, 6pm - 7:15pm
Zoom
New York’s Fifth Avenue is one of the most remarkable thoroughfares in the world. By the end of the 19th century it had become synonymous with the most fashionable lifestyles...

An Ode to Oodi: Stories Of A Radical Public Library

Oodi Helsinki Central Library
2/12/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As civic institutions, libraries are tangible records of how cities flourish when they are able to meet the evolving needs of their citizens. This is evident in Finland, where the...

Rearview into Mirror in the Mirror with Kengo Kuma and Erieta Attali

2/9/24, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Japan Society
Mirror in the Mirror, the most recent collaborative book between architect Kengo Kuma and photographer Erieta Attali, was born from the authors’ shared desire to transcend the limits of architecture...

Building Energy Exchange Presents: Take the Heat! Part 2: Building Core & Perimeter

2/8/24, 9:30am - 11am
Building Energy Exchange, Surrogate's Courthouse
In this new 2-part series focused on building decarbonization, NYSERDA and BE-Ex have gathered industry experts that will feature projects deploying breakthrough heating & cooling recovery solutions across the commercial...

Transportation + Infrastructure Awards Spotlight: Salesforce Transit Center

Salesforce Transit Center
2/8/24, 6pm - 8pm
Zoom
As the second in a series of spotlight events celebrating winners of AIANY’s Transportation and Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards, this program will focus on Salesforce Transit Center, an Honor Award...

Explore and Discover Creative Leather Applications in Architectural Interiors

Lineapelle promotional image showing a woman wrapped in white leather and converging with a sculptural structure wrapped in the same material
2/1/24, 9am - 10am
Metropolitan Pavilion
Lineapelle New York is held twice a year at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, with collections presented in January and July. Launched in 2001 by Lineapelle, the two-day trade show features the most exclusive global producers of leather,...

Explore and Discover Creative Leather Applications in Architectural Interiors

Lineapelle promotional image showing a woman wrapped in white leather and converging with a sculptural structure wrapped in the same material
1/31/24, 9am - 10am
Metropolitan Pavilion
Lineapelle New York is held twice a year at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, with collections presented in January and July. Launched in 2001 by Lineapelle, the two-day trade show features the most exclusive global producers of leather,...

Leaning Out X | Women in Circularity

Headshot of Paola Antonelli
1/31/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
The cause and effect of our impact on environments—and the impact these environments have on us—has highlighted the importance of understanding ecosystems and circularity in built, cultural, and natural contexts....

Climate Mobilization Act: Affordable Housing Training

1/30/24, 9:30am - 11am
Building Energy Exchange, Surrogate's Courthouse
The Climate Mobilization Act: Affordable Housing Training educates affordable housing stakeholders—including building developers, owners, architects, engineers, and contractors—on what the Climate Mobilization Act (CMA) means for the affordable housing sector....

Building Energy Exchange Presents: Climate Mobilization Act Series: Keeping Pace with PACE — Financial Resources

1/25/24, 9:30am - 11am
Building Energy Exchange, Surrogate's Courthouse
Financing and incentives are critical to help building owners implement upgrades and get the long-term benefits of energy efficiency and electrification and meet Local Law 97’s carbon targets. Join the...

Replacement of Vermont’s North Hero Grand Isle Drawbridge

1/24/24, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This presentation will cover the design challenges, staging requirements, and construction overview of the North Hero Grand Isle Drawbridge replacement, a project designed by HDR, Vermont Agency of Transportation, and...

Building Energy Exchange Presents: Climate Ready Buildings Training

1/23/24, 9am - 12pm
Building Energy Exchange
The Climate Ready Buildings Training educates affordable housing project teams—including building owners, architects, and contractors—on how to design and construct high-performance buildings that are resilient against the increasing pressure of...

Book Talk – Sea Pools: 66 Saltwater Sanctuaries from Around the World

Seapoolscover
1/18/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion of Chris Romer-Lee’s Sea Pools: 66 Saltwater Sanctuaries from Around the World (Batsford 2023), in conversation with Robert Hammond and Kara Meyer. Designed to provide...

NY Landmarks with Michael Goldblum

1/18/24, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
The National Arts Club
The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission plays an important role in shaping some of the city’s most beloved places. Michael Goldblum, AIA LEED AP architect and LPC Commissioner will present his...

Monthly Forum – Green Catwalk: New Innovations, Technologies, and Policies in Sustainability

1/17/24, 6:30pm - 8pm
Fujitsu AirStage
Join GreenHomeNYC at this month’s Forums event for an in-person panel discussion and Q&A with professionals who work in building sustainability. GreenHomeNYC is kicking off 2024 with our annual Green...

Humanist Modernity: Stanisława and Maciej Nowicki – Polish Architects in the US

humanistmodernity
1/16/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Stanisława Sandecka-Nowicka and Maciej (Matthew) Nowicki are two significant figures in the history of American and Polish architecture. She was a talented graphic artist and designer and the first female...

Residential High-Rises in NYC: Past, Present, and Future

1/10/24, 6pm - 7pm
The Skyscraper Museum
Continuing our series on The Modern Concrete Skyscraper and the role of concrete as the material of choice in high-rise residential construction, David West of the architectural firm Hill West...

2024 AIANY Design Awards Announcement

AIANY Design Awards 2024
1/8/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Announcement: Please see all 2024 AIANY Design Awards winners here. Congratulations to all project teams! Join us for the announcement of this year’s AIA New York Design Awards winners in Architecture,...

Artificial Intelligence in Architecture (AI+A): Future of Architectural Practice

AI image generated by Firefly. Prompt: “asymmetrical, abstract image, based on the phrase: ‘the report of the death of architecture has been an exaggeration.'
12/16/23, 10am - 6pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
5.5 LU/HSW credits are currently pending for all-day attendance, including 2.5 LU/HSW for Keynote and Practice Session and 3 LU/HSW for the Software and Research Sessions. “In terms of strategic thinking...

AIA New York 2024 Board Inaugural and Holiday Gathering

A crowd of seated people clapping at the Center for Architecture
12/13/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
AIA New York invites you to celebrate at the 2024 Board Inaugural! The event will feature the passing of the gavel from 2023 AIANY President Matt Bremer, AIA, to 2024...

The Importance of Incorporating Wellness into Interior Design

Photography of a TechnoGym wellness center.
12/12/23, 2pm - 3:30pm
Center for Architecture
During this course attendees will learn from Technogym’s Architects & Interior Design Director to better understand how Design meets Wellness in commercial and private projects. The course will highlight how...

Forced Labor in Supply Chains: Its Prevalence & the Design for Freedom Movement

Image of the Black Chapel by Theaster Gates
12/12/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Please join guest speaker Brigid Abraham, a Design for Freedom Project Manager at Grace Farms, for the first event in a three-part series on “Forced Labor in Our Supply Chain.”...

New York and the Public Realm: A Conversation with Dan Doctoroff

Headshot of Dan Doctoroff
12/11/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Planning and Urban Design and AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committees for a conversation between Dan Doctoroff and Justin Davidson. Over the course of the evening, Doctoroff...
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Fields of Light: A Journey with Bruce Munro

Field of Light Uluru, Yulara, Australia
12/11/23, 6pm - 8pm
The Municipal Arts Society
Please join us for a presentation and discussion with British artist Bruce Munro, whose six-acre light-based project, “Field of Light at Freedom Plaza,” will open on Manhattan’s East Side on...

Eran Chen: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen

Eran Chen standing over a work desk
12/8/23, 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...

The Form Givers: A Viñoly Tribute and Biopic Film Forum

A black and white image of a brick house
12/7/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In the footsteps of their mentor, the late Rafael Viñoly, FAIA, JIA, SCA, Int. FRIBA, the work of Scott Glass, AIA, LEED AP, Brendan Guerin, AIA, LEED AP, Cary Paik,...

Rising Seas and Storm Surges: Climate Change and the Future of Coastal Heritage

12/7/23, 11am - 12pm
Online
Coastal zones are among the most dynamic and volatile environments on the planet. They also include some of our most treasured heritage sites. As the rate of climate change accelerates,...

The Future of Flooding: How to Revise the Army Corps of Engineers’ Study

12/6/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In the past decade, increasingly severe coastal storms have affected the North Atlantic Coast, including the New York-New Jersey metropolitan region. In 2015, the US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) completed...

Who Are the Architects of Grand Central Madison?

Illustration of a sectioned floorpan of Grand Central Madison
12/5/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In recognition of Grand Central Madison (GCM)’s public debut, join the AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for a panel to celebrate the project’s architectural accomplishments and the many architects who...

Housing Opportunity: Office to Residential Conversion in New York City

Rendering of a typical Midtown office building turned into a mixed use building
12/5/23, 8:45am - 5:15pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
The COVID-19 pandemic radically transformed daily life, and many office buildings in our business districts still find themselves underused in 2023. This cultural shift towards remote work has left many...

Retail Design Institute’s 52nd International Design Competition

James Beam Distilling Co. American Outpost in Kentucky.
12/5/23, 6pm - 8pm
Brickworks Design Studio
Join the AIANY Interiors Committee and the Retail Design Institute NY Chapter as they present New York projects and the Store of the Year, recognized in the Retail Design Institute’s...

Frida Escobedo: The Book of Hours

12/4/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a book talk and book signing with architect Frida Escobedo. Isabel Zumtobel, head of Arts & Culture for Zumtobel Group, and Escobedo will present the Zumtobel Group’s 2022/2023 Artistic Annual...

POSTPONED – (Re)group: Collective Practices of Architecture

re(group): collective practices of architecture promotional graphic
11/30/23, 6pm - 8pm
This event has been postponed and will be updated when the new date is confirmed. This event, hosted by the AIANY Civic Leadership Program, offers a platform for architects committed to...

Book Talk: Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons

Book cover of "Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons" with an image of three people leaning against a wall on the street.
11/29/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join two AIANY Medal of Honor Awardees, Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA, and Andrew Bernheimer, FAIA, for a discussion of Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons: Pursuing Democracy’s Promise through Placed-Based...

Concrete Solutions: Residential High-Rises in Chicago

11/21/23, 6pm - 7pm
Online
The most famous residential structures of postwar Chicago are still Mies van der Rohe’s 860-880 Lake Shore Drive with the modernist expression of their steel skeleton. But Mies also designed...

Small Firms, Big City: A Network Resource and Exchange

Small Firms, Big City graphic
11/20/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architecture is fundamentally practiced in collaboration. Architecture also operates on principles of small business, even within the largest A&E firms. Often we get siloed and we feel we’re operating in...

USC Graduate Architecture Virtual Information Session

11/15/23, 8pm - 10pm
Online
Join us at our upcoming USC Graduate Architecture Virtual Information Session at 5 pm on November 15th, 2023  to learn more about our programs and the exciting possibilities they offer....

The Importance of Incorporating Wellness into Interior Design

Photography of a TechnoGym wellness center.
11/14/23, 2pm - 3:30pm
Center for Architecture
During this course attendees will learn from Technogym’s Architects & Interior Design Director to better understand how Design meets Wellness in commercial and private projects. The course will highlight how...

Mental Health and School Design

Image go Students seated at desks in a classroom
11/14/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Join us for a panel discussion to explore the critical role school environments play in supporting student wellbeing and mental health. At a time when many students are struggling with...

The Howl 2: Advice to a Younger Version of Myself

Closeup photo of a man speaking at a mic, zoomed in on the bottom half his face and the mic
11/13/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Howl, a multimedia forum to explore storytelling and filmmaking as powerful tools for architects to create a more compelling, equitable, and sustainable built environment, returns to the Center for...

2023 Deans’ Roundtable

11/10/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the Center for Architecture’s Deans’ Roundtable. Representatives from over a dozen schools of architecture will discuss current directions in architectural education. Moderator Quilian Riano, Dean, Pratt...
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AIANY Women in Architecture Forum: Practice and Motherhood

Image of woman holding a child at a construction site.
11/9/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The practice of architecture and motherhood have been difficult to reconcile in our profession. In this encouraging forum, women architects from different levels and stages in their professional paths will...

Storytelling in Architecture: Stories & Places

AIANY CLP Mad Lib graphic
11/9/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This event, hosted by the AIANY Civic Leadership Program, offers a platform for everyday New Yorkers to share untold stories about how their lives are impacted by the built environment. The...

All NYC Planning Schools Virtual Open House

11/9/23, 4pm - 5:30pm
Online
Want to Try a Career Shaping Cities? Attend the All NYC Planning Schools Virtual Open House! New York City can become your classroom! Join us for the first-ever open house...

Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair

11/8/23, 6pm - 8pm
The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Please join the Institute of Fine Arts in conversation with alumna Rosa Lowinger (’82), art and architectural conservator; Angel Ayón, architect and preservationist; and Pamela Hatchfield, Head of Objects Conservation...

Lunch+Learn: Thin Brick for Precast Applications

11/7/23, 12pm - 1pm
Brickworks Design Studio
Brick and concrete are two of the oldest building materials known to man, with each being used since ancient times to create structures that are both magnificent and enduring. Brick...

Steel Structures to Withstand the Elements: What Structural Engineers Need to Know About Corrosion

11/6/23, 12pm - 1pm
Online
The worldwide economic impact of corrosion has been estimated to be 3% of the global domestic product, yet there is little emphasis on designing structures to resist corrosion. In a...

AustraliaNOW: Coming Up From Down Under

In Absence by Edition
11/2/23, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Brickworks Design Studio New York and Brickworks Sydney Design Studio
In Person Locations: Brickworks Design Studio, 445 Fifth Avenue, New York City and Brickworks Design Studio, 2 Barrack St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia To celebrate the 100th birthday of Austrian/Australian architect...

Tall Buildings in Historic Districts: Heritage, Conservation and New Structures

Image of 67Greenwich by FXCollaborative
11/1/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Historic Buildings Committee for an exploration of recent projects in historic districts that include both a restorative component and a new building. The discussion will highlight...

Beginning the Journey: Representation and Identity-Based Perspectives

10/31/23, 12pm - 1:30pm
Online
Join us for the first of a SEAoNY series on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging sharing the self-identification campaign results that will shape future identity-based efforts. Learn the role of...

Interior Design: Paths to Professionalism

10/26/23, 6pm - 8pm
New York School of Interior Design
A engaging New York Eleven Plus, Inc. (NY11+) discussion that will focus on the personal and professional journeys of influential industry leaders. Hosted by the New York School of Interior...

Perspective USA Forum

10/26/23, 8:30am - 5:30pm
Convene, 101 Greenwich Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
How can the circular economy guide architecture, in its evolutionary trajectory in the era of globalization? What responses and solutions can design provide to climate change and function hybridization? How are ESG criteria and...

Indigenous Architecture Days: To Leave and Return

Headshot of Christian Hart Nakarado
10/25/23, 7pm - 8pm
Davies Toews Architecture
This program is part of the Alignments in the Indigenous Design Process series, developed in collaboration with the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning and Design. Since time immemorial, Indigenous peoples...
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Construction Waste Recycling and Reuse

10/25/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This lecture will focus on the benefits of recycling and reusing construction materials, including how to identify new opportunities to reuse construction waste. They'll also discuss strategies for tracking construction...

Sustainable and Functional Design – Building For Today and Tomorrow

10/25/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Brickworks Design Studio
The panel will define the various certifications parameters of LEED, Fitwel, ILFI Zero, and BREEAM. Participants will be able to evaluate sustainable best practices of reaching Net-0 reviewing existing projects....

Website Design, Development, and Maintenance for Design Firms

10/25/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP and Zoom
This is a hybrid presentation, both in person at BBB and via Zoom. Zoom link will be emailed one day prior to the presentation. This seminar will focus on the...

Samuel Ratensky Memorial Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao

Rendering of a housing complex in Nuevo Leon, Mexico
10/24/23, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
New School Tishman Auditorium
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...

2023 World Monuments Summit

10/24/23, 12:30pm - 6:30pm
Studio Gather at Rockefeller Center
The World Monuments Summit brings together World Monuments Fund’s (WMF) global team of experts, supporters, partners, thought leaders, and guests for a series of discussions on heritage preservation at Rockefeller...

Finnish-American Modern: 150 Years of Saarinen & Helsinki-Detroit-Columbus Axis

Columbus IN 21 10 7120
10/24/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of a Finnish-American architect Eliel Saarinen (1873–1950). Saarinen’s early career in Finland essentially shaped the country’s national architectural identity and the...

Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change

10/24/23, 6pm - 7pm
Online
What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? In her new book, Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change, Lynne Sagalyn...

Guidance for Emerging Sustainable Design Warriors 2: Passive House Case Studies

People standing around and describing the Geothermal System in a retrofit house
10/23/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Guidance for Emerging Sustainable Design Warriors: Passive House Case Studies and a Net Zero Green Economy offers a deep dive through three case studies based on Passive House Principles. The...

Turkey & Syria after the Earthquakes: Long-Term Recovery 2: Building Back Better

A landscape photo of a semi-destroyed building standing amongst rubble, located in Antakya, Turkiye. The building is located in a residential area, has exposed 3 floors, and is missing a roof. There are people passing in front of the rubble.
10/21/23, 10am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
This presentation will start at 10am ET/ 17:00 GMT + 3. Doors will open for in-person attendance at 9:30am ET/ 16:30 GMT+3. The 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that hit...

Morning Leadership Talk: Katie Swenson of MASS Design Group on Seeking Abundance

Headshot image of Katie Swenson, Senior Principal, MASS DESIGN Group
10/20/23, 8am - 9am
Center for Architecture
To celebrate Archtober, NYC's architecture and design month featuring over 100 collaborating partners across the five boroughs, the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee (WIA) is excited to bring back it's...

J. Max Bond, Jr. Lecture | A Dialogue on Education and Architectural Futures

A group of Architects having discussion at the Center for Architecture
10/19/23, 6pm - 8:30pm
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 and Inclusion...

Curzio Malaparte and The Visual Arts

10/19/23, 9:30am - Friday, 10/20, 8:30pm
Italian Cultural Institute; Center for Italian Modern Art; Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - NYU
Join a roster of international architects and scholars as they present and discuss Curzio Malaparte’s unique interpretation of arts, architecture, and landscape in his visionary writing and beyond—from Casa Malaparte,...

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

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

Rock ‘n’ House A Talk with Christian Wassmann on Sustainable Building and Living

10/17/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for an insightful conversation with Swiss architect Christian Wassmann and leading climate journalist David Wallace-Wells of the New York Times on sustainable building. As featured in Architectural Digest, Wassmann’s extraordinary home stands as...

An Otomí Leader and an Architecture of Indigenous Reclamation

Headshot of Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy
10/17/23, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
This program is part of the Alignments in the Indigenous Design Process series, developed in collaboration with the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning and Design. Since time immemorial, Indigenous peoples...

Crushing the Code NYS: Commercial Envelope

10/17/23, 12pm - 2pm
Online
The building envelope will outlive all other building systems, so it’s critical that it is designed and built to code. Crushing the Code NYS: Commercial Envelope prepares building and design...

Architecture at the Forefront: 2023 Design Vanguard Winners Part 2

10/17/23, 2pm - 3:30pm
Online
Since 2000, Architectural Record has annually honored 10 leading young firms with the Design Vanguard Award. Join managing editor Linda Lentz for a conversation with the founding partners of recent...

ENYA Beyond The Boards: NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Renovation

Rendering of the main branch of the New York Public Library exterior with a protected plaza
10/14/23, 11am - 1pm
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
ENYA members will be led on a building tour of New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Renovation, designed by Beyer Blinder Belle, as presented at the previous Beyond...

ENYA Beyond The Boards: Reenvisioning The Met’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

Rendering of the Met's Rockefeller Wing
10/13/23, 3pm - 6pm
Metropolitan Museum of Art Rockefeller Wing
ENYA members will be led on a building tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Renovation, designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and WHY Architects, as presented...

Cocktails & Conversation: Michael Sørensen

Photo of Minneapolis Service Building. A large steel structured building taken at around golden hour across a plaza
10/13/23, 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. Each program...

The Architecture & Design Film Festival: NY 23

10/12/23, 6:30pm - Saturday, 10/14, 8:30pm
Village East by Angelika
The Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) is America’s largest film festival devoted to the creative spirit of architecture and design. Our curated films and panel discussions provide unique perspectives...

Interiors Residential Review Opening Reception

Image courtesy of GD Arredamenti
10/12/23, 6pm - 8pm
Artemide, Boffi, and Foscarini Showrooms on Greene St.
Join us for the opening of the 6th-annual AIANY Interiors Residential Review, organized by the AIANY Interiors Committee. Each year, the Residential Review showcases the best work in residential interiors...

ENYA Beyond the Boards: Beyer Blinder Belle

Interior photo of Beyer Blinder Belle office space
10/12/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Beyer Blinder Belle
The AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) is proud to announce the first fall presentation in their Beyond the Boards series. Leadership at Beyer Blinder Belle (BBB) will profile...
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Crushing the Code NYS: Residential Building Systems

10/11/23, 12pm - 2pm
Online
Right-sized mechanical systems are crucial for complying with the energy code. Crushing the Code NYS: Residential Building Systems prepares building and design professionals in New York State to comply with...

Zak World of Facades Conference

10/11/23, 7:30am - 6:30pm
Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers at 20th street and West side highway
Zak World of Façades, the global conference series, returns to New York City with an all-new and highly relevant program, The Nimble City: Renewal & Reinvention, in its biggest North...

Coming Out, Staying In, and Moving Beyond: Home, Housing, Identity, Community

Rendering of 1806 37 Hillside Ave Courtyard
10/11/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 is National Coming Out Day! This is a day of pride, visibility, and self-actualization for many. But not for all. Cultural acceptance for the LGBTQIA+ community,...

Travel To: Sir John Soane’s Museum

Interior view of Sir John Soane's Museum
10/10/23, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
Join us as we travel back to Georgian London for a live tour of Sir John Soane’s Museum, the extraordinary house of the British architect Sir John Soane (1753-1837). The...

The Importance of Incorporating Wellness into Interior Design

Photography of a TechnoGym wellness center.
10/10/23, 10am - 11:30am
Center for Architecture
During this course attendees will learn from Technogym’s Architects & Interior Design Director to better understand how Design meets Wellness in commercial and private projects. The course will highlight how...

AIANY Design for Aging: New York School of Interior Design Studio Presentations

10/10/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
New York School of Interior Design professional-level Master of Fine Arts in Interior Design (MFA1) students will present their research and design projects from last year's Interior Design Studio II focusing...

The Dreams of Others: 60 Years of Spanish Architecture

Movie poster for the Dreams of Others film showing a sunset photo looking out over a body of water
10/6/23, 12pm - 2pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a screening of The Dreams of Others, the documentary film produced by ArquinFAD and Nihao Films, directed by Xavi Campreciós and Pep Martin. The film presents a...

Wast[ED] Working with Trash

Image of a machine dumping trash
10/6/23, 5pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
WAST[ED]: Working with trash is a co-hosted event with the Center for Architecture, AIANY Committee on the Environment (COTE), and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill examining issues of how to deal...

17th Annual Arthur Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture: Tom Kundig

Tacoma Art Museum Haub Galleries
10/3/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
18th Annual Arthur Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture: Weiss/Manfredi Please note that in-person tickets are now sold out, but Zoom tickets are still available. The Arthur M. Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture on Museum...

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

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

Nonhuman Futures

Headshot of Dr. Suzanne Kite.
10/3/23, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
This program is part of the Alignments in the Indigenous Design Process series, developed in collaboration with the Indigenous Society of Architecture, Planning and Design. Since time immemorial, Indigenous peoples...

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

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

Turkey and Syria After the Earthquakes: Long-Term Recovery: Building Back Better

A landscape photo of a semi-destroyed building standing amongst rubble, located in Antakya, Turkiye. The building is located in a residential area, has exposed 3 floors, and is missing a roof. There are people passing in front of the rubble.
9/30/23, 10am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
The 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that hit Southeastern Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2023, officially took an estimated 60,000 lives. Entire neighborhoods were destroyed in cities such as...

FIT’s Lawerance Israel Prize Talk: Joel Sanders

9/28/23, 6pm - 8pm
Katie Murphy Auditorium at FIT
The Interior Design Department honors interior designer Joel Sanders with its 2023 Lawrence Israel Prize. From his pioneering “House for a Bachelor” included in MoMA’s Un-Private House exhibition to “Your...

Panel Discussion: Brick in Today’s Built Environment

9/28/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Brickworks Design Studio
Brickworks has teamed up with Dezeen to host one epic panel discussion! We hope you can join us live as we discuss the importance of materials like brick in today’s...

New York City Housing Authority’s Capital Program

9/27/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join The Municipal Engineers of the City of New York for their annual Wimmer Memorial Lecture featuring Shaan Mavani. As the Chief Asset and Capital Management Officer, Mavani leads...

Live Webinar – Architecture at the Forefront: 2023 Design Vanguard Winners

9/26/23, 2pm - 3:30pm
Online
Since 2000, RECORD has annually honored 10 leading young firms with the Design Vanguard Award. Join senior editor Leopoldo Villardi for a conversation with three of this year’s winners: Future...

The AT&T Building: Philip Johnson and The Postmodern Skyscraper

9/26/23, 6pm - 7pm
Online
The unveiling of the design for the new headquarters for AT&T, then the largest company in the world, appeared on the front page of The New York Times on March...

Peterson Rich Office: NYCHA

9/23/23, 2pm - 4pm
The Block House, 9 Barry Road, Governer's Island, New York
On September 23, please join the Institute for Public Architecture at the Block House from 2–4pm for a conversation with Peterson Rich Office (PRO), a Brooklyn-based architecture and design practice...

Designing Space at Columbia University

9/20/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Havemeyer Hall (Room 309)
How do we experience space? And what does this mean for the spaces we design? We explore these questions by bringing together speakers from Architecture, Neuroscience, and Virtual Reality, with...

Policy to Construction: How Carbon Reduction Impacts NYC Agencies & AEC Industry

9/19/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Brickworks Design Studio
New York City’s energy use and carbon reduction objectives are increasingly ambitious in the face of climate change. The Building, Energy and Zoning Codes are changing accordingly, introducing specific building...

Championing a Sustainable Framework for Integrated Design Excellence

Image of hands holding a tree and a globe with a backdrop of a city skyline
9/18/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Climate change is everyone’s crisis, and architects are uniquely positioned to help solve it. AIA ratified the Resolution for Urgent and Sustained Climate Action and has adopted the Framework for...

The Forgotten Borough: Staten Island and the Subway

9/18/23, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Is transportation destiny? In “The Forgotten Borough: Staten Island and the Subway”, historian Kenneth M. Gold argues that the borough’s lack of a subway connection is at the heart of...

The Forgotten Borough: Staten Island and the Subway

9/18/23, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Is transportation destiny? In The Forgotten Borough: Staten Island and the Subway, historian Kenneth M. Gold argues that the borough’s lack of a subway connection is at the heart of its...

Toward an Architectural Education with an Awareness of Advocacy

Toward an Architectural Education with an Awareness of Advocacy event Image
9/14/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In this third and final panel of the three-part Advocacy and Agency in Architecture series organized by the AIANY Social Science and Architecture Committee, we will explore a range of learning...

Buildings for People and Plants

9/14/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Higgins Hall
WORKac co-founders and principals Amale Andraos and Dan Wood will present their practice’s recent work in a lecture entitled ‘Buildings, People, Plants.’ Their lecture will focus on a series of...

The Importance of Incorporating Wellness into Interior Design

9/12/23, 2pm - 3pm
Center for Architecture
During this course attendees will learn from Technogym’s Architects & Interior Design Director to better understand how Design meets Wellness in commercial and private projects. The course will highlight how...

WE Connect Event: Mobilizing Women-Led Green Entrepreneurship

9/8/23, 3pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
As New York City strives to transition to clean energy, it is essential to ensure that economic exclusion does not hinder progress. Building a diverse and inclusive green economy is...

Understanding Equity in Sustainable Architecture

students gathered in a school lobby.
9/7/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Are we just fulfilling checkboxes when we claim to design for equity? In 2023, our design focus and impact assessment warrant scrutiny. Architecture both mirrors and molds society. It nurtures...

Recipe for a Room: Places of Respite

The Pneuma by Ying Qi Chen and Ryan Somerville.
9/6/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Recipe for a Room is a model-making contest about building spatial, sculptural, miniature rooms while fostering fun, creativity and professional mentorship. For the 2023 edition, two-person teams, each comprised of...

Book Talk – Why Public Space Matters to New York

Why Public Space Matters book cover
9/5/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion to mark the occasion of Setha Low's new publication, Why Public Space Matters (Oxford University Press, 2022), in conversation with Ya-Ting Liu, Matthew Clarke, and Quilian Riano....

Chile Day: Emerging Chilean Architecture

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

Women in Architecture Roundtable: Reinforcing Safe & Equitable Practice

Several women seated around a conference table
8/16/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Pier 57 | Daffodil & Seahorse Community Classrooms
Recent news has again brought to light the persistent challenges women continue to face in our industry.  AIA New York acknowledges that these incidents serve as painful and traumatic reminders...

Circular Economy and Design Part 2 – Disassembly and Reuse

Circular Economy promotional graphic
8/9/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
This course is the second in a two-part series on the principles and practices of circular design in architecture. In this panel discussion, professionals from deconstruction research, supply chain management,...

Start Accurate Stay Accurate: Laser Scanning and BIM

Existing Conditions webinar promotional image.
8/8/23, 12pm - 1pm
Zoom
In this course, subject matter experts from the team at Existing Conditions will illustrate how 3D laser scanning, point clouds, and BIM can be used to reduce risk and add...

Climate Ready Buildings Training

8/1/23, 9am - 12pm
Surrogate's Courthouse
This training is a prerequisite to the certification process for the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria for projects financed by NYC Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). The Climate Ready Buildings Training...

Turkey and Syria after the Earthquakes: Mid-Term Relief & Transitional Programs

A landscape photo of a semi-destroyed building standing amongst rubble, located in Antakya, Turkiye. The building is located in a residential area, has exposed 3 floors, and is missing a roof. There are people passing in front of the rubble.
7/29/23, 9:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
This presentation will start at 10am EST/5pm GMT. Doors will open for in-person attendance at 9:30am EST/4:30PM GMT. The 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that hit Southeastern Turkey and Syria on February...

Climate Mobilization Act Series: If, How, When—NYC Building Envelopes

7/27/23, 9:30am - 11am
Surrogate's Courthouse
Building envelopes are a crucial component of a building system, impacting energy efficiency, safety, and aesthetics. With NYC legislation in place, including Local Law 11 and Local Law 97, many...

Beyond ADA: Social Connections in Aging Communities

Interior of the Betances Residence
7/26/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How does the need for community change as we age? What does it mean to be socially connected and physically cared for in your home? How can design facilitate better...

Grattacielo Pirelli: Scraping the Skies of Italy

7/26/23, 4pm - 5pm
Online
Join us on July 26 at 4pm ET (2 hours earlier than our usual start time) for a talk by Marko Pogacnik, a professor at the University Iuav Venezia, on...

Turkey and Syria After the Earthquakes: Emergency Responses

A landscape photo of a semi-destroyed building standing amongst rubble, located in Antakya, Turkiye. The building is located in a residential area, has exposed 3 floors, and is missing a roof. There are people passing in front of the rubble.
7/22/23, 9:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
The 7.8- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that hit southeastern Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2023 officially took an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 lives. Entire neighborhoods were destroyed in cities such...

Creative Inspirations and Multiple Applications of Natural Leather

Lineapelle promotional image showing a woman wrapped in white leather and converging with a sculptural structure wrapped in the same material
7/20/23, 12pm - 2:30pm
New York Metropolitan Pavilion
Sustainable leather can be used to create a variety of building products, including flooring, wall coverings, and furniture. Architects, designers, and builders—particularly ones interested in sustainability and creative experimentation in...

Creative Inspirations and Multiple Applications of Natural Leather

Lineapelle promotional image showing a woman wrapped in white leather and converging with a sculptural structure wrapped in the same material
7/19/23, 12pm - 2:30pm
Metropolitan Pavilion
Sustainable leather can be used to create a variety of building products, including flooring, wall coverings, and furniture. Architects, designers, and builders—particularly ones interested in sustainability and creative experimentation in...

Moisture Management and Protection Strategies for Mass Timber Buildings

Headshot of Graham Finch wearing a hard hat
7/12/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Interest in mass timber and awareness of its advantages have exploded in recent years. But with any new construction technique comes new challenges. For mass timber, a particular concern is...

FDNY Fire Protection and Safety Plans: What Architects Need to Know

7/11/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
When the NYC Building Code triggers the need for fire protection plans or fire safety plans, do you know the requirements? This presentation will discuss these filings at the FDNY...

City of Yes for Economic Opportunity Remote Public Info Session

7/11/23, 7pm - 8:30pm
Zoom
Learn about NYC Planning’s initiative to modernize NYC’s zoning rules to promote small businesses, thriving commercial corridors and retail streets, and an equitable, resilient economy for all New Yorkers. There...

What is the Value of Architects?

7/10/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
“I have never been eager to make money by my art, but have gone on the principle that slender means and a good reputation are preferable to wealth and disrepute.”...

WISE x BPP: Capitalizing on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund

7/10/23, 1pm - 2:30pm
Surrogate's Courthouse
BE-Ex’s Women in Sustainability & Energy (WISE) and the Building Performance Partnership present Capitalizing on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a panel event discussing the federal grant competition, program strategy...

Decarbonizing NYC Labs: New FDNY Compliance Pathway for Optimized Ventilation

Belfer Facade
7/6/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Science and Research Facilities Committee for a program exploring ventilation strategies at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Belfer Research Building, designed by Ennead Architects with Jaros, Baum & Bolles...

Françoise Raynaud: On Botanical Buildings

Rendering of modular glass building surrounded by pedestrian paths.
6/29/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Françoise Raynaud for "Botanical Buildings," a talk on the connection between the built and natural environments. How do we live better in the city tomorrow? Today, more than ever, buildings must...

In Conversation with the Land: Two Indigenous Practices

Otaeciah (Crane) public outdoor sculpture
6/28/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Elisapeta Heta (Ngātiwai, Waikato Tainui, Sāmoa from Aotearoa New Zealand) and Chris Cornelius (citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, North America) will discuss their experiences as Indigenous designers, comparing...

On the Move: A Conversation About Climate Migration

6/27/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Building on the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee's award-winning series on managed retreat, this program will focus on climate migration, examining the extreme complexity of its economic, social, and...

Concrete in a Steel City: Structural Innovation in Postwar Chicago

6/27/23, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Chicago’s extensive history of steel skyscrapers conceals the city’s important innovations in concrete. Since the early 1900s, architects, engineers, and builders in Chicago explored concrete’s formal and structural versatility, leading...

Certificates of Insurance: An Underappreciated Protection for Your Firm

6/27/23, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Online
Certificates of Insurance are part of every AEC contract, with insurance levels generally established by the owner or contractor.  This program will show you how to make sure you protect...

Mass Timber: A Multidisciplinary View

6/26/23, 5:30pm - 7pm
Arup NYC Office
As the popularity of mass timber construction continues to rise, it is essential that architects grasp the design parameters and challenges associated with the technology. Designing a building with mass...

Biodesign Challenge Summit 2023

6/22/23, 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...

LATITUDES: Latin American Architecture NOW

The interior of UHP Synagogue in Asuncion, Paraguay
6/22/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
This program brings together over a dozen architects practicing across Latin America, from Mexico to Chile. Conceived as a complement to CAMPUS AULA: Educational Architecture in Latin America, currently on view at...

Anti-Racist Hot Dog: Creating Inclusive Workspaces

From left: Stephen Erich, Christine Mapondera, Wandile Mthiyane, and Josh Sanabria at a previous Anti-Racist Hot Dog event.
6/20/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As architects, we must push ourselves to create socially-responsible and ethical designs. However, before we can achieve this, we must first address the biases and patterns of discrimination that exist...

Marina City: A Virtual Lecture by Geoffrey Goldberg

6/13/23, 6pm - 7pm
Online
Skyscraper histories often focus on the development of the skeletal iron frame as a key development, but this was paralleled by the equally important evolution of reinforced concrete as a...

Designing for Coastal Resiliency in Lower Manhattan: Why, What, How?

Image of Wagner Park
6/12/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Several projects responding to sea level rise and future storms are being designed and constructed in and around New York, and especially in lower Manhattan. These projects are large, complex...

Reimagining Justice: A Conversation with Formerly Incarcerated Artists

Image of Eye to Eye performance by Shaun Leonardo
6/6/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Ideas and proposals that once existed at the margins are now central to conversations on criminal justice. Today, we must ask ourselves, “Over the past years of cultural and political...

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 +...

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...

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...

Forum on Architecture, Spirituality, and Culture Symposium 2023

5/31/23, 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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: Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect

Photo of Denise Scott Brown, 1978 © Lynn GilbertPhoto:
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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 &...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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....

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...