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Upcoming Events
Designing for Public Life: Cooling Stations and the Public Realm
Tuesday, 5/27, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This second Dialogue of the Designing for Public Life series, featuring Georgeen Theodore (Interboro), Josh Langham (NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene), and Benjamin Gilmartin (AIA New York), reflects...
Artificial Intelligence in Architecture (AI+A) 2: Environmental Intelligence
Wednesday, 5/28, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
By bringing people together within the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) industry, and experts from AI-related fields, the Artificial Intelligence in Architecture (AI+A) Salon series hopes to foster productive discussion...
Community-Centered Design: Engagement That Creates Belonging
Wednesday, 5/28, 9am - Thursday, 5/29, 12pm
Center for Architecture
In alignment with the 2024 AIANY Presidential Theme, Belonging and Beyond, AIA New York is proud to partner with 3×3 for a powerful two-day seminar focused on community-centered design. This...
Celebrating AANHPI Design and Leadership with Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS
Thursday, 5/29, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
To celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage month and its 2025 theme “A Legacy of Leadership and Resilience”, the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee is honored...
ADA at 35: Navigating Accessibility in the Hybrid Interior
Monday, 6/2, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Have advances in technology and the user experience made us more or less connected? Technology has enabled people of all abilities to connect and engage virtually for intentional interactions on...
A Closer Look at ULURP: 50 Years of NYC’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure
Tuesday, 6/3, 8:30am - 10am
Center for Architecture
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, known as ULURP, New York City’s public process for reviewing major land use decisions. With the current...
New Practices in Conversation: A+A+A & aanda with Koray Duman
Monday, 6/9, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the New Practices New York 2025: Voice exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a three-part event series, featuring the six winning firms of this year’s New...
Architecture, Landscape, Experience: Shaping Storm King’s Capital Project
Wednesday, 6/11, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Storm King Art Center’s capital project, the first in the museum’s 65-year history, has reimagined the visitor experience, thoughtfully integrating the relationship between land, art, and people which is central...
New Practices in Conversation: BAAB & Mattaforma with Tal Schori
Thursday, 6/26, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the New Practices New York 2025: Voice exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a three-part event series, featuring the six winning firms of this year’s New...
Past Events
2025 Gil Oberfield Lecture: Leong Leong
5/22/25, 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...
Penciling Out: Financing Solutions for Affordable & Climate Forward Housing
5/21/25, 12pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
The BSA, AIANY, and AIA|LA are hosting Penciling Out, a multi-part weekly series that will inform, inspire, and connect industry professionals eager to find solutions for creating financially feasible, affordable and...
Circularity in Motion: Design, Policy, and Construction in Dialogue
5/16/25, 9am - 5pm
Center for Architecture
Explore the future of circular economy practices at this interdisciplinary full-day symposium, featuring leading experts in architecture, government, policy, manufacturing, construction and education. Each of the five sessions will investigate...
Yatin Pandya: Designing for People, Place, and Planet
5/15/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Interiors Committee, along with the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee, the AIANY Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and the AIANY Social Sciences and Architecture Committee, present an...
New Practices in Conversation: AUR & IGG with Nahyun Hwang
5/14/25, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the New Practices New York 2025: Voice exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a three-part event series, featuring the six winning firms of this year’s New...
Book Talk: Bernard Tschumi’s Event-Cities 5
5/13/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Event-Cities 5: Poetics (MIT Press, 2024) is the fifth and final volume in the series documenting recent built and unbuilt projects by Bernard Tschumi. The 640-page book expands on preoccupations...
Cocktails & Conversation: Austin Sakong of FXCollaborative and Anna Kodé
5/9/25, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that brings together an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current design issues. For this...
ENYA Beyond the Boards: NYPD 40th Precinct with BIG
5/2/25, 4pm - 6pm
NYPD 40th Precinct
Join AIANY Emerging New York Architects for its spring 2025 Beyond the Boards series, starting with a tour of the newly completed award-winning NYPD 40th Precinct, designed by BIG—Bjarke Ingels...
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Amale Andraos and Dan Wood: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
4/22/25, 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...
Design Contract Opportunities at DDC: Working Together to Design & Build Better
4/21/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As New York City’s leading capital design and construction agency, the Department of Design and Construction (DDC) builds world-class public buildings and infrastructure on behalf of over 20 sponsoring City...
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Designing for Public Life, Dialogue 1: Searching for Superpublics
4/17/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In the opening conversation of the series Designing for Public Life: The Dialogues, Benjamin Gilmartin, AIA, of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Ivi Diamantopoulou, AIA, and Jaffer Kolb of New...
AIANY Interiors Committee Speed Presentations: Edition 15
4/15/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
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 projects...
What Design Can Do for Human Health and Community Wellbeing
4/1/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
The short film What Design Can Do, created by Sarah Williams Goldhagen and Sarah Robinson, illustrates how architects, social scientists, and related professionals can create better outcomes for human health...
20 Years of Graphic Design at the Center for Architecture
3/24/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please note: In-person tickets are now sold out. Please join us via Zoom! Join us for an evening panel celebrating graphic designers that have worked with the Center for Architecture....
Samuel Ratensky Memorial Lecture: Maria Vassilakou
3/20/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Update: In-person tickets are now SOLD OUT. We invite you to watch a livestream of the program using this link. Please note those watching virtually are not eligible for CEU credits. The...
Women’s History Month Celebration: Educating and Inspiring Generations
3/20/25, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Lutron NYC Global Experience Center
To celebrate Women’s History Month and its 2025 theme, "Moving Forward Together! Women Educating and Inspiring Generations," the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee is combining its monthly meeting in March with a...
The Manhattan Topography Office: Hector Rivera on Maps, Planning, and Expansion
3/10/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Get an inside look into the world of the Manhattan Topographical Office, as Hector Rivera discusses how he coordinates all the different City Agencies in the world of house numbers...
Artificial Intelligence in Architecture (AI+A) Salon 1: Value/Values
3/5/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
By bringing people together within the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) industry alongside experts from AI-related fields, the Artificial Intelligence in Architecture (AI+A) Salon series hopes to foster productive...
Harnessing the Power of Alternative Delivery: A Conversation on Quality Design
3/4/25, 8:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
As public owners in New York increase their use of alternative project delivery tools, AIA New York and Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) are exploring the following questions: How do we...
9 Ways to Make Housing for People: Design as a Multiplier of Good
2/26/25, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In-person tickets are sold out. Join us virtually using this link. *Please note those joining virtually are not eligible to Continuing Education credit The need for attainable housing is pressing...
The State of Architecture Criticism
2/4/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the latest issue of Oculus magazine, a panel of writers and critics will discuss the changed and changing landscape of architectural criticism, wrestling with questions of ethics, equity, and influence...
Pinnacle Penthouse at the Woolworth Building: 3D Laser Scanning Case Study
1/30/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Existing Conditions and AIA New York for a case study presenting the iconic Pinnacle Penthouse at the Woolworth Building—once the tallest building in the world! Learn how Existing Conditions...
Cocktails & Conversation: Kai-Uwe Bergmann and Diana Darling
1/17/25, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that brings an architect together with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture and urban design...
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Vertical Gardens: Benefits and Building Codes
1/14/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The presentation will provide an overview of vertical gardens, briefly covering their history as well as environmental, sustainability, and psychological benefits. The construction process will be discussed, with a focus...
2025 AIANY Design Awards Announcement
1/13/25, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The winners are now live; congratulations to all 23 honorees of the AIANY Design Awards 2025! Join us for the announcement of this year's AIA New York Design Awards winners...
Public Project Therapy: Unpacking Recent Capital Process Reforms
12/11/24, 9am - 12pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
The process of delivering public works in New York City impacts how New Yorkers and visitors experience the city, how well communities are served, and how readily architects and other...
Retail Design Institute’s 53rd International Design Competition
12/10/24, 5pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
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...
AIANY Women in Architecture 16th Annual Speed Mentoring
12/9/24, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee (WIA) for the 16th Annual Speed Mentoring event! One of WIA’s core programs, this event provides networking opportunities for women architects, facilitating...
The Other 41: Mid-Rise Housing for a High-Rise City
12/5/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us as a panel of architects, journalists, developers, and planners share innovative approaches to creating, developing, and financing mid-rise housing. Of the 51 council districts in New York, 10...
Informed and Empowered: How Elections Influence the Built Environment
12/3/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Civic Leadership Program (CLP) for an inside look at the policymaking process, using the recent and emerging developments around congestion pricing as a case study. The conversation...
‘Pierre Paulin: Action House’ Exhibition Talk
12/2/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Judd Foundation for a conversation on the work of Pierre Paulin (1927–2009), a pioneering furniture and interior designer known for his visionary use of modern materials and production techniques....
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Office-to-Residential Conversion Symposium: Design and Technical Considerations
11/22/24, 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...
Book Signing for Contemporary Art Underground: MTA Arts & Design New York
11/20/24, 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...
The Future of Public Space and Art: Trends, Crafts, Technology
11/19/24, 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...
American Modern: The Columbus Update
11/18/24, 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...
J. Max Bond, Jr. Lecture | Architects’ Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH) @ 60
11/15/24, 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...
Vishaan Chakrabarti: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
11/14/24, 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 they...
New Practices New York 2025: Competition Launch and Roundtable
11/13/24, 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...
Happy Hour and CE Course: Accelerate Your Sustainable Projects
11/13/24, 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...
Book Talk: Designing for Empathy
11/12/24, 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....
Tracing the Future: Affordable Housing in NYC
11/11/24, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
New York City is currently facing overlapping crises as never before, with affordable housing being out of reach for many New Yorkers. Increasing affordable housing supply by allowing alternative solutions...
Architecture and Planning for Cultural Preservation and Resilience
11/9/24, 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...
Cocktails & Conversation: SO–IL
11/8/24, 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,...
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NYLON: Activating Public Spaces in New York City and London
11/6/24, 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...
State of the NYC Industrial Economy
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
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,...
18th Annual Arthur Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture: Weiss/Manfredi
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...
A House and a Tower: Sustainable Building with Inès Lamunière
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...
Rising Currents at 15: Coastline Resiliency Post Sandy
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...
Designing Waste Containerization into Streetscapes
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...
Indigeneity and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Spatial Practices
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...
Architecture Matters: From Vision to Reality
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...
Interiors Residential Review Opening Reception
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
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...
POSTPONED – Build Better NYC: Capital Process Reform
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...
Cocktails & Conversation: Kimberly Dowdell
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
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...
WIA Outing to US Premiere of ADA: My Mother the Architect
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...
The Nature-Based Industrial Revolution: Redefining Future-Forward Architecture
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...
Adapt Together: Urban Neighborhoods Against Climate Change
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...
NYC Mass Timber Studio Final Review: From Design to Delivery
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,...
AMFP Conversations: How Healthcare Systems Use Real Estate to Advance Their Business
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...
The Future of Public Space and Art: New Perspectives
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...
Resilience to Extreme Weather Events: Floods and Hurricanes
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...
2024 Fast Company Innovation Festival: Experiences, Spaces, Brands, Stories
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...
Book Talk: Multiplicity in Contemporary Architecture
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...
Cocktails & Conversation: LEVENBETTS
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
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...
Constructing Housing During Crisis: Ukraine
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...
Natasha Jen: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
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
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
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
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
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...
Forced Labor in Supply Chains: Taking Action
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....
Two Years After Dobbs: Spatial Practice + Reproductive Health
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...
NYC Greenways: Paths to an Equitable City-Wide Network
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...
Book Talk – The Edith Farnsworth House: Architecture, Preservation, Culture
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
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...
Healing Light: The Biological and Sociological Effects of Lighting
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...
Constructing Memory: Ukraine
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
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
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
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
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...
Cocktails & Conversation: Jonathan Marvel, FAIA, with Fred Bernstein
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
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
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
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?
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
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...
Book Talk: Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate
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...
Pratt Institute School of Design’s Design for Aging and Beyond
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
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
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...
Reimagining Justice Film Festival (1 of 5): Mothers of Bedford
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...
NYC Mass Timber Studio Presents Inaugural Cohort
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...
Can New York City Learn to Live with Water?
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
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
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...
Portico: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission’s New Permit Portal
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...
The Flexible City: Solutions for a Circular and Climate Adaptive Europe
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
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...
AIANY Interiors Committee Speed Presentations
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
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...
Designing for An Aging Population: The Female Perspective
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...
Legacies of Redlining: Preservation and Development in Manhattan
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...
Making the Triangle Fire Memorial
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
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...
Cocktails & Conversation: Making Home with Matthew Bremer and Fred Bernstein
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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AIANY International Women’s Day Celebration: Inspire Inclusion
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...
Book Talk – Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook
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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New York City Coastal Resilience: A Dialogue
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
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...
Democratizing Design: NYC’s Principles of Good Urban Design
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...
Turkey & Syria after the Earthquakes: Hatay Planning Center Report
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...
Dress to Impress: The Intersection of Fashion and the Built Environment
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
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
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...
An Ode to Oodi: Stories Of A Radical Public 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...
Transportation + Infrastructure Awards Spotlight: 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
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
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
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....
Book Talk – Sea Pools: 66 Saltwater Sanctuaries from Around the World
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...
Humanist Modernity: Stanisława and Maciej Nowicki – Polish Architects in the US
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...
2024 AIANY Design Awards Announcement
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,...
Who Are the Architects 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
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
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...
POSTPONED – (Re)group: Collective Practices of Architecture
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
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...
Small Firms, Big City: A Network Resource and Exchange
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...
The Importance of Incorporating Wellness into Interior Design
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
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
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...
AIANY Women in Architecture Forum: Practice and Motherhood
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
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...
AustraliaNOW: Coming Up From Down Under
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
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...
Indigenous Architecture Days: To Leave and Return
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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Samuel Ratensky Memorial Lecture: Tatiana Bilbao
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...
Finnish-American Modern: 150 Years of Saarinen & Helsinki-Detroit-Columbus Axis
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...
Guidance for Emerging Sustainable Design Warriors 2: Passive House Case Studies
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
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
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
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...
Through the Lens: Honoring the Architectural Legacy of Paul Revere Williams
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...
An Otomí Leader and an Architecture of Indigenous Reclamation
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...
ENYA Beyond The Boards: NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Renovation
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
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
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...
Interiors Residential Review Opening Reception
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
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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Coming Out, Staying In, and Moving Beyond: Home, Housing, Identity, Community
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
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
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...
The Dreams of Others: 60 Years of Spanish Architecture
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
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
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...
Nonhuman Futures
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...
Turkey and Syria After the Earthquakes: Long-Term Recovery: Building Back Better
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...
Championing a Sustainable Framework for Integrated Design Excellence
9/18/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Climate change is everyone’s crisis, and architects are uniquely positioned to help solve it. AIA ratified the Resolution for Urgent and Sustained Climate Action and has adopted the Framework for...
Toward an Architectural Education with an Awareness of Advocacy
9/14/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In this third and final panel of the three-part Advocacy and Agency in Architecture series organized by the AIANY Social Science and Architecture Committee, we will explore a range of learning...
Understanding Equity in Sustainable Architecture
9/7/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Are we just fulfilling checkboxes when we claim to design for equity? In 2023, our design focus and impact assessment warrant scrutiny. Architecture both mirrors and molds society. It nurtures...
Recipe for a Room: Places of Respite
9/6/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Recipe for a Room is a model-making contest about building spatial, sculptural, miniature rooms while fostering fun, creativity and professional mentorship. For the 2023 edition, two-person teams, each comprised of...
Book Talk – Why Public Space Matters to New York
9/5/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a discussion to mark the occasion of Setha Low's new publication, Why Public Space Matters (Oxford University Press, 2022), in conversation with Ya-Ting Liu, Matthew Clarke, and Quilian Riano....
Chile Day: Emerging Chilean Architecture
8/17/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a program that discusses innovation and sustainability in Chilean architecture. The event will feature an overview of Chile's emerging generation of architects, presented by Jeannette Plaut and...
Women in Architecture Roundtable: Reinforcing Safe & Equitable Practice
8/16/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Pier 57 | Daffodil & Seahorse Community Classrooms
Recent news has again brought to light the persistent challenges women continue to face in our industry. AIA New York acknowledges that these incidents serve as painful and traumatic reminders...
Circular Economy and Design Part 2 – Disassembly and Reuse
8/9/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
This course is the second in a two-part series on the principles and practices of circular design in architecture. In this panel discussion, professionals from deconstruction research, supply chain management,...
Start Accurate Stay Accurate: Laser Scanning and BIM
8/8/23, 12pm - 1pm
Zoom
In this course, subject matter experts from the team at Existing Conditions will illustrate how 3D laser scanning, point clouds, and BIM can be used to reduce risk and add...
Turkey and Syria after the Earthquakes: Mid-Term Relief & Transitional Programs
7/29/23, 9:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
This presentation will start at 10am EST/5pm GMT. Doors will open for in-person attendance at 9:30am EST/4:30PM GMT. The 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that hit Southeastern Turkey and Syria on February...
Beyond ADA: Social Connections in Aging Communities
7/26/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How does the need for community change as we age? What does it mean to be socially connected and physically cared for in your home? How can design facilitate better...
Turkey and Syria After the Earthquakes: Emergency Responses
7/22/23, 9:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
The 7.8- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that hit southeastern Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2023 officially took an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 lives. Entire neighborhoods were destroyed in cities such...
Creative Inspirations and Multiple Applications of Natural Leather
7/20/23, 12pm - 2:30pm
New York Metropolitan Pavilion
Sustainable leather can be used to create a variety of building products, including flooring, wall coverings, and furniture. Architects, designers, and builders—particularly ones interested in sustainability and creative experimentation in...
Creative Inspirations and Multiple Applications of Natural Leather
7/19/23, 12pm - 2:30pm
Metropolitan Pavilion
Sustainable leather can be used to create a variety of building products, including flooring, wall coverings, and furniture. Architects, designers, and builders—particularly ones interested in sustainability and creative experimentation in...
Moisture Management and Protection Strategies for Mass Timber Buildings
7/12/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Interest in mass timber and awareness of its advantages have exploded in recent years. But with any new construction technique comes new challenges. For mass timber, a particular concern is...
Decarbonizing NYC Labs: New FDNY Compliance Pathway for Optimized Ventilation
7/6/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Science and Research Facilities Committee for a program exploring ventilation strategies at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Belfer Research Building, designed by Ennead Architects with Jaros, Baum & Bolles...
Françoise Raynaud: On Botanical Buildings
6/29/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Françoise Raynaud for "Botanical Buildings," a talk on the connection between the built and natural environments. How do we live better in the city tomorrow? Today, more than ever, buildings must...
In Conversation with the Land: Two Indigenous Practices
6/28/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Elisapeta Heta (Ngātiwai, Waikato Tainui, Sāmoa from Aotearoa New Zealand) and Chris Cornelius (citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, North America) will discuss their experiences as Indigenous designers, comparing...
LATITUDES: Latin American Architecture NOW
6/22/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
This program brings together over a dozen architects practicing across Latin America, from Mexico to Chile. Conceived as a complement to CAMPUS AULA: Educational Architecture in Latin America, currently on view at...
Anti-Racist Hot Dog: Creating Inclusive Workspaces
6/20/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As architects, we must push ourselves to create socially-responsible and ethical designs. However, before we can achieve this, we must first address the biases and patterns of discrimination that exist...
Designing for Coastal Resiliency in Lower Manhattan: Why, What, How?
6/12/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Several projects responding to sea level rise and future storms are being designed and constructed in and around New York, and especially in lower Manhattan. These projects are large, complex...
Reimagining Justice: A Conversation with Formerly Incarcerated Artists
6/6/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Ideas and proposals that once existed at the margins are now central to conversations on criminal justice. Today, we must ask ourselves, “Over the past years of cultural and political...
Book Talk – Verify in Field: Projects and Conversations with Höweler + Yoon
5/31/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a talk by Eric Höweler, J. Meejin Yoon, and Thomas de Monchaux for a discussion on Höweler + Yoon's latest book, Verify in Field: Projects and Conversations with Höweler +...
2023 Gil Oberfield Lecture: Desai Chia Architecture
5/22/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The annual Gil Oberfield Lecture was founded in honor of Gil Oberfield, AIA, former member and chair of the AIANY Interiors Committee. The lecture brings to the podium speakers whose...
The Mycelium House: From Sculpture to Tiny Home
5/19/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
The Mycelium House is a series of design workshops exploring the use of mycelium, the thread-like structures (hyphae) in fungi, as a residential building material in combination with other zero-carbon...
Advocacy and Agency in Architecture: Organizational Models
5/16/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The series “Advocacy and Agency in Architecture” will explore how current modalities of architectural education and practice have the potential for architects to act as advocates and agents for change...
Scandinavian Schoolhouse Design
5/15/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
What do schools look like in Sweden and Scandinavia today? What will they look like tomorrow? What expectations and pressures are placed on these important buildings? And how do we...
Visualizing Building Science with Infrared Thermography
5/11/23, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
An infrared (IR) camera is a critical investigative tool for building diagnostics, used to detect a wide range of thermal anomalies ranging from air leaks and missing insulation to HVAC...
Women in Design and Development: The Value of an Integrated Approach
5/10/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As more architects foray into the realm of real-estate development and urban planning, the interdisciplinary thinking that is required for navigating work at this intersection becomes increasingly important. Please join...
Art Omi: Open Works and Architectural Installations
5/9/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Art Omi for a panel about “open works.” The panel will explore architectural works and installations that are dynamic and not static. Rather than a single integration, open works...
Material Worlds: Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures
5/5/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Carson Chan and Lindsey Wikstrom for the culmination of the Material Worlds lecture series. The inaugural episode of Materials Worlds was focused on Mass Timber, and brought together the President...
Women in Fabrication Conference and Workshop
4/29/23, 9am - 5:30pm
Eventscape
As the industry explores more sustainable construction methods and technologies to iterate the design process, the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee (WIA) hosts five pioneering women design and construction leaders...
Experimental: Recent Work by Studio Zhu Pei
4/28/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
During this evening event, Zhu Pei will present recent work by Beijing-based Studio Zhu Pei, including the Imperial Kiln Museum, the Majiayao Ruins Museum Observatory, and the Zibo Art Center....
Build Out Alliance: An Evening with Matthew Bremer
4/27/23, 5:30pm - 7pm
Gensler, 1700 Broadway, New York, NY, 10019
Matthew Bremer, AIA, became President of AIA New York in January 2023 and, in doing so, became the first openly gay person to hold this position since the organization's founding...
Circular Economy and Design Part 1: Applying Arup’s Circular Buildings Toolkit
4/26/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
This course is the first in a two-part series on the principles and practices of circular design in architecture. The course will briefly introduce the concept of the circular economy...
Transportation and Infrastructure Spotlight: LaGuardia Airport (Terminal B)
4/25/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Brickworks
As the first in a series of spotlight events celebrating winners of AIANY's Transportation and Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards, this program will focus on LaGuardia Airport's new Terminal B, a...
Cocktails & Conversation: Farshid Moussavi with Joann Gonchar
4/14/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. This program...
The Mycelium House: Material Exploration for a Zero-Carbon Tiny Home (Session C)
4/12/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Zoom
“The Mycelium House” is a series of design workshops exploring the use of mycelium, the thread-like structures (hyphae) in fungi, as a residential building material in combination with other zero-carbon...
Guidance for Emerging Sustainable Design Warriors: Opportunities in a New Era
4/11/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Are you passionate about sustainable design yet perplexed by how to get started? Would you like to learn how to support sustainability efforts as a firm principal, a firm specialist,...
Book Talk – E 1027: Restoring a House By the Sea
4/4/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Published following the completion the long-awaited restoration of a legendary house, this book explores an exemplary conservation project. A modern house par excellence, Villa E 1027, located in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, was...
Cocktails & Conversation: Nader Tehrani with Nima Javidi
3/31/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. This program...
Back to the Office: 50 Revolutionary Office Buildings and How They Sustained
3/30/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a conversation with Ashley Schafer, Ruth Baumeister, and Stephan Petermann about their latest publication, Back to the Office: 50 Revolutionary Office Buildings and How They Sustained (NAi010 publishing, 2022). ...
AIANY Design Awards: Interiors Showcase
3/29/23, 6pm - 8pm
Brickworks Design Studio
Organized by the AIANY Interiors Committee, this program dives into the recipients of the 2023 AIANY Design Awards in the Interiors category. Project presentations will be led by the architectural...
Centering the Role of Design in Design-Build
3/22/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
As New York City moves to increase the use of design-build for critical project delivery, and amidst the pressures of cost and time savings, how can we work together to...
Buildings of Excellence Round Three Awards
3/21/23, 10am - 11am
Zoom
Please join us to celebrate the winning projects for Round Three of the Buildings of Excellence Competition, New York State Energy and Research Development Authority's (NYSERDA) exciting $48+ million initiative...
Book Talk: New York Stilled Life
3/20/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a book talk on New York Stilled Life: Portrait of a City in Lockdown (Goff Books, 2021), led by author Gregory Peterson. Mid-March 2020: native New Yorker Gregory...
Remembering Rafael Viñoly: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
3/16/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
We are deeply saddened to learn that Rafael Viñoly, FAIA, passed away on March 2 in New York City at the age of 78. Our thoughts are with his family,...
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The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway at 75: A Crisis in Context
3/14/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
In-Person Tickets are now sold out! We are still accepting registrations to join the event on Zoom. The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is in need of an integrated approach that incorporates both...
Embrace Equity: Madame Architect on Stories and Lessons for a Way Forward
3/8/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
AKDO Showroom
For the past five years, the digital magazine and media start-up Madame Architect has celebrated the extraordinary women that shaped our world. Its founder and Editor-in-Chief, Julia Gamolina, Assoc. AIA,...
Book Talk: Creating Dynamic Places for Learning
3/1/23, 9am - 11am
Center for Architecture
Peter Lippman and Elizabeth Matthews will present their latest book, Creating Dynamic Places for Learning: An Evidence Based Design Approach (Springer, 2023), which provides an evidence-based design approach to the planning...
Cloudbursts and NYC: Strategies for Design, Mitigation, and Implementation
2/28/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In August and September 2021, Hurricanes Henri and Ida showed us the havoc intense rainfall can create across New York City’s five boroughs. More than 40 deaths occurred, caused by...
Book Talk: The Architecture of Disability
2/23/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
By re-contextualizing the history of architecture through the discourse of disability, David Gissen's recent book The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) presents...
Book Talk: Geospaces – Continuities Between Humans, Spaces, and the Earth
2/15/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Join Salon Alper Derinboğaz founder and principal Alper Derinboğaz for the launch of his book Geospaces: Continuities Between Humans, Spaces, and the Earth (Actar Publishers, 2022). Geospaces is an extended visual essay of...
Book Talk: Occupation: Boundary – Art, Architecture, and Culture at the Water
2/13/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cathy Simon and Laurie Olin will discuss the book Occupation: Boundary Art, Architecture, and Culture at the Water (ORO Editions, 2022) in a conversation moderated by Ashley Simone. The book...
Book Talk: Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect
2/10/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the Center for Architecture for a discussion on the book Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect (Birkhäuser, 2022), edited by Frida Grahn. From the bustle...
The Howl: An Open Mic and Film Forum
2/9/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Howl will serve as a multimedia forum to explore storytelling and filmmaking as powerful tools for architects to create a more compelling, equitable, and sustainable built environment. Stories shape...
Design for a Connected Society and Home
2/2/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Advances in communications technology have created a connected society and living environments. Today's network speed, accessibility, and the expansion of online connectivity and content allow us to access and manage...
New Practices in Conversation: ANY
2/1/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the New Practices New York exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a series of salon-style programs featuring the six winners of the competition’s last cycle. New...
Kenneth Frampton: Modernization & the Presence of Architecture
2/1/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In this event, Kenneth Frampton will explore the impact on architecture of a society undergoing constant technological modernization, which renders the realization of social theorist Jürgen Habermas’s "unfinished modern project" (the idea...
Unionization in Architecture
1/30/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Though New York’s architects have long been unionized in the public sector and academia, it was not until 2022 that an architecture firm unionized. In this panel discussion, you will...
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Cocktails & Conversation: Thom Mayne and Winka Dubbeldam
1/27/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. This program...
12th Annual Women in Architecture Recognition Award and Holiday Party
1/26/23, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Brickworks Design Studio
Come celebrate the New Year at the AIANY Women in Architecture (WIA) Holiday Party in the Brickworks Design Studio as we toast to the women licensed in 2022 and to...
The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy
1/24/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
What is the innovation economy, and how does it shape the city? Join us for a conversation with Sharon Zukin and Alby Bocanegra on The Innovation Complex, a book exploring the forces...
Brunner Recipient Roundtable: Post-World War II Architecture in Europe
1/23/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
AIA New York and the Center for Architecture host a panel discussion with recipients of the Arnold W. Brunner Grant, which supports advanced studies in any area of architectural investigation that...
Redlines and Green Zones: Reassessing the Redline Maps
1/18/23, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Between 1935 and 1940, the federal government through the U.S. Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) drew and issued maps of cities and towns all over the U.S. The purpose of...
New Practices in Conversation: BRANDT : HAFERD
1/12/23, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the New Practices New York exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a series of salon-style programs featuring the six winners of the competition's last cycle. New...
2023 AIANY Design Awards Announcement
1/9/23, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the announcement of this year's AIA New York Design Awards winners in Architecture, Interiors, Urban Design, and Projects. A moderated discussion with this year's jurors will follow....
Designing for Post-Incarceration
12/16/22, 8:30am - 1pm
Center for Architecture
Incarceration is at the heart of major debates in both architecture and government. Even as New York City and State change decades-long policies around criminal justice, major questions remain about...
AIA New York 2023 Board Inaugural
12/14/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
AIA New York invites you to celebrate the 2023 Board Inaugural. The event will feature the passing of the gavel from 2022 President Andrea Lamberti, AIA, to 2023 President Matt...
RESCHEDULED – Redlines and Green Zones: Reassessing the Redline Maps
12/13/22, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Please note this event has been rescheduled for Between 1935 and 1940, the federal government through the U.S. Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) drew and issued maps of cities and...
Manfredo Tafuri’s Modern Architecture in Japan
12/12/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Jean-Louis Cohen, Catherine Ingraham, Yukie Kamiya, and Mohsen Mostafavi for a discussion of the celebrated Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri's book Modern Architecture in Japan (Mack Books, 2022). Originally...
Giuliana Bruno: Atmospheres of Projection
12/7/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Giuliana Bruno presents her new book, Atmospheres of Projection: Environmentality in Art and Screen Media (University of Chicago Press, 2022), which considers the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment. "What...
New Practices in Conversation: Bryony Roberts Studio with Alexandra Lange
12/6/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the New Practices New York exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a series of salon-style programs featuring the six winners of the competition's last cycle. New...
Retail Design Institute’s 51st International Design Competition
12/6/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Interiors Committee and the Retail Design Institute NY Chapter as they host presentations by New York firms for projects recognized in the Retail Design Institute’s 51st International...
New Practices in Conversation: Citygroup
12/2/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the New Practices New York exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a series of salon-style programs featuring the six winners of the competition's last cycle. New...
Cocktails & Conversation: Sarah Williams with Brad Samuels
12/2/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. For this...
Design for Deconstruction: The Circular Economy and NYC’s Building Industry
12/1/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This event, hosted by the AIANY Civic Leadership Program, will explore the environmental, financial, and social impacts of construction and demolition waste disposal in NYC, as well as options for...
New Practices in Conversation: GRT Architects with Marc Tsurumaki
11/30/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the New Practices New York exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a series of salon-style programs featuring the six winners of the competition's last cycle. New...
Samuel Ratensky Memorial Lecture: Angela Brooks & Lawrence Scarpa
11/28/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The annual Samuel Ratensky Memorial Lecture was initiated by the AIANY Housing Committee in honor of Samuel Ratensky (1910-1972), an architect and NYC housing official who was responsible for major...
Piero Lissoni on Unintentionally Perfect: The Philosophy of the Error
11/21/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Every project has an incredible capacity to create, to generate, to produce errors, sometimes in a way that is totally unintentional, either because some things—a proportion, a depth, a height—are...
Today’s Global Harvard Design Magazine 50: Sarah Whiting and Nicolai Ouroussoff
11/18/22, 9am - 10:30am
Center for Architecture
Join us for an hour-long discussion between educator and design critic Nicolai Ouroussoff and Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of...
Agricultural Modernization and Collective Memory: 50 Species-Towns
11/17/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architect and urbanist Charles Waldheim, John E. Irving Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, invites you to a reception for his recent book, Agricultural Modernization and Collective Memory: 50 Species-Towns (Harvard...
Advocacy, Agency and Architecture: Evolving Beyond Participatory Design
11/16/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The series “Advocacy and Agency in Architecture” will explore how current modalities of architectural education and practice have the potential for architects to act as advocates and agents for change...
New Practices in Conversation: New Affiliates with Paul Lewis
11/16/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the New Practices New York exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a series of salon-style programs featuring the six winners of the competition's last cycle. New...
Biking in NYC Now: Opportunities and Limitations Within Urban Infrastructure
11/15/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As we take stock after the pandemic, it’s clear that more people are competing for New York City's limited biking infrastructure. The increased demand has come from residents and tourists...
BDNY
11/14/22, 9am - 5pm
Javits Center
Set in the cultural capital of New York City, BDNY, the leading trade fair and conference for boutique hospitality and lifestyle interiors, returns to the Javits Center to connect hospitality...
BDNY
11/13/22, 9am - Monday, 11/14, 5pm
Javits Center
Set in the cultural capital of New York City, BDNY, the leading trade fair and conference for boutique hospitality and lifestyle interiors, returns to the Javits Center to connect hospitality...
Wast(ED): Living with Trash
11/8/22, 4pm - 8pm
SOM's office at 7 World Trade on the 27th floor and Zoom
Please join the AIANY Committee on the Environment, Pratt's Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) program, NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) for...
The Mycelium House: Material Exploration for a Zero-Carbon Tiny Home (Session A)
11/3/22, 12pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
The Mycelium House is a series of design workshops exploring the possibility of using mycelium, the thread-like structures (hyphae) in fungi, as a residential building material in combination with other...
AIANY Women in Architecture Professional Practice Series: Path to Principal
11/2/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The percentage of women in top jobs at the biggest architecture firms has doubled over the past five years, but women still only occupy one out of five key roles....
Sandy+10: Resilient Future
11/1/22, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Ten years after Hurricane Sandy, New York City and the greater region are slowly increasing their resliency to coastal storms and their impacts. However, as we’ve learned in the years...
Emerging Practices: Hong Kong and New York
10/28/22, 8am - 9:30am
Center for Architecture and Zoom
A select group of emerging professionals from New York City and Hong Kong will discuss their architectural practices. The practices all share in common that they actively seek to redefine...
Book Talk: The Women Who Changed Architecture
10/26/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for a conversation with three accomplished architects featured in The Women Who Changed Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2022). This publication is a visual...
Michael Boyd: Millennium Modern
10/25/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Michael Boyd lives by Le Corbusier's mantra: “To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows...
Mass Timber Construction: Sara Cultural Center
10/24/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Mass timber has emerged as one of the most sustainable solutions for building structures and research on engineered timber has unleashed a world of previously unimagined design possibilities. The newly...
Vision Zero Cities: Safe Streets Save Lives
10/20/22, 8am - 4:30pm
Center for Architecture
Vision Zero is not just a policy goal—it’s an imperative. From October 19–21, Vision Zero Cities will bring together leading industry and policy experts, advocates, and elected officials. Explore the...
Women in the Allied Professions Panel | NYU 181 Mercer: Facade Design Technology
10/17/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How does an innovative, state-of-the-art university complex get executed? Join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for an engaging panel discussion on NYU’s 181 Mercer Street. Learn from the women-led...
Community Schools Workshop
10/14/22, 9am - 11am
Center for Architecture
How can a school’s design and programming enhance learning, resiliency, and wellness not only for students and teachers but the community as a whole? Join the AIANY Education Committee for...
Book Talk: Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens
10/13/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
To celebrate the third edition of Ioanna Theocharopoulou’s book Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens (Onassis, 2022), the Onassis Foundation is hosting a wide-ranging discussion about the relevance of...
History of Existing Party Walls and New Construction
10/12/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
For over 2,000 years party walls have offered common solutions for residential construction in cities. In New York City, these empirically designed walls multiplied in the 1800s especially as a...
16th Annual Arthur M. Rosenblatt Lecture: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
10/6/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Arthur M. Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture on Museum Design is a signature event organized each year by the AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee. This year, the committee is honored to host...
Designing Schools in the Post-COVID World
10/4/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The global COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented disruption to schools and education, not only in New York City but around the world. Join the AIANY Architecture for Education Committee for a...
CONNECT: A Lecture by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing, OPEN Architecture
9/27/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Li Hu and Huang Wenjing will present recent public and cultural projects by the New York City- and Beijing-based design practice OPEN Architecture, including those included in the new book Reinventing...
Stories from Arquitina: Elevating Latinas in Architecture
9/20/22, 5pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As we strive for a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive architecture profession, we seek to elevate those that have been largely left out conversations on racial equity. Arquitina, an organization...
James Wines: Re-Thinking it All
9/15/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the Center for Architecture for a lecture by James Wines, President of SITE NY, as he explores the messages communicated, impact on the natural environment, and cost implications of buildings...
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Delivering the Goods: NYC Urban Freight in the Age of E-Commerce
9/12/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Webinar
When do you want your delivery? The next day? The same day? In a few hours? In recent years shifts in expectations and consumption have led to a surge in...
Exactitude: On Precision and Play in Contemporary Architecture
9/7/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a book talk for Exactitude: On Precision and Play in Contemporary Architecture (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022). Precision is necessary in the field of architecture. New technologies have increased...
Decolonizing Suburbia
8/4/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the Decolonizing Suburbia team as they present on their project for the Center for Architecture's exhibition, Reset: Towards a New Commons. Decolonizing Suburbia is informed by an interest in the...
Re:Play: Reclaiming the Commons Through Play
7/28/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the Re:Play team as they present on their project for the Reset: Towards a New Commons exhibition. In Re:Play, young residents of three New York City Housing Authority campuses...
Sensory Space: Design for Neurodiversity
7/21/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The design of interiors affects everything we do. This interactive, in-person program asks: How do we feel in an interior and why do we feel that way? What elements make...
The Infrastructure Bill: In Conversation with Polly Trottenberg
7/19/22, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Zoom
In November 2021, the US Congress passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), creating the most ambitious federal transportation and infrastructure program in a decade, with major funding streams directed to...
Building for the Youngest New Yorkers: NYC SCA’s Pre-K/3-K Programs
7/13/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Architecture for Education Committee for a lively roundtable discussing the design, programming, construction, and management of New York City’s Universal 3-K and Pre-K programs, spaces that needed...
Aging Against the Machine
7/11/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
To mark the current Center for Architecture exhibition, Reset: Towards a New Commons, members of the interdisciplinary design team for the project Aging Against the Machine will present diverse interventions...
IndiaNOW: Architecture in the Contemporary Landscape
6/28/22, 9am - 12:30pm
Webinar
This program will run from 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT and in India from 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM IST. See the full program PDF here. The post-Independence project...
Equity in Electrification: Electrification of Affordable Housing
6/22/22, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture and Webinar
The passage of Local Law 154 means that design professionals in New York City will be tasked with providing effective solutions for electrifying buildings. With this push towards a more...
Studio Tour and Presentation: Brickworks Design Studio
6/22/22, 6pm - 8pm
Brickworks Design Studio
Join the AIANY Interiors Committee and the Retail Design Institute New York Chapter as they host presentations on the brand, design, and construction of the recently opened Brickworks Design Studio....
Public Housing, Practice, and Design: New York + London
6/17/22, 9am - 1pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Amid the current housing and affordability crisis, there is a clear need for city governments to take an expanded role in promoting the practice of good design in the provision...
2022 AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Awards Winners’ Event
6/16/22, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
Join the AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee as they announce the 2022 winners of the AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards. The AIANY + ASLANY Transportation +...
Book Talk: Climate Change and the Built Environment
6/14/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Climate change can have enormous impacts on our nation’s public infrastructure. Insurance companies, government agencies, and regulatory entities are continuously reevaluating the risks inherent in the range of situations that...
Fellows Workshop 2022
6/10/22, 8:30am - 10:30am
Center for Architecture & Webinar
The Fellows Workshop provides section-by-section guidance about the schedule, contents, and formatting requirements for an FAIA submission to the AIA National Jury. Members of the AIANY Fellows Committee will lead...
Interiors Speed Presentations: Edition 13
6/9/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the 13th edition of the AIANY Interiors Committee’s Speed Presentations. In alignment with 2022 AIANY President Andrea Lamberti’s theme, Just Practice, the theme of this year’s edition is...
Building Socially Sustainable Communities: Bridging the Divide at Essex Crossing
6/8/22, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Every community should have an opportunity to develop a collective vision to shape its future. Often, the process of urban redevelopment can be polarizing, with community stakeholders and private developers entrenched...
Independent Aging in Asian Cities
6/7/22, 7pm - 9pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Often in the American imagination, Asian societies are better places to grow old. This event investigates that premise with panelists who specialize in issues of the elderly in three major...
Morning Leadership Talk: Elaine Molinar, AIA
6/3/22, 8am - 9am
Center for Architecture
The work from Snøhetta strives to enhance our sense of surroundings, identity, and relationship to others and the physical spaces we inhabit. Museums, products, reindeer observatories, graphics, landscapes, and dollhouses...
Designing Energy Efficient Buildings with cove.tool
6/2/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Webinar
Designing day-lit, glare free, energy-efficient buildings under budget-shifting energy codes is challenging architects with a wide array of parameters to balance like energy, cost, daylight, views, and embodied carbon. Meanwhile,...
Planning for Waste Management: DSNY’s New Rule for Residential Buildings
5/20/22, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
Watch the CEU accredited course here. How much space will your building’s trash and recycling take up on the sidewalk? New residential buildings over 150 units now need to submit...
Open Restaurants Innovation: 3 Teams Share Findings
5/20/22, 12pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
This public event, which marks the official end of the Open Restaurants Innovation program, will feature presentations by three teams who have been working directly with multiple stakeholders, including restaurateurs,...
2022 Gil Oberfield Lecture: LTL Architects
5/19/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The annual Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture was founded in honor of Gil Oberfield, AIA, former member and chair of the AIANY Interiors Committee. The lecture brings to the podium speakers...
The Infrastructure Bill: What Are the Regional Priorities?
5/18/22, 12pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
The federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is poised to unlock an historic level of funding for a vast array of infrastructure projects. This program will feature discussions with representatives from the...
The Destruction of Memory: Film Showing & Discussion
5/18/22, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Webinar
Join the AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee for a screening of The Destruction of Memory: The War Against Culture and the Battle to Save It. “Over the past...
Insider Tour: Weeksville Heritage Center (Late Tour)
5/17/22, 3pm - 5pm
Weeksville Heritage Center
Join the AIANY Historic Buildings Committee for a special in-depth tour of the Weeksville Heritage Center. In addition to learning about the important history of the site and touring the historic...
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Insider Tour: Weeksville Heritage Center (Early Tour)
5/17/22, 2pm - 4pm
Weeksville Heritage Center
Join the AIANY Historic Buildings Committee for a special in-depth tour of the Weeksville Heritage Center. In addition to learning about the important history of the site and touring the historic...
NYC’s Housing Crisis
5/13/22, 8am - 1pm
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, 455 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016
Lost in the shadow of competing issues of economics, climate, racial equity, and the pandemic affecting New York City is a new chapter in the housing crisis, evidenced by multiple...
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China Dialogues
5/10/22, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
China Dialogues (ORO Editions & Tongji University Press, 2022) is an anthology of 21 insightful conversations selected by Vladimir Belogolovsky from his archive of interviews conducted with leading Chinese architects...
Carlo Mollino: Architect and Storyteller
5/9/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a conversation about the newly published book, Carlo Mollino: Architect and Storyteller (Park Books, 2021), by co-authors Napoleone Ferrari and Michelangelo Sabatino. Italian architect and designer Carlo...
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The Project of Independence: A Conversation with Raj Rewal
5/4/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Following the end of British rule in 1947/48, architects in the territories of today’s India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka embraced the language of modernism as a means of proclaiming...
Robert A.M. Stern’s Journey in Architecture: A Conversation with Barry Bergdoll
4/22/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Robert A.M. Stern’s newly published autobiography, Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture (Monacelli, 2022), surveys his life and seismic role in the field of architecture from the 1960s to the...
Designing Urban Agriculture Part III: Emerging Models and New Directions
4/20/22, 12pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
The third in a three-part lecture series on urban agriculture, this program explores best practices, emerging models, and new directions for urban agriculture. Our first panel asked, “Why now?” Our...
Deborah Berke: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
4/19/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they...
Buildings of Excellence Round 3 Announcement
4/7/22, 11am - 12pm
Zoom
Please join NYSERDA and Passive House Accelerator virtually for an exciting announcement on Buildings of Excellence, NYSERDA’s $40 million program to advance resilient, profitable, beautiful and affordable buildings for all...
Public Space Research and Design: Tracing Gender and Sexuality Inequalities
4/5/22, 5pm - 6:30pm
Zoom
Societal attitudes toward public spaces have long been plagued by binary thinking: is this space good or bad, safe or seedy, masculine or feminine? These reductionist framings often create inequalities,...
Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb
3/31/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Sunnyside Gardens was one of the early 20th century’s most acclaimed experiments in affordable housing in New York. Based on their recent book, Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a...
The Infrastructure Bill: What Are Some of the Key Components?
3/30/22, 12pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, signed into law by President Biden on November 15th, 2021, contains $1.2 trillion in total spending on a vast array of different infrastructure projects,...
Book Launch: Formulations by Andrew Witt
3/26/22, 12pm - 2pm
Center for Architecture
Join author Andrew Witt to launch his new Writing Architecture Series book, Formulations, an examination of the intersections between architecture and mathematics and of architecture’s encounters with calculational systems. In...
Cocktails & Conversation: Moshe Safdie, FAIA, with Donald Albrecht
3/25/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
*Ticket price includes the evening’s custom-crafted cocktail. Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss...
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2022 New Fellows Celebration
3/24/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Each year, the American Institute of Architects elevates selected candidates to its prestigious AIA College of Fellows. Advancement is granted for significant achievements in design, preservation, education, literature, and service....
Re-Generation: Design and New Technologies for a Sustainable Future
3/23/22, 10am - 12pm
Zoom
Italian Design is a distinctive element of the “Italy Brand” and contributor of innovative technologies for a sustainable future. Join Italian Design Day to learn about the trends and determinants...
Exploring Community Engagement with Hester Street: Building Community Control
3/17/22, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
Community control is a development strategy used by residents and nonprofit organizations to retain and grow community wealth, increase resilience, preserve community space and culture, build local power, and uplift...
Yung Ho Chang: Building Issues
3/15/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a lecture by Yung Ho Chang, where the architect will discuss building issues in architecture, such as form, space, and tectonics, as well as issues beyond the...
afikra Pop-up: Live Conversation with Mohamed Elshahed and Rami Abou-Khalil
3/11/22, 5:30pm - 7pm
Center for Architecture
Join this special live conversation to celebrate the close of Cairo Modern. Cairo Modern showcases works by Egyptian modernists from the 1920s to the 1970s, half a century of rich architectural production that...
Founders Forum 2022: Women Who Break the Bias
3/2/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Webinar
Meet the women who are helping to #BreakTheBias in the profession while building their own practices, and learn how you can be inspired to do the same! In honor of...
Cocktails & Conversation: Brooks + Scarpa with Joseph Giovannini
2/25/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
*Ticket price includes the evening’s custom-crafted cocktail. Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss...
Hurricane Ida: Impacts and Exposures
2/24/22, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Webinar
During the summer of 2021, the Northeast experienced unprecedented hurricanes and intense rainfall, causing extreme flooding and more than 40 deaths. Many of the deaths in New York City occurred...
Founders Showcase: Black Firms in the Spotlight
2/23/22, 6pm - 8pm
Webinar
Join the AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) and the AIANY Diversity and Inclusion Committee as we celebrate Black firm founders who have united their love of architecture and design with...
Design Presentation: African Burial Ground National Monument
2/16/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
To celebrate Black History Month, the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee will have an abbreviated committee meeting from 6:30-7:00 pm, which will then transition to a virtual design presentation by...
Global Modernism Today
2/10/22, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
This panel will focus on the current state of histories of global modernism, a term often used to expand the scope of previously Euro-centric narratives around the architectural production of...
Women in Architecture Speed Mentoring
2/9/22, 6:30pm - 8pm
Webinar
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee (WIA) for our 13th annual Speed Mentoring event, which is going virtual for the second year in a row! One of WIA’s...
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Child of Apartheid Film Screening
1/31/22, 6pm - 7:30pm
Zoom
Join the AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) for an evening of filmmaking, architecture, and activism as we host an exclusive virtual screening of Child of Apartheid. This short,...
AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction: 10th Anniversary Event
12/16/21, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Webinar
This special event will celebrate the first ten years of the AIANY Design for Risk & Reconstruction Committee (DfRR). Recognizing the need to address the increasing threats and vulnerabilities faced...
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
12/13/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they...
AIA New York 2022 Board Inaugural
12/9/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
AIA New York invites you to celebrate the 2022 Board Inaugural. The event will feature the passing of the gavel from 2021 President Kenneth Lewis, AIA, to 2022 President Andrea...
Retail Design Institute’s 50th International Design Competition
12/6/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Interiors Committee and the Retail Design Institute NY Chapter as they host presentations by New York firms for projects recognized in the Retail Design Institute’s 50th International...
POSTPONED – AIA New York Member Happy Hour
12/3/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
AIA New York is welcoming members and friends back to the Center for Architecture! After an 18-month hiatus, New York City’s leading venue for architecture and the built environment has...
Launch Event – New York: An Illustrated History
11/29/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a launch event for the newly expanded edition of New York: An Illustrated History by Ric Burns and James Sanders, with a brief remarks featuring a selection of...
Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights (Session 5)
11/23/21, 11am - 1pm
Lost City Arts
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace. While initially fueled by the fine arts market, design has...
Public Space Research Design Part I: Gauging Climate Inequities
11/18/21, 5pm - 6:30pm
Webinar
As we all witness the effects of climate change on our cities, it is impossible to ignore how environmental issues perpetuate long-standing social injustice and inequality. Disproportionate tree canopies, long-neglected infrastructural repairs,...
Building the Circular Society: Brick by Brick
11/17/21, 8:30am - 9:30am
Zoom
According to the circular pioneers at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the circular economy is based on three fundamental questions: What if waste and pollution were never created in the first place?...
Shakers Architecture: Did Diversity Drive Innovation?
11/16/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Near the end of the 18th Century, the Shakers of Mount Lebanon, New York formed an intentional, faith-based society that thrived well into the 19th Century. The Shakers are celebrated...
Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights (Session 4)
11/15/21, 11am - 1pm
Park Avenue Armory
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace. While initially fueled by the fine arts market, design has...
A Better Choice: Healthy Materials for Affordable Housing
11/11/21, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
Why should we care about material choices when designing affordable housing? During this presentation, Catherine Murphy, Senior Research Associate at Parsons Healthy Materials Lab, and Shelby O’Neil, Senior Program Officer...
Samuel Ratensky Memorial Lecture: Lacaton & Vassal and Frédéric Druot
11/10/21, 7pm - 9pm
The Great Hall at Cooper Union and Zoom
Link to simulcast available here. The annual Ratensky Lecture was founded by the AIANY Housing Committee in honor of Samuel Ratensky (1910-1972), an architect and housing official who was responsible for major...
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2021 Deans’ Roundtable
11/5/21, 6pm - 8pm
Zoom
Please join us for the Center for Architecture’s 17th-annual Deans’ Roundtable. Representatives from over a dozen northeastern schools of architecture will discuss current directions in architectural education. Speakers:Marta Gutman, Interim Dean, Bernard...
Book Talk: The Future of Modular Architecture
11/3/21, 6pm - 7pm
Center for Architecture
David Wallance, FAIA, will present a lecture on his recently published book, The Future of Modular Architecture (Routledge, 2021). The Future of Modular Architecture presents an unprecedented proposal for mass-customized mid-and high-rise...
Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights (Session 3)
11/2/21, 11am - 1pm
Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace. While initially fueled by the fine arts market, design has...
POSTPONED – Travel To: Khushnu Panthaki Hoof on Balkrishna Doshi
10/26/21, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Zoom
*This event has been postponed! A new date will be released as soon as possible.* Architect, designer, and curator Khushnu Panthaki Hoof joins us from India to discuss her work...
Wast(ED): Living with Trash
10/26/21, 3pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Please join the AIANY Committee on the Environment, Pratt’s Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) program, NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) for...
Designing Urban Agriculture Part II: Digging in to Farming in the City
10/25/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
The second in a three-part lecture series on urban agriculture, this program will focus on the on-the-ground logistics of urban farming, including issues of land use, design, format, scale, community...
Morning Leadership Talk: Francine Houben
10/22/21, 8am - 9am
Zoom
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for the Archtober installment of their Morning Leadership Talk series. Featured speaker Francine Houben, Founding Partner and Creative Director of Mecanoo, will discuss...
The New Art Depot
10/19/21, 12pm - 1:30pm
Zoom
The new art depot is an unprecedented building typology that responds to the desire of museums around the world to expand public access to their collections. At any given time, major...
Designing, Training and Building in Four African Nations
10/19/21, 8:30am - 10:30am
Center for Architecture and Zoom
The AIANY Architecture Dialogue Committee is collaborating with the AIANY Future of Practice and AIANY Global Dialogue Committees to feature discussions on global design issues by emerging and mid-career global...
Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights (Session 2)
10/19/21, 11am - 1pm
Heller Gallery
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace. While initially fueled by the fine arts market, design has...
TORCH Mentorship Program: Advancing Your Career
10/18/21, 6pm - 8pm
Zoom
Our careers are a series of choices we make over a lifetime. They shape—and are shaped by—our life experiences and the opportunities we are exposed to. Join us for the...
J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture | The Man, The Legacy
10/14/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Zoom
Join the New York Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (nycoba | NOMA), the J. Max Bond Center of City University of New York, and the AIANY Diversity...
Travel To: Young & Ayata in Mexico City
10/12/21, 12pm - 1pm
Zoom
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Winner of a 2021 AIA New York Honor Award, Young & Ayata...
Design for Us, By Us: Activating Community Agency
10/9/21, 10:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
Join the Community Design Collaborative (Philadelphia) and the Center for Architecture (New York City) for a cross-festival event featuring some of the top voices in community-led design. Bridging Design Philadelphia and...
Remembering Kristen Richards: Connecting Through Architecture
10/8/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture and Zoom
In July 2021, Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA, passed away. Join us for an evening featuring some things she loved: lively stories, deep conversation, and connecting with friends. At...
Book Talk – Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things
10/7/21, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for an event with Winka Dubbeldam, founding partner of Archi-Tectonics NYC and Chair and Miller Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design,...
Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights (In Person)
10/5/21, 11am - Tuesday, 12/14, 1pm
Center for Architecture
Collecting modern and contemporary design has become one of the most dynamic, influential, and intriguing territories in the international marketplace. While initially fueled by the fine arts market, design has...
TORCH University: A Conversation with AIANY Emerging New York Architects & Pratt
10/4/21, 4pm - 5:30pm
Webinar
The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) encourages membership, participation, and leadership in AIANY among emerging architects (licensed 10 years or fewer) and professionals in the fields of design and...
Traditional Houses of Bukhara’s Old Jewish Mahallah
9/30/21, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
Home to an isolated part of the Jewish Diaspora for over two millennia, the Uzbek city of Bukhara is characterized by its traditional houses–exceptional representations of the woodworking craft developed by Bukharian...
2021 ASLA-NY, AIANY, APA-NY Annual Conference
9/24/21, 12:30pm - 5pm
Virtual
The COVID-19 Pandemic has fundamentally affected global society. In New York City, we’ve seen existing inequities exacerbated, further impacting the health and economic wellbeing of marginalized individuals and communities, making...
2021 ASLA-NY, AIA-NY, APA-NY Annual Conference
9/23/21, 9am - 1:15pm
Virtual
The COVID-19 Pandemic has fundamentally affected global society. In New York City, we’ve seen existing inequities exacerbated, further impacting the health and economic wellbeing of marginalized individuals and communities, making...
15th Annual Arthur Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture: Álvaro Siza
9/14/21, 2pm - 3:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee presents its annual lecture on excellence in...
Recipe for a Room: Places of Learning
8/19/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Recipe for a Room is a model-making contest about building spatial, sculptural,...
ResArch Now: Lunch/Learn with the 2020 Award Winners, Part 3
8/12/21, 12pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
* This is a three-part series. Registrants will be sent a link to access all three sessions. * ResArch Now: Lunch/Learn with the 2020 Residential Design Award Winners Six Unique...
Center for Architecture Lab: AR/VR Tools for Storytelling
7/21/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Join the Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning, and Design (ISAPD) as they...
POSTPONED – TORCH Mentorship Program: Equity Redux – Changemakers
6/30/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Webinar
*This event has been postponed to September 2021. More information coming soon.* Join the TORCH Mentorship Program as we spotlight the changemakers reshaping the profession and its conversations around diversity,...
Designing Urban Agriculture, Part 1: Why Now?
6/28/21, 12pm - 1:30pm
This is the first in a three-part series that will explore the intersection of agriculture and the urban environment at this moment and at a range of scales. This session...
Thom Mayne: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
6/17/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on...
ResArch Now: Lunch/Learn with the 2020 Award Winners, Part 1
6/17/21, 12pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
* This is a three-part series. Registrants will be sent a link to access all three sessions. * ResArch Now: Lunch/Learn with the 2020 Residential Design Award Winners Six Unique...
ENYA Beyond the Boards: Peterson Rich Office (PRO)
6/14/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
The AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) is proud to announce the next presentation in our Beyond the Boards series. Join us as the award-winning firm Peterson Rich Office (PRO) profile...
Fight or Flight? Climate Justice and Equity
6/11/21, 9am - 12pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* “Fight or Flight? Rethinking the Urban Footprint“ is a six-part series that will address...
Post-COVID Cities: Reinventing World Cities
6/10/21, 12pm - 2pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* “Reinventing Global Cities” is the second in a series of three high-profile...
Safe and Equitable Streets: Age, Ability, and Inclusion
6/10/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* In 2020, pivotal national and global events brought about increased awareness of...
Book Talk – Drama with David Rockwell and Bruce Mau
6/7/21, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* David Rockwell’s fascination with theater has long informed his built work, which...
The Venice Biennale: Louise Braverman, FAIA, and Martha Thorne
6/4/21, 1pm - 2:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar on June 4, 2021 at 1:00 PM EDT / 18:00 BST / 19:00 CET. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the...
Fight or Flight? Stemming the Tide
6/4/21, 9am - 12pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* “Fight or Flight? Rethinking the Urban Footprint“ is a six-part series that will address...
Book Talk – Hip-Hop Architecture with Sekou Cooke
5/24/21, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Join Sekou Cooke and Mabel O. Wilson in conversation as they explore...
2021 Gil Oberfield Lecture: Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects
5/20/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The annual Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture was founded in honor of Gil Oberfield,...
The Future of Cultural Centers: Kristina Newman-Scott, BRIC
5/18/21, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Cultural Centers Dialogue Series As the world rapidly changes...
Clean Curbs: Design Solutions for Waste Storage in the Street
5/18/21, 5pm - 6:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Recent events have led many New Yorkers to realize the value of...
ResArch Interiors: Sustainably Sourcing Natural Fibers
5/12/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
The AIANY Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN) is focusing its efforts on the future of materials sourced in residential interior furnishings. The embodied carbon of materials is the new metric...
The Future of Cultural Centers: Pieternel Thijssen, LocHal Library
5/11/21, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Cultural Centers Dialogue Series As the world rapidly changes...
Book Talk – Gas and Glamour: Roadside Architecture in Los Angeles
5/10/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Car Culture and Architectural Advertising in Los Angeles During America’s Golden Age...
Decolonizing Design Research: Measuring Justice
5/3/21, 6pm - 7:15pm
Webinar
“Decolonizing Design Research” is a workshop series that explores how research can create spaces and places that reflect values of anti-racism and justice. The dominance of western design aesthetics and...
The Story of Modern Design: Mid-Century Modern (Session 2)
4/30/21, 10am - 11am
Design educator and historian Daniella Ohad presents a unique online course exploring the foundation of modern design history. This intensive five-session course provides an overview of Mid-Century Modern design in...
The Future of Cultural Centers: Gabriel Kogan on SESC Pompéia
4/27/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Cultural Centers Dialogue Series As the world rapidly changes...
Bennerley Viaduct: Building Community Wellbeing Through Restoration
4/22/21, 1pm - 2:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Built in 1877 to carry an important railway line...
The Future of Cultural Centers: Melanie Keen, Wellcome Collection
4/20/21, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Cultural Centers Dialogue Series As the world rapidly changes...
POSTPONED – Book Talk – 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
4/19/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is has been postponed. We apologize for the inconvenience! A new date will be announced shortly.* 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright (Rizzoli, 2021) begins with a simple...
Building an Unforgettable Personal Brand in 2021
4/8/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Online
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Want to be taken seriously at work? Thinking about...
The Future of Cultural Centers: Alex Sarian, Arts Commons
4/6/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Cultural Centers Dialogue Series As the world rapidly changes...
Book Talk – Radical Architecture of the Future with Beatrice Galilee
4/5/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Radical Architecture of the Future (Phaidon, 2020) is an important and fascinating...
Tokyo – NYC Design Share: Reflections on School Design Beyond COVID-19
3/31/21, 6pm - 8pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar on March 31 6:00PM-8:00PM EST / April 1, 2021 7:00AM-9:00AM JST. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Case...
Book Talk – “Making Houston Modern: Howard Barnstone’s Life and Architecture”
3/30/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Making Houston Modern: A Conversation with Barrie Scardino Bradley, Stephen Fox, Michelangelo...
Leadership Breakfast with Dr. Harriet Harriss
3/26/21, 8am - 9am
Online
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Whilst the professional prejudices facing women architects are...
Jeanne Gang: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
3/25/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on...
Book Talk – Hummelo: A Journey Through a Plantsman’s Life with Piet Oudolf
3/25/21, 10am - 11am
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Piet Oudolf has long been at the forefront of the Dutch Wave...
Activating Building Material Reuse
3/22/21, 12pm - 1:30pm
Live Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Join us to explore firsthand how reuse can...
Frick Madison – Serendipity and Possibility
3/22/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Online
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* The venerable Frick Collection is moving to a...
Cocktails & Conversation: Trey Trahan, FAIA, and Lila Allen
3/19/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Webinar
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, or architectural historian to discuss current architectural topics and process. This program...
TORCH Mentorship Program: Disruption Redux
3/17/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Online Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* COVID-19 has drastically shifted how we interact with our urban environments and...
Fight or Flight? Pathways from Around the World
3/16/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* “Fight or Flight? Rethinking the Urban Footprint“ is a four-part series that will address...
Book Talk – Designing Lightness: Structures for Saving Energy
3/16/21, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* This program features the author and designer of the recently released book Designing...
Design Highlights: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island
3/15/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Organized by the AIANY Interiors Committee, this series of presentations explores the honorees...
Design Highlights: Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum
3/9/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Organized by the AIANY Interiors Committee, this series of presentations explores the honorees of the 2021...
Green Design Advocacy in NYC
3/3/21, 5:30pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Join AIA New York and the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) –...
Jonathan Marvel: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
3/3/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on...
ResArch Practice: Decarbonization is Now!
2/24/21, 6pm - 8pm
Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Reducing embodied carbon in residential building Making up about 11% of...
Juan Herreros on the New Munch Museum in Oslo
2/23/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Juan Herreros, founder of Madrid-based estudioHerreros, will present...
New York City’s Waterfront: Reflecting + Projecting
2/22/21, 4pm - 6pm
Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Over the last year and a half, the AIANY’s Waterfront Initiative...
Cocktails & Conversation: Francine Houben and Harriet Harriss, RIBA
2/19/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
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...
Black Lives Matter Means Black Contracts Matter
2/18/21, 12pm - 1pm
In this program hosted by nycoba|NOMA, panelists will discuss thoughts on what types of policy changes, for public design, should now be implemented considering the socio-political shifts inspired by the murder of...
Storefront Revitalization
2/16/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* A well-designed storefront offers transparency from the street into the business...
Constructing Conservation Narratives: The Patel Stadium & Other Modern Buildings
2/12/21, 9am - 10:30am
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Designed by renowned architect Charles Correa and structural...
Building Science Fight Club: Christine Williamson Leading the Charge
2/11/21, 6:30pm - 8pm
Online
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Do you want to design smarter, be a...
ResArch Lab: The Mycelium Project (Part 1)
2/10/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* ResArch Lab: The Mycelium Project – Exploring the potential of fungi...
POSTPONED: Radical Architecture of the Future: Book Talk with Beatrice Galilee
2/10/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* An important and fascinating collection of original projects by unique thinkers in...
Design Highlights: New York Public Library Macomb’s Bridge Branch
2/9/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Organized by the AIANY Interiors Committee, this series of presentations recognizes honorees...
Decolonizing Design Research: Collective Voice
2/4/21, 5pm - 6:15pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* “Decolonizing Design Research” is a workshop series that...
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Centering the “Community” in Community Engagement
2/1/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Perspectives from Around the Country What constitutes community engagement and why should...
Mobility + Cultural Agency: Moving People by Creative Practice
1/27/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* How can creative practitioners enable critical engagement and...
Transcending the Woke Wave: Creating Long-Term Change at Architectural Firms
1/27/21, 12pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Following the protests across the country and the world ignited by the...
ResArch Practice: High-Performance Homebuilders
1/26/21, 6pm - 8pm
Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Aiming for Near-Zero Carbon Homes ResArch Practice, presented by the AIANY...
Fight or Flight? Overcoming the Crisis of Climate Grief
1/21/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* “Fight or Flight? Rethinking the Urban Footprint“ is a four-part series that will address...
Moshe Safdie: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
1/19/21, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on...
Racial Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Senior Housing
1/14/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* This panel will offer insights into the role race plays in...
Cold-Formed Steel: Emerging Technologies
1/13/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* This program provides architects with the tools necessary to design with...
Exterior Interiors: Rethinking City Streets
1/12/21, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* What happens when exteriors become interiors? Please join the AIANY Interiors Committee...
Ontario Place: Towards an Inclusive Preservation Dialogue
1/7/21, 12pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Once a shining example of government support for...
Visualize NYC 2021: Behind the Data – Building Emissions and Accessibility
12/18/20, 8:30am - 9:30am
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Some of the content in this program was originally scheduled for 12/11...
Street Design Manual 360°: The Next Edition for Designing NYC Streets
12/17/20, 12pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Street Design Manual 360° spotlights the latest edition of the Street Design...
Visualize NYC 2021: Behind the Data – Healthy Food and Senior Amenity Access
12/15/20, 8:30am - 9:30am
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* How can data communicate the complexities of New York City? This program...
Decolonizing Design Research: Activist Scholar
12/14/20, 5pm - 6:15pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* “Decolonizing Design Research” is a workshop series that...
Fight or Flight? Communicating Science, Risk, and Urgency
12/14/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* “Fight or Flight? Rethinking the Urban Footprint“ is a four-part series that will address...
RESCHEDULED – Visualize NYC 2021: Behind the Data
12/11/20, 8:30am - 9:30am
Webinar
*This program has been rescheduled. The visualization Devil’s in the Data: The Real Pathway to Reducing NYC’s Building Emissions will be discussed on Friday December 18 along with a second data visualization * ...
Skinny House: A Memoir of Family
12/10/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Please join us for a talk with Dr. Julie Seely, author of...
The Endless Search: Innovations in Product Sourcing
12/10/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* We became architects to conceptualize, to design, to create. But too...
Future of Cultural Centers: Danny Vargas, Museum of the American Latino
12/8/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Cultural Centers Dialogue Series As the world rapidly changes...
Visualize NYC 2021: Behind the Data – Online Offline Mismatch
12/8/20, 8:30am - 9:30am
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* How can data communicate the complexities of New York City? This program...
AIANY x RDI Retail Design Excellence
12/7/20, 6pm - 8pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Celebrating Retail Design 2020 Join the AIANY Interiors Committee and the Retail...
The Future of the NYC Waterfront: Upper East River
12/7/20, 4pm - 6pm
Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Edges & Centers The Upper East River is one of the...
The Future of Cultural Centers: NextGen Reflections
12/1/20, 12pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Museums Dialogue Series As the world rapidly changes around...
Three Architects, Three Fairy Tales
12/1/20, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Join authors Andrew Bernheimer and Kate Bernheimer in conversation with Rice + Lipka...
Designing for Circular Building Materials
11/19/20, 2pm - 3:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar and will take place 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Pacific Time / 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Eastern Time. Registrants will be...
IPA 2020 Fall Residency – To Be or Not To BQE: A Post-Moses Community Vision
11/18/20, 6pm - 8pm
Online
The final panel discussion of the IPA 2020 Fall Residency will be held on November 18th from 6-8PM with IPA Fellows and guest panelists including Harriett Harris, Dean, Pratt Institute;...
NYLON #18: The Changing Face of Cities
11/18/20, 9am - 10:30am
Live webinar taking place simultaneously in both New York and London. New York and London will come together to have a conversation about the future of our cities and of...
Writing Women Architects ON Film at ADFF 2020: Dagmar Richter
11/18/20, 2pm - 3pm
Webinar
“Writing Women Architects On Film” is a new Pratt SoA seminar, taught by Professor Dale B. Cohen, archiving the work of women architects via film. The objective of the course...
RESCHEDULED – Future of Cultural Centers: Museum of the American Latino
11/17/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event has been rescheduled for December 8, 12-1 PM EST.* The Future of Cultural Centers Dialogue Series As the world rapidly changes around us, old frameworks for the development of...
Design Excellence in Affordable and Supportive Housing
11/11/20, 6:30pm - 8pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee in an important...
TORCH Mentorship Program – The Business of Design
11/11/20, 6pm - 7:45pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* The Business of Design – Building a Legacy...
The Future of Cultural Centers: Uzodinma Iweala, The Africa Center
11/10/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Cultural Centers Dialogue SeriesAs the world rapidly changes around us,...
Samuel Ratensky Memorial Lecture: Shaun Donovan
11/10/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
The annual Ratensky Lecture was initiated by the AIANY Housing Committee in honor of Samuel Ratensky (1910-1972), an architect and NYC housing official who was responsible for major housing initiatives...
The Future of the NYC Waterfront: New York Harbor
11/9/20, 4pm - 6pm
Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Industry & Access The New York Harbor is one of the...
NYC’s Bird-Friendly Building Law: Local Law 15 of 2020
11/5/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* NYC’s bird-friendly building legislation, Local Law 15 of 2020, will take...
Building of the Day: Tidal Basin Ideas Lab
10/30/20, 3pm - 4pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* This event is part of the Archtober’s virtual Travel To series. Travel To seeks to highlight...
Visualize NYC 2021: Climate Change and Resilience
10/29/20, 8:30am - 9:30am
Webinar
*This event was originally scheduled for October 20th* *This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* This program will look...
Enhancing Democracy: The Power of Design in Voting Spaces
10/29/20, 6pm - 8pm
Webinar
Join AIANY’s Civic Leadership Program (CLP) for the first of two public CLP events in 2020. As we approach this year’s pivotal Election Day, join us for a virtual exploration of...
Book Talk – “Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-1975”
10/28/20, 6pm - 7:15pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Michelangelo Sabatino, Director of the Illinois Institute of Technology Ph.D. Program in...
14th Annual Arthur Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture: Elizabeth Diller
10/27/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
The AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee presents its annual lecture on excellence in museum design, this year featuring Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R). Founded in 1981, Diller Scofidio + Renfro...
Visualize NYC 2021: Changing City
10/27/20, 8:30am - 9:30am
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* This program will look at citywide issues we believe will be relevant to the 2021...
The Future of Cultural Centers: Miranda Massie, The Climate Museum
10/27/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Cultural Centers Dialogue Series As the world rapidly changes around...
Designing for Zero Waste Food Service
10/21/20, 5pm - 6:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar and will take place 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Pacific Time / 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Eastern Time. Registrants will be...
IPA 2020 Fall Residency – To Be or Not To BQE: A Post-Moses Community Vision
10/21/20, 6pm - 8pm
Online
The IPA is continuing the IPA’s 2020 Fall Residency, ‘To Be or Not To BQE: A Post-Moses Community Vision’ with Fellow presentations and a discussion on October 21st from 6-8PM. Panelists...
The Future of Cultural Centers: Courtney J. Martin, Yale Center for British Art
10/20/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Cultural Centers Dialogue Series As the world rapidly changes around...
Meet and Greet: 2021 City Council Candidates
10/20/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Join us for a virtual discussion at the intersection of local government, policy, and the built environment with candidates running for NYC City Council in 2021. This program is hosted...
Los Angeles LGBT Center
10/19/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
The Center for Architecture and Build Out Alliance are pleased to present a talk on the Los Angeles LGBT Center by Leong Leong. Designed by Leong Leong and Killefer Flammang...
Leadership Breakfast with Kim Yao, AIA
10/16/20, 8am - 9am
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* The AIANY Women in Architecture Committee is honored...
Visualize NYC 2021: Housing
10/13/20, 8:30am - 9:30am
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* This discussion will look at housing issues we believe will be relevant to...
The Transformation of Upson Hall, Cornell University
10/13/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Transformation of Upson Hall: How an Outdated Post-War Building became a...
J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture | IMPATIENCE!
10/9/20, 6pm - 8pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Please register to receive Continuing Education Credits and be able to pose questions throughout the program. This event will also be livestreamed...
Millennial Thinking: Reflections on Our Designed Future
10/7/20, 3pm - 4:30pm
Webinar
Inaugural H.E. Talal Abu Ghazaleh Lecture by Claire Weisz, FAIA Recipient of the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization 2020 Champion Award Over the course of this talk, architect and urbanist Claire Weisz,...
TORCH Mentorship Program – Social Responsibility and Community Engagement
10/7/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* As architects, pitching for a more sustainable, equitable,...
To Be or Not to BQE: Fellow Presentations – Panel 1
10/7/20, 6pm - 8pm
Online
The IPA hosts our first public panel for the 2020 Fall Residency, ‘To Be or Not To BQE: A Post-Moses Community Vision’ on October 7th from 6-8PM. Fellows will present...
Visualize NYC 2021: Expanding Public Realm
10/6/20, 8:30am - 9:30am
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* This discussion will look at public realm issues we believe will be relevant...
Rick Cook: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
10/5/20, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on...
The Future of the NYC Waterfront: Harlem River
10/5/20, 4pm - 6pm
Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Equity + Ecology The Harlem River is a tidal straight that...
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Cocktails & Conversation: Thomas Phifer, FAIA
10/2/20, 6:30pm - 8pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins...
Womxn to the Front: Design, Activism, and Lessons from the Creative Frontlines
10/2/20, 12pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* In this Archtober lecture, design strategist and activist...
Mobility + Civic Agency: Participatory Design For Just Outcomes
9/28/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Public transportation provides access to the fundamentals of community life,...
Relocating a Swedish City: Kiruna Forever
9/23/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* “Kiruna – a city in the northernmost part of Sweden –...
IPA Fall Residency Kickoff Panel
9/23/20, 6pm - 8pm
Zoom Webinar
The IPA will kick off the 2020 Fall Residency, To Be or Not to BQE: A Post-Moses Community Vision, with a panel discussion moderated by Michael Kimmelman. This panel will...
2020 Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture: INC Architecture & Design
9/21/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The annual Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture was founded in honor of Gil Oberfield,...
Art Shelters: New Single-Collection Museums
9/17/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* In the last 10 years, new private museums with a single collection...
Paul Goldberger: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
9/17/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on...
Fireside Chat: Re-Occupying Commercial Offices
9/15/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Continuing our Fireside Chat series, this panel will...
FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, Volume Two: Noir Radical, Launch
9/4/20, 3pm - 4pm
Webinar
Please join editor-in-chief Prof Lesley Lokko, Dean of The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, and guest editor Dr Caroline Wanjiku Kihato,...
Residential Architecture Now: Mid-Hudson Valley
9/2/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Four Rural Designs, Four Rural Conversations This program, organized by AIANY...
The Future of the NYC Waterfront: An Equitable Waterfront
8/25/20, 4pm - 6pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Racial Justice + Social Inclusion Over the last...
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Presidential Lecture: Peter Robinson on the Work of BlackSpace
8/24/20, 2pm - 3pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Peter Robinson will present on the work of BlackSpace Urbanist Collective with a...
TORCH Mentorship Program – Equity & Inclusion in Architecture
8/19/20, 6pm - 7:45pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Amidst the ongoing pandemic and calls for racial...
The Future of Museums: Damion L. Thomas, NMAAHC
8/18/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Museums Dialogue SeriesThe world is rapidly changing around us,...
Kimberly Dowdell: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
8/17/20, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on...
Presidential Lecture: Victor Pineda and Kat Holmes on Capabilities and Mismatch
8/17/20, 2pm - 3pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Victor Pineda, PhD will be joined in conversation by Kat Holmes, author...
The Transformed City: Infrastructure Now
8/12/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* As COVID-19 increases digitally-driven deliveries, how can logistics and equity...
The Future of Museums: Scott Cooper, Academy of Natural Sciences
8/11/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Museums Dialogue Series The world is rapidly changing around...
Presidential Lecture: Dagmar Richter and Marc Norman on Cooperative Housing
8/10/20, 2pm - 3pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* As part of the Center for Architecture Presidential Lecture Series, Dagmar Richter...
ResArch Lab: Mycelium Architecture – Building with Fungi
8/5/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* ResArch Lab: Mycelium Architecture – Building with Fungi will explore the technology...
The Future of Museums: Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Cooper Hewitt
8/4/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Museums Dialogue Series The world is rapidly changing around...
Remaking Urban Landscapes: Perspectives from Latin America
8/4/20, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* ASLA New York, AIA Long Island, and AIA New York are coming...
Presidential Lecture: Sarah Wigglesworth and Karen Kubey on Building for Aging
8/3/20, 2pm - 3pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* As part of the Center for Architecture Presidential Lecture Series, Sarah Wigglesworth will...
The Future of Museums: Margriet Schavemaker, Amsterdam Museum
7/28/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Museums Dialogue Series The world is rapidly changing around...
Presidential Lecture: Mindy Fullilove and Ron Shiffman on Main Streets
7/27/20, 2pm - 3pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* As part of the Center for Architecture Presidential Lecture Series, Mindy Fullilove,...
The Future of Accessible Design: ADA 30 Years and Beyond
7/27/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the signing into law of the Americans With...
The Future of Museums: Alexandra Munroe, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
7/21/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Museums Dialogue Series The world is rapidly changing around...
Cocktails & Conversation: Kulapat Yantrasast with Jason Kaufman
7/17/20, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins...
ENYA Beyond the Boards: COOKFOX
7/16/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Join AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA)...
The Transformed City: Mobility Now
7/16/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* In the emergent “normal”, how can mobility thrive...
The Future of Museums: Nico Wheadon, NXTHVN
7/14/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The Future of Museums Dialogue Series The world is rapidly changing around...
Welcome All: Designing Inclusivity into Cultural Buildings
7/10/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* What can we, as planners and designers, do to ensure the safety...
Envision: A Framework for Sustainable Infrastructure
7/7/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* This webinar will provide an introduction to Envision, a tool within...
TORCH Mentorship Program – Advancing Your Career
6/30/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Our careers are a series of choices we make over...
Cocktails & Conversation: KieranTimberlake & Sarah Williams Goldhagen
6/26/20, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event was rescheduled from its original date of June 5. This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Cocktails...
POSTPONED – A Primer in Effective Community Engagement and Design
6/23/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*The AIA New York panel organizers have postponed this panel to later in the summer. An effective and honest conversation on equitable community engagement strategies should include more diverse voices...
Not Going Back to the Way it Was: Climate Change and COVID-19
6/23/20, 12pm - 1:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) in collaboration with the AIANY Design...
The Glass House: Bauhaus and Beyond
6/23/20, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* This event is part of Archtober’s virtual Travel To series. Travel To...
A Symphony of Confusion: Sorting Through What’s Next for Our Cultural Facilities
6/19/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* To date, the first round of post-COVID-19 reopening guidelines for cultural and...
Leadership Breakfast with Sylvia Smith, FAIA
6/12/20, 8am - 9am
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee...
RESCHEDULED – Envision: A Framework for Sustainable Infrastructure
6/4/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*In light of ongoing demonstrations for racial equity, this event has been rescheduled for July 7 in solidarity with protestors and as a courtesy to anyone who will be taking part in demonstrations. Please...
RESCHEDULED – A Primer in Effective Community Engagement and Design
6/2/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*In light of ongoing demonstrations for racial equity, this event has been rescheduled for June 23 in solidarity with protestors and as a courtesy to anyone who will be taking part in...
The Story and History of Modern Design (Part 2, 1850-2020) Session 4
5/29/20, 5pm - 6pm
Webinar
Design educator and historian Daniella Ohad presents a unique online course exploring the foundation of modern design history. This intensive 5-session course provides an introduction to the major historical styles,...
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Sam Roberts: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
5/28/20, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based...
Design Highlights: Coca Cola Stage at the Alliance Theatre
5/27/20, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Organized by the AIANY Interiors Committee, this series of presentations recognizes honorees...
Remote Research Methods
5/27/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Design professionals have had to alter their standard...
The Story and History of Modern Design (Part 2, 1850-2020) Session 3
5/22/20, 5pm - 6pm
Webinar
Design educator and historian Daniella Ohad presents a unique online course exploring the foundation of modern design history. This intensive 5-session course provides an introduction to the major historical styles,...
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Cocktails & Conversation: Neil Denari, FAIA, and Aaron Betsky
5/22/20, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins...
Is Wood Good? The Truth about Tropicals
5/21/20, 12:30pm - 2pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Architects and builders are being encouraged to use...
The Art of Specifying Natural Stone
5/19/20, 12pm - 1pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* This one-hour session is designed to give architects and designers an overview...
Design Highlights: Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice Restoration
5/18/20, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Organized by the AIANY Interiors Committee, this series of presentations recognizes honorees...
The Story and History of Modern Design (Part 2, 1850-2020) Session 2
5/15/20, 5pm - 6pm
Webinar
Design educator and historian Daniella Ohad presents a unique online course exploring the foundation of modern design history. This intensive 5-session course provides an introduction to the major historical styles,...
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TORCH Mentorship Program – Forging Your Path
5/14/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Architecture offers a variety of ways to practice,...
WEBINAR – Design Highlights: Mi Casita Preschool and Cultural Center
5/13/20, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* Organized by the AIANY Interiors Committee, this series...
WEBINAR – LeBrun Grant Lecture – Exploring Multifaith Spaces with Eric Salitsky
5/13/20, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* In this webinar, Eric Salitsky will present his 2018 Stewardson...
The Story and History of Modern Design (Part 2, 1850-2020)
5/8/20, 5pm - Friday, 6/5, 6pm
Webinar
Design educator and historian Daniella Ohad presents a unique online course exploring the foundation of modern design history. This intensive 5-session course provides an introduction to the major historical styles,...
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WEBINAR – Design Highlights: Poster House
5/6/20, 6pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Organized by the AIANY Interiors Committee, this series of presentations recognizes honorees...
WEBINAR – LeBrun Grant Lecture – Architecture of the Arctic Circle – Amanda Aman
5/6/20, 1pm - 2pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* In this webinar, Amanda Aman, AIA, LEED AP...
WEBINAR – Small and Tiny House Movement: 1995 to Now
5/5/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Online Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* *If you are an AIA member, but not a...
WEBINAR – The Story and History of Modern Design: Mid-Century Modern (Session 5)
5/1/20, 5pm - 6pm
Design educator and historian Daniella Ohad presents a unique online course exploring the foundation of modern design history. This intensive 5-session course provides an overview of mid-Century modern design in...
WEBINAR – The Story and History of Modern Design: Mid-Century Modern (Session 4)
4/24/20, 5pm - 6pm
Design educator and historian Daniella Ohad presents a unique online course exploring the foundation of modern design history. This intensive 5-session course provides an overview of mid-Century modern design in...
WEBINAR – Earth Day Dialogue: Designing for Planetary and Public Health
4/22/20, 5:30pm - 7pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* AIA New York is organizing a webinar on the 50th Anniversary of...
WEBINAR – The Rolex Conversations
4/20/20, 5:30pm - 7pm
Please join us for our special filmed presentation, The Rolex Conversations, with host Dean Lesley Lokko of The Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture on Monday, April 20th, 5:30pm....
WEBINAR – The Story and History of Modern Design: Mid-Century Modern (Session 3)
4/17/20, 5pm - 6pm
Design educator and historian Daniella Ohad presents a unique online course exploring the foundation of modern design history. This intensive 5-session course provides an overview of mid-Century modern design in...
WEBINAR – TORCH Mentorship Program: Disruption
4/15/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Online Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program; please continue to register.* The outbreak of COVID-19 exposed how interconnected our...
WEBINAR – Protecting Our Cultural Icons from Fire
4/13/20, 12pm - 2pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* Lessons from Notre Dame and Beyond Fires continue to adversely impact our...
WEBINAR – The Story and History of Modern Design: Mid-Century Modern (Session 2)
4/10/20, 5pm - 6pm
Design educator and historian Daniella Ohad presents a unique online course exploring the foundation of modern design history. This intensive 5-session course provides an overview of mid-Century modern design in...
WEBINAR – ResArch Lab: Indoor Environmental Technologies
4/7/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Online Webinar
*This event will be occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* “ResArch Lab (RA Lab): Indoor Environmental Technologies” will explore leading-edge furnishing,...
WEBINAR – The Story and History of Modern Design: Mid-Century Modern (Session 1)
4/3/20, 5pm - Friday, 5/1, 6pm
Webinar
Design educator and historian Daniella Ohad presents a unique online course exploring the foundation of modern design history. This intensive 5-session course provides an overview of mid-Century modern design in...
RESCHEDULED – ResArch Lab: Indoor Environmental Technologies
3/25/20, 6pm - 8pm
Delos Living LLC, NY offices at 860 Washington St
*This event has been rescheduled and is now occurring as a live webinar on April 7, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM. Please visit the new registration page here* — Please...
POSTPONED – Purdy & Henderson in La Habana
3/23/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
*This event has been postponed. A future date will be provided shortly.* Conservation Architect at Pantel, del Cueto & Associates, Beatriz del Cueto, FAIA, FAAR, will present her 2018 Arnold W. Brunner...
POSTPONED – Cocktails & Conversation: Peter Eisenman and Robert A.M. Stern
3/20/20, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
*This event has been postponed. A future date will be provided shortly.* Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or...
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POSTPONED – The Future of the NYC Waterfront: Harlem River
3/19/20, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
*This event has been postponed. A future date will be provided shortly.* Equity + Ecology The Harlem River is a tidal strait that flows 8 miles between the Hudson – and East...
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POSTPONED – Activating the Benefits of Salvage, Deconstruction, and Reuse
3/16/20, 9am - 10:30am
Live Webinar
*This event has been postponed. A future date will be provided shortly.* Join us to explore firsthand how salvage, deconstruction, and reuse can be collaboratively activated by design/build teams, municipalities, craftspeople, and...
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Historic Masonry Facade Restoration
3/11/20, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
*This event is taking place as planned at the Center for Architecture* Please join us for a reception from 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM preceding the event. Presentation will start...
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Leaning Out VII | Women Charting New Paths
3/9/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Leaning Out, now in its seventh year as part of the AIANY Global Dialogues Committee event series, focuses on women in architecture and construction who are transforming the nature of contemporary practice....
Film Screening & Discussion: Decade of Fire
3/6/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a film screening of Decade of Fire, a documentary about the South Bronx in the 1970s told by Bronx-born Vivian Vazquez Irizarry. Abandoned by city government,...
Department of Design and Construction: Correctional Facilities RFQ
3/5/20, 8am - 10am
Center for Architecture
Join the American Institute of Architects New York and the New York City Department of Design and Construction (NYCDDC) along with a panel of leaders in architecture, urban planning, and...
Urban Energy Modeling Approaches for City-scale Decarbonization
3/4/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Buildings account for 40% of annual greenhouses gas (GHG) emissions worldwide. According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPCC), we need to take immediate and significant action...
Intergenerational Learning Spaces
3/3/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Mounting research shows that older adults and adolescents benefit from intergenerational educational activities. Older adults are the fastest growing age group in New York City, and children 18 and under...
Reglazing Modernism
2/27/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Reglazing Modernism: Intervention Strategies for the Renewal of 20th Century IconsThe extensive use of exterior glazed enclosures is one of the most character defining features of Modern architecture. After decades...
A Public Future for Sunnyside Yard: Long-Term Planning for the Next Century
2/25/20, 2:30pm - 4pm
Center for Architecture
Join Benjamin Prosky, Assoc. AIA, Executive Director of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY) and a panel of distinguished urban leaders to discuss Sunnyside Yard and how...
Cocktails & Conversation: Rafael Pelli, FAIA & Nico Kienzl
2/21/20, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Each program...
Sciame Lecture Series: V. Mitch McEwen: The Black New Deal
2/20/20, 5:30pm - 7pm
Sciame Auditorium (107), Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, 141 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031
V. Mitch McEwen is an assistant professor at Princeton University School of Architecture, principal of McEwen Studio, and cofounder of A(n) Office, an architecture collaborative operating between Detroit and New...
Gene Kohn: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
2/19/20, 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...
Embodied Carbon Part 2: Practical Design Decisions for Reducing Embodied Carbon
2/18/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As the topic of embodied carbon in building materials has gained popularity in the design industry, we are often presented with fascinating data and statistics on the subject. This leaves...
Dining and Dialogue: Van Da
2/18/20, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Van Da: 234 East 4th Street, New York, NY
Bringing together architectural and culinary enthusiasts, this series explores the intersection between design, branding, storytelling, and marketing. Join restaurant designer Craig Kellog and restaurant owner Yen Ngo for a meal...
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Winners’ Announcement – New Practices New York: Pause
2/14/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Updated 2/14: See the winners here. – Members of the New Practices New York: Pause jury and the AIANY New Practices Committee will announce the firms recognized as 2020 winners of the...
Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures Opening and Lecture
2/11/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the opening of Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures. The opening will include a presentation on the exhibition. Schedule:6:00-6:30 – Exhibition Viewing6:30-7:30 – Lecture Daniel...
Creating Living Learning Experiences – Student Housing in New York City
2/10/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Architecture for Education Committee for a roundtable discussion on the evolution of student housing in New York City. The program will begin with three project examples: a...
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Leadership Breakfast with Winka Dubbeldam, Assoc. AIA
2/7/20, 8am - 9am
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for a conversation with Winka Dubbeldam, Principal, Archi-Tectonics. Speaker: Winka Dubbeldam, Assoc. AIA, Principal, Archi-Tectonics Winka Dubbeldam is the founder/principal of the Women Business...
NYSERDA Buildings of Excellence: Projects by Magnusson Architecture and Planning
2/6/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join AIA New York, New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA), and Magnusson Architecture and Planning (MAP) for a presentation of three award-winning Buildings of Excellence projects. The...
Building an Architectural Brand to Get Business
2/5/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a lecture with Elisa Orlanski Ours, Chief Planning & Design Officer at Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group, on Building an Architectural Brand to Get Business. Elisa Orlanski Ours,...
El-Space Toolkit
2/4/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
El-Space Toolkit: Strategies for Reclaiming Sites Beneath Elevated Transportation Infrastructure Join Design Trust for Public Space and the NYC Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) to celebrate the launch of the...
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Education of the Architect: Pushing the Boundaries
1/28/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This workshop-style program explores the boundaries of education on the human aspects of design and further investigates where these skills are acquired—in schools and in the workplace. Within architectural education,...
Exhibition Design as Social Practice
1/27/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Panelists will discuss exhibition design as a practice that makes previously underrepresented narratives tangible in public spaces, inspiring new cultural conversations and creating alignments among architecture, graphic design, and social...
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Workplace Design Part 3: Building Brand and Community
1/22/20, 6pm - 8pm
Tarkett, 440 Park Ave South
Workplace culture and a company’s product or service are the top two criteria that potential employees look at when considering joining a workforce. In today’s competition to retain talent, organizations...
Public Works Opening and Lecture
1/16/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for the opening of Public Works: Reflecting on 15 Years of Project Excellence for New York City. The opening will include presentations about the DDC Design Excellence program....
Residential Architecture Now: Brooklyn
1/15/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This program, co-organized by AIA New York and AIA Brooklyn’s Custom Residential Architects Networks (CRAN), will explore the unique experiences of practitioners who live, work, and design homes in the...
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The Future of the NYC Waterfront: Hudson River
1/14/20, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Collaboration and Connections The Hudson River is one of the defining waterways of the region, flowing 315 miles through New York State, separating New York City from its western neighbor:...
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The Single-Story Project: A Conversation with Adam Friedberg and Alan G. Brake
1/9/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a conversation about the exhibition Single-Story Project between photographer Adam Friedberg and curator Alan G. Brake. Since 2015, Friedberg has been documenting every single-story building in...
Bunshaft’s Impact and Legacy: Then and Now
1/7/20, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In conjunction with the publication of Gordon Bunshaft and SOM: Building Corporate Modernism (Yale University Press), author Nicholas Adams will discuss Bunshaft, his work, and his legacy with Mary McLeod (Columbia...
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Oculus Book Talk: Millennials in Architecture
12/17/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Almost five years ago, Darius Sollohub collaborated with AIA New York on a seemingly small research project about young architectural professionals. That work has grown into a new book, Millennials in Architecture:...
AI and Sensemaking: Human-Centered Design in the Age of Abundant Data
12/16/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
60 years in the making, artificial intelligence (AI) is now demanding our attention. Thanks to the interest and support of both the public and private sector, we interact with AI...
Frances Bronet: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
12/9/19, 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...
New Fellow Salon with Lyn Rice, FAIA
12/5/19, 5pm - 7pm
Rice+Lipka Architects
AIA New York is proud of the members who have been elevated to the College of Fellows and have founded a series of New Fellow Salons so other professionals can learn more about their...
Fringe City Futures: Rethinking Development in Small American Cities
12/4/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a related program for the exhibition Fringe Cities: Legacies of Urban Renewal in the Small American City. Moderated by Katie Swenson of Enterprise Community Partners, this panel...
AGENCY: The Architect’s Tools of Civic Engagement
12/3/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join AIANY’s Civic Leadership Program (CLP) at the Center for Architecture for the second of two public CLP events in 2019. An information session and happy hour will take place at 5pm preceding the talk,...
AIANY x RDI Retail Design Excellence
12/2/19, 6pm - 8pm
Gensler, 1700 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, New York 10019
Celebrating Retail Design Join both the AIANY Interiors Committee and Retail Design Institute (RDI) NY Chapter as they host presentations by New York firms for projects recognized in the Retail...
The New Social Security: Co-Housing for Seniors
11/26/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This panel explores examples of co-housing for seniors in urban environments and stresses the role of design in discussions about housing alternatives for seniors. The program will also explore how...
Keep Safe: Resilient Housing in Island Communities
11/25/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
A Conversation and Book Launch on Climate Resilience for Island Communities // Manténganse Seguros: Una guía para el diseño de viviendas resilientes en comunidades isleñas Please join us for a...
Preservation of Traditional Houses in Jamaica
11/23/19, 3:30pm - 5pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the screening of Rockstone and Fire, directed by Courtney Coke, Founding Member of the Wattle and Red Earth Collective. The documentary illustrates an approach to preservation anchored by architectural landmarks,...
New Fellow Salon with Nicholas Garrison, FAIA
11/19/19, 6pm - 8pm
FXCollaborative
AIA New York is proud of the members who have been elevated to the College of Fellows. The Chapter has founded a series of New Fellow Salons so other professionals can learn more about...
Overcoming Carbon Form
11/19/19, 6pm - 9pm
Center for Architecture
Please Join AIA New York and Log, a journal publication by Anyone Corporation, for “Overcoming Carbon Form.” This round-table discussion serves as the launch for Log 47: Overcoming Carbon Form, a guest-edited...
Case Studies in Preservation and Adaptive Reuse for Academic Buildings
11/18/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Learning Curve: Case Studies in Preservation and Adaptive Reuse for Academic Buildings Restoration, preservation, adaptive reuse, reconstruction and addition, all share the same limitations inherent to working within existing structures,...
The Green New Deal: A Public Assembly
11/17/19, 10am - 6pm
Queens Museum
Join us for a public assembly on the Green New Deal (GND). On Sunday, November 17, 2019, from 10:00am–6:00pm at the Queens Museum, “The Green New Deal: A Public Assembly”...
The Glass House as Queer Space
11/15/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, famously sheltered its architect Philip Johnson and his partner, the curator David Whitney, in a relationship that began before the Stonewall rebellion. A...
Fringe City Foundations: Hudson River Valley
11/14/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a related program for the exhibition Fringe Cities: Legacies of Urban Renewal in the Small American City. Moderated by Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group, this panel...
The Future of the NYC Waterfront: Jamaica Bay
11/14/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Conservation and Development Jamaica Bay, New York City’s only national park, is consistently at the center of debates around conservation and development. Being a national park in the largest city...
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James Polshek: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen
11/13/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Listen to the episode here. 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...
A Modern Affair at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice
11/12/19, 6pm - 8:30pm
Ford Foundation Center For Social Justice
A special night to support DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State, honor the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice for the renovation of its landmark building, and celebrate the legacies of Kevin...
Vote! Process and Place
11/11/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Serving as a polling site is a unique use for a building, only occurring on a few days each year. Architects design polling sites indirectly, rarely knowing that a project...
AIANY CRAN Fall House Party
11/2/19, 10am - 2pm
Olnick Spanu House & Magazzino Italian Art
AIANY Custom Residential Architects Network is hosting their 2019 Fall House Party at Olnick Spanu House, designed by Alberto Campo Baeza. A tour of the home and landscape will be...
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NYLON #16: Delivering Value
11/1/19, 8:30am - 10:30am
Center for Architecture
The metric used to measure the value of development is often distilled down to money, yet more and more developers are starting to assess their value in a different way—addressing...
Cocktails & Conversation: Gisue Hariri, Mojgan Hariri, and Julia Gamolina
11/1/19, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Each program...
Engaging Barriers: Physical Safety Measures Reshaping the Public Realm
10/30/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join AIANY’s Civic Leadership Program (CLP) at the Center for Architecture for the first of two public CLP events in 2019. An Information Session and Happy Hour will take place at 5pm preceding the talk,...
Small Lots: Rethinking Infill Development
10/29/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a related program for the exhibition Big Ideas Small Lots. Moderated by Laura Kusisto of The Wall Street Journal, this panel discussion will explore the challenges associated...
Dwell and Resource Furniture Present: Big Ideas for Small Lots
10/23/19, 6pm - 8pm
Resource Furniture
How do you make housing in New York accessible for all? A new design competition asked architects to come up with creative solutions for turning the tiny, underutilized properties that...
Building Health: The Next Frontier
10/22/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Current construction practices lead to buildings with short lifespans made from products that contain a range of toxic chemicals, whose toxic afterlives can span millennia, that pollute our homes and...
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The Future of the NYC Waterfront: The Lower East River
10/21/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Access and Development The Lower East River has been at the center of the New York City’s development and increased public waterfront access for decades. From the development of Brooklyn Bridge...
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Transforming Brooklyn’s Libraries Through Design
10/17/19, 6pm - 8pm
Williamsburgh Library
Please join us on October 17th to learn and discuss how architecture is amplifying the incredible work of Brooklyn Public Library (BPL). Public libraries have evolved far beyond their original...
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The Power of Public Space in a Digital Age
10/17/19, 3pm - 6pm
United Nations, Conference Room 11, 46th St & 1st Ave
Due to UN building regulations, registration for this event closes on October 10. Early registration is encouraged. See more details at the bottom of the page.* Affiliated with UN Habitat...
J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture | Planning to Stay
10/16/19, 6pm - 8pm
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall - The New School
Join the New York Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (nycoba | NOMA) and the AIANY Diversity & Inclusion Committee for the 2019 J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture....
Naturalness: Design in the Anthropocene – 3:00pm
10/16/19, 3pm - 4pm
Center for Architecture
Architects and designers across the country are invited to participate in the third annual National Day of Learning. With mounting evidence that we are entering a whole new geological epoch—one...
Naturalness: Design in the Anthropocene – 12:30pm
10/16/19, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Center for Architecture
Architects and designers across the country are invited to participate in the third annual National Day of Learning. With mounting evidence that we are entering a whole new geological epoch—one...
13th Annual Arthur Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture: Thomas Phifer
10/15/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee presents its annual lecture on excellence in museum design, this year featuring Thomas Phifer, FAIA, of Thomas Phifer and Partners. Thomas Phifer founded his New York...
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The BQE in Context: Communities, Infrastructure and Public Space
10/7/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This session will serve to educate a wider audience about the 1.5-mile Triple Cantilever section of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE), built in the 1940s by Robert Moses. This section...
CANCELLED: Fringe Cities Symposium
10/5/19, 1pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
This event has been cancelled. Please join us for upcoming evening programs related to Fringe Cities: Legacies of Renewal in Small American Cities Fringe City Foundations on November 14th Fringe...
Leadership Breakfast with Pat Bosch, Assoc. AIA
10/4/19, 8am - 9am
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for a conversation with Pat Bosch, Principal and Design Director at Perkins and Will Miami. Speaker: Pat Bosch, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP...
Cocktails & Conversation: Marlon Blackwell and Billie Tsien
10/4/19, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Each program...
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How Low Can We Go – Historic Preservation and Carbon Reduction
9/26/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Engaging Strategies For the Preservation of Existing and Historic Buildings in the Age of Resilience and Increasingly Low Carbon Targets Join us for a panel discussion that explores the intersection...
New Fellow Salon with Stephen Cassell, FAIA
9/25/19, 6pm - 7:30pm
Architecture Research Office
AIA New York is proud of the members who have been elevated to the College of Fellows and have founded a series of New Fellow Salons so other professionals can learn more about their...
The Soane Fellowship Lecture – Architects Abroad: Seeing, Drawing, and Traveling
9/23/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Sir John Soane found travel generative to his foundations as an architect, collector, and educator. As a young man, he drew “by the stealth of moonlight” in Pompeii and, near...
Embodied Carbon Part 1: The Blind Spot of the Building Industry
9/19/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Our industry mostly ignores embodied carbon, even though it will account for almost half of total new global construction emissions between now and 2050. This lecture will provide an overview...
Building Science Days 2019: High Performance, Energy Efficiency & Sustainability
9/19/19, 8:30am - 5pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Building Enclosure Council for two consecutive seminars with renowned building scientists Dr. John Straube and Dr. Joseph Lstiburek. With their combined expertise, Straube and Lstiburek will help...
Building Enclosure Excellence and How to Achieve it
9/18/19, 6pm - 8pm
Building Energy Exchange, 31 Chambers Street, Suite 609, New York, NY 10007
A panel of experts will present and discuss design and construction solutions to common building envelope conditions in multifamily and commercial buildings. They will address the considerable challenges faced by...
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The Architect’s Challenge: Work/Family Balance
9/18/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
We are pleased to announce that Billie Tsien and Tod Williams have recently joined as panelists for this program. “The Architect’s Challenge: Work/Life Balance” is a behind-the-scenes professional practice panel organized by the AIANY...
Building Science Days 2019: High Performance, Energy Efficiency & Sustainability
9/18/19, 8:30am - Thursday, 9/19, 5pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Building Enclosure Council for two consecutive seminars with renowned building scientists Dr. John Straube and Dr. Joseph Lstiburek. With their combined expertise, Straube and Lstiburek will help...
Reinventing Thomas Jefferson’s Rotunda
9/17/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a panel organized by the AIANY Historic Buildings Committee. Project leads from John G. Waite Associates, Architects and additional project team members on the preservation and...
Defining Design Excellence in the Era of Climate Change
9/16/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
With the recent adoption of the AIA Resolution for Urgent and Sustained Climate Action, “design excellence” for our profession has been redefined to align with the COTE Top Ten Measures....
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Cocktails & Conversation: Wendy Evans Joseph and Rosalie Genevro
9/13/19, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Each program...
Mobility + Spatial Agency: Autonomy in the New Urban Interface
9/12/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Urban mobility has always been mediated by layers of technologies, services, and organizations, but today’s accelerated transitions to digital platforms heighten the urgency for critical perspectives on the practical effects...
Building Great Schools for a Great City Book Launch: Honoring Work by the SCA
9/10/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join AIA New York in honoring the New York City School Construction Authority’s (SCA) 30 years of work building and modernizing public school buildings. Lorraine Grillo, the Authority’s President and...
Big Ideas: Finalists’ Presentations
9/9/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a related program for the exhibition Big Ideas Small Lots. The finalists of the Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC competition, organized by AIA New York and the NYC...
Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen Featuring Signe Nielsen
9/5/19, 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...
State of Confusion: Laws and Regulations Impacting Multijurisdictional Practices
8/20/19, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
State laws and regulations affecting architectural practice are voluminous, conflict from state to state, and can impact fundamental aspects of doing business—including licensing, entity formation, marketing, branding and solicitations. For...
Going Somewhere In-Between
8/14/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Organized by the AIANY New Practices Committee, “Alone Together & Somewhere In-Between: Modes of Practice in Contemporary Architecture” is a three-part series of panel discussions delving deeper into the way...
New Fellow Salon with John Gering, FAIA
8/13/19, 8:30am - 10am
HLW International LLP
AIA New York is proud of the members who have been elevated to the College of Fellows and have founded a series of New Fellow Salons so other professionals can learn more about their...
A Look at Rescue Company 2
8/8/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a discussion of Studio Gang’s Rescue Company 2, presented in conjunction with Mapping Community: Public Investment in NYC. The conversation will be between Weston Walker, AIA, of Studio...
Learning About Schools: Where Do Design and Research Fit In?
8/7/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Do you wonder how schools can be designed using research about learning outcomes? How are firms across the country using post-occupancy data to inform school projects? How is a culture...
New Fellow Salon with Dennis Wedlick, FAIA
8/1/19, 5:30pm - 7pm
BarlisWedlick Architects
AIA New York is proud of the members who have been elevated to the College of Fellows and has founded a series of New Fellow Salons so other professionals can learn more about their...
Experiments in Design: 20 Years of the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program
7/30/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Since its inception twenty years ago by MoMA and MoMA PS1, the Young Architects Program (YAP) has been committed to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design a temporary...
Elected Officials on the Built Environment
7/29/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a related program for Mapping Community: Public Investment in NYC. Elected officials have a great deal of influence over the makeup of public buildings and infrastructure in...
Plaza Life Revisited: Field Guide Release
7/25/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the release of Field Guide to Life in Urban Plazas. The guide outlines a research effort focused on New York City, the primary location of urbanist William...
Summer Celebration at COOKFOX Architects: Biophilic Design, Health & Wellness
7/24/19, 6pm - 8pm
COOKFOX Architects at 250 W 57th Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10107
Interior design leaders from COOKFOX Architects will present the work of COOKFOX through the lens of high-performance and biophilic design. COOKFOX has built their practice around a critical goal: to create...
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Designing New York: Prefabrication in the Public Realm
7/23/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a roundtable discussion to address the future of prefabrication in New York City, with a focus on how prefabrication practices can be applied to small-scale urban infrastructure...
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Going Together
7/18/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Organized by the AIANY New Practices Committee, “Alone, Together & Somewhere In-Between: Modes of Practice in Contemporary Architecture” is a three-part series of panel discussions delving deeper into the way...
Integrated Design Services for the Digital Age
7/18/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This presentation will focus on the practice of collaborative “integration” in research, during design, via project delivery, and in verification of project performance. The firms of Kieran Timberlake and BurroHappold...
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PERSPECTIVE USA 2019
7/18/19, 8am - 6:30pm
New York Marriot Downtown
Perspective USA is an annual forum on Architecture and Interior Design organized by THE PLAN ( Gruppo Maggioli), launched in 2013 and now at its 6th consecutive annual edition. Taking...
Climate Change and Health through the Lens of the Built Environment
7/17/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This event is sold out. To add your name to the waitlist, please click here Join us for a panel discussion on the effects of climate change on health, and...
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Visible City: Reading Transportation and Infrastructure Systems
7/16/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Some of the most fascinating and frustrating aspects of transportation infrastructure often emerge when trying to get a grasp on large systems. Whether the need for understanding takes place while...
ENYA Beyond the Boards: The Midtown Mile
7/16/19, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
SOM, 14 Wall St 25th Flr, New York, NY 10005
“The Midtown Mile” is the next presentation in the AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA)‘s “Beyond the Boards” series. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill‘s leadership will profile their firm and design process before focusing...
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Topiary Tango Talk
7/15/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
What is topiary and why are we talking about it? Join us this evening for a playfully serious look into the horticultural practice of trimming bushes into geometric shapes. Presented...
The Economics of Making a Public Building
7/9/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a related program for Mapping Community: Public Investment in NYC. How does New York City plan its capital projects and then turn those from a budget...
New Fellow Salon with Jared Della Valle, FAIA
7/2/19, 6pm - 8pm
Alloy
AIA New York is proud of the members who have been elevated to the College of Fellows and have founded a series of New Fellow Salons so other professionals can learn more about their...
CityPride: Celebrating LGBTQ Spaces
6/27/19, 5:30pm - 8pm
FXCollaborative Gallery, 22 West 19th St, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10011
Please join AIANY Diversity and Inclusion Committee and FXCollaborative for a Pride Celebration at the FXCollaborative Gallery. Guests will enjoy snacks, cocktails, art, interactive exercises, entertainment, and the opportunity to...
Karen Braitmayer: A Profile in Accessible Practice
6/25/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architect Karen Braitmayer, FAIA, has been named the 2019 recipient of the prestigious AIA Whitney M. Young Jr Award. The Seattle-based architect has been recognized by the Institute for her...
Yona Friedman’s Lexicon
6/21/19, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a video presentation about the life and work of Yona Friedman, followed by a discussion with Kenneth Frampton. Sylvie Boulanger, Director of Cneai, and Nicholas Vargelis, Visual...
CityPride: Tracing LGBTQ Spaces
6/20/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Diversity and Inclusion Committee for a walking tour of the Stonewall Uprising before this panel. Sign up for the tour here. In honor of the 50th...
Architect as Developer
6/19/19, 6pm - 9pm
Fisher Center
Jared Della Valle, FAIA, will present his design and business philosophy, and Michiko Ashida will join him in a conversation on integrating architecture and development—and the opportunities it affords. JARED...
Special Briefing: New York’s Next Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
6/18/19, 8am - 10am
Center for Architecture
New York City has officially kicked off the planning stages for the next Comprehensive Waterfront Plan. Published every ten years, the Comprehensive Waterfront Plan outlines the strategic vision of the...
Organizing Against Evictions: Strategies from Women Leaders of Rio de Janeiro
6/18/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This event will share strategies and stories from a unique inside look at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from the heart of its favelas, offering urban planners and human rights activists...
CityPride: Creating LGBTQ Spaces
6/17/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The New York metro area has a diverse range of buildings and structures where LGBTQ people gather to find support, safety, community, and pride. A panel of architects who designed recent projects...
Cocktails & Conversation: Mehrdad Yazdani and Sam Lubell
6/14/19, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
Created by the AIANY Architecture Dialogue Committee, Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to...
Going Alone
6/12/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Organized by the AIANY New Practices Committee, “Alone, Together & Somewhere In-Between: Modes of Practice in Contemporary Architecture” is a three-part series of panel discussions delving deeper into the way...
Building Enclosure Design Flaws and How to Avoid Them
6/11/19, 6pm - 8pm
Building Energy Exchange, 31 Chambers St Suite 609, New York, NY 10007
A panel of experts will present and discuss solutions to common building envelope design flaws in multifamily and commercial buildings. They will address the considerable challenges faced by architects as...
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Oculus Book Talk: Palaces for the People
6/10/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Sociologist Eric Klinenberg will discuss his latest work,Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Penguin Random House, 2018). In Palaces...
The Forensics of Architecture: CSI of Buildings
6/5/19, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The practice of forensic architecture is an investigative process that involves the examination of issues or claims made during design, construction, and once the building is completed. Most problems a...
Mies Van der Rohe’s Tugendhat House
6/3/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Mies Van der Rohe’s Tugendhat House in Brno, Czech Republic, is a preeminent example of early modernist design. Van der Rohe designed the house, which was completed in 1930, at...
Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus
5/30/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us in celebrating the 100th anniversary of Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus with this documentary exploring the history, present, and future of the utopian design and architecture school and communal social...
The Quantified City: Impacts on the Urban Context
5/28/19, 5pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This panel will be preceded by a creative (re)mixer and cocktail hour from 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Entitled ‘Design Against Extinction’ and orchestrated by Terreform ONE, the event will...
Livable Cities for the 21st Century: The International Perspective
5/23/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for an evening with Jan Gehl, Hon. FAIA. Gehl is a Danish architect and urban design consultant whose life work has centered around pedestrian and cycling-oriented urban design. Gehl...
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One Learning Environment for Every Child
5/23/19, 6:30pm - 8pm
Knoll New York Showroom, 1330 6th Ave, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10019
How spaces for active learning in mainstream schools can allow children with special education needs (SEN) to learn with their friends. The transition towards competency-based education requires us to rethink...
Low Carbon Comfort – Electrifying HVAC with Variable Refrigerant Flow Technology
5/21/19, 6pm - 8pm
Building Energy Exchange, 31 Chambers St Suite 609, New York, NY 10007
Variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems have been used since the 1980s. Their space and energy saving characteristics have taken on a new meaning in the context of global climate challenges....
Syria Before the Deluge: Syrian Monuments and Heritage Today
5/20/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a discussion on the status of Syrian monuments today, framed by Peter Aaron’s 2009 photographs of important sites before the onset of the Syrian Civil War....
Leadership Breakfast with Claire Weisz, FAIA
5/17/19, 8am - 9am
Center for Architecture
Please join the Women in Architecture Committee for the Spring installment of our Leadership Breakfast series. Claire Weisz, FAIA, Principal in Charge at WXY, will discuss her career and recent projects. Speaker:...
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2019 Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture: Annabelle Selldorf
5/16/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The annual Oberfield lecture was founded as a memorial to Gil Oberfield, AIA, former member and chair of the AIANY Interiors Committee. The lecture brings to the podium speakers whose...
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Lighting Landmarks in New York City
5/15/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Hosted by the AIANY Building Codes Committee, the AIANY Historic Buildings Committee, and Illuminating Engineering Society NYC’s (IESNYC) Lighting Council, this program will present a panel of lighting designers and...
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Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC Finalists Announcement
5/14/19, 11am - 12:30pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY) to present the winning designs for the Big...
Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen Featuring Michael Kimmelman
5/13/19, 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...
RESCHEDULED – Syria Before the Deluge: Syrian Monuments and Heritage Today
5/9/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Due to a change in speaker availability, we have been forced to reschedule this event for Monday May 20th. We hope to see you at the rescheduled program! Please join us...
Fundamentals of Photoluminescent Egress Systems
5/9/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Photoluminescent (PL) egress systems are non-electric, illuminated routing markers that provide an intuitive path that can be easily followed during an emergency evacuation of a building. This course will instruct...
New York Digital Design Community
5/9/19, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
WeWork, 115 W 18th St, 6th Floor
The New York Digital Design Community is a forum that focuses on showcasing technology-driven design by leading New York individuals, practices and universities. It is dedicated to disseminating the application...
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NYLON #15: Design Quality and Public Housing
5/8/19, 8am - 10am
Center for Architecture
With London witnessing a resurgent public sector with improved capabilities, funding avenues, and delivery mechanisms at hand, it is critical that any new public housing shifts existing negative perceptions. At...
Prefabrication in Practice
5/8/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The integration of design and construction of modular principals and prefabricated processes into the built environment has a long history, filled with successes as well as missed opportunities and setbacks....
A New Deal for New York City: Looking Back, Looking Forward
5/7/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
At a time when the Green New Deal is in the headlines and on the table, we aim to reacquaint our fellow New Yorkers with the original New Deal. How did a...
Cocktails & Conversation: Toshiko Mori and Fred Bernstein
5/3/19, 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...
Creating a Higher Living Standard with LEED v.4.1: Mahesh Ramanujam, USGBC
5/1/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Mahesh Ramanujam will present USGBC’s global vision for LEED v4.1, discussing NYC’s historic and future role in informing that vision and exploring new research critical for understanding how best to...
Envisioning the Integrated Academic Medical Center
4/25/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a talk about the integration of academic, research, and clinical environments and how these functions are tied to and reflected in the design of academic medical center (AMC)...
Games, Gossip, and Greeting: Seniors’ Uses of Public Space
4/23/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This panel will focus on public open space design that meets the health and recreational needs of urban seniors as they age-in-place in their neighborhoods. Recent case studies of innovative...
Contemporary Polish Architecture: From One Paradigm to Another
4/17/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a related program for Patchwork: The Architecture of Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak. Three generations of architects will reflect on the place of contemporary Polish architecture in a panel discussion...
ENYA Beyond the Boards: BIG
4/16/19, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Bjarke Ingels Group NYC, 45 Main Street, 9th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201
The AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) is proud to announce the next presentation in the Beyond the Boards series. BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group leadership will profile their firm and design process before focusing on...
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Demystifying Building Performance Modeling for Sustainable Design
4/11/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As the importance of energy performance and efficiency continues to increase, today’s design and construction professionals have the challenging task of making buildings more efficient and sustainable. Not only have...
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Perspectives from Sweden: Designing Innovative Learning Environments
4/10/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for a presentation and panel discussion that examines the planning and design of learning environments in Sweden. Swedish architect Åsa R. Machado will present several large-scale educational projects...
Coast to Coast: The Gender of Preservation
4/8/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As women have become the majority of students in architecture schools, our profession has been in the throes of both examining and reexamining the role of women in design. Many...
Pad Thai Thai: A Talk by Kulapat Yantrasast
4/4/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join Kulapat Yantrasast as he delves into the complex and playful world of wHY’s work, which combines the frenetic elements of the architect’s Thai upbringing with his minimalist Japanese training....
RESET and ORIGIN: Measuring Air Quality and Material Impacts
4/4/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Designing for wellness requires careful material choice and ongoing measurement of indoor air quality. Come hear from Raefer Wallis, an architect and the founder of GIGA, the independent organization working...
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Women-Built NYC | Three Decades of Public Design
3/27/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
To celebrate the Women’s History Month, Keri Butler, the Deputy Director of NYC Public Design Commission (PDC), and Rebecca Macklis will highlight multigenerational women who have made a significant impact on...
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ODA “Unboxing New York” Talk with Eran Chen and David van der Leer
3/26/19, 6:30pm - 8pm
10 Jay Street, 6th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201
ODA New York is proud to unveil their first publication, Unboxing New York. Please join Eran Chen, Founding Principal of ODA, and David van der Leer, Principal of DVDL Design...
POP! Culture: Creativity in Temporary Spaces
3/26/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This panel discussion explores creative cultural events in non-traditional “pop up” venues. Temporary spaces, which often involve architects and engineers, can give increased exposure to artists and extend the outreach...
Cocktails & Conversation: Vishaan Chakrabarti and Justin Davidson
3/22/19, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Each program...
Mobility + Social Agency: Embedding Equity in Mobile Systems
3/21/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
United States landmark legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 established legal rights to accommodation and access that have had a...
FutureNOW: Re-imagining Practice Through Data Disruption
3/16/19, 9am - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Now more than ever, data is being collected and applied to evaluate problems and deliver solutions. “FutureNOW” will explore the implementation of technology-driven advancements in the AEC industry. Through a...
_Destinations: Mexico City
3/14/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the inaugural event of AIANY’s Global Dialogues “_Destinations” series, bringing together some of the city’s most dynamic designers to discuss how they address and are inspired by the...
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Beyond EUI: Making a Case for Intensity of Use
3/13/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Beyond EUI: Making a Case for Intensity of Use and Measuring What Matters A well-used building in a high density neighborhood has challenges achieving net zero energy in terms of...
A Tour of Moynihan Train Hall Under Construction
3/8/19, 3pm - 5pm
Moynihan Train Station, Meet at NE corner of 9th Ave. and W 31st St.
Meet at the NE corner of 9th Ave. and West 31st St.. Join SOM’s senior designers on a hardhat construction tourof the monumental civic project to convert McKim, Mead & White’s 1913...
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Success Starts with Strategy: Tips for Fierce Marketing and Communications
3/6/19, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee and the AIANY Marketing and Communications Committee as they present an architectural practice panel to share useful advice and strategies in marketing, PR,...
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Disruption by Design: Case Studies in Design for a Just New York
3/4/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a related program for Design and the Just City in NYC. This program will take a closer look at the case studies presented in the exhibition....
New Practices in Hong Kong Architecture: A Symposium
3/1/19, 1pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a symposium presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Paul Rudolph: The Hong Kong Journey, and convened by Barry Bergdoll and Seng Kuan. Taking Rudolph’s work as...
Deeds Not Words: Conversations with Robert P. Madison
2/26/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In celebration of Black History Month, please join us for a screening of a documentary film chronicling the life story of Robert P. Madison: preeminent architect, maverick, patriot, and patron...
Oculus Book Talk – Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
2/26/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Eminent sociologist Richard Sennett will discuss his latest book, Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018) in the latest Oculus Book Talk. In this sweeping...
Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen Featuring Elizabeth Diller
2/21/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Updated 4/30/2019: Listen to the podcast featuring Elizabeth Diller on PersonPlaceThing.org. Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on the idea that people are particularly...
Minoru Yamasaki: Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World
2/13/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architectural historian Dale Allen Gyure will discuss the career and life of Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), best know as the architect of the World Trade Center. Born to Japanese immigrant parents...
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Leadership Breakfast with Frances Halsband, FAIA
2/8/19, 8am - 9am
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for a conversation with Frances Halsband, FAIA, Founding Partner, Kliment Halsband Architects. Speaker: Frances Halsband, FAIA Halsband is a founding partner of...
Growing Up in a Frank Lloyd Wright House
1/31/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Kim Bixler’s family owned Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1908 Edward E. Boynton House in Rochester, New York, from 1977 to 1994. In her multi-media presentation, Kim recounts the joys and pitfalls...
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Cocktails & Conversation: Hayes Slade and James Slade with Fred Bernstein
1/18/19, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture and design issues. Each...
2019 AIANY Design Awards Announcement
1/14/19, 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, Projects, and Sustainability. A moderated symposium discussion with this year’s jurors will...
Education Design for the Homeless
1/9/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Educating homeless children is a national dilemma that presents significant challenges, particularly to the organizations who serve this population and to the architects who design their facilities. In this presentation,...
Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen featuring Jeffrey Sachs
1/8/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Updated 3/30/2019: Listen to the podcast featuring Jeffrey Sachs on PersonPlaceThing.org. Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on the idea that people are particularly...
Oculus Book Talk: The Man in the Glass House
1/7/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for our January Oculus Book Talk on The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century (Little, Brown and Company, 2018) with author Mark Lamster in conversation...
Paul Rudolph: Influences and Opportunities
12/19/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a program for Paul Rudolph: The Hong Kong Journey. Paul Rudolph considered an allowance for growth in his architecture and once said his buildings “took on a...
Samuel Ratensky Memorial Lecture: Maurice Cox
12/18/18, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
The annual Ratensky Lecture was initiated by the AIANY Housing Committee in honor of Samuel Ratensky (1910-1972), an architect and NYC housing official who was responsible for major housing initiatives in...
Paul Rudolph: A Way of Working
12/14/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a program for Paul Rudolph: The Hong Kong Journey. For Paul Rudolph, architecture was “a highly personal affair involving a considerable degree of emotion and which needs...
Lecture – Claire Weisz & Paul Bauer – The Salt Shed
12/12/18, 6pm - 7:30pm
Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White St., New York, NY 10013
The Salt Shed has quickly become an iconic building in New York City. Rising nearly 70 feet along the Hudson River at the intersection of Canal Street and West Street,...
Remix Resample Remaster: Identity and Making Architecture
12/11/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Through shared dialogue between with poets, educators, artists, architects and activists, this participatory program will explore how identity and cultural forces can influence the process of how we design, both...
Oculus Book Talk: William B. Helmreich and Sam Lubell
12/10/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for our December Oculus Book Talk, featuring two new guide books: The Manhattan Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide by William B. Helmreich, and Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel...
The Birth – Part 2
12/5/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Birth – Part 2 is the second of two conversations exposing deeper investigations into Hip-Hop Architecture. Each speaker will discuss the origins of their association with the architectural movement...
Deep Energy Reductions in NYC Public School Design
12/5/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As part of NYC’s 80×50 goal, Local Law 31 of 2016 requires significantly reduced energy use in new city-owned and city-operated buildings. The New York City School Construction Authority (NYCSCA)...
Architecture Across Cultures: The Chinese Vanguard
12/3/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The 2008 Beijing Olympics were a seminal moment for Chinese culture on the global stage, one that featured landmarks by Western architects as emblems of contemporary design and served as...
Albert Frey: The Architectural Envoy – Film Screening and Discussion
11/30/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Albert Frey, the unpretentious Swiss-born, mid-20th-century architect, was a key figure in the introduction of Corbusian-influenced modernism to the United States. Through his innate curiosity about the American landscape, he...
Oculus Book Talk – Exhibit A: Exhibitions That Transformed Architecture
11/27/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How do you exhibit a building, a locality, a city? Exhibit A, the first book to explore the 20th century’s most significant architectural exhibitions, reveals how architecture has pushed the...
The Birth – Part 1
11/26/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Birth – Part 1 is the first of two conversations exposing deeper investigations into Hip-Hop Architecture. Each speaker will discuss the origins of their association with the architectural movement...
Perspectives on Energy Modeling: A Dialogue Between Architects and Consultants
11/20/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Through the lens of two distinct practices and areas of expertise – architecture and sustainability consulting – this lecture and panel discussion will explore how both groups view the energy...
Architects as Activists Primer
11/19/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Traditionally, the planner and architect are seldom seen as advocates for the urban poor, especially with the ongoing competition for so-called starchitects to produce “iconic” buildings for a global market; but...
Perform: Designing for the Performing Arts
11/14/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
A performing arts center is one of the most challenging and rewarding buildings an architect can design. It is a landmark building, celebrating its community’s commitment to the arts and...
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Sustainability ∩ Resilience Integration IV: Internet of Things and RTEM
11/13/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This panel discussion will address the basics of Internet of Things (IoT) and Real Time Energy Management (RTEM) systems, incentive programs for implementation, current challenges, opportunities, and trends. Speakers will...
The Trunk Line: The Future Beyond the Gateway Tunnel
11/12/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
New York City’s rail travel operates primarily through Pennsylvania Station and Grand Central Terminal. Both function as terminus stations, creating rail transit congestion that impacts the region. Independent transportation advocates from...
Funding the Future Workshop: Resilience Planning Across Public & Private Sectors
11/9/18, 9am - 2pm
Center for Architecture
This course also offers 4 LA CES. Resilience planning across all domains has become a crucial part of national, state, and local discourse in recent years. We know that the...
Leaning Out VI | _Action: Women Making Moves
11/7/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
More and more women are slowly ascending to top positions at established firms in design, development, and construction. Some of those who have ascended then take the leap to start...
Cocktails and Conversations: Book Launch at Porcelanosa
11/7/18, 6pm - 9pm
Porcelanosa Showroom
Over the last six years, the AIANY Architecture Dialogue Committee’s Cocktails and Conversation series has hosted some of architecture’s most interesting and provocative practitioners to discuss what informs their designs....
New York Digital Design Community
11/7/18, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
United Technologies Digital Accelerator (55 Water Street, Brooklyn NY 11201)
The New York Digital Design Community is a forum that focuses on showcasing technology-driven design by leading New York individuals, practices, and universities. It is dedicated to disseminating the application...
Sustainable Trends in Architectural Lighting for Educational Environments
11/7/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Architecture for Education Committee for a discussion of the trends, standards, and technologies that are driving and advancing lighting design in today’s educational and non-educational environments....
Maker City & City Making
11/6/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Planning and Urban Design Committee for a panel discussion on live/work spaces and urban development. Two panels will explore the maker industry and its role in developing...
Civic Impact in Practice
11/1/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the 2018 AIANY Civic Leadership Program team at the Center for Architecture as they showcase a spectrum of current civic engagement practices in New York City. In September 2018, the Civic...
Designing the Future of the Tri-State Region
10/29/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This is a related program for the exhibition The Future of the New York Metropolitan Area: The Fourth Regional Plan. RPA’s Fourth Regional Plan proposes how our built and natural...
NightSeeing™ at Times Square
10/29/18, 6pm - 8pm
Times Square
Walk with urban lighting and nighttime designer Leni Schwendinger to re-frame NYC’s spatial spectacle at the Crossroads of the World. This interactive journey through Times Square will include little known...
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Workplace Design: Part 2 – Coworking
10/23/18, 6pm - 8pm
Knoll Contract Showroom
With the highest concentration of coworking spaces in the country, New York City is a key influencer in this rapidly evolving category. Various typologies of coworking have emerged, serving new...
Responsive Cities: Urban Heat Challenges
10/23/18, 6pm - 8pm
John L. Tishman Auditorium, The New School
Organized by Consulate General of Switzerland in New York in collaboration with the AIA Technology Committee, Singapore-ETH Centre, ETH Future Cities Laboratory, Cooling Singapore, ETH Zurich, and The Urban Systems Lab at The New...
Responsive Cities: Citizen Engagement
10/22/18, 6pm - 9pm
Center for Architecture
Responsive cities are the new frontier in human settlement, engaging residents and prospective citizens from the very beginning in the planning and management of their habitats based on smart city...
Future Streets 20×20
10/20/18, 10:30am - 12pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Planning and Urban Design Committee for a special speed presentation event. Future Streets 20×20 will feature presentations focusing on urban street use and development. In light of new technologies and...
12th Annual Arthur Rosenblatt Memorial Lecture: Odile Decq
10/18/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee presents its annual lecture on excellence in museum design, this year featuring Odile Decq of Studio Odile Decq. Odile Decq is a French architect and...
2018 NPNY Winner Talk: Agency—Agency in Conversation with Andrés Jaque
10/18/18, 6pm - 8pm
Benjamin Moore Showroom at New York Design Center
AIANY New Practices Committee along hosts a series of lectures by winning firms of the New Practices New York 2018 Competition. This lecture series will be held at the new Benjamin...
_Action: No More Words (Viral Voices 2018)
10/18/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
20 years ago, traditional print journals were the gatekeepers, setting the agenda for big ideas that shaped the culture of architecture. Blogs and e-zines have rapidly changed the nature of...
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Challenges for a Vivid Architectural Culture: The Case of Flanders
10/17/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The increasing number of architects from Flanders and Brussels who execute projects abroad is matched by wide-ranging international interest in Flemish architectural culture, as evidenced by exhibitions at renowned architectural...
Times Square Valentine Heart Design Competition Finalists
10/15/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
AIA New York is proud to be partnering with Times Square Arts on this year’s Times Square Valentine Heart Design Competition. For the first time ever, the proposals for the...
Leadership Breakfast with Andrea Lamberti, AIA NCARB
10/12/18, 8am - 9am
Center for Architecture
Please join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for a conversation with Andrea Lamberti, AIA, NCARB, partner at Rafael Viñoly Architects. Speaker Andrea Lamberti, AIA, NCARB, Partner, Rafael Viñoly Architects During...
J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture | Attaining Wakandan Utopia
10/12/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the New York Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (nycobaNOMA) and the AIANY Diversity & Inclusion Committee for “Attaining Wakandan Utopia: Representation, Place-Making and the Diaspora,” presented...
2018 NPNY Winner Talk: Only If in Conversation with Dan Wood
10/11/18, 6pm - 8pm
Benjamin Moore Showroom at New York Design Center
The AIANY New Practices Committee hosts a series of lectures by winning firms of the New Practices New York 2018 Competition. This lecture series will be held at the new Benjamin...
Rebuilding Confidence: The Design, Safety, and Security of 1 World Trade Center
10/11/18, 11am - 2pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the engaging lunch discussion Rebuilding Confidence: The Design, Safety, and Security of One World Trade Center. Presenter Nicole Dosso, FAIA, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), will...
RPA, MPC and SPUR Discuss 20 Years of Regional Change
10/11/18, 8:30am - 10am
Center for Architecture
This program is related to the exhibition The Future of the New York Metropolitan Area: The Fourth Regional Plan. Chicagoland’s Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC), the Bay Area’s San Francisco Bay Area Planning...
Zero Waste Challenge: Results
10/9/18, 8:30am - 10:30am
Center for Architecture
The Zero Waste Design Guidelines address the crucial role that design plays in achieving New York City’s ambitious goal, outlined in OneNYC, to send zero waste to landfills by 2030. Created with...
Playground Design: Inclusion, Independence, and Engagement
10/9/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Playgrounds fulfill a critical role in urban schools and neighborhoods, making space for physical and social wellbeing. The design of playgrounds goes far beyond equipment, incorporating planting and natural elements,...
Oculus Book Talk: Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III
10/9/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a book talk with Martin Filler about his new book in the Makers of Modern Architecture series, Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III: From Antoni Gaudí...
2018 AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Awards Winner Event
10/8/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee as they announce the winners of the pilot award program the AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards. The AIANY +...
Close to the Edge: Hip-Hop Architecture Symposium
10/6/18, 1pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a symposium for Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip Hop Architecture. Presentations and a panel discussion will be followed by a workshop by BlackSpace...
2018 NPNY Winner Talk: MABU in Conversation with Beatrice Galilee
10/4/18, 6pm - 8pm
Benjamin Moore Showroom at New York Design Center
The AIANY New Practices Committee along hosts a series of lectures by winning firms of the New Practices New York 2018 Competition. This lecture series will be held at the new...
A Knowledge Gap: What you Need to Know About Sourcing Endangered Woods – 12:30pm
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10/3/18, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Center for Architecture
Architects and designers across the country are invited to participate in the second annual National Day of Learning. For decades, architects and designers have specified wood to bring warmth and...
A Knowledge Gap: What you Need to Know About Sourcing Endangered Woods – 3:00pm
10/3/18, 3pm - 4pm
Center for Architecture
Architects and designers across the country are invited to participate in the second annual National Day of Learning. For decades, architects and designers have specified wood to bring warmth and...
Collapse: Climate, Cities & Culture
10/3/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Global Design NYU (GDNYU) formed COLLAPSE: CLIMATE, CITIES & CULTURE, a traveling international exhibition between New York and Berlin open to the public that focuses on the design community’s response...
In the Dark: Emergency Lighting Requirements
10/2/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This event will discuss the current emergency lighting requirements in the NYC Building Code, including egress illumination, options for emergency power systems (generator, inverter, battery pack, EM lights), challenges when...
Cocktails & Conversation: Signe Nielsen and Molly Bourne with David Burney
9/28/18, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Each program includes...
Anchin’s 13th Annual State of the Construction Industry Conference
9/28/18, 8am - 10am
The Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue New York, NY 10017
Building the Future: The Evolution and Impact of Transportation in 2018 and Beyond Join Anchin for our thirteenth annual State of the Construction Industry event on Friday, September 28, 2018,...
2018 NPNY Winner Talk: NHDM in Conversation with Sean Anderson
9/27/18, 6pm - 8pm
Benjamin Moore Showroom at New York Design Center
The AIANY New Practices Committee along hosts a series of lectures by winning firms of the New Practices New York 2018 Competition. This lecture series will be held at the new...
NYU in Brooklyn: Designing a New Academic Frontier
9/24/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
As part of New York City’s Applied Science Initiative, NYU and the NYC Economic Development Corporation partnered to revitalize and transform 370 Jay Street, the former headquarters of the MTA...
Planning for Sustainability at the Neighborhood Scale
9/22/18, 9:30am - 4pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Planning and Urban Design Committee invites all to participate in a panel discussion exploring sustainability at the local level. Practicing sustainability on a neighborhood scale creates opportunities for community members, municipal stakeholders, technical...
Public Private Partnership Case Study: Cary Leeds Tennis Center
9/21/18, 8am - 10am
Center for Architecture
Hailed by The New York Times as “one of the city’s best new works of public architecture”, the award-winning Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning includes a two-story, 12,000-square-foot clubhouse...
Spaces of Disappearance: The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition
9/21/18, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
To date, dozens of political histories, participant autobiographies, journalistic accounts, and academic investigations have addressed the many aspects of the War on Terror. Urban Research’s (UR) latest book, Spaces of...
2018 NPNY Winner Talk: P.R.O. in Conversation with Tod Williams
9/20/18, 6pm - 8pm
Benjamin Moore Showroom at New York Design Center
The AIANY New Practices Committee hosts a series of lectures by winning firms of the New Practices New York 2018 Competition. This lecture series will be held at the new Benjamin...
Architects, As Required: Exploring the Periphery of Design
9/20/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the 2018 AIANY Civic Leadership Program as we explore alternative placemaking processes with guests who are leading conversations about the democratization of the built environment. We will examine how...
Development Opportunities in the Bronx with Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.
9/20/18, 8:30am - 10am
Center for Architecture
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. will be coming to present on new development opportunities in The Bronx. Over the last few years, The Bronx has seen a resurgence, including a...
Building Resilience: NYC’s Distributed Energy Future, Part 2
9/19/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Integrating DERs into Building and Campus-Scale Projects NYC’s energy landscape is changing and the development of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are critical to meeting our climate and resilience goals at the urban scale. ...
Building Resilience: NYC’s Distributed Energy Future, Part 1
9/19/18, 4pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Meeting NYC’s Climate and Resilience Goals with DERs Achieving climate goals and greater resilience requires integrated systems-level thinking, particularly when it comes to energy demand, distribution, and supply. How can...
Resilient Cities: Equitable, Collaborative and Connected
9/18/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cities like Boston and New York City have revealed the lasting consequences of inequity, effects that can no longer be ignored. This event will explore the complicated intersection of architecture,...
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Instagram Strategies
9/18/18, 6pm - 8pm
Cosentino City Manhattan, A&D Building
This event will introduce how social media plays into an overall marketing strategy, unpacking differences in content and application strategies for sole practitioners, mid-size firms, and large firms. Take a deeper...
Housing as Intervention: Architecture Towards Social Equity
9/17/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This event was shared on Facebook Live. Watch the video here. In the face of persistent social inequities worldwide, how can architects make a meaningful contribution? Housing’s primary position in...
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Creating More Housing without New Construction
9/14/18, 8am - 10am
Center for Architecture
This program is related to the exhibition The Future of the New York Metropolitan Area: The Fourth Regional Plan. Meeting our need for housing in New York is tough. We need to...
Cane and Able: Seniors and Public Transit
9/13/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Design for Aging Committee and the AIANY Transportation & Infrastructure Committee present a panel about meeting the public transit challenges seniors and disabled persons face. Local and international...
Building Science Days 2018: Defining and Implementing High Performance
9/13/18, 8:30am - 5pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Building Enclosure Council for two consecutive seminars with renowned building scientists Dr. John Straube and Dr. Joseph Lstiburek. With their combined expertise, Straube and Lstiburek will help attendees understand...
Building Science Days 2018: Defining and Implementing High Performance
9/12/18, 8:30am - Thursday, 9/13, 5pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Building Enclosure Council for two consecutive seminars with renowned building scientists Dr. John Straube and Dr. Joseph Lstiburek. With their combined expertise, Straube and Lstiburek will help attendees understand...
Diversity X Design Breakfast Series: Infrastructure with Building Leaders
9/11/18, 8am - 10am
Center for Architecture
Join us for another inspiring installment of the Diversity X Design Breakfast Series with Amy Macdonald, who will discuss infrastructure and leadership in engineering, as well as actionable steps in...
_Action: New Ecological Prototypes
9/6/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
At times impatient with the pace of industrial innovation in producing smart, low-carbon, responsive building products and systems, designers are now jumping into the arena with do-it-yourself research and development...
Fall Film Social: Living Salk Institute
9/5/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Social Science and Architecture Committee for a special documentary film screening and post-screening discussion with the filmmakers of Living Salk Institute. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies,...
Understanding New York City Agency Contracts & More: For All Design and Construction Professionals
8/23/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join nycoba|NOMA at the Center for Architecture on Thursday, August 23rd for “Understanding New York City Agency Contracts & More: For All Design and Construction Professionals.” Topics include NYC design...
Face of a Nation: What Happened to the World’s Fair?
8/2/18, 2pm - 4pm
Regal Lynbrook (321 Merrick Rd)
Feature Documentary / Long Beach Premiere / Filmmaker Q&A An idealistic American architect struggles to help her dream alive as she journeys to discover why America abandoned World’s Fairs. USA...
Roundtable: A Candid Dialogue on Pamphlet Architecture 36: Buoyant Clarity
7/30/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the launch of Pamphlet Architecture 36: Buoyant Clarity, the latest edition to Princeton Architectural Press’s celebrated Pamphlet Architecture 36 series, which explores groundbreaking, contemporary lines of thought surrounding...
Memorial Visions: Fifteen Years After the 9-11 Competition
7/25/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This lecture will reflect on how designers create memorials in the wake of 2003’s 9/11 memorial competition. The past fifteen years have been marked by numerous tragedies. The need remember and process...
Robotic Innovations: A Discussion of Research with Industrial Robots for Design
7/19/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Robotics! We’ve heard a lot about the topic, as well as how automation might revolutionize, threaten, disrupt, or transform AEC professions. To better understand how robotics might shape the future...
Outside the Boundary: An Architectural Practice Panel
7/18/18, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Women in Architecture Committee presents an architectural practice panel focusing on the work of sole practitioners who combine their passion for architecture with interests outside their firms; giving...
ENYA Beyond the Boards: ODA
7/17/18, 6:30pm - 8pm
ODA
The AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) is proud to announce the next presentation in the Beyond the Boards series. ODA leadership will profile their firm and design process before focusing on several current...
Dining Detritus: Zero Waste Restaurants
7/12/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This is a related program for the exhibition Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City. Can design help restaurants and food service facilities go zero waste? In the third...
Building Yugoslavia, 1948-1980
7/11/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In the framework of the exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980, opening at the Museum of Modern Art on July 15, architects represented in the exhibition will...
New York Digital Design Community
7/11/18, 6:30pm - 9pm
ARUP (77 Water Street)
The New York Digital Design Community is a forum that focuses on showcasing technology-driven design by leading New York individuals, practices and universities. It is dedicated to disseminating the application...
Zone Greener: Facilitating Solar Adoption
7/10/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This course has been approved for 1.5 GBCI credits. In 2012, New York City adopted a package of amendments to the NYC Zoning Resolution, collectively called Zone Green, to facilitate more...
Raymond Farm Center Symposium: DETAILS, details
6/30/18, 8:30am - 6pm
Raymond Farm Center for Living Arts & Design
Residential Architecture Assembled/the Prose & Poetry of Construction In celebration of the 80th Anniversary of the Publication of Antonin and Noémi Raymond’s Architectural Details (1938), the Raymond Farm Center for...
Waste & Other Infrastructure: Discovering the Invisible City
6/28/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Infrastructure is banal and wondrous, ubiquitous and hidden. The task of presenting it to a general public—in galleries, publications, or events—comes with a unique set of challenges, distinct from architecture...
Oculus Book Talk: The Design of Childhood
6/25/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In her new book, The Design of Childhood (Bloomsbury, June 2018) design critic Alexandra Lange investigates the histories of children’s human-made environment at all scales, from objects to landscapes, and...
A+ Session: Lessons Learned from Whitney Young
6/22/18, 3:10pm - 3:30pm
Jacob K. Javits Center, Booth 1739
Part of the AIA Conference on Architecture 2018, Architect Live took place in booth #1739 as a way for conference attendees to hear from industry leaders on a variety of...
A’18 Conference on Architecture
6/20/18, 8am - Saturday, 6/23, 10pm
New York City
In 1857, thirteen architects met in New York to form an organization to promote architects and architecture. The AIA was born. Ten years later, the AIA held its first annual...
Gallery Talk
6/19/18, 7pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Ennead Architects invites you to a conversation between James Stewart Polshek, FAIA, 2018 AIA Gold Medalist, Kenneth Frampton, FAIA, Ware Professor, Columbia University GSAPP, and Karen van Lengen, FAIA, Kenan...
Designing Waste
6/16/18, 1pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a symposium for Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City, an exhibition based on the Zero Waste Design Guidelines. Designing Waste explores how architects, designers, and...
A Conversation with John Burgee: Film Screening and Discussion
6/13/18, 6:30pm - 9pm
The General Society Library
A Conversation with John Burgee: The Architecture of Johnson/Burgee is a documentary exploring the life and work of American architect John Burgee. Burgee, one of the founders of the influential firm...
Sustainability ∩ Resilience Integration II: Metrics
6/13/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Metrics of Resilience and the RELi Rating System Sustainability and resilience are two sides of the same coin. When combined with regeneration, civility, and health, they create an emergent property...
Mass Timber: Design and Research
6/7/18, 5pm - 6:30pm
Building Energy Exchange
Please join BE-Ex to celebrate the publication of Mass Timber: Design and Research with author Susan Jones, one of the foremost voices in the mass timber dialogue today. A widely-discussed contemporary construction...
Cocktails & Conversation: Lee Mindel and Joseph Giovannini
6/1/18, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Each program includes...
Improving Your Commute: A Look at the RPA’s Fourth Regional Plan
5/30/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hosts a panel discussion on the Regional Plan Association’s Fourth Regional Plan. The plan contains a series of ideas to create a more dynamic,...
Lighting With People In Mind
5/21/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Preeminent lighting designers will discuss the differences between lighting for safety and for feeling, developing a vocabulary about lit space, and the surprising ways that lighting carries symbolic meaning about...
The Complete Package: Specifications for Steel Stud Masonry Veneer Wall Systems
5/17/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In today’s high-performance building market, specifying materials that work together as a complete wall system is more critical than ever. Systems can help designers meet new energy codes, reduce costs,...
2018 Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture: LEVENBETTS
5/17/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The annual Oberfield lecture was founded as a memorial to Gil Oberfiled, AIA, former member and chair of the AIANY Interiors Committee. The lecture brings to the podium speakers whose...
Oculus Book Talk: The New Landscape Declaration
5/14/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
On the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg’s 1966 “Declaration of Concern,” the Landscape Architecture Foundation convened acclaimed practitioners to ask what the discipline should achieve in the future. These proposals and reflections were captured...
NYC Department of Sanitation presents: Waste is a Design Flaw
5/14/18, 5pm - 7pm
151 West 42nd Street (21st Floor)
Every week, the average New Yorker throws out nearly 15 pounds of waste at home and another nine pounds of waste at work and in commercial establishments. Altogether, that adds...
Mass Timber: Benefits and Barriers
5/10/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Mass timber is quickly becoming a viable construction option for tall buildings due to its strength, beauty, and carbon sequestration potential. Come hear from a diverse panel of professionals as...
Historic Terracotta: Stabilize, Restore or Replace?
5/7/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This panel will discuss why terracotta may get a bad rap in many of New York’s historic buildings. It will review how the NYC Department of Buildings differentiates one building...
Steven Holl – Architecture: Activating the Brain
5/4/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architecture: Activating the Brain focuses on two elements of design: how architecture and the physical environment can activate the mind, body, and brain; and understanding the unconscious in art, mind,...
Mental Health in Justice Facilities
5/3/18, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This roundtable discussion will focus on planning and designing for mental health populations in justice facilities. A group of multi-disciplinary experts representing diverse perspectives will describe the complex issues around...
Workplace Design: Part 1
5/2/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Every space tells a story. For companies, to what degree does marketing their physical work environment attract talent and retain employees in this era of both highly amenitized and deliberately nomadic...
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Cocktails & Conversation: John Ruble & Mark Simon on Charles Moore
4/27/18, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversations is series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Each program includes a...
Housing Action: Innovating for Affordable Living
4/26/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
During the era of Modernism, architects led the charge in addressing housing shortage, devising innovative formal, technical, and organizational strategies for mass housing at a time of rapid urbanization and...
Rooftop Solar Panels: Installation and Access
4/26/18, 4pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Building Codes Committee for a presentation on solar panel installation and rooftop access. Representatives from the NYC Department of Buildings and the NYC Fire Department will cover topics including...
Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Architecture and Landscape
4/23/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, located twenty miles north of Copenhagen, Denmark, is famous for its enchanting seaside setting, distinctive architecture, and welcoming, unpretentious atmosphere. Constructed around a park,...
Community Engagement: Creating Success Where It Counts
4/19/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How can architects, planners, builders, and building managers ensure good design while meaningfully addressing communities about which there are many assumptions? What if buildings could make communities stronger and more...
OUALALOU + CHOI: Territories of Disobedience
4/18/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architects today play a marginal role in the production of built environments, often entering a project long after its critical limits have been defined. OUALALOU + CHOI seeks to reestablish...
On the Future of Computation in Architecture: A Discussion with Phil Bernstein
4/18/18, 8am - 10am
Center for Architecture
This presentation by Phillip Bernstein, former Vice President of Strategic Industry Relations at Autodesk, will focus on software and the future of its use in architecture and construction, including topics...
New Practices New York 2018 Opening
4/12/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the opening of New Practices New York 2018. New Practices New York, a biennial competition since 2006, serves as New York City’s preeminent platform to recognize and...
Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Data
4/9/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architects have been tasked with integrating qualitative and quantitative data sources more frequently in the design and optimization of their work. Measures range from financial to ecological. Yet social and human environmental...
The Road Less Taken: Re-Emergence of Career, Technical, & Adult Education Spaces
4/4/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The return of high‐tech manufacturing to the United States, combined with a paucity of trained professionals in technical and engineering fields, has driven demand for career-specific training. Educational and other...
Michael Murphy: Justice is Beauty
4/4/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Can buildings heal and promote justice in our divided communities? How can we use design tools to create a healthier community and a more just world? MASS Design Group’s Co-founder...
Zone Greener: Higher-Efficiency Wall Systems
4/3/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In 2012, the City of New York adopted a package of amendments to the NYC Zoning Resolution, collectively called Zone Green, to facilitate more sustainable and energy-efficient design. Zone Green...
Performance in NYC: Designing for a New Generation
4/2/18, 7pm - 8pm
Hayes Theater
How does the design of performance space impact the creation of new work? How can that space transform the experience of the viewer? This program will look at how recent...
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The Habits of Entrepreneurs: The Intersection of Design and Hacker Culture
3/30/18, 6pm - 7:30pm
Center for Architecture
As emerging professionals in a collaborative field, we are constantly seeking new and better ways to communicate. The ENYA Committee and Architecture Practice Talks (APT) have invited Bluecadet’s Brad Baer...
The Amazing Career of Nathaniel A. Owings (1903–1984)
3/26/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
When Nathaniel Owings died, the Washington Post wrote that the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was his finest creation. SOM is, however, but one piece of an extraordinary career. Gordon...
Affordable Housing in North America
3/20/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How do architects in North American cities approach the design of affordable housing? This program will look at projects based in cities besides New York to shed light on how...
Planning the Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930
3/19/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In the context of the exhibition The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930, opening at the Americas Society on March 21st, co-curators Idurre Alonso and Maristella Casciato, as well as architecture...
Unsung Protagonists: The Power of Women in 21st Century Architecture
3/15/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In honor of Women’s History Month, the AIANY Diversity and Inclusion Committee is convening a panel of esteemed women in the design industry to discuss their contributions to the built...
Sustainability ∩ Resilience | Integration Series 1
3/7/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How can our projects better meet both climate change adaptation and mitigation goals? How can our profession more proactively discuss issues of risk related to both objectives with our clients?...
Public Space: Crossroads of Art, Architecture, and Community
3/6/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee presents a panel presentation and discussion on strategies for including public art in public spaces. An esteemed panel will present ways in which public art...
Donald Judd : Process and Practice of the Artist
3/5/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This panel will include short presentations aimed to focus on Donald Judd’s process and practice of making architecture. Questions by the moderator will be followed by questions from the audience....
Cocktails & Conversation: Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
3/2/18, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
This series of dialogues about design joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Friday night is not “Friday Night” without...
Oculus Book Talk: The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
3/1/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion (Actar, 2017) is an encyclopedia of 202 tools—or “weapons”—used by architects, planners, policy makers, developers, real-estate brokers, activists, and other urban actors in the...
Designing the Next-Generation Facade for Human Performance
2/23/18, 8am - 12pm
The Times Center, 242 W 41st St, New York, NY 10036
Studies suggest that the building façade system can play a major role in enhancing employee health and well-being. This seminar will introduce participants to the human and environmental benefits of...
Spaces of Action: Designing and Using the Public Realm for Change
2/22/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
New York City has been in the midst of a renaissance in the design and construction of public spaces for the past ten years. New York and other major cities across the U.S. have...
A Legacy of Contribution: African-American Spatial Mythos in New York City
2/21/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The Diversity + Inclusion Commitee is proud to present: A Legacy of Contribution: African-American Spatial Mythos in New York City, a panel discussion spotlights historical spaces created around Black communities as part of...
TWA Lounge and Hotel: Design Presentation and Cocktails
2/21/18, 6pm - 8pm
TWA Lounge
***THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT!***** ***Click “Register” to add your name to the Wait List*** Join us for a design presentation of the TWA lounge at 1 WTC and the...
Transforming Social Housing – Stories from Europe
2/17/18, 1pm - 6pm
Center for Architecture
Across Europe living habits and architectural traditions differ from country to country, but uniting the continent is a renewed focus on embracing new methods and innovative refurbishment strategies to achieve...
Blue Dunes: Climate Change by Design
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2/1/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Blue Dunes: Climate Change by Design is a book documenting the proposal to create an offshore barrier island chain in the New York/New Jersey Harbor. Today, this proposal stands at...
AIANY New Practices New York Competition Winner Announcement
1/24/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the announcement of this year’s AIANY New Practices New York Competition winners in innovative architecture and design. A moderated symposium discussion with this year’s jurors will follow....
TALL: THE AMERICAN SKYSCRAPER AND LOUIS SULLIVAN
1/19/18, 7pm - 10pm
Metrograph, 7 Ludlow Street, New York, New York
Metrograph opens TALL, the 2006 feature film about Louis Sullivan directed by Manfred Kirchheimer. Kirchheimer will be present in person to introduce the 7pm screening on Friday, January 19! Starting at the...
Book Launch: Downward Spiral: El Helicoide’s Descent from Mall to Prison
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1/17/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please contact info@urpub.org to put your name on the waitlist. Join Terreform and Proyecto Helicoide as we kick off the year with the launch of the long-awaited book, Downward Spiral:...
Book Talk: OfficeUS Manual
1/16/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
OfficeUS Manual (Lars Müller Publishers, 2017) is a critical, occasionally humorous, and sometimes stupefying guide to the architectural workplace. The third publication of OfficeUS, this book presents office policies and...
2018 AIANY Design Awards Announcement
1/8/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for the announcement of this year’s AIA New York Design Awards winners in Architecture, Interiors, Urban Design, and Projects. A moderated symposium discussion with this year’s jurors will follow....
Cocktails & Conversation: Tom Kundig and Cathleen McGuigan
1/5/18, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
This series of dialogues about design joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Friday night is not “Friday Night” without...
Responsive Scaffolding: Emergency Relief
1/4/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
How is scaffolding used in response to emergency situations? Quickly deployed and configurable to myriad contexts, scaffolding performs a vital role in stabilizing damaged structures, constructing new shelters, and providing...
In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day
12/9/17, 11am - 6pm
The Met Fifth Avenue
In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day is a symposium devoted to the most exciting and critical spatial projects of 2017. The event brings together international architects, artists,...
Cocktails & Conversation: David Piscuskas, FAIA, and David Hollenberg
12/1/17, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
Speakers: David Piscuskas, FAIA, LEED AP, Founding Principal, 1100 Architect; 2017 President, AIA New York David Hollenberg, University Architects, University of Pennsylvania; Adjunct Professor, PennDesign David Piscuskas, FAIA, LEED AP,...
Anticipating the Driverless City
12/1/17, 8:30am - 5pm
Skirball Center for Performing Arts
With a focus on the nexus of public policy, urban design, and innovative technology, AIANY’s Anticipating the Driverless City is designed to help shape New York City’s discussion on urban...
NYLON #12: Comeback Cities
11/30/17, 8am - 10am
Center for Architecture
Dan Doctoroff, former deputy Mayor of New York, will join experts in New York and London for a discussion on resiliency, based on Doctoroff’s new book Greater than Ever, New...
Innovative Housing: France/Denmark
11/29/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Housing Committee for its fourth program in a series that highlights exemplary international housing design. We’ll hear from Jean-Christophe Masson of Hamonic+Masson based in Paris, France, and Jens...
Oculus Book Talk: LAB: Building a Home for Scientists
11/27/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a discussion of the book LAB: Building a Home for Scientists (Lars Müller Publishers, 2017) by Mark C. Fishman. Fishman will be joined in discussion by architect Toshiko...
2017 AIANY COTE Awards
11/15/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the AIANY Committee on the Environments for 2017 COTE Awards presentation. The AIANY COTE Awards recognizes results-oriented achievements in the urban context. Winning submissions demonstrate processes that culminate in beautiful,...
A Celebration of El Internacional
11/3/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please join us for a discussion of the book El Internacional (1984-1986): New York’s Archaeological Sandwich and a celebration of the historic restaurant with its founder Antoni Miralda. A contemporary...
Caples Jefferson Architects: What We Love About Doing This Work
10/23/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
There is a prevailing reaction in the profession that social practice is often lacking in aesthetic quality. Caples Jefferson Architects, recipient of this year’s AIANY President’s Award, confronts this notion,...
Cocktails & Conversation: Peter Gluck and Inga Saffron
9/8/17, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
How do you spend Friday evening? Do you join those jamming NYC’s cultural institutions or those crowds over populating film theaters? When it hosts a pair of NYC’s most interesting...
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Mid-Century Japanese American Designers
7/10/17, 6pm - 9pm
Center for Architecture
This program, held as part of Kaneji Domoto at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonia, looks at the role of Japanese American designers in Mid-Century American design and architecture. Introduction: Lynnette Widder, Lecturer in...
Cocktails & Conversation: Bartholomew Voorsanger & Alastair Gordon
6/16/17, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
This series of dialogues about design joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. Friday night is not “Friday Night” without...
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Leaning Out IV | Women in Landscape Architecture
11/29/16, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Center for Architecture
We are pleased to present the 4th Annual AIANY Global Dialogues Committee Leaning Out event. Landscape and architecture are infinitely intertwined as they alternate in the roles of figure and backdrop from...
Leaning Out III | On Women in Architecture and Education
11/11/15, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Looking at our profession through the eyes of educators and practitioners to discuss the role of women in the field of architecture, design and construction and the impact that formative...
Leaning Out II | Women in Architecture and Construction on Identity
12/2/14, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Vitra Showroom, 29 Ninth Ave, New York, NY
Event Summary – Download PDF In today’s architectural profession, where architecture firms are filled with people from many countries, who speak many languages, and are roughly split 50/50 women and...
Leaning Out I | Women in Global Practice
7/25/13, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
What does it mean to be a woman in the construction industry practicing globally in our time? What are the challenges and the opportunities that women who choose this path...