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Past Events
NYC Mass Timber Studio Launch Event: Accelerating Housing Development
9/16/26, 5:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and its partners for a pre-Climate Week event exploring the future of mass timber in New York City. As the City...
Civic Tech, Civic Voice: Rethinking How Communities Shape Cities
9/15/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
New technologies are reshaping how communities participate in decisions about the built environment, creating new opportunities to broaden who is engaged, how people contribute, and how public input informs planning...
Recipe for a Room 2026: Places for Repair
9/9/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Join us for Recipe for a Room 2026: Places of Repair, a live contest featuring the work of NYC-area architecture and design students paired with professional mentors. It's a lively,...
Medium and Message: An Introduction to Exhibition Design
9/8/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
This is the first event in the series, The Spaces Between Objects: Architecture, Exhibition Design, and the Collaborative Process, which, over the course of 2026 and into 2027, will explore...
White House Ballroom: A Contextual Analysis of the Design Proposal
7/21/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Watch the livestream here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86304259000?pwd=C3ea2ZIwNNHABEHHb3RzQbvW4j4x7e.1 The White House is a National Historic Landmark, owned by the American people and stewarded by the National Park Service, a status that places any...
Electric Avenues: New York City’s First Net-Zero Research Buildings
7/8/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
New York City will soon have its first two all-electric, net-zero ready research buildings, both partially funded through the generosity of Roy and Diana Vagelos. The Vagelos Innovation Laboratories at...
People and Buildings Under Stress: Neuro-Inclusive Design and Emergency Planning
6/29/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Dealing with an emergency in the built environment—such as an evacuation or a sheltering in place—is stressful for almost everyone. But these situations, which are often accompanied by sudden, intense...
Cocktails & Conversation: Sandra Bloodworth with David W. Dunlap
6/26/26, 6:30pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that brings an architect together with a critic, journalist, historian, or colleague to discuss current architecture and urban design issues....
Book Talk: Alan Dunn: The Cartoonist as Architectural Critic
6/25/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Architectural historian Gabriele Neri presents his new book on Alan Dunn, the American cartoonist whose work appeared regularly in The New Yorker and Architectural Record from the 1920s through the...
Weekend Utopia: A Century of Modern Living in the Hamptons with Alastair Gordon
6/16/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The AIANY Historic Buildings Committee and DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State are co-hosting a book talk with Alastair Gordon, marking the release of the revised and expanded edition of Weekend Utopia...