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Past Events
Block by Block: A Conversation with Deputy Mayor Leila Bozorg
6/15/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Please note that in-person registration for this event has reached capacity. Registrants who sign up at this time will be able to attend virtually via Zoom only. Join us for...
Future of Freight in NYC: Connecting Our Streets with the Blue Highway
6/9/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
AIANY’s 2022 report Delivering the Goods: NYC Urban Freight in the Age of E-Commerce examined the exponential rise in e-commerce and goods deliveries to businesses and consumers during the Covid...
Challenging Barriers: Architects with Disabilities Share Their Lived Experience
6/1/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In this panel discussion, architects with disabilities will speak about their life experience. Some have been disabled since a young age; others have developed disabilities as professionals in the discipline....
DEPAVE: The Ground as a Site of Design and Repair
5/29/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The ground is an often-overlooked site of design and repair. The thin crust of asphalt, concrete, and compacted urban soil beneath our feet covers most of New York City’s open space, multiplying heat in...
Samuel Ratensky Memorial Lecture: Majora Carter
5/26/26, 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...
Book Talk – Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queens
5/20/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In celebration of the late Jeffrey A. Kroessler’s book Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queens (Rutgers University Press, 2025), his widow, the architect Laura Heim, will discuss the...
Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture 2026: Peterson Rich Office
5/19/26, 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...
Reclaiming Power and Ground: Two Projects in Urban Repair
5/18/26, 3pm - 4pm
Javits Center (Oasis Space)
This talk brings together two projects that frame repair as a collective, spatial, and political act—across energy systems and the urban ground. Energies of Repair: Visualizing Community Power in NYC...
Concrete Encounters: Architecture of Repair and Theory Across Cultures
5/12/26, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In celebration of its seventh anniversary, new chair leadership, and the formation of its Advisory Group, the AIANY Committee on Residential Architecture presents Concrete Encounters: Architecture of Repair and Theory...
Designing the Cloud: Power, Infrastructure, and the Role of Architects
4/27/26, 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 ‘AI Salon’ series hopes to foster productive discussion and explore solutions...