Historic Buildings
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...
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...
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...
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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Studio Tour: EverGreene Architectural Arts
4/28/22, 4pm - 6:30pm
EverGreene Architectural Arts
EverGreene Architectural Arts is the largest specialty contractor for decorative arts and conservation in the nation, both in terms of geographic reach and in the firm’s wide variety of services....
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Material Transfers: Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary Architecture
12/2/20, 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.* Join us for a book talk with Françoise Astorg...
Reinvented, Resilient, Revitalized: Optimizing Historic Campus Buildings
7/30/20, 6pm - 7:30pm
Webinar
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.* This panel discussion offers perspectives in optimizing historic campus buildings while adapting...
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...
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...
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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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...
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,...
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,...
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...
Architectural Conservation in Asia: National Experiences and Practice
9/20/19, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
The field of architectural conservation has grown more globalized, yet much of its focus has centered on the Western world. This event and discussion, based on the book Architectural Conservation...
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...
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...
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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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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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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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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AIANY Historic Buildings Committee | Holiday Celebration at India House
12/18/18, 6pm - 8pm
Blue Bar at India House (1 Hanover Square, NYC, 10004)
The AIANY Historic Buildings Committee will be gathering for drinks and light fare at the Blue Bar, located on the first floor of India House, on Tuesday, December 18 from...
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...
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...
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...
Mastering Manhattan: An Architectural Showdown
4/13/18, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
In just under three months, New York City architects will welcome thousands of colleagues from across the country for the AIA Conference on Architecture (A’18). In preparation for this momentous...