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Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri NYU Urban Design and Architecture Studies New York Area Calendar of Events August 2019 Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 1 2 3 Deco Along the Paul Rudolph Morristown Hudson: From Heritage Churches Canal to Foundation Walking Tour Christopher Open House Street Modern Architecture Architecture on The Ultimate and Issues of the Upper East NYC Trivia Inclusive Cities Side Night in India Today 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NYC’s Gilded NYCDOT Ruin and Transportation Shaping Our Age Mansions, Traffic Redemption in Conversations: City: To Stories of Management Architecture The Moving Queens! Long Opulent Center Tour City Island City and Lifestyles & Sunnyside Family NYC Bridges, Tour Scandals Infrastructure, and The NoHo: Architecture Transformation Contemporary Cruise of Times Architecture Square and amidst Historic 42nd Street Landmarks 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Expanding Lower Mansion to FiDi: Manhattan Mansion Tour Reshaping the Architecture Hamilton Water Street Sail Heights, Sugar Corridor & East Hill, and Jazz River on the Lawn Waterfront Mansions of Riverside Drive Tour 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 New Museum The The Central The Rise and Architecture Architecture of Park: Original Fall of the Tour Jeremiah Designs for Vanderbilt Oosterbaan New York's Mansions AIANY Tour Greatest along Fifth Industrial Treasure Avenue Tour ​ Waterway Vaux Arches of Tour: Freshkills Central Park 16mm Film The Park in Staten Walk Screening: Architecture of Island Focus on Bryant Park Public Housing 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Brooklyn’s Georgiana: Julie Satow Twilight Long Island Prospect Park Duchess of Book Talk on Walking Tour City Tour: Tour Devonshire, The Plaza What’s New in with Dr. Western The Cool Amanda Queens Green Edge: Foreman Central Park West Thurs 1 Deco Along the Hudson: From Canal to Christopher Street Architectural Historian Matt Postal Art Deco Society of New York Join ADSNY for a newly-developed walking tour with architectural historian, Matt Postal. On this tour you will discover Hudson Square, an emerging tech hub with impressive Art Deco-era factories and loft structures, some with remarkable sculptural reliefs, as well as stylish recent designs that evoke the 1930s. From Canal to Christopher Street, this evening walking tour will also explore some of the finest blocks in the West Village, where often overlooked Deco apartment buildings and retail structures enliven the 19th century streetscape. Highlights include the Holland Plaza and Green Sixth Avenue Buildings by Ely Jacques Kahn, the former Standard Statistics Building by Benjamin H. Whinston, and 45 Christopher Street by Boak & Paris. Event Type: Tour ​ Date & Time: Thursday, August 1st from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. ​ Venue: RSVP for exaction location ​ Fee: $54 ​ REGISTER The Ultimate NYC Trivia Night: Summer Edition Museum of the City of New York Back by popular demand, the Museum of the City of New York is teaming up with the Gotham Center for New York City History for a night of trivia outside on the Museum's Terrace inspired by the city we know best. You’ll put your knowledge of NYC to the test in categories spanning the city’s epic 400-year history, iconic “only in New York” places and moments, and the notable individuals who have shaped our fair city – for better or for worse. Prizes will be awarded to top teams! Ticket includes a drink voucher and Museum admission. Event Type: Trivia ​ Date & Time: Thursday, August 1st from 6:30 to 8:30pm ​ Venue: Museum of the City of New York, 1220 First Ave at 103rd St, New York, NY ​ Fee: $15 ​ REGISTER Fri 2 Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation Open House Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation Experience the only Paul Rudolph-designed interior open to the public in New York City. The Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation hosts their monthly open house at the Rudolph-designed Duplex within the Modulightor Building - a set of spaces which show Rudolph's mastery of architectural interiors. Rudolph co-founded Modulightor to create the kind of lighting he needed to compliment his own work - and then designed its glowing headquarters in the design district of mid-town Manhattan: a masterwork of high Modernism, embracing compositional complexity and layered space while supporting multiple functions. Explore the space - furnished with unique furniture designed by Rudolph as well as many items from his personal collections. Event Type: Open House ​ Date & Time: Friday, August 2nd from 6:00 to 9:00pm ​ Venue: Modulightor Building, 246 East 58th Street, New York, NY ​ Fee: $20 ​ REGISTER Architecture and Issues of Inclusive Cities in India Today Geeta Mehta Rajendra Kumar Columbia GSAPP Hafeez Contractor heads one of the largest Architectural firms in Asia with over 650 employees. The firm has worked with over 1000 clients, with millions of square feet of ongoing projects in over 100 cities sprawling over 5 countries. India Today has listed him in the most Powerful Indians and the Government of India has awarded him Padma Bhushan, one of the highest civilian honors in India. Contractor’s work focuses on social housing. He has worked with officials of the urban development department and senior authorities to rehabilitate some of the poorest areas of Mumbai. Including designing the tallest building in the subcontinent, The Imperial Towers. Additional major projects include one of the tallest residential buildings in the world, 23 Marina in Dubai; modernizing the two busiest airports in the country, Mumbai and New Delhi; The largest integrated business district in the country, DLF Cybercity in Gurgaon; Numerous awarded mixed-use developments for Hiranandani Developers and DLF spanning over 1000’s of Acres; benchmark sustainable IT Campuses for IT giant Infosys and TCS; and DY Patil Stadium. Event Type: Talk and panel discussion ​ Date & Time: Friday, August 2nd at 12:30 pm ​ Venue: Wood Auditorium; 1172 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027 ​ Fee: Free and open to the public ​ Sat 3 Morristown Churches Walking Tour Director of the Morris County Heritage Commission Peg Schultz The Morris County Tourism Bureau Visit a number of exteriors and interiors of historic churches in Morristown with guide Peg Shultz, the director of the Morris County Heritage Commission. Learn about church architecture, history, prominent members, and their contributions to the Morristown community since 1733. Event Type: Tour ​ Date & Time: Saturday, August 3rd from 11:00am to 12:00pm ​ Venue: Morris County Tourism Bureau, 6 Court Street, Morristown NJ ​ Fee: $15 ​ REGISTER Modern Architecture on the Upper East Side AIA Associate John Arbuckle AIA Center for Architecture Amidst the Upper East Side’s celebrated array of Beaux Arts, Colonial Revival and other landmarks, can be found important examples of Modern architecture designed by some of America’s most prominent and influential architects of the twentieth century. Discover Modern highlights in the East 60s and 70s, in and near the Upper East Side Historic District, including some of New York’s earliest remaining examples. You will visit residential and institutional buildings designed by William Lescaze, Philip Johnson, Edward Durell Stone, Paul Rudolph, Gordon Bunshaft of SOM, Marcel Breuer and others. Event Type: Tour ​ Date & Time: Saturday, August 3rd from 1:00 to 3:00pm ​ Venue: William Tecumseh Sherman Monument in Grand Army Plaza (Manhattan), west of Fifth ​ Avenue between 59th & 60th Sts Fee: general public $25, students $15 ​ REGISTER Sun 4 NYC’s Gilded Age Mansions, Stories of Opulent Lifestyles & Family Scandals New York Historian Tom Miller New York Adventure Club Glorious survivors of a glittering past, the mansions of the Upper East Side tell stories of wealth, society, tragedy, and scandal. Marvel at the millionaire homes that rival the palaces of Europe, stroll the rarified air around these Gilded Age homes, and hear the fascinating tales that played out behind closed doors. Join New York Adventure Club for a private walking tour through several blocks of history and architecture of New York’s Belle Époque, which saw the rise of Gilded Age mansions built by some of Manhattan’s wealthiest and most powerful titans. Led by New York historian Tom Miller, your unique experience will include: An overview of the Gilded Age in America, from how and why it started to what it came to represent A walk past the sumptuous Joseph Pulitzer, Henry T. Sloane, and Edward S. Harkness residences, as well as lesser-known homes hiding in plain sight Stories of nearly limitless wealth and opulent lifestyles, but also of tragedy, scandal, and greed Event Type: Tour ​ Date & Time: Sunday, August 4th from 10:30am to 12:00pm ​ Venue: 910 5th Avenue, (Left side of 72nd St Awning) New York, NY ​ Fee: $30 ​ REGISTER NoHo: Contemporary Architecture amidst Historic Landmarks AIA Guide Arthur Platt AIA Center of Architecture Explore a wide range of recent and historic architecture on Cooper Square, Bond Street, Lafayette Street and the Bowery. Newer highlights include Herzog & de Meuron’s 40 Bond Street and Public Hotel, Morphosis’ Cooper Union Engineering School, Norman Foster’s Sperone Westwater Gallery and Sanaa’s New Museum, among others. Also encountered along the route is a remarkably rich group of NYC’s Individual Landmarks including the Cooper Union Foundation Building, the De Vinne Press, the Schermerhorn Building and Louis Sullivan’s Bayard Building. A discussion of stylistic breakthroughs, technological innovations including diverse cladding materials, and urban design will tie these sites together. Event Type: Tour ​ Date & Time: Sunday, August 4th from 10:30am to 12:30pm ​ Venue: Meet at the south facade of the Cooper Union Foundation Building, between Cooper ​ Square & Bowery/3rd Ave Fee: general public $25, students $15 ​ REGISTER Tues 6 NYCDOT Traffic Management Center Tour TMC Operations Manager Rachid Roumila Open House New York Just how does New York City monitor all that traffic and congestion? It starts with the NYC DOT Traffic Operations managing traffic flow and parking for the safety of all street users.
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