April 2021 Calendar

NYU Urban Design and Architecture Studies New York Area Calendar of Events April 2021

Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 1 2 3 Fight or Flight? After Concrete: Navigating Redefining Roadmaps to Materials and Success Energy in the Anthropocene The Harlem and Pine Street Michael Young African Burial and Bryan Grounds Young: Sheets, Decks, Levels Olalekan Jeyifous Lecture

Virtual Walk in Bay Ridge 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Reimagining The Future of Civic Holy Wisdom, Reconsidering Reconsidering Learning & Cultural Leadership Sacred Space: Raphael Online Raphael Online Research Centers: Alex Program Info Justinian’s Conference Conference Sarian, Arts Session Hagia Sophia Day 1 Day 2 Commons Antonin Smells in Virtual Tour: Wright and Raymond and Museum Architecture of New York: Friends Bryant Park America’s Kate Orff Architect Lecture

Willow The Woolworth Lung-Amam Planning Penn Station Lecture Webinar 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Walking Tour of Virtual Tour of Race, Gender, Virtual Tour: Rotor: Reverse The Long Historic 19th Columbia and Power in Madison Architecture Island Estates Century Noho University’s Modernist Avenue, High that Inspired Morningside Design with Fashion and A Helluva Four The Great Heights and Kristina Wilson Historic Decades: Tom Gatsby Manhattanville Preservation Dyja and Meg Campuses Pivot to China: Wolitzer on NY How Jin Mao Life in Old New Justin Garrett Portended York Virtual Visualizing the Moore Lecture Future House Tour Human Costs Supertalls of the Climate Virtual NYC Crisis Subway Ultimate NYC Adventure Trivia Night Series 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Enclaves of The Future of Gary Huafan Bennerley The New York Modernism: Cultural He and Matt Viaduct: Crystal Palace: Houses from Centers: McNicholas: Building America’s First Chicago to Melanie Keen, Making Community World’s Fair New Canaan Wellcome Ornament Wellbeing Collection Through Restoration Chengdu Fairgrounds, Greenland: A Balkrishna Civic Centers, Non-Coplanar Doshi and and Citizenship Exoskeleton Barry Bergdoll Lecture Rockefeller Center: Art Sarah Lewis Deco City Lecture 25 26 27 28 29 30 Walking Tour of The Future of The Newport Historic 19th Cultural Architecture of Mansions of Century Noho Centers: an 1832 the Gilded Age: Gabriel Kogan Landmark Splendor by on SESC (Manhattan’s the Sea Pompeia First)

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Fight or Flight? Navigating Roadmaps to Success AIA Center for Architecture

“Fight or Flight? Rethinking the Urban Footprint“ is a four-part series that will address how the urgency of climate change requires design professionals to rethink the built environment. Rising seas, extreme heat, drought, and wildfires are among the environmental stressors that will continue to affect communities throughout the United States and the world. We are now confronted with the urgent need of creating relocation strategies for individual households, communities, and cities.

As architects, planners, landscape architects, and related professionals, it is our ethical responsibility to integrate thinking about relocation into our practices. The economic, social, and environmental impacts associated with climate migration and relocation will be a large part of this conversation, along with equity and environmental justice. We recognize that it is incumbent upon us to find appropriate pathways forward as swiftly as possible.

The final session will recap the previous ones and will be a call to action to participants of the series. Speakers will discuss what relocation might look like in different settings, what happens to the newly empty land, and what happens to vacated buildings and installations. We will conclude with next steps: short-, medium-, and long-term actions that each of us can undertake as part of addressing and managing migration and relocation in our communities, cities, and countries.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Thursday, April 1st from 6pm to 7:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: general public $10, students free

An Archaeology of Architecture: The Harlem and Pine Street African Burial Grounds Jerome Haferd, adjunct professor, CCNY SSA and Columbia GSAPP Columbia GSAPP The talk will examine the history, advocacy, and futurity of two current efforts to re-claim and develop site of African enslaved burial in New York State. My work examines how the erased histories, violence, and the proposition of redevelopment of these sites trouble our disciplinary limits of Architecture, Archival practice, and Preservation.

Jerome Haferd is an architect and educator based in Harlem, NY. He is co-founder of the design and research practice BRANDT : HAFERD. Jerome’s work focuses on how architecture establishes a dialogue between contemporary phenomena and non-hegemonic histories, users and spaces. His writing on archaeology, blackness, and speculation has recently been published in Log and Project journals. Jerome is currently an adjunct professor at CCNY SSA and Columbia GSAPP. He is also a core initiator of Dark Matter University, a BIPOC-led, para-institutional network dedicated to transforming pedagogy and the space of knowledge production. He is currently teaching the course ‘Fugitive Practice’, a trans institutional course between Yale University and Howard University, and Dark Matter University. Jerome received his Master’s in Architecture at Yale University and his Bachelor’s in Architecture from The Ohio State University. Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Thursday, April 1st at 6:30pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Olalekan Jeyifous Lecture Yale School of Architecture Visual Artist Olalekan Jeyifous

OLALEKAN JEYIFOUS (b.1977) is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose work re-imagines social spaces that often examine the relationship between architecture, community, and the environment through a speculative, futurist lens. He has exhibited at venues such as the Studio Museum in Harlem, the MoMA, and the Guggenheim Bilbao. He is an Architectural League “Emerging Voices” Fellow, a two-time New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow, and has received grants from the New York State Council and the Brooklyn Arts Council. He recently completed artist residencies with the Drawing Center’s Open Sessions program, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center and in addition to his extensive exhibition history, has spent over a decade creating large-scale installations for a variety of public spaces. Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Thursday, April 1st at 6:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Bay Ridge, Brooklyn was Forgotten New York’s Kevin Walsh’s home for 35 years, and he still returns now and then because his dentist’s office is there, but also because it’s a beautiful neighborhood home to the Brooklyn end of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, NYC’s only active military fort, historic sites associated with the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and beautiful mansions and panoramic views from its miles of shoreline. Let Kevin Walsh take you on a 90-minute tour, complete with anecdotes of his years in western Brooklyn.

Event Type: Walk Date & Time: Thursday, April 1st from 8am to 5pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Fri 2

After Concrete: Redefining Materials and Energy in the Anthropocene Columbia GSAPP

For over a hundred years, reinforced concrete has served as a paradigm of wondrous materiality: natural yet human-made, liquid yet permanent, technically specialized yet easy to use. But this myth is beginning to crack physically and conceptually.

As part of a multi-year research project, co-directed by Lucia Allais (Columbia GSAPP) and Forrest Meggers (Princeton), this event asks participants to rethink concrete historically and technically. Scholars, engineers and designers are invited to move the conversation from material dynamics to system dynamics, and from materials to energy and environment, by offering insights into sometimes obscure system processes–such as the carbonation of concrete. The goal is to situate not only concrete but all architectural materials into variously-scaled processes that are inherent in climate change, resource extraction, infrastructural development, energy policy, state planning, and ecological science and advocacy.

Event Type: Conference Date & Time: Friday, April 2nd at 9:30am Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Michael Young & Bryan Young: Sheets, Decks, Levels Cooper Union Architects and Teachers Michael Young and Bryan Young

Michael Young and Bryan Young are brothers and also architects, teachers, sons-of-teachers, music lovers, products of 1980s southern California suburbia, post-punk, rock collectors, of skateboards, of sometimes high-scores, or forts and other things that they will be discussing. Michael is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture. He is a founding partner of Young & Ayata. He currently teaches Thesis and Representation III. Bryan is an assistant professor adjunct at the School of Architecture. He is the founder of Young projects. He currently teaches Design II. Both Michael and Bryan’s studios received the Young Architects Prize from the Architectural League of New York (2014 and 2013).

Event Type: Conversation Date & Time: Friday, April 2nd from 12pm to 2pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Mon 5

Reimagining Learning & Research at Avery Library Columbia GSAPP

Hannah Bennett, Director of the Avery Library, and Dean Amale Andraos of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) for a virtual discussion revealing how the pandemic sparked innovation and forged new axes of collaboration for the future.

In the past year, Columbia has reinvented itself in order to enable scholarly work to proceed for its communities as safely and comprehensively as possible. This has challenged many of its schools, centers, and libraries to create new solutions to facilitate scholars’ and students’ work and optimize what they can access. GSAPP has had to reconsider the role of the studio or fabrication lab in a virtual learning environment. Avery has had to pivot in its focus towards faculty and students, with impacts on numerous external audiences reliant on its archives, rare materials, and research collections. Of course, Columbia was not alone in needing to limit access, as many other public archives and research collections were forced to close, as well. This necessitated new approaches to design, research, and documentary methodologies. Against this backdrop, social forces sweeping the nation highlighted the necessity for greater understanding of bias and exclusion, requiring all higher education institutions to re-think how they achieve their missions and implement vital improvements.

Event Type: Discussion Date & Time: Monday, April 5th at 6pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Tues 6

The Future of Cultural Centers: Alex Sarian, Arts Commons AIA Center for Architecture Alex Sarian, President and CEO of Arts Commons and David van der Leer, Principal at DVDL

As the world rapidly changes around us, old frameworks for the development of cultural centers look less and less relevant. Continuing the success of the 2020 “Future of Cultural Centers” dialogue series, this year AIA New York will look at cultural institutions that take a mixed-use approach to programming and space and a more holistic view at the human experience. We will touch on opportunities and challenges around these hybrid organizations, questioning what would happen if we were to take this unprecedented time to explore new missions, visions, and models to help address existing institutional deficits. What will 21st-century arts and community spaces be like? Join AIA for this Spring line-up of conversations as cultural forecaster and museum expert David van der Leer, Principal of DVDL, speaks with professionals from around the US and beyond.

In this week’s installment, Van der Leer will be joined in conversation by Alex Sarian, President and CEO of Arts Commons. Arts Commons is a multi-venue arts center in downtown Calgary, Canada, located in the Olympic Plaza Cultural District. Occupying a full city block, Arts Commons is one of the three largest arts centers in Canada and is home to the Alberta Theatre Projects, Arts Commons Presents, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Downstage, One Yellow Rabbit, and Theatre Calgary. Arts Commons is an inspirational gathering space for all Calgarians and visitors alike. It offers a variety of performance and gathering spaces, as well as rehearsal halls, theatre workshops, offices, meeting rooms, a café, and visual and media arts galleries.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Tuesday, April 6th from 6pm to 7pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Wright and New York: The Making of America’s Architect Anthony Alofsin, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas, Austin The Skyscraper Museum

Wright and New York turns upside down the conventional notion that Frank Lloyd Wright hated the city, and the city was antagonistic to him. In this illustrated lecture based on his new book, Anthony Alofsin outlines the developments in Wright’s life and work that demonstrate how New York turned around his career in the late 1920s and early 1930s to position him for the glory—and branding—of his final decades. The talk focuses on Wright’s visionary design for an immense Modern Cathedral to serve all religions and for the skyscraper, he designed for the church of St. Marks-in-the-Bouwerie in New York’s East Village.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Tuesday, April 6th from 6pm to 7pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Willow Lung-Amam Lecture Columbia GSAPP Willow Lung-Amam, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning

This talk will focus on the concerns raised by two intersecting trends affecting U.S. metropolitan areas today—rising suburban poverty and redevelopment. In a case study of Langley Park, Maryland, a low-income, predominantly Latino immigrant inner-ring suburb that is home to the future Purple Line light rail, it explores the community’s fight against transit-induced gentrification and displacement. It will highlight how place matters to how equitable development strategies are pursued and achieved in increasingly diverse and disadvantaged suburban communities. The case study is part of a larger book project on equitable development politics in the Washington, DC suburbs, tentatively titled, The Right to Suburbia: Redevelopment and Resistance on the Urban Edge.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Tuesday, April 6th at 1”15pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Wed 7

Civic Leadership Program Info Session AIA Center for Architecture AIA CLP 2021 Advisors Corey Arena, Betsy Daniel, Charlotte Laffler, Christopher Perrodin, Vera Voropaeva, and Jean You

Are you a design professional working towards positive change? Do you want to help lead the architecture profession towards a more publicly engaged future? Learn more at one of the two available information sessions to apply for the AIANY Civic Leadership Program (CLP).

CLP is designed to cultivate a class of architectural professionals into civic leaders. Through a six-month mentorship and training program, ten selected participants will develop the ability to engage as designers in the civic process. The CLP will provide opportunities to interface with municipal agencies, community development organizations, and local stakeholders in development sessions and public events. The program will provide opportunities to improve communication and public speaking skills, engage in community outreach, relations, and consensus building.

Applications open on March 3, and are due on April 26.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Wednesday, April 7th from 6pm to 7pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

REGISTER Antonin Raymond and Friends Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences Helena Capkova, Curator and Art History Professor

Helena Capkova, PhD, will join us from Japan to present her new book "Antonin Raymond in Japan, 1948-1976", a Czech-American architect who helped rebuild Japan after WWII.

ANTONIN RAYMOND (Reimann) was born in Kladno, Czechoslovakia, as one of the Jewish merchant's six children. He came to the USA in 1910. He lived and worked in New York City, Tokyo, Japan, and New Hope, PA, from the 1910s through the mid-1970s.

During the First World War, Raymond worked as an intelligence officer with the Masaryk Group. In the 1920s, he served as the Honorary Consul of Czechoslovakia in Japan. In 1928, he was awarded the White Lion IV Order for his excellent help to compatriots.

As a young architect, he worked on some of the most extraordinary buildings of the first quarter of that century, including Cass Gilbert's Woolworth Building in New York City and Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. Antonin and his wife and creative partner Noémi Pernessin introduced modern architecture and design to Japan and India, creating over 300 built works over their 50-year practice. By 1938, with war looming both in Europe and in Asia, the Raymonds returned to the United States, first in New York, and then to a farm in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The farm and studio became a working/teaching atelier, where apprentices would work in the studio and on the farm.

In 1945, Raymond opened a studio in New York City with his compatriot architect Ladislav Leland Rado (1909–1993). The Raymonds returned to Japan in 1948 where Antonin was a member of General MacArthur's staff during the post-war reconstruction of Japan. In 1956 he was awarded an honorary medal by the American Institute of Architects, and in 1964 he received the Order of the Rising Sun from the Japanese government. An architectural firm bearing his name still operates in Japan.

Event Type: Talk & Book Launch Date & Time: Wednesday, April 7th from 7pm to 8:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free, $5 suggested donation

Holy Wisdom, Sacred Space: Justinian’s Hagia Sophia Robert Ousterhout, Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania NYU Department of Art History, Urban Design & Architecture Studies

This talk addresses the transformation of the basilica as an architectural form and its subsequent impact on architecture in the eastern Mediterranean. Justinian’s Hagia Sophia represents a critical moment in architectural history in terms of form, meaning, and aesthetics.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Thursday, April 8th at 6:30pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Good Pollution: Smells in Museum Columbia GSAPP Matija Strlic, Professor of Analytical Chemistry

In a museum environment, smells can be associated with the identity of the place, such as the ‘smell of knowledge’ in a historic library. The presence of volatile organic compounds, constituting the smell, can add a sensory dimension to the appreciation of heritage. At the same time, it can increase engagement with the exhibits.

However, research on smells emitted by historic objects has traditionally focused on potential damage to collections and visitors. And yet, smells, in concentrations detectable by the human nose, may not necessarily pose a threat to collections and can provide valuable scientific information on material decay. The talk will focus on the role of smells in the sometimes difficult balance between engagement and preservation, and a positive case for “pollution” in museums.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Thursday, April 18th at 1pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Kate Orff, RLA, FASLA, is the Founding Principal of SCAPE. She focuses on retooling the practice of landscape architecture relative to the uncertainty of climate change and creating spaces to foster social life, which she has explored through publications, activism, research, and projects. She is known for leading complex, creative, and collaborative work processes that advance broad environmental and social prerogatives. In 2019, Kate was elevated to the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Council of Fellows—one of the highest honored bestowed on landscape architects practicing in the U.S.

Orff was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2017, the first given in the field of landscape architecture. In 2019, she accepted a National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, on behalf of SCAPE, and was named a Hero of the Harbor by the Waterfront Alliance. She was a 2012 United States Artist Fellow, dubbed an Elle Magazine “Planet Fixer,” and has been profiled and interviewed extensively for publications including The New York Times, The Economist, National Geographic, and more.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Thursday, April 8th at 6:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

The Woolworth Building & Five-and-Dime Store Legacy Webinar NY Adventure Club

Between 1913 and 1930, one building in downtown Manhattan not only dominated the NYC skyline, but also held the title of ‘tallest building in the world’ for over 17 years. This is the story of one of New York’s most iconic skyscrapers, and the eccentric retail store pioneer who had it built using his hard-earned nickels and dimes.

Join New York Adventure Club as we embark on a virtual journey through the world-famous Woolworth Building — commissioned by Frank Woolworth in 1910 to house the Woolworth Company’s corporate headquarters, this neo-Gothic style skyscraper designed by architect Cass Gilbert laid claim to the world’s tallest building from its opening in 1913 until 1930.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Thursday, April 8th from 1pm to 2:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $10

Pennsylvania Station: The Most Beautiful Train Station Ever Built Webinar NY Adventure Club

"Not that Penn Station is the Parthenon, but it might as well be because we can never again afford a nine-acre structure of superbly detailed travertine, any more than we could build one of solid gold. It is a monument to the lost art of magnificent construction, other values aside." - Ada Louise Huxtable, architectural critic

From its soaring 150-foot ceilings inspired by the Roman Baths of Caracalla; to the travertine marble interiors and pink granite exterior; to its imperial colonnade entrances stretching from avenue to avenue; the original Pennsylvania Station that stood in New York City between 1910–1963 was a righteous portal into America's largest city, one that truly made train passengers feel like royalty.

However, due to mismanaged finances, the worst corporate merger in American history, and weak building protection laws, a source of limitless inspiration was destroyed and replaced with anything but. This is the story of one of the grandest public spaces ever built, and how its untimely demise ultimately rallied New York to never allow such a civic crime to ever happen again.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Thursday, April 8th from 7pm to 9pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $10

Reconsidering Raphael Online Conference Day 1 Vassar College

April 6, 2020 marked the quincentenary of the death of Raphael, one of the most brilliant and consequential artists in the western tradition. He was praised during his lifetime as “Prince of Painters” (pictorum princeps), a characterization that long served to obscure his artistic achievements in other modes. More recently, new understandings of Raphael have begun to take form, as a designer and impresario in many media, and a master collaborator.

This conference brings together established and emerging scholars to assess current approaches to Raphael’s astonishingly innovative, diverse, and influential body of work, to present new research, and to chart directions for further study. Expanding upon established lines of inquiry, the program reflects new approaches to the quintessential old master.

Event Type: Conference Date & Time: Friday, April 9th from 9:30-11:15am, 12:00-1:30pm, and 2:00-3:45pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Sat 10

Reconsidering Raphael Online Conference Day 2 Vassar College

Event Type: Conference Date & Time: Saturday, April 10th from 10:00-11:30am, 12:00-1:30pm, 2:00-2:45pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Virtual Tour: The Architecture of Bryant Park AIA Center for Architecture AIANY Guide Joseph Lengeling

Before Bryant Park became New York’s “living room” and home to the New York Public Library, it served as a potter’s field, reservoir for the Croton water system, and the site for the 1853 Crystal Palace Exhibition. Following a decline in the social and physical conditions of the area in the 1970s and 1980s, the park underwent a major transformation, designed by Hanna/Olin and completed in 1991. Today, this successful public and private initiative serves as a model for other open spaces in New York and beyond.

Join AIANY guide Joseph Lengeling, AIA, on this virtual walking tour as we explore the architecture lining the perimeter of Bryant Park. Key projects include the New York Public Library by Carrere and Hastings, the Radiator Building by Howells and Hood, One Bryant Park by Cook+Fox, the Grace Building by SOM, and The Bryant Condominiums and Hotel by David Chipperfield. We’ll also examine numerous support buildings that contribute to the overall context, completing the urban design and the architectural story of the park, as well as NYC zoning law, business improvement districts, and the evolution of skyscraper design.

Event Type: Tour Date & Time: Saturday, April 10th from 12pm to 1pm Venue: Virtual Fee: general public $15, students free

Historic Walking Tour of 19th Century Noho Merchant’s House Museum

Join us for a journey back in time to the elite ‘Bond Street area,’ home to Astors, Vanderbilts, Delanos – and the Tredwells, who lived in the Merchant’s House. You’ll see how the neighborhood surrounding the Tredwells’ home evolved from a refined and tranquil residential enclave into a busy commercial center. Visit important 19th century landmark buildings on this tour through 21st century NoHo. Event Type: Tour Date & Time: Sunday, April 11th at 12:30pm Venue: 29 East Fourth Street, New York, NY Fee: $20

Mon 12

Virtual Tour of Columbia University’s Morningside Heights and Manhattanville Campuses with Untapped New York Columbia GSAPP

Please join the Columbia Alumni Association and Untapped New York for a virtual walking tour of Columbia University’s Morningside Heights and Manhattanville Campuses. A guide will virtually lead you through the area over Zoom and answer any questions you may have. We will highlight several hidden gems along the way, and unearth the history of the area from the origins of Morningside Park, to Columbia’s newest campus. Please note that this virtual tour is scheduled for Monday April 12th from 12pm EST to 1pm EST. Date & Time: Monday, April 12th at 12pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

REGISTER Justin Garrett Moore Lecture Yale School of Architecture Justin Garrett Moore, Executive Director of the New York City Public Design Commission

Justin Garrett Moore is a transdisciplinary designer and urbanist and is the executive director of the New York City Public Design Commission. He has extensive design and planning experience—from large-scale urban systems, policies, and projects to grassroots and community-focused planning, design, and arts initiatives. His work focuses on prioritizing quality and excellence of design and fostering accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in urban development and the public realm. He is also the co-founder of Urban Patch—a social enterprise focused on sustainable design and development projects in the United States and Rwanda, and a founding member of the Black urbanist collective BlackSpace.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Monday, April 12th at 6:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

The Virtual NYC Subway Adventure Series NY Adventure Club

Containing over 245 miles of tracks and 36 lines across five boroughs, the New York City subway system is one of the largest and most extensive public transportation networks in the world. But even more impressive are the unique sights and bites at every one of the 472 stations — from cultural landmarks, to authentic cuisines, to everything in between. With the help of modern technology, it's time to hop on a New York City subway from end-to-end to explore incredible local wonders from the comfort of your home — and without ever having to swipe your MetroCard.

Join New York Adventure Club for our inaugural Virtual NYC Subway Adventure series — an immersive take on a subway stop tour that features a virtual visit to unique attractions and local highlights surrounding every single station on a New York City subway line. Next stop: The 1 Train, which contains 38 stops across 15 miles between the Bronx and Manhattan. Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Monday, April 12th from 5:30pm to 7pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $10

Race, Gender, and Power in Modernist Design with Kristina Wilson DocoMomo Kristina Wilson, Professor of Art History, Clark University

In this virtual talk, Art History Professor Kristina Wilson will investigate how race and gender influenced—and were influenced by—the development and marketing of midcentury Modern decor in postwar America, presenting a striking counter-narrative to conventional histories of design.

This program, a DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State Modern Conversations event, coincides with the publication of Wilson’s book on the topic Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design (Princeton University Press, 2021).

Exploring the booming suburban landscape of postwar America, flush with advice manuals and glossy advertisements in popular magazines, Wilson highlights how the ideals defined by popular Modernist furnishings were far from neutral or race-blind. Advertisers offered the mid-century modern aesthetic to White audiences in magazines such as Life as a solution for keeping dirt and outsiders at bay, an approach that reinforced middle-class White privilege. By contrast, media arenas such as Ebony magazine presented African American readers with an image of Modernism as a style of comfort, security, and social confidence. Similarly, etiquette and home decorating manuals proliferated, creating strong associations for women being constrained to the domestic sphere. With this imagery well-placed in the social conscious, furniture by Herman Miller, George Nelson, and Charles and Ray Eames, as well as smaller-scale decorative accessories, empowered some users, even while constraining others.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Tuesday, April 13th at 6:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $10

REGISTER Pivot to China: How Jin Mao Portended Future Supertalls The Skyscraper Museum Mark Sarkisian, Structural and Seismic Engineer, SOM San Francisco

Mark Sarkisian is the structural and seismic engineering partner in SOM's San Francisco office. He holds fourteen U.S. and international patents for high-performance seismic structural mechanisms and environmentally responsible structural systems. Mark has designed more than 100 major building projects around the world, including the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, the NBC Tower in Chicago, and two supertalls, Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, and Al Hamra Tower in Kuwait.

Mark will discuss the structural design of SOM’s Jin Mao Tower, which when completed in 1999 at 420 m / 1,380 ft. was first of the trio of supertalls in Shanghai’s Pudong business district. Its multiple functions, with offices on the lower floors and a luxury hotel and observation deck above, established the mixed-use typology that would characterize many Chinese supertalls in the next two decades. Mark will explain the innovative foundations and seismic design of Jin Mao and the concrete core and mega-column structural system that accommodated the dramatic central atrium that rises through the hotel stories.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Tuesday, April 13th from 6pm to 7pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

The Ultimate (Virtual) NYC Trivia Night Museum of the City of New York

Join the Museum of the City of New York and the Gotham Center for New York City History for virtual trivia, inspired by the city we know best. From architecture and theater to transportation and pop culture, we’ll put your knowledge of NYC to the test in categories spanning the city’s epic 400-year history. Event Type: Trivia Night Date & Time: Tuesday, April 13th at 8pm Venue: Virtual Fee: suggested donation

Virtual Tour: Madison Avenue, High Fashion and Historic Preservation AIA Center for Architecture & Madison Avenue Business Improvement District

Join AIA New York and the Madison Avenue BID for this virtual tour, as we discover the history behind Madison Avenue’s landmark buildings and explore how high-fashion retail has been incorporated into the district to create a world-famous shopping destination. The area has evolved from brownstones built in the 1870s and 1880s, to lavish Beaux Arts townhouses by celebrated architects such as McKim, Mead & White, Carrère & Hastings, and Ernest Flagg, to luxury apartment buildings designed by Rosario Candela, Emery Roth, and others. Since early in the 20th century, many of those historic residential buildings have been transformed to accommodate prestigious stores.

This tour will examine architecture from 1870 to the present on and near Madison in the East 60s and 70s, an area almost entirely within the Upper East Side Historic District, and consider how landmark designation has preserved the avenue’s distinctive character.

Event Type: Tour Date & Time: Wednesday, April 14th from 6pm to 7:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: general public $10, students free

Life in Old New York Virtual House Tour Untapped New York & Merchant’s House Museum

Meet the Tredwells, the wealthy merchant family who lived at 29 East 4th Street, and see what life was like for the family and their Irish servants. How did the Tredwell family entertain? What if they got sick? What was the “servant problem”? Did pigs really roam the streets?

This virtual tour covers four floors in this landmark 1832 late-Federal and Greek Revival style rowhouse, preserved intact with the family’s original furnishings, household items, personal possessions, and even their clothing. Join Museum Historian Ann Haddad to discover what daily life was really like for a wealthy merchant-class family and their Irish servants in mid-19th century New York City. This live and interactive virtual tour offers an intimate and authentic glimpse of the daily life of the Tredwells and their four Irish servants during the period when New York City transformed from a colonial seaport into a booming commercial metropolis, teeming with the challenges and opportunities of change.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Wednesday, April 14th at 6pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $10

Thurs 15

Rotor: Reverse Architecture The Architectural League NY Lionel Devlieger, Rotor Cofounder

The spring 2021 Current Work series examines some of the inherited histories, conventions, fabrics, and systems—often taken for granted—that constitute and shape the built environment. How might we reconsider the ways we engage with and construct the places that surround us? Speakers will address issues including transforming architectural pedagogy; protecting threatened historic sites; conserving resources by adapting existing buildings and reusing materials; and reimagining and regenerating places scarred by racism, neglect, and environmental emergencies.

Brussels-based Rotor was founded in 2006 as a research and design practice that “investigates the organization of the material environment.” In 2016, the firm launched Rotor Deconstruction, a cooperative that organizes the reuse of construction materials through the dismantling, processing, and trading of salvaged building components.

Recent projects include: -Zonnige Kempen, an office interior and refurbishment with reused components for a social housing company in Westerlo, Belgium. -Multi, an ongoing circular consultancy for a large-scale office building renovation in the city center of Brussels. -Opalis.eu, a digital platform mapping small and medium-sized enterprises in Northwestern Europe active in the refurbishing and sale of second-hand building components. Rotor cofounder Lionel Devlieger is a researcher, designer, educator, and exhibition maker. His work focuses on the material implications of contemporary culture, especially in the realm of architecture. Devlieger has taught architecture at UC Berkeley, TU Delft, Columbia University, and London’s AA School. He has curated and designed, with Rotor, exhibitions on architecture and material culture, and in 2018 coauthored Deconstruction et reemploi, a reference textbook on building component reuse.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Thursday, April 15th from 1:00pm to 2:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

A Helluva Four Decades: Tom Dyja and Meg Wolitzer on NY, NY, NY Brooklyn Public Library

If our daily news tells the “first rough draft of history,” Thomas Dyja writes the next in his new book New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation. A look at the Big Apple from 1980 to today, it triggers memories for those who were there, and opens the eyes of those who were not. Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani, Bloomberg, de Blasio. CBGB, NYPD, stop and frisk, flatten the curve. Dyja was there, and so was novelist Meg Wolitzer. These two friends and eye-witnesses discuss NYC’s ever-morphing soul as it stands on the precipice of change yet again.

Event Type: Discussion Date & Time: Thursday, April 15th at 6:30pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Rising Tide: Visualizing the Human Costs of the Climate Crisis Museum of the City of New York

On Earth Day 2021, the 51st anniversary of an international holiday recognizing the importance of environmental protection, we find ourselves in a world radically altered by a climate crisis. Dutch documentary photographer Kadir van Lohuizen’s work illustrates the effects of the climate crisis in locations throughout the world, including New York City. His work will be on view at the Museum this spring in our new exhibition, Rising Tide: Visualizing the Human Costs of Climate Crisis. In this opening event, Van Lohuizen sits down for a virtual conversation about the local and global impacts of the climate crisis with Henk Ovink, Dutch Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, and Bangladeshi environmental activist Sharif Jamil. Moderated by Anne Barnard of The New York Times.

Event Type: Talk Date & Time: Thursday, April 15th at 12pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Fri 16

The Long Island Estates that Inspired The Great Gatsby Webinar NY Adventure Club

While Edith Wharton's 1920 novel The Age of Innocence pulled back the curtains on New York City's high society at the time, it was F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby that shed a light on their extravagant summer estates — and glittering parties — on Long Island's North Shore. This is the story of some of the most prominent mansions, and families, that likely inspired one of the greatest American novels, and why so few of these architectural wonders are still left standing one hundred years later.

Join New York Adventure Club for a digital exploration of the magnificent estates and mansions of Long Island’s "Gold Coast" that are believed to have inspired The Great Gatsby, the classic 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that centered around one of the world's premier collections of glamour, luxury, and architectural achievement. Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Friday, April 16th from 8pm to 9:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $10

Enclaves of Modernism: Houses from Chicago to New Canaan Michelangelo Sabatino, Director of the Ph.D. Program in Architecture and the inaugural John Vinci Distinguished Research Fellow, Illinois Institute of Technology. The Glass House

Join architectural historian, educator, and preservationist Michelangelo Sabatino for a presentation of his newly published book Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses, 1929-1975 (co-authored with Susan Benjamin) followed by a conversation moderated by architectural historian, educator, and curator Barry Bergdoll with the participation of local architect and author William D. Earls, and and Glass House chief curator Hilary Lewis. Themes to be discussed during the conversation range from the dialectic tensions between International Style and regional vernaculars, competing influences of Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in American architecture, and the role that adventurous clients played in shaping the development of enclaves of modernism.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Monday, April 19th at 7pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Fairgrounds, Civic Centers, and Citizenship Daniel M. Abramson, Professor of Architectural History and Director of Architectural Studies at Boston University

The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair famously influenced the urban planning and architecture of America’s City Beautiful Movement and classical civic centers from San Francisco to New York. This lecture explores how modernist urban design held on to the fairground and fairgoer as models for American civic centers and citizens’ subjectivity, even after the eclipse of early-twentieth-century classicism. Investigation ranges from Siegfried Giedion’s observations on the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair to the planning of Boston’s 1960s Government Center. This paper asks, what today are fairgrounds’ legacies for government centers and democratic citizenship? Sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians, New York Metropolitan Chapter, and the NYU Department of Art History, Urban Design and Architecture Studies

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Monday April 19, 6 - 7:30 pm ET Venue: Virtual Fee: Free https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95209348806

Tues 20

The Future of Cultural Centers: Melanie Keen, Wellcome Collection AIA Center for Architecture Melanie Keen, Director of Wellcome Collection and David van der Leer, Principal at DVDL

As the world rapidly changes around us, old frameworks for the development of cultural centers look less and less relevant. Continuing the success of the 2020 “Future of Cultural Centers” dialogue series, this year AIA New York will look at cultural institutions that take a mixed-use approach to programming and space and a more holistic view at the human experience. We will touch on opportunities and challenges around these hybrid organizations, questioning what would happen if we were to take this unprecedented time to explore new missions, visions, and models to help address existing institutional deficits. What will 21st-century arts and community spaces be like? Join us for this Spring line-up of conversations as cultural forecaster and museum expert David van der Leer, Principal of DVDL, speaks with professionals from around the US and beyond.

In this week’s installment, Van der Leer will be joined in conversation by Melanie Keen, Director of Wellcome Collection. The Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library based in London, UK, that aims to challenge how we all think and feel about health. Through exhibitions, collections, live programming, digital broadcast, and publishing, Wellcome Collection creates opportunities for people to explore connections between science, medicine, life, and art. The venue offers contemporary and historic exhibitions and collections, the Wellcome Library, an events space (The Studio), a research area (The Hub), a café, a reading room, a bookshop, and conference facilities. The Wellcome Collection is part of the Wellcome Trust. The space bridges the gap between a museum, a world-class Library, a meeting place, and a research space where academics, artists, and other creative minds can collaborate on interdisciplinary projects exploring medicine, health, and well-being.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Tuesday, April 20th from 12pm to 1pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Chengdu Greenland: A Non-Coplanar Exoskeleton The Skyscraper Museum Dennis C.K. Poon, Vice Chairman, Thornton Tomasetti

Supertall projects have been central to Dennis Poon’s career as a structural engineer. Poon worked on the teams for the Petronas Towers (1998) in Kuala Lumpur and Taipei 101 (2004) in Taiwan, the first skyscrapers outside of the United States to become, in succession, the world’s tallest buildings. More recently he led the Thornton Tomasetti structural design for Shanghai Tower and Shenzhen‘s Ping An Finance Center, currently the world’s second and fourth tallest completed skyscrapers. Dennis has extensive experience in seismic design, structural investigations, and optimization of structural systems, and he has worked with conservative Chinese authorities to accept design criteria that reflect international standards and thus allow for more efficient structures.

Dennis’s talk will focus on the innovative structural system of the Chengdu Greenland Tower. Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG), the 468-meter tower has a distinctive façade treatment of faceted glass meant to symbolize the nearby snowy mountains. The slender shaft employs a concrete core with sloping walls, surrounded by 16 columns that zig-zag along the full height of the tower, creating diamond shapes that reflect different lights and produce contrasting planes of light and shadow.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Tuesday, April 20th at 6pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Rockefeller Center: New York’s Art Deco City within a City Webinar NY Adventure Club "[Rockefeller Center] is one of those expressions of architecture that, after...decades, seems so natural it’s hard to comprehend how revolutionary it was.” -Daniel Okrent, Author

Rising from the depths of the Great Depression in the 1930s, Rockefeller Center helped shift the epicenter of New York's business community from the Wall Street area to Midtown Manhattan. But how did New York's first master-planned, integrated commercial district come to be? And how would it eventually become synonymous with things like NBC Studios, ice skating, and the world's most famous Christmas tree? It's time to explore this 22-acre masterpiece of urban planning and design, one which remains one of the most prominent sites in all of New York.

Join New York Adventure Club as we embark on a virtual exploration of Rockefeller Center — an Art Deco building complex commissioned by the Rockefeller family in the 1930s that is considered one of the greatest projects of the Great Depression era. Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Tuesday, April 20th from 5:30pm to 7pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $10

Wed 21

Gary Huafan He and Matt McNicholas: Making Ornament Yale School of Architecture

Throughout history, ornament has served as an expression of specific cultures and historical moments. How does a designer with full access to these archives of history create ornament relevant in today’s world of digital fabrication? In this session, an ornament designer with a keen sensitivity for history and a great interest in neuroscience will converse with a scholar of ornament’s history. Together, they will examine the unique spatial powers of ornament and its effects on viewers past, present, and future on a cultural and neurological level, with an eye toward the design and creation of ornament today. Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Wednesday, April 21st at 6:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Bennerley Viaduct: Building Community Wellbeing Through Restoration AIA Center for Architecture Historian Tim Dunn, Community Engagement Officer Kieran Lee, and World Monuments Fund Britain Executive Director John Darlington

Built in 1877 to carry an important railway line across Erewash Valley in Nottinghamshire, Bennerley Viaduct is one of the two last remaining wrought-iron viaducts in England. Although the structure has been out of use since 1968, efforts to demolish it have failed, facing local resistance and objection. Today, a group of local volunteers, supported by the site owners, are aiming to reconnect the communities on either side of the Erewash River. Spotlighted by the 2020 World Monuments Watch, Bennerley Viaduct is being revitalized as part of a UK-wide and global movement to transform disused railway routes into trails for walking, cycling, and to strengthen social ties, health, and well-being.

Join AIA for an On My Watch virtual discussion on the plan to restore Bennerley Viaduct and transform it into a recreational venue encouraging outdoor exercise and community gathering, putting heritage at the heart of health and well-being. The conversation will feature Kieran Lee, Community Engagement Officer from the Friends of Bennerley Viaduct, and Tim Dunn, railway architecture historian, author, and broadcaster/TV presenter. The event will be hosted by WMF Britain Executive Director John Darlington.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Thursday, April 22nd from 1pm to 2:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

And/Or. “Architecture and Geographies of Difference” The Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Balkrishna Doshi and Barry Bergdoll Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series, titled And/Or. “Architecture and Geographies of Difference” will feature Balkrishna Doshi and Barry Bergdoll for a discussion of art and architecture. Free and open to the public.

In this online series, curators Viren Brahmbhatt, Ali C. Höcek, and Martin Stigsgaard argue that the traditional format of a single lecturer speaking to an audience sets up a binary opposite all of its own -- speaker/listener, which simply reinforces the power structure between those who "possess" knowledge and those who "consume" it. In its place, the &/Or Online Dialogues will present two speakers in conversation with each other, moderated by a third. The series features prominent artists, activists, and architects from across the globe who will discuss their work and the unique political and environmental challenges they confront.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Thursday, April 22nd from 5:30pm to 7pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Sarah Lewis Lecture Yale School of Architecture Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Associate Professor, Harvard University Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of African and African American Studies

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is an Associate Professor at Harvard University in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of African and African American Studies. She is the founder of the Vision and Justice Project. Lewis has published essays on race, contemporary art, and culture, with forthcoming publications including a book on race, whiteness, and photography (Harvard University Press, 2022), Vision and Justice (Random House), an anthology on the work of Carrie Mae Weems (MIT Press, 2021), and an article focusing on the groundwork of contemporary arts in the context of Stand Your Ground Laws (Art Journal, Winter 2020). In 2019, she became the inaugural recipient of the Freedom Scholar Award, presented by The Association for the Study of African American Life and History to honor Lewis for her body of work and its “direct positive impact on the life of African-Americans.”

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Thursday, April 22nd at 6:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

The New York Crystal Palace: America’s First World’s Fair Webinar NY Adventure Club

When the very first World's Fair was hosted in Hyde Park, London in 1851, the United States not only reacted with awe, but also of great envy — this country too wanted to flex its innovation muscle and be recognized as a serious competitor on the global stage. So in true American fashion, it was decided to create a bigger, better, and bolder World's Fair, all centered around a state-of-the-art building that would dazzle the masses. This is the story of the New York Crystal Palace and exhibition that put America on the map.

Join New York Adventure Club as we explore the New York Crystal Palace and the 1853 Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, America's first World's Fair that featured four thousand exhibitors showcasing the top marketing, entertainment, and technology innovations of the nation.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Friday, April 23rd from 5:30pm to 7pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $10

Sun 25

Walking Tour of Historic 19th Century Noho Merchant’s House Museum

Join us for a journey back in time to the elite ‘Bond Street area,’ home to Astors, Vanderbilts, Delanos – and the Tredwells, who lived in the Merchant’s House. You’ll see how the neighborhood surrounding the Tredwells’ home evolved from a refined and tranquil residential enclave into a busy commercial center. Visit important 19th century landmark buildings on this tour through 21st century NoHo. Event Type: Tour Date & Time: Sunday, April 25th at 12:30pm Venue: 29 East Fourth Street, New York, NY Fee: $20

Tues 27

The Future of Cultural Centers: Gabriel Kogan on SESC Pompeia AIA Center for Architecture Architect Gabriel Kogan and David van der Lee, Principal at DVDL

As the world rapidly changes around us, old frameworks for the development of cultural centers look less and less relevant. Continuing the success of the series from 2020, this year AIA New York will look at cultural institutions that take a mixed-use approach to programming and space and a more holistic view at the human experience. We will touch on opportunities and challenges around these hybrid organizations, questioning what would happen if we were to take this unprecedented time to explore new missions, visions, and models to help address existing institutional deficits. What will 21st-century arts and community spaces be like? Join AIA for this Spring line-up of conversations as cultural forecaster and museum expert David van der Leer, Principal of DVDL, speaks with professionals from around the US and beyond.

In this week’s installment, Van der Leer will be joined in conversation by Architect, critic, and professor Gabriel Kogan who will discuss São Paulo’s SESC Pompéia. SESC Pompéia is a remarkable adaptive reuse project by one of Modernism’s best-known female architects, Lina Bo Bardi. Originally a drum factory, Bo Bardi transformed the structure in 1982 into a highly successful multi-purpose building by adding two concrete towers connected by diagonal walkways. She stripped the factory back to its original concrete and brick to show the structural tectonics, while also allowing the program to drive the design in a socially utopic vision that reflects Modernism’s highest ideals. The building continues to thrive to this day, fascinating lovers of modern architecture around the world.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Tuesday, April 27th from 6pm to 7pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Weaving Structure into Architecture: Design & Construction Challenges in Lakhta Center, St. Petersburg The Skyscraper Museum Ahmad Abdelrazaq, Executive Vice President, Samsung C & T Corporation

Design for constructability and delivery of high performance of supertalls has been a prime concern of Ahmad Abdelrazaq. Having begun his career in the Chicago office of SOM in 1987, where his project portfolio included the Jin Mao Tower and the Hotel De Artes in Barcelona, Ahmad joined Samsung in 2004 and went to work as the Chief Technical Director of the Burj Dubai Project, collaborating with the architects and engineers at SOM on the evolving design for the world’s tallest building, later renamed Burj Khalifa. For that project he developed an award-winning real-time structural health monitoring program, embedding more than 2,000 instruments and survey programs to correlate and verify design assumptions with actual tower behavior.

Based in Seoul, Abdelrazaq is Senior Executive Vice President at Samsung C & T Corporation where he heads the Highrise Building and Structural Engineering Divisions. Since joining Samsung, in addition to Burj Khalifa, he has been involved in the design and construction planning of several local and international projects including Samsung HQ office, the proposed 151-story Incheon Tower, 360 West, Mumbai, and Tanjong Pagar in Singapore. He has also held operational positions as Executive Project Director of the Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur and the Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Ahmad’s lecture will focus on his work on the Lakhta Center, at 462 meters, the tallest building in St. Petersburg and in Europe. The iconic shape of the tower is composed of five individual “leaves” or “petals” that twist and taper as they rise and rotate 90 degrees from base to pinnacle. The unique form presented complex challenges for design and construction, leading to opportunities to improve the original design and develop a new outrigger structural system with significant cost and time benefits.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Tuesday, April 27th from 6pm to 7pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

The Architecture of an 1832 Landmark (Manhattan’s First) Merchant’s House Museum

Join us online from the comfort of your home for a series of unique, in-depth tours of the Merchant’s House, preserved intact from the 19th century with the Tredwell family’s original furnishings and personal possessions. It’s an extraordinary up-close and personal experience of the Tredwell home you won’t want to miss –– behind the ropes and no stairs to climb!

The Architecture of an 1832 Landmark (Manhattan’s First) explores the clues, quirks, and meanings of the house’s construction and architectural details, often found in nooks and crannies and spaces off-limits to the public. You’ll visit, virtually, all seven stories of this brick-and-marble rowhouse – from the cobble-stoned cellar to the crawl-space of the attic.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Wednesday, April 28th at 6pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $10

Fri 30

Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age: Splendor by the Sea Webinar NY Adventure Club

Newport, Rhode Island wasn't just any American resort town of the late 19th century and early 20th century — it was the destination for the phenomenally rich to spend their summers. Picture magnificent marble palaces, luxuriant gardens, and large shimmering yachts in the harbor; or the elite's fancy carriages parading up and down Newport's main street to get to their important appointments like an afternoon of tea time and tennis or a lavish ball to show-off custom-made gowns and priceless jewels; or of families so wealthy and powerful that European nobles and aristocrats visited to seek the hand of American heiresses to save their own crumbling ancestral homes in need of American cash. This is the story of Newport, Rhode Island, the highest step of the social ladder — the "Queen of Resort's."

Join New York Adventure Club for a digital exploration of the magnificent mansions and families of Newport, Rhode Island, America’s most elite summer playground during the Gilded Age.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Friday, April 30th from 7pm to 9pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $10

Museum of Modern Art Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America

How does race structure America’s cities? MoMA’s first exhibition to explore the relationship between architecture and the spaces of African American and African diaspora communities, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America presents 11 newly commissioned works by architects, designers, and artists that explore ways in which histories can be made visible and equity can be built.

Centuries of disenfranchisement and race-based violence have led to a built environment that is not only compromised but also, as the critic Ta-Nehisi Coates contends, “argues against the truth of who you are.” These injustices are embedded in nearly every aspect of America’s design—an inheritance of segregated neighborhoods, compromised infrastructures, environmental toxins, and unequal access to financial and educational institutions.

Each project in the exhibition proposes an intervention in one of 10 cities: from the front porches of Miami and the bayous of New Orleans to the freeways of Oakland and Syracuse. Reconstructions examines the intersections of anti-Black racism and Blackness within urban spaces as sites of resistance and refusal, attempting to repair what it means to be American.

Reconstructions features works by Emanuel Admassu, Germane Barnes, Sekou Cooke, J. Yolande Daniels, Felecia Davis, Mario Gooden, Walter Hood, Olalekan Jeyifous, V. Mitch McEwen, and Amanda Williams, as well as new photographs and a film by artist David Hartt.

AIA Center for Architecture Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip Hop Architecture Hip-Hop, the dominant cultural movement of our time, was established by the Black and Latino youth of New York’s South Bronx neighborhood in the early 1970s. Over the last five decades, hip-hop’s primary means of expression—deejaying, emceeing, b-boying, and graffiti—have become globally recognized creative practices in their own right, and each has significantly impacted the urban built environment Hip-Hop Architecture is a design movement that embodies the collective creative energies native to young denizens of urban neighborhoods. Its designers produce spaces, buildings, and environments that translate hip-hop’s energy and spirit into built form. Some 25 years in the making, Hip-Hop Architecture is finally receiving widespread attention within the discipline of architecture thanks to a series of influential essays, lectures, and presentations by Craig Wilkins, Michael Ford, and this show’s curator, Sekou Cooke. During this period of emergence, the movement’s ideals have primarily been tested by a loosely organized group of pioneering individuals, each using hip-hop as a lens through which to provoke and evoke architectural form. Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture exhibits the work of these pioneers—students, academics, and practitioners—at the center of this emerging architectural revolution.

Venue: Online Exhibition

Topiary Tango A method for designing architecture, Topiary Tango responds to ever-changing contexts and grants people the agency to instigate that change. What is Topiary? It is the horticultural practice of training perennial plants into shapes. This forgiving art opens up opportunities for gardening newcomers and veterans alike to influence architecture-scaled mass without extensive tools or planning. Whether it’s straightening edges or fashioning peacocks, all a project needs are a set of shears and a vision. Topiary breathes life into inanimate objects, letting them talk, mock, and giggle. Their playful forms flaunt personalities and relationships—a globby bush may become a goofball among other whimsical creatures, or a mess beside a row of arrogant spheres. Their conversations are always in flux; the elastic medium can be endlessly carved and reformed. Tired of a twisted spiral? Trim it into a t-rex. A neighbor getting pointy? Soften it up. Just like that, the topiary are caught in a tango.

Venue: Online Exhibition Single-Story Project Since 2015, photographer and East Village resident Adam Friedberg has documented all the single-story buildings in the East Village and the Lower East Side, nearly 100 sites in total. As rapid development swept through these two neighborhoods, Friedberg realized that these modest structures were quickly disappearing, along with the predominately working-class uses that filled them. Many of the structures themselves are modest and architecturally insignificant, yet together they form an alternative geography of the built environment that is quickly being erased before our eyes. Friedberg’s photographs are blunt and frontal, befitting the everyday nature of their subjects. But their matter-of-fact documentary style belies a rigorous working method and dogged commitment to the series: in order capture photographs without cars or people, he primarily shot the buildings just after dawn, often having to return time and again to shoot and reshoot. The quiet, uncluttered streetscapes help the viewer to see these background buildings in the foreground.

Venue: Online Exhibition

Visualize NYC 2021 This exhibition is a data-driven exploration of the issues that will shape the future of New York City. The 2021 election is poised to be pivotal for New York City. This project is a collaboration between AIANY, Center for Architecture, and MIT’s Civic Data Design Lab. This project looks at issues that will shape New York City. Learn about: Evolving Public Realm, Climate Change & Resilience, Right to Housing, and Public Health.

Venue: Online Exhibition

Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn Waterfront History Click on the link to view an online exhibition on Brooklyn Waterfront History! The Brooklyn Bridge Park and Center for Brooklyn History have partnered to reveal the history of the borough’s waterfront.

Venue: https://www.bkwaterfronthistory.org/

Museum of the City of New York Activist New York Online This online component of the Museum's ongoing, changing Activist New York exhibition (opened May 2010) documents current and past content in the gallery and provides extensive resources for educators as well as opportunities to connect with the Museum on issues of activism in the city today. Venue: Virtual Timeframe: Ongoing

America’s Mayor America's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York was on view at the Museum of the City of New York from May 5, 2010 through October 3, 2010. This online version of the exhibition allows you to explore many of the objects and images that were on view at the Museum and to learn about the controversial tenure (1966–1973) and dramatic times of New York's 103rd mayor.

Venue: Virtual Timeframe: Ongoing

New York Responds Opening Friday, December 18, New York Responds: The First Six Months looks at the still-unfolding events of 2020 through the eyes of over 100 New Yorkers. This crowd-sourced exhibition presents objects, photographs, videos, and other artworks that document and interpret the COVID pandemic, the racial justice uprisings, and the responses of New Yorkers as they fought to cope, survive, and forge a better future. A jury of a dozen New Yorkers representing many walks of life helped to make the selection from among tens of thousands of submissions received from individual artists and from partner institutions. On July 23, the Museum unveiled the first phase of this exhibition, an outdoor installation featuring 14 images that had been submitted as part of our ongoing collecting efforts. Together, these powerful artifacts and artworks speak to the dramatic effects of these unprecedented months on the city, its residents, and the dynamics of urban life itself.

Venue: Virtual & at 1220 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Timeframe: through May 9, 2021

The Greatest Grid The street grid is a defining element of Manhattan. Established in 1811 to blanket the island when New York was a compact town at the southern tip, the grid was the city’s first great civic enterprise and a vision of brazen ambition. It is also a milestone in the history of city planning and sets a standard to think just as boldly about New York’s future.

Venue: Virtual Timeframe: Ongoing