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

Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 A Tale of Two Green Design Architecture, Radiant Suns Waterworks Advocacy in Art and and Rising NYC Politics: Mies Dragons: Nerea Calvillo: van der Rohe’s Japanese Art Feminist Jonathan Barcelona Deco Sensing to Marvel Person Pavilion and its Land in Place Thing ‘Clone’ - 35 Aeropolis Years Later

Recalibrate New York City Reality with Transit x New Congressman York Nico Ritchie Torres Social Feminist Infrastructure is Sensing to a Right: Places Land in for Gathering, Aeropolis Sharing and Learning Espresso with Ray McGuire, Design of NYC Mayor Moldings: Candidate Continuum of Precedent & Kuala Lumpur: Practice Merdeka 118 Green Cities : New York City 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Ridgewood The Advent of Fatconomy and Recalibrate Public Art Planning From Penn Reservoir Women the Material Reality with Fund: Futures? On Station to Architectural Underground Alice Elmgreen & Decolonial, Moynihan Train Professions: Greenwald Dragset Postcolonial, Hall US-UK Ultimate NYC and Abolitionist Comparative Trivia Night Emerging Equity & Planning Perspective Professionals Justice Issues Yingliang Resume with the A Queens Virtual Tour: Stone Natural Workshop Architecture Walking Tour, Madison History Profession 1930 Avenue, High Museum Building Back Fashion and Better and Step Inside: Historic Espresso with Greener Greenwich Preservation Maya Wiley, Village Interiors NYC Mayor Health Equity Narrative Candidate in Public Space Change for the Green New Supertall/ The Invention Deal Megatall: How of Public High Can We Space: Design Go? for Inclusion

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 A Walking Tour LMCC’s Arts A Critical Rethinking Product Adapting Immigrant of Historic 19th Center at History of NYC Cultural Showcase: Historic Architect: Century Noho Governors Early-Modern and Public Life More than an R Districts for an Rafael Island Architecture in value - Equitable Guastavino More New York China: Ada Louise Acoustics in Future: and Subway Islands Nader Tehrani Exploring the Huxtable’s Commercial SoHo/NoHo Style Lecture Contexts of New York Buildings Case Study Modernist History, Gabrielle Modern Current Bullock Lecture Architecture Theory, and the Black Heritage Middle Class Approaches, and the Infrastructures Anthropocene of Violence

Recalibrate Grand Central Reality with Terminal MTA Chairman Pat Foye

Espresso with Andrew Yang, NYC Mayor Candidate 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Ekene Ijeoma Francesca Jacques Tati: A David Knowledge Apartment Lecture Russello Lens on Heymann: The Worlds Living in Ammon Modern Life John S. Chase Central Lecture Residence Brooklyn Insiders’ Tour Core Value of the Mughal Merchant’s Gardens of House Agra, India Virtual Tour Espresso with Eric Adams, Fiona Raby NYC Mayor Lecture Candidate Redlining and Real Estate

28 29 30 31 A Walking Tour Lesley Lokko: Greek Revival of Historic 19th This Fragile Bicentennial: A Century Noho Condition Celebration of Our Subway Art Art Deco 101: Neighborhoods Tour Murals of the Architectural New Deal Heritage

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Reconsidering Raphael

Online Conference April 9-10 Hosted by Vassar College Department of Art

April 6, 2020 marked the quincentenary of the death of Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520), one of the most brilliant and consequential artists in the western tradition. Praised during his lifetime as “Prince of Painters” (pictorum princeps), a description rendered indelible by Giorgio Vasari, this characterization long served to obscure Raphael’s artistic achievements in other modes. He was in reality an impresario in many media: revered in his own day as Rome’s chief architect, Raphael was also an urbanist and a designer of landscape, as well as of sculpture, silver, prints, and tapestries. A series of international conferences and exhibitions held in 1983-84, the quincentenary of the artist’s birth, was a watershed in Raphael studies, and in the intervening years, building on those events and publications, new understandings of Raphael have begun to take form, not only as a designer in an array of media, but also in terms of his collaboration with other artists, patrons, advisors, and literati. This conference dedicated to Raphael brings together established and emerging scholars to take stock of what has been accomplished in the past 37 years, to assess current approaches to his astonishingly innovative, diverse and influential body of work, to present new research, and to chart directions for further study. Expanding upon well-established lines of inquiry, the program reflects new approaches to the quintessential old master. https://connect.vassar.edu/s/1654/2/16/interior-ai.aspx?sid=1654&pgid=5339&gid=2&cid=8797 &ecid=8797&post_id=0

Tues 2

A Talk by Jeffrey Kroessler: A Tale of Two Waterworks NYC H2O Chief Librarian of the Lloyd Sealy Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

In conjunction with the current Community Partnership Exhibition Ridgewood Reservoir for the 21st Century situated around the historic Watershed Model at the Queens Museum, we are pleased to host A Tale of Two Waterworks, talk by Jeffrey Kroessler presented by NYC H2O. The presentation will be followed by Q&A with attendees.

The history of the water systems of New York City and the once independent City of Brooklyn is not only a story of engineering triumph, but a story about the public spirit. Clean water was essential for economic prosperity, health, sanitation, and municipal growth. When New York reached into Westchester and the Catskills for water sources, and when the City of Brooklyn tapped the Long Island aquifer, what were the environmental, economic and political factors in play? A Tale of Two Waterworks will explore the history of the two water systems, how and why they were built, how they determined the city’s future, and the story behind their unification.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Tuesday, March 2nd from 6pm to 7:15pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Nerea Calvillo: Feminist Sensing to Land in Aeropolis Cooper Union Architect Nerea Calvillo

Aeropolis is a conceptual, methodological and discursive framework to think about air pollution as a material, situated, embodied and socio-technical assemblage. Drawing on feminist and queer literature, the concept of “attuned sensing” challenges what counts as evidence in toxic regimes, who does the sensing and what exactly is being sensed. “Attuned sensing” will be put to work through experimental interventions developed at C+ arquitectas and the collaborative project In The Air, to multiply the spaces of intervention in and within our polluted world.

Nerea Calvillo’s research explores the material, technological, political and social dimensions of environmental pollution at the intersection between architecture, feminist studies of technoscience, new materialisms and queer political ecologies. Calvillo established the architecture firm C+arquitectas, based in Madrid and London, and initiated in 2008 the collaborative research project In the Air, to explore different forms of sensing air pollution. Her work has been published and exhibited in international venues, like the Royal Academy of Arts (UK), Canadian Centre for Architecture (CA), Laboral Centro de Arte y Produccion Industrial (SP) or the Contemporary Art Museum of Santiago de Chile (CH). Calvillo is an associate professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (University of Warwick) and is currently working on the manuscript of Aeropolis.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Tuesday March 2nd at 12pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Recalibrate Reality with Congressman Ritchie Torres Regional Plan Association Congressman Ritchie Torres

How do we recalibrate reality to create a better, brighter future for New York? Congressman Ritchie Torres (NY-15) joins host Scott Rechler for the another episode of Recalibrate Reality: The Future of New York, a conversation series with leading thinkers and decision-makers to tackle this crucial question.

Event Type: Talk Date & Time: Tuesday, March 2nd from 7pm to 8pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Nerea Calvillo: Feminist Sensing to Land in Aeropolis Cooper Union Associate Professor Nerea Calvillo

regimes, who does the sensing and what exactly is being sensed. “Attuned sensing” will be put to work through experimental interventions developed at C+ arquitectas and the collaborative project In The Air, to multiply the spaces of intervention in and within our polluted world.

The presentation will be followed by a conversation and Q & A moderated by Benjamin Aranda.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Tuesday, March 2nd from 12pm to 2pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Espresso with Carlo Featuring Ray McGuire, Candidate for New York City Mayor New York Building Congress

Join the NYBC for this series with New York Mayoral Candidates!

Event Type: Talk Date & Time: Tuesday, March 2nd at 2pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Kuala Lumpur: Merdeka 118 Skyscraper Museum

Melbourne-based architect Karl Fender is the designer of the two tallest buildings in his skyscraper-friendly native city, the 297-meter Eureka Tower, completed in 2006, and Australia 108, completed in 2020 at the height of 317 meters. He is also the architect of the 118-story Merdeka 118, now under construction in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which at 644 meters/2,113 ft. to the tip of its spire will become the world’s second tallest building after Burj Khalifa.

Karl is the cofounder with his partner Nonda Katsalidis of the firm Fender Katsalidis, based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and now with additional studios in Sydney and Brisbane. He is also Co-Director of the London Studio and Group Chairman of Arney Fender Katsalidis, founded in 2013 as a sister studio of Fender Katsalidis. Karl began his career as a design assistant for Robin Boyd – an important Melbourne modernist, then worked as an architect in London and Rome, before returning to school to take a Masters degree at Harvard’s GSD. Thereafter he worked extensively throughout Southeast Asia.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Tuesday, March 2nd at 6pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Wed 3

Green Design Advocacy in NYC AIA Center for Architecture

Join AIA New York and the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) – NYC Chapter for a panel discussion on New York City’s recent large-scale and innovative sustainable design initiatives, including Rebuild by Design, PLUS POOL, and more. With a focus on public relations, policy, and communications across various scales and audiences, panelists will endeavor to use these projects as a framework through which to discuss best practices for designing and implementing impactful sustainable projects in New York City.

This event aligns in support of United Nations Sustainable Design Goal (SDG) 11.

Moderator: Mark D. Wolf, CEO, LavaFish Advisors; Founder and Co-Lead, International Society of Sustainability Professionals, New York City Chapter (ISSP-NYC)

Speakers: Adrian Benepe, President & CEO, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Amy Chester, Managing Director, Rebuild by Design Archie Lee Coates IV, Co-Founder and Designer, PLAYLAB, INC. Stephen Whitehouse, Partner, Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners Varun Kohli, Head of Sustainability, Buro Happold (New York)

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Wednesday, March 3rd from 5:30pm to 7pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $10 general, students free

Jonathan Marvel: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen AIA Center for Architecture

Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care about.

Cohen’s guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that is important to them. The result: surprising stories from great speakers. This installment of Person Place Thing will be a conversation with Jonathan Marvel, Founding Principal of MARVEL.

Ordinarily, this program takes place live, on-stage, but for the duration of the current crisis, we’ll livestream our conversations.

Speakers: Jonathan Marvel, FAIA, ASLA Affiliate, Founding Principal, MARVEL Randy Cohen, Host, Person Place Thing

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Wednesday, March 3rd from 6pm to 7pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $10 general, students free

Thurs 4

Architecture, Art and Politics: Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion and its ‘Clone’ - 35 Years Later New York University Fine Arts Department Professor of Art and Architecture at Brown University Dietrich Neumann

Mies van der Rohe's short lived pavilion at the Barcelona World's Fair of 1929 has been one of the most consequential structures of the Modern Movement. It was also deeply implicated in the dark political tides of its time. The reconstruction of 1986 sparked intense debates about authenticity and ethics, which have continued to elicit intriguing art installations at the site. This talk will examine some of the key moments in a complex and ongoing history of cultural provocations.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Thursday, March 4th at 6:30pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

New York City Transit x New York Nico New York Transit Museum Media Personality and Filmmaker Nicolas Heller (New York Nico)

Starting February 12, you may hear a familiar voice on your subway or bus ride. New York City Transit has partnered with New York’s favorite Instagrammer, @NewYorkNico (Nicolas Heller), to create new subway and bus announcements featuring the voices of iconic New Yorkers. Celebrities, local legends, and unsung heroes (think: Jerry Seinfeld and NY1’s Pat Kiernan) have been tapped for the project. Sarah Feinberg, New York City Transit interim president, hopes the initiative will boost morale as the MTA keeps our city moving during this unprecedented time.

Join Nicolas Heller and Transit Museum staff online for a look at public service announcements (PSAs) from the Museum’s archives and learn more about this latest PSA project. Hear behind-the-scenes stories about how @NewYorkNico’s social media followers helped finalize the list of icons, how announcements were recorded, and how the project came together to bring joy and a sense of New York pride to transit riders.

Event Type: Talk Date & Time: Thursday, March 4th from 6:30pm to 8pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Social Infrastructure is a Right: Places for Gathering, Sharing and Learning Open House New York Professor of Anthropology Shannon Mattern

Open House New York launches a new urban systems series, Radical Knowledge: Libraries as Community Catalysts, to explore the profound transformations underway for public libraries in New York and across the nation. The series kick-off, Social Infrastructure is a Right: Places for Gathering, Sharing, and Learning, will feature a thought-provoking conversation about the ways in which libraries provide social infrastructure for their communities with Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, and sociologist Eric Klinenberg, Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Thursday, March 4th from 5pm to 6pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Design of Moldings: Continuum of Precedent & Practice Institute of Classical Architecture & Art

The study of moldings is a fundamental component of the language or canon of classical architecture. Stephen Chrisman, Principal at Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, New York, will examine the systematic aspects for the design, delineation and understanding of moldings, for both interiors and exteriors, which are used in professional practice and are based on everlasting scholarship and the exploration of good precedent.

Topics covered will include methodologies for determining the modulated sizes of moldings within a composition, the celebratory ornamental enrichment of molding profiles, and a review of different influential architectural traditions including Greek, Roman, French, and Georgian moldings. Materiality, such as wood, plaster and stone, have an impact on the design of moldings and will also be evaluated.

Examples from professional practice will traverse adaptations of the classical molding profiles from masters such as Palladio, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Edwin Lutyens, to contemporary architects, and illustrate the use and composition of moldings as an ever-present, evolving and elaborative continuum. A conclusive discussion will address the topic of pushing our collective practical skills and wisdom further by creating future collaborative sessions as an ongoing online “forum” for the advancement of molding design.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Thursday, March 4th from 8:00pm to 9:15pm EST Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Green Cities 2021: New York City AIA Center for Architecture

The Consortium for Sustainable Urbanism is a New York-based not-for profit organization formed to promote a better understanding of the role of sustainable urbanization and resilient design in the planning of our cities. CSU advocates for responsible and enlightened planning and design. The focus of the CSU is on replicable ideas and concepts, best practices, and speculative proposals. To connect global thought leaders, architects, urban designers and activists, the CSU has initiated a monthly lecture series on green cities, which will take place on the first Thursday of each month, starting at 12:00 pm EST. This session will feature Daniel Zarrilli, New York City’s Chief Climate Policy Advisory and OneNYC Director.

Speakers: Daniel Zarrilli, Chief Climate Policy Advisor, New York Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, DPACSA, NOMA, President and founding Board Member, Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Thursday, March 4th from 12pm to 1pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Sat 6

Radiant Suns and Rising Dragons: Japanese Art Deco Art Deco Society of New York Professor of Asian Art History Kendall Brown

The Art Deco Society of New York’s series of web-based illustrated talks inspired by our Destination DecoTM travel program continues with an exciting virtual visit to explore the often underappreciated, yet stunning, Art Deco heritage of Japan.

In this online illustrated talk, professor, author, and curator, Kendall Brown, will take us on an in-depth exploration of Japanese Art Deco as an expression of both cosmopolitan elegance and national power.

By examining unique and impressive Japanese Deco works between 1930 and 1940, we will discover deep divisions in Japanese cultural and political values as well as the power of the Deco style to convey diverse messages. This web-based program will survey architecture, elite arts and mass media, analyzing art forms as different as cigarette packaging and a tower dedicated to connecting “heaven and earth.”

You won't want to miss this exciting international exploration into an often overlooked Deco past. Get your ticket today!

Even though this event is online, it will include a live PowerPoint––with wonderful images that you will be able to see directly on your computer screen, tablet, or mobile device––as well as a Q&A session with participants.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Saturday, March 6th from 1pm to 2:30pm Venue: Zoom Fee: $20

Sun 7

Ridgewood Reservoir Municipal Art Society of New York

In 1858, the Ridgewood Reservoir was built on the Brooklyn-Queens border to hold the fresh water supply for the once independent City of Brooklyn. The results: an exponential growth of the city’s population, expansion of the water-based beer industry, and, in time, a push for Brooklyn to consolidate with New York City. Today, the site retains elements of its historic use. The three basins, one still filled with water, are part of the 50-acre open space in Highland Park and allow close encounters with nature. NYC H2O, in cooperation with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, continues to lead the efforts to protect and restore the

native ecology of the Ridgewood Reservoir and its surroundings, and the site is being gradually restored.

NYC H2O, a 10-year-old non-profit, pulls the curtain back on the incredible NYC water supply system so that New Yorkers of all ages can learn about, enjoy and protect their city’s local water ecology. Join Matt Malina, director, and Robin Lynn, his co-curator for the exhibition Ridgewood Reservoir for the 21st Century, at the Queens Museum, to learn the story of the construction, abandonment, and rebirth of Ridgewood Reservoir.

Event Type: Tour Date & Time: Sunday, March 7th at 11am Venue: Virtual Fee: $25

Mon 8

The Advent of Women Architectural Professions: A US-UK Comparative Perspective Society of Architectural Historians Associate Professor Shelley E. Roff and Architectural Reader Elizabeth Darling

This webinar, sponsored by the newly organized SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (SAH WiA AG) and SAHGB's Women's Architectural Historians’ Network (WAHN), brings together panelists from the US and the UK to discuss the circumstances—social, political, cultural, educational—during which women began to enter architecture as a professionalized and licensed practice near the start of the twentieth century. Taking a comparative view, the webinar considers whether this phenomenon could be attributed to the change in lifestyles and attitudes towards women's work in modernity, a change in the attitude towards women's education, or other factors. Was it linked to a new social consciousness instigated by consecutive waves of feminist activity? Did women’s presence disrupt the masculine construction of the professional persona of the architect?

Event Type: Panel Date & Time: Monday, March 8th from 12pm to 1:30pm

Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Virtual Tour: Madison Avenue, High Fashion and Historic Preservation AIA Center for Architecture AIA Associate John Arbuckle

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: Monday, March 8th from 6pm to 7:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: general $10, students free

Narrative Change for the Green New Deal Columbia GSAPP

From the graphics of advocacy campaigns to the use of speculative fiction and data visualization in both environmental activism and design practice, multimedia storytelling is a necessary and powerful way to mobilize for a more equitable, decarbonized future. This symposium will convene an interdisciplinary group of change agents — activists, artists, architects, and authors — whose work demonstrates that narrative change is essential to policy change.

Event Type: Conference

Date & Time: Monday, March 8th at 6pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Tues 9

Robert Johnson & Austin Wade Smith: Fatconomy and the Material Underground - Consume, Waste, Harvest, Produce Cooper Union Designers Robert Johnson and Austin Wade Smith

Fatconomy and the material underground: consume, waste, harvest, produce. What happens if we construct a new dialogue with the ubiquitous fat and oil waste system model? Re-designing an archaic model that can contribute to a catalogue of bio-materials (fat-leathers, fat-plastics and glycerol-based aggregates), locally sourced and built directly from our energy needs in a post-oil future. Through the lens of Fatconomy, we begin a conversation in how to create a new, sustainable bio-material system that invites local knowledge, crafting with waste and a new network between restaurants, the biofuel industry and designers, all with a common goal: utilizing the same waste stream within local boundaries.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Tuesday, March 9th from 12pm to 2pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

The Ultimate (Virtual) NYC Trivia Night: March 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. Hosted by the Gotham Center's Katie Uva!

Event Type: Trivia Night

Date & Time: Tuesday, March 9th at 8pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Suggested Donation

Design Highlights: Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum AIA Center for Architecture

Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum is located at the headquarters of a stone manufacturer in Xiamen, a coastal city in Southern China. Over years of stone mining, the manufacturer established a private archeological team to discover fossils, which they ultimately decided to house in a museum. The project transforms the principal of stone dissection, which is specific to stone mining, into a spatial division mechanism to cut the cubical space accordingly. The project sticks to only one architecture element—the wall—to keep its consistency and authenticity. The museum elevates industry through an “industry and culture” approach.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Tuesday, March 9th from 6pm to 7pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $10 general, students free

Espresso with Carlo Featuring Maya Wiley, Candidate for New York City Mayor New York Building Congress

Join the NYBC for this series with New York Mayoral Candidates!

Event Type: Talk Date & Time: Tuesday, March 9th at 11am Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Supertall/Megatall: How High Can We Go? Skyscraper Museum

Adrian Smith is the architect of more than 4,500 meters – nearly 2.8 vertical miles – of skyscrapers. He has been the designer for eight structures in SUPERTALL! 2020: including Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the current world’s tallest man-made structure at 828 meters, and Jeddah Tower, under construction in Saudi Arabia, which when completed will reach at least 1,000 meters.

In his talk, “Supertall / Megatall: How Tall Can We Go?” Smith will explore how the skyscraper captured the imagination of the public while becoming widely popular to the architectural profession. He will focus on the stories behind his designs, including projects completed while Design Partner at SOM Chicago, including Jin Mao, Nanjing Greenland, and Burj Khalifa, and AS+GG projects Jeddah Tower, Chengdu Greenland Tower, 1 Dubai, and Biophilic Tower. He will discuss how each design was conceived for their specific sites and the successes and unique challenges of each project.

In 2006, Smith co-founded the Chicago-based firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. Before establishing AS+GG, from 1980 to 2003 he was a Design Partner in the Chicago office of SOM and a Consulting Design Partner from 2003 to 2006. His projects have received more than 145 design awards including five international awards, nine National AlA awards, among dozens of others. He has lectured worldwide and served on numerous professional juries and committees.

An alumnus of Texas A & M University, School of Architecture and the University of Illinois at Chicago, he has also received an honorary doctorate from Texas A & M.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Tuesday, March 9th at 6pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Wed 10

Recalibrate Reality with Alice Greenwald Regional Plan Association President and CEO of the 9/11 Memorial Museum Alice Greenwald

President and CEO of the 9/11 Memorial Museum Alice Greenwald joins host Scott Rechler for the another episode of Recalibrate Reality: The Future of New York, a conversation series with leading thinkers and decision-makers which asks how do we recalibrate reality to create a better, brighter future for New York?

Event Type: Talk Date & Time: Wednesday, March 10th from 7pm to 8pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Emerging Professionals Resume Workshop Urban Green

Are you a young professional interested in taking the next step in your career? Are you unsure how to navigate your job hunt during these unprecedented times? Join Urban Green’s Emerging Professionals for the next event in our Career Development series. Attendees will learn how to prepare a professional resume that reflects the skills, knowledge and education that are relevant to the job they are seeking. Discussion topics will include: How to clearly and concisely present your skills and abilities Styles of resumes General resume rules and common mistakes Participants are encouraged to come prepared with their own resumes to share!

Event Type: Resume Workshop Date & Time: Wednesday, March 10th from 12pm to 1pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $10

Sustainable Textiles: Building back better and greener - financial tools & alternative business models Cooper Union

It is no secret that the environmental impacts of the fashion and textile industry are vast and detrimental. The industry accounts for about 10% of the global CO2 emissions and 20% of wastewater worldwide, not to mention that approximately 35% of the world’s microfibers released into the environment stem from textiles. Extra pressure has been added on financing green transitions with the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit the industry hard, and it is imperative to build the industry back better and greener. This webinar will address the challenges and opportunities of shifting the industry to become more environmentally friendly, where the panellists will discuss financial tools, new business models, brands abilities to influence the agenda, and look into concrete solutions.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Wednesday, March 10th from 10am to 11:30am Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Health Equity in Public Space Columbia GSAPP

A lecture by Nupur Chaudhury, member of the American Planning Association, the American Public Health Association, an Urban Design Forum’s Forefront Fellow, a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow, board member of the Center for the Living City as well as Matthew Clarke, Executive Director of the Design Trust for Public Space, where he advocates for the power of public space to build vibrant, equitable communities.

Chaudhury is a public health urbanist who looks at cities, communities and connections through a grassroots lens. A bridge builder and translator in the fields of urban planning and public health, she has developed and implemented strategies to support residents, communities, and neighborhoods challenge power structures to build just, strong, and equitable cities. She has led coalition building efforts after Superstorm Sandy, redeveloped power structures in villages in India, and developed a citizen planning institute for public housing residents in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Her work spans the non profit, philanthropic and governmental systems, and has been featured in the American Journal of Public Health, CityLab, National Public Radio, and the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

Clarke is the Executive Director of the Design Trust for Public Space, where he advocates for the power of public space to build vibrant, equitable communities. As an architect, planner, and

writer, he has advanced complex architectural and urban design projects; developed public-space policies; and developed national partnerships and initiatives. Prior to leading the Design Trust, Matthew was that National Director of Creative Placemaking at The Trust for Public Land, where he was the author of The Field Guide for Creative Placemaking and Parks. He has also held positions at SHoP Architects, NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs, and LTL Architects. He was a German Marshall Fund Urban Policy Fellow, a member of Next City’s Urban Vanguard, and winner of the international KPF Prize. Matthew serves as a Trustee of Bennington College and as Vice-President of the Lucille Lortel Foundation. He studied at Princeton University and the University of Kentucky.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Wednesday, March 10th at 5pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York Skyscraper Museum

In The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York, Mariana Mogilevich details a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake New York City in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society. Bringing together psychology, politics, and design, her new book considers a broad array of projects in open spaces to affirm the value of city life in a moment of “urban crisis,” and reveals the emergence of a concept of public space that remains today a powerful, if unrealized, aspiration.

Mariana Mogilevich is a historian of architecture and urbanism. She is editor-in-chief of Urban Omnibus, the online publication of The Architectural League of New York, and has taught at New York University, Princeton University, Pratt Institute and Cornell University.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Wednesday, March 10th at 6pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Thurs 11

Public Art Fund Talks: Elmgreen & Dragset Cooper Union

Artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset’s free virtual talk on March 11 centers on their new permanent public commission, The Hive, 2020, a fantastical inverted cityscape inspired by iconic buildings in New York City and from cities around the world, which the artists have woven into architectural designs of their own invention. The artists have created this monumental site-specific artwork for the newly opened Moynihan Train Hall in New York City - the busiest transportation hub in North America.

Choosing to title the work The Hive, Elmgreen & Dragset suggest a link between natural and human-made structures, like the complex and evolving architecture of a hive. They’ve also described the ceiling-mounted buildings as being like luminous stalactites that pay tribute to the cities we live in today while reminding us of our cave-dweller origins. With technological precision, the imaginary city captures the multiplicity and synergy of the world’s metropolises. Appearing simultaneously monumental and weightless, the work is composed of 91 buildings that weigh a total of more than 30,000 lbs and extend to nearly nine feet in height. The 72,000 LEDs located within the model buildings illuminate the 31st Street Entrance Hall from day to night, reflecting New York’s ceaseless energy and celebrating the new perspectives and interconnectedness that cities and travel provide.

Event Type: Talk Date & Time: Thursday, March 11th from 1pm to 2pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Equity & Justice Issues with the Architecture Profession Columbia GSAPP

A panel discussion among: -Kendall Nicholson, Director of Research and Information, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture -Mark Gardner, Principal, Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects; Advocacy Chair, National Organization of Minority Architects; Former Co-Chair, AIA/NY Diversity and Inclusion Committee

-Venesa Alicia-Chuqui, Founding Principal, NYVARCH Architecture; Former Co-Chair, AIA/NY Diversity and Inclusion and Emerging New York Architects Committees -Kiki Dennis, Partner, Berke Architecture D.P.C. and leader of the firm’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative

Moderated by LeAnn Shelton, Esq., General Counsel and Director of Business Affairs for Rockwell Group.

Event Type: Panel Date & Time: Thursday, March 11th at 11am Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Step Inside: Greenwich Village Interiors Municipal Art Society of New York Guide Matt Postal

Join architectural historian Matt Postal for a look at some of Manhattan’s most beautiful, varied, and historic interiors, including an 1850s bar where Abraham Lincoln probably did not imbibe, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s private studio, and the egg-shaped auditorium that inspired Radio City Music Hall.

Event Type: Tour Date & Time: Thursday, March 11th at 6pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $25

Fri 12

Planning Futures? On Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Abolitionist Planning Columbia GSAPP

This one-day conference organized by Assistant Professor Hiba Bou Akar, brings leading planning and urban scholars who are re-thinking the field of urban planning and policy from postcolonial, decolonial, and abolitionist perspectives. It asks the following two interrelated questions: What are the futures of the field of urban planning, and what futures we ought to plan for when the future that is imagined in most of the world is one of state violence, dispossession, exploitation, war and conflict, pandemics, and climate change?

Event Type: Conference Date & Time: Friday, March 12th at 9:30am Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

A Queens Walking Tour, 1930 Municipal Art Society of New York Guide Bob Singleton

As the Roaring 20s gave way to the Great Depression, there was hardly a pause in the borough of Queens, as it transitioned from rural retreat to a land of paved city streets. It was a time when decaying Victorians, tidy truck farms, tract housing, planned communities, and ribbons of 20th century parkways mixed together in a wonderful mélange. Bob Singleton of the Greater Astoria Historical Society will draw upon the society’s archives and their best-selling book “Images of America: Forgotten Queens,” to examine a dynamic chapter of this borough.

Event Type: Tour Date & Time: Friday, March 12th at 11am Venue: Virtual Fee: $25

Sat 13

From Penn Station to Moynihan Train Hall Municipal Art Society of New York Guide Dana Schulz

Join Dana Schulz, managing editor of 6sqft, for a look at the 150-year history of Penn Station and the new Moynihan Train Hall. Starting with the earliest incarnation of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s service to New York City (which actually had its station in Jersey City!), we’ll look at the beautiful original Penn Station and learn about its demolition and how that eventually led to the creation of the city’s newest train hall. We’ll also explore the new Moynihan Train Hall and check out its public art pieces.

Event Type: Tour Date & Time: Saturday, March 13th at 11am Venue: Virtual Fee: $25

Sun 14

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

Join the Merchant’s House Museum 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, March 14th at 12:30pm Venue: outside of Merchant’s House Museum at 29 E 4th St, New York, NY Fee: $20

More New York Islands Municipal Art Society of New York Guide Zack Rhodes

If laid out in one line, New York City’s coastline would stretch from Boston to DC, which is why it’s surprising that only a handful of NYC’s islands are known by name. On this tour, we’ll follow

the 520 miles of city coastline and learn about many of NYC’s 42 islands. This tour will introduce you to some new stories, like why Theodore Roosevelt and Prince Henry of Prussia visited Staten Island together. You’ll also learn about familiar landmarks such as Castle Williams and the history of a community shaped by New York’s waterways.

Event Type: Tour Date & Time: Sunday, March 14th at 11am Venue: Virtual Fee: $25

Mon 15

LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island AIA Center for Architecture

Designed entirely pro bono, this project is part of the ongoing transformation of New York’s Governors Island from a former military base to a vibrant cultural destination. The goal of the project was to create gallery, studio, and administrative space for an arts non-profit that has served artists and the community for almost half a century. An 1870s munitions warehouse on the island’s northern edge lent itself perfectly to this mission, offering an iconic waterfront location in a structure well suited to adaptive reuse. The 40,000-square-foot interior renovation makes the most of the building’s unique features and historic character. The long and narrow windowed expanse that once stored materiel now houses light-filled galleries and studios for art and dance. The original truss structure was exposed and restored, creating a loft-like, luminous main gallery on the upper level, with an adjoining reception area set behind a clear glass wall that preserves the expansive quality of the space. Smaller rooms for performance, rehearsal, and exhibition, along with art studios on both levels, enjoy abundant natural light. A new stair and elevator allow for integrated, accessible programming, and a café on the lower level, framed by an exposed-brick wall, offers views of Lower Manhattan and the surrounding harbor.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Monday, March 15th from 6pm to 7pm Venue: Virtual Fee: general $10, students free

Nader Tehrani Lecture Columbia GSAPP

A lecture by Nader Tehrani with response by Amale Andraos, Dean of Columbia GSAPP.

For his contributions to architecture as an art, Nader Tehrani is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize.

Nader Tehrani is Founding Principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry. He is also Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union.

Tehrani’s work has been recognized with notable awards, including the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the United States Artists Fellowship in Architecture and Design, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture. He has also received the Harleston Parker Award and the Hobson Award. Throughout his career, Tehrani has received eighteen Progressive Architecture Awards as well as numerous national and international design awards. He served as the Frank O. Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the University of Toronto and the inaugural Paul Helmle Fellow at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has also recently served as the William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. His office, NADAAA, for the past seven years in a row, has ranked in the Top eleven design firms in Architect Magazine’s Top 50 Firms in the United States, ranking as First three years in a row.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Monday, March 15th at 6pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Tues 16

A Critical History of Early-Modern Architecture in China: Exploring the Contexts of Modernist History, Current Theory, Heritage Approaches, and the Anthropocene Society of Architectural Historians, New York Metropolitan Chapter, and New York University, M.A. in Historical and Sustainable Architecture

Edward Denison,Professor of Architecture and Global Modernities at The Bartlett School https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95831656657

This presentation will introduce China’s encounter with architectural modernity up to the advent of communism in 1949 as a way to critically reflect on theoretical, racial, ecological and other debates within and beyond the heritage industry in the Anthropocene.

More than most places in the world, China presents a compelling case for multiple modernities. With revolution transforming China’s social and political landscape in the first half of the twentieth century, over five different types of foreign settlement on sovereign Chinese territory (including over 60 different treaty ports), the mediating role of Japan, and the cosmopolitan experiences of China’s artists and intellectuals, art practices in China confronted unprecedented change and cultivated entirely new modes of thought and expression that have been largely overlooked in modern history at local, national and global scales. This presentation reflects on this seminal experience as a way of exposing and seeking to resolve structural prejudices in modernist historiography from the twentieth century that have a profound impact on heritage practice in the twenty-first century.

Edward Denison is Professor of Architecture and Global Modernities at The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), where he is also Director of the MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments. His research focuses on sustainability, heritage and architectural historiography and modernity outside ‘the west’. He has worked on a variety of research and heritage projects in different global contexts, including Asia, Africa and Europe, where he advises on heritage theory and practice. In 2016 and 2017, he won the RIBA President’s Medal for Research for his work on the UNESCO World Heritage Nomination of Asmara, the modernist capital of Eritrea, and for his work on Ultra-Modernism in Manchuria, respectively. Publications include 'Architecture and the Landscape of Modernity in China before 1949' (Routledge, 2017); 'Ultra-Modernism – Architecture and Modernity in Manchuria' (HKUP, 2017); 'Luke Him Sau, Architect: China’s Missing Modern' (Wiley, 2014); 'The Life of the British Home' (Wiley, 2012); 'McMorran & Whitby' (RIBA, 2009); 'Modernism in China: Architectural Visions and Revolutions' (Wiley, 2008); 'Building Shanghai: The Story of China's Gateway' (Wiley, 2006); and 'Asmara – Africa’s Secret Modernist City' (Merrell, 2003).

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Tuesday, March 16th from 12:30pm to 2pm Venue: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/95831656657 Fee: Free

Recalibrate Reality with MTA Chairman Pat Foye Regional Plan Association Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye

How do we recalibrate reality to create a better, brighter future for New York? Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye joins host Scott Rechler for the another episode of Recalibrate Reality: The Future of New York, a conversation series with leading thinkers and decision-makers to tackle this crucial question.

Event Type: Talk Date & Time: Tuesday, March 16th from 7pm to 8pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Espresso with Carlo Featuring Andrew Yang, Candidate for New York City Mayor New York Building Congress

Join the NYBC for this series with New York Mayoral Candidates!

Event Type: Talk Date & Time: Tuesday, March 16th at 11am Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Wed 17

Rethinking NYC: Rethinking Cultural and Public Life CUNY Graduate Center

New York City is beloved for its abundant cultural activities and its magnificent public spaces. With the forced shutdown of theaters, museums, and cultural organizations and a renewed focus on equity, what is a creative way forward for artists and audiences? As New York’s parks and streets have become even more central in this time, what are new ways to rethink the city’s cultural and public life? Gonzalo Casals, commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, moderates a panel, featuring: Kamilah Forbes, executive producer for the Apollo Theater and director of the stage and HBO productions of Between the World and Me by

Ta-Nehisi Coates; Setha Low, professor of psychology, earth and environmental sciences, and anthropology, and director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, CUNY; and Wendy Whelan, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and current associate artistic director of the company.

Event Type: Conversation Date & Time: Wednesday, March 17th from 7:30pm to 9pm Venue: Zoom or Youtube Fee: Free

Ada Louise Huxtable’s New York Historic District Council Guide Lucie Levine

March 14, 2021 marks what would be Ada Louise Huxtable’s 100th birthday. Huxtable (1921-2013), a native New Yorker, was a pioneer in architectural criticism, and a champion of livable cities. As the first full-time architecture critic at a major American Newspaper (The New York Times created the position specifically for her in 1963), she won the first Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism in 1970, and helped redefine architecture in the public consciousness as “a very real and important art [because] it affects us all so directly.” Her writing on architecture, urban design, and planning helped bring those topics into the popular consciousness, and encouraged New Yorkers to see the buildings around them as part of their lives. She championed “humanity of scale,” and buildings that were “integrated into life and use,” writing: “what counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.” Huxtable helped us do exactly that. On this virtual tour of her New York, we will learn about her life, see buildings she praised and those she decried, and consider her legacy as a writer, an urbanist, and a champion of the collective work of city-making.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Wednesday, March 17th from 6pm to 7pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Gabriella Bullock Lecture Columbia GSAPP

A lecture by Gabrielle Bullock with response by Juan Herreros, Professor, Columbia GSAPP.

Gabrielle Bullock is a Principal and Director of Global Diversity for Perkins+Will, has shaped an architectural career that focuses on her two passions: design and social justice. She is the recipient of the 2020 AIA Whitney Young Jr. Award for her commitment to social justice. As designer and principal, she has been a key player in Perkins+Will’s success for more than 25 years, leading numerous complex and high-profile projects, including the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, one of the largest building projects ever completed for the University of California system. As the firm’s global diversity director—a position created for her and one of the only such roles at a large architecture firm—she is transforming their work culture to foster an environment rich in diverse talent and fresh ideas.

She has worked in both the New York and Los Angeles offices, serving as Managing Director of the Los Angeles office, the first African-American and the first woman to take on that role.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Wednesday, March 17th at 6pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Thurs 18

Product Showcase: More than an R value - Acoustics in Commercial Buildings New York Passive House

Stone wool is often specified for its superior properties such as energy efficiency, sustainability, fire protection, water resistance and sound control. Commercial stone wool products can help to protect property, extend building life cycles and enhance occupant comfort, and are designed to make construction faster and easier. This course will identify what stone wool insulation is and how it is produced and will discuss some introductory terminology and concepts as they relate

to sound and acoustics in the building envelope. We will examine current codes and standards provisions for acoustics and finally, we will discuss some techniques and considerations that can be made when design systems for the interior and exterior of the building envelope.

Event Type: x Date & Time: Thursday, March 18th from 12pm to 1pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Fri 19

Adapting Historic Districts for an Equitable Future: SoHo/NoHo Case Study AIA Center for Architecture

The NYC Department of City Planning’s (DCP) current SoHo/NoHo Neighborhood Plan seeks to rezone these two historic neighborhoods to promote equity and allow for the addition of thousands of new housing units, including hundreds of affordable housing units. However, this project has raised questions about whether and how new housing can be added in historic neighborhoods across the city.

This event will explore why it is not only possible but instrumental that new housing is built in historic areas. Doing so would open access to areas rich in transit and jobs to those who might not otherwise be able to live there. A distinguished group of panelists will address how the proposed SoHo/NoHo Neighborhood Plan and other potential actions by the city government could adapt our built environment for a more equitable future.

Panelists: Vishaan Chakrabarti, FAIA, Dean, College of Environmental Design at University of California, Berkeley; Founder and Creative Director, PAU Darby Curtis, AIA Principal, Curtis + Ginsburg Architects Justin Garrett Moore, AICP, NOMA, Program Officer, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Moderator: Jerrod Delaine, Visiting Assistant Professor of Real Estate Practice, Pratt Institute

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Friday, March 19th from 11am to 12:30pm

Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Complicating the Canon: Modern Architecture and the Black Middle Class Collins/Kaufmann Forum

In the late 1930s, Amaza Lee Meredith (1895-1984), an African American woman from Lynchburg, Virginia, designed and built a Modern style house for herself and her female companion. Situated on the edge of the Historically Black Virginia State College, in Petersburg, VA, the modest structure, built of concrete blocks, emphasizes the horizontal in a cube-like form. A smooth white planar surface is punctuated by glass bricks, has rounded ends, and a flat roof terrace framed by curved metal coping and accessed by means of a steel ship’s ladder. In other words, the building reflects clear principles of Modern architecture. Yet these formal and aesthetic considerations typically, to this day, conjure the designs of the white European male: the slick shiny cube of a Le Corbusier dwelling or the refractive glass and steel of a Mies van der Rohe facade.

In her life and work, Amaza Lee Meredith shattered behavioral norms on multiple levels. The house she designed provides a provocative place to explore the choices she made, the influences she absorbed, and the new norms she desired to reflect. This lecture offers a reconsideration of the Modernist canon, but more importantly, provides a candid lens into the world of the emergent Black professional class of the early 20th century. Asking critical questions to enrich the discourse of race and gender identity politics, while broadening histories of social representation, this presentation illustrates the importance of mining minority histories of material culture, to enhance our appreciation of American history and life in all its complexity.

Event Type: Panel Date & Time: Friday, March 19th at 12pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Infrastructures of Violence Columbia GSAPP

Rebecca Brown, Swati Chattopadhyay, and Avishek Ray participate in a conversation with Assistant Professor Ateya Khorakiwala.

This conversation aims to consider the histories of the built environment in the wake of their failures during this past year through the pandemic. If we locate the history of infrastructure in the techno-scientific rationalities of colonial extractivisms and post-colonial developmentalism, then what have been the vectors of power that are crystalized in the built environment that have determined the betrayal of laboring bodies? How has a politics of ever expanding extractivism located itself on the bodies of working people? Is infrastructure a structure of power or a technique of violence?

Event Type: Discussion Date & Time: Friday, March 19th at 1pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Grand Central Terminal Municipal Art Society of New York MAS Docent Judy Garza

This 60-to-75-minute tour is led by MAS-trained docents and highlights the history, architecture and operations of one of the world’s biggest train terminals. The Municipal Art Society was instrumental in saving Grand Central Terminal in the 1970s and until the pandemic, conducted an on-site daily tour. We are pleased to maintain our connection with this online virtual tour.

Event Type: Tour Date & Time: Friday, March 19th at 11am Venue: Virtual Fee: $25

Sat 20

Immigrant Architect: Rafael Guastavino and Subway Style New York Transit Museum Designer Rafael Guastavino

Have you ever seen an arched ceiling covered with tiles? If so, maybe it was designed by Spanish artist, architect, engineer, designer, musician, and visionary… Rafael Guastavino! He created the “Tile Arch System” which uses tiles to create strong arches and curved vaults, found in New York City in the Old City Hall subway station, Grand Central Terminal, and Ellis Island. Join us for this special program with authors Berta de Miguel and Kent Diebolt, who will read sections of their beautiful children’s book Immigrant Architect: Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream while illustrator Virginia Lorente shares her drawing process live on screen. Be inspired by the Guastavinos and their big dream in this program for anyone ages 5 to 105!

Event Type: Conversation Date & Time: Saturday, March 20th from 11am to 11:45am Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Mon 22

Ekene Ijeoma Lecture Columbia GSAPP

A lecture by Ekene Ijeoma with response by Amina Blacksher, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia GSAPP.

Ekene Ijeoma is an artist, professor at MIT, and the founder and director of the Poetic Justice group at MIT Media Lab. Through both his studio and lab at MIT, Ijeoma researches social inequality across multiple fields including social science to develop artworks in sound, video, multimedia, sculpture and installation. Working from data studies and life experiences, and using both computational design and conceptual art strategies, he reframes social issues through artworks that embody and empower overlooked truths within systems of oppression.

Current works in development by Ijeoma and his lab Poetic Justice include A Counting, a series of phone and internet-based artworks, and Black Mobility and Safety in the US, a series of public lectures, conversations, and panels. A Counting is an ongoing series of video-based and sound-based voice portraits of US cities that explore the linguistic and ethnic inequality in the US Census by counting to a hundred with a different language for each number. In Summer 2020, three editions were launched for New York City, Houston and Omaha in partnership with the Museum of the City of New York, Brooklyn Public Library, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Monday, March 22nd at 6pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Tues 23

Francesca Russello Ammon Lecture Columbia GSAPP

Lecture by Francesca Russello Ammon, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania

By 1965, nearly 800 American cities—located in almost every state across the country—sought to spur revitalization through the federal policy of urban renewal. Typically, their efforts took the form of large-scale demolition aimed at clearing space for new, modern construction. The Housing Act of 1954, however, introduced federal funding for rehabilitation-based approaches as well. This talk considers the motivations behind this more conservationist approach; the practical constraints to its wider-spread adoption; and its prevalence, character, and material impacts on the ground. The landmark case of Philadelphia’s Society Hill neighborhood, in particular, helps demonstrate how a preservation-based approach to urban renewal still transformed both the physical and social character of a community.

Francesca Russello Ammon is Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. A social and cultural historian of the built environment, she is the author of Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape, winner of the 2017 Lewis Mumford Prize for the best book in American planning history. She is particularly interested in post-World War II American cities, focusing on: the history of urban renewal and revitalization; public history as a tool for community-based research and engagement; and the ways that visual culture has shaped understanding of what cities are, have been, and should be. She holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Princeton University, a master’s degree from Yale School of Architecture, and a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, Society of Architectural Historians, Mellon Foundation, Whiting Foundation, and the Ambrose Monell Foundation. She is currently writing a history of postwar preservation and urban renewal based upon the Philadelphia neighborhood of Society Hill.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Tuesday, March 23rd at 1:15pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Core Value Skyscraper Museum

Peter Weismantle spent 31 years in the Chicago office of SOM before moving in 2008 to AS+GG as Director of Supertall Building Technology where he has been responsible for overseeing the firm’s development of supertall projects from onset to completion. Working with the project team, Weismantle develops the design of such technical elements as the building envelope, vertical transportation and life safety systems, and compliance with applicable building codes and standards.

At SOM, Peter served as Senior Technical Architect on path-breaking supertalls, including Shanghai’s Jin Mao Tower and Burj Khalifa. More recent projects at AS+GG include Wuhan Greenland Center, Chengdu Greenland Tower, at 468 meters, the tallest building in southwestern China and the fourth-tallest in the nation. Peter led the design team for the building technology aspects of Jeddah Tower, a 167 story, 1000+ meter, mixed-use building in Saudi Arabia which, if completed as planned, will surpass Burj Khalifa as the tallest building in the world.

Educated at Lehigh University for his B.A. and the University of Pennsylvania for his Master of Architecture, Peter has published widely and presented many lectures on issues of tall building engineering, sustainability, and life safety systems. He has been a leader on professional committees, including several of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Tuesday, March 23rd at 6pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Wed 24

Jacques Tati: A Lens on Modern Life The Glass House French Filmmaker Jacques Tati

Please join us to celebrate the extraordinary work of French filmmaker Jacques Tati and its relationship to modern architecture, design and the lens though which post WW2 Europe emerged. The discussion will feature Alison Castle, author of The Definitive Jaques Tati (Taschen) and Design Architect James Wall, who reinterpreted Tati’s Villa Arpel in Mon Oncle for a series of exhibitions in Miami and New York. The conversation will be moderated by Chief Curator and Creative Director at The Glass House, Hilary Lewis.

Alison Castle is a book editor, writer, and filmmaker. Her publications for TASCHEN, focusing on film, photography, and design, include The Stanley Kubrick Archives, Saturday Night Live: The Book, Marc Newson: Works, and The Definitive Jacques Tati. Her documentary film debut — a feature-length portrait of her father, the artist Wendell Castle — is forthcoming.

James J. Wall is the creative director and founder of Thirlwall, an architecture and design firm that has garnered recognition from an international clientele over eighteen years for its astute design approach and concepts as well as its attention to materiality and building processes. The team has developed a rich portfolio of architecture, landscape, and interior projects, each of which combines idiosyncratic vernacular with clean materiality.

Glass House Presents is an ongoing series of talks, performances, and other live events that extend the site’s historic role as a gathering place for artists, architects, and other creative minds. This event is co-hosted by New Canaan Library and supported in part by Connecticut Humanities and the New Canaan Community Foundation.

Event Type: Webinar Date & Time: Wednesday, March 24th at 7pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Behind-the-Ropes, Virtually: Insiders’ Tours of the Merchant’s House - 19th Century Domestic Lighting Merchant’s House Museum

Join Merchant’s House Museum 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!

Event Type: Tour Date & Time: Wednesday, March 24th from 6pm to 7:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $10

Espresso with Carlo Featuring Eric Adams, Candidate for Mayor of New York City New York Building Congress

Join the NYBC for this series with New York Mayoral Candidates!

Event Type: Talk Date & Time: Wednesday, March 24th at 2pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Thurs 25

David Heymann, AR ‘85: A Building You Should Know - the John S. Chase Residence Cooper Union Architect and Author David Heymann

In 1959, John S. Chase, the first African American to be licensed as an architect by the State of Texas – but that only after petitioning the state for special permission to sit for the exam – completed a remarkable modern house for his own family in Houston. Though largely ignored within architecture, the house as a gathering place was a landmark in local, state, and national culture and politics. You should know it.

David Heymann, FAIA, is an architect, author, and the Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas. His focus is the complex relationship of constructions and landscapes. Heymann is the author of My Beautiful City Austin and, with Stephen Fox, John S. Chase - the Chase Residence. He is a contributing writer for Places Journal; his essay Landscape Is Our Sex received the 2012 Bradford Williams Medal. Heymann’s architectural work has been recognized with various design honors, including selection for Emerging Voices by the Architecture League of New York. He is an AIA/ACSA Distinguished Teaching Professor, and has received numerous teaching awards, including recognition by DesignIntelligence in 2017 and 2018. Heymann holds degrees from the Cooper Union and Harvard’s GSD.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Thursday, March 25th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Mughal Gardens of Agra, India Virtual Tour World Monuments Fund

Recently restored with new plantings and re-activated water features, the Mughal Gardens of Agra give us a glimpse of the landscape of sixteenth-century Agra. The tranquility of the gardens, offset by the bustling city nearby, present a world where urban centers coexist with green oases.

Join WMF India Executive Director Amita Baig on a virtual tour of the lush gardens along the banks of the Yamuna River in Agra, India, and discover graceful and imposing pavilions reminiscent of the legendary Taj Mahal. This visit will take you behind the scenes of Mehtab Bagh, or the “Moonlight Garden,” north of the Taj, and introduce you to the Tomb of I’timad-ud-Daulah. With an analysis of the surrounding urban context and an overview of the gardens’ potential for community and sustainable development, Amita will guide you through WMF’s five-year project to ensure the preservation of the Mughal Gardens of Agra goes hand in hand with a wider strategy for urban planning and social equity.

Event Type: Webinar

Date & Time: video will be released on Thursday, March 25th Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Fiona Raby Lecture Yale School of Architecture Professor of Design and Social Inquiry Fiona Raby

Fiona Raby is University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry at The New School in New York, and co-director of The Designed Realities Studio. Between 2011-2015 she was professor of Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Between 2011-2015, Reader in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art, London, teaching in Architecture (ads04), Computer Related Design and Design Interactions (1995-2015)

She is a partner in the design studio Dunne & Raby.

Dunne & Raby use design as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies.

She is co-author, with Anthony Dunne, of Design Noir (2001) which will be republished in 2021 and Speculative Everything (2013, Projects include Technological Dream Series, No 1: Robots (2007), Designs For An Over Populated Planet: Foragers (2010), The United Micro Kingdoms (2013), and The School of Constructed Realities (2015).

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Thursday, March 25th at 6:30pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Redlining and Real Estate Columbia GSAPP

Andre Perry, Senior Fellow of the Metropolitan Policy program of the Brookings Institute and author of Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities and Kevin McGruder (‘84 UB), Vice President of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of History at Antioch College and author of Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in

Harlem, 1890-1920 (Columbia University Press, June 2015) will be joined in conversation by Diane Branch ('03 MSRED). Introduction by Patrice Derrington, Holliday Associate Professor and Director of GSAPP’s Real Estate Development Program.

Event Type: Seminar Date & Time: Thursday, March 25th at 1pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Fri 26

Knowledge Worlds Columbia GSAPP

Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University

Book launch and conversation among Lucia Allais, Associate Professor; Weihong Bao; Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Associate Professor, Columbia; and Mabel O. Wilson, Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture; in conversation with Reinhold Martin, Professor and Author.

What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United States, from the Ivy League and women’s colleges to historically black colleges and land-grant universities, teach us about the production and distribution of knowledge? Addressing media theory, architectural history, and the history of academia, Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex comprising a network of infrastructures and operations through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld.

Reinhold Martin argues that the material infrastructures of the modern university—the architecture of academic buildings, the configuration of seminar tables, the organization of campus plans—reveal the ways in which knowledge is created and reproduced in different kinds of institutions. He reconstructs changes in aesthetic strategies, pedagogical techniques, and political economy to show how the boundaries that govern higher education have shifted over the past two centuries. From colleges chartered as rights-bearing corporations to research universities conceived as knowledge factories, educating some has always depended upon excluding others. Knowledge Worlds shows how the division of intellectual labor was redrawn as new students entered, expertise circulated, science repurposed old myths, and humanists cultivated new forms of social and intellectual capital. Combining histories of architecture,

technology, knowledge, and institutions into a critical media history, Martin traces the uneven movement in the academy from liberal to neoliberal reason.

Event Type: Book Launch Date & Time: Friday, March 26th at 1pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Sat 27

Apartment Living in Central Brooklyn Municipal Art Society of New York

Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights North are known for their rows of magnificent brownstones, the vast majority of which were built as elegant single-family townhouses. But land is a finite resource. When these neighborhoods were being developed in the late 19th and early 20th century, apartment buildings for various incomes were incorporated into the urban landscape. Their architects and developers hoped to appeal to changing demographics and consumer must-haves. It was a tough sell and these apartments had to be something special. As the 20th century progressed, apartments changed once again, for a still-growing middle class. Our tour celebrates the creativity, beauty and functionality of these buildings, designed by some of Brooklyn’s finest and most prolific architects. The elegant European-style suites, efficient middleclass flats, pre-war Classic Sixes and more – Central Brooklyn has them all.

Event Type: Tour Date & Time: Saturday, March 27th at 11am Venue: Virtual Fee: $25

Sun 28

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

Join 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!

Event Type: Tour Date & Time: Sunday, March 28th at 12:30pm Venue: outside of Merchant’s House Museum at 29 E 4th St, New York, NY Fee: $10

Subway Art Tour Five Municipal Art Society of New York Guide Phil Desiere

Most of the route for Subway Art Tour Five travels through the beautiful borough of Brooklyn! On this virtual tour we will continue our journey through the museum at the core of the Big Apple. After two stops in Lower Manhattan, where we’ll see several artworks, Tour Five moves into Brooklyn. Four of the artworks date from late 2018. From examples of picturesque 19th-century Bay Ridge houses to several colorful abstract artworks to the historic story of the subway Tour Five is a look at diverse public art.

Event Type: Tour Date & Time: Sunday, March 28th at 11am Venue: Virtual Fee: $25

Tues 30

Lesley Lokko: This Fragile Condition Cooper Union Architect and PhD Lesley Lokko

Lesley Lokko trained as an architect at the Bartlett School of Architecture and holds a PhD in Architecture from the same institution. She was the founder and director of the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg from 2014 - 2019. She recently resigned from her position as Dean of Architecture at the Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY, and is now engaged in building the African Futures Institute, an independent postgraduate school of architecture and events space in Accra, Ghana. In 2021, she will hold visiting professorships at The Cooper Union, University of Virginia and Yale University.

She is the editor of White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Culture, Architecture (University of Minnesota Press, 2000); editor-in-chief of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture. She is also a series editor of the Design Research in Architecture (UCL Press), together with founders Jonathan Hill and Murray Fraser.

In 2004, she made the successful transition from academic to novelist with the publication of her first novel, Sundowners (Orion 2004), a UK-Guardian top forty best-seller, and has since then followed with eleven further best-sellers, which have been translated into fifteen languages. She has lectured and published widely on the subject of race, identity and architecture, and has served on many international juries and awards over the past decade, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Archiprix, the RIBA President’s Medals, Archmarathon and the Venice Biennale.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Tuesday, March 30th at 12pm Venue: Zoom Fee: Free

Art Deco 101: Murals of the New Deal Art Deco Society of New York

Join ADSNY as they continue our Art Deco 101 series of online illustrated talks that give an in-depth look at Art Deco architecture and design.

In this online presentation, educator and Art Deco expert, Kathleen Murphy Skolnik, will explore the expressive murals of the New Deal Era that are an important aspect of the United States' Art Deco heritage.

In this web-based event we will see how, soon after the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as president in 1933, Congress began enacting legislation to establish a series of federally funded programs intended to put unemployed Americans, including artists, back to work.

The murals and other art created under these government employment programs are often referred to as “WPA art,” a reference to the Works Progress Administration. In this beautifully illustrated presentation, Skolnik will dive into how the Federal Art Project of the WPA was only one of several valuable work relief programs for artists during the New Deal era. Together, we will examine these significant programs, discuss the differences between them, and provide examples of beautiful murals created for schools, post offices, airports, and other public and government buildings under each of them.

Even though this event is online, it will include a live PowerPoint—with wonderful images that you will be able to see directly on your computer screen, tablet, or mobile device––as well as a Q&A session with participants.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Tuesday, March 30th from 6:30pm to 8pm Venue: Virtual Fee: $20

Pure Bearing Wall Skyscraper Museum

Structural engineer Robert Sinn is a Principal in the Chicago office of Thornton Tomasetti. Before joining TT in 2007, Bob spent more than two decades at SOM, where he was responsible for such award-winning projects as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, and Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, which when completed was the tallest all-concrete building in North America. Recent project credits include the 245-meter Federation of Korean Industries headquarters (2014) in Seoul, South Korea, the Al Wasl Plaza for Expo 2020 in Dubai, UAE, topped by a translucent dome that spans 130 meters.

Sinn led the structural design team for Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower, which if completed as planned will be the first man-made structure to reach a height of one kilometer. As he has explained in lectures on the megatower, the three-legged buttressed core is developed as a

pure bearing wall system where all gravity loads are carried entirely by reinforced concrete walls. According to Bob, the structure of the first structure designed to exceed 3,200 feet is “simplicity itself.”

Educated in Civil Engineering at Northwestern University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bob is a fellow of the American Concrete Institute, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Tuesday, March 20th at 6pm Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Wed 31

Greek Revival Bicentennial: A Celebration of Our Neighborhoods’ Architectural Heritage Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation & Merchant’s House Museum

The Greek War of Independence, which began on March 25, 1821, and is celebrated each year throughout Greece and the Greek Diaspora, not only lead to freedom for a people after centuries of foreign domination, it also sparked a renewed interest in Greek architecture in the United States. This first modern democracy looked back towards the first democracy for inspiration, and the result: the “Greek Revival” style of architecture, which came to dominate development in our neighborhoods, east to west, during their formative years of the 1830s through the mid-century, with many fine examples that survive to this day still defining our streetscapes.

This year we celebrate the 200th anniversary of that political and ultimately aesthetic revolution with famed architectural historian Francis Morrone as he explores the myriad manifestations of Greek Revival architecture in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, and their influence on our neighborhoods’ development.

Event Type: Lecture Date & Time: Wednesday, March 31st at 6pm

Venue: Virtual Fee: Free

Exhibitions

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

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

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