NYU Urban Design and Architecture Studies New York Area Calendar of Events January 2019 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Past, Present, and Future Tour Design and the Just City in NYC Underground Manhattan, The History of the NYC Subway System 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Marina Tabassum: Happy 50th Past, Present, and Dwelling in the Anniversary, St. Future Tour Ganges Delta Mark’s Historic District! In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Contested Ground: Affordable Design Past, Present, and Design and the and Beyond: Future Tour Politics of Memory Addressing the Needs of All Behind-the-Ropes: Classical New Populations Insider’s Tours of the York: Discovering Merchant’s House Greece and Rome in Lower Manhattan 27 28 29 30 31 Buromoscow Drawing Codes: Just Another Brick Inside Out/Outside ​ Gallery Roundtable in the Wall In: Second Nature The Making of the in Japanese Greenwich Village Presentation for Architecture Historic District League Grants Events The Municipal Art Society of New York SEE ALL EVENTS → ​ ​ WED 9 School Program Tour Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Learn about the Spitzer School’s undergraduate and graduate programs. This tour will include the studios, fabrication shop, library, and Solar Roof pod. EVENT TYPE Graduate Program Tour DATE & TIME Wednesday, January 9th | 3:30 – 4:30 PM VENUE Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture 141 Convent Avenue New York, NY 10031 FEE Free and open to the public REGISTER Education Design for the Homeless Gary Armbruster, AIA, ALEP, Principal Architect and Partner, MA+ Architecture Amy Brewer, M.Ed., Director of Education, Positive Tomorrows Angela M. Howard, VP of Real Estate and Facilities, Covenant House Heidi Blau, FAIA, Partner, FXCollaborative AIANY Architecture for Education Committee Educating homeless children is national dilemma that presents significant challenges, particularly to the organizations who serve this population and to the architects who design their facilities. In this presentation, leaders of the Positive Tomorrows School for Homeless Children in Oklahoma City and the Covenant House in New York City will discuss the visions they have and the daily issues they face in educating homeless children. Their architects will present designs for new facilities that address their unique needs, highlighting the differences between these learning environments and standard schools. EVENT TYPE Lecture DATE & TIME Wednesday, January 8 | 6 – 8 PM 2/22 VENUE Center for Architecture | 536 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012 FEE $10 general public | Free for students with a valid ID REGISTER THU 10 Design and the Just City in NYC Opening Center for Architecture Join the Center for Architecture for an event celebrating the opening of Design and the Just City in NYC and ​ ​ marking the closing of Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip Hop Architecture. ​ ​ Design and the Just City in NYC asks viewers to imagine the Just City. Imagine that the issues of race, ​ income, education, and unemployment inequality, and the resulting segregation, isolation, and fear, could be addressed by planning and urban design. Would we design better places if we put the values of equality, equity, and inclusion first? If communities articulated what they stood for, what they believed in, and what they aspired to be, would they have a better chance of creating healthy and vibrant places? This exhibition features the research of the Just City Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, examining five design and planning cases in New York City. By using the Lab’s Just City Index, the case studies will explore how the design teams behind these projects took a values-driven approach to addressing conditions of injustice in the city. EVENT TYPE Gallery Opening Reception DATE & TIME Thursday, January 10 | 6 – 8 PM VENUE Center for Architecture | 536 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012 FEE Free and open to the public REGISTER 3/22 SAT 12 Underground Manhattan, The History of the NYC Subway System New York Adventure Club It's right there under your feet, you probably ride it every day, but how much do you know about this city's subway system? Join New York Adventure Club as they explore the oldest subway stations in New York City with transit expert and guide Gary Dennis. The tour will start from Brooklyn Bridge — City Hall station to Grand Central Terminal. They will explore the history and inside story of the creation of the original 1904 subway line, and how it grew into the most extensive transportation system in the world; a closer look at the art, architecture, and secrets hiding in plain sight of stations including Brooklyn Bridge - City Hall, Astor Place, and Times Square; and a glimpse of Old City Hall Station from the 6 train, the crown jewel of the subway system, which closed in 1945. EVENT TYPE Walking tour DATE & TIME Saturday, January 12th | 2 PM VENUE Municipal Building (South Side of Colonnade, Top of Stairs to Subway) 1 Centre Street New York, NY 10007 FEE $29 early registrants | $32 general public REGISTER TUE 15 Marina Tabassum: Dwelling in the Ganges Delta Marina Tabassum, Founder at Marina Tabassum Architects The Architectural League and Cooper Union Marina Tabassum founded Dhaka-based Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA) in 2005. Aiming to establish a contemporary architectural language without losing its roots to place, MTA carefully selects its projects and prioritizes local materials, climate, culture, and history. 4/22 EVENT TYPE Lecture DATE & TIME January 15 | 7 PM VENUE The Great Hall The Cooper Union 7 East 7th Street New York, NY FEE $15 general public | Free for League members GET TICKETS WED 16 Happy 50th Anniversary, St. Mark’s Historic District! Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, Saint Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, the Historic District’s Council, the Neighborhood Preservation Center, the Poetry Project, and Veselka On January 14th, 1969, the St. Mark’s Historic District was designated, marking the area that was owned by Petrus Stuyvesant, who laid out Stuyvesant Street in 1787, along with St. Mark’s Church. Celebrate the district - which includes Stuyvesant, East 11th and East 10th Streets - for it has long been a seat of cultural, architectural, religious, and artistic significance. Join residents and neighbors to learn about the district’s history and how it’s thrived since designation. EVENT TYPE Social Gathering DATE & TIME Wednesday, January 16th | 6:30 PM VENUE St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery | New York, NY 10003 FEE Free and open to the public REGISTER SAT 19 In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Met presents an international roster of today's most exciting and inspiring architects, artists, photographers, writers, and filmmakers, who will share the best spatial projects of 2018 and beyond. 5/22 EVENT TYPE Symposium DATE & TIME Saturday, January 19 | 10:30 AM – 6:30 PM VENUE The Metropolitan Museum | 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028 FEE Free with Museum admission REGISTER TUE 22 Contested Ground: Design and the Politics of Memory Jeanne Gang, Founding Principal of Studio Gang Amanda Williams, Visiting Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cornell University and Washington University Mabel O. Wilson, Professor at Columbia GSAPP The Architectural League of New York and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union How can historians, architects, and designers make visible and physically memorialize lost histories—what the founding Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Lonnie Bunch, refers to as “histories that hide in plain sight?” What are the design implications of spatializing the politics of memory? To whom will these memorials speak, and what do they tell us about our shared past? A three-way conversation between Jeanne Gang, Amanda Williams, and Mabel Wilson will explore these questions based on their research and design projects addressing public space, race, and cultural memory. EVENT TYPE Lecture DATE & TIME Tuesday, January 22 | 7–8:30 PM VENUE The Great Hall The Cooper Union 7 East 7th Street New York, NY 10003 FEE $15 general public | Free for League members GET TICKETS 6/22 Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Lower Manhattan Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies Matthew M. McGowan, Chair of Classics at Fordham University Jon Ritter, President of the New York chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians The Skyscraper Museum During New York’s rise to become a global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman antiquity played a formative role in the development of the city’s art and architecture. Classical New York, a collection of essays on the influence of Greco-Roman thought and design on the city, touches on topics from huge, elaborate neo-classical public buildings to public art and Latin inscriptions. Join the Skyscraper Museum as the editors of and a contributor to the volume discuss the enduring influence of the classical world on modern New York and, especially, on lower Manhattan. EVENT TYPE Book talk DATE & TIME Tuesday, January 22 | 6:30 – 8 PM VENUE The Skyscraper Museum | 39 Battery Pl, New York, NY 10280 FEE Free and open to the public RSVP VIA EMAIL Robert Venturi in Rome – An American Grand Tour Martino Stierli, Philip Johnson Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation Martino Stierli will discuss Robert Venturi's two-year stay at the American Academy in Rome 1954 to 1956 and how this experience decisively shaped his architectural thinking.