Guess-A-Sketch! A Benefit for the Center for Architecture Foundation
Join design industry superstars and play against your colleagues, peers, and friends in a competitive Pictionary-style drawing event. Master of Ceremony Walter A. Hunt, Jr., FAIA Sketchers Charles Renfro, AIA Ronnette Riley, FAIA, LEED AP & Robert M. Rogers, FAIA Form a team or come and watch! Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres Funds raised will support [...]
Curator’s Tour
Museum Director and Curator Carol Willis will conduct a curator’s tour of the current exhibit News PAPER Spires!
Samuel C. Florman, in conversation with Carol Willis
Samuel C. Florman, in conversation with Carol Willis GOOD GUYS, WISEGUYS, AND PUTTING UP BUILDINGS: A LIFE IN CONSTRUCTION After more than five decades as a general contractor in New York City, Samuel Florman, chairman of Kreisler Borg Florman General Construction Company, has many stories to tell. An engineer with a gift for prose, he [...]
Rocky Mountain Express
Join us for a private IMAX screening of Rocky Mountain Express, an extraordinary giant-screen journey that propels audiences into the age of steam to explore one of the greatest engineering feats of all time—the building of the Canadian transcontinental railway in the 1880’s. Meet the award-winning filmmaker Stephen Low and learn about his team’s newest [...]
DIRT
DIRT (MIT Press, 2012) presents a selection of works that share dirty attitudes: essays, interviews, excavations, and projects that view dirt not as filth but as a medium, a metaphor, a material, a process, a design tool, a narrative, a system. Rooted in the landscape architect’s perspective, DIRT views dirt not as repulsive but endlessly [...]
AEC-NYC Professionals Circle at Häfele
The AEC-NYC Professionals Circle is a regional networking community that brings together the finest architecture, engineering and construction professionals in the New York City area. After almost three years we now have 3400 members! Taking much of the “work” out of networking, our monthly social events provide ample opportunity for members to make meaningful, industry-specific [...]
Ideas that Matter: The Worlds of Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs is history’s most celebrated urban critic. In addition to The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs authored other influential books and was a tireless advocate for vibrant neighborhoods. The new edition of Ideas that Matter: The Worlds of Jane Jacobs combines Jacobs’ writing with a biography and analysis by scholars to [...]
Product Design with Scott Wilson, MINIMAL
In 2007, Scott Wilson founded MINIMAL, a hybrid design studio that balances creating new experiences for global brands with his passion for entrepreneurial ventures. Having designed at three consultancies, four corporations, and five start-ups, Wilson consistently defies existing categories and establishes new ones, from Nike’s Presto Digital Bracelet to Coalesses’s SW1 Collection, the Xbox 360 [...]
The Quirks of the L’Enfant Plan
Panelists explore the history of Pierre L’Enfant’s plan for Washington, D.C. and how the plan influences the look and feel of the city today. The panel will examine some of L’Enfant’s unrealized concepts, such as the idea to have states adopt squares across the city. This program complements the exhibition Unbuilt Washington, which will be open for [...]
Family Program: Paper Towers
Extra! Extra! After a tour of the exhibit News PAPER Spires, kids will learn about the the skyscrapers where the newspapers were written and printed at the turn of the 20th century, as portrayed in the Broadway show Newsies the Musical. Children will have the opportunity to learn about the top-down manufacturing process housed in [...]
Chelsea and the High Line: Walking Tour led by John Hill
Take in the new cutting-edge architecture in the Meatpacking District and Chelsea in this walk that traverses the length of the High Line, the impetus for much of the area’s dramatic change. Grab your walking shoes and join John Hill, author of Archidose Blog and the recently released Guide to Contemporary New York Architecture for [...]
Transforming Function
Transforming Function features artists who—by excavating the fields of technology, science, architecture and/or design—repurpose theoretical tools, virtual platforms, and formal techniques to inform their diverse conceptual and aesthetic investigations. Our direct relationships, whether concretely or abstractly, to these fields are developed inevitably while navigating daily life in both physical and online environments. The artists in [...]
Raymond Richard Neutra Presents the Significance and Survival of the Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Studio/Residences in Los Angeles
Dr. Raymond Richard Neutra will give an illustrated lecture to benefit the restoration of the Neutra compound. It was an ongoing social and technological experiment, designed in three phases: 1932, 1940 and 1966. It accommodated three households and Neutra’s small architectural office on a 60 x 70 foot lot. Aside from the historic interest of [...]
Launch Party: PLOT Volume 1
The Graduate Landscape Architecture Program of the Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, is launching the first volume of its new student-edited journal, PLOT. Featuring submissions by students, faculty, staff, and friends of the Landscape Architecture program, Volume 1 explores the theme of the Marginal Street, developed by the second year MLA [...]
ReThinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking
While the majority of us consider parking lots in functional terms, ReThinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking asks: What can a parking lot be? How could parking lots become valuable public spaces? In this new book, MIT professor of landscape architecture and urban planning Eran Ben-Joseph argues that surface parking lots shouldn’t [...]
Rediscovering Jacob Riis
Join Dr. Dan Czitrom, Mount Holyoke, as he uses the photographs of Jacob Riis to investigate poverty, mass immigration, urban housing, political corruption, and racial difference in New York City during the Gilded Age. In addition to discussing these key issues, Dr. Czitrom will also explore Riis as a one of the founding figures of [...]
A Conversation with the National Mall Design Competition Winners
Hear representatives from the winning teams in the Trust for the National Mall-sponsored National Mall Design Competition share their ideas and images for transforming Union Square, the Washington Monument grounds at Sylvan Theater, and Constitution Gardens. This program is presented in partnership with the Trust for the National Mall and the National Capital Planning Commission. [...]
We Made This: Post-Digital Culture and Spanish Design
How does design get made today? Join leading designers from Spain, the U.S. and abroad as they talk about their work and the state of graphic design in today’s global, connected design world. The convergence of hand processes, traditional printing methods, and digital production are creating new ways to make and consume media. Come participate [...]
Vincent Scully: An Art Historian among Architects
Join us for a screening of this hour-long documentary about Yale professor Vincent Scully, B.A. 1940, Ph.D. 1949, one of the best-known art historians living in the United States today.
A View From The Future – A Breakfast Forum
This program will illuminate the enormous transformation in the industry over the last five years, due to changes in the economy, technologies, and ways of doing business. Futurist Edie Weiner and a panel of top experts will discuss new emerging opportunities in the architecture/engineering/construction (AEC) industry and the need to innovate. The choice of Weiner [...]
Judith Turner: The Flatness of Ambiguity
Judith Turner is a noted American photographer whose subject matter is mostly architecture. Turner’s training as a designer allows her to visually understand an architect’s intention and to reveal it in compositions that she constructs and edits through her camera work. Her photography can be seen as a metalanguage of architectural intention and as an [...]
Family Program: Sidewalk Art
Kids will first sketch a blueprint for a building they know, such as their home or school. Then kids will use colorful chalk to draw their buildings on the sidewalk in front of the Museum, creating a colorful and creative city skyline. Ages 4+. Registration is required by calling 212.945.6324, or e-mailing education@skyscraper.org. Admission: $5 [...]
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: Movie Screening and Discussion
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth is a 2011 documentary that depicts the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II through the lens of Saint Louis’ infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the residents who called it home until its demolition in the 1970s. View the film’s trailer here: www.pruitt-igoe.com. Following the screening, as [...]
ARC.I.TEK
ARC.I.TEK is a workshop|competition developed for the young citizens of Seattle to design their visions of a Seattle World’s Fair in 2062. ARC.I.TEK engages and guides young Seattle citizens in learning the process of architecture and design, developing their skill sets and assisting them to shape their vision of the future, ultimately empowering them to [...]
ARC.I.TEK
ARC.I.TEK is a workshop|competition developed for the young citizens of Seattle to design their visions of a Seattle World’s Fair in 2062. ARC.I.TEK engages and guides young Seattle citizens in learning the process of architecture and design, developing their skill sets and assisting them to shape their vision of the future, ultimately empowering them to [...]
Eric Firley Book Talk THE URBAN TOWERS HANDBOOK
For well over a century, the modern skyscraper has provided an ingenious solution to high-density living and working. In the contemporary context of drastic urban growth, its role can only gain in importance. Firley analyzes fifty case studies—from Rockefeller Center in Manhattan to Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, from Hong Kong to São Paulo—to explore [...]
The Ross House: A Laboratory for Green Building Technology
The 1915 Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Ross House in Glencoe languished on the real estate market, unoccupied for years. Broken plumbing, roof replacement, interior restoration, mold, and rot were some of the challenges facing a new owner. Architect John Eifler, Eifler & Associates, purchased the property and will discuss how he is transforming the house into [...]
Dwell on Design 2012
Dwell on Design is the West Coast’s largest design event. Curated by the editors of Dwell Magazine, the three-day celebration brings together the best and brightest products, services, and thought leaders in modern design today for a series of conversations, demonstrations, home tours, and much more. In addition to featuring over 350 exhibitors on the [...]
Family Program: Sustainable Skyscrapers
Did you know that Battery Park City is a model green community? Explore the possibilities for greening New York City! Kids will work together to investigate how to make our cities healthy and sustainable. Children will model green buildings and planning a green city, giving them a hands-on understanding of sustainable design. Ages 6+.
ONE Lab: Future Cities Summer 2012 At The New York School For Design + Science
Terreform ONE Co-Founders Maria Aiolova and Mitchell Joachim present ONE Lab Summer 2012, a month long intensive program that educates the future creators of urbanity. Future Cities, a Socio-Ecological Exploration of the Next Metropolis, is the selected theme for the fourth ONE Lab organized by Terreform ONE. ONE Lab, which runs from July 9th to [...]
Family Program: Trash Factory
People recycle bottles, paper, and clothing all the time. But did you know that buildings are recycled too? Come learn how builders, building owners, and architects reuse old factory buildings to create new buildings of different functions. Kids will make their own “Trash Factories” from recycled materials that they can reconfigure and use again and [...]
ARC.I.TEK
ARC.I.TEK is a workshop|competition developed for the young citizens of Seattle to design their visions of a Seattle World’s Fair in 2062. ARC.I.TEK engages and guides young Seattle citizens in learning the process of architecture and design, developing their skill sets and assisting them to shape their vision of the future, ultimately empowering them to [...]
AA DLAB Visiting School, London, UK
AA DLab experiments thoroughly on the possibilities of digital design tools and rapid prototyping techniques as highly integrated systems of design development. It is an intensive computation and fabrication oriented workshop that is structured around a general theme in each consecutive edition. In 2012, DLab takes on the color of Green as the shade of [...]
Constance Rosenblum Book Talk
Constance Rosenblum Book Talk BOULEVARD OF DREAMS: HEADY TIMES, HEARTBREAK, AND HOPE ALONG THE GRAND CONCOURSE IN THE BRONX Stretching over four miles through the center of the West Bronx, the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, known simply as the Grand Concourse, has gracefully served as silent witness to the changing face of the Bronx and [...]
AA Visiting School Chicago – Campaigning Architecture
Campaigning Architecture is an international design workshop that explores multiple possibilities for how designers can more effectively engage the city. Located in Chicago, the 10-day workshop is a collaboration between the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and the UIC School of Architecture. Taught by instructors from both schools, the workshop will enable participants [...]
ARC.I.TEK
ARC.I.TEK is a workshop|competition developed for the young citizens of Seattle to design their visions of a Seattle World’s Fair in 2062. ARC.I.TEK engages and guides young Seattle citizens in learning the process of architecture and design, developing their skill sets and assisting them to shape their vision of the future, ultimately empowering them to [...]
ARC.I.TEK
ARC.I.TEK is a workshop|competition developed for the young citizens of Seattle to design their visions of a Seattle World’s Fair in 2062. ARC.I.TEK engages and guides young Seattle citizens in learning the process of architecture and design, developing their skill sets and assisting them to shape their vision of the future, ultimately empowering them to [...]
ARC.I.TEK
ARC.I.TEK is a workshop|competition developed for the young citizens of Seattle to design their visions of a Seattle World’s Fair in 2062. ARC.I.TEK engages and guides young Seattle citizens in learning the process of architecture and design, developing their skill sets and assisting them to shape their vision of the future, ultimately empowering them to [...]
CTBUH 2012 Best Tall Building Awards Symposium, Ceremony & Dinner
The CTBUH 2012 Best Tall Building and Lifetime Achievement award winners will be recognized and awards conferred at the CTBUH 11th Annual Awards Symposium, Ceremony & Dinner. The winners will present their work during an afternoon’s Symposium, followed by a formal dinner where the awards will be conferred. Additionally from the four regional best tall [...]
National Organization of Minority Architects 2012 Conference
The 40th annual conference of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) will be held at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel in Detroit, Michigan, October 18-20, 2012. Registration information and a promotional video can be found at http://noma.net/EventsPrograms/events_2012conference.aspx The theme of the conference is “A Legacy Driven by Design” and will feature professional development and [...]
2012 Green Industry Conference
Hosted by the Professional Landcare Network (PLANET), this annual educational conference is held in conjunction with the GIE+EXPO and Hardscape North America trade shows, which boast nearly 500 exhibits for outdoor power equipment, along with products for landscapes, gardens, outdoor leisure, hardscapes, and light construction. GIC attendees will learn practical formulas for business success, as [...]
MiaGreen 2013 Expo & Conference (5th edition)
MiaGreen Expo & Conference, is the only event in the United States providing access to the ever-growing, non-stoppable green, renewable and sustainable markets for ALL the Americas. This annual, well-established, business-to-business event is one-of-a-kind and grows bigger and better every year. With its unique marketing mix (80% US + 20% Latin America & the Caribbean), [...]
