December 2021 Calendar

NYU Urban Design & Architecture StudiesNew York Area Calendar of Events

December 2021

Virtual Events are in Purple and In-Person Events are in Pink

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1NYCHA OpenSpace Masterplan

Ground Zero:Master Plans

The Marathi Man:The Decline of theLeft and theEmergence ofReactionaryMasculinity inColonial Bombay

CuratorConfidential: "TurnEvery Page":Inside the RobertA. Caro Archive

Gold Rush, CongoStyle: GustavKlimt’s MarbleMosaic Frieze inthe Brussels PalaisStoclet, 1905-1911

2Green Cities 2021:Singapore

Intent to Impact:Approaches toCommunity-BasedDesign

FF – DistanceEdition: WArchitecture &LandscapeArchitecture

Telling the ArtDeco Story ofAstoria

New York: AnIllustrated History

The Fluid City:From Death to Life

Public Art FundTalks: MartineGutierrez

Writing In OnAbout Architecture

Health Equity inAction

Recalibrate Realitywith Jon Gray

Los AngelesArchitecture, Part I:Cities and Dreams

3Paul RudolphFriday OpenHouse

Health, Safety, andWelfare inTraditional Design

Owning Our OwnSpace: TheExperiences ofMinorityDevelopers

WestminsterAbbey: TheHistory of Britain'sRoyal Church

UndergroundManhattan, TheHistory of the NYCSubway System

4Exploring theUpper West Side,from 116th to 103rdStreets

534th Street Tour

Greenwich VillageModern

6Retail DesignInstitute’s 50thInternationalDesignCompetition

7An AmericanRenaissance:Beaux-ArtsArchitecture inNYC

8ArchitectureUnbound byJoseph Giovannini

InnovationBriefing: Net Zero– What is it? And

9Curator’s Tour ofSUPERTALL 2021

Outdoor Spaces

Performance-Based Ventilation

10 11Madison Avenue,High Fashion andHistoricPreservation

London’s Old EastEnd: A History ofImmigration

Temple Emanu-El,NYC's Great ArtDeco Synagogue

TowardsComprehensivePlanning

Yasmeen Lari:Barefoot SocialArchitectureBenefitting Peopleand the PlanetThe ArchitecturalModels ofTheodore Conrad

Design BookConversation:“The New YorkSubway MapDebate”

ReimaginingCommunities:Affecting Changeto InfluenceInvestment

Virtual Book Talk –Jane Jacobs’s FirstCity

how do we getthere?

Passive HouseWindows

The Architectureof Place: InConversation withGalina Tachieva

New York, NewYork, New York:Four Decades ofSuccess, Excess,andTransformationNavigating EnergyIncentives

“The StrangeArtistic Genius ofThis People”:Ephemeral Art andImpermanentArchitecture ofItalian ImmigrantCatholic Feste

3D Book Talk:Building theBrooklyn Bridge

Design for Health,Efficiency, &Compliance

NYC Landmarks50+ Alliance

CBH TALK - FloydBennett Field: AVisual History

Digital Discussion:Redbird Ramble

Babylon, Iraq:A Heritage fromHome Virtual Tour

Los AngelesArchitecture, PartII: Cities and theFuture

12Exploring theOculus: A Centuryof LowerManhattan's TrainHistory

13Tod Williams andBillie Tsien: PersonPlace Thing withRandy Cohen

Berenice Abbott:Photographing1930s New YorkCity

14Sailing & Soaringinto the Holidays:Ocean Liners &Skyscrapers

15Architecture asEnvironment: AConversation withKengo Kuma andToshiko Mori

16Inside anObsessive DesignPractice: StudioTour & Chat withEvan G. Crane

Recalibrate Realitywith StanleyMcChrystal

Los AngelesArchitecture, PartIII: Cities and Signs

17Harbor Hill: LongIsland "GoldCoast" Estate ofClarence Mackay

18Manhattanville:Old Heart of WestHarlem

19Brooklyn NavyYard: Architecture& InfrastructureTour

Exploring theSecrets of TriBeCa:Lofts, Artists, &Alleyways

20 21 22 23Curator’s Tour ofSUPERTALL 2021

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26Lower East SideWalking Tour

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NYCHA Open Space MasterplanAIA New York

More than 70% of the New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) citywide portfolio is open space. NYCHA’srecently launched Open Space Masterplan project, a first-ever assessment at this scale, is a groundbreakingplanning effort to analyze NYCHA’s diverse open spaces and data on community needs to develop holisticdesign recommendations to support advocacy and fundraising. For more than a year, NYCHA’s DesignDepartment, along with consultant landscape architecture and urban design firms Nancy Owens Studio andGrain Collective, evaluated NYCHA’s open spaces to develop a comprehensive reevaluation of their potential tomeet the community, urban, and resiliency needs of today. This event brings together the project team, NYCHApartners, industry experts, and open space stewards for a panel that explores NYCHA’s open space portfolio, themasterplan findings and implementation strategies, and the community impacts of such investments.Presenters:Kate Belski, RLA, Design Director, Grain CollectiveMarian Starr, AIA, Urban Design and Project Manager, Nancy Owens StudioPanelists:Runit Chhaya, RLA, Founding Principal, Grain CollectiveTama Greenfield, Deputy Executive Director, NYC Mayor’s Office of Criminal JusticeJ. Steven Lovci, Executive Vice President, Capital Projects Division, New York City Housing AuthorityNancy Owens, RLA, ASLA, LEED AP, Nancy Owens StudioModerator:Delma Palma, AIA, AICP, Deputy Director of Architecture and Urban Planning, New York City Housing Authority

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Wednesday, December 1, 6:00pm - 8:00pmVenue: Center for Architecture, or virtually via ZoomFee: Free

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Ground Zero: Master PlansThe Skyscraper Museum

Two design competitions determined the direction of the master plan at Ground Zero and the concept andposition of the 9/11 memorial and museum. Ultimately the memorial, museum, and landscaped plazaencompassed eight of the sixteen acres of the World Trade Center site. The very public and political process ofcreating the cultural institutions on that half of the site was the subject of an enlightening discussion onSeptember 21, 2021, with Craig Dykers, Gary Hack, Lynne Sagalyn, and Frank Sciame, Jr. that can be viewed on

video. Meanwhile, on the other eight acres, five skyscrapers that would replace the 10 million sq. ft. of officespace in the destroyed World Trade Center moved forward, with the key player being the privateinvestor-developer, Silverstein Properties. While the replacement for the collapsed 7 WTC rose quickly, the othertowers stalled. Today, after many revisions in design and repositions of ownership, three of the masterplanbuildings are completed, while Tower 2 has stump foundations and an indeterminate future. The problematic siteon the southern edge of the memorial plaza for a mixed-use Tower 5 has recently been announced. Part 2 of ourpair of programs on the rebuilding, Ground Zero Master Plans: The Commercial Imperative, will assess thetensions between the private office development and the economic context, the pace of rebuilding, and theconstraints of politics on the city, state, and federal levels. Leading the discussion as a speaker and moderator isLYNNE B. SAGALYN, author of Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan(Oxford, 2016). Our informed panel brings together key players in the development, design, and construction ofthe commercial component of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site:

KENNETH LEWIS, a Partner at SOM, managed the architectural teams for both 7 World Trade Center and OneWorld Trade Center.ROBERT LIEBER, served as Deputy Mayor of Economic Development from 2008 to 2010 and represented theCity on the board of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.ROBIN PANOVKA, a partner at the law firm Wachtell Lipton and co-chairman of their Real Estate practice,represented Silverstein Properties in the redevelopment of the World Trade Center for more than a decade.CHRISTOPHER O. WARD, served as executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from2008 until 2011, overseeing the rebuilding at World Trade Center and other projects.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Wednesday, December 1, 6:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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The Marathi Man: The Decline of the Left and the Emergence ofReactionary Masculinity in Colonial BombayThe Cooper Union

The figure of the dreaded “Marathi Manoos” has dominated politics in Bombay for nearly seven decades. Theterm signifies lumpen and resentful Marathi-speaking men, native to the region, who have failed to benefit fromthe economic growth of the postcolonial city. They are a terrifying right-wing force in Bombay today, practicing apolitics of violence, xenophobia, and misogyny, but how did the Marathi Manoos come to be? Historians andanthropologists of South Asia have thus far argued that this reactionary figure is a product of postcolonialright-wing politics. HSS Professor Ninad Pandit's talk will take a heterodox approach to show how the MarathiManoos was, counterintuitively, a product of the city’s progressive working-class movement in the pre-colonial1930s-40s. Drawing on archival sources ranging from labor statistics and political speeches to popular theaterand literature, the talk will argue that the left’s inability to produce a coherent vision for a decolonized India ledto a rightward swing in left-anticolonialism, and this figure of a lumpen worker became the standard bearer of anenduring politics of resentment.

Ninad Pandit is an architect, urban planner, and historian of modern South Asia. His scholarship examines therelationships between urbanization, industrialization, and the emergence of radical politics in colonial India.Professor Pandit’s book manuscript, The Bombay Radicals, is based on his dissertation and tells the story ofworking-class organizations in western India, from their origins in caste reform movement to their embrace ofsocialism and the Communist International and eventual decline into regional chauvinist political parties. Afterthe Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, a group of young organizers—the Bombay Radicals—were inspired by theinternational working-class movement to expand the ideals of late-19th century caste reformers to encompass allindustrial workers in India. They built one of the largest workers’ movements in the colonial world. At the sametime, their engagement with anti-colonial politics of the Indian National Congress revived older linguistic andregional chauvinist ideas that would undermine the progressive import of this movement. Professor Panditreceived his Ph.D. from the Department of History at Princeton University. He previously trained as an urbanplanner and designer with a degree in City Planning/Design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology andas an architect at KRVIA, Mumbai University. He has previously worked and taught at Yale University as theSingh Postdoctoral Fellow and at LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science as the MellonFellow in Cities and the Humanities.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Wednesday, December 1, 5:00pm - 6:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Curator Confidential: "Turn Every Page": Inside the Robert A. Caro ArchiveNew York Historical Society

Join curators Debra Schmidt Bach and Edward O'Reilly as they discuss the first public exhibition drawn from thearchive of Robert A. Caro, whose award-winning works on Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson are regardedas masterpieces of modern biography and history. Dig deeper into this exhibition and never-before-seenhighlights from the archive—which New-York Historical acquired in 2019—that provide an intimate view of howCaro started his career, worked as a reporter, and became an award-winning biographer.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Wednesday, December 1, 5:00pm - 5:45pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Gold Rush, Congo Style: Gustav Klimt’s Marble Mosaic Frieze in theBrussels Palais Stoclet, 1905-1911Bard Graduate CenterDeborah Silverman

Debora Silverman will be speaking at the Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on Eighteenth- andNineteenth-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture on Wednesday, December 1, at 12:15 pm. Her talk isentitled “Gold Rush, Congo Style: Gustav Klimt’s Marble Mosaic Frieze in the Brussels Palais Stoclet, 1905-1911.”Gustav Klimt achieved what he considered the highpoint of his experiments with ornament not in Vienna, but inBrussels, where he designed, with unlimited budget, a large-scale frieze of gold and bejeweled mosaics to wrapthe dining room walls for the Palais Stoclet (1905-1911). This remarkable work revitalized Klimt’s career andchanged his style. The Stoclet project also concentrates myriad and unrecognized connections to Africa. Klimtbecame enmeshed in a web of links that tied his patron and circles of Brussels elites to the Congo and to Egypt.These shape not only the circumstances of his commission but the stylistic forms, raw materials, and figuralcompositions that he devised for it. Vienna, golden style, is reborn in the gold rush of the Belgian empire. Byrestoring imperialism to the center of the story, this talk identifies two coordinates for our analytic field. First, thestylistic development of Klimt’s “golden style,” offering new evidence for his reliance on Egyptian tomb art for hisBrussels project. Here Silverman suggests a link between ancient Egyptian archaeology and Belgian occupationof the Congo as conduits of modernist primitivism. Second, the Stoclet house as an imperial Gesamtkunstwerk,embodying not only a resplendent unity of all the arts but a voracious entitlement to global bounty, exemplifiedin Klimt’s patron, the banker-engineer Adolphe Stoclet. By close focus on this work of Gustav Klimt and hispatron, a missing chapter of what Silverman calls “imperial modernism” comes into view. This history makesvisible what has been invisible: the facts, artifacts, sources, resources—both financial and cultural—and rawmaterials that are inextricably linked to European expansionism in Africa.

Debora Silverman is Distinguished Professor of History and Art History at UCLA, where she holds the Universityof California Presidential Chair in Modern European History, Art and Culture. She received her BA, MA, and PhDfrom Princeton University. She teaches and has written widely on the visual arts, politics, and the emergence ofthe irrational in fin-de-siècle Europe, as well as critical studies of art, memory, colonialism, decolonizing themuseum, and legacies of violence in the contemporary world.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Wednesday, December 1, 12:15pm - 1:15pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Mainstreaming High Performance, Real Answers to Real Challenges inLower Carbon Multifamily DevelopmentNew York Passive House

While the science and underlying concepts of sustainable development are often the same, design goals andbarriers to success can vary from project to project. Through the lens of MAP’s seven NYSERDA Buildings ofExcellence winners, we will explore the different ways that healthy, efficient, and low carbon strategies can beemployed to overcome common challenges in development. Using the firm’s focused portfolio as context, thepresenters will also discuss how we can advance the adoption of the most efficient strategies to provide betterbuildings for all stakeholders and how this work has resulted in a fundamental shift within architecture itself.

Learning Objectives:● Demonstrate how high performance and low carbon strategies can be deployed in multiple ways● Outline a carbon comprehensive approach that focuses on all impacts of a building● Summarizes the current status of what is cost effective now while also advancing industry adoption of

the best strategies currently available.● Learn what is changing within the field of architecture to make a new generation of sustainable buildings

possible

Presenters:● Sara Bayer, AIA, CPHC, LEED AP, Associate Principal● Rachel Simpson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Associate● Julie Chou, AIA, Senior Associate● Joe Moyer, AIA, Associate Principal● Kami Altman, AIA, Senior Associate, CPHD

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Wednesday, December 1, 12:00pm - 1:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Green Cities 2021: SingaporeAIA New YorkYong Kai Saw

Green Cities 2021 is a monthly virtual lecture program organized by the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanizationon the first Thursday of each month at 12:00 PM ET. The series focuses on innovations and achievements insustainability and resilience worldwide. More information about Green Cities, including the previous talks onNew York, Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona, can be found on the CSU websiteconsortiumforsustainableurbanization.org.

December’s program focuses on Singapore. Singapore envisions a green recovery that will strengthen localcommunities, provide critical relief for residents, and improve overall livability. Yong Kai SAW, First Secretary,Permanent Mission of the Republic of Singapore to the United Nations, will discuss the Singapore Green Plan2030, recently released by his parent Ministry in Singapore, the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment.

Speaker:Yong Kai Saw, First Secretary of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Singapore to the United NationsMr. Yong Kai Saw is a First Secretary (Sustainable Development) of the Permanent Mission of Singapore to theUnited Nations in New York. He oversees environment and sustainable development issues for Singapore at theUN. Prior to this posting, Mr. Yong Kai served in the International Policy Division of the Ministry of Sustainabilityand the Environment, Singapore. He has also worked in community relations and waste management during histime with the National Environment Agency, Singapore. Mr. Yong Kai has a background in EnvironmentalEngineering.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 2, 12:00pm - 1:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Intent to Impact: Approaches to Community-Based DesignAIA New YorkCivic Leadership Program

As we experience shifts in design practice and pedagogy, many of us find ourselves collectively questioning ourapproaches to work. While we may find ourselves committed to doing better and playing our part in building aworld we wish to see, it remains difficult to gauge progress, especially with regards to social outcomes. How canwe practice community-based design in earnest and without causing harm? How can we make this meaningfulwork integral to all modes of practice, “traditional” or otherwise? How can design professionals honestlyapproach community engagement as an integral design tool? And how can designers assess the social impactsof their projects and establish lasting feedback loops—from intent to impact to applying lessons learned?The second program of the AIANY Civic Leadership Program (CLP), “Intent to Impact: Approaches toCommunity-Based Design,” will bring together voices from Greater Good Studio, Open ArchitectureCollaborative, OLIN Labs, MIXdesign, and BlackSpace to highlight innovative approaches to community-basedand inclusive design to explore how we can create practices rooted in equity and leverage communityengagement as an integral design tool. Leading the event from this year’s CLP cohort are Anne Chen, BrookeDexter, Nasra Nimaga, Philip Poon, and Gwendolyn Stegall.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 2, 6:00pm - 8:00pmVenue: Virtual

Fee: nycoba/NOMA Member: Free | AIANY Member: Free | AIA Member (not AIANY): $5 | General Public: $10 |Student with Valid .edu Email Address: Free

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FF – Distance Edition: W Architecture & Landscape ArchitectureThe Architectural League NYChristopher Hawthorne

The League’s FF – Distance Edition events are informal online studio visits offering a behind-the-scenes look atleading design practices.The League’s FF – Distance Edition, an online version of the long-running First Fridayseries, will continue on Thursday evenings. This season’s events feature design practices that are redefining thecontemporary public landscape by responding to social and environmental concerns and exploring theintersections of architecture, technology, and ecology. FF – Distance Edition brings participants on site, offeringvirtual access to practices’ workspaces and current projects. Following each presentation, join in an openconversation with the designers. Founded in 1999 by Barbara Wilks, W Architecture and Landscape Architectureis an interdisciplinary woman-owned studio based in Brooklyn, NY. It builds on links between architecture andlandscape architecture to create spaces that engage both nature and urbanism, “fostering more resilient andhealthy communities and ecosystems,” according to the firm. By helping to thoughtfully embed humans into thenatural systems around them, especially at urban waterfronts, W “creates new relationships that encompassphysical, social, temporal, and political realms,” its team writes.

Completed projects include St. Patrick’s Island, a 30-acre urban park in Calgary, Alberta, that aims to connectvisitors with the biodiversity and natural dynamic processes of the Bow River; The Edge, a public parkintegrating the New York urban grid into the ecosystem of the East River on a postindustrial site in Williamsburg;and The Tampa River Center, the monumental center of Tampa’s Julian B. Lane Park, which was designed towithstand Florida’s severe climate.

Current and upcoming projects include The Riverline, a public park on a segment of the elevated former railcorridor along the Buffalo River; Bush Terminal Made in New York Campus, a public space in Sunset Parkdesigned to accommodate both the local community and the site’s manufacturing and retail components;Downtown Far Rockaway Public Space Revitalization, a plan that aims to revitalize the central business districtand strengthen the site’s environmental resiliency. The program will be moderated by Christopher Hawthorne,chief design officer for the city of Los Angeles and former architecture critic for The Los Angeles Times.

Event Type: Virtual Tour / LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 2, 6:00pm - 7:30pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Telling the Art Deco Story of AstoriaArt Deco SocietyMatt Postal

Our Telling the Art Deco Stories of our Neighborhood's online series continues so you can virtually visit NewYork's Art Deco enclaves with the Art Deco Society of New York––from anywhere. In the 1930s Art Deco arrivedin northwestern Queens, introducing modern design and decoration to this historic community. In thisweb-based exploration, from Northern Boulevard to Bowery Bay, architectural historian Matt Postal will discusssuch neighborhood highlights as Astoria Park Pool, the largest of eleven aquatic facilities in New York City thatopened on a single summer day in 1936; Church of the Most Precious Blood, a rare Art Deco place of worshipwith unusual ornament and memorable interiors; the (former) Strand Theater, one of the last theaters built inQueens before the World War II ban on new construction; and a Works Progress Administration Building cladwith impressive figurative reliefs by the Italian-American sculptor Cesare Stea. Our guide, architectural historianMatt Postal, leads walking tours throughout New York City. Specializing in 19th and 20th century architecture, heteaches graduate courses at the New York School of Interior Design.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 2, 6:30pm - 8:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: ADSNY Member – $15.00 | ICADS Member – $15.00 Registration code required | Special discount formembers of fellow Art Deco Societies | Jazz Age Order – $12.00 | Non-Member – $20.00

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New York: An Illustrated HistoryOpen House New YorkCo-author James Sanders and OHNY Board Member Saundra Thomas

OHNY Stacks is back!! Launched from our couches in 2020, this virtual winter series returns and kicks off withone of the most-anticipated books about, and for, New York City. There are few chronicles of New York—or anycity for that matter—that illuminate so expertly and comprehensively nearly four centuries of urban change.Tracing the New York story back to before the city was even founded, New York: An Illustrated History providesa visually compelling and authoritative narrative with new chapters expanding on the revised edition publishedin 2003. This landmark book is a must read for anyone curious about New York’s past, present, and future,particularly as we recover from a devastating pandemic amidst social movements protesting long-standing andsystemic inequities across the five boroughs. Co-authored by Ric Burns and James Sanders, New York: AnIllustrated History is the companion book for the eight-part PBS series. Originally published in 1999, this newedition tells the story of the city over the last two decades, adding 300 archival images, fifty sidebar essays, andnine guest contributions by celebrated scholars, writers, and critics to the expanded edition of 2003. Join OpenHouse New York for a dive into nearly 400 years of New York City history in a conversation between co-authorJames Sanders and OHNY Board Member Saundra Thomas.

James Sanders, FAIA, is an internationally recognized architect, author, and filmmaker, whose work has garneredhim a Guggenheim Fellowship and Emmy Award, among other honors. For four decades, his career hasinterwoven several trajectories, developing projects that deepen our understanding of the urban landscape, thatbring ideas and stories about architecture and the city to the public through books, exhibitions, films, theaterprojects, and digital media, and that actively improve the urban environment through architecture, design, andprogramming. While many of his projects have been commissioned by clients, he has also pursued a distinctly“entrepreneurial” path—conceiving and developing his own initiatives, then locating partners to bring them toreality.

Event Type: Book TalkDate & Time: Thursday, December 2, 5:30pm - 6:15pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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The Fluid City: From Death to LifeNew Museum of Contemporary Art

In conjunction with the 2021 Triennial, “Soft Water Hard Stone,” join us for a panel featuring artists Krista Clark,Harry Gould Harvey IV, and catalogue contributor and curator Carson Chan. In this program, the panelists willdiscuss how they excavate urban histories and architectural records, mine discarded remains, and interrogatecivic development. Margot Norton, Allen and Lola Goldring Curator at the New Museum and co-curator of the2021 Triennial, will moderate this discussion.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERSCarson Chan (b. 1980) is the inaugural director and curator of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study ofthe Built and Natural Environment at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and a curator in the Museum’sDepartment of Architecture and Design. Chan is also the cofounder of PROGRAM, a nonprofit project space andresidency program in Berlin established with Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga. In 2013, Chan served as executivecurator of the Biennial of the Americas in Denver and co-curated the fourth Marrakech Biennale with NadimSamman in 2012. A widely published author and commentator on art, architecture, and contemporary culture,Chan is editor-at-large of 032c and a founding editor of Current: Collective for Architecture History andEnvironment, alongside Daniel A. Barber and Dalal Musaed Alsayer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in architecturefrom Cornell University, a master’s degree in design studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and aPhD from Princeton University.Krista Clark (b. 1975) lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include“Untenanted,” Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY (2019); “Base Line of Appraisal,” Museum ofContemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA (2019); and “At the Corner of the Sublime—Heights, Manors andViews,” Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, GA (2015). Clark’s work has been shown in group exhibitions atZuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA (2020); Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA (2018); Studio Museum inHarlem, New York, NY (2017); and the High Museum, Atlanta, GA (2015). She was awarded the Artadia Award in2018 and the Working Artist Project Award in the same year.

Harry Gould Harvey IV (b. 1991) lives and works in Fall River, Massachusetts. Recent solo and two-personexhibitions of his work include “The Confusion of Tongues!,” Bureau, New York, NY (2021); “Faith Wilding & HarryGould Harvey IV,” David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI (2020); and “Harry Gould HarveyIV with Species,” Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA (2018). Harvey’s work has been shown in group exhibitionsat Centre d’Art Contemporain Bretigny, Bretigny-sur-Orge, France (2020); LeRoy Neiman Gallery, ColumbiaUniversity, New York, NY (2020); Hotel Art Pavilion, Brooklyn, NY (2019); and Kunsthalle Wichita, Wichita, Kansas(2019). Harvey is a founder of the curatorial project Pretty Days and co-director of the Fall River Museum ofContemporary Art.Margot Norton is the Allen and Lola Goldring Curator at the New Museum and is co-curator of the 2021 NewMuseum Triennial with Jamillah James. Norton joined the Museum in 2011 and has worked on a number ofexhibitions, curating and cocurating presentations by Carmen Argote, Judith Bernstein, Diedrick Brackens, SarahLucas, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Chris Ofili, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg, and Kaari Upson, among others. In2017, she curated the Eighth Sequences Real Time Art Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the Georgian Pavilion atthe 2019 Venice Biennale with artist Anna K.E.. Before she joined the New Museum in 2011, Norton worked as acuratorial assistant at the Whitney Museum, New York. She has contributed to and edited numerous publicationsand exhibition catalogues, and regularly lectures on contemporary art and curating. She holds a MA in CuratorialStudies from Columbia University, New York.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 2, 7:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Public Art Fund Talks: Martine GutierrezThe Cooper Union

Martine Gutierrez, New York-based photographer, performance and video artist, joins Public Art Fund AssociateCurator Katerina Stathopoulou on December 2 for a conversation on the occasion of her first public artexhibition, ANTI-ICON. The exhibition of newly commissioned photographs extends Gutierrez’ exploration ofidentity across the cultural landscapes of gender, race, class, and celebrity. In ten new works, she hastransformed herself into a multitude of roles, reinterpreting a diverse canon of radical historical and mythologicalfigures. Through each metamorphosis, Gutierrez embodies the spirit of heroines who have achieved legendarystatus across cultures, over thousands of years, in both art history and popular culture. Gutierrez is the soleperformer, portraying ten groundbreaking idols: Aphrodite, Atargatis, Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth I, Gabriel, LadyGodiva, Helen of Troy, Judith, Mulan, and Queen of Sheba. Each is renowned for their resilience, leadership,courage, and influence. To Gutierrez, these attributes are influential expectations of the LGBTQ+ community, withwhich she identifies. Merging the language of luxury advertising with a DIY aesthetic, ANTI-ICON was exhibitedon 300 JCDecaux bus shelters across New York, Chicago, and Boston—spaces used for advertising—thelarger-than-life portraits were encountered on walks or daily commutes. This artist talk will delve into Gutierrez’sartistic practice and the process through which she reimagined herself using simple props and disguises tocreate ANTI-ICON.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 2, 6:30pm - 8:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Writing In On About ArchitecturePrinceton University School of ArchitectureCynthia Davidson

Cynthia Davidson is cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation, an architecture thinktank in New York City, and editor of the international architecture journal Log, which she launched in 2003, andthe former ANY magazine, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also responsible for more than 40books in print, including 24 books in the Anyone project’s Writing Architecture series, published with MIT Press.She co-curated “The Architectural Imagination,” an exhibition of speculative projects for Detroit shown first in theUS Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, and started the pop-up architecture gallery Anyspace inNew York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Princeton University School of Architecture and in theGraduate Architecture and Urban Design program at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She has also taught at CornellUniversity’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning program in Manhattan. The American Academy of Arts andLetters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 2, 6:00pmVenue: Virtual option availableFee: Free

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Health Equity in ActionRegional Plan AssociationDr. Herminia Palacio

Regional Plan Association is excited to invite you to the first public event of the Healthy Regions PlanningExchange. The Planning Exchange was founded in 2018 as a national network of planners, practitioners,advocates, and community-based representatives working towards health and racial equity in regional planning.The event will spotlight how the Exchange is addressing racial and health inequities through legislation, basebuilding, communications, and culture change. Whether it’s work for more stable housing, transportationinvestments that prioritize BIPOC communities, or community development work to address systemic poverty,the event will present tangible progress towards healthier communities, and discuss the challenges left toovercome.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 2, 1:00pm - 2:30pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Los Angeles Architecture, Part I: Cities and DreamsNew York Adventure Club

As American modern architecture and cinema developed throughout the 20th century, one American cityprovided a crucible for both: Los Angeles. This urban playground for design didn't just focus on office buildings,but also extended to unique projects including movie palaces, single-family homes, and even signage. Fromflights of fancy to the very latest in technological development, it's time to uncover the intersection of doctrinaireModernism with Hollywood glamour. Join New York Adventure Club for our three-part Los Angeles Architectureseries, where we examine the structures that make Los Angeles like no other city on the planet. In Part One —Cities and Dreams — we'll examine structures and environments that reflect the fantastical and theatrical qualityof architecture, in the town devoted to film sets and false fronts. Led by architectural historian David V. Griffin ofLandmark Branding, this digital showcase featuring a selection of unique structures will include:

● Buildings designed in part by film decorators, set designers, and actors● Fantasy architecture from storybook cottages to Art Deco skyscrapers● A discussion of the Picture Palaces themselves — the world’s largest collection of early cinemas● An in-depth look at each building's construction, context, and current status, with a focus on how culture

and innovation drive architectural symbolismClick here to register for Part II on December 9th and for Part III on December 16th!

Event Type: WebinarDate & Time: Thursday, December 2, 8:00pm - 10:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: $10-$30

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Paul Rudolph Friday Open HousePaul Rudolph Heritage Foundation

Experience the ONLY Paul Rudolph-designed interior open to the public in New York City. The Paul RudolphHeritage Foundation hosts our monthly open house at the Rudolph-designed Duplex within the ModulightorBuilding - a set of spaces which show Rudolph's mastery of architectural interiors. Rudolph co-foundedModulightor to create the kind of lighting he needed to compliment his own work - and then designed itsglowing headquarters in the design district of midtown Manhattan: a masterwork of high Modernism, embracingcompositional complexity and layered space while supporting multiple functions. Explore the space - furnishedwith unique furniture designed by Rudolph as well as many items from his personal collections.

Event Type: Open HouseDate & Time: Friday, December 3, 6:00pm - 9:00pmVenue: 246 East 58th StreetFee: $20

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Health, Safety, and Welfare in Traditional DesignInstitute of Classical Architecture and Art

The ICAA is excited to announce that the next Health, Safety, and Welfare in Traditional Design day will be heldonline on December 3, 2021. This series of one-hour Continuing Education courses focuses on issues of health,safety, and welfare. Each course explores critical issues related to topics such as materials and durability,building codes, comfort, safety, health, sustainability, and human well-being, while addressing subjects specificto the practice of classical and traditional design. The series serves as a forum for topics related to sound designand best practices. Participants may enroll in any number of the courses; there is a discount for signing up for allfour programs together. Click the link to see offered courses.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Friday, December 3, 12:00pm - 5:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: ICAA Member: $40 | General Public: $50 | ICAA Member Single Class: $12 | General Public Single Class:$15

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Owning Our Own Space: The Experiences of Minority DevelopersColumbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation, & Planning

A conversation with Larry Padilla ’94 MSRED, Regional Vice President at The Michaels Organization, and ErnstValery ’04 MSRED, Co-managing Member of SAA|EVI Development, moderated by Ed Poteat, Founder ofCarthage Advisors and Adjunct Professor in Real Estate Development at Columbia GSAPP. This program is thesecond part of a Columbia University MSRED Webinar Series on The Impact of Real Estate on Communities ofColor. The Series is led by Patrice Derrington, Holliday Associate Professor and Director of the Real Estate

Development Program; Diane Branch ‘03 MSRED; and Ed Poteat. The Series is supported through a seed grantfunding initiative from Columbia University’s Office of the Provost, “Addressing Racism: A Call to Action,” tosupport faculty in engaging with issues of structural racism. The goal of this initiative is to provide resources toenable collaborative dialogue, action, and insight for systemic change towards racial equity.Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Friday, December 3, 12:00pm - 1:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Recalibrate Reality with Jon GrayRegional Plan AssociationJon Gray and Scott Rechler

How do we recalibrate reality to create a better, brighter future for New York? Blackstone President and COOJon Gray joins RPA Chairman Scott Rechler for another episode of Recalibrate Reality: The Future of New York, aconversation series with leading thinkers and decision-makers, to tackle this crucial question.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 2, 7:00pm - 8:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Westminster Abbey: The History of Britain's Royal ChurchNew York Adventure Club

While London's district of Westminster has been at the center of Britain’s monarchy for around 1,000 years, nobuilding has been more emblematic of that royal legacy than Westminster Abbey. But what is it about thisincredible church that draws visitors from all over the world? It's time to explore this royal site, and its globallegacy, like never before. Join New York Adventure Club as we dive into the remarkable story and history of oneof London's most famous landmarks, Westminster Abbey, a church established in the London district ofWestminster back in 960 AD that has remained the heart of the British monarchy for nearly a millennium. Led byaward winning London Blue Badge Tour Guide Pepe Martinez, our virtual experience using powerful images,video, and Google street view will include a brief overview of early Westminster, and the beginnings of its royalstatus; the history of the three churches that have stood at the site since the 10th century; a deep dive into someof Westminster Abbey's royalist occasions, from the 2011 wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, tothe 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; a virtual look at the awe-inspiring grounds and interior spaces; storiesof some of the most famous royal burials, including a somber one of a Queen who was buried with 16 of her 18

children; and a discussion of select memorials at Westminster Abbey, including a recent one to a man who madeseven guest appearances in the U.S. television sitcom, The Big Bang Theory

Event Type: WebinarDate & Time: Friday, December 3, 1:00pm - 3:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: $10

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Underground Manhattan, The History of the NYC Subway SystemNew York Adventure Club

It's right there under your feet, you probably ride it every day, but how much do you really know about New YorkCity's subway system? It's time to explore one of the oldest and largest public transit systems in the world, fromthe comfort of your living room. Join New York Adventure Club as we explore the history of the New York Citysubway system — opened in 1904 with a single line serving 28 stations, the City of New York's subway systemhas since grown to encompass 472 stations and over 245 miles of tracks, serving nearly 6 million riders per day.Led by transit expert and licensed tour guide Gary Dennis, our fast-paced virtual subterranean exploration of theworld's largest rapid transit system will include an overview of New York public transportation back in the 1800s,and why The Great Blizzard of 1888 was the catalyst for a subway system; the history and inside story of thecreation of the original 1904 subway line, and how it grew into the most extensive transportation system in theworld; 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; a discussion around Old City Hall Station, the crown jewel of thesubway system, which closed in 1945

Event Type: WebinarDate & Time: Friday, December 3, 8:00pm - 10:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: $10

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Saturday

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Exploring the Upper West Side, from 116th to 103rd StreetsNew York Adventure ClubThanks in part to one of the most famous streets in the world — and the first subway line in New York Cityrunning right underneath it — the Upper West Side transformed from a rural landscape to one of the city's most

desirable neighborhoods seemingly overnight. But how exactly did the neighborhood change with the buildingof Broadway, and what relics of its storied past still exist? This is the story of one of New York's most storiedneighborhoods, and the drama and scandals it had along the way. Join New York Adventure Club as we explorethe secrets of the Upper West Side, one of the most desirable and influential neighborhoods in New York Citythat is steeped in entertainment, crime, and history. Led by NYC Tour Guide and Upper West Side resident GaryDennis, our unique experience between 116th and 103rd Streets along Broadway will include the importance ofBroadway, and its evolution from a dirt path to one of the most famous streets in the world in just a century; howthe neighborhood became home to an eclectic mix of residents and industries, including wealthy and renownedindustrialists, retailers, doctors, inventors, artists, actors, musicians and the movie business; an Art DecoHimalayan-mountain-of-a-building with an incredible past, not to mention being the "spooky building" inspirationin one of the biggest movies of all time; a look at a row of historic mansions built for the wealthy, one of whichplayed a role in a notorious crime in the 1930s; mentions of buildings, monuments, and other large structuresthat are no more, including concepts that would have transformed the neighborhood had they left the drawingboard; and famous film and TV shows that were shot in the neighborhood

Event Type: Walking TourDate & Time: Saturday, December 4, 12:00pm - 2:00pmVenue: Meet at Columbia University (In Front of Main Gates), Broadway and 116th StreetFee: $32

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Sunday

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34th Street TourMunicipal Art Society

You may think you know 34th Street, but you will be surprised. This area of midtown Manhattan has played animportant role in so many industries: retail, transportation, hotels, journalism, and entertainment, to name a few.And with new plans for the area around Penn Station, the one thing constant about this neighborhood is change.From the world-famous Empire State Building to the exciting new Moynihan Train Hall, tour guide Zack Rhodeswill walk you through the history and the future of this often unfairly maligned part of town.

Event Type: Walking TourDate & Time: Sunday, December 5, 11:00amVenue: Meeting location delivered in registration confirmation emailFee: Member: $20 | General Public: $30

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Greenwich Village ModernMunicipal Art Society

Although Greenwich Village boasts the city’s largest concentration of early residential architecture with manyfine examples of Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate houses along its quaint tree-lined streets, it is also hometo important Modern and contemporary architecture. Designed by Joseph Urban, the first building constructedfor the New School for Social Research, completed in 1931, was among New York’s earliest in the InternationalStyle. The three elegant concrete towers of University Village (1967), surrounding Picasso’s “Portrait of Sylvette”,were designed by James Ingo Freed of I.M. Pei and Associates and designated NYC landmarks in 2006. PhilipJohnson realized four major projects for NYU in the early 1970s. More recently, sizable institutional works havebeen completed by internationally prominent architects, including Roche Dinkeloo, Skidmore, Owings and Merrilland Kohn Pedersen Fox. Join John Arbuckle, President of DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State, a local chapterof an international organization dedicated to preserving Modern architecture, to explore architecture of therecent past in Greenwich Village.

Event Type: Walking TourDate & Time: Sunday, December 5, 2:00pmVenue: Meeting location delivered in registration confirmation emailFee: Member: $20 | General Public: $30

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Monday

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Retail Design Institute’s 50th International Design CompetitionAIA New YorkRetail Design Institute

Join the AIANY Interiors Committee and the Retail Design Institute NY Chapter as they host presentations byNew York firms for projects recognized in the Retail Design Institute’s 50th International Design Competition.The competition celebrates exceptional retail experiences, ranging from full-line traditional department stores tospecialty apparel stores, restaurants, kiosks, and pop-up shops, recognizing outstanding and innovative retailspaces that promote new approaches to planning, design, graphics, fixturing, lighting, and visual merchandising.Teams will discuss their winning projects in quick-fire, six-minute presentations. Awarded brands include CleanMarket, Ippolita, Holt Renfrew, Strictly Cycling, El Palacio de Hierro, and Tempur-Pedic.

Josh Heitler, AIA, LEED AP, Senior Principal, Heitler Houstoun ArchitectsKimberly Coca, AIA, Senior Associate, Heitler Houstoun ArchitectsJeffrey Hutchison, AIA, President, Jeffrey Hutchison & AssociatesAlec Zaballero, Managing Executive, TPG Architecture; RDI

Jennifer Haney,IIDA, NCIDQ, LEED AP ID+C, Creative Director, TPG ArchitectureLaura Lewi,IIDA, LEED GA, Associate, CallisonRTKLPaul Conder, Principal, Global CX Innovation Services Lead, CallisonRKTL

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Monday, December 6, 6:00pm - 8:00pmVenue: Center for Architecture, or virtually via ZoomFee: AIANY Member: Free | Student with Valid ID: Free | General Public: $10 | RDI Member: Free

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London’s Old East End: A History of ImmigrationNew York Adventure Club

From the arrival of French Protestants in the 1680s to thousands of Jewish children in the late 1930’s, London'sneighborhood of East End has been at the center of its immigration story for generations. But how and why didthis particular neighborhood take in wave after wave of people looking for a better life, and what role does itserve today? Through a mix of powerful images, video, and even Google Street View, it's time to exploreLondon's Old East End like never before. Join New York Adventure Club on a two-part virtual experiencethrough London's East End — in this first part, we'll explore one of the city's most fascinating, dynamic, andhistoric districts through the mid-20th century, which has served as the final destination for countless immigrantsthroughout the past several hundred years. Led by award winning London Blue Badge Tour Guide PepeMartinez, our virtual exploration of London’s Old East End will include the discovery of Spitalfield’s Woman —one of the most complete, high ranking Roman burials ever discovered in London; the London Jewish story, fromtheir arrival during the Norman Conquests, to their expulsion during the reign of King Edward I (andre-admittance under Oliver Cromwell), to the mass arrival in the 1880s; the London visit of Jack London, one ofthe most celebrated authors in the world at the time, who decided to dress up as a homeless sailor and write anincredible expose whilst he lived among the poorest of the poor; a virtual visit to Dorset Street, once the worststreet in London, to "meet" one of its most famous residents and her connection to Jack the Ripper; the FrenchHuguenot Silk Weavers who created an industry to rival that of Paris; and a discussion around how the clearanceof the Old Nichol Slum, once London's worst slum, led to one of the earliest examples of social housing in Britain

Event Type: WebinarDate & Time: Monday, December 6, 5:30pm - 7:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: $10

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Temple Emanu-El, NYC's Great Art Deco SynagogueNew York Adventure Club

Once you've seen one house of worship, you've seen 'em all, right? Not quite! It's time to peek inside a historicsynagogue on Fifth Avenue to see one of the most incredible religious sanctuaries in all of New York, the UnitedStates, and perhaps the world. Join New York Adventure Club for an exclusive virtual exploration through thehistoric Temple Emanu-El, one of the largest synagogues (and houses of worship) in the world. Led by licensedNYC guide Michael Morgenthal, who went to a yeshiva just blocks away from the temple, our experiencesurrounding this majestic Art Deco temple dating back to 1929 will include the history and story behind TempleEmanu-El, and its notable Fifth Avenue plot within New York City; a detailed look at the main sanctuary, whichincludes a 175-foot long hand painted & gilded ceiling, Guastavino-tiled walls, more than 60 stained glasswindows, original Hildreth Meière mosaic works, and 2,500 seats that have an unobstructed view of the ark; avirtual walkthrough of smaller sanctuaries hidden throughout the temple, one of which contain rare Tiffanystained glass; rare photos showcasing rooms in the temple that haven't been touched since 1929; a discussionaround the temple museum with original artifacts.Event Type: WebinarDate & Time: Monday, December 6, 8:00pm - 9:30pmVenue: VirtualFee: $10

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Tuesday

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An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in NYCRizzoli Bookstore

Images Publishing and Rizzoli Bookstore invite you to meet one of the world's foremost experts on classicalarchitecture and interiors. Phillip James Dodd will be in conversation with radio host Rob Taub about AnAmerican Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City , which details the fascinating stories behindNew York's Beaux-Arts buildings and the lives of those who commissioned, designed, and built them.Event Type: Book TalkDate & Time: Tuesday, December 7, 6:00pm - 8:00pmVenue: Rizzoli Bookstore; 1133 BroadwayFee: Free

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Towards Comprehensive PlanningMunicipal Art Society

Many New Yorkers are seeking a more coordinated and collaborative approach to land use planning in the city,while others are comfortable with the status quo or feel New York is too complex for a comprehensive plan.There is an important public debate now on how a city of 8.5 million people with varying needs, cultures, andunderlying vulnerabilities, can create a shared plan for its future. In December 2020, New York City CouncilSpeaker Corey Johnson released a proposal for a new comprehensive planning framework outlined in Intro2186 and the accompanying report, Planning Together: A New Comprehensive Planning Framework for NewYork City. The proposal, still under consideration for a potential vote by the end of 2021, comes at the end of thede Blasio administration and beginning of the Adams administration and could potentially bring significantchanges to every level of government. Join MAS on Tuesday, December 7 at 5:00 PM EST for a third virtualsession in the Towards Comprehensive Planning series, which will look to examples in Los Angeles,Philadelphia, and New York City to discuss how comprehensive planning intersects with historic preservation.How can a comprehensive plan outline policies and actions for identifying, protecting, enhancing, and promotinga city’s historic and cultural resources? How can preservation goals complement those of climate adaptation,economic growth, and addressing longstanding disparities between people and places? What is New York’scurrent planning approach for protecting its historic and cultural resources, and how does that compare toexamples in other cities?

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Tuesday, December 7, 5:00pm - 6:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Yasmeen Lari: Barefoot Social Architecture Benefitting People and thePlanetThe Architectural League NYYasmeen Lari

The Pakistani architect and humanitarian argues for “barefoot social architecture,” a design philosophyemphasizing co-creation and carbon-neutral materials. Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figuresin the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. This fall and early winter, Current Work spotlightsinfluential and innovative design practices that bring widely varying perspectives to contemporary housingchallenges. Yasmeen Lari is the cofounder and CEO of the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan, an organizationworking to conserve the nation’s historic art and architecture while providing large-scale humanitarian aid tolocal communities. Since the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, she has refocused her career on traditional materials,technologies, and architectures in a process she describes as “unlearning.” Positing a sustainable, grassrootsmodel for the development of Pakistan’s built environment, she advocates for “barefoot social architecture,” awomen-centered, carbon-neutral approach to housing that emphasizes co-creation and the use of sustainablematerials like bamboo, lime, and mud. Under Lari’s leadership, the Heritage Foundation has helped build over40,000 carbon-neutral structures across Pakistan.

Recent projects include:● The Pakistan Chulah, a user-built zero-carbon stove that replaces dangerous open flames in homes

across Pakistan.● Bamboo Women’s Centre, a two-story bamboo structure in which women can socialize and study, built

on stilts for flood protection.● Zero Carbon Cultural Centre, a large bamboo structure built as part of Lari’s “zero-carbon campus,” a

collection of community buildings adjacent to the historic Makli Necropolis near Thatta, Pakistan.

Yasmeen Lari graduated from the Oxford School of Architecture (now Oxford Brookes University) in 1964 andwas elected to the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1969. She was elected president of the Instituteof Architects Pakistan in 1978 and was the first chairperson of Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners(PCATP) in 1983. She retired from architectural practice in 2000 after designing several landmark projects inPakistan, including the Taj Mahal Hotel in Karachi and the Pakistan State Oil House. For both her architecturaland humanitarian work, Lari has been awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz (The Star of Distinction), Hilal-i-Imtiaz (TheCrescent of Distinction), the Fukuoka Prize for Asian Art and Culture, and the Jane Drew Prize. She is the authorand co-author of several books and has lectured extensively at home and abroad.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Tuesday, December 7, 11:30am - 1:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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The Architectural Models of Theodore ConradThe Skyscraper MuseumHistorian and curator Teresa Fankhänel

In her new book The Architectural Models of Theodore Conrad, historian and curator Teresa Fankhänel offers analternative history of American modern architecture, highlighting the often-overlooked influence of architecturalmodels and their makers. Fankhänel focuses on the work of Theodore Conrad (1910-1994), the most prominentand prolific American architectural model-maker of the 20th century, whose innovative work was instrumental inthe design and realization of many icons of American Modernism, from the Rockefeller Center to Lever Houseand the Seagram Building. Conrad revolutionized the production of architectural models and became anentrepreneur. Fankhänel's research is based on the recent discovery of his fully-preserved privatearchive-models, photos, letters, business files, and drawings. In praise of her book, Barry Bergdoll writes:"Fankhänel pulls back the curtain in the theater of American modernist architecture to reveal the behind thescenes contributions of the star performer of a novel career path: the professional model maker. TheodoreConrad not only made models, he helped make careers with miniatures that could win over clients, dazzleexhibition goers, and sit for camera portraits that would travel the world in newspaper and magazineillustrations. A glimpse behind the scenes offers a whole new vantage point on the culture of mid-20th centuryarchitecture at nearly every scale.” Teresa Fankhänel is a curator at the Architekturmuseum der TUM in Munich,Germany.

Event Type: Book TalkDate & Time: Tuesday, December 7, 6:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Design Book Conversation: “The New York Subway Map Debate”The Cooper Union

Join us for a free online roundtable conversation about The New York Subway Map Debate, the new book fromGary Hustwit and Standards Manual which documents a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate at TheCooper Union between designer Massimo Vignelli and cartographer John Tauranac over the future of the NYCSubway Map. An audio recording of the event from the upcoming digital Cooper Union archive Voices from theGreat Hall has shed light on this legendary confrontation. For over two hours, to the cheers and boos of araucous audience of designers, transit officials and disgruntled subway riders, Vignelli, Tauranac, and a panel ofeight other experts argued. It was abstraction versus realism, simplicity versus complexity. The new book offersa hyper-specific window into the event, encompassing the worlds of graphic design, wayfinding, transit, datavisualization and the eternal battle between form and content.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Tuesday, December 7, 6:30pm - 8:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Reimagining Communities: Affecting Change to Influence InvestmentRegional Plan Association, Liberty BankSara Bronin

How changing zoning laws and re-thinking land use guidelines can be catalytic to foster quality affordablehousing development. Improving opportunities to grow generational wealth for disenfranchised communitiesoften means revising policies and laws which impede housing development in urban markets. Come hear thisdistinguished panel and Keynote discuss practical changes that can immediately spur development in our cities.Sara Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, professor, and policymaker whose interdisciplinary workfocuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places.She is a Professor of the Cornell College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, an Associated Faculty Member of theCornell Law School, and a Faculty Fellow of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Tuesday, December 7, 9:30am

Venue: VirtualFee: Free

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Virtual Book Talk – Jane Jacobs’s First CityTenement Museum

In her classic book, The Life and Death of American Cities, Jacobs wrote, “Cities have the capability of providingsomething for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”. Through historicnewspapers, directories, records and interviews with contemporary Scranton residents, Lang reconstructs theorigins of one of New York City’s most ardent advocates through her first city; Scranton, Pennsylvania. Growingup in the 1920s and 1930s, Scranton was a place of diversity and inclusivity, public education was celebratedand those with opposing politics worked together for the public good. For Jacobs, an astute observer, theexperience was indelible as a foundation on which all cities should and could thrive.

Event Type: Virtual Book TalkDate & Time: Tuesday, December 7, 7:00pm - 8:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Architecture Unbound by Joseph GiovanniniRizzoli Bookstore

Rizzoli is pleased to invite you to celebrate the publication of Architecture Unbound: A Century of the DisruptiveAvant-Garde , with author Joseph Giovannini in conversation with Elizabeth Diller, principal of the firm DillerScofidio + Renfro, and architect Bernard Tschumi.

Event Type: Book TalkDate & Time: Wednesday, December 8, 6:00pm - 8:00pmVenue: Rizzoli Bookstore; 1133 BroadwayFee: Free

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Innovation Briefing: Net Zero – What is it? And how do we get there?WSPMohammad H. Abbasi

Man-made climate change due to carbon emissions is an existential threat to global health, safety, and welfare.Carbon emissions cause environmental warming that impacts polar ice melt, rising seas, and causes extremeweather events. The only way to stop or slow climate change is to reduce our carbon emissions. Net zeroconstruction is one of the best ways for the design community to contribute to a solution. This presentation willexplain the Net Zero design process and techniques via a case study of a new McDonald's restaurant in Floridaas the most challenging building type and location to meet this high standard.

Speaker:MOHAMMAD H. ABBASI, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, ASSOC. AIA, CPHC, Healthy Building SpecialistFor the past seven years, Mohammad has been applying his expertise on health and wellness in the builtenvironment. His background in architecture, sustainable design and building sciences makes him an integralmember of WSP’s Built Ecology group for which he specializes in design assistance, LEED and WELLcoordination, energy and daylight modeling and material consultancy. Mohammad’s goal is to help clientsachieve exceptional performance and drive innovative ways of applying future technologies to enhanceoutcomes provided from a building’s architectural and engineering systems. He is a WELL Faculty and holdsWELL AP, CPHC and RESET AP.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Wednesday, December 8, 9:00am - 10:00amVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Passive House WindowsPassive House NetworkThe Passive House Windows is a specialty course within The Passive House Network’s educational offerings.This course you will be introduced to the history of windows and what makes Passive House windows unique,plus learn how to design and detail windows, look at Passive House window calculations, and how to installPassive House windows. In this course, you’ll explore the passive house principle of high-performance windowsin depth, discover how Passive House windows affect comfort, calculate the relationship between windows andthermal bridges, check energy balances and look at case studies throughout the course.Event Type: Lecture/courseDate & Time: Wednesday, December 8, 1:00pm - 5:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: $340

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The Architecture of Place: In Conversation with Galina TachievaInstitute of Classical Architecture and ArtGalina Tachieva

Perhaps now more than ever before, we are all aware of the built environment that surrounds us, and of theimpacts it has on the health of individuals, communities, and the planet. The Architecture of Place series, firstlaunched in fall 2020, brings together the established and emerging voices working to create a better builtfuture. From October through December 2021, the ICAA, INTBAU, and The Prince's Foundation will co-host TheArchitecture of Place: In Conversation with..., a new series of interviews featuring three architects from differentbackgrounds and points of view: Marianne Cusato, Ben Bolgar, and Galina Tachieva. Over the three-part series,each speaker will have the chance to play the role of both interviewer and interviewee. In each installment, oneof the three architects will be interviewed by one of the others about the influences, experiences, and projectsthat have led to their design perspective on the architecture of place. At the end of each session, students frompartnering university departments will pose additional questions to the speakers, followed by an open Q&A withattendees. The ICAA is excited to partner with the University of Miami School of Architecture for this interview.Students from the University of Miami will make a special appearance and provide guest questions for theinterviewee. Galina Tachieva is an expert in sustainable planning, urban redevelopment and form-based codes.As a managing partner at DPZ CoDESIGN, Galina directs the design and implementation of projects in the USand around the world. She is the author of the Sprawl Repair Manual, an award-winning publication, whichfocuses on the retrofit of auto-centric suburban places into complete, walkable communities. Galina is a Fellowof the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) and a founding member of the Council for European Urbanism(CEU). She led the CNU Sprawl Retrofit initiative for many years.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Wednesday, December 8, 12:00pm - 1:30pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, andTransformationLandmark West!Kevin Baker, Thomas Dyja

Dangerous, filthy, falling apart, garbage piled on its streets, yet somehow fabulous – this was New York in 1978.Over the next 30+ years, though, it became a different place: kinder and meaner, richer and poorer, higher, butless like what it had always been. New York, New York, New York, Thomas Dyja’s sweeping account of thismetamorphosis, shows it wasn’t the work of a single policy, mastermind, or economic theory, nor was it amorality tale of gentrification or crime. In his review for The New York Times Book Review, Kevin Baker writesthat in Dyja’s view, New York was never dying, “and why it wasn’t — is Dyja’s story.” Don’t miss this fascinatingconversation between Kevin Baker and Thomas Dyja (both Upper West Siders) that explores the excesses and

underbelly of New York, as well as a fascinating, often surprising, study of how this great city became what it istoday — for better or worse.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Wednesday, December 8, 6:00pm - 7:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Navigating Energy IncentivesUrban Green Council

Join us in person at One Court Square to learn about New York’s most extensive electric-efficiency retrofit. Thisenergy upgrade made the skyscraper more efficient, resilient and sustainable and qualified for additionalenergy-efficiency incentives from Con Edison. Breakfast will be served, and the schedule of sessions is asfollows:

10 a.m. Navigating Energy IncentivesSpeakers will address financial incentives and resources available for energy upgrades and answer questions tohelp designers, developers, building operators and managers understand how best to take advantage of newtechnologies and incentives.11 a.m. Energy Upgrades at One Court SquareContinue the conversation with a deep dive into New York’s most extensive electric-efficiency retrofit. Thisupgrade reduced the building's electric consumption by 20 percent and allowed the building owner to come outahead financially in less than a year.11:30 a.m. Tour of Chiller PlantTake a tour of One Court Square's state-of-the-art chiller plant and control room.

Event Type: Walking TourDate & Time: Wednesday, December 8, 10:00am - 11:00amVenue: Venue should be announced in registration emailFee: Non-Member: $20 | Core Member: $10 | Sponsor and Organizational Member: Free | Trust and LeadershipLevel Member: Free

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“The Strange Artistic Genius of This People”: Ephemeral Art andImpermanent Architecture of Italian Immigrant Catholic FesteThe Victorian SocietyJoseph Sciorra

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Italian working-class immigrants in the United Statesstaged religious feste (street feasts) in honor of the Madonna and Catholic saints. The feasts’ focus werefree-standing, Baroque-style chapels, many reaching four stories high, temporarily erected on city sidewalks todisplay the image of the feted sacred personage. The festa chapels were unique creations that this immigrantCatholic minority imagined and devised as bold artistic statements of religious and ethnic claims to urban space.Joseph Sciorra is the Director of Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian AmericanInstitute, Queens College, City University of New York. He is the editor of Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture inItalian-American Lives, co-editor of Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from theItalian Diaspora, and author of Memorial Wall Art and Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and CatholicMaterial Culture in New York City.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Wednesday, December 8,Venue: VirtualFee: $5-$10

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3D Book Talk: Building the Brooklyn BridgeMunicipal Art Society

On Wednesday, December 8th from 6-7 PM, join Green-Wood Cemetery Historian Jeff Richman for a free virtualtalk exploring his new book, Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1869-1883: An Illustrated History with Images in 3D.Learn about how the Brooklyn Bridge came into being, its human drama, and what makes it so special. Thisprogram is an exciting opportunity to explore the origins of this remarkable local and international icon. Someimages shared in the slideshow will be 3D anaglyphs—providing an immersive experience to step into the 19thcentury at time of the Brooklyn Bridge’s construction. Jeff Richman has been the fulltime historian at Brooklyn’sGreen-Wood Cemetery since 2007. He is a great fan of everything Brooklyn, including the Brooklyn Bridge. Hisfourth and latest book, Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1869-1883: An Illustrated History with Images in 3D, waspublished in September 2021. It features 250 photographs, woodcuts, and original drawings of the bridge, manyof which have never before appeared on the printed page, including 44 3D anaglyphs of the bridge as it wasbeing built.

Event Type: Book TalkDate & Time: Wednesday, December 8, 6:00pm - 7:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Thursday

9

Curator’s Tour of SUPERTALL 2021The Skyscraper MuseumFounder, Curator, & Director Carol Willis

The Museum’s director, Carol Willis, will offer a gallery tour of SUPERTALL 2021 that surveys 58 supertallsworldwide and highlights a dozen recently completed towers that represent some of the most stunning newforms and innovative approaches to structural engineering around the world today. Curator’s tours are FREE, butyou must book a timed ticket at 3pm on Eventbrite, through the RSVP button.

Event Type: Curator’s TourDate & Time: Thursday, December 9, 3:00pmVenue: The Skyscraper Museum; 39 Battery PlaceFee: Free

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Outdoor SpacesThe Architect’s Newspaper

This virtual one day conference features national leaders in landscape architecture presenting case studies ofrecent projects and discussions on how the relationship to outdoors has changed in recent years in light of theongoing pandemic, the urgencies of climate change, the need for new public spaces, and the drive to createmore healthy and engaged relationships to our landscapes. Speakers include Charles A. Birnbaum, JenniferGuthrie, Signe Nielsen and Hank White.

Event Type: ConferenceDate & Time: Thursday, December 9, 9:45am - 3:15pmVenue: VirtualFee: $25 students | $99 early bird | $125 general admission

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Performance-Based Ventilation Design for Health, Efficiency, &ComplianceBuilding Energy ExchangeASHRAE New York

Join BE-Ex and ASHRAE New York for a presentation on designing and operating buildings for both indoor airquality and energy efficiency. Learn how to achieve healthy, energy efficient buildings using ASHRAE’sperformance-based ventilation standard and innovative contaminant control techniques, and how this designapproach helps with Local Law 95 and 97 compliance. For decades, the drive for energy efficiency took priorityover indoor air quality (IAQ). With COVID, the pendulum swung in the direction of IAQ. As we emerge from thepandemic and prepare to meet increasingly stringent building performance standards, we need to design andoperate buildings that meet strict IAQ standards and heightened energy efficiency targets. This session providesa pathway for balancing IAQ and energy efficiency using ASHRAE’s performance-based ventilation standard, theIndoor Air Quality Procedure (IAQP), with sorbent air cleaning technology that saves energy by controllingcontaminants of concern with lower ventilation rates.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 9, 9:00am - 10:00amVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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NYC Landmarks 50+ AllianceNew York Historical Society

In 2012, Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel—chair and founder of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Institute for NewYork City History, Politics, and Community Activism at the New-York Historical Society—established the NYCLandmarks 50+ Alliance to commemorate the landmarks of New York and significant anniversaries of the NYCLandmarks Preservation law. As part of the new Institute’s initiatives, the Alliance presents a series of specialvirtual discussions featuring knowledgeable speakers on the past, present, and future of New York City.

The late fall convening will feature Joy Bivins, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;Carroll Bogert, president of the Marshall Project; Paul Goldberger, an award-winning architectural critic and acontributing editor at Vanity Fair; Thomas Luebke, the secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the federaldesign review agency for the nation's capital; Shannon K. O’Neil, vice president, deputy director of studies, andNelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, whoco-leads the Council’s Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy; and Nadine Orenstein, DrueHeinz Curator in Charge, Department of Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art. The discussion will bemoderated by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel.Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 9, 12:00pm - 2:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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CBH TALK - Floyd Bennett Field: A Visual HistoryBrooklyn Historical SocietyLloyd Trufelman

Nestled on Barren Island along the shores of Jamaica Bay, Floyd Bennett Field opened in 1930 as NYC’s firstmunicipal airport. Its history punctuates the story of NYC aviation, from the role as a naval air station to visits byAmelia Earhart and Howard Huges. Now part of Gateway National Recreation Area and managed by theNational Park Service, the history of Floyd Bennett Field is preserved in images and the original architecturalstructures. NYC guide Lloyd Trufelman brings this history to life in an hour-long visual tour.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 9, 6:30pm - 7:30pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Digital Discussion: Redbird RambleNew York Transit MuseumTransit historian and professor Andrew Sparberg

In 1960, New York City Transit introduced the R26 subway cars on IRT routes, the first of the cars that later cameto be referred to as Redbirds. If you rode any of the IRT subways - today's numbered lines - between 1960 and2003, chances are it was on a Redbird. Join transit historian and CUNY professor Andrew Sparberg for a virtualTransit Walk to trace routes in Manhattan and the Bronx that the Redbirds served daily during their long historyof transporting passengers. We will make virtual stops at significant and unusual stations between 96th Streetand Broadway in Manhattan and Dyre Avenue in the Bronx on the 5 line. We will then return to 125th Street andLexington Avenue, and travel on the 4 and 6 lines to their respective Bronx terminals at Woodlawn and PelhamBay Park. Along the way we'll learn interesting facts about the various contracts for the routes on which themighty Redbird soared for over 40 years.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 9, 12:00pm - 1:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: $10

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Babylon, Iraq: A Heritage from Home Virtual TourWorld Monuments FundJeff Allen

The ancient city of Babylon, once the capital of a sophisticated and vast empire, today represents one of themost important archaeological sites in the world. After thousands of years, the remains of Babylonia's legendarycapital continues to yield insight into the complex past of the empire and is one of the most popular sites in Iraq.Regional Director Jeff Allen will lead viewers through Babylon to uncover the hidden secrets of the ancientworld and go behind the scenes of one of the most famous World Heritage sites. With a visit to the elegant Ishtargate and the popular Lion of Babylon, this virtual tour will provide insight into the unique threats to Babylon’sheritage and WMF’s 12-year project to address them.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 9, time TBA.Venue: VirtualFee: Free

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Los Angeles Architecture, Part II: Cities and the FutureNew York Adventure Club

As American modern architecture and cinema developed throughout the 20th century, one American cityprovided a crucible for both: Los Angeles. This urban playground for design didn't just focus on office buildings,but also extended to unique projects including movie palaces, single-family homes, and even signage. Fromflights of fancy to the very latest in technological development, it's time to uncover the intersection of doctrinaireModernism with Hollywood glamour. Join New York Adventure Club for our three-part Los Angeles Architectureseries, where we examine the structures that make Los Angeles like no other city on the planet. In Part Two —Cities and the Future — we'll examine the buildings constructed under the Modernist banner and their influenceon the global scene. Led by architectural historian David V. Griffin of Landmark Branding, this digital showcasefeaturing a selection of unique structures will include:

● Buildings designed by the great emigre architects of Modernism, such as Neutra, Schindler, and theirfollowers

● Early social housing and utopian experiments by architects such as Irving Gill● The development of a clearly “Hollywood” Modernism — the baroque of the so-called Googie style● An in-depth look at each building's construction, context, and current status, with a focus on how culture

and innovation drive architectural symbolism

Click here to register for Part III on December 16th!

Event Type: WebinarDate & Time: THursday, December 9, 8:00pm - 10:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: $10

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Saturday

11

Madison Avenue, High Fashion and Historic PreservationAIA New YorkMadison Avenue Business Improvement District

Join AIANY and the Madison Avenue BID as we set out in person to discover the history behind MadisonAvenue’s landmark buildings, and explore how high-fashion retail has been incorporated into the district tocreate a world famous shopping destination. The area evolved from brownstones built in the 1870s and 1880s tolavish Beaux Arts townhouses by celebrated architects such as McKim, Mead & White, Carrère & Hastings, andErnest Flagg, to luxury apartment buildings designed by Rosario Candela, Emery Roth, and others. Since early inthe 20th century, many of those historic residential buildings have been transformed to accommodateprestigious stores. The tour will examine architecture from 1870 to the present on and near Madison in the East60s and 70s, an area entirely within the Upper East Side Historic District, and consider how landmarkdesignation has preserved the avenue’s distinctive character. This monthly tour is offered in partnership with theMadison Avenue Business Improvement District (BID), a public-private partnership established in 1996, with thegoal of enhancing the quality of life for the community and its visitors. The BID focuses on public safety,sanitation, promotion and advocacy for the district—striving to make Madison Avenue a more attractive anddynamic place in which to shop, live, work and visit. AIANY Guide: John Arbuckle, Assoc. AIA

Event Type: In-person walking tourDate & Time: Saturday, December 11, 1:00pm - 3:00pmVenue: Meet at the Madison Avenue BID offices, 29 East 61 Street, 3rd floorFee: $20

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Sunday

12

Exploring the Oculus: A Century of Lower Manhattan's Train HistoryNew York Adventure Club

While the Oculus transportation hub in Lower Manhattan might be new, the train station underneath pre-dates itby over a hundred years old. When were these railroad lines first built, and how has the station evolved over thepast century to serve hundreds of thousands of commuters each year? It's time to explore one of New York'smost iconic structures and its connection with the story of the World Trade Center site. Join New York AdventureClub as we journey inside the Oculus transportation hub — designed by famed Spanish architect Santiago

Calatrava and completed in 2016, this dramatic gateway to Lower Manhattan is the fourth station at the site,which has served subway and train commuters since 1909. Led by guide and construction manager Ed Welter,who's been a docent and volunteer at the 9/11 Memorial and museum for 10 years, our trip in and around theOculus will include:

● A historical overview of the of four stations that stood on the World Trade Center site starting in 1909● A discussion surrounding the temporary PATH station erected several years after 9/11● The origins of Calatrava's Oculus design, and heavy safety adaptations made by the NYPD and FDNY● Exclusive photos showcasing each step of the Oculus' construction● A walk through the Oculus to find secrets hiding in plain sight, from the two strongest columns ever used

in NYC to preserved artifacts of the original World Trade Center

Event Type: Walking tourDate & Time: Sunday, December 12, 12:00pm - 1:30pmVenue: Meet at Brookfield Place; 230 Vesey StreetFee: $32

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Monday

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Tod Williams and Billie Tsien: Person Place Thing with Randy CohenAIA New YorkPerson Place Thing

Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on the idea that people are particularlyengaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Cohen’sguests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that is important to them. The result: surprising storiesfrom great speakers. This installment of Person Place Thing will be a conversation with Tod Williams and BillieTsien, Founders and Partners of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners.

Speakers:Tod Williams, FAIA, Principal, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | PartnersBillie Tsien, AIA, Principal, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | PartnersRandy Cohen, Host, Person Place Thing

Tod Williams and Billie Tsien founded their eponymous New York architecture office in 1986. Their studio iscommitted to contributing and inspiring their surrounding communities, focusing on projects such as schools,museums, and not-for-profits. Notable projects include The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia and the AsiaSociety Hong Kong Center. In 2016, they were selected as the architects for the Obama Presidential Center inChicago. Over the past three decades, their work has received numerous national and international citations,

including the National Medal of the Arts from President Obama and the Firm of the Year Award from theAmerican Institute of Architects. They are deeply committed to making a better world through architecture.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Monday, December 13, 6:00pm - 7:30pmVenue: Center for ArchitectureFee: AIANY Member: Free | AIA Member (not AIANY): $5 | General Public: $10 | Student with valid .edu address:Free

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Berenice Abbott: Photographing 1930s New York CityNew York Adventure Club

While photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was one of Paris' most sought-after portrait photographers, themost celebrated works of her entire career would not be of people, but of a city — New York City to be exact.But who exactly was this "self-taught risk taker” and what made her photos so prolific? It's time to uncover thefascinating stories and photographs of one of 20th century's best photographers like never before. Join NewYork Adventure Club as we explore the life and legacy of photographer Berenice Abbot, whose most iconicbody of work documented 1930s New York and its dramatic transformation from an urban wild west to a modernmetropolis. Led by writer, historian, and New York City tour guide Lucie Levine, our virtual experiencesurrounding Berenice Abbott's New York will include:

● A look at Abbott’s process including her contact sheets and negatives● A discussion of how she emerged as the most sought-after portrait photographer in Paris — and one of

the most eligible women in the bohemian lesbian artist communities of Paris and New York● An overview of the Federal Arts Project, the New Deal program that hired Abbott as “The Official

Photographer of New York”● A deep dive into the way she saw New York through her camera● The background of her decades-long personal and professional partnership with the art critic Elizabeth

McCausland

Event Type: WebinarDate & Time: Monday, December 13, 8:00pm - 9:30pmVenue: VirtualFee: $10

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Tuesday

14

Sailing & Soaring into the Holidays: Ocean Liners & SkyscrapersArt Deco SocietyBill MIller

Sail and soar into the holidays with this engaging online illustrated talk on two of our favorite Decotopics—skyscrapers and ocean liners! And, in the spirit of the holiday season, current ADSNY members areinvited to register a FREE GUEST to tune in as well. Sign up today to join Mr. Ocean Liner himself, Bill Miller,author of over 100 books about the great ocean liners, who will take us on a grand tour that explores fascinatingconnections between celebrated liners and skyscrapers. Some highlights will include:

● The Singer Building & the Mauretania● The Woolworth Building & the Titanic● The Chrysler Building & the Ile de France● The Empire State Building & the Normandie● The World Trade Center & the QE2

Miller’s lively presentation will take us through the fascinating connections between these feats of engineeringin terms of design, endeavor, and creative genius. It’s no coincidence that the rapid progress of the pasthundred years has been marked by the increasing triumphs of both ocean liners and skyscrapers. Adding to theoccasion, we will salute the 90th birthday of the Empire State Building!

Bill Miller, known as Mr. Ocean Liner, has written over 100 books on passenger ships, one of which is Sailing &Soaring. He is also a popular guest speaker on modern-day cruise ships, having made hundreds of voyages andvisited ports from Alaska to Antarctica. He has also hosted ocean liner events at Lincoln Center, been a curatorat South Street Seaport, appeared in numerous television programs, and been the recipient of numerousawards.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Tuesday, December 14, 6:30pm - 8:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: ADSNY Member – $15.00 | ICADS Member – $15.00 Registration code required | Jazz Age Order – $12.00 |Non-Member – $20.00

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Wed.

15

Architecture as Environment: A Conversation with Kengo Kuma andToshiko MoriThe Japan SocietyKengo Kuma, Toshiko Mori, Botond Bognar

Explore the contemporary relationships between the built and natural environments with Kengo Kuma, one ofthe most astute architects of our time, and critically acclaimed scholar and practitioner Toshiko Mori. TheJapanese architectural scene is known globally as one of the most robust, dynamic and expressive platforms inthe world for practitioners and enthusiasts alike, offering vast diversity and ingenuity grounded in centuries-oldcraftsmanship and a unique symbiosis with nature. This webinar addresses seismic shifts in our sense ofcommunity and relationship to nature as the Japanese architectural landscape transforms to embrace thesynergy created through a trans-disciplinary approach to environment. The fourth event in our five-part LivingTraditions webinar series.

SpeakersKengo Kuma, Architect; University Professor and Professor Emeritus, the University of TokyoToshiko Mori, Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture, Harvard University GSDInterviewerBotond Bognar, Edgar A. Tafel Endowed Chair in Architecture, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignModeratorKen Tadashi Oshima, Professor of Architecture, the University of Washington

Event Type: Discussion and Q&ADate & Time: Wednesday, December 15, 7:00pm - 8:15pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Thursday

16

Inside an Obsessive Design Practice: Studio Tour & Chat with Evan G.CraneBrooklyn Navy Yard CenterEvan Z. Crane

Artist, design, and fabricator Evan Z. Crane defines his practice as "obsessive object design." On this tour andchat, viewers will step inside his workshop at the Yard and see how he approaches his functional sculptures -from chairs to desks to mirrors. Wallabout Design is the Yard's newest monthly series inspired by its location -Wallabout Bay - and the distinctively inventive and industrial design spirit of the Yard past and present. Evan Z.Crane is a Brooklyn born designer and manufacturer of fine furnishings. Growing up in south Brooklyn theindustrial landscape had a profound effect on him. He immersed himself in the stark geometry of hissurroundings. Drawing upon that inspiration to fuel his vision, he creates not just furniture but functionalsculpture imbued with personality. It is obsession that drives his designs. Every aspect of a piece is derived froma vision that cannot be reasoned with. In his heart Evan believes that if he stays true to his vision, the work willnot only speak for itself, but live on with its own personality, long after it has left his workshop.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 16, 2:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Recalibrate Reality with Stanley McChrystalRegional Plan AssociationStanley McChrystal

How do we recalibrate reality to create a better, brighter future for New York? Retired US Army General StanMcChrystal joins RPA Chairman Scott Rechler for the another episode of Recalibrate Reality: The Future of NewYork, a conversation series with leading thinkers and decision-makers to tackle this crucial question. ScottRechler, chair of the Regional Plan Association and CEO of RXR Realty, hosts a conversation series with leadingthinkers and decision-makers to tackle this crucial question.

Event Type: LectureDate & Time: Thursday, December 16, 7:00pm - 8:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: Free

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Los Angeles Architecture, Part III: Cities and SignsNew York Adventure Club

As American modern architecture and cinema developed throughout the 20th century, one American cityprovided a crucible for both: Los Angeles. This urban playground for design didn't just focus on office buildings,but also extended to unique projects including movie palaces, single-family homes, and even signage. From

flights of fancy to the very latest in technological development, it's time to uncover the intersection of doctrinaireModernism with Hollywood glamour. Join New York Adventure Club for our three-part Los Angeles Architectureseries, where we examine the structures that make Los Angeles like no other city on the planet. In Part Three —Cities and Signs — we'll examine the development of the strip through the neon signs, billboards, and newreality of California’s car culture. Led by architectural historian David V. Griffin of Landmark Branding, this digitalshowcase featuring a selection of unique structures will include:

● The earliest neon signs in Los Angeles — some of the earliest in the world — made for the fabuloustheater marquees of downtown and Hollywood

● The incorporation of the sign-as-façade into L.A. commercial architecture● The heyday of the billboard as an urban signifier in L.A. culture● An in-depth look at each building's construction, context, and current status, with a focus on how culture

and innovation drive architectural symbolismEvent Type: WebinarDate & Time: Thursday, December 16, 8:00pm - 10:00pmVenue: VirtualFee: $10

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Friday

17

Harbor Hill: Long Island "Gold Coast" Estate of Clarence MackayNew York Adventure Club

When Clarence Mackay inherited his father’s multi-million mining and telecommunications fortune in the late1800s, he quickly began working with famed Gilded Age architect Stanford White to design a house for him andhis family on Long Island. In1900, that supersized vision became reality with the completion of one of LongIsland's most exquisite Gilded Age estate ever built. But how would the Mackay's go from the unofficial King andQueen of Roslyn, NY to nearly forgotten by the 1950s? It's time to delve into the tumultuous story behind theMackay family and former hilltop kingdom. Join New York Adventure Club for a digital exploration of the opulentHarbor Hill estate that once stood in Roslyn, New York — designed in 1900 by Stanford White for ClarenceMackay and his wife, Katherine, this towering chateau on a 100-acre hillside property teeming with rare antiques,art, and armor hosted some of High Society's grandest parties of the early 20th century. Led by historian GaryLawrance, our virtual showcase of Harbor Hill using archival photos and exclusive 3D renderings will include:

● An overview of millionaire Clarence Mackay, and the story behind the great mining andtelecommunications fortune he inherited from his father, John Mackay

● The architectural relationship of the Mackay’s and their architect, Stanford White, who designed HarborHill in 1900

● A virtual tour of the estate and mansion using archival images and floor plans, as well as little-knownstories of what life was like at Harbor Hill

● The Mackay's social life in New York’s High Society between the early 1900s to roaring twenties,including glittering parties for England’s Prince of Walls and Charles Lindbergh

● The drama surrounding the Mackay’s, from their scandalous divorce to Clarence’s financial ruin in thelate 1920s

● The eventual decline of the estate and mansion, first falling into ruin before getting demolished in 1947

Event Type: WebinarDate & Time: Friday, December 17, 8:00pm - 9:30pmVenue: VirtualFee: $10

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Saturday

18

Manhattanville: Old Heart of West HarlemMunicipal Art Society

Columbia Community Scholar Eric K. Washington created the first comprehensive tour of this bygone pre-“WestHarlem” neighborhood, in continuous flux since being laid out in 1806. Its founders still reside beneath St. Mary’sEpiscopal Church-Manhattanville (landmarked by New York City in 1998), which turns 198 on this tour date.Despite the conspicuous rise of Columbia University’s new Manhattanville campus, history reveals that itsnamesake – the surrounding 215-year-old valley enclave – is greater than the sum of any construction footprint.Discover why Manhattanville, a once crucial 19th-century town, became “a place of considerable consequence”for all Harlem. Also see where the struggle between institutional might and community spirit is forging somevibrant new neighborhood features that make this a neighborhood worth exploring afresh. Join Eric, a winner ofthe Municipal Art Society’s 2010 MASterworks Award (for his interpretive signage in West Harlem Piers Park),whose book, “Manhattanville: Old Heart of West Harlem,” sets this tour’s theme. He is also a 2020 Brendan GillPrize finalist for his biography, “Boss of the Grips.”

Event Type: Walking TourDate & Time: Saturday, December 18, 11:00amVenue: Meeting location delivered in registration confirmation emailFee: Member: $20 | General Public: $30

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Sunday

19

Brooklyn Navy Yard: Architecture & Infrastructure TourBrooklyn Navy Yard Center

Once America’s premier Naval shipyard, today the Brooklyn Navy Yard is a mission-driven industrial park and ahub of industry, technology, and craft. Explore the Navy Yard’s unique architecture and examine the many layersof history visible in the landscape, from Civil War-era machine shops to innovative LEED-Certified structures, andsee how these buildings have been adapted for modern manufacturing. Learn about development projectscurrently underway at the Yard, which are projected to more than double the Yard’s workforce in the near future,the greatest expansion of the Yard since World War II. This tour showcases the role the Brooklyn Navy Yard playsin providing economic opportunities for thousands of New Yorkers, from small business owners to manufacturingworkers to technology startups, and looks at the infrastructure that keeps the Yard – and all of New York City –running, including stormwater management, transportation, and energy. The tour covers most of the massive300-acre campus, including visits to the still-active 1851 Dry Dock No. 1, the newly-renovated World War II-eraBuilding 77, the sites of the Admiral’s Row and Dock 72 projects, and the LEED Platinum-certified Brooklyn NavyYard Center at BLDG 92.

Event Type: Walking TourDate & Time: Sunday, December 19, 1:00pm - 3:00pmVenue: Meet at Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77; 141 Flushing AvenueFee: General Admission: $25 | Seniors (65+): $22.50 | Students and Veterans: $22.50 | Children (5-12): $12.50 |Children under 5 are welcome to attend free

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Exploring the Secrets of TriBeCa: Lofts, Artists, & AlleywaysNew York Adventure Club

While the Manhattan neighborhood of TriBeCa is known today for its namesake film festival, celebrity sightings,and high-end private homes, it was anything but for nearly 400 years. This is the real story of the sailors,merchants, and artists that once called this neighborhood home, and the historical remnants of its artistic andindustrial past — with an exclusive peek inside one of its most historic spaces. Join New York Adventure Club aswe explore the rich history and story of TriBeCa ("Triangle Below Canal Street"), a New York City neighborhoodthat can trace its roots back to the old Dutch days when the land was known as New Amsterdam. Led by NYCtour guide and TriBeCa native Gardiner Comfort, our neighborhood journey around this fascinating and eclecticsmall corner of Manhattan's "Lower West Side" will include:

● How New York tamed the TriBeCa landscape and its original wetlands to suit its expansion● A discussion around the neighborhood's rise with the creation of Washington Market in 1812, once the

city's main retail and wholesale food distribution point filled with seed, spice, and cheese importers

● The importance of Tribeca as a center of import, with a focus on the maritime industry, the piers, andlongshoremen

● TriBeCa's unique architecture, from its patchwork of landmark designation to the fragility of beautifulbuildings in a business-minded city

● The celebration of artists who settled in unused industrial spaces, established their community, andinfluenced the city for years to come

● An exclusive visit to the historic and eccentric loft space of the Ear Inn, one of New York's oldest bars, fora look at rare artifacts from the 1812 house on Spring Street

Event Type: Walking TourDate & Time: Sunday, December 19, 2:00pm - 4:00pmVenue: Meet at Stuyvesant High School (West Side Highway & Chambers St by Citi Bike Station); 345 ChambersStreetFee: $35

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Thursday

23

Curator’s Tour of SUPERTALL 2021The Skyscraper MuseumFounder, Curator, & Director Carol Willis

The Museum’s director, Carol Willis, will offer a gallery tour of SUPERTALL 2021 that surveys 58 supertallsworldwide and highlights a dozen recently completed towers that represent some of the most stunning newforms and innovative approaches to structural engineering around the world today. Curator’s tours are FREE, butyou must book a timed ticket at 3pm on Eventbrite, through the RSVP button.

Event Type: Curator’s tourDate & Time: Thursday, December 23, 3:00pmVenue: The Skyscraper Museum; 39 Battery PlaceFee: Free

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Sunday

26

Lower East Side Walking TourMuseum at Eldridge Street

Once home to the largest Jewish population in the world, the Lower East Side still bears traces of Jewish lifefrom the turn of the last century. Historian Scott Brevda will show you what life was like for Jewish immigrants100 years ago, where children played, where people shopped and ate, how they received news, and evenwhere they banked. Museum at Eldridge Street Walking Tours are only available to small groups (20 peoplemax). This tour is available to both individual ticket holders or families and includes admission to the Museum.The safety of our visitors and staff is our priority. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, we are monitoring thesituation closely and following guidance from the CDC and local health officials. We will require the use of facecovering at all times covering nose and mouth, social distancing and maintaining 6-feet from others, and regularhand washing and hand sanitizing using alcohol-based hand sanitizer. More details about where you will bemeeting and other safety guidelines will be available in your email confirmation.

Event Type: Walking TourDate & Time: Sunday, December 26, 1:00pm - 2:30pmVenue: Museum At Eldridge Street; 12 Eldridge StreetFee: $0-$25

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Exhibitions

AIA Center for ArchitectureCairo ModernCairo Modern showcases works by Egyptian modernists from the 1920s to the 1970s, half a century ofrich architectural production that complicate our present understanding of global modernism. Theexhibition introduces audiences to key architects from the period such as Sayed Karim (pictured) as wellas examples of their works commissioned by the state and the city’s burgeoning bourgeoisie. Modernismin Cairo reflected the aspirations of the new classes that formed after Egypt’s 1919 Revolution whoembraced the Modernist house or apartment as the materialization of new notions of class, identity, andmodernity.

The exhibition accompanies the publication of Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide, the firstcomprehensive survey of the city’s modern constructions including 226 buildings in 17 geographic areasbuilt from 1900 to the present.

Curator: Mohamed Elshahed, Independent Curator; Author, Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural GuideExhibition Designer: Rami Abou-Khalil, AIA, RAICGraphic Designer: Ahmad Hammoud

Venue: Center for ArchitectureTimeframe: October 1, 2021 - January 22, 2022

AIANY Design Award 2020-2021AIANY Design Awards 2020-21 features the winning projects from two competition cycles, exhibitedtogether for the first time. AIANY is excited to celebrate the 24 winning projects from 2021 and the 35winning projects from 2020.

AIA New York’s annual Design Awards program recognizes outstanding architectural design by AIANYmembers and New York City-based architects and work in New York City by architects from around theworld. The purpose of the awards program is to honor the architects, clients, and consultants who haveachieved design excellence. Awards are given in five categories: Architecture, Interiors, Projects, UrbanDesign, and Sustainability. All categories were reviewed by the seven-person jury who establish criteria,evaluate excellence, and determine the awards given for Best in Competition, Honor, Merit, and Citation.

Venue: Center for ArchitectureTimeframe: October 1, 2021 - January 22, 2022

The Global Phenomenon of Multi-faith Worship SpacesIn the summer of 2019, Eric Salitsky researched the global phenomenon of multi-faith worship spaces bytraveling to various cities throughout the U.S. and Europe to study and photograph this uniquearchitectural typology. He visited more than 50 sites in New York, Boston, London, Manchester, Zurich,

and Berlin to document the various ways that designers and facility administrators address the inherentchallenges of accommodating the prayer needs of various religions in a single space.Venue: Virtual Exhibition

Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip Hop ArchitectureHip-Hop, the dominant cultural movement of our time, was established by the Black and Latino youth ofNew York’s South Bronx neighborhood in the early 1970s. Over the last five decades, hip-hop’s primarymeans of expression—deejaying, emceeing, b-boying, and graffiti—have become globally recognizedcreative practices in their own right, and each has significantly impacted the urban built environmentHip-Hop Architecture is a design movement that embodies the collective creative energies native toyoung denizens of urban neighborhoods. Its designers produce spaces, buildings, and environmentsthat translate hip-hop’s energy and spirit into built form. Some 25 years in the making, Hip-HopArchitecture is finally receiving widespread attention within the discipline of architecture thanks to aseries of influential essays, lectures, and presentations by Craig Wilkins, Michael Ford, and this show’scurator, Sekou Cooke. During this period of emergence, the movement’s ideals have primarily beentested by a loosely organized group of pioneering individuals, each using hip-hop as a lens throughwhich to provoke and evoke architectural form. Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architectureexhibits the work of these pioneers—students, academics, and practitioners—at the center of thisemerging architectural revolution.Venue: Virtual Exhibition

Center for Architecture Lab: Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning andDesign (ISAPD)Center for Architecture Lab is a multi-month, multi-disciplinary residency program that offers new voicesin architecture and design full authorship over dedicated areas of the Center for Architecture's digitalplatforms, including social media, web site, and email with compelling and provocative content that willelevate underrepresented perspectives.Created in response to the destabilizing forces of the global COVID-19 pandemic and reinvigorated racialjustice movement in the United States, the Center for Architecture Lab will offer programming that invitesa greater diversity of professionals to participate in the fields of architecture and design, and encouragesour community to consider outside perspectives, critical questions, and innovative solutions to systemicproblems in architecture and other design professions.Venue: Virtual Exhibition

Visual NYC 2021The digital exhibition, a collaboration between CDDL (led by Sarah Williams, the design lab’s director)and the Center for Architecture, will include context on four topics: climate change, the right to housing,the future of the public realm, and public health. Within each of those, data visualizations will unpack howthese issues play out at all levels: on our streets, in our neighborhoods, within buildings, and throughoutthe city at large.The exhibition will also serve as a platform for New Yorkers to make their voices heard: CDDL and theCenter for Architecture will give visitors the opportunity to weigh in on the changes they want to see intheir neighborhoods, particularly given the outcome of the 2021 election. Thought-provoking questions(such as “What does a healthy city look like?” or “The right to housing is…”) invite city residents to

consider what they want for New York’s future, while the rest of the exhibition will explain how they canhelp realize that vision.Venue: Virtual Exhibition

Topiary TangoA method for designing architecture, Topiary Tango responds to ever-changing contexts and grantspeople the agency to instigate that change. Topiary is the horticultural practice of training perennialplants into shapes. This forgiving art opens up opportunities for gardening newcomers and veteransalike to influence architecture-scaled mass without extensive tools or planning. Whether it’s straighteningedges or fashioning peacocks, all a project needs are a set of shears and a vision. Topiary breathes lifeinto inanimate objects, letting them talk, mock, and giggle. Their playful forms flaunt personalities andrelationships—a globby bush may become a goo�all among other whimsical creatures, or a mess besidea row of arrogant spheres. Their conversations are always in flux; the elastic medium can be endlesslycarved 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. Tango is a body language expressed through formalinteractions. Architecture tangos are no different; a flamboyant new condo smirks at an old-fashionedbrownstone clad in ornament and covered by soot. These relationships are a dialogue articulatedthrough the environment.Venue: Virtual Exhibition

Single Story ProjectSince 2015, photographer and East Village resident Adam Friedberg has documented all the single-storybuildings in the East Village and the Lower East Side, nearly 100 sites in total. As rapid developmentswept through these two neighborhoods, Friedberg realized that these modest structures were quicklydisappearing, along with the predominantly working-class uses that filled them. Many of the structuresthemselves are modest and architecturally insignificant, yet together they form an alternative geographyof the built environment that is quickly being erased before our eyes. Friedberg’s photographs are bluntand frontal, befitting the everyday nature of their subjects. But their matter-of-fact documentary stylebelies a rigorous working method and dogged commitment to the series: in order to capturephotographs without cars or people, he primarily shot the buildings just after dawn, often having toreturn time and again to shoot and reshoot. The quiet, uncluttered streetscapes help the viewer to seethese background buildings in the foreground.Venue: Virtual Exhibition

The Architectural LeagueHousekeepingThe online exhibition features original work by the 2021 League Prize winners, who have createdinstallations either onsite in their respective locations or in entirely digital formats. Through site-specificinterventions, scale models, film, images, and interactive platforms, the winners have created,documented, and presented inventive work for the exhibition. Housekeeping moves from the virtual tothe physical through a poster that, thanks to an engaged network of past and present League Prizewinners, can be found on walls and windows of several institutions and locations across North America.Venue: Virtual ExhibitionTimeframe: Open until June 15, 2022

The Skyscraper MuseumSUPERTALL!The Skyscraper Museum sets its bar high: 1,250 feet/ 380 meters, the height of the Empire StateBuilding. The popular benchmark of 300 meters – about 1,000 feet – favors round numbers, butrepresents a 19th-century standard, the Eiffel Tower. Skyscrapers began to exceed 300 meters only inthe late 1920s in New York City, where the Chrysler Building and Empire State were the only structures ofthat height until the World Trade Center in the 1960s. Today, 300 meters is fairly common, with more than200 buildings of that height worldwide. But towers of 380 meters remain exceptional: our survey countsonly 58. This exhibition highlights a dozen of the most extraordinary recent towers, exploring ideas aboutformal and structural innovation and the place of a signature skyscraper in a master-planned, mixed-usecomplex that creates community and value both on the ground and in the sky.Venue: Virtual & In-Person at The Skyscraper Museum at 39 Battery Place

Museum of the City of New YorkActivist New York OnlineThis online component of the Museum's ongoing, changing Activist New York exhibition (opened May2010) documents current and past content in the gallery and provides extensive resources for educatorsas well as opportunities to connect with the Museum on issues of activism in the city today.Venue: Virtual ExhibitionTimeframe: Ongoing

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

The Greatest GridThe street grid is a defining element of Manhattan. Established in 1811 to blanket the island when NewYork was a compact town at the southern tip, the grid was the city’s first great civic enterprise and avision of brazen ambition. It is also a milestone in the history of city planning and sets a standard to thinkjust as boldly about New York’s future.Venue: Virtual ExhibitionTimeframe: Ongoing

Rising Tide: Visualizing the Human Costs of the Climate CrisisRising sea levels affect us all. In Rising Tide: Visualizing the Human Costs of the Climate Crisis, Dutchdocumentary photographer Kadir van Lohuizen illustrates the dramatic consequences of climate changeacross the world through photographs, video, drone images, and sound. Experience the effects of rising

sea levels in Greenland, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, Fiji, Amsterdam, Panama, Miami, andour own neighborhoods here in New York City.Venue: The Museum of the City of New York at 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd StreetTimeframe: Open through January 2, 2022

Museum of Modern ArtReuse, Renew, Recycle: Recent Architecture from ChinaThe Museum of Modern Art announces Reuse, Renew, Recycle: Recent Architecture from China, anexhibition highlighting a new generation of Chinese architects and their commitment to social andenvironmental sustainability. On view from September 18, 2021, through July 4, 2022, in the street-levelgalleries, the exhibition will present eight projects that speak to a multiplicity of architecturalmethodologies, ranging from the adaptive reuse of former industrial buildings, the recycling of buildingmaterials, and the reinterpretation of ancient construction techniques, to the economic rejuvenation ofrural villages or entire regions through non-invasive architectural insertions. Anchoring the exhibition willbe projects by Pritzker Prize–winning Amateur Architecture Studio (Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu),Archi-Union Architects (Philip F. Yuan), Atelier Deshaus (Liu Yichun and Chen Yifeng), DnA_Design andArchitecture (Xu Tiantian), Studio Zhu Pei (Zhu Pei), Vector Architects (Dong Gong), and Aga Khan Awardlaureate ZAO/standardarchitecture (Zhang Ke). Developed following a four-year research initiative, whichhas included extensive conversations with the architects and numerous site visits to all the projectspresented, the exhibition will include models, drawings, photographs, videos, and architectural mock-upsdrawn from a recent acquisition of some 160 works of Chinese contemporary architecture

Reuse, Renew, Recycle: Recent Architecture from China is organized by Martino Stierli, The PhilipJohnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, and Evangelos Kotsioris, Assistant Curator,Department of Architecture and Design. Curatorial advice was provided by Prof. Li Xiangning of TongjiUniversity, Shanghai.

Venue: The Museum of Modern ArtTimeframe: Opened until July 4th, 2022

Greater New York 2021Greater New York, MoMA PS1’s signature survey of artists living and working in the New York City area,returns for its fifth edition from October 7, 2021 to April 18, 2022. Delayed one year due to the COVID-19pandemic, this iteration offers an intimate portrayal of New York by creating proximity between key—yetoften under-examined—histories of art-making and emerging practices. Featuring the work of 47 artistsand collectives, Greater New York offers new insights and opens up geographic and historicalboundaries by pinpointing both specific and expanded narratives of the local in a city that provokes amultitude of perspectives. Bridging strategies of the documentary and the archive on the one hand, andsurrealism and fabulation on the other, the exhibition considers the ways that artists work to record socialand personal experiences around belonging and estrangement. Drawing connections across theinterdisciplinary practices of international and intergenerational artists, Greater New York examines themany ways that affinities are formed in relation to place and through time. The full artist list is available inthe press release linked below.

Organized by a curatorial team led by Ruba Katrib, Curator, PS1 with writer and curator Serubiri Moses, incollaboration with Kate Fowle, Director, PS1 and Inés Katzenstein, Curator of Latin American Art andDirector of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, TheMuseum of Modern Art.

Venue: The Museum of Modern ArtTimeframe: Opened until April 18th, 2022

Brooklyn Historical SocietyBrooklyn Waterfront HistoryClick on the link to view an online exhibition on Brooklyn Waterfront History! The Brooklyn Bridge Parkand Center for Brooklyn History have partnered to reveal the history of the borough’s waterfront.Venue: Virtual Exhibition

Brooklyn MuseumClimate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous AmericasClimate change is having a severe impact on Indigenous communities across the Americas, but thesituation has an even longer history rooted in the legacies of European colonialism. With more than sixtyworks spanning 2,800 years and cultures across North, Central, and South America, this installationdraws upon the strength of our Arts of the Americas collection to highlight the complex worldviews ofIndigenous peoples and explore how their beliefs, practices, and ways of living have been impacted bythe ongoing threat of environmental destruction.

The works in Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas connect to theenvironment in one of two ways: many objects reveal Indigenous understandings of the natural world,while others more directly address the threat climate change poses to Indigenous livelihoods andsurvival. From the northern Arctic to the southern Amazon, Climate in Crisis follows the effects of glacialmelt, droughts, wildfires, overexploitation of resources, displacement, and extreme violence, as well asthe work being done by Indigenous communities and activists to counter the climate crisis and protectthe planet.

Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas is curated by Nancy Rosoff, AndrewW. Mellon Senior Curator, Arts of the Americas, with Joseph Shaikewitz and Shea Spiller, CuratorialAssistants, Arts of the Americas and Europe.

Generous support for this exhibition is provided by Joan and Jeffrey Barist.

Venue: Arts of the Americas Galleries, 5th floor | 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238Timeframe: Open until July 3, 2022

New York Historical Society"Turn Every Page": Inside the Robert A. Caro Archive“Turn Every Page”: Inside the Robert A. Caro Archive is the first public exhibition drawn from the archiveof the author whose award-winning works on Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson are regarded asmasterpieces of modern biography and history. The ongoing exhibition includes never-before-seenhighlights from the archive—which New-York Historical acquired in 2019—that provide an intimate view ofhow Caro started his career and how he worked as a reporter.

Caro’s meticulousness as a reporter, biographer, and historian—which enabled him to become thecountry’s premier chronicler of political power—is on view to the public in his research notebooks,handwritten interview notes, scrapbooks, photographs, and original manuscript pages. The exhibitionalso includes one of Caro’s Smith Corona Electra 210 typewriters. The riches in the archive make it anessential destination for historians, journalists, students, and anyone interested in 20th-century Americanhistory and literature, where they can find materials available nowhere else.

Venue: New York Historical Society; 170 Central Park WestTimeframe: Ongoing