DOCOMOMO US NY/Tri-State President John Arbuckle leads this Municipal Art Society walking tour examining the development of the UN Headquarters complex and surrounding area, including the works of three Pritzker Prize winners: Kevin Roche, I.M. Pei and Norman Foster.
For the next installment of Columbia GSAPP’s The Library is Open series, Matt Shaw will present his book American Modern: Architecture; Community; Columbus,Indiana, followed by a response from Jorge Otero-Pailos, Professor and Director of Historic Preservation at GSAPP.
Join the Center for Architecture for a discussion of Le Corbusier Album Punjab, 1951, with Maristella Casciato and Pippo Ciorra. This reprint of Le Corbusier’s notebook, kept during his two-week visit to the Indian state of Punjab, constitutes a primary source for reconstructing the topics addressed by the small team of architects and governmental officials who in only a few days developed the outlines of the Chandigarh plan.
Join us for a special, private members-only gallery tour of the Met’s exhibition Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph. The tour of this first-ever major museum exhibition to examine the career of Paul Rudolph will take place while the museum is closed to the public.
The only high rise and the final project designed by Eero Saarinen, the 38-story CBS headquarters in midtown was described by its architect as “the simplest skyscraper statement in New York.” The Harbor Group, Vocon, and MdeAS Architects are offering a tour of 51W52 (aka Black Rock) and its 21st-century update.
This Skyscraper Museum lecture series, In Situ: The Modern Concrete Skyscraper, examines key experiments in concrete construction and the range of paradigmatic concrete skyscrapers throughout history. Next up: Pier Luigu Nervi and Place Victoria in Montreal, explored in a case study by architectural historian Katie Filek.
The Glass House presents architects William Earls, Alan Goldberg, and Fred Noyes for a free conversation at New Canaan Library about the origins of modern architecture in New Canaan.
This year’s J. Max Bond Jr. Lecture coincides with the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Architects’ Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH), which was created to serve the planning and urban design needs of Harlem residents and once led by J. Max Bond, former dean of the architecture school at The City College of New York. The presentation will use several of ARCH’s projects as starting points for conversations about Harlem’s transformation physically and demographically amidst ongoing development and the fight for neighborhood autonomy.
Join The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy for a virtual book talk with author Anat Geva, whose recent book, The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s–1960s, introduces an architectural analysis of selected modern American synagogues and reveals how they express American Jewry’s resilience in continuing their physical and spiritual identity, while embracing modernism, American values, and landscape.
Save the date! The 11th Modernism in America Awards Ceremony is heading west to Los Angeles. Winners will be recognized at DWR West Hollywood on November 7. Stay tuned for an announcement of the winners.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy’s Wright Virtual Visits online series will visit the Historic Park Inn Hotel, the only hotel designed by Wright still in operation, in Mason City, IA.