This virtual program from the Manchester City Library in Manchester City, NH, explores notable works in New England from modern architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Louis Kahn, Philip Johnson, and Maya Lin. This event is part of the library’s Culturally Curious Art Series hosted by Jane Oneail.
The Iconic Houses Network heads to the Czech Republic—Prague, Brno and Pilsen—for a week-long program of house tours, expert lectures and talks that explore the 20th-century development of the Czech house and its place in the evolution of the International Style.
Join this virtual lecture hosted by The Society for Commercial Archeology to learn about the motel architecture of Wildwood, NJ, from the viewpoints of architect and preservationist Daniel Vieyra and photographer Mark Havens.
To celebrate the release of the new book Futures of the Architectural Exhibition, the Glass House will host editors Reto Geiser and Michael Kubo for a virtual book talk. The book investigates the ways in which exhibitions have proven to be a vital medium for architectural discourse.
The James Rose Center needs volunteers to help prepare for the reopening of the Center. There are various volunteer days on the calendar in April and May.
Explore the Martin House in Buffalo, NY, through the lens of the women who lived and worked at the house during a special Mother’s Day event. The evening includes a 90-minute tour, champagne, and more.
Need an extra incentive to make a Spring visit to Louis Khan’s modern masterwork Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island? Volunteer as part of state-wide I Love My Park Day—the largest single-day volunteering opportunity in New York State.
This illustrated lecture by Wes Haynes examines how architects and congregations adapted new building technologies, symbolic abstraction and modern aesthetics to re-shape houses of worship in Fairfield County, CT. Presented by Fairfield Museum and History Center as part of its Spring speaker series.
Visit the Cooper Union before May 5 to view Vkhutemas: Laboratory of Modernism, 1920–1930. The exhibition highlights the significance of the revolutionary, yet little-known pedagogy of Vkhutemas—a Soviet interdisciplinary design school that aimed to democratize design education and developed universal teaching methods based on scientific discoveries and artistic experimentation. With models, drawings, diagrams, and animations by undergraduate and graduate students from The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture that analyze and reconstruct the work of Vkhutemas students from a century ago.