Events  2023

Tuesday
November

21

LocalVirtual Book Talk

Concrete Solutions: Residential High-Rises in Chicago

Join the Skyscraper Museum for a webinar with Thomas Leslie, Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He will discuss his new book, Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City, an expansive architectural history that tackles the history of a half century of Chicago’s built environment.

Saturday
November

18

LocalWalking Tour

Walking Tour: Midtown Modernism along 53rd Street East to West

View a variety of classic Modern, late Modern and Postmodern designs by SOM, Philip Johnson, Edward Larrabee Barnes, Eero Saarinen, Kevin Roche, Kohn Pedersen Fox and others on this AIANY walking tour. Highlights include Lever House, the Seagram Building, Citicorp Center, the CBS Building, and the Museum of Modern Art’s multi-building complex.

Friday
November

17

LocalExhibition

Thought-Built: The Imperial Hotel at 100

The Frank Lloyd Wright Martin House presents its inaugural exhibition: Thought-Built: The Imperial Hotel at 100. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel opening, this exhibition will feature rare artifacts rescued from demolition and provide visitors with a deeper understanding of Wright’s relationship with the Martins during this formative period in his career.

Saturday
November

11

LocalWalking Tour

Walking Tour: Midtown Modernism at East 42nd St., the UN and Vicinity

This AIANY walking tour covers many of the distinctive buildings and interiors that define Midtown, starting with Art Deco stand outs and moving to well-known Modern sites such as the UN Headquarters and the Ford Foundation Building. This densely packed tour of Midtown’s multiple modernisms is rounded out by lesser-known structures such as the Japan Society and William Lescaze’s 1934 home and office, along with buildings by Harrison & Abramovitz, Gwathmey Siegel, and I. M. Pei.

Thursday
November

09

LocalBook Discussion

A Conversation about Conversations with Kenneth Frampton

Columbia GSAPP hosts Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gooden, Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt, Mary McLeod, and Daniel Talesnik for a discussion of Kenneth Frampton: Conversations with Daniel Talesnik. The book presents seven interviews with the architectural historian reflecting on the long arc of his rich and influential career in the discipline. This talk will be held in Wood Auditorium and live-streamed on the Columbia GSAPP YouTube Channel.

Tuesday
November

07

DOCOMOMO NY/TRIBook Talk

Sandfuture: Artist Justin Beal Interprets Minoru Yamasaki

Artist Justin Beal will speak about his book Sandfuture, for our fall Modern Conversations event. The book is about the life of Minoru Yamasaki, but also about an artist interrogating art and architecture’s role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster.

Saturday
November

04

LocalWalking Tour

Walking Tour: Midtown Modernism and the Park Avenue Corridor

Tour modern sites through Midtown and along Park Avenue with New York Tri-State board member Kyle Johnson and AIA NY. View the highlights from an Art Deco standout through late-Modern and Postmodern.

Thursday
November

02

LocalAwards

2023 Modernism in America Awards Ceremony

Honor this year’s Modernism in America winners and celebrate the best of modernism with Docomomo US at Design Within Reach Third Avenue in New York. One Tri-State project is receiving an 2023 award: the restoration of Demerec Laboratory (Anderson & Beckwith, 1953), at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Thursday
November

02

LocalEvent

AustraliaNOW: Coming Up From Down Under

Celebrate the 100th birthday of Austrian/Australian architect Harry Seidler and the 50th anniversary of the opening of Jørn Utzon’s landmark Sydney Opera House with AustraliaNOW and the AIANY Architecture Dialogues Committee. Attend this event online or in-person to explore the country’s 20th century architectural landmarks, the current collaboration of American and Australian architects on major cultural, educational, and commercial projects, and short presentations of emerging and established Australian architects practicing today.

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