Join Yale School of Architecture for a conversation with editor Sue Ann Kahn, architect Louis Kahn’s daughter, about her new publication, a facsimile of Kahn’s private sketchbook from his last year.
As part of its annual Archtober festival of architecture, AIA NY is leading a tour of the New York Hall of Science Great Hall, designed by Wallace K. Harrison for the 1964 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, Queens.
Join Paul Rudolph Foundation board members Dan Webre and Sean Khorsandi for a rare tour of Paul Rudolph’s 1960–1964 Endo Laboratories in Garden City, LI.
Join Planting Fields Foundation for an exciting exploration and conversation on the preservation of historic sites from Rosa Lowinger. The book talk is based on her just-published memoir, DWELL TIME: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair.
The Skyscraper Museum hosts Joseph Colaco, who as a young engineer worked directly with Fazlur Khan on Houston’s One Shell Plaza, for a discussion on the engineering principles and refinements that make this concrete skyscraper expressive as both form and structure.
The Glass House is bringing together three renowned pianists—Timo Andres, Aaron Diehl, and Jenny Lin—for a Sunday afternoon concert of Philip Glass’ Etudes in Stamford’s extraordinary modernist First Presbyterian Church.
In collaboration with Lehman College of the City University of New York, the New York Tri-State chapter will be guiding tours of the two connected buildings on that Bronx campus designed by Marcel Breuer, his first permanent buildings built in New York City.
Docomomo US is hosting a travel tour at The Sea Ranch in California. The tour includes the original development ideas as laid out by Lawrence Halprin, early buildings by Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull and Whitaker, and Joseph Esherick and Associates. Learn how Barbara Stauffacher Solomon’s supergraphics put The Sea Ranch on the map.
Tour Day is back! An annual celebration of modern architecture and design where the public and like-minded organizations across the country participate in a tour or event. Check out what’s on the docket in the Tri-State area.
Presented in partnership with The Athenaeum of Philadelphia and Docomomo US/Greater Philadelphia, join William Whitaker, Curator of the Architectural Archives at Penn’s Weitzman School of Design, for a lively journey through Philadelphia area workspace architecture—an architectural heritage that includes the work of well-known architects like Louis I. Kahn, George Nakashima, and Herbert Bayer, along with an array of fascinating sites from across the region.
This pair of exhibitions on Myron Goldfinger’s architecture at the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture and Mitchell Algus Gallery offer complementary studies of Goldfinger’s work, exploring his built residential projects and his unbuilt and community architecture. Both exhibitions consist of original material uncovered during the indexing of Goldfinger’s estate.
Dive into the architectural and cultural history of mid-century Modern American synagogues, including those by Walter Gropius, Minoru Yamasaki and Frank Lloyd Wright, in this engaging lecture with Professor Emerita of architecture at Texas A&M University, Anat Geva. Presented by the 92nd Street Y.
This exhibition by the architects von Gerkan, Marg, and Partners presents a selection of more than sixty projects in the firm’s 40 years of UMBAU (conversion) experience as specific examples of current UMBAU practices that deal with the architectural heritage of the 20th century.
Yale School of Architecture has opened a new exhibition, Geoffrey Bawa: It is Essential to be There, the first major exhibition which draws from the archives to look at the Sri Lankan architect’s practice.