Join AIA NY and tour guide William M. Singer for a walking tour along Manhattan’s 53rd Street corridor.. The tour will focus on NYC’s 1961 Zoning Resolution and the development of modern urbanism in NYC, highlighting not only iconic buildings of the period, but open public spaces like the Seagram Building plaza and the Paley Park. Discover how this zoning shift along with the post-WWII economic boom and the rise of the automobile shaped the city’s architectural development.
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the groundbreaking Preserving the Recent Past conference series, PRP4 will provide a national forum to share the latest strategies for identifying, protecting, and conserving significant structures and sites from the recent past. It’s in Boston, MA.
Kirsten Reoch, executive director of The Glass House and Scott Mehaffey, executive director of the Edith Farnsworth House, are teaming up for a virtual discussion exploring the intertwined history of these iconic glass-walled houses designed by Philip Johnson and Mies van der Rohe. The talk will cover their architectural significance, shared connections, and influence on the International Style, as well as the houses’ transformations over the decades.
Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy will discuss their new book Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism, a comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American Modernism.
Join New York Adventure Club for a five-part series exploring the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair, where ambitious pavilions, visionary designs, and behind-the-scenes drama came together to made the fair one of the most ambitious in history. Led by world’s fairs expert Bill Cotter, the virtual experience will highlight the fair’s groundbreaking architecture and innovation including rare photos and videos.
Join Rizzoli bookstore for a book talk for Tashkent: A Modernist Capital. Tashkent is a rare jewel of modernist Soviet architecture, rediscovered here in photographs by Karel Balas. Author Béatrice Grenier will be in conversation with Abraham Thomas and Gayane Umerova, followed by a signing.