The Skyscraper Museum will host a conversation exploring the origins of the structural thinking and engineering ideas birthed in Chicago in the postwar decades. Bill Baker, Consulting Partner of structural engineering at SOM, and Thomas Leslie, Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986, will discuss SOM’s development of tube construction with the Brunswick and DeWitt-Chestnut buildings.

Join AIA New York on a tour exploring Roosevelt Island. Attendees will visit a community planned by Philip Johnson and John Burgee, Louis Kahn’s Four Freedoms Park, as well as other buildings spanning four centuries of development on the island.

Learn more about the Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church and urban renewal in the Dixwell area at a community event hosted by The New Haven Preservation Trust. Charles Warner Jr., historian, educator, and community influencer, will discuss the church and its connection to the 1960 Dixwell Redevelopment and Renewal Plan. Exhibits and a self-guided neighborhood tour complement the program.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy presents a lecture about the new technologies, methods, and materials being used to address the effects of water infiltration at Fallingwater, as well as other challenges faced working on this landmark in Mill Run, PA.

The Glass House will host its annual fundraiser, the Summer Party, in June complete with tours, performances, a picnic-style lunch, cocktails, and curated auction. All galleries and the 49-acre property will be open for guests to enjoy.

The New York Adventure Club tour has organized an in depth tour exploring the 1964 NY World’s Fair—a showcase that covered 646 acres, featured over 140 pavilions, had exhibitors from 80 nations and introduced the world to technologies of the future like picture phones.