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Frank Lloyd Wright 150th Birthday Celebration

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 5th Avenue, Manhattan, NY, United States

Celebrate the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth through a series of activities related to the architect’s masterwork: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

The celebration kicks off on Thursday, June 8—Wright’s 150th birthday—with a special reduced admission fee of $1.50. Visitors will be treated to free birthday cupcakes in the Guggenheim’s newly renovated Cafe 3, which will feature large-scale, rarely seen photographs of the museum during its construction. A first-person interpreter representing Frank Lloyd Wright will be on site between 10 am and 1 pm engaging with visitors.

The Art of the Park Tour

Dairy Visitor Center Mid-Park between 64th and 65th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Central Park has long been revered as a masterpiece of living art. Visitors on this tour will admire Park vistas as if walking through a…

$15

The North Woods Tour

Charles A. Dana Discovery Center in Central Park Central Park, Manhattan

The North Woods is the largest of the Park's three woodlands, offering people and wildlife a 40-acre forest retreat in the middle of New York…

$15

It’s Electrifying: Converting Heating Systems

32BJ SEIU 25 West 18th Street, 5th Floor Auditorium, New York, NY, United States

The second installment of our It’s Electrifying series explores the promise and practical barriers to electrifying heating systems in multifamily buildings. As buildings of the future begin to…

$15

University Roundtable on Deep Energy and Carbon Reductions

Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, United States

AIA New York invites you to attend a university roundtable on deep energy and carbon reductions. In New York City and State, universities are leading…

$10

Climate Change and the Future of Cities

The Puck Building, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue 295 LaFayette Street, New York, NY, United States

What can cities do about climate change? How can they help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create more sustainable forms of collective life? How can…

Free

Design Experiments for the Rebuilding of Houston and other Disaster Cities

The Puck Building, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue 295 LaFayette Street, New York, NY, United States

Professor Natalie Jeremijenko directs the Environmental Health Clinic, and is an Associate Professor in the Visual Art Department, NYU and affiliated with the Computer Science…

Free

The Architectural League’s Emerging Voices Night 1

SVA Visual Arts Theater 333 W 23rd St, New York City

Chris Baribeau, modus studio, Fayetteville David Seiter, Future Green Studio, Brooklyn Introduced by Jing Liu 1.5 AIA and New York State CEUs The first evening of the annual…

$10

Designing to Avoid Disaster

The Puck Building, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue 295 LaFayette Street, New York, NY, United States

Thomas Fisher, a professor and Director of the Minnesota Design Center at the University of Minnesota, will discuss the fracture-critical nature of many of the…

Free

City Design in Times of Proliferating Informality and Climatological Crisis

The Puck Building, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue 295 LaFayette Street, New York, NY, United States

This lecture by Alfredo Brillembourg will explore the work of ETH Zurich Urban-Think Tank (U-TT), an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design…

Free

Urbanist Summer Scavenger Hunt

On Thursday, July 19, 6:00–9:00 PM, the MAS Urbanists will team up with AIA New York’s Archtober to host a summer scavenger hunt. Join us and put your knowledge of local…

$10

The New Urban Crisis

Van Alen Institute 30 West 22nd Street, New York, NY, United States

On Tuesday, July 31st  Join Van Alen Institute as we delve into Richard Florida’s The New Urban Crisis. In 2002, Richard Florida published The Rise of the…