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Guided Tour: Brooklyn Landscapes

This tour with architectural historian Francis Morrone and co-author of “Guide to New York City Urban Landscapes” will look at three generations of Brooklyn landscapes.

Rebuild by Design and Seaport City: NYC’s coastal future takes shape

Rebuild by Design is an on-going search for policy-based solutions for protecting New York, and other vulnerable coastal cities. It’s no surprise that the finalists of the Rebuild by Design competition proposed projects for storm protection that reflect the New York ideals of creativity and practicality.

Reading the Streetscape: Battery Park City

Discover how to “read” buildings for information about the City’s growth and development and look at the city’s architecture from a design perspective in this 2-hour walking tour. You’ll never walk down the street the same way again!

Forecaster: New York Minute

New York Minutes is a conversation with artists, architects, scholars, curators and collectors on the status of new museums, collecting practices, and the roles of architecture and the cities in which these institutions are lodged.

Diplomats: Global Practice and Representation (WORKac)

he work of Columbia Universities Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) professor Amale Andraos and alum Dan Wood has taken them from New York City’s Lower East Side to St. Petersburg, Russia, where WORK architecture company’s master plan for a cultural center on New Holland Island transforms existing warehouses into a “city within a city,”

Considering the Quake

Considering the Quake: Seismic Design on the Edge explores the intersection between the aesthetics of architectural form and the technicality of structural design, through the lens of earthquake engineering.

Practical Utopias

This free exhibition at the Center for Architecture chronicles the pace and scale of urbanization in Asia which has been unprecedented in both the emerging…