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Moshe Safdie On Invention and Fitness: Humanizing Megascale

Internationally renowned architect Moshe Safdie will discuss his design philosophy and the evolution of his urban design concepts in an upcoming ArtTalk lecture at the National Academy. For...

04.03.13
Danish Design Review New York: Living the Legacy—Designing the Future

Parsons The New School for Design is partnering with the Danish Design Centre and Consulate General of Denmark to present Danish Design Review New York: "Living the Legacy—Designing the...

11.14.12
Prefab Discussion with Amanda Dameron and Joseph Tanney

Please join Dwell's Editor-in-Chief Amanda Dameron and architect Joseph Tanney of Resolution: 4 Architecture on December 4, 2012 at the new WeCross space as they discuss America's love affair (and...

11.05.12
Architectural League Current Works: Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Lecture

As part of The Architectural League's 2012-2013 Current Work program, a presentation of the work of significant international figures who influence contemporary architectural practice, Tod Williams...

10.15.12
Architectural League Current Works: Alberto Kalach Lecture

As part of The Architectural League's 2012-2013 Current Work program, a presentation of the work of significant international figures who influence contemporary architectural practice, Alberto...

10.15.12
Apartment Therapy Design Evening: The Future of Interior Design on the Web

Join Apartment Therapy for their biggest panel of the year. Next Thursday, October 18 from 6:00-8:30 p.m., Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan will be hosting three 25 minute conversations on the future of...

10.12.12
The Architecture of Public Housing: Preserving a Post-War Legacy

Following World War II, the United States and Europe sought to address the dire need for public and affordable housing through new construction. The post-war decades saw the development of many...

03.05.12
Panel Discussion: Return of Modernism

Modernism was the go-to style of the mid-20th century, with famous designers such as Russel Wright, Eero Saarinen, and Charles and Ray Eames. By the end of the century, however, its glow had faded....

08.24.11
Panel Discussion: Modern in the Past Tense: Revisiting the “Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was” Landmark Exhibition

An expert panel, including David Hanks and Martin Eidelberg, curators of the original show; Newark Museum curator Ulysses Dietz; pioneering dealer Mark McDonald; and interior designer Ali Tayar...

08.24.11
Panel Discussion: Living With History: Restoring, Redesigning and Reviving NY’s Landmark Interiors

In the past decade the city has been the setting for some extraordinary projects aimed at bringing historic buildings back to life. This half-day symposium will showcase some of those...

08.24.11
The New Ethos for Design: Sustainism

Design critic Alice Rawsthorn recently wrote: "Here’s the skinny. Modernism is dead, and design needs a new “ism” to define it. Whatever that “ism” turns out to...

01.11.11
The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X - 197X

Peter Eisenman, Anthony Vidler, Bernard Tschumi, Steven Holl, Cynthia Davidson, Alison Sky, Suzanne Stephens, William Menking, Albert Ferré, Craig Buckley, Urtzi Grau, Beatriz Colomina, and...

12.05.10
Bill’s Design Talk: Michael Graves

Internationally renowned architect and designer Michael Graves will provide an intimate portrait of his celebrated career and discuss the influences that shaped his thinking and approach to design ...

12.02.10
Alberto Alessi and Bill Moggridge

 This program will focus on the history of Alessi, from 1921 through the present. Alberto Alessi, at the helm of the company since 1970, will speak about the role of objects in modern consumer...

11.17.10
What's Alt Is Neu

Taking MoMA's exhibition The New Typography as a point of departure, curator Juliet Kinchin leads the discussion on the once and future meanings of New Typography....

05.30.10
World Nomads Lebanon

World Nomads, FIAF’s annual exploration of transculturalism in the 21st century, is intended as a forum for dialogue ...

04.09.10
Speed and Glamour: Early Automobiles and New York City

New York City played an important role in making the automobile an icon of modernism. Join Phil Patton, automobile design expert and co-curator of the Museum's exhibition Cars, Culture, and the...

04.09.10
What Is Green Architecture? with Werner Sobek

The Goethe-Institut New York presents What Is Green Architecture?, a series of conversations, lectures, and events exploring the cutting-edge developments in the field and their impact on...

05.08.09
Now What Architecture

In his 1931 Kahn Lecture at Princeton University, Frank Lloyd Wright posed the seminal question: “Now what architecture?” Over the course of his seventy-year long career, Wright taught...

04.24.09
Library of Dust

The Oregon State Insane Asylum, opened in 1883 on a hill just east of Salem and renamed the Oregon State Hospital in 1913, became in part a warehouse for the state’s anonymous unwanted. When...

04.10.09