Please check back for more events to come in 2011.
Previous Events
The High Line's 10th Avenue Square
10th Avenue and 17th Street
New York, NY
Join this free-spirited conversation about the utopian legacy of modern design as embodied in the High Line and its surrounds. From our open-air vantage point overlooking 10th Avenue, we'll trace the lineage of forward-thinking forms and public spaces, taking inspiration from Frank Gehry's luscious IAC Building, the Archtober Building of the Day. RSVP required.
A History of Design at the New York Public Library
New York Public Library
Mid-Manhattan Branch
455 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10016
In this illustrated lecture, Ann and Jeff trace modern design across continents and cultures, highlighting key design traditions with a focus on the Russian and German innovators that sparked the modern spirit, and brought Bauhaus-style design brio to America.
A History of Design at 92YTribeca
Thursday, July 14, 2011
12:00 p.m.
92YTribeca
200 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013
Jeff and co-author Ann Ferebee illuminate New York City as a roiling epicenter of modern design innovation, with a focus on architecture and urbanism stretching from that Victorian-era paragon of poetry in stone and steel—the Brooklyn Bridge—to Mies van der Rohe's sublime corporate style and a new generation's minimalist marvels on the Bowery.
A History of Design at The Skyscraper Museum
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
6:30 p.m.
The Skyscraper Museum
39 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
Join us for an evening tracing the vertiginous exploits of architects and engineers as they conquered the skyline in New York, Chicago, and Paris to advance a century of design ambition writ large.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
9:30 a.m.
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
341 Delaware Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14202
Like many "formerly urban" cities, the once mighty metropolis of Buffalo is today defined by conflicting identities and diverse creative representations, all of which come together in a complex image of a changing, uncharted city. This one-day symposium brings historians, architects, artists, scholars, and activists together to investigate both Buffalo's shifting urban identity and the driving social, political, and cultural forces that shape the image of post-industrial urban places.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
6:30 p.m.
The Woolworth Building
233 Broadway
New York, NY 10279
The past decade’s building boom—and bust—has wrought unprecedented changes upon New York City’s urban fabric, particularly Downtown, where restless reconstruction has brought both crisis and opportunity. In this conversation, part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's nomadic Access Restricted lecture series, Jeff interviews noted author and urbanist Michael Sorkin on the subject of “unbuilding” to explore the potent urban, civic, and environmental impacts of this timely topic. Reservations go live on February 1.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
6:30 p.m.
Mid-Manhattan Library
455 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Jeff discusses Rubble, adventures in wrecking, and the thrillingly ruined lives we lead.
Sidewalks: A Memory Is Always Present
Saturday, April 11, 2009
6:00 p.m.
Hotel Carlton
88 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
A Belgian-American cultural exchange on the transitory nature of New York.
Engineering Symposium: Energy Harvesting
Saturday, February 21, 2009
11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012
Jeff moderates a morning panel on harvesting energy from window walls, draperies, and dance floors, featuring Sheila Kennedy of KVA MATx, Elizabeth Redmond of POWERleap, and Anna Dyson of CASE.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
8:00 & 11:00 p.m. (check local listings)
The Science Channel
If you missed it on Thanksgiving Day, ring in the extended New Year with this documentary about the demolition industry, wherein Jeff discusses highlights from the history of tearing things down.
The New York 2030 Notebook Launch
6:30 p.m.
The Municipal Art Society of New York
457 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
(212) 935-2075
Come celebrate the launch of The New York 2030 Notebook, a collection of essays about New York's sustainable future published by the Institute for Urban Design. Contributors including Richard Sennett will join editors Jeff Byles and Olympia Kazi for an evening of delirious rumination and reckless idealism.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
8:00 p.m. (check local listings)
Discovery Science Channel
Premiering on Thanksgiving Day, this new documentary about the demolition industry features Jeff discussing the heroic wrecking era in New York, the indomitable appeal of the wrecking ball, and other highlights from the history of tearing things down.
+Housing Symposium
Saturday, October 11, 2008
11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012
Jeff will be moderating an afternoon panel on public spaces that are combined with and often financed by new housing, in conjunction with the +Housing exhibit now on view at the Center for Architecture. Speakers include Laurel Blatchford of General Growth Properties (The Seaport); Jonathan Marvel of Rogers Marvel (Gowanus Green); and Jay Valgora of Studio V (Anable Basin).
(Un)Making of Public Space: The Icelandic Visual Arts Awards
Friday, September 19, 2008
1:00 p.m.
Brekkuskóli
Laugargötu
IS-600 Akureyri
Iceland
A lecture and panel discussion on "guerrilla acts of architecture" and the future of public space at Iceland's premier visual arts event. Participants include philosopher Haukur Már Helgason and artist Berglind Jóna Hlynsdóttir.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
4:10 p.m.
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
New York, NY 10012
(212) 431-5795
A reading at this five-day event of near-continuous conversation about architecture, urbanism, landscape, and design. Presented with bloggers BLDGBLOG, City of Sound, Inhabitat, and Subtopia. POSTOPOLIS! runs Tuesday, May 29 thru Saturday, June 2.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
3:00 p.m.
Apex Art
291 Church Street
(between Walker and White)
New York, NY 10013
(212) 431-5270
A talk on the occasion of Let Everything Be Temporary, or When Is The Exhibition?, a show of artworks exploring fleetingness, instability, and, at times, their own destruction. Other participants include Dieter Roelstraete and curator Elena Filipovic.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
12:30 p.m.
Institute for Esthetic Research
Autonomous National University of Mexico
Ciudad Universitaria
Coyoacán, 04510
Mexico City, Mexico
Monday, April 17, 2006
7:00 p.m.
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
(212) 255-5793
A discussion about ruins, the theme of Cabinet Magazine's Winter 2005/2006 issue. Other participants include Brian Dillon, Cabinet 's UK editor, and Svetlana Boym, Harvard professor and author of The Future of Nostalgia.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
6:30 p.m.
National Building Museum
401 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 272-2448
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Noon
Makor / Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y
35 W. 67th Street
New York, NY 10023
(212) 601-1000
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
6:30 p.m.
The Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
Between Bleecker and West 3rd Street
New York, NY 10012
(212) 968-1961
