Events
Please check back for more events to come in 2009.
Previous Events
Sidewalks: A Memory Is Always Present
Saturday, April 11, 2009
6:00 pm
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 am to 5:00 pm
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 pm (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 pm
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 pm (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 am to 5:00 pm
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 pm
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 pm
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 pm
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 pm
Institute for Esthetic Research
Autonomous National University of Mexico
Ciudad Universitaria
Coyoacán, 04510
Mexico City, Mexico
Monday, April 17, 2006
7:00 pm
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 pm
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 pm
The Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
Between Bleecker and West 3rd Street
New York, NY 10012
(212) 968-1961
