Dear friends of the Review,
Continuing with our now-weekly pitch sheets, welcome to another week in New York architecture curated by The New York Review of Architecture. If you missed last week’s post you can find it here. If you’re a new reader, welcome! Send this to a friend and they can sign up for our email list here.
With the coming week’s events and architectural tidbits all in one place, the pitch sheet is a resource for readers and writers alike. Have an idea for a story? Notice something notable about New York’s built environment? Send a pitch to editor@nyra.nyc.
Also, find our writing guidelines here.
Number 10 of our publication dealt with the initial shock of the Covid-19 pandemic. Almost all of the month’s architecture events were cancelled. But like our launch event, which we broadcasted online (you can subscribe to our YouTube channel and view the event with Mark Foster Gage and Sam Jacob here), many institutions are adapting: this month there are increasing number of events going online.
Rotating through our staff of volunteers, this week’s pitch sheet is being written by Dante Furioso, Managing Editor of the Review. Going on 10 years in New York (minus my hiatus in New Haven), I know that the city can be overwhelming. So many events, so many things to do, so little time. In the wake of the cancellation of, well, everything, it seemed like New York and its architecture scene were both ON PAUSE. Maybe the Review would take a break. Nah. In fact, everything is just going online.
While nothing is a substitute for face-to-face interaction, audiences are now more dispersed and NY-only events are available to anyone with the Internet.
For example, take this Thursday, April 23. There are no less than five online events to choose from: GSAPP’s final reviews, a design webinar on wall systems at the Center for Architecture, a Denise Hoffman Brant lecture at Spitzer, an Andrea Simitch lecture at Cooper Union, and a design and technology salon with A.M. Darke at Parsons.
There are, of course, a few events worth mentioning. All them, somehow, seem to relate to this moment of technological and ecological shift, a progression and regression at once.
On Wednesday, April 22 join Open House New York for a conversation with Sara Jensen Carr, an assistant professor in architecture, urbanism, and landscape at the School of Architecture at Northeastern University. She’ll be discussing epidemics.
Later in the afternoon of April 22 you can tune into the Center for Architecture’s webinar, Earth Day Dialogue: Designing for Planetary and Public Health.
On Monday, April 20 Michal Sedbon will lecture at the New School discussing “digital networked technologies and systems through their convergence with non-human intelligence (i.e. plants, unicellular organisms, insects, bacterias).”
Take your pick. You can see all the week’s online architecture events on our website, nyra.nyc.
We’re also looking for pitches related to anything related to the built environment in New York.
Also, what are you reading? Watching? Seeing out your window? Send us your ideas for reviews of books, movies, and TV shows.
Building of the week
The Woodhull Hospital (1978) was designed to accommodate modern technology. It cuts an imposing profile across Brooklyn. Do you like it?
Exhibitions
Certainly not the same as the real thing, but check out the New Muesum’s retrospective of painter Peter Saul. You can even download the audio guide on their website as you view photos of his paintings.
Or you could check out work that was meant to be viewed online, with First Look: New Art Online, also at the New Museum.
Instagram accounts
As reported by WNYC, the late architect and urban planner Yona Friedman has a new Instagram account @yona_friedman, which is publishing his drawing, models and photos of his inspiring and controversial work.
Untimely review
Have an idea for an “untimely review”? Something that already happened, but needs a fresh look? More on this next week…
Until then, stay safe, and (mostly) indoors,
Dante