Friends of the Review,
It’s May. It’s getting warmer, online schools will soon be offline for the summer, and the great outdoors beckons. (Will we still have summer hours while working from home?) While we’re mostly stuck indoors, we hope that you’re finding ways to stay busy online. This week’s pitch sheet includes virtual lectures and events, as well as an invitation to join in on a collaborative drawing session on Thursday night. By the way, this next issue of the Review, No. 12, is guest edited by yours truly, Phillip Denny and Carolyn Bailey.
Announcing “Untimely Reviews”: With New York City on pause, the Review invites your reflections, appraisals, and critiques of events, buildings, and publications from the recent and distant past. These “Untimely Reviews” can be an opportunity to share your belated thoughts on a favorite building, to take a closer look at events, competitions & parties past, or even a chance to dig up old gossip. Got an old bone to pick? Be our guest. In the meantime, here are a few pieces we would love to read.
Traffic, Diller Scofidio Renfro, 1981
Opening night at Storefront for Art and Architecture, September 18, 1982
“Deconstructivist Architecture” at MOMA, 1988
By the way, whatever happened in the 1990s?
Wendy @ PS1, & the Young Architects Program, 1998–2019
World Trade Center Memorial Competition, 2003
The Highline Competition, 2003
Central Park Gates, Jean Claude & Christo, 2005
41 Cooper Square, Morphosis Architects, 2009
Occupy Wall Street, 2011
Barclays Center, 2012
Citi Bike, 2013–
Of course, the Review will continue to bring you the latest and greatest goings-on about town — check out the raft of virtual events taking place this week. Tune in, take notes, and let us know what’s still happening. … And be sure to attend “REAL TIME,” a collaborative drawing event hosted by SLAB and the New York Review of Architecture (details below).
On Monday...
5/4
6:30 PM Diana Darling, Architect’s Newspaper and Pratt Institute School of Architecture will hold a Memorial via Facebook Live to celebrate the life and Legacy of William “Bill” Menking, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Architect’s Newspaper and Professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture.
On Tuesday…
5/5
6:00 PM Join AIA New York for a webinar on the Tiny House Movement, where a panel will answer questions such as “What is the Tiny House Movement? What was, and continues to be, the motivation behind its ongoing research development? What is the definition of a Tiny House? Why does the Tiny House attract so much American media interest when so few homebuyers will purchase a Tiny House and few developers will build a Tiny House to sell?”
On Wednesday…
5/6
1:00 PM The Center for Architecture hosts Architecture of the Arctic Circle Periphery with Amanda Aman, who will present her research on the geography and built environment of the Arctic Circle.
3:00 PM Zoom into the The New School’s Integrated Design Lecture Series: Tiago Valente.
On Thursday…
5/7
6:30 PM A panel discussion between Rebecca Krucoff, Christopher Cirillo, and Lisa Ackerman will tackle issues of preservation and heritage in New York City in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Organized by AIA Brooklyn and Pratt School of Architecture.
7:00 PM The most exciting gathering of the week is, of course, the Review's No. 11 distribution event, 'REAL TIME,' hosted by the collective SLAB, this Thursday at 7:00 pm (EST). We are excited to announce a Zoom critics panel of ANDREW KOVACS, OANA STANESCU, and JIMENEZ LAI, the craziest part will be the format, whereby participants will in fact be simultaneously drawing a building on the app AWW - in real time. New York creates Architecture. RSVP for all of the information at nyra.nyc/rsvp, and we look forward to seeing you there!
On Friday…
5/8
3:00 PM The New School holds their final Design and Technology Cloud Salon of the season. Artist Zach Lieberman will discuss his current work in conversation with Richard The, Assistant Professor in Design and Technology at Parsons.
4:00 PM Museum of the City of New York hosts “Is Now When I Should Panic?”, a conversation between cartoonist (and The New Yorker regular) Roz Chast and curator Fran Rosenfeld.
6:00 PM AIA New York presents The Story and History of Modern Design (Part 2, 1850-2020), the first in a five-part series of online courses taught by design educator and historian Daniella Ohad.
… One last question, have you been reading in quarantine? We want to hear about it: submit a book review to the Review!
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Phillip & Carolyn