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Archtober and the AIA Center for Architects Invites You to Share Space

Archtober 2025: Sharing Spaces, The 15th edition brings together architects, artists, and the public for a month of events exploring how New Yorkers share and shape their city.

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Archtober Invites You to Trace the Future of Architecture

Archtober 2024: Tracing the Future, taking place October 1–30 in New York City, aims to create a roadmap for how our living spaces will evolve.

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How Can Architecture Create and Preserve Black Spaces?

Peter Robinson, the Center for Architecture’s new vice chair, talks with deputy editor Kelly Beamon about language as a design tool, how preservation differs from "Black memory work," and how those concepts can improve

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Manhattan’s Center for Architecture Imagines the Future of Universal Design

Curated by Barry Bergdoll and Juliana Barton, Reset: Towards a New Commons explores “more holistic approaches to inclusion” through architecture and design.

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Two New Residencies Offer Indigenous Voices a Platform for Design Innovation

Architects Chris T. Cornelius and Anjelica Gallegos discuss their experiences as inaugural fellows at two New York–based programs.

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Getting Into the Weeds of Topiary Design

An exhibition at the Center for Architecture in Manhattan reveals topiary as a dynamic and overlooked spatial practice.

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See the Swan Song Designs of Paul Rudolph

This Center for Architecture exhibition provides fresh insight into the architect's last designs in East Asia.

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Design and the Just City in NYC Opens at the Center for Architecture

At the exhibition, open through March 30, Harvard GSD’s Just City Lab presents five projects that use design to counter injustice.

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Hip-Hop Architecture’s Philip Johnson Moment

A new show at AIA New York’s Center for Architecture makes the case for a growing global design movement that is forging its own canon.

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9 Top Events, Exhibitions, and Tours from This Year’s Archtober

New York City's month-long celebration of architecture—which includes films, tours, lectures, discussions, and more—kicks off October 1st.

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Center for Architecture Unpacks the Legacy—and Unfinished Business—of Activist Whitney M. Young

The gallery at the AIA New York Chapter takes an unflinching look at the civil rights leader’s call to action, 50 years later.

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New Exhibition Highlights the Best of European Affordable Housing Architecture

Social Housing – New European Projects, which is on view at the Center for Architecture in New York, showcases 25 stand-out projects.

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Trash Talk: New Guidelines Show How Architects and Planners Can Clean Up Cities

The Zero Waste Design Guidelines is a multidisciplinary book that explores in-depth how to best handle waste on the building and urban scale.

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Scaffolding Will Get Its Due at a New Center of Architecture Exhibition

An upcoming exhibition looks at the ubiquitous architecture of scaffolding.

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“5×5” Exhibition Proves Architects Can Still Tackle Thorny Political Issues

The show, currently at the Center for Architecture in New York, uses architecture to explore themes beyond it.

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A Model Life: New Exhibition Highlights Forgotten Midcentury Architect Gregory Ain

The FBI kept tabs on architect Gregory Ain, whose housing designs for Southern California were ahead of their time.

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The Protégé’s Turn: Unearthing the Work of a Frank Lloyd Wright Student Who Helped Design Usonia

New exhibit celebrates the work of Taliesin Fellow Kaneji Domoto, a Japanese-American architect and landscape designer who helped fashion Usonia.

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The Best of Finland’s Contemporary Wood Architecture

An exhibition at the Center for Architecture shows the development of Finnish wood architecture over the past two decades.