In order to foster dialogue about the design of the built environment, cultureNOW teamed up with the AIA NY Chapter's Architectural Dialogue Committee to start a new Friday night lecture series. Cocktails &amp; Conversations pairs an architect and a critic, journalist, or curator. Of course, it wouldn't be Friday night without a suitable beverage. A custom drink inspired by the architect's work was created especially for the occasion by bartender and author Toby Cecchini or Eben Klemm. The first program was held on Friday November 16th, 2012. Programs are scheduled about once a month.

Cocktails & Conversations: Vishaan Chakrabarti and Justin Davidson

Cocktails & Conversations: Joel Sanders and Barry Bergdoll

Cocktails & Conversations: Mehrdad Yazdani and Sam Lubell

Cocktails & Conversation: A.I. and the Arts with James Wines and Phillip Denny

Cocktails & Conversation: Making Home with Matthew Bremer and Wendy Goodman

Cocktails & Conversations: Lee F. Mindel and Joseph Giovannini

Cocktails & Conversations: Audrey Matlock and Jason Sheftell

Cocktails & Conversations: Andrea Leers, Jane Weinzapfel and Susan S. Szenasy

Cocktails & Conversations: Kieran Timberlake and Sarah Williams Goldhagen

Cocktails & Conversations: Moshe Safdie and Donald Albrecht

Cocktails & Conversations: Brad Cloepfil and David van der Leer

Cocktails & Conversations: Morris Adjmi and William Higgins

Cocktails & Conversations: Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi and Julian Zugazagoitia

Cocktails & Conversations: Calvin Tsao and Karen Stein

Cocktails & Conversations : Craig Dykers and William Menking

Cocktails & Conversations: Tod Williams, Billie Tsien and Karen Stein

Cocktails & Conversations: Todd Schliemann and Clifford Pearson

Cocktails & Conversation : LTL Architects

Cocktails & Conversations: Eric Owen Moss, Tom Kundig and James S. Russell

Cocktails & Conversations: Michael Murphy and Michael Sorkin

Cocktails & Conversations: Toshiko Mori and Fred Bernstein

Cocktails & Conversation: Austin Sakong of FXCollaborative and Anna Kodé

Cocktails & Conversations: Architecture Research Office and Mark Lamster

Cocktails & Conversations: Rafael Pelli and Nico Kienzl

Cocktails & Conversations: Hugh Hardy and James Sanders

Cocktails & Conversations: Ken Smith and Alan G. Brake

Cocktails & Conversations: David Piscuskas and David Hollenberg

Cocktails & Conversations: Bartholomew Voorsanger and Alastair Gordon

Cocktails & Conversations: David Adjaye and Thomas Campbell

Cocktails & Conversations: Daniel Libeskind and Brett Littman

Cocktails & Conversations: Bing Thom, Michael Heeney and Gina Pollara

Cocktails & Conversation: Michael Sørensen and Joel Towers

Cocktails & Conversations: Enrique Norten and Pedro Gadanho

Cocktails & Conversations: Jeanne Gang and Michael Kimmelman

Cocktails & Conversations: Tom Kundig and Cathleen McGuigan

Cocktails & Conversations: Peter L. Gluck and Inga Saffron

Cocktails & Conversations: Deborah Berke and Cathleen McGuigan

Cocktails & Conversations: Neil Denari, FAIA, and Aaron Betsky

Cocktails & Conversations: Louisa Hutton and Barry Bergdoll

Cocktails & Conversations: Louise Braverman & Martha Thorne

Cocktails & Conversations: Hayes Slade, James Slade and Fred Bernstein

Cocktails & Conversations: Kulapat Yantrasast with Jason Edward Kaufman

Cocktails & Conversations: Sarah Williams with Brad Samuels

Cocktails & Conversations: Farshid Moussavi and Joanne Gonchar

Cocktails & Conversations: Kimberly Dowdell & Beatrice Galilee

Cocktails & Conversations: Remembering Kristen Richards: Connecting Through Architecture

Cocktails & Conversations: Trey Trahan Lila Allen

Cocktails & Conversation: LEVENBETTS

Cocktails & Conversations: Tom Balsley and Matt Shaw

Cocktails & Conversation: Kai-Uwe Bergmann and Diana Darling

Cocktails & Conversation: Jonathan Marvel, FAIA, with Fred Bernstein

Cocktails & Conversations: Florian Idenburg, Karilyn Johanesen and Nicolas Kemper

Cocktails & Conversations: Thom Mayne and Winka Dubbeldam

Cocktails & Conversations: Shohei Shigematsu and Amanda Dameron

Cocktails & Conversations: Scott Marble, David Benjamin and Kenneth Frampton

Cocktails & Conversations: Massimiliano Fuksas, Gregg Pasquerelli, and Paul Goldberger

Cocktails & Conversations: Steven Holl and Barry Bergdoll

Cocktails & Conversations: Claire Weisz and James S. Russell

Cocktails & Conversations: Mark Simon, John Ruble and Paul Makovsky

Cocktails & Conversations: Richard Weller and William Menking

Cocktails & Conversations: Thomas Phifer and Thomas de Monchaux

Cocktails & Conversations: William Pedersen and Carol Willis

Cocktails & Conversations: Francine Houben and Harriet Harriss

Cocktails & Conversations: Wendy Evans Joseph and Rosalie Genevro

Cocktails & Conversations: Rob Rogers and Susan S. Szenasy

Cocktails & Conversations: Marlon Blackwell and Billie Tsien

Cocktails & Conversations: Gisue Hariri, Mojgan Hariri and Julia Gamolina

Cocktails & Conversations: Signe Nielsen, Molly Bourne and David Burney

Cocktails & Conversations: Brooks + Scarpa with Joseph Giovannini

Cocktails & Conversations: Belmont Freeman and Cathleen McGuigan

Cocktails & Conversations: Winka Dubbeldam and Thom Mayne

Cocktails & Conversations: Frank Harmon and Suzanne Stephens

Cocktails & Conversations: Frances Halsband and Michael J. Crosbie

Cocktails & Conversations: Charles Renfro and Justin Davidson

Cocktails & Conversations: Nader Tehrani and Nima Javidi

A Celebration of the New York Cocktail

Center for Architecture

Cocktails & Conversations

Design

Continuing Education

Conversation

It is a truism that Lower Manhattan has been America’s town square since its founding in 1524, even though its history is much deeper. Virtually every aspect of global, local and national significance can be in some manner traced to this Downtown stage. Some have been forgotten and some have been transformative in our culture and many have fallen between. This is both a project in urban archeology and a way of describing the city over time. It Happened Here captures the multiple and overlapping stories that are woven throughout our city’s life. It embraces America’s history as the museums, monuments and memorials that dot its streetscape do. It highlights many of the concerns, events and places that the people who lived, fought, worked and visited here thought were important at their moment in time.&nbsp;It takes another look at the issues that they were preoccupied with and how they solved them: their politics, religion, social protest, health and safety, commerce, disasters and defense, scandals and crime, education, publications, art and culture, parades and celebrations, architecture and engineering. It encapsulates the events that shaped the physical and cultural landscape within the changing geography at the water’s edge. And it raises questions that need to be considered as we plan a more resilient city in our future.It Happened Here seeks to excavate its many historical layers: from its inception as the precolonial Lenapehoking territory (once inhabited by the Munsee Lenape and Wappinger tribes), to the creation of New Amsterdam by the Dutch, to the establishment of the first free African settlement in North America, to the establishment of British control, to the gateway for immigration, to being the site of the American Revolution, to its present-day significance as the nation’s cultural and financial nerve-center.To kick off the United States’ upcoming 250th birthday It Happened Here will be a weekend on July 4, 2025 which will compress our 400 years into 4 days with each day being devoted to a century. The program will feature multiple types of activations, including tours, panels, and special events that will take place in many of the sites downtown where highlighted historical events occurred supplemented with our digital museum without walls app.

10th Annual Independence Day Parade

Chinese American Veteran’s Day - It Happened Here at Kimlau Square

Black History at Foley Square - It Happened Here : An afternoon of Black History From the African Burial Ground to the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse

American Presidents in New York: It Happened Here

295th Anniversary of the Founding of New York City's First Synagogue

Wall Street Transformations through Time — Walking Tour

Evacuation Day Commemoration

1600’s Symposium: The Beginning of the City

1800’s Symposium: Lafayette and the Gilded Age Symposium

NetherlandsNOW

1900’s: Connecting the City: The History of Infrastructure Symposium

8th Annual Independence Day Parade

How Dutch is New York? – The Brooklyn Self-Guided Car & Bike Audio Tour - VIRTUAL

Liss and the Culper Spy Ring in Historic Lower Manhattan

Lunch & Learn: George Washington & The Birch Trials at the Historic Fraunces Tavern

Shaping the Skyline in Lower Manhattan : American Institute of Architects National Presidents

Museum at Eldridge Street: Places Over Time

Museum & Neighborhood Tour: A Century on the Lower East Side Walking Tour

How Dutch is New York? – The Stuyvesant Self-Guided Walking Audio Tour - VIRTUAL

The Forty Years Manhattan was Dutch Walking Tour

Battery Park City - Its Manhattan Plus Walking Tour

Alexander Hamilton in the Financial District Walking Tour

400 Years of NYC Government Records, 1636-2025

Museum at Eldridge Street Tour

Gangs of New York and the Bloody Five Points

Unknown and Untold Stories at Kimlau Square

Lower Manhattan: Preparing for the Future

Open House: Shaping our Cityscape

Naturalization Ceremony at Federal Hall

July 4th, 2024: The 248th Anniversary of the Founding of America

How Dutch is New York? – The Historic Richmond Town Self-Guided Walking Audio Tour - VIRTUAL

Discovering New Amsterdam Walking Tour - VIRTUAL

Lunch & Learn: The Birth of New York City's Municipal Government

It Happened Here : St Pauls Chapel - Places Over Time

How Dutch is New York? - The New Amsterdam Walking Tour - Extended - VIRTUAL

A Celebration of Constitution Day

Wall Street Transformations through Time Walking Tour

1700’s Symposium : The Path to Liberty

Jewish Colonial Walking Tour

Lower Manhattan

It Happened Here

Politics

Celebration

Culture

Parade

Symposium

Tour

The&nbsp;Architecture &amp; Design Film Festival, celebrates the unique creative spirit that drives architecture and design. With a curated selection of films, events and panel discussions, ADFF creates an opportunity to entertain, engage and educate all types of people who are excited about architecture and design.

Skin of Glass

Best In The World

veins

Modernism, Inc.

Radical Landscapes

The Promise: Architect B.V. Doshi

Clodagh

TerraForma

Rehab (from rehab)

Women in Architecture

The Power of Utopia – Living with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh

The Genius of the Place: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Bawa

Life, Assembled

Soviet Bus Stops

My Architect

Stardust: The Story of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

Green over Gray: Emilio Ambasz

Where We Grow Older

New England Modernism: Revolutionary Architecture in the 20th Century

The Pavilion On the Water

House of Adaptation

Sitting Still

Emotional Architecture 1959

Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square

E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

Biocentrics

Ada – My Mother the Architect

The House: 6 Points of Departure

Schindler Space Architect

Perception

Emergent City

This Is Not A House

DEPOT - Reflecting Boijmans

Living Together: The Story of De Warren

Village East by Angelika

Architecture & Design Film Festival

Film Festival

Archtober (ärk'tob?r) is New York City's annual Architecture and Design Month. The collaborative initiative between New York City's leading cultural institutions and professional organizations aims to raise the public's awareness of architecture and design in everyday life. Daily architecture activities, programs, tours, lectures, films, and exhibitions will celebrate the lasting civic and international impact of the richness of the City's built environment. Moreover, New York City is home to over 40,000 design professionals, the largest pool of design talent in the country. Archtober's programming lineup demonstrates this sector's powerful economic impact and will draw global attention to one of the City's leading exports. Archtober's curated calendar guide of over 100 events can be found at all participating organizations and online. The first event series launched on Oct 1, 2011,&nbsp;

Idlewild Park Salt Marsh Learning Center

SAGE Center Brooklyn at Stonewall House

High Line - Moynihan Connector

One Madison Avenue

Paulson Center

Pace University, 15 Beekman

The Playground at the Seagram Building

Senior Affordable Passive House

Jewish Theological Seminary

Bronx Point

NYU Bobst Library Special Collections - Group One

Melrose North

International Center of Photography

30 Morningside

Robert Olnick Pavilion, Magazzino Italian Art

Publicis Groupes Le Truc Clubhouse

Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art

Louis Armstrong Center

Pier 26 at Hudson River Park

Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street

City Kids Education Center

Cathedral of St. John the Divine Crossing Dome Roof

550 Madison Avenue Garden

The Center for Architecture

Archtober

Exhibition

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