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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW YORK CITY: Second Edition

Type: LECTURE
Date: 2/7/2011
Time: 6:30PM
Location: The Skyscraper Museum
Address: 39 Battery Place
                New York , New York

 

Exhaustive in its range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City (1995) became an instant classic, earning worldwide acclaim, awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published. But in the ever-evolving New York City, change is the constant. The new edition covers both the unpredictable events of 9/11 and the unlikely three-term mayoralty of a billionaire businessman, and documents the slower shifts of urban regeneration of many city neighborhoods. The revised edition includes 800 new entries, with new material that includes broader coverage of subject areas and new maps and illustrations. Virtually all existing entries - spanning architecture, politics, business, sports, the arts, and more - have been updated to reflect the impact of the past two decades.

Kenneth T. Jackson is the Jacques Barzun Professor of History at Columbia University, where he has taught New York City history for four decades. Author of the prize-winning Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, he is also General Editor of the Columbia History of Urban Life and a former president of the Urban History Association, the Society of American  Historians, the Organization of American Historians, and the New-York Historical Society.
 

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The Critical Moment: Architecture in the Expanded Field
Thursday, September 15, 2011
through Saturday, November 05, 2011
Cooper Union
The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery
7 East 7th Street
New York, New York

 

Debuting in the Houghton Gallery at Cooper Union, graduates of the Master of Architecture II Program will have their innovative 2011 thesis projects on display in "The Critical Moment: Architecture in the expanded field." The show, which is free, marks the first public viewing of the Master students' work. Without prescribed boundaries, the projects address a myriad of critical issues shaping today's architectural discourse, ranging from urban theory to the present condition of globalization and the continual emergence of new scientific developments and technologies. The exhibition illuminates the graduates' year-long extensive research using literature, photography, drawing, technology, history and urban studies to develop innovative programs, all of which feature configurations and narratives that bring forth potential solutions that may not be obvious to the viewer.

 

In 2009, the Master of Architecture (M.Arch. II) enrolled its first class and provides graduate students with an innovative approach and experience to a studio-based, design research post-professional degree. Open to applicants with a first professional degree in architecture, students are challenged to push the frontiers of design and form critical responses to modern and contemporary issues in the practice and theory of architecture.

 


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