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March 2020

Tourist in Your Own Town Series

March 19 - December 31

Social distancing during COVID-19? Stuck inside on a rainy day? Or just don't want to fight the crowds? Take a virtual tour of New York City's major landmarks from your couch. The New York Landmark Conservancy has curated a catalog of virtual tours that let you see New York from wherever you are. The video series features sixty-three different virtual tours across all five boroughs. Tour historic homes, parks, sacred sites, museums, and skyscrapers to find famous monuments and hidden…

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10 Top Museums You Can Explore Right Here, Right Now

March 19 - December 31
Online

Google Arts and Culture has partnered with over 500 museums and cultural institutions globally to allow visitors to peruse their collections virtually. Travel from New York City to Paris to Seoul and back in just a few clicks. The top 10 museums to tour include the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the British Museum, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; the Pergamon Museum, Berlin; the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Uffizi Gallery,…

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The Met 360° Project

March 20 @ 8:00 am - August 1 @ 4:53 pm

This award-winning series of six short videos invites viewers around the world to virtually visit The Met's art and architecture in a fresh, immersive way. Created using spherical 360° technology, it allows viewers to explore some of the Museum's iconic spaces as never before. Viewed more than 11 million times, this series affords an access and a perspective typically unavailable to the public. Viewers can experience the magic of standing in an empty gallery after-hours, witnessing a bustling space in…

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May 2020

Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matter(s)

May 6 @ 8:00 am - August 9 @ 5:00 pm
The Shed • 545 W 30th St
New York,NY10001United States

May 6 – August 9, 2020 On view in The McCourt, Level 2 and Level 4 Galleries For more than a decade, artist Tomás Saraceno has been imagining a world free from borders and fossil fuels, in an unorthodox collaboration with spiders and their webs, and the cosmic web. In this age of climate emergency, his work has focused on a new era of our Earth that emphasizes the atmosphere, called the Aerocene. Saraceno draws on this practice in Particular Matter(s), the artist’s…

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July 2020

Parks and Playgrounds Camp

July 6 @ 9:00 am - July 10 @ 5:00 pm
Chicago Architecture Center • 111 East Wacker Dr.
Chicago,IL60601United States + Google Map

Redesign a green space at this virtual camp July 6-10 for ages 11-14. Through guided lessons, hands-on activities and explorations of their neighborhoods, campers will learn about landscape architecture and the importance of parks and public spaces. All CAC summer camps will take place virtually over five consecutive days. Campers will meet with their camp leader and other campers daily, via Zoom, to get to know one another, share their work, and receive instruction and motivation to complete at-home projects.…

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Architecture Camp 1.0

July 6 @ 9:00 am - July 10 @ 5:00 pm
Chicago Architecture Center • 111 East Wacker Dr.
Chicago,IL60601United States + Google Map

Ready to think like an architect? Join us July 6-10 for a virtual camp to learn architecture basics. Campers ages 8-10 will be introduced to sketching and model building through guided lessons, activities and virtual walking tours. All CAC summer camps will take place virtually over five consecutive days. Campers will meet with their camp leader and other campers daily, via Zoom, to get to know one another, share their work, and receive instruction and motivation to complete at-home projects.…

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CAC Live: Women of Influence Graceland Cemetery Tour

July 7 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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One event on July 12, 2020 at 1:00 pm

Chicago Architecture Center • 111 East Wacker Dr.
Chicago,IL60601United States + Google Map
$8,

Discover women who made lasting impacts on Chicago with a visit to their final resting places. Chicago Architecture Center docent Mary Jo Hoag leads this 45-minute live, virtual tour in the beautiful Graceland Cemetery on Chicago’s North Side. Hoag’s tour highlights several women who changed the city—some even before they were allowed to vote, hold public office, work outside the home or attend college.

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Envision: A Framework for Sustainable Infrastructure

July 7 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Online
$10

This webinar will provide an introduction to Envision, a tool within a larger system developed to help evaluate the sustainability of civil infrastructure. The program will feature a detailed overview of the tool, case studies of Envision in use, and a moderated panel of experts. As cities continue to grow and development continues to move forward, the need for sustainable infrastructure becomes paramount. In 2017, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gutteres stated, “Infrastructure investment will be crucial. The world should adopt a simple rule: if big…

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EQUITY MATTERS Leadership Summit – Higher Education

July 8 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Online
Free

Panel Discussion: Ensuring Inclusive Resiliency on Our Campuses After the Pandemic, with U.S. Higher Education Leaders Join us for a discussion by university leaders are working toward enhancing the value of each student's learning experience and institutional life in higher education, with a focus on social equity. The EQUITY MATTERS Leadership Summit, moderated in part by the senior editor Sarah Brown of The Chronicle of Higher Education, will tackle these significant challenges. The convener and event host, Studio Ma, invites higher…

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CAC Live: Building Tall on Broad Shoulders

July 8 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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One event on August 15, 2020 at 1:00 pm

Chicago Architecture Center • 111 East Wacker Dr.
Chicago,IL60601United States + Google Map
$8,

Chicago is where innovations were developed and applied to the design and construction of the world’s very first skyscrapers. Looking at engineering breakthroughs throughout the history of high-rises, this presentation showcases five specific structural types—each utilizing a unique technology that allowed and supported building taller and taller.

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Urban Planning and Architectural Design for Sustainable Development –5th Edit

July 9
Roma Tre university • Rome,Italy
Rome,---00118Italy + Google Map
http://bit.ly/UPADSD-fees

The 5th Conference on “Urban Planning and Architectural Design for Sustainable Development” (UPADSD), follows the success of previous versions in 2015, 2017, 2018. It is concerned with the concept of sustainable development and the different approaches that have become essential to modern development and energy efficiency. To be a sustainable city, it must be designed with consideration of the environmental impact, for example, decreasing traffic congestion and using sustainable materials in constructions. A commitment to sustainable architecture encompasses all phases of a building including the planning,…

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