At the Center for Architecture | 3/7/18
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Try your luck at Guess-A-Sketch! This Friday, March 9, architects, architecture enthusiasts, and young professionals will gather at the Center for Architecture for an...

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Archtober, At the Center for Architecture | 2/21/18
New York State Pavilion, 2016 Building of the Day. Credit: Center for Architecture.

Archtober is accepting submissions for projects to be included in New York City's month-long festival of architecture and design. Each day in October 2018, we will...

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Learning by Design | 1/22/18
Dustin Atlas, School Programs Coordinator, leads a discussion about the structure of scaffolding. Credit: Center for Architecture.

The K-12 Education team planned an exciting start to 2018 for Shore Road School in Long Island. As students returned from the winter holiday, seven 5th grade classes...

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At the Center for Architecture | 1/3/18
Topiary Tango. Courtesy of Mark Zlotsky.

The Center for Architecture and AIANY are pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant. The Scholarship Committee awarded $15,000 to...

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Learning by Design | 12/12/17
Design Educator Breanna Katsman assists Maya with her model. Credit: Center for Architecture.

This fall, the Center for Architecture’s After-School program investigated “Places We Live.” This eight-week program focused on designing places to live and...

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Learning by Design | 11/27/17
Lex and his brother Max worked together to build a Suspension Bridge. Photo Credit: Erik Bardin

On November 17th, we celebrated the opening of the 21st-annual Building Connections Exhibition, highlighting the imaginative work of our K-12 students, design educators,...

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Exhibitions | 11/16/17
Concrete Buildings rendering. Credit: Nicole Paul Popovich, University of Florida.

On 11.14.17, Obdurate Space: Architecture of Donald Judd opened at the Center for Architecture. Curated by Claude Armstrong, Architect, and Donna Cohen, Associate...

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At the Center for Architecture | 11/16/17
Deans' Roundtable 2018. Credit: Center for Architecture

Following short introductions by AIANY and Center for Architecture Executive Director Benjamin Prosky, Assoc. AIA, at the thirteenth-annual Deans' Roundtable, AIANY 2017...

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Learning by Design | 11/15/17
Nearly 250 students attended the 5th annual Architecture and Design College Fair on Saturday, November 4th. The Center for Architecture was a forum where prospective architecture students conversed with their future alma maters. Credit: Center for Architecture

The Education team at the Center for Architecture hosted the fifth-annual Architecture and Design College Fair on 11.04.17, an important event serving high school...

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At the Center for Architecture | 11/1/17
Heritage Ball 2017 Honorees: Claudia Gould, Annie Tirschwell, Jill Crawford, Sara Caples, Andrea Kletchmer, Everardo Jefferson, and Jeffrey Sachs. Credit: Sam Lahoz.

On 10.26.16, 1,000 architecture, engineering, construction, and real estate professionals joined us at Chelsea Piers Pier 60 to celebrate AIA New York and the Center for...

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At the Center for Architecture | 11/1/17
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group's pumpkin tower lantern. Credit: Daniel Cole.

The Center for Architecture hosted its second-annual Pumpkitecture! competition, kicking off Halloween weekend in NYC. 18 New York City-based firms (and one staff team)...

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At the Center for Architecture | 10/31/17
Teens work on constructing their models from toothpicks and marshmallows. Credit: Center for Architecture.

On 10.20.17, the Center for Architecture participated in our third Teens Take The Met! event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This free event drew more than 2,377...

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Archtober, At the Center for Architecture | 10/19/17
Siblings show off their Family Market. Photo: Center for Architecture.

The Center for Architecture was happy to once again host our Archtober FamilyDay@theCenter as part of Open House New York Weekend. At this free drop-in program on...

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Archtober, At the Center for Architecture, Exhibitions | 10/4/17
"Scaffolding," October 2, 2017 - January 18, 2018. Photo: Erik Bardin.

On 10.02.17, the Center for Architecture kicked off Archtober, NYC's Architecture and Design Month, with the opening of "Scaffolding." Curated by Greg Barton, the...

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Archtober, At the Center for Architecture | 9/21/17

“What an exciting time to be a New Yorker!” exclaimed Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. Commissioner Finkelpearl joined the...

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Learning by Design | 9/19/17

The Center for Architecture’s K-12 Education Department takes great joy in partnering with cultural institutions both near and far as a way to deepen our engagement...

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Archtober, At the Center for Architecture | 9/7/17

Archtober 2017 is coming! The Center for Architecture and 71 partner organizations will be bringing you a jam-packed month of architecture and design activities. From...

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Learning by Design | 8/23/17

The Center for Architecture's nine weeks of summer programs are wrapping up this week. Our students have explored topics ranging from skyscrapers to nomadic architecture...

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At the Center for Architecture | 7/27/17

The Center for Architecture is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2017 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals. This year, the Scholarship Committee granted the...

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Learning by Design | 7/26/17

Each summer, thanks to a program launched in 2005 that continues to expand each year, the Center for Architecture offers an extensive slate of design programs for...

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Archtober, At the Center for Architecture | 7/13/17

This year, Archtober partnered with the Four Freedoms Park Alliance to host a special Archtober Summer Kickoff event on 07.12.17. FDR Four Freedoms Park in Roosevelt...

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Archtober, At the Center for Architecture | 5/31/17

This Archtober, share your firm’s New York City-based works with architecture enthusiasts! Archtober is accepting nominations for projects to be included in New York...

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Learning by Design | 5/31/17

The Center for Architecture’s K-12 Education Department recently collaborated with several NYU departments to host a playground design contest for NYU families called...

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Learning by Design | 5/31/17
Students and families at NYU's LaGuardia Studio. Credit: Center for Architecture

The Center for Architecture’s K-12 Education Department recently collaborated with several NYU departments to host a playground design contest for NYU families called...

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Learning by Design | 4/21/17

The Center for Architecture’s Education Department had the opportunity to work with numerous audiences to explore the complexities of store design. Whether a...

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Learning by Design | 3/9/17

During one of our February Studio@theCenter programs, our three-day school vacation design camps, we investigated the structures animals create for themselves as well as...

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Exhibitions | 2/7/17

Opened in conjunction with Black History Month, SAY IT LOUD: Distinguished Black Designers of NYCOBA | NOMA puts the spotlight on architects and allied professionals...

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Learning by Design | 1/25/17

As the first semester drew to a close this month, several Learning By Design:NY classes concluded their in-school programs with final presentations to parents and...

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At the Center for Architecture | 11/11/16

The Center for Architecture kicked off Halloween weekend with its first annual Pumpkitecture! competition. Twenty New York City-based firms went gourd-to-gourd to...

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Learning by Design | 11/11/16

During the annual 2016 Architecture and Design College Fair on 11.04.16, more than 175 students and family members came to the Center for Architecture to learn about...

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