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CANCELLED (BLIZZARD) – TO BE RESCHEDULED Lecture: Art Deco New York – From the Chrysler Building to the Grand Concourse

January 28, 2015 @ 7:45 pm

Free

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Art Deco today can refer to anything from saltcellars to skyscrapers, produced anywhere in the world during the early decades of the last century, using abstract, stylized floral, geometric, or streamlined design. In New York, Art Deco evolved through a series of Manhattan skyscrapers into the city’s chief architectural language. Following a massive reawakening of interest during the 1970s, New York’s Deco buildings today survive as prized remnants of a distant-yet-modern past that still helps to define the city’s visual identity.

This lecture covers the great skyscrapers of architects Raymond Hood, William Van Alen, Ely Jacques Kahn, and Ralph Walker, including the Daily News, Empire State, Irving Trust, General Electric, American Radiator, Barclay-Vesey and RCA Buildings. It then traces the adaptation of this “skyscraper style” through apartment buildings on the Bronx’s Grand Concourse, airport terminals at LaGuardia, the Central Park West residential skyline, automated midtown parking garages, diners, hotels, department stores, banks and theaters like Radio City Music Hall.

This lecture is sponsored by the New York State Council on the Humanities; free and open to the public.

Details

Date:
January 28, 2015
Time:
7:45 pm
Cost:
Free

Organizer

New York Council for the Humanities
Phone
(212) 233-1131
Email
nych@nyhumanities.org
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Venue

Atria on Roslyn Harbor
100 Landing Road
Roslyn, NY,
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Phone
1-516-858-3207
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