NYU – Five-session course: The Art Deco Metropolis – session No. 4

Sponsored by New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Education. Thursday afternoons, April 10, 17 and 24 and May 1 and 8. To register, click here.

Five walks in Manhattan take us to New York’s major monuments of art deco architecture, buildings that transformed the city into the world’s modern metropolis. Downtown, we examine the work of Ralph Walker, “the architect of the century” and designer of the Gothic-modern fantasy of No. 1 Wall Street. Two walks cover East and West 42nd Street including the miraculously urban wonderland of Rockefeller Center and the Garment District, which illustrates the work of Ely Jacques Kahn. We finish with Central Park West, the great twin-towered apartment buildings, and other Jazz Age fantasies of high living overlooking the park.