NYU – Five-session course – Art Deco New York Architecture: Exploring the Jazz-Age Metropolis – Session No. 2

Sponsored by New York University’s School of Professional Studies. Monday afternoons, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., October 5 to November 7. For information and registration, click here.

The Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center—New York is still defined by its great Art Deco monuments from the 1920s and ‘30s. Though Art Deco was largely forgotten after World War II, it was rediscovered and reappraised starting in the 1960s and today seems to be everybody’s favorite style. This course includes two illustrated lectures and three walking tours. The lectures trace the development of Deco from a skyscraper style to its rapid spread across the city, and include exclusive audio recordings of three architects from the period whom the instructor interviewed in the 1980s. The first walking tour covers the great Deco icons along Manhattan’s East 42nd Street plus Rockefeller Center. The second tour looks at the residential skyline of Central Park West, while the third runs from Murray Hill to Gramercy Park and includes the Empire State Building.