Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.

In Chicago: Lecture covering the great skyscrapers of architects Raymond Hood, William Van Alen, Ely Jacques Kahn, and Ralph Walker, then tracing 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.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. An on-the-ground introduction to the great American metropolis – the physical city – as it has evolved over the past three centuries. Libraries are overflowing with accounts of New […]

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

The Upper East Side – Manhattan’s gold coast – maintains an aura of conservative respectability, and perhaps as a result never attracted as much Art Deco flash as its counterpart on the west side of Central Park. Nevertheless, tucked among the Beaux-Arts town houses and sedate neo-Georgian apartment buildings, the neighborhood has some remarkable examples by some of the city’s best architects of the period.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society. Reservations required ($20; $15 MAS members). To register, call 212-935-3960, or click here to register on-line. Perhaps best-known of New York’s official “Scenic Landmarks,” Central Park offers New Yorkers refuge, recreation and rejuvenation; a temporary haven from a city of brick and steel, concrete and glass. And yet this park which […]

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

ARCHS4365: Summer session for-credit course at Columbia, but  offered through the School of Professional Studies so open to students and others not currently enrolled at Columbia. See July 6th for details.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.

Reservations required – click here for information and registration. Just a few seats left for Sunday’s all-day bus tour of Art Deco Long Island, sponsored by the Art Deco Society of New York. We’ve found some amazing things: See a Ralph Walker telephone mini-skyscraper, rarely seen WPA murals in a volunteer fire house, a fabulous […]

NYU course. Five walks (Thursday afternoons, September 29 and October 6, 13, 20 and 27) take us to five Manhattan neighborhoods with Art Deco marvels.

Second session of this NYU course. Five walks (Thursday afternoons, September 29 and October 6, 13, 20 and 27) take us to five Manhattan neighborhoods with Art Deco marvels.

Third session of this NYU course. Five walks (Thursday afternoons, September 29 and October 6, 13, 20 and 27) take us to five Manhattan neighborhoods with Art Deco marvels.

Fourth session of this NYU course. Five walks (Thursday afternoons, September 29 and October 6, 13, 20 and 27) take us to five Manhattan neighborhoods with Art Deco marvels.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.

Fifth session of this NYU course. Five walks (Thursday afternoons, September 29 and October 6, 13, 20 and 27) take us to five Manhattan neighborhoods with Art Deco marvels.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.