July 2018
TOUR: Art Deco Central Park West (Itinerary No. 8)
Reservations required. A pleasant stroll along Central Park West for a closer look at the buildings that form Manhattan’s major residential skyline. We’ll see the great twin-towered skyscraper apartment buildings – the Century, the Majestic and the El Dorado – and other multi-colored jazz-age fantasies of high living overlooking the park.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
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.
Find out more »August 2018
TOUR: Art Deco on the Upper East Side (Itinerary No. 10)
Reservations required. 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 best architects.
Find out more »LECTURE (in Chicago): Art Deco Metropolis – the jazz age architecture of New York City
Illustrated lecture on New York City's Art Deco architecture.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
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.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
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.
Find out more »September 2018
TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
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.
Find out more »LECTURE: Art Deco New York: The Architects Speak
In this unique event, at the Center for Jewish History, we will explore the work of three of the architects who helped transform the face of New York City in the 1920s and 30s with the colorful and geometric designs we now call Art Deco––and we will hear the architects describe their buildings in their own words.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
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.
Find out more »NYU – Five-session course – New York in the Jazz Age: Art Deco architecture from Tribeca to the Upper West Side – Session No. 1
This course traces the brash new style of art deco, which transformed New York into a modern metropolis. Follow the style’s impact on five Manhattan neighborhoods, mixing commercial with residential buildings.
Find out more »TOUR: Washington Heights Art Deco
High up on a hill, its streets lined with modest but attractive six-story Art Deco apartment houses, Washington Heights has more in common with West Bronx neighborhoods just across the Harlem River than with the rest of Manhattan. Many of the same architects who worked on the Grand Concourse also designed apartment buildings on or near Fort Washington Avenue - we will see work by Horace Ginsbern, Jacob Felson, Israel Crausman, Miller and Goldhammer, Charles Kreymborg, and H. Herbert Lillien.
Find out more »NYU – Five-session course – New York in the Jazz Age: Art Deco architecture from Tribeca to the Upper West Side – Session No. 2
This course traces the brash new style of art deco, which transformed New York into a modern metropolis. Follow the style’s impact on five Manhattan neighborhoods, mixing commercial with residential buildings.
Find out more »TOUR: SoHo, the World’s Cast-Iron Capital
Marvel at the world’s greatest trove of cast-iron buildings in this guided tour through the streets of SoHo.
Find out more »October 2018
NYU – Five-session course – New York in the Jazz Age: Art Deco architecture from Tribeca to the Upper West Side – Session No. 3
This course traces the brash new style of art deco, which transformed New York into a modern metropolis. Follow the style’s impact on five Manhattan neighborhoods, mixing commercial with residential buildings.
Find out more »LECTURE: The Twin Towers – Remembering the World Trade Center
Based on the book Classics of American Architecture: The World Trade Center, this lecture reviews the story of the Center's creation, post-World War II Downtown redevelopment, the origins of the Trade Center concept, the search for an architect, the evolution of the design, the urge to build the world’s tallest buildings, the engineering feats required for the towers’ construction, and the critical response.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
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.
Find out more »NYU – Five-session course – New York in the Jazz Age: Art Deco architecture from Tribeca to the Upper West Side – Session No. 4
This course traces the brash new style of art deco, which transformed New York into a modern metropolis. Follow the style’s impact on five Manhattan neighborhoods, mixing commercial with residential buildings.
Find out more »TOUR: SoHo Historic District
Visit the home of the world's greatest collection of cast-iron buildings.
Find out more »NYU – Five-session course – New York in the Jazz Age: Art Deco architecture from Tribeca to the Upper West Side – Session No. 5
This course traces the brash new style of art deco, which transformed New York into a modern metropolis. Follow the style’s impact on five Manhattan neighborhoods, mixing commercial with residential buildings.
Find out more »TOUR: Central Park as a Work of Art
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 delights us with its lakes and streams, wildflowers and grand open spaces, is almost entirely artificial, carefully designed right down to the hidden pipes feeding a rustic waterfall.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
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.
Find out more »TOUR: Art Deco Central Park West
A pleasant stroll along Central Park West for a closer look at the buildings that form Manhattan’s major residential skyline. We’ll see the great twin-towered skyscraper apartment buildings – the Century, the Majestic and the El Dorado – and other multi-colored jazz-age fantasies of high living overlooking the park.
Find out more »November 2018
TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
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.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
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.
Find out more »December 2018
TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
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.
Find out more »TOUR: The Woolworth Building and its Lobby
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.
Find out more »February 2019
SOLD OUT Course: MASter Class – Researching the History of Buildings in New York City – Session No. 1
Learn how to unearth detailed information about New York City buildings in this MAS seminar now in its 30th year. Four evening sessions plus a morning field-trip.
Find out more »SOLD OUT Course: MASter Class – Researching the History of Buildings in New York City – Session No. 2
Learn how to unearth detailed information about New York City buildings in this MAS seminar now in its 30th year. Four evening sessions plus a morning field-trip.
Find out more »SOLD OUT Course: MASter Class – Researching the History of Buildings in New York City – Session No. 3
Learn how to unearth detailed information about New York City buildings in this MAS seminar now in its 30th year. Four evening sessions plus a morning field-trip.
Find out more »SOLD OUT Course: MASter Class – Researching the History of Buildings in New York City – Session No. 4
Learn how to unearth detailed information about New York City buildings in this MAS seminar now in its 30th year. Four evening sessions plus a morning field-trip.
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