Events

January 2026

23 Today

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Design for Construction: Tectonic Imagination in Contemporary Architecture (2026)

Eric Höweler & Paul Lewis

Book Talk

6:00 p.m. EST

Jan 23, 2026

AIA New York | Center for Architecture

24 Tomorrow

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A Grammar Built with Rocks (2025)

Amber Jamilla Musser, Fawz Kabra, Ryan C. Clarke, & Muyassar Kurdi

Book Talk

1:00 p.m. EST

Jan 24, 2026

Center for Art, Research and Alliances

27 Tue

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The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture (2024)

Tricia Romano

Book Talk

1:00 p.m. EST

Jan 27, 2026

New York City Department of Records and Information Services

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Emery Roth’s New York Apartment Buildings (2025)

Andrew Alpern, Steven Ruttenbaum, & Kenneth G. Grant

Book Talk

6:00 p.m. EST

Jan 27, 2026

The Skyscraper Museum

Online

29 Thu

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The Library is Open 25: Erasure by Design: Racial Protocols of Displacement, Demolition, and Extraction (2026)

V. Mitch McEwen, Jack Halberstam, Joanna Joseph, & Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt

Book Talk

12:30 p.m. EST

Jan 29, 2026

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

30 Fri

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Designing the American Century: How Two Cornellians Changed the Face of Urban America

Thomas J. Campanella

Book Talk

12:20 p.m. EST

Jan 30, 2026

Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

Online

February 2026

3 Tue

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The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood (2025)

Stacy Horn

Book Talk

6:30 p.m. EST

Feb 3, 2026

The Gotham Center for New York City History

5 Thu

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The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers (2025)

Cheryl McKissack Daniel & Peter Robinson

Book Talk

6:00 p.m. EST

Feb 5, 2026

AIA New York | Center for Architecture

6 Fri

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Ikebana & Other Infidelities (2025)

Coy Howard

Book Talk

6:00 p.m. PST

Feb 6, 2026

SCI-Arc

10 Tue

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Road to Nowhere: How a Highway Map Wrecked Baltimore (2025)

Emily Lieb

Book Talk

6:00 p.m. EST

Feb 10, 2026

The Skyscraper Museum

Online

17 Tue

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Weeds: A Germinating Theory (2025)

Kwan Queenie Li & Kelly Ma

Book Talk

6:00 p.m. EST

Feb 17, 2026

Head Hi

19 Thu

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Churches of Ibiza and Formentera (2024)

Michael Moran, Elías Torres, & Billie Tsien

Book Talk

6:00 p.m. EST

Feb 19, 2026

AIA New York | Center for Architecture

25 Wed

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Louis Kahn’s Last Notebook (1974/2024)

Sue Ann Kahn & Kevin Alter

Book Talk

Discussion

5:00 p.m. CST

Feb 25, 2026

University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture

26 Thu

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A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity (2024)

Tyesha Maddox & Kaysha Corinealdi

Book Talk

6:30 p.m. EST

Feb 26, 2026

The Gotham Center for New York City History

March 2026

9 Mon

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Karl Marx in America (2025)

Andrew Hartman

Book Talk

6:00 p.m. EDT

Mar 9, 2026

The New School

10 Tue

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The Skyscraper and The White City: The Genius and the Tragedy of John Wellborn Root (2025)

Gerald Larson

Book Talk

6:00 p.m. EDT

Mar 10, 2026

The Skyscraper Museum

Online

17 Tue

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Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World

Miriam Ticktin & Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Book Talk

6:00 p.m. EDT

Mar 17, 2026

City University of New York Center for Place, Culture and Politics

24 Tue

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Apple: The First 50 Years (2026)

David Pogue, Lauren Goode, & Joanna Stern

Book Talk

7:00 p.m. EDT

Mar 24, 2026

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

April 2026

3 Fri

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The Library is Open 27: Terra Infecta (2026)

Andrea Bagnato & Bart-Jan Polman

Book Talk

1:00 p.m. EDT

Apr 3, 2026

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

6 Mon

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Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods (2026)

Liz Carlisle

Book Talk

6:15 p.m. EDT

Apr 6, 2026

Pratt Institute School of Architecture

16 Thu

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Lo—TEK. Water. A Field Guide for TEKnology (2025)

Julia Watson

Book Talk

6:15 p.m. EDT

Apr 16, 2026

Pratt Institute School of Architecture

17 Fri

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The Library is Open 28: Architecture’s Kinships: Projects and programs towards an architecture of interdependencies and coexistence (2025)

Ignacio G. Galán & Bart-Jan Polman

Book Talk

1:00 p.m. EDT

Apr 17, 2026

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

May 2026

5 Tue

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From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower: C. G. Hine’s 1905 Photographic Survey of Broadway (2026)

Nick Yablon

Book Talk

6:00 p.m. EDT

May 5, 2026

The Skyscraper Museum

Online