Billie Tsien reviews Carnegie Hall
Tod Williams reviews the Museum of Arts & Design
Leopoldo Villardi reviews Two Park Avenue
Moderated by Carolyn Bailey
Following our publication’s rule, “No Propaganda,” Billie Tsien, Tod Williams, and Leopoldo Villardi are joining The New York Review of Architecture to review buildings that are not their own. The reviews serve as jumping off points into larger topics—Billie Tsien and Tod Williams lived for 35 years in the tower of Carnegie Hall. The story of the Museum of Arts & Design relates to the creation of Central Park, the history of Columbus Circle, the modernism of Edward Durell Stone, and its controversial renovation in the Bloomberg years. The art deco gem Two Park Avenue played a key role in the story of Ayn Rand and the writing of the Fountainhead. We hope these reviews of, as Tod Williams puts it, “Sleeper” or “Slow-Take Buildings,” will spark a conversation: with the help of moderator Carolyn Bailey, the speakers will be taking questions from, and asking questions of, the audience.
Following our public health rule, “No Gatherings,” the event will be held on Zoom. We look forward to including an audience well beyond New York. Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link.
Issue No. 12 (guest edited by Phillip Denny & Carolyn Bailey)
The event marks the distribution of Issue No. 12. Normally, so much happens in New York each week that it is often difficult just to keep up. But now that much of the city is on pause, we have taken a moment to reflect on the recent past. In this issue, writers take stock of New York’s architecture culture by reviewing some of its formative institutions, publications, exhibitions, and buildings. In these “Untimely Reviews,” criticism is mobilized toward questions that are simultaneously historical in nature and contemporary nonetheless. If New York’s architecture scene is an ongoing project, then where have we been, and where should we go next?
Featuring:
Liz Diller, Gina Ciancone, Marrikka Trotter, Frida Vogel with John Nichols, Katie Okamoto, Hanan Kataw, Chris Gardner, Ben Dooley, Matthew Allen, Dora Epstein Jones
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