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Events Archive
2013
*Walking Tour of Grand Central Terminal with Justin Ferate JANUARY 26
2012
*Young Professionals Happy Hour DECEMBER 14
*Wunderkammer DECEMBER 4
*Walking Tour of FDR Four Freedoms Memorial with Kyle Johnson NOVEMBER 18
*Edward Durell Stone: Modernism's Populist Architect Book Launch with Mary Anne Hunting NOVEMBER 7
*Fading Ads of New York City Slide Lecture with Frank Jump OCTOBER 3
*Great Houses of Havana Slide Lecture with Hermes Mallea SEPTEMBER 19
*West End Avenue Walking Tour with Andrew Scott Dolkart SEPTEMBER 11
*Young Professionals Trivia Night AUGUST 30
*Screening of The Vanishing City with filmmakers JULY 26
*Central Park Walking Tour with Andrew S. Dolkart JUNE 20
*Unsung Heroes of the Upper West Side: The Great-ful Dead JUNE 12
*New York From the Air: A Story of Architecture with John Tauranac APRIL 24
*Behind the Scenes Tour of the American Folk Art Museum with Senior Curator Stacy Hollander MARCH 14
*A Revolution in Public-School Design: The Legacy of Charles B.J. Snyder FEBRUARY 8
*Young Professionals Happy Hour at George Keeley's Pub FEBRUARY 2
*Living in Style: the Emergence of the Professional Interior Decorator in the Gilded Age JANUARY 30
*La Noche Cubana JANUARY 192011
*Project Neon: Documenting & Celebrating NYC's Neon Signage DECEMBER 5
*ABCs of Central Park: a Walking Tour for Children with G. Augustine Lynas NOVEMBER 13
*Young Professionals Happy Hour NOVEMBER 10
*Open House New York Weekend 2011
*Landmark Feast SEPTEMBER 25
*West End Avenue Walking Tour with Andrew S. Dolkart SEPTEMBER 13
*Seneca Village Open House AUGUST 24
*Lost Riverside Drive, in Postcards AUGUST 18
*Public Art Walking Tour: Riverside Drive JULY 13
*West End Avenue Walking Tour JUNE 20
*Reconstructing Seneca Village walking tour with Cynthia Copeland JUNE 16
*Social Media Roundtable JUNE 9
*2011 Unsung Heroes Awards Ceremony JUNE 7 -- View the Event Recap
*McKim, Mead, and White encore slide lecture with Mosette Broderick APRIL 21
*The UWS in Film with James Sanders MARCH 22010
*25th Anniversary Celebration at Lincoln Center DECEMBER 14
*McKim, Mead, and White Slide Lecture with Mosette Broderick NOVEMBER 15
*Dakota and Environs with Andrew S. Dolkart SEPTEMBER 15
*Central Park Walking Tour JULY 7
*Riverside Drive Public Art Walking Tour JUNE 15
*25 Years of Preservation on the West Side with Andrew S. Dolkart MAY 13
*Over Here! NYC During WWII Slide Lecture with Lorraine B. Diehl MARCH 25
*The Row House Reborn Slide Lecture with Andrew S. Dolkart JANUARY 26
2009
*25th Anniversary Kick-Off Celebration at The Dakota
* The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs: The Making of a Book and Exhibition
*Energy Efficiency and Existing Buildings
*Green Theology Seminar
*Architectural Styles Continuing Education Seminar
*UNSUNG HEROES AWARDS CEREMONY
*Walking Tour: Sacred Sites of the West Side (Part Two!)
*Slide Lecture and Wine Reception: A History of the Upper West Side in Postcards
*Mayoral Candidates Breakfasts with Tony Avella, William C. Thompson, Jr., and Rev. Billy Talen
* Walking Tour: West End Avenue with Andrew S. Dolkart
* Walking Tour: Sacred Sites of the West Side with Mosette and Herbert Broderick
* Legal Strategies for Landmarks: Defending Architecture, Neighborhoods and the Public Interest in the Development-Driven City
* Continuing Education Seminar: Green Building, Energy Efficiency, and Existing Buildings
* SPRING HOUSE TOUR
* An Architectural Tooklit, continuing education seminar
* Building New York's Garment District: A slide lecture by Andrew S. Dolkart
2008
* A Reading of * Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by illustrator Ron Barrett
* A Celebration of West End Avenue: walking tours by Andrew S. Dolkart and Mosette Broderick
* Central Park West Skyline: A Walking Tour with Andrew Scott Dolkart
* “The Tiffany Girls": The Designing Women of Tiffany Studios -- a slide lecture by Nina Gray
* The Unsung Heroes of the Upper West Side: 2008 Preservation Awards2007
* LANDMARK WEST!'s Fall Broker Seminar Series
* A Slide Lecture by Anthony C. Wood
* Two FREE Family Walking Tours (part of openhousenewyork)
* A Special Tribute to the Dakota
* An Evening With Friends of LANDMARK WEST!: Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival at Avery Fisher Hall
* Reconstructing Seneca Village: A Walking Tour with Cynthia Copeland, Nan Rothschild, and Diana Wall
* Vernacular Architecture of the Upper Upper West Side: A Walking Tour with Andrew Scott Dolkart
* The Evolution of Living Styles in Manhattan (Seminar)
* Green Building, Energy Efficiency and Historic Preservation (Seminar)
* "New York: Vernacular City": An Illustrated Lecture by Andrew S. Dolkart
2006
The Automat: A Talk By Lorraine B. Diehl and Marianne Hardart
Amsterdam Houses and Public Housing Architecture: A Lecture by Francis Morrone
The Dakota Apartments to the Dakota Stable: An Upper West Side Walking Tour with Andrew Scott Dolkart
Art Deco on the Upper West Side: A Walking Tour with Tony Robins
Amsterdam Houses Historical Research Project
Frederick Law Olmsted: Beyond Central Park - A Talk by Witold Rybczynski
2004LANDMARK WEST!'s 20th Anniversary Benefit with Tom Brokaw
Come One, Come All To the People's Public Hearing for 2 Columbus Circle!
Hands Around 2 Columbus Circle!
Meet the Democratic Mayoral Candidates!
Edward Durell Stone: The Evolution of the Architect
Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture
Metro Theatre
Restoring the Postwar Architecture of E.D. Stone
Celebrate the Ansonia!
Walking Tour of West 72nd Street with Andrew Scott Dolkart
Benefit for the Save 2 Columbus Circle Fund
Walking Tour of Manhattan Valley with Andrew Scott Dolkart
Ron Barrett. Named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year
in 1978, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs has become a modern classic.
Autographed copies will be available for purchase! Ron will provide children with a
sketch of their favorite food, which they will be able to take home with them.
West End Avenue, a mélange of grand residences, houses of worship and educational institutions, offers a cohesive picture of the development of the Upper West Side. A strikingly consistent streetwall of uniform cornice heights, harmonious materials and creative interpretations of historical styles showcases the work of many of the city’s most prolific, if less recognized, architects such as Schwartz and Gross, Neville and Bagge, and George & Edward Blum.
From large apartment buildings to private homes, discover this architecturally diverse corridor,
currently being studied for consideration as a new Historic District on the Upper West Side.
A Walking Tour with Andrew Scott Dolkart
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 (rain or shine), 6pm
Meeting location to be announced.
Tickets for this tour are $25. See special offer above!
The iconic Central Park West skyline silhouette is one of New York’s most beloved treasures. Learn about the past, present and future of this unique urban vista—the western “frame” of Central Park—with its soaring twin towers and low-rise cultural and religious institutions. Acclaimed writer and architectural historian Andrew Scott Dolkart, the James Marston Fitch Associate Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University, will lead this special walking tour focused on the history, architecture, real estate, planning and preservation of Central Park West’s distinctive profile for future generations to enjoy.
Tickets must be purchased in advance by calling 212-496-1714 or emailing landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org. Space is limited.
“The Tiffany Girls”
The Designing Women of Tiffany Studios
A slide lecture by Nina Gray
Thursday, June 12, 2008, 6pm
at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church
West 99th Street & Amsterdam Avenue
Tickets for this program are include lecture, wine reception and book-signing).
The “Tiffany Girls,” directed by Clara Driscoll, were the “gifted artisans who made vital yet almost entirely anonymous contributions to many of Louis C. Tiffany’s most famous mosaics, windows and decorative objects” (New York Times, 2/25/07).
Recently discovered letters written by Driscoll inspired the ground-breaking exhibition, “A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls,” at the New-York Historical Society in 2007. Nina Gray, a noted independent scholar and co-curator of the exhibition, will share the story of the women who labored behind the scenes at the Tiffany Studios, presenting the firm’s celebrated works in an entirely new context. Gray also co-wrote the exhibition catalogue, A New Light on Tiffany (D. Giles Limited, 2007 - book cover shown above), and will sign copies immediately following the lecture.
Please join us in the historic 1891 St. Michael’s Episcopal Church (designed by Robert W. Gibson and recently heard by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission for official Landmark status) in the glow of the sanctuary’s magnificent Tiffany stained-glass windows and mosaics.
About Anthony C. Wood
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Tickets are $25 for the slide lecture ($15 for students) and $75 for the slide lecture and reception. Please send your check to:
Please join LANDMARK WEST! and friends for
Reconstructing Seneca Village
“Manhattan’s First Significant African American Community”
A Walking Tour with Cynthia Copeland, Nan Rothschild and Diana Wall
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 (rain or shine)
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Meet at 6pm sharp at the Mariner's Gate, southside of 85th Street and Central Park West. There will be a reception following the tour hosted by Halstead Properties, 408 Columbus Avenue, corner of 79th Street.
To make sure we start on time, tickets must be purchased in advance. Please send a check for $25 to LANDMARK WEST!, 45 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023 no later than Friday, July 20. For information, you may also email us at landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org. Space is limited.
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Unbeknownst to many who frequent Central Park, an African American community called Seneca Village once existed in the Park between 82nd and 89th streets. The fascinating story of how African Americans came to acquire property in the area as early as 1825 will be told by accomplished urban archaeologists. Our guides will take us back in time to help us imagine how Seneca Village functioned, how it looked and how it evolved from undeveloped property to a vital multi-ethnic community of 264 people by 1855. We will be able to picture, in our minds’ eye, the homes, churches, cemeteries and the school that served the community before the Village was razed in 1856 to make way for the construction of Central Park. Please visit the New-York Historical Society's Seneca Village website for more information on this fascinating area of Central Park.
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Cynthia Copeland, curator at the New York Historical Society, Nan Rothschild, Director of Museum Studies at Columbia and Diana Wall, Professor of Anthropology at City College, have worked together to determine the feasibility of conducting an archaeological dig of an area in Central Park that was once Seneca Village.
Please join LANDMARK WEST! and friends for
May 9, 2007 (M8018)
When: Wednesday, May 9, 2007 from 8:45 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Francoise Bollack, AIA, award-winning architect and
Mosette Broderick, MA, NYU design professor architectural historian.
To register,
Please join LANDMARK WEST! and friends for
AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE BY
Andrew Dolkart
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
6:00 pm
The lecture and after-party with wine and light food
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Tickets are $50 and must be purchased in advance.*
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While
of the city. Andrew Dolkart, James Marston FitchAssociate Professor of Historic
Preservation at
developers and their
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Designed as a haven for working artists,
characterized by high-rise studio buildings featuring Gothic, Northern Renaissance and
Tudor details that were constructed between 1900 and World War I. The
when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also part of the
Upper West Side-Central Park West Historic District, designated by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1990.
* $25 of your donation will be tax deductible.
Please join LANDMARK WEST! and friends
The West 104th Street Block Association
The West 102nd and 103rd Streets Block Association
for
A TALK BY
Lorraine B. Diehl and Marianne Hardart
Authors of
The Automat, The History, Recipes and Allure
of Horn & Hardart’s Masterpiece
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
6:30pm
A coin-operated glass-and-chrome wonder, Horn & Hardart’s Automats revolutionized the way Americans ate when they opened up in Philadelphia and New York in the early twentieth century. In a country where the industrial revolution had just taken hold, eating at a restaurant with selfserving vending machines rather than waitresses and Art Deco architecture instead of stuffy dining rooms was an unforgettable experience. The Automat served freshly made food for the price of a few coins, and no one made a better cup of coffee. By the peak of its popularity—from the Great Depression to the post-war years—the Automat was more than an inexpensive place to buy a good meal; it was a culinary treasure, a technical marvel, and an emblem of the times.
Come join Ms. Diehl and Ms. Hardart as they bring us back in time through their presentation of slides, stories and video clips from The Honeymooners and Candid Camera.
LOCATION: El Taller Latino Americano, 2710 Broadway (southeast corner of 104th Street)
**On the 3rd floor of one of the few surviving automat structures in NYC**
Tickets are $25. Space is limited.
Please contact LW! (landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org or 212-496-8110) to reserve your spot.
Bring your automat anecdotes!
Click here for the flyer
AMSTERDAM HOUSES AND PUBLIC HOUSING ARCHITECTURE
A LECTURE BY FRANCIS MORRONE
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
6:30 p.m.
Built in 1947 and designed by Grosvenor Atterbury, Harvey Wiley Corbett and Arthur C. Holden, the Amsterdam Houses on Amsterdam Avenue between 61st and 64th Streets is an example of the artistry and design that characterized New York City public housing projects constructed after World War II. Critic, author and art historian Francis Morrone examines the Amsterdam Houses and the surrounding Lincoln Square neighborhood.
LOCATION: Makor, Steinhardt Building, 35 West 67th Street
COST: Tickets are $12 in advance ($15 at door) and must be purchased through Makor: (212) 601-1000.
THE DAKOTA APARTMENTS TO THE DAKOTA STABLE*
An Upper West Side Walking Tour with Andrew Scott Dolkart
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
$20 per person in advance, $25 on the day of the tour
**Meet at 6 p.m. on the southeast corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West (near the entrance to Central Park)
Landmark West! invites you to join us for a walking tour with architectural historian and author Andrew Scott Dolkart. Our first stop is the Dakota Apartments, an individual landmark designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh (also architect of the Plaza Hotel) and built from 1880-84. Prompted by the construction of the Columbus Avenue elevated train with a stop at 72nd Street, developer and Singer Sewing Machine magnate Edward S. Clark laid plans for the Dakota when most of the Upper West Side was still farmland. We will explore the rowhouse mid-blocks between Central Park West and Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, including rows developed by Clark, designed by Hardenbergh and developed at the same time as the Dakota. These blocks boast many eclectic architectural styles that epitomize the rich beauty and variety of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District (designated in 1990). Our tour will end in the vicinity of the former Dakota Stable (now the Pyramid Garage) on Amsterdam Avenue at 77th Street. Together with the former New York Cab Company Stable (now the Berkley Garage) two blocks south at 75th Street, the Dakota Stable is one of New York's last surviving commercial stable buildings, where middle-class West Siders kept their horses much like people keep automobiles in public garages today. "Stable row" has been on LW's landmark designation wish list since 1986.
Space is limited. Advanced registration is required.
Call Landmark West! at 212-496-8110 or email landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org
to reserve your place today!
More on Andrew ...
Andrew Scott Dolkart is an architectural historian, writer, the James Marston Fitch Associate Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University and a founding Board member of LW!. His book, Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development, won the American Association of Publishers Scholarly Book Award for best book in Architecture and Urban Design in 1998.
*Find out more about our advocacy campaign to preserve "Stable Row"! Click here
ART DECO ON THE UPPER WEST SIDE
A WALKING TOUR WITH TONY ROBINS
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Tony Robins will lead us on a pleasant summer evening stroll for a closer look at many of the Upper West Side's Art Deco fantasies of high living.
Space is limited. Reservations must be made by August 15, 2006. Contact us at landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org or call (212) 496-8110.
Tony Robins is an historian specializing in New York City architecture and has lectured for museums, universities, and private groups around the world. He is a founding member and former Vice President of the Art Deco Society of New York, and also former Deputy Director of Research and Director of Survey at the New York Landmarks Commission. Tony has published two books, The World Trade Center and Subway Style, and articles in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Gourmet, Architectural Record, and Metropolis. He also maintains the Art Deco Metropolis web site (www.ArtDecoMetropolis.com), devoted to New York's Art Deco architecture.
This program is free and open to the public and is made possible through the support of the New York Council for the Humanities’ “Speakers in the Humanities” program.
AMSTERDAM HOUSES HISTORICAL RESEARCH PROJECT
We are doing research on the history of Amsterdam Houses and we need to hear your stories. Please visit the Landmark West table at the Amsterdam Houses 59th Annual Reunion where we’ll be conducting oral history interviews as part of our Historical Research Project.
WHEN: July 29, 2006 12-5 pm
WHERE: Amsterdam Houses, Landmark West Table at the Reunion Block Party on West 64th Street
WHY: To help bring greater public recognition and understanding of the social, cultural, and architectural significance of Amsterdam Houses.
PLEASE BRING ANY OLD PHOTOGRAPHS OF AMSTERDAM HOUSES
“ Frederick Law Olmsted: Beyond Central Park”
A TALK BY
WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI
with an introduction by Tom Wolfe
Thursday, June 8, 2006
6pm
Following the lecture, join Mr. Rybczynski and Mr. Wolfe across the street
for book-signing, cocktails, conversation and sweeping views of Central Park
at the rooftop garden at Harperley Hall ( 1 West 64th Street)
$100 donation requested for talk and reception ($25 for talk only).
Space is limited. Tickets must be purchased in advance.
Contact LW! at landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org or 212-496-8110.
Special thanks to the Ethical Culture Society for its donation of space for this lecture, to Harperley Hall for the use of its roof garden, to Gail Gregg for food and beverage.
Join Robert A.M. Stern, Tom Wolfe and many others to build the record of support to get 2 Columbus Circle the real Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearing it deserves! Please call us (212-496-8110) to sign up for a time slot in advance or just to let us know you plan to attend. Your presence will speak volumes. Please bring an extra copy of your testimony to leave for the record.
Starting at 1:00 PM, NYC Council Member Bill Perkins will welcome everyone and introduce NYS Assembly Member Richard Gottfried, who represents the 2 Columbus Circle area and will preside over the forum. Former Landmarks Preservation Commissioner Anthony M. Tung will provide an overview of the landmarks process, and architectural historian Francis Morrone will give a brief slide presentation on the history of 2 Columbus Circle. The public will then be given the opportunity to testify. Co-sponsors of the event include: Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum; NYS Assembly Members Richard N. Gottfried, Scott Stringer, Daniel O'Donnell, and Pete Grannis; NYC Senators Liz Krueger (who also represents 2 Columbus Circle) and Eric Schneiderman; NYC Council Members Margarita Lopez, Eva Moskowitz, and Bill Perkins; and former Council Member Ronnie Eldridge (list in formation).
Seize the day! See you tomorrow...
WHEN: Thursday, July 14, from 1:00 to approx. 3:00 PM
WHERE: General Society for Mechanics and Tradesmen Library
20 W. 44th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues
This week the World Monuments Fund recognized 2 Columbus Circle as one of the "100 Most Endangered Sites" on earth, building on earlier listings by the National Trust for Historic Preservation (2004 "America's Most Endangered Historic Places") and the Preservation League of New York State (2003 "Seven to Save"). But where's the City? Still, neither Mayor Bloomberg nor the Landmarks Preservation Commission has made a move to give 2 Columbus Circle the public hearing it deserves.
What better way to celebrate winning the "trifecta" of international cultural significance that by joining 2 Columbus Circle's many supporters in forming a "circle of support" all the way around the building's famous lollipop base.
WHEN: Thursday, June 23, 6:00 PM
WHERE: 2 Columbus Circle
WHY: To urge Mayor Bloomberg and the Landmarks Preservation Commission
to hold a public hearing
LANDMARK WEST!, with the Historic Districts Council, the Municipal Art Society, and the New York Landmarks Conservancy invite you to:
Hear the Candidates for Mayor Speak on Historic Preservation and Zoning Issues and Respond to your Questions
ANTHONY D. WEINER Wednesday, June 1, 2005
FERNANDO FERRER Wednesday, June 8, 2005
GIFFORD MILLER Wednesday, June 15, 2005
C. VIRGINIA FIELDS Wednesday, June 22, 2005
The breakfasts will be held from 8:00 – 9:30 AM
at O’Neal’s Restaurant, 49 West 64th Street
(between Broadway and Central Park West)
$25 for all four breakfasts
$10 for each breakfast
Seating is limited. Reservations and advance payment required.
Please call LANDMARK WEST! at 212-496-8110 or email landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org. Let us know how many seats you would like to reserve and for which breakfasts. Mail your check, made payable to LANDMARK WEST!, to 45 W. 67th Street, NYC 10023.
Location: Makor/Steinhardt Center, 35 West 67th Street
Price: $15.00 - Click here for Tickets
Program Presented in collaboration with the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y
Landmark West! is proud to co-sponsor this talk by Joseph Rosa of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In its current exhibition, Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture , SFMoMA features this famous, 1964 photograph by Ezra Stoller of the base of the "Lollipop Building," 2 Columbus Circle.
The Bard Graduate Center Presents
Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture
Tuesday, November 9
6:00-7:15 p.m. lecture
7:15-8:00 p.m. book signing reception
Location: The BGC, 38 West 86th Street
The Concept of glamour is based on a notion of excess, and has historically been most accepted and certainly glorified in the discipline of fashion, specifically in haute couture. Conversely, glamour has been marginalized in industrial design, a realm driven by the machine age dictate that form must follow function--and even reviled in architecture, where the pared-down aesthetics of modernism and minimalism have prevailed since the middle of the 20th century. Design historian Joseph Rosa, curator of a major exhibition on this topic, will discuss how new design and construction technologies have allowed once-excessive forms to become integral to function. In essence, glamour has become a viable style, perhaps even the hallmark of consumer culture in the new century.
Joseph Rosa (B.Arch., Pratt Institute; M.Arch., Columbia University) is the Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he curated the exhibition Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture and is the editor and a contributing author to the accompanying catalogue. He has written extensively on modern architecture and design, including the book Next Generation Architecture.
This program is a review of the exhibition Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from October 8, 2004, through January 17, 2005 and the accompanying publication (Yale University Press, 2004).
This program is organized in association with Yale University Press, the Art Deco Society of New York , and Landmark West!
As part of the DOCOMOMO US program and continuing debate on the future of 2 Columbus Circle , the relationship between the development of Edward Durell Stone's architecture and the evolution of thin stone cladding systems will be explored in the lecture entitled
"Thin Skinned: Conservation and Stabilization Challenges in the Postwar Architecture of Edward Durell Stone."
Friday, 1 October 2004, 2:30 PM
Baruch College, Vertical Campus, Room 14-240 WF-305
DOCOMOMO will examine the technical challenges and importance of preserving Stone's work. Speakers Jeff Koerber AIA and Michael Scheffler P.E., both of Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. in Chicago, will discuss the often misunderstood technical challenges encountered with the then new thin stone technology. Speakers will introduce and provide knowledge and analysis of in-depth methodologies for the investigation and repair of the stone cladding of two of Stone's most important works, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (1962-1971) in Washington D.C. and the Standard Oil Building - AMOCO Building (1969-1974) in Chicago, Illinois. These buildings will be discussed within the context of Stone's style, particularly his unique approach to the architectural concept of the building wall.
The architectural aesthetics of Edward Durell Stone (1902-1978) are often ignored, vilified, or damned with faint praise by architectural historians and critics. His mature and best known work, produced over twenty years of activity from the mid-1950s until Stone's retirement in 1974, was one of the most prolific in the post-World War II era. This period coincided with the introduction and promotion of thin stone cladding technology in the United States, a construction technology that suited Stone's quest for a monumental architecture.
Speakers:
Jeffrey Koerber, AIA, an Affiliated Consultant with Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. He is now pursuing a doctorate in Holocaust History at Clark University. His work as a historic preservation architect includes the San Jacinto Monument near Houston, Texas, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Michael J. Scheffler, P.E., is a Senior Consultant with Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. He has been involved in numerous investigations of buildings and structures with exterior facades of limestone, marble, granite, masonry, and terra cotta, including many historic buildings. He has extensive experience testing stone and thin stone facade systems. Mr. Scheffler has authored numerous technical papers and articles, several on stone and stone building construction. Mr. Scheffler is a member of ASTM committees C18 on Dimension Stone, C24 on Building Seals and Sealant, and E06 on Performance of Buildings.
For more information and how to register for the DOCOMOMO US Technology Seminars, please visit the website at:
http://www.docomomo2004.org/technologyseminars.htm
The lecture on E.D. Stone is being offered as part of a series of Technology Seminar tracks specializing in the restoration of modern and postwar buildings from Thursday, September 30 through Saturday, October 2, 2004. There are four tracks: Metal and Glass Curtain Walls, Stone, Concrete, and Chroma.
Experts from throughout the United States and the world will discuss their work on important post-WWII buildings, including the Viipuri Library (Aalto), Zonnestraal (Duiker), Johnson Wax Headquaters (Wrigth), Lever House (Bundshaft), the United Nations (Le Corbusier), and many others. For a complete program, visit http://www.docomomo2004.org/technologyseminars.htm and click on each date.
Sixteen (16) AIA CES credits are availalbe for the Technology Seminars, of which 15 are Health, Safety and Welfare credits. Regular registration ends September 15. Current DOCOMOMO and AIA members receive a discount on registrations. Day rates are available. For more information, please email info@docomomo2004.org.
Lori Zabar
September 21, 2004, 6:30 pm at Makor Steinhardt Center, 35 West 67 th Street
Tickets are $12 in advance; $15 at the door (does not include handling fees or tax)
Call Makor for reservations at 212-415-5500, or go to www.makor.org
The sumptuous Beaux-Arts style Ansonia Apartment-Hotel was the magnum opus of flamboyant Upper West Side real estate developer William Earl Dodge Stokes (1852-1926). To commemorate the Ansonia's 100th birthday, this lecture will explore the design, construction and innovative amenities of this legendary building within the context of Stokes's real estate career and the development of the Upper West Side.
Lori Zabar is a member of the Landmark West! Board of Directors. She is a Research Assistant in the Department of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ms. Zabar wrote her master's thesis on the Upper West Side real estate career of W. E. D. Stokes at the Historic Preservation Program, Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation.
At the Ansonia Hotel: A Broadway Landmark Turns 100
Curated by Cristina Del Sesto with Photography by Tom Wolff
On view August 24 through September 2004 at Apple Bank, 2100 Broadway (at West 73rd Street) during banking hours: M - Th 8:30 to 3:00; F 8:30 to 6:00; Sa 10:00 to 2:00
This exhibit of contemporary photographs by Tom Wolff and interviews with Ansonians by curator Cristina Del Sesto is on view across the street from the Ansonia in the landmark (exterior and interior) Central Savings Bank building, now home to Apple Bank for Savings. LW! assisted in bringing to the West Side this display of select items loaned from a larger exhibit co-organized by Pell-Mell Press and the Municipal Art Society during the summer of 2004. Admission is free of charge.
Referred to by a member of the American Institute of Architects as "Sophia Loren in the midst of Twiggies," the Ansonia has been home to some of New York's most interesting artists and eccentric characters. Nearly razed in the 1970s and the site of the Continental Baths and Plato's Retreat, the Ansonia is now a New York City Individual Landmark. A catalogue is on sale at Patisserie Margot (across from Apple Bank in the commercial space of the Ansonia on 74th Street), at the New-York Historical Society Museum Shop, and at Urban Center Books for $20.00. The catalogue will also be available for sale at Lori Zabar's September 21st lecture at Makor (see listing above). In addition to photographs by Tom Wolff, the catalogue features an introductory essay and interviews by curator Cristina Del Sesto, a foreword by Kent Barwick, Municipal Art Society President; and an afterword by Adele Chatfield-Taylor, Trustee, National Trust for Historic Preservation.
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
$15.00 per person in advance, $20 on the day of the tour
Join Landmark West! and architectural historian Andrew S. Dolkart for a tour of West 72nd Street from Central Park West to Riverside Park, a fascinating boulevard of iconic apartment buildings, rowhouses, and some of New York's most intriguing storefront architecture. Dolkart will discuss development and change along West 72nd Street, beginning with the pioneering Dakota Apartments (Henry J. Hardenburgh, 1884), and explore the construction of rowhouses, soaring apartment towers like the Oliver Cromwell (Emery Roth, 1927), hotels and clubs, looking especially at the impact of the elevated railroad (constructed 1879; demolished 1940) and subway (constructed 1904) on the commercial growth of the street. Recent years have brought about many improvements, starting with the inclusion of 72nd Street in the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District in 1990 and continuing with Landmark West's intense efforts to restore the street's historic character, which were recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in its selection of 72nd Street as a semi-finalist for a 2004 Great American Main Street Award.
Please meet at 6 p.m. at the southeast corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West.
Space is limited. Advanced registration required.
Call Landmark West! at 212-496-8110 or email landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org to reserve your place today!
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Andrew Scott Dolkart is an architectural historian, writer, the James Marston Fitch Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University and a LW! Board member since 1985. His book, Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development, won the American Association of Publishers Scholarly Book Award for best book in Architecture and Urban Design in 1998.
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
$15.00 per person in advance, $20 on the day of the tour
Please join LANDMARK WEST! and architectural historian and writer Andrew S. Dolkart for a tour of historic Manhattan Valley at the northeast corner of the Upper West Side. This area includes the landmark Towers Nursing Home and the eclectic Queen-Anne style row houses on Manhattan Avenue that define the blocks around West 105th and 106th Streets, a Landmark West! proposed historic district, as well as an interesting collection of tenements and apartment buildings.
Please meet at 6 p.m. at Central Park West and 106th Street, across the street from the Towers Nursing Home (2 W 106th St).
Space is limited. Advanced registration required.
Call Landmark West! at 212-496-8110 or email landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org to reserve your place today!
More on Andrew...
Andrew Scott Dolkart is an architectural historian, writer, the James Marston Fitch Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University and a LW! Board member since 1985. His book, Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development, won the American Association of Publishers Scholarly Book Award for best book in Architecture and Urban Design in 1998.
New York, NY 10023 (212) 496-8110 F:(212) 875-0209 landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org