In a city that treats its architectural highlights—and even some of its mediocrities!—with an ardor that verges on the obsessive, plenty of buildings nonetheless manage to escape collective reverence. A disproportionate number of these buildings happen to belong to the public: community spaces, senior centers, park bathrooms. On Friday, October 16, join n+1 and the Center for Architecture for a discussion of some of the underloved and undernoticed civic monuments across New York’s architectural landscape, featuring Cheyenne Julien, Mark Krotov, Samuel Medina, Mariana Mogilevich, and Lucas Vaqueiro. Look around! There are (municipal) cathedrals everywhere.
The event is part of the Center for Architecture’s Archtober programming. Entry is free, but RSVPs are required. RSVP here.
Friday, October 16
6–8 PM
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY
About the Speakers:
Cheyenne Julien’s work is included in the collections of the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the RISD Museum, Providence; the University of New Hampshire Museum of Art, Durham, NH; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Mark Krotov is the coeditor and publisher of n+1.
Mariana Mogilevich is editor in chief of Urban Omnibus, the Architectural League of New York’s publication dedicated to observing, understanding, and shaping the city, and author of The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York.
Samuel Medina is the editor of the New York Review of Architecture.
Lucas Vaqueiro is a Brazilian civic designer, educator, and researcher based in Queens. Vaqueiro’s practice includes installations, publications, and community engagement that reframe bureaucracy as a civic infrastructure worth reimagining—and celebrating. His work has been featured at Milan Design Week and the Creative Bureaucracy Festival.