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128th Annual Meeting The election of officers and directors, and remarks by Calvin Tsao, president of the League, will follow a series of tours of the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward.

Meet-up at the Grand Concourse A walking tour led by lifelong Bronx resident Sam Goodman of the Bronx Borough President's Office and Deborah Marton, Executive Director of the Design Trust for Public Space, followed by a potluck and discussion.

Drinks with a Designer: Leslie Robertson Leslie E. Robertson Associates | A presentation and office visit of Robertson's structural engineering firm, featuring an overview of work as well as a discussion about the integration of design in his projects.

Process: Northwest Corner Building, Columbia University Rafael Moneo, the project’s design architect, and members of the design and construction teams from Davis Brody Bond, architect of record; Arup, project engineers; Turner Construction Company, construction manager; and Columbia University will lead a tour and discussion of the project.

Floating Pool, GreenBranches Learning Gardens, and Betances Community Center and Boxing Gym Jonathan Kirschenfeld Architect, Marpillero Pollak Architects, and Stephen Yablon Architect | The second evening of lectures by winners of the League's 2009 New York Designs Competition.

Beaux Arts Ball 2009: Manufacture Photographs from the League's 2009 Beaux Arts Ball.

TKTS Booth, Triple Bridge Gateway, NYC Info Center Perkins Eastman and Choi Ropiha; PKSB Architects with Leni Schwendinger Light Projects; and WXY Architecture and Local Projects | The first evening of lectures by winners of the League's 2009 New York Designs Competition.

Architecture’s Dimensions Basar Girit, David Hays, Chris McVoy, and David Ruy. Moderated by Emily Abruzzo and Jonathan D. Solomon | A panel discussion based on the new issue of 306090, Dimension

Cristina Goberna and Urtzi Grau, Phu Hoang, and Sung Goo Yang Fake Industries, Phu Hoang Office, and Ether Ship | The second evening of lectures by winners of the League's 2009 Young Architects Competition.

Closing the Gap: Information Models in Contemporary Design Practice Richard Garber, Scott Marble, Neil Meredith, Coren Sharples | The new issue of AD brings together academics, architects, engineers, and construction managers each engaged in the use of BIMs, or Building Information Models, which synthesize advances in design computing with better construction management, in the actualization, from design to construction, of complex building projects.