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Architectural League Founded

A Meeting of the League

League Holds Its First Annual Exhibition

Russell Sturgis Elected President

League Builds Fine Arts Building

George W. Vanderbilt Gives the Fine Arts Society a Gallery

George Post Elected Leage President

League Lends Space for First Meeting of Municipal Art Society

Tall Buildings Discussion

Plans for Elevated Roadway in Chelsea are Exhibited in the 14th Annual Exhibition

Application for Membership

John LaFarge Receives a Medal

Cass Gilbert Elected League President

The Judgment of Paris

Architectural League Farms Land in Queens

35th Annual Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum

Den of Lions Pageant Opens 35th Annual Exhibition

Hugh Ferriss’s Zoning Envelope Drawings Exhibited at Annual Exhibition

Collaborative Medal

League Moves Into Its New Headquarters

Bar at the Architectural League

Raymond Hood Elected League President

League Presents First New York Exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright

Architectural League and the “Rejected Architects”

The Aluminaire House

Howe and Lescaze Resign from the League

Menu of the Architectural League’s Restaurant

First Woman Member of the Architectural League

League Buys Tickets for Irish Sweepstakes

Plans for 1939 World’s Fair Exhibited at Annual Exhibition

Dinner Opening the Versus Exhibition

Calder Wants His Mobile Returned

Hugh Ferriss Elected League President

League Hosts Conference on the Design of War Memorials

A Telegram from the Liberated Architects of Poland

The League Endorses Exhibition of German Art

Modern Sculpture for Architecture

Dinner in Connection with the United Nations

Picnic at the Glass House

League Celebrates its 75th Anniversary

The Building Boom: Architecture in Decline

Architects and Sculptors: Collaborators or Competitors

Mayoral Candidates Forum with John Lindsay

President’s Medal Awarded to Kenzo Tange

Environment 1 Launches Innovative New Exhibition Series

First United States Exhibition of Christo’s Work

Environment III: Slipcover

Environment II: Prisms, Lenses, Water, Light

Environment IV: Corridors

James Lee Byars’ Mile-Long Garment

Environment V: Light Floors

Pollution Masks for Earth Day

Morris Lapidus Exhibition

Bruce Goff Exhibition and Lecture

Frank Gehry Lectures

25th Birthday Party for the Glass House

200 Years of American Architectural Drawing

Women in American Architecture

The Urban Center

Christo and Jeanne-Claude Present “The Gates, Central Park” to the Board

Precursors of Post-Modernism

Emerging Voices Lecture Series Begins

Young Architects Forum

Panel Discussion on the Coliseum Site Proposals

Building the New Museum

President’s Medal Awarded to Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

Hugh Ferriss: Metropolis of Tomorrow

Conversations: New Deans

League Revives Beaux Arts Ball

Forum on Proposed Addition to the Kimball Museum

Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Selected Projects

Forum on the Proposed Addition to the Salk Institute

Zaha Hadid: Projects

Architectures of Display

Deborah J. Norden Fund Established

Kiasma: Working Process

Envisioning East New York

Dinner in Honor of Vincent Scully

Paul Rudolph: Selected Drawings

Friedsam Medal Awarded to Michael Eisner

Charlotte Perriand: Interior Equipment

The Inflatable Moment: Pneumatics and Protest in ’68

Gehry Talks: Architecture + Process

League Hosts Open Forum Following 9/11

President’s Medal Awarded to Robert A.M. Stern

Forum with World Trade Center Innovative Design Study Teams

President’s Medal Awarded to Tod Williams and Billie Tsien

125th Anniversary Launch Party

President’s Medal Awarded to Kenneth Frampton

League Celebrates its 125th Anniversary

New New York: Fast Forward

Design in 5 Launches

President’s Medal Awarded to Ada Louise Huxtable

Urban Omnibus Launches

League Moves to Soho

The City We Imagined/The City We Made

President’s Medal Awarded to Hugh Hardy