League Hosts Open Public Forum Following 9/11

Hugh Hardy leads a tour of the Harvey Theater, in conjunction with the President’s Medal dinner in his honor at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, April 19, 2010

“We are gathered together this evening to celebrate someone who is near and dear to our hearts and to the civic heart of this city. In fact, the story of Hugh Hardy’s career as an architect is so…

Exhibition installation, 250 Hudson Street

“The City We Imagined/The City We Made: New New York 2001-2010 is the sixth in an ongoing series of Architectural League exhibitions about contemporary architecture in New York City. This installment takes as its subject the planning, design, and building of New York in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Beginning in 2001, an array of powerful forces converged to dramatically…

Exterior of 594 Broadway, the League’s home beginning in September 2009

“On September 1, the Architectural League moved its offices from the Urban Center at 51st Street and Madison Avenue, our home for 29 years, to the sixth floor at 594 Broadway in Soho. We have moved to a new building and a new part of town—and an altogether different kind of New York experience. Midtown certainly…

Screen shot of Urban Omnibus on its launch, January 7, 2009

“We have so much possibility ahead of us.  We have just inaugurated a president who wants to renew every area of our national life–including our cities. President Obama has lived in the three biggest cities in the United States, and it seems clear that he understands and cares about cities and what they mean economically, environmentally…

Ada Louise Huxtable accepts the League’s President’s Medal at a dinner on February 5, 2008

“We are honored to have among us this evening many of the world’s most celebrated architects—architects who have remade our skylines and enriched our lives with sublime testaments of human creativity. Yet, despite the impact of these substantial talents, there is one person here tonight who, more than anyone else, has helped…

The Design in 5 scaffolding charrette at the Old American Can Factory, Gowanus, September 2007

“Design in 5 is a group of the Architectural League of New York, formed for designers of all disciplines 5 years or less out of school.  Design in 5 responds to this youngest group of designers, providing unique opportunities and activities for exchanging ideas across disciplines, fostering camaraderie, and above all, having…

Installation, New New York: Fast Forward

“New York City is under construction. From the luxury residential towers surrounding the High Line in Chelsea, to the massive commercial and residential developments along the waterfront in Long Island City; from Atlantic Yards in downtown Brooklyn to the new Yankee Stadium; from the former landfill in Fresh Kills reimagined as one of the city’s largest parks to the extension of…

Dinner celebrating the League’s 125th Anniversary, January 18, 2006

“We celebrate this very significant anniversary milestone not merely to honor the Architectural League’s endurance or to boast about our past achievements. In this 125th year, we renew our commitment to strengthening our mission and advancing it to ensure equal if not more significant contributions in years to come.  When the 22-year old Cass Gilbert and a small…

Kenneth Frampton receives the President’s Medal from League President Wendy Evans Joseph

“The Architectural League awards the President’s Medal to Kenneth Frampton in recognition of his enormously influential contributions to the  history and theory of architecture. Through his deep and broad  intellectual culture, and by an instinctive and continuous  questioning of the relationship of architecture and building to the  polity and to the individual—to democracy, social justice…