150 Years of Mutual Education: The Architectural League at the Salmagundi Club, 1881–2031

The evening begins with an overview of New York City’s late 19th and early 20th Century architectural scene. A panel discussion follows exploring the city’s and League’s always changing artistic and institutional context.

Speakers

Suzanne Stephens is the former deputy editor of Architectural Record, and has been a writer, editor, and critic in the field of architecture for several decades. Stephens teaches a seminar in the history of architectural criticism in the architecture program of Barnard and Columbia colleges.

Gregory Wessner is the executive director of the National Academy of Design. Previously, Wessner served as the executive director of Open House New York. He has held various positions at The Architectural League throughout his career, including exhibitions director. Wessner received the Award of Merit from the American Institute of Architects New York in 2020.

Gabrielle Esperdy is the dean of the Hillier College of Architecture & Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is editor of SAH Archipedia and the Buildings of the United States book series, and has published widely on topics related to modernism and consumerism in metropolitan landscapes, and to architectural practice.

Bryony Roberts is the founder of Bryony Roberts Studio, an interdisciplinary design and research practice based in New York. Roberts has been awarded the Architectural League Prize in 2018, Miller Prize of 2018, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome for 2015­-2016, the MacDowell Colony Fellowship in Architecture for Summer 2018, and was a finalist for the Wheelwright Prize from Harvard GSD in 2020.

Cassim Shepard is a distinguished lecturer at The Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. In 2020, he was named a MacDowell Fellow in Architecture and received the 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship. Shepherd is the founding editor-in-chief of Urban Omnibus.

Correction: The video misstates the year the Architectural Sketch Club was formed. It began in 1879.

This event is co-organized by The Architectural League of New York and the Salmagundi Club.