Bustler's editor picks for architecture & design events: New York City, August 8-15
By Bustler Editors|
Monday, Aug 8, 2016
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There's still plenty of architectural inspiration around NYC to help fill up the longer days of summer. Planning for another week ahead in the Big Apple? Bustler has compiled a snappy list of noteworthy happenings around town that are not to be missed.
Check back regularly at the start of the week to stay up to date. Have a look at the Bustler editorial team's latest selection of New York City events.
Rezoning & Development: A Teach-In on the Root Causes of Gentrification | August 9, recommended by Nicholas Korody
Gentrification is often a tricky subject to bring up. Part of the reason for that is the topic is often shrouded by mystification: "It's something that just happens". But it's not something that just happens. Rather, it's the result of very specific policies and tactics, especially rezoning and development. Head to this teach-in to learn more about how gentrification shapes our cities and why.
RELATED EVENT Rezoning & Development: A Teach-In on the Root Causes of Gentrification
COOL | Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned City | August 11, recommended by Justine Testado
On hot and humid summer days in the city, most people won't second-guess switching on the air conditioner and letting it run for hours at a time. But as we already know, A/C consumes electricity, and the resulting emissions contribute to climate change and rising global temperatures. Join author and environmentalist Stan Cox, who will lead a discussion and Q&A focusing on the “costs and benefits of New Yorkers' growing reliance on climate control.”
RELATED EVENT COOL | Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned City
Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial | Open now until August 21, recommended by Alexander Walter
If you haven't yet paid a visit to Cooper Hewitt Museum’s contemporary design exhibition series, Beauty, it's a good idea to do it soon as the exhibition is drawing to a close later this month. Featuring more than 250 works by 63 international designers, the show is organized around these seven themes: extravagant, intricate, ethereal, transgressive, emergent, elemental, and transformative.
RELATED EVENT Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial
Sharing Models: Manhattanisms | Open now until September 2, recommended by Amelia Taylor-Hochberg
Within the ongoing debates around affordability and privatization in America’s cities, Storefront invites a host of notable international architects to re-imagine “the commons” in Manhattan. In today’s sharing economy, what does it mean to have, and inhabit, public space? Featuring participants Höweler + Yoon, Leong Leong, SO – IL, Tatiania Bilbao Estudio, TEN Arquitectos and many others, this exhibition runs until September 2.
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