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As winter offers a natural pause in the calendar, this month offers the perfect opportunity to step away from our schedules and return to the ideas that shape our community and built environment. The weeks ahead feature a range of titles that invite discussion around American history, imaginative architecture, contemporary underrepresented voices, and New York City, well-suited for winter reading and thoughtful conversation. Explore what our Archtober partners have to offer:
Thomas Paine's Common Sense 250th Anniversary Commemoration (Saturday, 1/10, 12:30–1:30pm)
Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, Inc. and its Fraunces Tavern Museum are joining the New York City Bar Association Legal History Committee to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. At this event, members of the New York City Bar Legal History Committee will orate selected readings from the text of Thomas Paine's book in person at the Museum.
Book Talk: Design for Construction (Friday, 1/23, 6–8pm)
Center for Architecture presents a discussion on Design for Construction (Routledge, 2026) with author Eric Höweler, FAIA, LEED AP, Founding Principal, Höweler + Yoon Architecture and Professor, M.Arch I Program Director, Harvard Graduate School of Design, in conversation with Paul Lewis, FAIA, Principal, LTL Architects; Professor, Princeton University School of Architecture. Arguing that a gulf exists between conceptual thinking and the constructed building, Design for Construction explores projects and practices that span the gap by thinking through materials and processes in what Höweler calls a tectonic imagination. This imagination is not unbounded, but instead conceptualizes architecture within the continuum of past practices and disciplinary knowledge, as well as material and technical possibilities of the present.
Emery Roth’s New York Apartment Buildings (Tuesday, 1/27, 6:00pm)
The apartment buildings and hotels designed by Emery Roth in the 1920s and 1930s—blue chip buildings such as Park Avenue's Ritz Tower and the Central Park West landmarks, the Beresford, the San Remo, the Ardsley—have shaped the ideal of residential luxury evoked in the phrase “prewar building.” In this new edition of Emery Roth’s New York Apartment Buildings, architectural historian Andrew Alpern brings together his meticulously researched catalogue raisonné of Roth’s work, illustrated with spectacular new color photography by Kenneth Grant, with a facsimile reproduction of the classic, long out-of-print monograph by Steven Ruttenbaum, Mansions in the Clouds. The volume also contains a foreword by writer and critic Paul Goldberger. This is a free, virtual event organized by The Skyscraper Museum.
Book Launch: Lana Lin and Radhika Subramaniam (Wednesday, 2/11, 6–8pm)
Celebrate two new books by New School Faculty, Lana Lin and Radhika Subramaniam. Situated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, Lin’s The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam narrates a 25-year queer love story through the literary form of ventriloquism that Gertrude Stein invented in her 1933 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and responds to the modernist classic by raising the Asian understory to the surface. Subramaniam’s Footprint: Four Itineraries probes the long history of the footprint’s manifestation in the human imagination—signifying mobility and occupation, inquiry and imperialism, absence and presence, trace, and impact—to ask if it is yet possible to tread lightly on our world. The event will feature a conversation between the two writers and invite questions and discussion followed by a celebratory reception.
Archtober is a NYC-based platform that promotes the discovery of architecture and design through experiences and content, culminating in a month-long festival every October.
